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This Famine Won’t Last - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: In the book of Ruth, chapter 1, verse 18 through 22,
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  Speaker 1: I must have hit something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth 1, 18 through.
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  Speaker 2: 22 says, And at the part that we jump into
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  Speaker 2: this text, it is in the midst of transition, massive transition,
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  Speaker 2: soul-altering transition. And I don't give you the upper story,
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  Speaker 2: but I will explain it as we go. At the
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  Speaker 2: moment that we read the 18th verse, it has come
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  Speaker 2: after Naomi has rejected Ruth and told her to go home.
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  Speaker 2: Like Orpah, just go. Just go. But Ruth would not go.
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  Speaker 2: I know I don't dress like you and I know
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  Speaker 2: I haven't worshipped your God and I know that I
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  Speaker 2: don't look like you and I'm from a different culture
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  Speaker 2: and I'm a Moabitess. I cannot deny that. But I
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  Speaker 2: cannot leave you because you have so impacted my life
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  Speaker 2: that I tell you what, Thy God shall be my
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  Speaker 2: God and that's conversion. Thy God shall be my God.
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  Speaker 2: Thy people shall be my people where thou livest I
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  Speaker 2: shall live and when thou diest will I die and
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  Speaker 2: there will I be buried. This is a lifelong commitment.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a fling. This is not a passing fancy.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a result of a mood I'm in.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to die where you die. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: live where you live. I'm going to worship the God
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  Speaker 2: you worship. The Lord do so to me and more also.
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  Speaker 2: if ought but death part thee and me till death
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  Speaker 2: do us part I'm your girl I got your back
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  Speaker 2: I'm not just your daughter-in-law I wasn't just with you
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  Speaker 2: for your son I'm with you in good times and
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  Speaker 2: bad times when she saw that she was steadfast minded
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  Speaker 2: to go with her then she left speaking unto herself
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  Speaker 2: okay so they too went oh they're so beautiful so
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  Speaker 2: they too went Until they came to Bethlehem. And it
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  Speaker 2: came to pass. When they would come to Bethlehem. That
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  Speaker 2: all the city was moved about them. And they said.
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  Speaker 2: Is this Naomi? Naomi is this Naomi? Is this Naomi?
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  Speaker 2: And she said unto them. Call me not Naomi. Call
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  Speaker 2: me Mara. For the almighty have dealt very bitterly with me.
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  Speaker 2: I went out full. and the Lord hath brought me
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  Speaker 2: home again empty. Why then call ye me Naomi, seeing
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  Speaker 2: the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath
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  Speaker 2: afflicted me? So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her
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  Speaker 2: daughter-in-law with her, which returned out of the country of Moab.
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  Speaker 2: And they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
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  Speaker 2: notice that they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: barley harvest. The word that the Lord told me to
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  Speaker 2: give to you is this famine This famine won't last.
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  Speaker 2: This famine won't last. I don't know what kind of
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  Speaker 2: famine you've been in, what you've been going through, what's
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  Speaker 2: been happening in your life, what kind of upheaval emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially, attitudinally,
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  Speaker 2: has been going on in your life. Maybe the lack
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  Speaker 2: of love, maybe the lack of friendship, maybe the lack
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  Speaker 2: of attention, maybe the lack of purpose, but whatever famine
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  Speaker 2: it is, That has turned you into somebody else. And
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  Speaker 2: disfigured you. And rearranged you. And discombobulated you. And disoriented you.
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  Speaker 2: This is a prophetic word from God. It's not a message.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a sermon. It's a word from God. God
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  Speaker 2: said this famine. Will not last. Let us pray. Spirit
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  Speaker 2: of the living God fall fresh on us today as
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  Speaker 2: we stand before the people as your oracle. Speak through me.
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  Speaker 2: I know I'm not much but speak through me. Speak
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  Speaker 2: through me in such a profound and clear and didactic
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  Speaker 2: way that hell is horrified. That demons flee. that hearts
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  Speaker 2: are converted and chains are shattered. I believe you for victory.
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  Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus, we pray.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. You may be seated. Yeah, let's go to work.
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  Speaker 2: When you read the first chapter or the first few
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  Speaker 2: chapters of the book of Ruth, the first one in
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  Speaker 2: particular says, it's where all the drama unfolds and unravels.
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  Speaker 2: It is difficult to determine between Ruth, who married Naomi's son,
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  Speaker 2: thereby her daughter-in-law, and Naomi, who is the mother, and Orpah,
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  Speaker 2: who married her other son, are the main characters in
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  Speaker 2: the story. Elimelech, her husband, And then her two sons
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  Speaker 2: are also paramount in the story.
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  Speaker 1: But to me, the.
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  Speaker 2: Real catalyst, the driving factor, the paramount character in the
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  Speaker 2: story is not the embodiment of flesh. It is the
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  Speaker 2: famine that drives the narrative. It is the famine that
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  Speaker 2: drives the narrative. Say that with me. It is the
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  Speaker 2: famine that drives the narrative. You will notice, I just
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  Speaker 2: came from a meeting and we were talking about how
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  Speaker 2: people are migrating to the south now. And when I
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  Speaker 2: was younger, they were migrating to the north. All the
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  Speaker 2: southern people were going to the north for the good
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  Speaker 2: jobs because the famine drives the narrative. People will pick
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  Speaker 2: up and move when they get hungry. They will leave areas, cities, communities,
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  Speaker 2: even families Friends, communities, traditions when they get hungry. The
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  Speaker 2: famine is the star of the text. The famine is
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  Speaker 2: the star of the text because Naomi's husband decides to
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  Speaker 2: move his whole family away from Bethlehem. To go to
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  Speaker 2: Moab where they don't have the same customs, the same traditions,
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  Speaker 2: the same clothing, the same apparel. They don't necessarily speak
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  Speaker 2: the same language. To take on a new identity. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know how hard it is to go someplace out
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  Speaker 2: on a limb and take on a new identity and
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  Speaker 2: forsake all that you are accustomed to and to have
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  Speaker 2: to blend into an atmosphere where you.
