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Provoked To Purpose - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: 1 Samuel chapter 1 verse 4 through 15. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're able to stand, please do so as we go
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  Speaker 1: into the word of God. I know it's been a
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  Speaker 1: while now, but I'm still just so glad to have
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  Speaker 1: real people to preach to. After preaching to chairs and
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  Speaker 1: empty seats for two years, glory to God, I don't
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  Speaker 1: care to put mannequins in. I'm just happy to see you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: When we go into the word today on this special day,
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  Speaker 1: a commemorative holiday that is a natural holiday. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a biblical holiday, but it's an important day where we
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  Speaker 1: appreciate mothers and recognize that they are in part the
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  Speaker 1: source from which we come. That God has invited them
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  Speaker 1: into the creative process with him That he incubates his
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  Speaker 1: destiny in the wombs of women. What a tremendous responsibility
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  Speaker 1: that God would trust you with what's next. That he
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  Speaker 1: would set it off with you and you will never
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  Speaker 1: see the completion. So don't be frustrated if it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look like what you want it to look like right now.
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  Speaker 1: Because you will not see the completion of all that
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  Speaker 1: God is going to do through your offspring. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: say amen, somebody. We come into a situation where God
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  Speaker 1: is about to turn things around. And he's going to
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  Speaker 1: turn them around in a mighty way. But the people
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  Speaker 1: through whom he's going to turn it around are oblivious
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  Speaker 1: to the fact that the change is going to come
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  Speaker 1: through them. Because often God grooms greatness in obscurity. And
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  Speaker 1: you don't even know that you're chosen. In fact, they
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  Speaker 1: think they are ordinary. But God is about to do
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  Speaker 1: something extraordinary in their lives. And I'm preaching already. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like you come born into the world with a
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  Speaker 1: stamp on your head that says, I'm getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: do something amazing in your life. In fact, you can
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  Speaker 1: live half of your life or even most of your
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  Speaker 1: life and not know that the next turn is going
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  Speaker 1: to revolutionize your entire life. And because you don't know it,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you can be complacent and I'm going to spend
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time dealing with complacency. Because we don't
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  Speaker 1: recognize that God is going to do something extraordinary in
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  Speaker 1: our lives. Because this family is an ordinary family according
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  Speaker 1: to the times that they lived in. And they're fairly affluent.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't want to be presumptuous and
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  Speaker 1: say rich. But they were well enough off to be
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  Speaker 1: able to travel and to go and to worship God
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  Speaker 1: and to travel a distance. And the very fact that
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  Speaker 1: Elkanah has two wives is a sign of being prosperous.
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  Speaker 1: One will make you broke. I have not gotten to
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  Speaker 1: the point that I can afford to add two. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm still working on Elkanah. I have not gotten there yet.
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  Speaker 1: But he has two wives, Hannah and Penina. He is
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  Speaker 1: not otherwise mentioned in the scriptures as being particularly significant.
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  Speaker 1: And Hannah often gets all of the spotlight because Hannah
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know who she is yet. She's a grown woman
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  Speaker 1: who doesn't know who she is yet. She does not
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  Speaker 1: recognize who she is. But God uses the other wife
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  Speaker 1: as a catalyst of conversion. So when we read it,
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  Speaker 1: let's read it carefully because there's a couple of things
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  Speaker 1: I want to note. Whenever the day came for Elkanah
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  Speaker 1: to sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to
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  Speaker 1: his wife Peninnah. and to all her sons and daughters. But, but,
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  Speaker 1: but to Hannah, he gave a double portion because he
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  Speaker 1: loved her and the Lord had closed her womb. I
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  Speaker 1: had never considered the fact that if had he not
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  Speaker 1: given her a double portion since she had no children,
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  Speaker 1: The portions were given out according to the children that
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  Speaker 1: you had that you could sacrifice for your entire family.
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  Speaker 1: He does not want her to appear before the Lord
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  Speaker 1: empty handed. Think about that for a minute. So he
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  Speaker 1: gives her a double portion because he loves her to
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  Speaker 1: make as if she has what she does not. Because
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  Speaker 1: the Lord had closed Hannah's womb, her rival kept provoking
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  Speaker 1: her in order to irritate her. Pay close attention to
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  Speaker 1: that word provoke. She kept provoking her in order to
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  Speaker 1: irritate her. This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah
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  Speaker 1: went up to the house of the Lord, her rival
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  Speaker 1: provoked her till she wept and would not eat. She
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  Speaker 1: was fine. Till Penina provoked her. Her husband Elkanah would
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  Speaker 1: say to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don't
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  Speaker 1: you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don't I mean more
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  Speaker 1: to you than ten sons? Once when they had finished eating,
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  Speaker 1: once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh,
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  Speaker 1: Hannah stood up. Somebody say Hannah stood up. Now Eli
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  Speaker 1: the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord's house. In her deep anguish Hannah prayed
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord weeping bitterly. And she made a vow saying,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty, if you will only look on your servant's
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  Speaker 1: misery and remember me and not forget your servant, but
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  Speaker 1: give her a son, then I will give him to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord for all the days of his life and
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  Speaker 1: no razor will ever be used on his head. As
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  Speaker 1: she kept on praying to the Lord, Eli observed her mouth,
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  Speaker 1: thought she was crazy. Hannah was praying in her heart
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  Speaker 1: and her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard.
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  Speaker 1: Eli thought she was drunk and said to her, how
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  Speaker 1: long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it funny how people will be presumptuous? You see
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  Speaker 1: it all the time on Facebook and Instagram and people
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  Speaker 1: will just make presumptions about you as if they actually
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  Speaker 1: knew what they were talking about. She said, not so,
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  Speaker 1: my Lord. Hannah replied, I am a woman who is
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  Speaker 1: deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer.
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  Speaker 1: I was pouring out my soul. I was pouring out
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  Speaker 1: my soul to the Lord. Leave me alone. Leave me alone.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of my face. What I want you to see,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to summarize in my title, provoked love. To purpose. Provoked.
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  Speaker 1: To purpose. You would think that purpose just happened. But
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  Speaker 1: purpose doesn't just happen. They went years just going through
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  Speaker 1: routine until she was provoked to purpose. She was irritated,
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  Speaker 1: but then she got provoked to purpose. When she got provoked,
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  Speaker 1: that was the turning of the tide. Provoked is not
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  Speaker 1: a good feeling. It is an uncomfortable, irritating feeling. It
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  Speaker 1: is a scary, annoying feeling. Her husband tries to comfort her.
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  Speaker 1: He is unable to comfort her. He is unable to
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  Speaker 1: resolve the issue. There are some irritants that should not
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  Speaker 1: be fixed. There are some irritants that are not satanic.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of the living God, as I speak today, I
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  Speaker 1: pray that the word would be made flesh in the
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  Speaker 1: lives of the people who hear it. That transformation would
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  Speaker 1: occur in such a supernatural way. that an illumination would
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  Speaker 1: occur in such a way that somebody doesn't even realize.
