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[live streams] TD Jakes 2026 - The Night Shift!(Must Watch)!! - July 19th, 2026 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Praise come on give the lord a praise a real
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  Speaker 1: praise a real praise a thunderous applaud get it up
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  Speaker 1: for our pastors that are here in the house of
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  Speaker 1: the lord let's thank god for them for our forever
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  Speaker 1: first lady for all of our ministers and deacons and
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  Speaker 1: elders and everybody look at somebody say everybody Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You may be seated. The Lord laid something on my
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  Speaker 1: heart that I want to share with you that I
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  Speaker 1: think is very, very important. Most of us go to church,
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  Speaker 1: and we go to church from the perspective of, I
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  Speaker 1: came to get a blessing. And that's good. I came
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  Speaker 1: to get a blessing too. But more importantly, I came
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  Speaker 1: to give a blessing. Amen. Now, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand something. I have been a little bit disturbed as
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  Speaker 1: I looked at our secular media, our radio, our Instagram, Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: It is becoming popular to attack the church.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And it is the difference, their view of it is
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  Speaker 1: the difference of a Polaroid picture and being able to
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  Speaker 1: do an ultrasound. You can't stand outside and understand what's
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  Speaker 1: going on inside. You have to be in it to
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. And this is how I know that they're
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  Speaker 1: looking at a Polaroid. Because they associate giving with preachers. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We've had over 200 employees in this church. We've had
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  Speaker 1: pastors full time in this church for years. So that
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  Speaker 1: when grandma dies, there's somebody here to bury her. There's
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  Speaker 1: somebody here to sing for her. There's somebody here to
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  Speaker 1: worship her. There's somebody here to play. Every instrument you see,
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  Speaker 1: every person on the instruments are being paid. They have
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  Speaker 1: to be paid. They have to be paid. Every minister
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  Speaker 1: that's full-time and available to go to the hospital at midnight,
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  Speaker 1: they have to be paid. They have families. They got
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  Speaker 1: to buy some corn and green beans and okra and
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  Speaker 1: some chitlins. Come on, talk to me, somebody. They have
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  Speaker 1: to be paid. The church has to be clean. We
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  Speaker 1: spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in toilet paper. Annually,
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  Speaker 1: we spend hundreds. Can you get, it's hard to get
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  Speaker 1: that in your head. But if you go in that
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  Speaker 1: stall and there ain't none in there. You see, so
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  Speaker 1: the money goes to the parking lot. It goes to
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  Speaker 1: the parking lot attendance. It goes to the pavement. It
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  Speaker 1: goes to all kinds of responsibilities. But it's easy to
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  Speaker 1: indict the clergy because people become venomous when they think
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  Speaker 1: that they're being taken advantage of. You understand that? Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you why it's getting like that. First,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to understand that the spirit of the
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  Speaker 1: Antichrist is loose in the world today like it has
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  Speaker 1: never been before. like it has never been before. It's
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  Speaker 1: coming through the music. It's coming through the entertainment. It's
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  Speaker 1: coming through the forces. It's coming through the strip clubs.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming through drugs. It's coming through addictions. It's coming
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  Speaker 1: through murder. The spirit of the Antichrist has already begun
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  Speaker 1: to work because we're living in the end time. And
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  Speaker 1: I want you to be biblically literate. So I want
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  Speaker 1: you to, if you got a minute, just take your Bibles,
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  Speaker 1: or I think they might have it available to put
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  Speaker 1: on the screen. 2 Thessalonians 2 1-14 because you may
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  Speaker 1: not have ever seen yourself in the way that the
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  Speaker 1: apostle describes you in 2 Thessalonians what he is talking
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  Speaker 1: about for your information is the mystery of iniquity the
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  Speaker 1: mystery if something is a mystery is hidden the mystery
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  Speaker 1: of iniquity have already begun to work now let's read
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  Speaker 1: you got it let's go If you don't have it,
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  Speaker 1: they got it on the screen. They'll have it up
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  Speaker 1: there in a minute. Now we beseech you, brethren, by
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  Speaker 1: the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our
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  Speaker 1: gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken
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  Speaker 1: in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit nor by word.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to stop worrying about this stuff. Because
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  Speaker 1: once you're informed, you're not worried because you know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. He said, don't be troubled neither by spirit
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  Speaker 1: or by word or by letter as from us as
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  Speaker 1: that the day of Christ is at hand. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Let no man deceive you by any means. For that
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  Speaker 1: day shall not come except there come a falling away first.