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  Speaker 1: Are a foreigner? But the famine....
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  Speaker 2: Drives the narrative because if you get hungry enough you'll
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  Speaker 2: change your skirt you'll change your blouse you'll change your
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  Speaker 2: hair you'll learn another language if you get hungry enough
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  Speaker 2: the famine here drives the narrative often when God wants
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  Speaker 2: to move us he sends a famine It may not
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  Speaker 2: always be for food. It may not always be for water.
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  Speaker 2: It may be for affection or validation or attention. But
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  Speaker 2: the famine drives the narrative. And the famine in the
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  Speaker 2: book of Ruth plays a crucial role in really setting
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  Speaker 2: the stage for the story. It occurs during the time
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  Speaker 2: of the judges. So it precedes the king's. Israel had
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  Speaker 2: judges before they had kings because God wanted them to
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  Speaker 2: understand that he was their king. They ended up with
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  Speaker 2: kings by default because they admired the heathens so much
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  Speaker 2: that they wanted kings. But originally God wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: their king, therefore making them a theocracy because God was
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  Speaker 2: their king. America claims to be a Christian country, which
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  Speaker 2: you could not be a Christian country and a democracy
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  Speaker 2: or even a republic. You would be a theocracy. Your
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  Speaker 2: constitution would be the Bible. And though it is a nation.
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  Speaker 2: filled with Christians it is not a Christian nation and
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  Speaker 2: every now and then it reminds us that it is
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  Speaker 2: not I'm going to leave that alone This is a
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  Speaker 2: time of instability and trouble and mayhem and frequent hardships
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  Speaker 2: in Israel. It's a time It's a season of distress
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  Speaker 2: because of the famine has pushed them to the breaking point.
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  Speaker 2: They are not leaving because they have left their faith
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  Speaker 2: or left their traditions or left their culture or ashamed
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  Speaker 2: of their culture. The famine has made them have to
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  Speaker 2: become an immigrant. The famine has got people at the border.
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  Speaker 2: has got people trying to climb through barbed wire. The famine,
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  Speaker 2: if there's enough famine where you are, it will make
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  Speaker 2: you desperate enough to slither on the ground past snakes
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  Speaker 2: and to swim with alligators to get to something that
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  Speaker 2: you can have a better, the chance at a better
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  Speaker 2: life will drive you to put your life at risk
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  Speaker 2: because the famine drives the narrative. The famine prompts Elimelech,
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  Speaker 2: a man from Bethlehem in Judah, to leave, to pull
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  Speaker 2: up stakes, to leave his relatives and his friends, where
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  Speaker 2: he's respected and appreciated, and to leave his homeland with
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  Speaker 2: his wife, Naomi, and his two sons, Malon and Chilion,
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  Speaker 2: and head out for a place to make it home
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't really home, a nearby country of Moab. And
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  Speaker 2: there they come to meet their wives. And Naomi, as
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  Speaker 2: a woman, as a woman, as a mother, went out full.
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  Speaker 2: She has her sons. She has her husband. She has
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  Speaker 2: her God. She has her identity. She has everything. But
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  Speaker 2: that is not really the highlight of the story. There
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  Speaker 2: are many things that I want you to see because
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  Speaker 2: eventually you will come to understand the famine is significant
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  Speaker 2: for several reasons. The famine is significant because it drove
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  Speaker 2: them out. But I want to pause and challenge you
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  Speaker 2: not to be too quick to relocate every time things
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  Speaker 2: get hard. It led them to Moab, true enough, and
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  Speaker 2: while there, Elimelech dies, And his sons marry Moabite women,
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  Speaker 2: one of whom is Ruth, and she is to be
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  Speaker 2: significant in this story, but Ruth would have never met
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  Speaker 2: Naomi's son if it were not for the famine. Naomi
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  Speaker 2: loses her husband, and as a parent, I can't even
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  Speaker 2: imagine this. As a husband, I can't even imagine it,
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  Speaker 2: much less as a parent.
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  Speaker 1: She lost.
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  Speaker 2: Both are sons. It is natural eventually to lose your parents.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't make it less painful, but it is natural.
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  Speaker 2: But when you start losing it, it is possible to
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  Speaker 2: lose your spouse because you're the same age and the
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  Speaker 2: same era and you grow old together if you're lucky
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  Speaker 2: enough to do that. Maybe you're a second one, you're
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  Speaker 2: a third one, whatever you work out. But to lose
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  Speaker 2: your children is a pain I pray I never know
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  Speaker 2: to bury my child. And so we have to give
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  Speaker 2: Naomi some grace for being a little moody in this text.