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  Speaker 1: They think that whatever they're going through is what they're
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  Speaker 1: going through, but they don't understand that what they're going
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  Speaker 1: through is right and on line and in level with
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  Speaker 1: what you're about to do next in their lives. They
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  Speaker 1: don't even know they're extraordinary. They think they're ordinary. They
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  Speaker 1: think their situation is just something that they have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with, and they don't know that in order to
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  Speaker 1: change the situation, they have to be provoked. Not provoke
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  Speaker 1: to impress other people. Not provoke to prove something to
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  Speaker 1: other people. But provoke to break away from complacency. Because
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  Speaker 1: it is not good for us to be too complacent.
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  Speaker 1: Prepare our hearts to receive your word. In Jesus name
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  Speaker 1: we pray. Amen. You may be seated in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of God. Yeah, get ready, get ready, get ready. You
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  Speaker 1: can be complacent and not know it. You don't always
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  Speaker 1: have the benefit of having someone in your ear, raising you,
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  Speaker 1: developing you, coming from a culture, an environment, a family
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  Speaker 1: culture or environment that lends itself to causing you to
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  Speaker 1: believe that there is something exceptional that God has planned
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  Speaker 1: for your life. And if you're not careful, most of
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  Speaker 1: us settle. It is easy to settle. If I take
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  Speaker 1: this glass and I pour sand in it and put
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  Speaker 1: a spoon in it and stir it up, I have
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  Speaker 1: to work to settle it, to stir it up, but
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  Speaker 1: I have to do nothing for it to settle. When
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  Speaker 1: I take the spoon out, left to its own devices,
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  Speaker 1: it settles. And when we settle, we often settle into
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  Speaker 1: a place of complacency. Now, complacency is defined like this.
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  Speaker 1: It is a feeling of quiet pleasure or security. Often
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  Speaker 1: while unaware of some potential danger or defect or the like,
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  Speaker 1: self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation or condition.
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  Speaker 1: Just satisfied, just satisfied. And in and of itself, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sound bad to be satisfied. What makes it bad
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  Speaker 1: is when we are satisfied with less than what God
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  Speaker 1: has for us. And it is easy to become satisfied
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  Speaker 1: with less than what God has for us because we
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  Speaker 1: don't always know what God has for us. And we
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  Speaker 1: don't always understand what it takes to really revolutionize our
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  Speaker 1: lives and come to a place where we really go
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  Speaker 1: after what God has for us. It is difficult now
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  Speaker 1: to distinguish between like peace and faith and things that
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  Speaker 1: we're taught in church and complacency. How do you determine
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  Speaker 1: the difference between peace, which is also a calm and
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  Speaker 1: a settle and a relaxation and complacency? So let's distinguish
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  Speaker 1: it by saying there's a difference between trusting God after
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  Speaker 1: you have done all you can do As opposed to
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  Speaker 1: complacency is the assumption that you can invest less effort
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  Speaker 1: and still maintain more responsibility. You get to the point
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  Speaker 1: in your mind that you don't think that you really
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  Speaker 1: have to give your best because you're in now. Let
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  Speaker 1: me break it down where you can get it good.
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  Speaker 1: It's the difference between the dating you and the married you.
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  Speaker 1: You're in now. It's the difference between your first month
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  Speaker 1: on the job and your 10th year on the job. Complacency.
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  Speaker 1: Complacency begins to occur when we no longer put our
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  Speaker 1: full effort into becoming what God wants us to be.
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  Speaker 1: We are living in a world that creates two polarized ideologies.
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  Speaker 1: Follow me. I want you to think with me a
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  Speaker 1: little while. We're going to have church in a minute,
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  Speaker 1: but I want you to think for a little while.
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  Speaker 1: The world has two polarizing ideologies that I want to
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  Speaker 1: deal with. One is a deep feeling of inadequacy. On
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  Speaker 1: one hand, you got people who feel inadequate. This is
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  Speaker 1: a voice that says your best is not enough. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're not enough. They live with an inferiority complex.
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  Speaker 1: An insecurity. Nothing they do is ever applauded. Within. Within.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that it's not applauded outwardly. But inwardly,
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  Speaker 1: you never clap for you. You never appreciate your accomplishment.
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  Speaker 1: You're off to the next battle. You're off to the
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  Speaker 1: next thing. And when you look back at it, there's
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  Speaker 1: always something wrong with it. And you can always see
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong with it. And you can never see what's
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  Speaker 1: right with it. You have been conditioned to see yourself
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  Speaker 1: from a position of inferiority. Often we seek affirmation from others.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you hungry for affirmation. You're starving for affirmation. See,
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  Speaker 1: when you clap for yourself, you don't desperately need somebody
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  Speaker 1: else to clap for you. This is important. It's ruining
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  Speaker 1: our relationship because we don't often marry because we want companionship.
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  Speaker 1: We sometimes marry because we want affirmation. So we assign
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  Speaker 1: to our spouse the job of clapping. And as long
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  Speaker 1: as they clap, we're good. But the spouse eventually gets
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  Speaker 1: tired of clapping into the life of someone who's leaking.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever tried that, no matter how much you
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  Speaker 1: clap for them, they never hold on to your clapping.
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  Speaker 1: These are the people that keep asking you, do you
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  Speaker 1: love me? You asked me that yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think I'm pretty? I told you Monday you're pretty.
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  Speaker 1: This is Tuesday. It leaked out already. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: I'm smart? Yes, I think you're smart. And then I
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  Speaker 1: feel dumb. The reason it's leaking is because you are
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  Speaker 1: pouring into them things that they don't agree with. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not just talking about so much just believing in oneself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about believing in God. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about allowing positivity to be internalized when it is due.
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  Speaker 1: When it is really due. I mean, when you've really
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  Speaker 1: done the work and you've done a good job. To
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  Speaker 1: take a moment. And I have to work on this
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  Speaker 1: in my own life. To take a moment to take
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  Speaker 1: in good moments. Yes. Sometimes I'm so busy going on
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  Speaker 1: to the next thing that I don't take time to
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  Speaker 1: just see law. The word see law in Psalms is
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  Speaker 1: a musical term that means to pause and just breathe
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  Speaker 1: in and just take that in and really allow that
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  Speaker 1: to soak into you what you've been able to accomplish.
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  Speaker 1: Am I talking good this morning? If you don't internalize it,
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  Speaker 1: don't assign me the job of telling you what you
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  Speaker 1: ought to be telling yourself. I'm not talking about pumping
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  Speaker 1: yourself up when it's not good. I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: lying to yourself when it's not good. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: applauding yourself when it is good. Clap for yourself. Some
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  Speaker 1: of y'all even felt funny doing that. You just felt
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  Speaker 1: funny doing that. You're not used to clapping for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: But God shows us how to do this in the
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  Speaker 1: book of Genesis. The Bible says that God stepped out
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  Speaker 1: on nothing and said, let there be something and let
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  Speaker 1: there be light. And there was light. And the evening
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  Speaker 1: and the morning was the first day. And guess what?
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  Speaker 1: No angels, no choir, no spouse. No friends, no person
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  Speaker 1: came along. Nobody started dancing. No praise team came along.