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  Speaker 1: And that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition.
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  Speaker 1: So everybody's got a reason why they don't go to church.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I quit going to church. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: stopped going to church. That's deception. That's not really the
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  Speaker 1: reason you stopped going to church. Because if you wanted
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  Speaker 1: your grandmama's church with the hardwood floors and the Mahalia
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  Speaker 1: Jackson fans and all of that, if you wanted that,
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  Speaker 1: it's here. Somewhere in the city, it's here. You can
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  Speaker 1: find a little country church and go. So that's not
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  Speaker 1: the reason you don't go. It's that you're being deceived
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  Speaker 1: by the spirit of the Antichrist to give you an
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  Speaker 1: excuse not to engage in the spirit of Christ. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Who opposes and exalteth himself above all that is called God.
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  Speaker 1: He opposes and exalteth himself above above all that is
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  Speaker 1: called God. They don't say nothing about a concert. They
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  Speaker 1: don't say nothing about a secular concert. They don't say
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  Speaker 1: nothing about the house they live in or what they drive.
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  Speaker 1: They don't say nothing about rappers. They don't say nothing
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  Speaker 1: about musicians. They don't say nothing about artists. It's only
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  Speaker 1: when you call the name of Jesus that you have
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  Speaker 1: to be broken busted and disgusted so you can be
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  Speaker 1: powerless they want us to be powerless the bible said
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  Speaker 1: money is the answer to all things see they don't
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  Speaker 1: turn our lights on because we love jesus they turn
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  Speaker 1: our lights on because we pay the bills come on
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  Speaker 1: talk to me somebody i'm just being real with you
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing a little daddy talk with you right now.
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  Speaker 1: They don't come on by magic. You know how your
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  Speaker 1: kids go in the refrigerator and they just drink the
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  Speaker 1: milk and leave, drink it right out the carton and
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  Speaker 1: leave it out there on the outside and the milk
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  Speaker 1: goes bad. See, they think it comes by magic, but
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  Speaker 1: you know it comes by might. This doesn't come by magic.
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  Speaker 1: It comes by might. It comes by work. It comes
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  Speaker 1: by labor. It comes by people getting up out of
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  Speaker 1: the bed at 4 o'clock in the morning to be
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  Speaker 1: down here at 5 o'clock to post all the things
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  Speaker 1: around so that you can park. It comes by the
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  Speaker 1: police department, which every one of those police officers are
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  Speaker 1: paid by hour. They're paid by the hour, every last
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  Speaker 1: one of them. They're paid right now. They're being paid
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  Speaker 1: even though we're not using them as much right now
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  Speaker 1: so that they'll be here when you get ready to
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  Speaker 1: get out so that we won't have traffic jams and
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  Speaker 1: car wrecks like we did at first. The bridge you
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  Speaker 1: walk across that you avoid walking across cost us $ 3 million.
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  Speaker 1: We put that in, not the city, not the government,
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  Speaker 1: not anybody. We put that in to unblock the traffic. See,
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  Speaker 1: I want to wake you up. I want to wake
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  Speaker 1: you up. The ones who've been here a while, they
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  Speaker 1: understand it. We pay $ 3 million, million, million. Many, look
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  Speaker 1: at somebody and say many. We paid $ 3 million to
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  Speaker 1: put that in. We had to get air rights. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know you had to get air rights. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who owns the air, but we had to pay
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  Speaker 1: them in order to get that bridge up there so
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  Speaker 1: that we would have safety for your children, your family,
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  Speaker 1: going to church, doing what they're supposed to do. And
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that I have never had to do
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  Speaker 1: in all the years that I pastored this church, We
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  Speaker 1: have never had a fight about money. Come on, back
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  Speaker 1: me up some of you saints that have been here.