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  Speaker 2: Because she has lost everything that mattered to her. I
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  Speaker 2: could come in and tell my wife almost anything. As
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  Speaker 2: long as me and the kids was okay, we'll figure
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  Speaker 2: the rest of it out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: For Naomi she has lost her world she says I
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  Speaker 2: went out full and I came back empty and I've
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  Speaker 2: got absolutely nothing and here comes Orpah and Ruth behind
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  Speaker 2: her trying to follow her and she just doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to be bothered have you ever come to a point
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  Speaker 2: in your life where you've been through so many famines
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  Speaker 2: that you're just sick of people you know they didn't
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  Speaker 2: cause the famine but you're just sick of them By
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  Speaker 2: the time Naomi hears that her homeland has food again
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  Speaker 2: and she's ready to come back, there's no sons in
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  Speaker 2: her hands, no grandsons playing at her feet, no husband
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  Speaker 2: by her side. She is alone. At the point of
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  Speaker 2: being alone, she even wants to be alone. She kisses
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  Speaker 2: Orpah goodbye. which I'm told that's where Oprah got her
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  Speaker 2: name from. They misspelled it. Goodbye, Orpah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And she tells Ruth, go home, girl. She said, it's
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  Speaker 2: too late for me to be productive. If I got
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  Speaker 2: married today and had another son, could you wait for it?
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  Speaker 2: There are some moments that cannot be repeated. Y'all don't
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  Speaker 2: hear me. I want you to hear the weight of
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. The enemy comes to kill, steal, and
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  Speaker 2: destroy because the enemy knows that if he can kill, steal,
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  Speaker 2: or destroy a moment, that moment may not be recreated
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  Speaker 2: ever again. And for all of your murmuring and complaining
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  Speaker 2: about what's going on in the world, don't miss a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Don't miss a moment because you don't always get a do-over.
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  Speaker 2: You don't always get another chance. I wish somebody experienced
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  Speaker 2: would back me up in here. You cannot roll back
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  Speaker 2: the clock of time and do it over again. This
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  Speaker 2: was a unique moment. And so now she has to
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  Speaker 2: let go of the moment because she is a survivor.
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  Speaker 2: But being a survivor sounds better than it feels. The
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  Speaker 2: fact that you survived and what you loved didn't takes
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  Speaker 2: the joy out of being a survivor. The fact that
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  Speaker 2: you survived doesn't mean that you didn't suffer loss. But
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  Speaker 2: nobody comforts the survivor They mourn the dead, but they
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  Speaker 2: don't comfort the survivor because they think that the survivor
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  Speaker 2: means you feel victorious. But it is possible for you
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  Speaker 2: to be a survivor and still not be victorious because.
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  Speaker 1: It costs you so much.
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  Speaker 2: It costs you so much. It costs you so much
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  Speaker 2: to survive that sometimes you have to recover from survivorship.
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  Speaker 2: And most of the time you have to recover alone
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  Speaker 2: because nobody would suspect that the survivor is suffering too.
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  Speaker 2: Naomi is suffering and she's in agony and her daughter-in-law
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  Speaker 2: Ruth chooses to accompany her. But the truth of the
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  Speaker 2: matter is she really wants to be alone. Because sometimes
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  Speaker 2: when you are hurting bad enough, you lose trust. You
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  Speaker 2: don't want to love again. Because if I love again,
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  Speaker 2: I risk losing again. And I haven't recovered from the
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  Speaker 2: last bruise. And for you to make me love you
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  Speaker 2: only to lose you is to reopen a wound that
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  Speaker 2: I'm still trying to stitch shut. Because you don't stitch
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  Speaker 2: these wounds shut in a week or two. You don't
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  Speaker 2: fix this in a year or six months. Sometimes it
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  Speaker 2: takes you a decade to survive the loss of what
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  Speaker 2: you had to give up to get to the next level.
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  Speaker 2: And so give yourself some grace. Give yourself some time.
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  Speaker 2: Give yourself some room to recover. Give yourself the space
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, honestly angry, honestly tired, honestly frustrated, honestly
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  Speaker 2: at the end of your rope, honestly at the place
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  Speaker 2: that you don't, no, y'all going back, going back, going back.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do this. I cannot be who I used
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  Speaker 2: to be again. I'm gonna get into this. The problem
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  Speaker 2: with great blessings of any kind, whether it's the blessing
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  Speaker 2: of knowledge or the blessing of finances or the blessing
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  Speaker 2: of influence or just the blessing of life itself is
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  Speaker 2: that you cannot always do it again. And if you're
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  Speaker 2: not careful, you will push yourself to the limit trying
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  Speaker 2: to be who people expect you to be rather than
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  Speaker 2: to recreate yourself and find out that there is another
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  Speaker 2: version of yourself that may even supersede the former version
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  Speaker 2: of yourself if you have the courage to stop trying
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  Speaker 2: to do encores And maybe you're not boxing anymore. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you're coaching now. But maybe you're better in the coaching
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  Speaker 2: role than you were in the boxing role. And instead
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  Speaker 2: of standing out there at 70 trying to box somebody
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  Speaker 2: just so that you could, you know how to do it.
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  Speaker 2: But just because you know how to do it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean you're supposed to do it. And it occurs to
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  Speaker 2: me that the famine that drove them to Moab is
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  Speaker 2: still present in another form. The famine that drove them
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  Speaker 2: to Moab was a natural famine. But now she's having
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  Speaker 2: a familiar famine. Her family is gone. And it occurs
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  Speaker 2: to me that losing your family is worse than losing
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  Speaker 2: loaves of bread. Oh, did I tell you that Bethlehem
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  Speaker 2: means house of bread? And so there was no bread
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  Speaker 2: when she left Bethlehem. There was no food when she left,
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  Speaker 2: but she had family. It's possible to have famine in
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  Speaker 2: one area And have abundance in another area. And so
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  Speaker 2: when you can't use what you don't have. You lean
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  Speaker 2: on what you do have. And she had family. But
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  Speaker 2: now the famine has progressed. And taken on another form.