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  Speaker 1: God clapped for himself. He said, and it was good.
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  Speaker 1: And it was good. It doesn't have to be finished
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  Speaker 1: to be good. It doesn't have to be finished to
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  Speaker 1: be good. God said, I got some more to do tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: but that that I've already done, that was good. That
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  Speaker 1: was good right there. And see, some of you wait
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  Speaker 1: too late to clap. You're not going to clap till
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  Speaker 1: it's finished, but you got to clap behind every accomplishment
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  Speaker 1: and celebrate every step. The steps of a good man
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  Speaker 1: are ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in the way.
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  Speaker 1: And every time you take a stop, you need to
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  Speaker 1: clap for that step because at least I'm further than
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  Speaker 1: where I was. I may not be where I'm going,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm further than where I was. Am I talking
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  Speaker 1: to anybody this morning? And so you need to praise
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  Speaker 1: God for baby steps. Praise God for progress. Praise God
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  Speaker 1: for improvement. Celebrate within yourself and not be afraid to
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  Speaker 1: look yourself in the mirror and say you did that well.
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  Speaker 1: You did that real well. You'll never be able to
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  Speaker 1: determine who you need in your life until you fill
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  Speaker 1: your own void. You'll choose somebody out of your pain.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you get well, you don't want them.
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  Speaker 1: I call it marrying your nurse. You're attracted to them
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  Speaker 1: because you're sick. And they're good at making you feel better.
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  Speaker 1: But then when you get better, you have no purpose
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  Speaker 1: for them in your life. And all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: you say you've outgrown them. No, you haven't outgrown them.
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  Speaker 1: You just built a world around your affliction. On the
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  Speaker 1: other extreme, but equally as dangerous, but the antithesis of
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  Speaker 1: inferiority is the assumption that what God has given to
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  Speaker 1: you requires nothing of you. You don't put anything into it.
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  Speaker 1: You just received it. You got it. You think it
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  Speaker 1: ought to be there. Anything you add to your life
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  Speaker 1: requires your attention. If you have a goldfish, you have
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  Speaker 1: to feed it. If you get a cute little puppy,
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  Speaker 1: you got to walk it. You got to take it out.
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  Speaker 1: You got to clean it. You got to take it
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  Speaker 1: to the vet. If you buy a car, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to need oil. If you buy a car, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to need gas. Anything you add to your life is
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  Speaker 1: going to require more of you. Stop adding more than
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  Speaker 1: you're willing to maintain. Say this word with me. No. No.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you have said yes so much because you
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  Speaker 1: assume that you are collecting whatnots to keep on a shelf.
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  Speaker 1: But in reality, you keep saying yes and not really
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  Speaker 1: taking care of what you already got. You keep adding
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  Speaker 1: more and more and more and more to your life.
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  Speaker 1: And then somewhere on some therapist's couch, you say, I'm
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  Speaker 1: overwhelmed and I'm nervous and I got anxiety. And I
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  Speaker 1: guess you do. To him who much is given, much
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  Speaker 1: is required. This grandiose mentality that you have has led
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  Speaker 1: you to a place of utter frustration. You underestimate what
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  Speaker 1: greatness costs. I'm going to say that again. You underestimate
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  Speaker 1: what greatness costs. This is a dangerous thing. You don't
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  Speaker 1: seek to keep up, advance your skills, study or work out.
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  Speaker 1: You don't seek to maintain the relationship, keep it spicy
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  Speaker 1: and interesting. You think I've got that on lock. You
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  Speaker 1: do not have that on lock. Come on, come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on. You never.
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  Speaker 1: You never have it on lock. You don't have your
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  Speaker 1: husband on lock. You don't have your wife on lock.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have your career on lock. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: your child on lock. You don't have your mama on lock.
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  Speaker 1: You don't ever have anything on lock. That's why you
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  Speaker 1: got to celebrate people while you have them. You have
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  Speaker 1: to love them while you got them. You got to
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  Speaker 1: pour into them while they're there. You don't have it
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  Speaker 1: on lock. Somebody is after your job right now. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: is after your spouse right now. Somebody is after your
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  Speaker 1: house right now. Somebody is after your position right now.
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  Speaker 1: Never fall into complacency and think that you are so
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  Speaker 1: wonderful that you're just being there is all that's required. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Complacency will not do it. You have got to put
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  Speaker 1: some grind in it. some sweat into it, some work
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  Speaker 1: into it. That's why you don't need too many its.
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  Speaker 1: Because every it you take on is going to take
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  Speaker 1: something from you. It's going to give something to you,
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  Speaker 1: but it's going to take something from you. And there
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  Speaker 1: may not be enough of you to handle all the
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  Speaker 1: places you said yes to. And you've got to be
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  Speaker 1: able to evaluate, am I a pint-sized container with a
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  Speaker 1: gallon-sized appetite? Complacency expects reward without sacrifice. You want to
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  Speaker 1: be rewarded as if you were doing more than you're
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  Speaker 1: really doing. They take people, places, and things for granted.
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  Speaker 1: That's all it means. You just take them for granted.
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  Speaker 1: You just think they'll always be there and often blame anyone, past, present,
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  Speaker 1: or future, to avoid taking responsibility for outcomes. You'll even
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  Speaker 1: blame God. God didn't come through. I paid my tithes,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I gave my offers, and they said God was going
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  Speaker 1: to give me a double portion, and God didn't come through.
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  Speaker 1: He did come through. You spent it. Y'all not going
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: to like me today, and it's Mother's Day. The message
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  Speaker 1: might not be good, but the dinner after this is
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  Speaker 1: going to blow your mind. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: great dinner after this. Come on, somebody. You don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: God gets blamed for everything that we didn't do ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: God didn't do it. You can't sit back apathetically, indifferently,
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  Speaker 1: put it on autopilot and expect God to do everything
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  Speaker 1: in your life. It does not work. It is a
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  Speaker 1: lackadaisical attitude. It is a naivety that we take for
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  Speaker 1: granted and assume that we are just so wonderful and
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  Speaker 1: we are just so special and we are just so
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  Speaker 1: great and we're just so grandiose that they ought to
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: be glad that I showed up for work this morning. No,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I'm not glad that you showed up. What did you
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: get done? And it starts in our childhood. You're just wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: You're just gorgeous. You're just special. You're just wonderful. And
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: you think you're so wonderful that you don't have to work?
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: That's wrong. You're not that wonderful. We're not that amazed
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: by you. We're not that caught up with you that
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you can be derelict of your responsibilities and now you
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: want to be celebrated. It is difficult to celebrate a
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  Speaker 1: mother that didn't mother. It is difficult to celebrate a
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  Speaker 1: man as the head of the household and he's not
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  Speaker 1: there and he doesn't provide and he doesn't do it,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't work. But I'm the man of this house.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you told me because these bills ain't saying nothing.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Stop taking trophies for races you didn't run. Stop taking
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: trophies for races you didn't run. Write that down and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: put it on the line. Put it in your head.