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  Speaker 1: We have never had a fight about money. We've never
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  Speaker 1: had an argument. We've never had a meeting. You know why?
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  Speaker 1: Every time I said I was going to build something
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  Speaker 1: or do something or establish something, they would come back
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  Speaker 1: next Sunday and it would be trucks everywhere and gravel
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  Speaker 1: everywhere and pavement coming. And I kept my word. When
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  Speaker 1: you keep your word, there is no argument. We have
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  Speaker 1: had no 20-year building fund. We have had no 30-year
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  Speaker 1: building fund. We haven't had no pew rally that lasted
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  Speaker 1: 30 years. If I said we were going to get pews,
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  Speaker 1: we got pews. You understand what I'm saying? So that
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  Speaker 1: has never been an issue in this church, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't want it to become an issue as new people
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  Speaker 1: come in and begin to join, and you're listening at
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  Speaker 1: all of this stuff. See, like our children, we're all
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  Speaker 1: being fed by everything we hear. Faith comes by hearing
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  Speaker 1: and hearing by the Word of God. If faith comes
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  Speaker 1: by hearing, unbelief comes by hearing. Doubt comes by hearing
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  Speaker 1: and it gets in your spirit and it gives you
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  Speaker 1: a license because the enemy does not want the church
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  Speaker 1: to stand in this last day. Come on. Who opposes
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  Speaker 1: and exalted himself above all that is called God. That's
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  Speaker 1: what he wants to do. He wants to oppose and
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  Speaker 1: exalt himself above all that is called God or that
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  Speaker 1: is worshiped so that he as God sitteth in the
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  Speaker 1: temple showing himself that he is God. That's what the
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  Speaker 1: Antichrist wants to convince, that he is God. He can
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  Speaker 1: do whatever he wants to do. The church has to
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  Speaker 1: be weak and broke, and voiceless, and not on the air,
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  Speaker 1: and not on TV, and not on the radio. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you why in a minute. This
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  Speaker 1: is important because you're living in the last days and
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  Speaker 1: you don't know it. And you think you're just coming
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  Speaker 1: to church that you might be saved, and you are.
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  Speaker 1: But that ain't the only reason you're coming. You're coming
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  Speaker 1: so that the Spirit of God can lift up a
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  Speaker 1: standard against the enemy. It's a standard against the enemy.
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  Speaker 1: Look at somebody and say, you're a standard against the enemy.
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  Speaker 1: Remember ye not that when I was yet with you,
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  Speaker 1: I told you these things? And now ye know that
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  Speaker 1: what withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time.
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  Speaker 1: You know what is stopping him from coming to full
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  Speaker 1: fruition is us. It's the Spirit of God in us
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  Speaker 1: lifting up a standard, fighting back the darkness, holding back
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  Speaker 1: the enemy, stopping the plague, stopping the wars, stopping the craziness,
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  Speaker 1: stopping the enemy from taking us. It's us. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you come to church depressed and brown, and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden you get in here and you get loosed
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  Speaker 1: and you go home and you got a whole different attitude.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Spirit of God. in the house of
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  Speaker 1: God with the people of God that is making a
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  Speaker 1: difference in this world. Come on, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: get this. People don't preach about this stuff all the time,
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  Speaker 1: but I want you to get it real quick. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get it real quick and get out
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  Speaker 1: of your way. For the mystery of iniquity does already work.
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  Speaker 1: The mystery of iniquity is already working. It's taken over.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that we're holding it back. It's pushing against us.
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  Speaker 1: We're pushing back against it. The mystery of iniquity does
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  Speaker 1: already work. Only he who now letteth will let until
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  Speaker 1: he be taken out of the way. That's the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit in the people of God is holding back, giving
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  Speaker 1: resistance to the enemy taking over. It's sobering up alcoholics.