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  Speaker 2: And now she's lost family too. And so there is
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  Speaker 2: a famine in Naomi's heart. There is a famine in Moab.
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  Speaker 2: And there is a famine in. in Ruth's womb all
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  Speaker 2: three are desolate all three are without life all three
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  Speaker 2: are without fruit and so when I look at the
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  Speaker 2: text it is a class in survival for those of
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  Speaker 2: us who are in famine That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a class in survival for those of us who
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  Speaker 1: are in famine.
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  Speaker 2: When I look at the text, it reminds me not
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  Speaker 2: to always think that just because Bethlehem was in a
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  Speaker 2: famine when I left, that it's going to be in
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  Speaker 2: a famine when I get back.
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  Speaker 1: That the place.
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  Speaker 2: that was dried up can become the place of abundance
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  Speaker 2: and the place that was the place of abundance can
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  Speaker 2: become dried up. And so you don't fall in love
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  Speaker 2: with places, persons and things as if they cannot change
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  Speaker 2: because the one who cursed you yesterday can bless you
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow and the one who blesses you today will turn
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  Speaker 2: around and cut your throat tomorrow. So you gotta be
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  Speaker 2: fluid in the moment. You gotta be ready for change
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  Speaker 2: in the moment. You gotta be prepared to deal with
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  Speaker 2: whatever you gotta deal with and stop defining people by
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  Speaker 2: how you met them because people change. Jobs change. Situations change.
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  Speaker 2: Seasons change. Time changes.
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  Speaker 1: And it's changed.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is changed. And everything is changed. And the one
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  Speaker 2: thing we hate is change. I hate change. Don't change
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  Speaker 2: on me. Just don't change. Don't say it if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to change it next month. Don't make me believe it.
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  Speaker 2: Don't make me trust you. Don't make me open my heart.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do that to me. If you're going to be dry,
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  Speaker 2: just go ahead and be dry so I can put
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  Speaker 2: you in the dry box. But don't tell me that
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  Speaker 2: knowing you is going to give me water. Don't start
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  Speaker 2: it if you're not going to finish it. And so
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  Speaker 2: the text is about famines, it's about surviving, it's about persevering,
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  Speaker 2: it's about enduring, it's about aging. It's about accepting that
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  Speaker 2: you have nothing to prove. That just because you don't
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  Speaker 2: do what you used to do in a previous season,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that you can't rediscover new parts of yourself
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  Speaker 2: that have not been touched. And don't allow people to
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  Speaker 2: lock you in a box and make you have to
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  Speaker 2: be something that you were in the spring That you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to be that in the winter. That the
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  Speaker 2: winter can be just as beautiful as the spring if
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  Speaker 2: you stop craving spring and start noticing winter. Every season
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  Speaker 2: has its own beauty. Everything, y'all don't hear me. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: let me go sit down. I'm talking to the wrong people.
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  Speaker 2: Every season has its own beauty. As soon as you
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  Speaker 2: give up on insisting on what was, you can start
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy what is. But you are stuck. In trying
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  Speaker 2: to recreate what used to be. And even if you
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  Speaker 2: meet a man today, Naomi, by the time your sons
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  Speaker 2: are grown, Ruth will be an old woman. And so
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you cannot fix her barrenness by your behavior. Stop trying
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: to fix what you didn't break. I want you to
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: get the substance, I'm moving slow, but I want you
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: to get the substance out of the fact that just
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: because a season changes doesn't mean your life is over.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Just because you move into another dimension or a new
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: place or a new area doesn't mean your life is over.
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  Speaker 2: Just because you didn't hit the spot by 30 doesn't
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: mean your life is over. Just because you thought you'd
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: be further along by 40 doesn't mean your life is over.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Just because you thought that you would own your own
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: place by 50 and now you're 57 and you're still
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: staying in an apartment in a garage above your mama's
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: house does not mean your life is over. Flip to
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: my page on the people that God did great things
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: in their lives in the middle of their lives. I
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: want to give you some reminders. I want to remind
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: you that Harlan Sanders died.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Was an old.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Man in his 60s when he started his first Kentucky
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Fried Chicken and the first one failed. The first one
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: failed and he fought back and he got up and
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: he became famous and he came, now you got KFC.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: All over the world.
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  Speaker 2: But it started not at 20. It didn't start at 30,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: it didn't hit till 65. Up until then he worked menial, everyday,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: ordinary jobs and he didn't.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Hit his stride.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: He didn't get his second wind till he turned 65.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: So stop planning on the nursing home and get yourself
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: up out the bed and get yourself together. Or then
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: there was Ray Kroc. Ray Kroc was in his 50s
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: when he partnered with two brothers called the McDonald's brothers
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: and started the chain, the fast food empire that exists today.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: He started it in his 50s. It takes time to
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: grow up. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. It takes
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: time to grow up. It takes time to know yourself.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: to come into yourself, to come into your fullness. As
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: good as you are now, you're not nearly as good
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: as you're gonna be later.