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  Speaker 1: Stop taking trophies for races you didn't run. Stop comparing
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  Speaker 1: yourself to other people, other couples, other careers, other jobs,
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  Speaker 1: because if you don't put that work in, you don't
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: get that result. You can't say to your wife, I
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: want you to treat me like Sister Jakes treats Bishop Jakes.
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  Speaker 1: You don't act like Bishop Jakes. You didn't do what
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  Speaker 1: Bishop Jakes did. You didn't serve like Bishop Jakes did.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't stand by me. You didn't go through the
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  Speaker 1: fire with me. You don't get that just because you're
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  Speaker 1: in the building. You got to put some work into that. Complacency. Complacency.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to mess with you this morning. Complacency leads
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  Speaker 1: to frustration. The Bible said comparing yourself with one another
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  Speaker 1: is not wise. Oh, I'm going to get to you.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't make you happy, I'm going to make
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: you good and mad. One way or the other, I'm
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: going to get some kind of reactions out of you.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Complacency expects reward without sacrifice. Then it creates a lukewarm,
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  Speaker 1: nauseating attitude in God. God said, I wish you were
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: either hot or cold. But because you are lukewarm, complacent
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  Speaker 1: people are lukewarm people. I spew you out of my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing worse than a lukewarm employee. Maybe there is
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: some worse. A lukewarm manager is worse. A lukewarm CEO.
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  Speaker 1: Lukewarm people are nauseating. Lukewarm. You're not hot. You're not cold.
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  Speaker 1: You're indifferent. Lukewarm doesn't change the temperature in my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: You're the only one got it in the whole church.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Lukewarm doesn't change the temperature in my mouth. If your
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: coming and going doesn't change the temperature that I had
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: without you. Oh Lord, I can see him getting mad now.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be courageous enough to ask yourself a question,
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  Speaker 1: am I a lukewarm person? Am I a lukewarm daughter?
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Am I a lukewarm son? My mother used to say
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  Speaker 1: all the time to us, do something that makes folk
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  Speaker 1: miss you. What would they not have if you're not there?
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  Speaker 1: If you can't point to several significant things, I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: to you. If you can't figure out whether this message
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: is for you or not, if you can't answer that question,
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  Speaker 1: what do you bring to the table? And what do
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: you keep bringing to the table? And how are you
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: advancing what you're bringing to the table? And how do
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you avoid being complacent? All these years, Hannah has settled
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: into a routine and Elkanah has enabled her by making
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  Speaker 1: as if she had what she did not have because
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: he loved her. Some people love us to our own detriment.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: They give us compliments and this is what's unfair about
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: In a relationship, because a lot of times when somebody
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: ends up leaving you, you're shocked because they just bought
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: you roses the day before, but you didn't earn them.
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  Speaker 1: They just gave them to you because they're supposed to.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: It's February 14th. They were supposed to give you roses,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: brought you roses. Don't mean I'm happy. It means I
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  Speaker 1: got a calendar. Don't woo me. It happens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It does not mean a thing. If you cannot point
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  Speaker 1: to how you change the temperature when I take you in,
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  Speaker 1: you are lukewarm.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Lukewarm.
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  Speaker 1: What do I lose if you leave? It's like somebody
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: getting ready to leave your company and they want to
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: exit meeting with you. For what? Go. Go. God bless.
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  Speaker 1: See you later. Have a nice life. God, it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: We couldn't tell you was here anyway. See, see, and
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: people of faith are really good at this because it
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  Speaker 1: is so easy to give God our job. I'm walking
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: by faith. I just believe God's going to handle it.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I'm just believing God. My career is on lock. I'm
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: just believing God. I plead the angels of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and care about them. I plead the blood. You plead
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  Speaker 1: the blood all you want to all over your house,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: but the blood ain't going to make breakfast. The blood
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: ain't going to cook dinner. The blood ain't going to
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: make happiness. The blood ain't going to have sex. The
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  Speaker 1: blood ain't going to do any of the things. You
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: plead the blood until all the walls are painted red
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: in your house. You can anoint your children until they
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: are as greasy as KFC, but that does not take
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the place of mothering your child. There is something required
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  Speaker 1: of you. You have to put some work into it.
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  Speaker 1: Stop having babies you're not going to take care of.
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  Speaker 1: And that ain't just for the women, that's for the
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  Speaker 1: men too. Stop having babies you ain't going to take
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  Speaker 1: care of. Don't run up to him and tell him,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I want you to be my baby daddy. No, I
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: want you to get some diapers. I want you to
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: bring some groceries in this house. I want you to
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: at least pay half of this rent. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to add some wisdom and some love and attention and time.
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  Speaker 1: Give him a job description that goes along with the baby.
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  Speaker 1: God put Adam and Eve in the garden. He set
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: them up in the garden. He made everything right. He
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: put a system in place. He put a system in place.
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  Speaker 1: He brought them into a system that had irrigation. He
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: brought them into a system that was beautiful. He brought
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  Speaker 1: them into a system that was fruitful and then told
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  Speaker 1: them to till it, to work it, to garden it.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that God gives you something doesn't absolve you
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  Speaker 1: of the responsibility of working it. Type on the line,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: work that thing. You got to work that thing. If
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: you're going to turn your job into a career, you
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: got to work that thing. If you're going to turn
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: around and break the curse off of your family, you're
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: going to have to work that thing. If you're going
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: to lose weight, you got to work that thing. Glory
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: to God. That's why I'm fat today. You got to
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: work that thing. You got to work that thing. It's
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: not going to come. I keep waiting on a pill.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I'm waiting on an injection. I'm waiting on a drug.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I ended up with a treadmill. Maybe someday they're going
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: to come up with something that we can just inject
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and come out here with biceps and triceps. Until then,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: you got to lift them weights. Are you hearing what
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? Some people live their whole lives
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: complacent and you might get by with it until God's purpose.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Watch this. This is it. Until God's purpose is compromised
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: by your complacency. You can live your whole life being
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: complacent and you might be married to an enabler who
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: makes it legal for you to be complacent because they
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: give you a double portion because they love you. But
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: that love is also enabling you not to be your
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: best self. I have learned sometimes when somebody's crying, let
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: them cry. Don't fix everything for everybody. Don't create a
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: false reality that makes them feel good about something they
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: need to feel bad about. They need to feel bad
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: about it. Because when you start getting in the way
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: of what God has purposed for your life, then God
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: has to send something to provoke you. Somebody holler, provoke me.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let me spend my whole life living beneath my purpose,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: living beneath my potential, living beneath what I could be,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: living beneath where I ought to be going. I know
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I'm preaching to you because deep down inside, there's a
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: voice down inside of you that suspects that there is
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: more that God has for you than what you are
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: experiencing right now, or you wouldn't even be listening at me.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: It is that haunting, nagging voice. suspicion that there's something
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: else you don't even know what it is you don't
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: even know how to get it but there's a nagging
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: suspicion that you were put here on this planet to
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: do more than what you're doing right now and I
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: came to irritate you I came to get on your
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: nerves I came to stir you up I came to
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: holler in your ear. I came to get you frustrated.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Go ahead and cry. You need to cry. It's going
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: to take some tears to break the yoke of complacency
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: that's been hanging over your life. I don't know who
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to, but if you hear this word and
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: you know it's for you, give God five seconds of
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: crazy praise. I'm getting ready to stir this thing up, baby.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to stir this thing up in here.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to stir this thing up. If I
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: stir you up on Sunday, it's going to change your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to stir you up until you stop
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: settling for bad credit. Settling for being miserable at home.