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  Speaker 1: It's delivering drug addicts. It's saving prostitutes. It's setting the
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  Speaker 1: bound free. It's breaking up adulterous relationships. We're pushing back
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  Speaker 1: against it. We're pushing back against it right now. Even
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  Speaker 1: in your weak state, even in your failing state, there's
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  Speaker 1: something down inside of you that's pushing up against it.
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  Speaker 1: Look at somebody and say, you're a pusher. Every time
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  Speaker 1: you say hallelujah, every time you say thank you, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: every time you come to church, even with your head down,
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  Speaker 1: even with your head down, you're pushing back against the enemy,
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  Speaker 1: saying no further, no further. You can't have my house.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have my child. You can't have my job.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have my future. You can't have my situation.
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  Speaker 1: The devil is alive. Even if I lose my job,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to feed me. Even if I lose my house,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to shelter me because you are my help.
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  Speaker 1: You are my strength. You are my deliverance. You are
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  Speaker 1: my glory. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: And then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord
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  Speaker 1: shall consume with the spirit of his mouth You got
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  Speaker 1: to talk back. You got to stop letting people say
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  Speaker 1: everything about you and you don't say nothing back. You
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  Speaker 1: got to talk back. You got to speak up for
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  Speaker 1: the church. You can't just let them say everything. They
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  Speaker 1: don't even go to church. And all day out there,
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  Speaker 1: and what's that thing they do? They're dropping it like
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  Speaker 1: it's hot and all that kind of stuff. And ain't
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  Speaker 1: nobody saying nothing about that. They're paying $ 75. to go
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  Speaker 1: to a hip-hop concert. Nobody's saying nothing like that. The
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  Speaker 1: persons that are getting paid are filthy rich and own
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  Speaker 1: houses in several different countries. Nobody says anything about that.
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  Speaker 1: And they are the same community that come to church.
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  Speaker 1: But it's all right for them. But when we start
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  Speaker 1: saying something about Jesus, all of a sudden we are
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  Speaker 1: demons because of this stuff. I'm going to go a
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  Speaker 1: little bit further. Can I go a little bit further?
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell you, I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 1: something to fight with. You got to have something to
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  Speaker 1: fight with. The sword of the spirit is the word
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  Speaker 1: of God. And when you know your Bible, you're unstoppable.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. Let me hear it. And then shall
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  Speaker 1: the wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of his mouth. And shall destroy with the
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  Speaker 1: brightness of his coming. When Jesus comes back. He's coming
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  Speaker 1: with the brightness of his coming. He's coming just like
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  Speaker 1: he did in Genesis. And said let there be light.
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  Speaker 1: And all the darkness got pushed back. When you open
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  Speaker 1: your mouth and start praising God. He's coming in his glory.
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  Speaker 1: He's coming in his strength. He's coming in his power.
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  Speaker 1: He's coming in his glory. Listen at me young people.
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  Speaker 1: Get this in your spirit. Because you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to teach this when I'm gone. You're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to be able to preach this when I'm gone. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to let his word be in your
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  Speaker 1: mouth because the Bible said he would deceive the very
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  Speaker 1: elect if possible. So you got to be sure you
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  Speaker 1: know where you stand. Even him who's coming is after
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  Speaker 1: the working of Satan with all power and signs and
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  Speaker 1: lying oneness. The old folks in my church would call
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  Speaker 1: you a lying wonder. I wonder where they got that from.
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  Speaker 1: You a lying wonder. Don't say that to nobody in here. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And with all deceivableness, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in
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  Speaker 1: them that perish because they receive not the love of
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  Speaker 1: the truth that they might be saved, They'll receive the
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  Speaker 1: lust of the world, but not the love of the
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  Speaker 1: truth that they might be saved. No, they don't want
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  Speaker 1: us to witness to nobody. No, they don't want us
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  Speaker 1: to have no dealings with the unsaved. Because we are
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  Speaker 1: the salt of the earth. The salt of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: The city set up on a hill that cannot be hid.