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  Speaker 1: No, we're close. No, we're close. No, we're close.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Because life's experiences accrues in everything. equity and value. Because
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: you lose your sons and you lose this and you
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: lose that, for everything God takes, God gives. God gives
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: you something that you couldn't have bought in the store.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: A resilience, a tenacity, a fight. a drive a work
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: you have to understand that God will use the famine
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: to bless you Laura Ingalls Wilder the author of the
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: famous story Little House on the Prairie series Wilder published
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: her first book in her mid 60's after many years
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: of other occupations She wrote Little House on the Prairie
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: in the middle of her 60s. And there you are
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: at 40, mad. Talking about, why hadn't it happened for me?
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: They just don't appreciate me. They don't respect me. They just,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: shut up! Enjoy what 40 gives. Enjoy what 30 gives.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Enjoy it and stop trying to control the famine because
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: when he squeezes you over here, he's pushing you over
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: there and you're going from faith to faith and from
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: glory to glory. I wish I had a witness in
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: this room. There are people in history like Grandma Moses,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Anna Mary Robertson Moses, a renowned folk artist. Grandma Moses
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: began painting in earnest in her 70s. After arthritis made
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: it difficult to continue her prior work in embroidery, she
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: started painting when she was arthritic. Ronald Reagan. The known
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: earlier as an actor living in California ends up going
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: into politics, became the United States president at 69, leading
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: the country through a transformative period in his 70s. And
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: you out at 50? You done at 50, Naomi? Naomi
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: has said to them, don't call me Naomi. By the way,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Naomi means my joy. Because when they birthed her, they
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: looked at her and said, my joy. And they loved her.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: And she said, don't call me my joy anymore. Call
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: me Mara, which means bitterness. Because I went out full
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: and I came home empty. Naomi has decided that if
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: she cannot be who she used to be, she's nobody. Nobody.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: She's not worth following. She's not worth supporting. She's not
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: worth loving. She's not worth company. Because when you fall
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: in love with how you saw yourself, it stops you
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: from seeing what you are going to become out of
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: what you lost in your life. I don't know who,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I'm prophesying to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who it is.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: But you've been in love with a season. You've been
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: in love with a moment in time and it's just
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: as foolish as going down to the ocean and sticking
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: your foot in the water and coming back 10 years
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: later and stick your foot in the water at the
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: same place and expecting it to be the same water.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: That's why you got to enjoy everything when you do it.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: That's why you gotta love everybody when you love them.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: That's why you gotta say it. That's why you gotta
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: feel it. That's why you gotta know it. That's why
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: you gotta taste it because you blink and it's gone
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: and you don't get a do-over. So stop going out
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: to the cemetery having conversations with people who can't hear
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: you and missing the people who desperately need you to
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: talk to them. Your soul is in a famine. So
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: what we find is that Naomi, oh God, I wish
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I had time. What we find is that Naomi who
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: has responded to pain and trauma by isolation. So she
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: pushes everybody away who would love her because isolation is
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: the way we punish ourselves for not feeling valuable enough
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: And we say, we use words like introvert. No, you're
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: not an introvert. You're punishing yourself because you either don't
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: trust the people or think yourself worthy of the love
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: they offer. Oh, you're fine giving it. Because as long
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: as you're giving it, you're in control. So Naomi says
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  Speaker 2: to Ruth, don't follow me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm empty.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Never even noticing that even empty, she has converted Ruth
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  Speaker 2: to servant Yahweh. Even hurting and in pain, she has
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: made a young Moabitess girl want to follow her God.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Even in her confusion and her agony and her distress,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: that she would change.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: The entire narrative of the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Not at the height of her life, but at the
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: worst of her life, she becomes better when it's bad
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: than she ever was when it was good and she
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: don't even know it. If Naomi had not brought Ruth
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: back to Bethlehem The rest of the scriptures could not
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: have been written. If Naomi had not brought Ruth to Bethlehem,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: the house of bread, in the middle of the famine,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: if she had not brought Ruth to Bethlehem, Ruth would
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: have never met Boaz. And if Ruth had never met Boaz,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: she couldn't have had Obed And if Obed had not
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: been born, there couldn't have been Jesse. And if there
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: were no Jesse, there couldn't have been David. And David
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: being born in Bethlehem was a prophecy of Jesus being
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: born in Bethlehem. And all of it depended on her
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: going through this famine and understand that you may be
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: in pain, but sometimes you're better in pain than you
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: are in power because pain brings stuff out of you
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know who I'm talking to, but I'm going
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: to drive this thing until I drive it home. There
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: you are bitter, and none of your feelings are telling
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: you the truth. A feeling is not an evaluation of worth.
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  Speaker 1: She felt bitter. She was angry with God.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: She said, the Lord has dealt bitterly with me.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: And all the.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: While she's fussing about what God didn't give her. She's
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: winning people to God. And Ruth is walking behind her,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: thy God shall be my God. And she's talking to
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: somebody who is angry with God. And the truth of
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: the matter is, there are some people in this room,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: no matter how you clap and skip, you're angry with God.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Because of the famine in your life. But I got
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: news for you. Something is about to happen. I'm gonna
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: try that again. Something is about to happen. And you've
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: been praying about the famine, but you've been praying about
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: the wrong stuff. Whether you're talking about the famine that
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: was in Bethlehem or the famine that was in your
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: heart or the famine that was in Ruth's womb, you
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: must understand the one thing that all three famines had
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: in common is that none of them lasted. Hey, I
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: feel like preaching in here. Can I preach a minute?