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  Speaker 1: Settling for not accomplishing what God created you to do.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: The devil is alive. I rebuke the spirit of settling
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: right now. Complacency has got to go. In the mighty
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: name of Jesus, somebody help me break this yoke. I'm
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: going to ride it until I break it. I'm going
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to ride it until it falls apart. I'm going to
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: ride it until it collapses on the floor. Somebody shout
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: unto God. Fist bump three people and tell them something
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: is about to happen. Something's about to happen. Something's about
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: to happen. Something's about to happen. Something's about to happen.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Something's about to happen. Something's about to happen. Something's about
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: to happen. Something's about to happen. Something's about to happen.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Something's about to happen. Something's about to happen. Something's about
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: to happen. I thought I was just going to get
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: a nice little Mother's Day message. No, I'm about to
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: get a revolution. I'm about to have a resurrection. I'm
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: about to have an awakening. I'm about to get stirred up.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Something's about to happen in my life. I can't hear you, church.
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  Speaker 1: Give him a praise. You may be seated. I'm going
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: to go a little further. Woof. If I had any hair,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: it'd be standing up on the top of my head.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Because I think there's something else inside of you. I
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: think there's more inside of you. I think God created
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: you for a purpose. I don't think you're a mistake.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think you're an accident. I don't care what
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the circumstances of your birth were. I think you have
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: been designed and created by God and that you are
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: to be an asset to the world. You are to
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: change the world in some way. You are to make
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a difference in the world. Even if it's a little difference,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to make some kind of difference in the world.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Forbes Women.com wrote a very interesting article about complacency for
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: women in careers. And I was reading the article and
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: it talked about complacency will ruin your career. And it
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: said some things I want to share with you. Though
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the article was written to career women, it's really genderless truth.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: It applies to ministry, marriage, marriage. any aspirational accomplishment that
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: you might have in your life, all of it is true.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: They gave five warning signs of complacency, and I want
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: to share them with you. Number one, you are complacent
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: when you are no longer striving to do your best.
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  Speaker 1: In every area. Now, if that stretches you too much,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: drop some areas. Yes. I'd rather have less areas and
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: do more than more areas and do less. In the country,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: we used to say it. like this. You can be
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: a mile wide and an inch deep. So you spread
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: yourself so thin that you're ineffective at everything. If you
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: know you can only handle three things, only take on
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: three things. Because if you're not, you're complacent when you
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: are number one, no longer striving for To do your best.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: To bring the best, your best mind, your best self.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: To really be present where you are. Visionaries have a
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: challenge with this because visionaries always have a tendency to
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: live in where they're going. At the expense of where
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: you are. So when you get to where you're going,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: you have lost where you are. Ooh, ooh, that's good. Visionaries,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking to evil people. I'm talking to good people. Visionaries,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: you are so consumed with your goal and your vision
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: and your future and what's next that you are negating, starving, underutilizing,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: unavailable for your now. You can't neglect now and earn
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: next forever. Number two, you're operating off of an old playbook.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: You must remain a lifelong learner. What was best 20
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: years ago is not best now. When I learned to type,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: we had a typewriter. Y'all don't know what I'm talking about.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: We didn't have a laptop. We had a typewriter. It
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: was a manual typewriter. It made noise. You had to
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: depress every key. If you could type 90 words a
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: minute on an old typewriter, you ought to be doing
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: 150 on a laptop. Because them things, you almost had
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: to crank them and spin it to the, come on. Yeah,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. Yeah. Some of you
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: are living in a laptop world, but you've got a
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: manual typewriter effort. I'm going to drive home that number two.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: It's important. I'm not finished with it yet. You need
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: to understand giving somebody what they used to need doesn't work.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: You have a tendency to not really grow. You're not
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: doing anything to grow. It was good 20 years ago.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: It was enough 20 years ago. Complacency assumes that what
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: was enough is enough. How do I fix that? Ask, seek, knock, read,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: get magazines, keep enhancing yourself, developing yourself. You cannot be
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: a doctor and not take any more classes once you
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: get your degree. I'm a doctor. I'm through with it. No,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I leave them. Because they'll still be giving you liniment
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Come on. You take some liniment
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: for that, you'll be all right. No, liniment? Do they
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: still make liniment? No. You have to keep enhancing yourself.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Which means you have to be comfortably uncomfortable. You have
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. To be living on
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: the edge where you got to keep assuming that I
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: need to know more. I need to grow. I need
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: to go further. Let me hit number three. Let me
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: hit number three. You aren't seeking to take advantage of
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: new opportunities. You're not seeking to take advantage of new opportunity.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I like to call this remaining in a state of
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: growth and challenge. Just as much as you need rest
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: and no one has to tell you to lay down,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: you need new challenges to keep you engaged. I shouldn't
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: have to tell you you're tired, you need to go
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: to bed. Nobody has to tell you to go to bed.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't have to tell you to get up in
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: the morning. I shouldn't have to tell you that you
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: need to keep reading, keep growing, keep learning, keep studying,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: keep praying, keep worshiping. Keep talking to God. You can't
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: wait till Sunday morning to have a worship. You know
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: why it's so hard on y'all to lead people into worship?
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: They wait for Sunday morning to worship God. There are
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: people in this room that haven't worshiped God all week.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: And there you are supposed to, in 15 or 20 minutes,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: compensate for a life that hadn't worshiped God all week long.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: And you up there giving them a grade on the
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: worship service. We came to worship. We didn't come to
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: raise the dead. We didn't come to raise the dead.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Just like you have sensitivities inside of you that let
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: you know when you're tired or let you know when
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: you're hungry. You need to sharpen your sensitivity to let
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: you know when you need to learn, grow, enhance, accessorize, develop,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: come to the next level. Are you with me? Number four,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: you aren't maintaining or building your contacts and relationships that
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: are the currency of growth. You have no more growth.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Then you have relationships. And you, no, I just, I don't,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: I'd like to keep this like it is. Then don't grow.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: And be complacent. And take the risk of missing your destiny.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: You need to keep it fresh. You need to keep
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: it fresh. You need to keep it fresh. You need
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: to be on the cutting edge. You need to walk
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: up on stages to challenge you. They make you nervous.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Walk in the rooms where you don't know exactly what
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: to say. You need to walk in the spaces where
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: you have to pray. And say, oh God, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: in here now, okay? I'm getting ready to make this presentation.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't go with me, Lord, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get this done. I need your help, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I need your help. Lord, I'm getting ready to do this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of my element. I'm out of my comfort zone, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh God, scare me again, Jesus. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: We're walking into this door. Come on. Who am I
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: talking to? I'm talking to somebody. If all your contacts
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: are old contacts, you don't have no contacts. Relationships are indicators.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: They are indicators of the currency of growth. All you
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: have is the same old friends you had when you
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: was drinking at the strip club. And those are the
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: only people who you can befriend. It means you haven't changed.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't grown. You haven't developed. Your new friends ought
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: to make your old friends uncomfortable. If ain't nobody said
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: to you recently, you think you so much. You ain't growing. See,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: that's a real compliment. When people walk up to you
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: out of your old life and say, you thank you
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: so much, they're really complimenting you. They're saying that you're growing.