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  Speaker 1: We need the church. We got to have the church.
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  Speaker 1: Not just the potter's house. I'm talking about the church period.
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  Speaker 1: The church universal. Not just us. All over the world.
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  Speaker 1: When we all go to praying, let me tell you,
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  Speaker 1: we stop the darkness. bombs don't drop, hurricanes stop in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the air. When we start praying, God
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  Speaker 1: makes a way. When we start praying, there could be
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  Speaker 1: somebody in here about to commit suicide. But if we
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  Speaker 1: start praying in here right now, the spirit of suicide
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  Speaker 1: will flee out of this place. And for this cause,
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  Speaker 1: God shall send them, watch this, for this cause, because
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  Speaker 1: they rejected him, God shall send them strong delusion that
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  Speaker 1: they should believe a lie and they believed it I've
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  Speaker 1: had things said I couldn't believe that they believed it
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  Speaker 1: it didn't even make sense but they will believe a
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  Speaker 1: lie because God will allow a spirit of delusion to
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  Speaker 1: come that they all might be damned who believed not
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  Speaker 1: the truth but had pleasure in in unrighteousness but we
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  Speaker 1: are bound to give thanks always to god for you
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  Speaker 1: so thankful for you i'm so thankful for you when
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  Speaker 1: you start praising god it really drives back darkness I
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  Speaker 1: don't care where darkness is trying to creep in. It
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  Speaker 1: can try to creep in through anybody. But when you
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  Speaker 1: start worshiping God, chains start falling off. Handcuffs stop dropping.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit of the enemy is fought back. That's why
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't want this to go on. But we are
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  Speaker 1: bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning
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  Speaker 1: chosen you to salvation through sanctification. of the Spirit, and
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  Speaker 1: belief of the truth. He's chosen you. Stop walking around
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  Speaker 1: in your past feeling guilty, feeling condemned. God chose you.
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  Speaker 1: You might not think that you're much, but God chose you.
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  Speaker 1: Shake somebody's hand and say, I'm chosen. When I get
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  Speaker 1: down on my knees and pray, something is going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm chosen. When I sow seeds, I'm going to keep
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom in order. When I give, when I sow,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not being bewitched. I am giving to the work
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord that the kingdom of God might be
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  Speaker 1: established in the earth. And what's happening is we got
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  Speaker 1: too big, we got too strong, and all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden they're trying to kill us down to be in
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  Speaker 1: a little cabin on over in the corner, around the bush.
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  Speaker 1: squeaking boards and all of that. As long as we
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  Speaker 1: were squeaking boards and making noise and rolling up windows
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  Speaker 1: and putting hangers in the window, they didn't mind us
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  Speaker 1: doing that. But when we started taking over the land
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  Speaker 1: and buying buildings and setting up neighborhoods, we got too big.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have an issue with it. Of course there
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  Speaker 1: are deceptive churches. Of course there are charlatans in the
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  Speaker 1: house of God. Anything that's real will be imitated. There
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  Speaker 1: are people that need to be called out. There are
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  Speaker 1: people that need to be challenged, but they're not talking
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  Speaker 1: to us. Y'all ought to shout me down. I don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Y'all ought to shout me down. They're not
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  Speaker 1: talking about, you couldn't be talking about us not giving
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  Speaker 1: to our neighborhoods. You couldn't be talking about us. Not
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  Speaker 1: as many job fairs as we have had, dental programs
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  Speaker 1: that we've set up in this church, health fairs we've
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  Speaker 1: done in this church. Not as many times as we
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  Speaker 1: stood out in the cold and handed out boxes of
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  Speaker 1: food to people that was hungry. Not as many times
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  Speaker 1: as we walked up and down the street And help
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  Speaker 1: people in need. And cleaned up community. Not as much
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  Speaker 1: as we have gone in the hospital. And prayed for
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  Speaker 1: people that were sick. And dispatched our ministers. And dispatched
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  Speaker 1: our elders. And dispatched our counselors. To make sure that
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  Speaker 1: they were healthy. They couldn't be talking about us. Not
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  Speaker 1: as much as we have given into the community. To
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  Speaker 1: make things better. Wherefore he called you by our gospel.