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Before I leave the stage, I want you to know
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: that every famine has a birthday and every famine has
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: a death day. That if God started it, God will
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: finish it. I want you to know that these light afflictions,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: which are but for a moment, Work for us a
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: far more exceeding waiting glory. For we look not at
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: the things that are seen. For the things that are
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: seen are temporal. Y'all don't hear me. The things that
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: are seen are temporal. But the things that are not
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: seen are eternal. Slap five people and tell them the
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: famine won't last. The famine won't last. Cry if you
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: want to, but the famine won't last. Stay up at night,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: but God said the.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Famine won't last.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Walk the floor if you please, but God said the
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: famine won't last. Slap somebody and tell them the famine
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: won't last. You're in it right now. But the famine
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: won't last. You're suffering right now, but the famine won't last.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: You're watching online and God kept you online. You couldn't
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: log off because God wanted you to know.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: The famine will not last.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Somebody take 10 seconds and praise him like you got
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: a breakthrough.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: It won't last. It won't last.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: And it came to pass. And it came to pass.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Everything that happened to you came to pass.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: But when it.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: All passes over, you'll still be standing there praising God,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: serving God, lifting him up. Find another neighbor and tell him,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: did you hear what I said? Did you hear what
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: I said? The famine won't last. You ought to run
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: all over this church. You ought to leave on top
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: of the pew. You ought to swing from the chandeliers
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: because you've been up under attack. for a long time.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: But the devil is a liar. The famine won't last.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Y'all better sit me down, because I'm about to feel
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: like preaching. And if I start preaching, something's going to
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: break loose in this place. The famine you're in right
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: now that looks so real that you're making decisions about.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: God said it's temporary. It will not last. If that
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: is your word, give him a praise. You're going to
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: go from faith to faith and from glory to glory.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: The problem is not faith to faith or glory to glory.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: It's being stuck in between. where you're not quite here
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: and you're not quite there and you've been stuck for
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: a while but the devil is a liar i said
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: the devil is a liar i said the devil is
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: a liar i said the devil is a liar i
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: said the.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: Devil is a liar the lord told me to tell you.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: This won't last. That won't last. The trouble won't last.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: The poverty won't last. The famine won't last. The loneliness
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: won't last. The struggle is over. The famine will not last.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Somebody help me shout. Somebody help me praise him. Somebody
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: help me lift him up. Somebody help me give God
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: the glory. Watch this with me. By the time Naomi had.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Lost her husband.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: And her sons, that took time to occur. By the
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: time that was over, the famine was over. And it
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: was time to.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Go back home. So she started out to go.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Back home full of uncertainty, full of her past, full
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: of her pain, full of her agony, full of.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Her struggle, full of her contemplation.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: But still walking. Is there anybody in here? You're confused,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: but you're still walking. You're hurting, but you're still walking.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: You're worried, but you're still walking. You're bitter, but you're
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: still walking. Is there anybody in here that's determined to
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: keep on moving forward? Though he slay me, Yet shall
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: I trust him. Sometimes up, sometimes down, almost level to
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: the ground, but I'm still walking.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Somebody take a little walk. Walk somewhere.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Let the devil know I'm still walking. I'm hurt, but
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: I'm walking. I'm lonely, but I'm walking. I'm uncertain, but
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: I'm walking. I'm worried, but I'm walking. I'm distressed, but
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: I'm walking. And stop right where you are. I know
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: you're not there yet, but stop right where you are
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: and praise him in the middle of the way. Praise him.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: I may not be there yet, but I'm going to
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: praise him anyway. I may not be there, but I'm
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: a praise him in the middle of the road. I'm
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: a praise him.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: I haven't got home.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Yet, but I'm a praise him right.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: Where I am.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: This is a rest stop. This is a roadside praise.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: This is a give me a minute to give.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: God the praise.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: I'm fussing at you, but I'm still praising you. I
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: don't understand you, but I'm still praising you. I'm brokenhearted,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: but I'm still praising you. I'm lonely, but I'm still
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: praising you. I'm disappointed, but I'm still praising you. I'm distressed,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: but I'm still praising you. I got a feeling that
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: everything is gonna be all right. I don't know how.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know when. I don't know where.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: But I.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I got a feeling It's going to be all right.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: I don't have no money, but I got a feeling
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: it's going to be all right. I don't have no bread,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: but I got a feeling it's going to be all right.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Make some noise in this place.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: So the writer says, the writer says, they both went
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: on together.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: They went together. Come here. They went together. Two generations.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Going together. Naomi and Ruth going together. Two different perspectives,
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: but they're going together. One of them has a future
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: in front of them. Another one has most of their
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: future behind them, but they're going together. But the writer
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: takes the time. to tell us that by the time
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: they got to Bethlehem, it was at the time of
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: the harvest of the barley. This is no accident. Because
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: if you're gonna have bread, you need to come at
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: harvest time. And the Lord said he's setting you up
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: that by the time you get through this, you're gonna
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: be in.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: The right place. at the right.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Time to receive everything that God has promised for you.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: He said he's going to set you in a field