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  Speaker 1: They're saying that you're entering into another level of life.
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  Speaker 1: Stop getting mad at that. That's a compliment. It's a
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: sign that you're growing. Oh my God, I feel the
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost talking to somebody in this room right now.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: You know you're not complacent when you walk in the
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: rooms and they're talking about what you used to think
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: was funny and now you think it's silly. You used
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: to think they were fun and now they're boring. You
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: can laugh for a few minutes and then you want
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: to go. When you get through talking about old times,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have nothing to talk about because everything that's
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: on your head is not on their mind. That is
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  Speaker 1: a sign you are growing to the next level. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: talk to me somebody. You're not supposed to get along
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  Speaker 1: with everybody. Everybody's not supposed to like you. Stop dumbing
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  Speaker 1: down who you are so you can fit in with
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  Speaker 1: where you left. I'm going to break it down until
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: you get it. Give me number five. I'm going to
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: come on through this. Number five, you don't risk sharing
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: your opinion or ideas. These people drive me crazy. Whatever
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: you say, they agree with it. They never add nothing
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: to the conversation. They won't risk being wrong, so they
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: just parakeet your ideas. Yes. They don't risk sharing your
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  Speaker 1: opinion or your ideas as a sign that you are complacent.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Fear has got you locked in. Have an opinion. Even
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: if they don't do it, have an opinion. Open your
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: mouth and speak it. You wait on others to be
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: assertive while you just go along to get along. Without
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: taking the risk of offering your contribution, whether it is
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: used or not, you will never be able to evaluate
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: whether you are growing or not because you're playing it safe.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: You're hiding, Adam. Get out from behind them fig leaves
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  Speaker 1: and let me see what's really going on here. You're hiding.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: You're hiding. Your silence is a cover-up because you are
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: afraid to take risks. You cannot be a leader and
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: not take risks. You cannot be a leader and not
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: get on people's nerves. Everybody's not supposed to like you
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: if you're going to be a frontliner. Stop crying about
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: people hating on you. They're supposed to hate on you.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: If you're a leader, they are going to hate on you.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: That's part of the job requirement. Hannah is trying to
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: settle in to something that is beneath her. She has
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: everything a woman could want. She has a well-to-do husband
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  Speaker 1: who loves her. She has an environment that allows her
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: to do pretty much whatever she pleases. She's sitting good.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: She's doing really good. She cares. He cares about her.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Everything would be fine if it wasn't for Penina. Penina
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: comes into her life as a ministry person. Write this down,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: the ministry of Penina. I want you to identify Peninas
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  Speaker 1: in your life. There are people that God sends in
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  Speaker 1: your life solely to get on your nerves. They are
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: there to save you from mediocrity. They are there to
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: provoke you to jealousy. They are there to show off
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: that God has something more. And if you're not careful,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: you will acquiesce into becoming their hater rather than to
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: allow them to become your stimulator. Either you're going to
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: be a hater or you're going to be stimulated. But
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: God sends Penina and all of her kids and all
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: of their jelly and peanut butter stained jaws as a
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: sign to you that what they said about you isn't true.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: There is more possible for you in your life. God,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: thank you for Penina. Thank you for Penina. Thank you
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: for Penina. In the face of all the obstacles and
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: the challenges, God, you sent Penina. Are you hearing what
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? Hannah didn't realize, watch this, that
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  Speaker 1: her purpose was hidden behind her problem. Her problem was
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: that she was barren. Her purpose was hidden behind her problem.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever God, this is, please get this if you don't
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: get anything else. Whenever God has a great purpose in
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: your life, he will put a great problem in front
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: of it. Why are you writing that down? Write this down.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Find your giant. When you find your giant, you'll find
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: your kingdom. There wouldn't have been a Goliath in David's life.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Goliath was the greatest thing that could have ever happened
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  Speaker 1: to David. David would still be taking care of sheep
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't for Goliath. Goliath is the gateway to
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: the next dimension. Whenever God is getting ready to take
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: you into a new zone, there will always be a
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: big problem standing in its way. The big problem is
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: a sign that as soon as you get over this,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: you're going to step in. Did you see that? You're
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: going to step into, you're about to step into a
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: brand new dimension. Stop shrinking back from Goliath. Stop shrinking
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: back from Peninnah. It's a sign that God has something
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: else for you. So cry if you want to, fuss
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: if you want to, but when you get through crying
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: and fussing, now it's time to fight. Now it's time
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: to fight. Personal testimony, quick personal testimony. The first time
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I got ready to speak in front of what I
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: call a big crowd, which was about 120 people. That
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: was big. Don't laugh till you try. Don't laugh till
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: you try. 120 people with three rows of church mothers
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  Speaker 1: on the front row, all dressed in white. I came
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: up in a church where being spiritual meant looking evil.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: And the more anointed you are, you squinted your eyes
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: and looked hateful. And the more hateful you looked, the
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: more holy they thought you were. And I had to
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: go past all them church mothers and go stand up
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: in front of them and preach. And here was my problem.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: In order to preach, I needed a mic. I don't
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: really need one. I probably could have hollered and covered
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: the room. And my hands would shake so bad. And
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: then when I knew my hands were shaking and they
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: could see it, they would shake worse. And I thought,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: I cannot speak in front of people because my hands shake. Now,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: my purpose is on the other side. The thing that
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: annoys you, the thing that irritates you, the thing that
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: scares you, the thing that frustrates you, it's the very
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: sign that God has something on the other side of
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: it for you. Somebody holler, leap over it. Leap over it.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Questions jumped up in my head. I'm going to give
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: them to you real quick. Questions jumped up in my head.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Why did God choose a barren woman to birth a prophet?
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: Why did God choose a barren woman to birth the prophet?
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't he just give Samuel to Peninnah? It was
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: easy for her to have babies. God never does what's easy.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: He does what's divine. God never does what's easy. He
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: does what's divine. It's always going to be complicated. Why
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: did God choose a barren woman to birth a prophet?
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Why did God use a boy to kill Goliath? Why
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: did God send a backslider to preach to Nineveh? Why
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: did God use a century old man to have Isaac?
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Why did God use a virgin to birth Jesus? Why
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: did Jesus tell a man whose hand was withered, stretch
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: forth your hand? Who tells a blind man to go
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: wash in a pool he couldn't see how to get to?