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  Speaker 1: To the obtaining of the glory. Of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: To make it accessible. To obtain the glory of our
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ. Who going to do it if we
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  Speaker 1: don't do it? The drug dealer is not going to
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  Speaker 1: do it. The club owner is probably not going to
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  Speaker 1: do it. The politicians are not going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to say separation between church and state. They
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  Speaker 1: don't give us nothing. Where else can we get it
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  Speaker 1: from but those of us who have been washed in
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  Speaker 1: the blood and filled with the Spirit and encouraged to
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  Speaker 1: hold back the darkness. We are going, if you're watching online,
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  Speaker 1: I'm including you too. We are going into a season
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  Speaker 1: of giving and it's not about the money. I guarantee
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  Speaker 1: you I can wear this suit whether you give or not.
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee you. I guarantee it. I'll throw my black
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  Speaker 1: card down and prove it to you. I guarantee you.
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  Speaker 1: I can wear it. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I look pretty good this morning too. And you know what,
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  Speaker 1: Sister Hattie? These shoes are 10 years old. But if
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  Speaker 1: you polish them up and make them look good, you
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  Speaker 1: can make it work for you. I know how to
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  Speaker 1: take care of my stuff. This jacket is about five
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  Speaker 1: years old, but I know how to take care of
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  Speaker 1: my stuff. I know how to take care of my stuff. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what we want to raise up is a new generation.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank God for the generation that's been there.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say generation, I'm not just talking about age.
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  Speaker 1: As my baby boy said when he was up speaking
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, Dexter, he's just 32, but he
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  Speaker 1: said he's a seasoned saint. Generation isn't about age. It's
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  Speaker 1: about experience. To those of you that have been experienced,
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  Speaker 1: let me take a moment and thank you for holding
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  Speaker 1: up the bloodstained banner so that we could get here.
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  Speaker 1: As we get ready to pass the baton to the
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  Speaker 1: next generation, we can't let his name go down. Can't
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  Speaker 1: let his name go down. Do all you can till
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  Speaker 1: you can't do no more. But don't let his name
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  Speaker 1: go down. Y'all don't know nothing about that. Somebody in
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  Speaker 1: here knows something about that. Don't let his name go down.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let his name go down. Do all you can
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  Speaker 1: till you can't do no more. But don't let his
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  Speaker 1: name go down. Oh, don't let his name go down. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: don't let his name go down. Do all you can
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  Speaker 1: till you can't do no more. Don't let his name
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  Speaker 1: go down. Touch a neighbor's face. Don't let his name
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  Speaker 1: go down. Oh, don't let his name go down. Do
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  Speaker 1: all you can till you can't do no more. Don't
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  Speaker 1: let his name go down. Pop your hands in the air.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't let.
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  Speaker 3: His name go down. Don't let his name go down. Well,
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  Speaker 3: do all you can till you can't do no more.
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  Speaker 3: Don't let his name go down.
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  Speaker 4: Push it back. Push it back. Push back darkness. Push
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  Speaker 4: back the spirit of the Antichrist. Push back suicide. Push
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  Speaker 4: back drug addiction. Push past paining. Push past excuses. Push
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  Speaker 4: past it.
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  Speaker 1: You ready?
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  Speaker 3: Don't let his name go down. Don't let his name
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  Speaker 3: go down. Well, do all you can till you can't
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  Speaker 3: do no more. Oh, don't let his name go down.
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  Speaker 5: Don't let his name go down To all you came
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  Speaker 5: to know Don't let his.
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  Speaker 1: Name go down.
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  Speaker 3: It's up to you Don't let.