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: full of barley leaves and every need is going to
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: be met. Slap your neighbor and say, I see barley.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: In my future, the famine won't last. But I've got
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: a feeling that there will be bread in my house.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: In my house.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: I feel God about to give me bread in the house.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Shout yes. Shout yes. Shout yes. Shout yes. Shout it
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: like you mean it. Shout it like you don't care.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: Shout it with all of your heart.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: So they got there. And they came into a prepared blessing.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: They came into a prepared blessing. They didn't sow it.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: They didn't work the field for it. They showed up
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: at harvest time. High five somebody and say you're going
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: to show up at harvest time.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Now we have gone, we have gone from famine into harvest.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: What was a famine, this is the same land that
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: was a famine has become a harvest. So be careful
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: who you write off because who used to be on
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: famine may become your harness and God may use the
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: same place that almost killed you to be your place
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: of provision. Oh, he told me to tell you, your
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: eyes have not seen. Your ears have not heard. Neither
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: have entered into your heart the things that God has
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: in store for them that love him.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Leap up and down.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: That's how your blessing is going to leap up after you.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: It's going to leap up and grab you. It's going
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: to leap up and touch you. It's going to leap
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: up and overtake you. It's going to leap. It's going
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: to leap. It's going to leap. I can't explain this.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: But they showed up at the time of the harvest
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: of the barley.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: So that famine is destroyed.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: It's mitigated because it came up at a time of
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: the barley. The fruit of the barley is seed. So
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: there's seed where there was barrenness. And Naomi points Ruth
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: to the corner of a field she didn't even own.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: And she's working over in the corner of the field.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: And Boaz saw her at a distance. commanded that they
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: leave hands full on purpose in other words don't don't
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: reap everything but leave something behind because whoever that Moabite
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: girl is over there in the corner of the field
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: I got something special for her and I want you
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: to leave it for her reach down and pick up
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: something You're going to pick up stuff that God left.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Handful.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: A handful of favor. A handful of prosperity. A handful
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: of blessing. A handful of wisdom. God said a handful.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Are you watching me online? A handful is left for you.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Nobody can take it. Nobody can have it. Nobody can
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: steal it. It left handful on purpose. What the field was,
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: what the field was to the famine is what Boaz said.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: was to Ruth. Because Boaz had the seed for her famine.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: In her womb.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: But the part that's hardest to explain is this little
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: phrase in the text. It says that when Ruth and
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: Naomi got together, Ruth and Boaz got together, And they
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  Speaker 2: had the baby. They brought the baby to Naomi to
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  Speaker 2: nurse the baby. Now I got a problem with this.
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  Speaker 2: Because old women don't nurse babies because there's a famine
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  Speaker 2: in their breast. And there is no milk. But when
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  Speaker 2: God started rebuking famines, He rebuked the famine so strong
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  Speaker 2: that grandma's breasts became engorged with milk. Grandma is a
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  Speaker 2: type of Israel that would nurse the birthing of the church.
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  Speaker 2: And as she began to nurse the baby, it is
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  Speaker 2: a sign that Israel's breasts will be engorged with milk.
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  Speaker 2: And we know that milk is a word. And we
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  Speaker 2: know that in the beginning was a word. And the
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  Speaker 2: word was with God. And we know that the word
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  Speaker 2: was made flesh. And the word dwelt among us and
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  Speaker 2: we beheld the wonder of his glory. And we know
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  Speaker 2: one more thing. We know this, that the famine, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's in your breasts or in your field or in
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  Speaker 2: your finances or in your mind or in your life,
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  Speaker 2: that God sent me with a declaration. I can't control
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  Speaker 2: who believes it, but I'm gonna throw it out here anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I know you think you're too old or too young
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  Speaker 2: or too late or too dark or too bright, but
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost told me to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: The famine is over. It's gonna be so over.
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  Speaker 2: That an old lady is going to nurse a baby
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  Speaker 2: that she never had to push out.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be so.
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  Speaker 2: Over that a young girl is gonna get barley that
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  Speaker 2: she never even planted. It's gonna be so over that
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  Speaker 2: the field she started working in, she ended up owning.
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  Speaker 1: God! God!
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  Speaker 2: He's going to do a switch and the last shall
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  Speaker 2: be first and the first shall be last.
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  Speaker 1: I got to close. I'm out of time.
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  Speaker 2: But somebody turn around in a circle and tell them
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  Speaker 2: God is about to turn this thing around. I started
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  Speaker 2: out in the back of the field, but I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to end up in the front of the field. I
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  Speaker 2: started out working in it. I'm going to end up
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  Speaker 2: owning it. If I'm talking to you, give God a
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  Speaker 2: praise as an indication that you understand that it's over.
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  Speaker 2: There might be a few demons left in this room,
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  Speaker 2: but when we shout this, famine is over. Every demon
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  Speaker 2: is going to have to hit the door. Hallelujah to God.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to shout it like you mad at somebody.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to shout it like you ready to
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  Speaker 2: whip somebody. I want you to shout it like you
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  Speaker 2: about to step on new ground.
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  Speaker 1: I want you.
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  Speaker 2: To shout it like this is a prophetic word for you.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to shout it at every frustration in
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  Speaker 2: your spirit. I want you to shout it like you're
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  Speaker 2: ready for victory. I want you to shout the famine
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  Speaker 2: is over. The famine is over. The famine is over.
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  Speaker 2: The famine is over. The famine is over. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to shout it out. The famine is over.
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  Speaker 1: It's over.
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  Speaker 2: It's over in my pocketbook. It's over in my 401k.
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  Speaker 2: It's over in my family. It's over in my body.