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: Y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you. Who stands
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: in front of a tomb and tells a dead man
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: to come forth? That's how you know it's God. Whenever
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: it's hard, it's God. Whenever it's difficult, it's God. Whenever
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: it goes against the grain, it's God. Whenever it frustrates you,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: it's God. Penina was in her life to get on
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: her nerves. Penina was there to provoke Hannah. For the
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: first time in all of those years, Hannah got, the
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Bible says, Hannah stood up. Somebody shout, Hannah stood up.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: I came to tell everybody in this room, this is
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: the hour. This is the time. This is the moment
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: for you to stand up and say, I'm through crying.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: I'm through being depressed. I'm through being frustrated. Whatever it
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: takes to break this yoke in my life, I'm going
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: to break this yoke in my life. This is your hour.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: This is your moment. That's why God has you here.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: That's why God gave me this word on Mother's Day
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  Speaker 1: when he knew you would show up so that you
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: could get this word. Your barren days are behind you.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Your birthing days are before you. Your barren days are
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: behind you. Your birthing days are before you. God is
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: about to do a new thing in your life. Because
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: you're provoked. Slap somebody and tell them I'm provoked. Elbow
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: somebody and tell them I'm provoked. I'm provoked. I'm running
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: out of time. I'm running out of energy. I'm running
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: out of strength. If it's ever going to happen in
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: my life, it's going to have to happen right now.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: I want all the provoked people in this room to
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: open your mouth and make something happen. Jump, scream, let
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: the devil know I know God has something else for me.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: I know God has more for me. I no longer
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: believe the lie that I got to die barren. The
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: devil is a lie. I won't be barren in my home.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I won't be barren in my business. I won't be
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: barren in my life. I won't be barren with my children.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: The devil is a lie. I'm about to birth a miracle.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: I'm about to birth a promise. I'm about to birth
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: a building. I'm about to birth a book. I'm about
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: to birth a business. I feel the labor. I feel
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: the contractions. I feel the groaning. I'm about to deliver.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: This is Mother's Day. This is the day we go
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: into labor. This is the day we give birth. This
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: is the day that we push. Shove your neighbor and
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: say push.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: Push.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: Push.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: Push.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: What the Bible says. When Zion travails, oh, I need
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: my mic. When Zion travails, the Bible says, when Zion travails,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: sons and daughters shall be born. Travail is labor. I'm
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: going into labor. I'm going into work. If I have
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: to stagger. To the altar. If I have to scream.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: If I have to go scared. If I have to
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: go with my hands shaking. If I have to go
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: with my knees knocking. I will go into labor. When
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: Zion travails. Sons and daughters shall be born. Look at
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: somebody say I'm about to be a mother. I'm going
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: to birth a barbershop. I'm going to birth an accounting firm.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: I'm going to birth a law degree. I'm going to
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: birth a miracle. I'm going to birth a prophet. I'm
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: going to birth a promise. I need 30 seconds of crazy. ridiculous, supernatural,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: thirst quenching, mind renewing, praise, praise him, praise him, praise him.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: What they told you you couldn't do is a lie
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: from the pits of hell. Greater is he that is
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: in you than he that's in the world. Make a
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: joyful noise unto the Lord.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: I'm provoked, I'm provoked, I'm provoked, I'm provoked.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: To my purpose. I refuse to live and die and
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: not find out who I am, what I can be,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: what I can have, what I can do. I am
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: officially provoked. I need a thousand people in this room
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: that are provoked toward your purpose to go into a
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: crazy praise and receive this word. Hallelujah. Glory. Glory. I
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: can't believe that some of you are still standing there
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: with your teeth in your mouth when the Bible is clear.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: What Hannah did in church affected what happened in her womb.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: If you don't do it in here, you can't break
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: it out there. But if you do it in here,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: it's going to break out there. And the Bible said,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: because she got drunk... in the house of the Lord.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: Something broke in her house. If you want to break
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: it in your house, break it in the potter's house.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: Make some noise in this place.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, do it.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: God. I'm going to break it. I'm going to break
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: it in here. I'm going to break it in here.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going to break it in here. Until I look
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: like I'm drunk. Until I look like I'm crazy. But
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: I got a curse to break. I got a giant
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: to kill. I got a panita in my life. I'm
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: going to break it this morning. I can't hear you. Woo!
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Break that thing. Break that thing. Break that thing. Can't
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: nobody break it for you. The praise king can't break it.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: The choir can't break it. The ushers can't break it.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: But if you want to break up your barrenness, you
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: need to break it in the spirit. If you break
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: it in the spirit, it'll break in the flesh. If
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: you break it in the spirit, it'll break in... If
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: you break it in the spirit... It'll break in the flesh.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: Somebody ought to break it. Break that debt. Break that depression.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Break that fear. Break it right now. In the name
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. It's breaking, it's breaking,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: it's breaking, it's breaking.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: It's breaking, it's breaking, it's breaking, it's breaking. It's breaking!
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: It's breaking!
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: It's breaking! It's breaking! Break it! We're breaking! It's breaking!
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Break it off your mind! Break it in your mouth.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Break it in Jesus' name. Break that I can't. Break
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: that I can't do it. I can't be it. I
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: can't have it. You got to break it right now.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. I want everybody that's got
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: something to break to leap out in the aisle. Get
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: away from them other people. Leap out in the aisle
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: and break it in the name of Jesus. Right now.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: Take me right to church. Right now. Take me to church. Yeah.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: It's work and run.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: It's work and run.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: It's work and.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: Run. It's breaking!
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: It's breaking right now! It's breaking right now! It's breaking
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: right now!
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: You better break it.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: Can't nobody do it for you.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: Can't nobody do it for you.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: You gotta do.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: It for yourself. I'm gonna break it right now. I'm
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: gonna do it right now. I'm not drunk.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not crazy. I'm not stupid. I'm gonna break it
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: on the altar. I'm gonna break it on the altar.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna break it on the altar. I'm gonna break
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: it in the spirit. I'm gonna break it.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Listen, by faith, I want you to declare this by faith.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Whether you're online or in the building, I want you
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: to declare it by faith. Nudge somebody and tell them
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: I feel a breakthrough. I feel a breakthrough. Something just broke.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: Something just broke. Something just broke. I've been complacent. I've
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: been laid back. But today it's over. I'm going to
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: get everything that God has for me.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: Yes!
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: Shall you? Yes! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes! Yes! Yes! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: So watch this. I'm just about finished. This is what
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: I want you to understand. What Hannah did in church
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: affected what happened at home. The Bible says when she
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: got back home and lay with Elkanah, For the first time,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: after years and years of believing what she couldn't do,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: it happened. We are going to make that thing happen.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: The enemy has lulled you into complacency. As if it
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: were impossible. But God sent a word provoked to purpose.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: The baby Hannah had changed all of history. We don't
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: read about none of Penina's kids changing jack.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: My Lord.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: My Lord. Because that which comes easy changes nothing. My Lord.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: That which comes easy changes nothing. That that she sweated...