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  Speaker 2: Shout it out again. hallelujah hallelujah now let's just shorten
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  Speaker 2: it and touch ten people and say it's.
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  Speaker 4: Over it's over it's over it's over it's over it's
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  Speaker 4: over It's over.
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  Speaker 1: I decree and declare. It's over. I decree and declare.
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  Speaker 1: It's over. I decree and declare. It's over.
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  Speaker 2: In my life, I'm through struggling. I'm through being bitter.
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  Speaker 2: I'm through being worried. I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh... Yes.
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  Speaker 2: What the Lord just spoke to you and told you
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  Speaker 2: to sow, if you sow it, it's going to stop
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  Speaker 2: that famine in your life right now. Obey him. I
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  Speaker 2: know you're trying to figure out is it God or not.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: Obey the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit spoke to you.
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  Speaker 2: This is a curse-breaking message in your life. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to break curses, not just generational curses, but curses in
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  Speaker 2: the way you think. curses in the way you define yourself,
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  Speaker 2: curses in your emotions and your attitude. That spirit of
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  Speaker 2: bitterness is going to leave you. God said it's over.
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  Speaker 2: While it's on, it type on the line, it's over,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: it's over, it's over. It's over, it's over, it's over,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: it's over, it's over. It's over, it's over, it's over,
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  Speaker 2: it's over. It's, it's, it's over. I know the popular thing.
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  Speaker 2: I must apologize. I know the popular thing. is to
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  Speaker 2: preach about favor. But instead of preaching about favor, the
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  Speaker 2: Lord told me to preach about famine. And I said, well, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: it would be nice to preach about favor. And the
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  Speaker 2: Lord said, the favor is in the famine. Y'all didn't
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  Speaker 2: get it. The favor is in the famine. The favor
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  Speaker 2: is in what went wrong. The favor is in what
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  Speaker 2: you didn't get. The favor is in the nights you cried.
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  Speaker 2: The favor is in the nights you did without. The
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  Speaker 2: favor is in the moments you suffered great agony. Favor
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  Speaker 2: is in the famine. If there were no famine, you
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have went to Moab. If there were no famine,
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't have met Ruth. If there weren't no famine,
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  Speaker 2: Ruth would have been a married woman and couldn't marry Boaz.
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  Speaker 2: If Ruth would have still been married and your son
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  Speaker 2: would have lived, Jesus' genealogy would not have set him
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  Speaker 2: up to take the throne. O little town of Bethlehem,
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  Speaker 2: how still we see thee lie. That song would have
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  Speaker 2: never been written. You see, the real bread is not
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  Speaker 2: in the loaf. Jesus says, I am the bread of life.
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  Speaker 2: Your father did eat manna in the wilderness and they perished.
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  Speaker 2: I am the true bread. that cometh down from heaven.
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  Speaker 2: This ain't about Ruth. This ain't about Naomi. This ain't
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  Speaker 2: about Boaz. When you see that wheat blowing in the wind,
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  Speaker 2: that's Jesus. Jesus said, except a grain of wheat fall
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  Speaker 2: into the ground and die, it abide alone. But if
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  Speaker 2: it die, it will bring forth much fruit. The favor
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  Speaker 2: is in the famine. It is a famine-breaking seed. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: I am the seed.
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  Speaker 1: Of Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: I am the grain of wheat, but seeds don't grow
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  Speaker 2: if they don't get buried. Because what you call buried,
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  Speaker 2: God calls planted. They look just the same, you know.
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  Speaker 2: You got to dig for both of them. When you bury,
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  Speaker 2: you dig to bury. But when you plant, you got
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  Speaker 2: to dig too. But when you bury something, it goes
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  Speaker 2: in and doesn't come up. But when you plant it,
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  Speaker 2: it goes down that it might get up. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says... that he went down, that he might rise
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  Speaker 2: again on the third day, and that he is your bread. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to close. I don't feel like it. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like flipping out. I want you to understand if
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  Speaker 2: you don't get anything else. I want you to understand
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  Speaker 2: that half time isn't out of time. That Naomi's greatest
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: job was not in raising her own child, but nursing
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  Speaker 2: Ruth's child. I want you to know that God will
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  Speaker 2: give you a natural resource to nurse what he places
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  Speaker 2: in your hands. He'll make stuff work that don't work.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: That God won't put nothing in your hands he won't
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  Speaker 2: give you milk for. I want you to stop being
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  Speaker 2: distracted by the famine I know it hurt, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: minimizing how traumatic, we have like real family, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: talking about you didn't get your parking space this morning
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: and you know, somebody didn't speak to you when you
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: came in the church. those are the luxuries of being
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  Speaker 2: able to be offended by people who have not had
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  Speaker 2: real trouble when you have had real trouble you are
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: not easily offended because you know what real trouble is
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  Speaker 2: But in the absence of real trouble, y'all make up trouble.
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  Speaker 2: And act like you're wounded about stuff that don't even matter.
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  Speaker 2: It don't matter. You think it matters whether you speak
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  Speaker 2: to me? It don't pay no bills. It don't add
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  Speaker 2: no suckings to my life. It don't give me a
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  Speaker 2: grain more wisdom. It's nice if you speak, but I'll
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  Speaker 2: be good if you don't. Because my umbilical cord is
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  Speaker 2: not cut on your reaction to me. God will send
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  Speaker 2: somebody that'll smile at me. Because I decree and declare
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  Speaker 2: today that the famine
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  Speaker 1: It's over.