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: and prayed and crawled and cried for changed everything. And
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: the Lord told me this Sunday to preach this word
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: that you have a purpose and that the purpose is
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: on the other side of what they say you can't
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: do what they say you can't have, what they say
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: you can't be. And you've been laying on this side
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: of your dream and God is about to shift you
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: to this side of your dream. Now let me check.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: How many people it resonates with you that you have
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: a Penina situation. Penina is your best friend. She provokes
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  Speaker 1: you to show up for the fight. Your best friend
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  Speaker 1: is not your best friend. Your best friend is the
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  Speaker 1: person who keeps flaunting in front of your face what
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  Speaker 1: they know is hard for you to do. They are
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  Speaker 1: God's commercial. It wouldn't irritate you if you couldn't change it.
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  Speaker 1: The reason it irks you The reason you're frustrated by
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  Speaker 1: it is because you're called to it. Everybody saw Goliath.
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  Speaker 1: But nobody reacted to Goliath like David did. David said,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe this uncircumcised Philistine. Y'all mean this is
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  Speaker 1: what you're up against? Oh no, that he would come
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  Speaker 1: up against the armies of Israel? But wait a minute, David,
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  Speaker 1: you ain't even in the army. My God. He said,
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  Speaker 1: that's why I can do it. That's why I can
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  Speaker 1: do it. Because I didn't drink the Kool-Aid. I came
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  Speaker 1: from somewhere else. I have another spirit. And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to learn today. Oh yeah, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: learn today. You're going to learn today. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: how shocked Penina looked when Hannah started putting on weight?
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, Penina has to redefine how
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  Speaker 1: she sees Hannah. People are going to have to redefine
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  Speaker 1: I would say I had some faith. Let me talk
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  Speaker 1: to the folk online. People are going to have to
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  Speaker 1: redefine how they see you. Because they want you to
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  Speaker 1: remain complacent and stay in your place. Nobody who changed
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  Speaker 1: the world stayed in their place. Nobody who changed the
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  Speaker 1: world stayed in their place. From George Washington to Martin Luther,
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  Speaker 1: nobody stayed in their place. To Rosa Parks, nobody stayed
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  Speaker 1: in their place. To Nelson Mandela, nobody stayed in their place.
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  Speaker 1: You can't change the world and stay in your place.
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  Speaker 1: The kingdom suffers violence and the violent... take it by force.
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  Speaker 1: Who's ready to take it by force? Today I want
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  Speaker 1: to pray with you that something that I said today
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  Speaker 1: got you so stirred that you won't settle. I want
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  Speaker 1: to pray that the gift of God that is laying
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  Speaker 1: dormant in you would be stirred up that it would
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  Speaker 1: be stirred up and that you won't let it settle.
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  Speaker 1: The whole purpose we come to church, we don't come
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  Speaker 1: to church to praise the Lord. You should be doing
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  Speaker 1: that all week. We come to church to have our
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  Speaker 1: faith stirred up. so that we don't settle for less
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  Speaker 1: than what God has ordered for us to accomplish. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not competing with your success. I'm not competing against you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm competing against what God has ordained for me. Have
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  Speaker 1: all the babies you want. You can't have mine. You
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  Speaker 1: can't have mine. Look at somebody and say, you can't
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  Speaker 1: have mine. I'm the man for the job. You're the
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  Speaker 1: woman for the job. And somewhere along the way, you
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  Speaker 1: lapsed into complacency. Content with less than what God has
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  Speaker 1: ordained for you. It's not just about business. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just about money. It might be about relationships. It might
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  Speaker 1: be about callings on your life. There's something else God
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  Speaker 1: wants for you and you know it. I almost call
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  Speaker 1: this message, there's more for you. How many know there's
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  Speaker 1: more for you? There's more for you. Four words, there's
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  Speaker 1: more for you. There's more for you. That's why you're here.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you're watching. That nagging, haunting, frustrating feeling. That
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  Speaker 1: irritating feeling that there's more for you. Something is missing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're not saved. I'm not saying you
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  Speaker 1: don't love God. But in your life, you were put
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  Speaker 1: here to do something else and you know it. And
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  Speaker 1: the clock is ticking. And the clock is ticking. Once
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  Speaker 1: God opened up Hannah's womb, it was open. And Samuel
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  Speaker 1: was just the beginning of many more to come. this
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  Speaker 1: is your launch date and I know it's in the
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  Speaker 1: natural it's Mother's Day but you don't have to be
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  Speaker 1: a woman to be a mother there are men in
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  Speaker 1: this room that are about to birth something in this
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  Speaker 1: stage in your life. Don't y'all get quiet on me.
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  Speaker 1: Because we birth first anyway. We birth you. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: said Eve was brought out of Adam. So the first
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  Speaker 1: birth came from a man. Brother, why have you stopped
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  Speaker 1: birthing and building and become complacent? You lost your roar.
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  Speaker 1: Get your roar back, man. Get your roar back. Just
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  Speaker 1: because your wife is birthing doesn't mean you've been replaced.
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  Speaker 1: God wants to do something in you. If this message
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  Speaker 1: is speaking to you, bow your head. I want to
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  Speaker 1: pray for you. You're online, bow your head. I want
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  Speaker 1: to pray for you. This is a water-breaking sermon. It
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  Speaker 1: is meant to cause you to go into birth. It
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  Speaker 1: is meant to break the bondage of complacency. It is
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  Speaker 1: meant to stir you up, to make you hungry. To
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  Speaker 1: get on your nerves. To irritate you. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to die until I see who I am. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to die until I see what I can do.
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  Speaker 1: If Hannah would have died before she gave birth, it
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  Speaker 1: would have changed the entire remaining Bibles. Samuel anointed kings.
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  Speaker 1: Samuel changed structures. Samuel was God's man. Samuel anointed David.
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  Speaker 1: Samuel set him aside. Out of David came Jesus. Everything
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  Speaker 1: was predicated on this barren woman. Breaking beyond her barrenness.
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  Speaker 1: In many ways, she is the mother of the movement.
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  Speaker 1: And God chose a barren woman. God chooses the most
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  Speaker 1: unlikely people to do the most amazing stuff. Lift your hands.
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  Speaker 1: You're the one. Father, right now, Every raised hand, every
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  Speaker 1: open heart. We got a giant. We got a withered arm.
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  Speaker 1: We speak with a lisp. We stutter when we talk.
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  Speaker 1: But you chose the foolishness of this world to confound
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  Speaker 1: the wise. What you're about to do in that person
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  Speaker 1: with their hands raised right now is crazy. It's antithetical
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  Speaker 1: to what everybody thinks about them. You sent me to
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  Speaker 1: stir them up this morning and I did my best.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, finish the job. If you have to have
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  Speaker 1: them walk in the floor at three o'clock in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: finish them off I pray that they would never be
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  Speaker 1: the same again. I pray that chains would break off
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  Speaker 1: of their mind and off of their spirit. I pray
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  Speaker 1: that they would have the faith to believe that a
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  Speaker 1: poor boy born in a raggedy house on the side
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  Speaker 1: of a hill in the mountains of West Virginia could
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  Speaker 1: shape nations. I pray that they would not allow their
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  Speaker 1: past to destroy their future I pray that they would
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  Speaker 1: stop rehearsing the history and start walking into their destiny.
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  Speaker 1: I pray that they would be provoked to purpose in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' name. Amen. If you receive it, praise him in
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  Speaker 1: your own way.