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  Speaker 5: His name go down Don't let his.
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  Speaker 3: Name go down To all you came to know Don't
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  Speaker 3: let his name go down.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had me some old skirt.
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  Speaker 1: Smothers that would get up and shuffle a little bit
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  Speaker 1: for me. Whether you are.
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  Speaker 2: Watching online, God has you here for a reason.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you're in the building, on the back row, on
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  Speaker 1: the side, on the corner, God wants you to be
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  Speaker 1: as consistent with him as he is to you. Now
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  Speaker 1: the ball is passing into your court. Don't come here
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  Speaker 1: telling me you're tired. You don't feel like it. We
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  Speaker 1: were tired too, but we kept on going. Don't let
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  Speaker 1: it go.
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  Speaker 3: Don't let it go. Don't let it go.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let it go. Don't let it go. Don't let
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  Speaker 1: it go. Don't let it go. Don't let it go down.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let it go down. Don't let it go down.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you a secret to being blessed. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as God knows he can trust you with a raise.
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  Speaker 1: He'll give you a raise. As soon as God knows
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  Speaker 1: he can trust you to remember him, the property will sell.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as God knows that he can trust you,
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  Speaker 1: you'll win that court case. As soon as God knows
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  Speaker 1: that he can trust you, he'll open up the windows
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  Speaker 1: of heaven and pour you out a blessing. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to. Don't let his.
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  Speaker 3: Name go down. Don't let it go down.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let it go down. Don't let it go down.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let it go down. Don't let it go down.
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  Speaker 3: Don't let it go down.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let it go down. Y'all stop. They ain't gonna
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  Speaker 1: never let me back up here. Stop, stop, stop, stop. Stop, stop, stop.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna turn our excitement into execution. For somebody, it's $ 5, 000.
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  Speaker 1: You make that kind of money. You can do that.
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  Speaker 1: For somebody, it's $ 500. For somebody else, it's $ 50. But
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  Speaker 1: whatever level you're on, Whatever level you're on, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to make it your business to not let his
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  Speaker 1: name go down. And push back the spirit of the antichrist.
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  Speaker 1: All these wars and bombs and foolishness coming to the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East. Don't you know that's biblical? The only thing
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  Speaker 1: that's holding it back is the church of the living God.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let the church be the church. Let's let the
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  Speaker 1: church be the church. We can cut back on some groceries.
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  Speaker 1: I'm scared to eat half the stuff they got out
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  Speaker 1: there now. I'll be in there reading like I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the library. Sodium glutamate. Let me read this. I even
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  Speaker 1: got an app to help me discern what's healthy and
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  Speaker 1: what's not healthy. Because it's one thing to die and
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  Speaker 1: it's another thing to give up. I ain't gonna give
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  Speaker 1: up I'm gonna keep on fighting I'm gonna try not
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  Speaker 1: to eat cancer you hear what I'm saying we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to go back to raising gardens so you know
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  Speaker 1: what you eating they got me all the way down
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  Speaker 1: to vegetables and now they tell me to watch the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: vegetables the water ain't safe you gotta be careful let's
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: hold it back as long as we can You hold
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  Speaker 1: it back by singing, by worshiping, by giving, by praying.
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  Speaker 1: Pastor led us into that prayer. That's holding back the
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  Speaker 1: forces of the enemy. Now let's turn our excitement because
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  Speaker 1: the devil doesn't mind you being excited as long as
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  Speaker 1: you don't execute. You're watching online. This is your opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to execute. And you know what's good about being online?
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  Speaker 1: You're not given to be seen. Can't nobody see you
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  Speaker 1: but the Lord? And when you serve him in the
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  Speaker 1: shadows and other people's opinion don't have nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with it, it really begins to prove that you are
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  Speaker 1: serious about the mystery of iniquity and making sure that
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  Speaker 1: the church survives. Are you with me? Every now and then,
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  Speaker 1: let me say something to you. I'm trying to plant
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  Speaker 1: something in you that the enemy can't uproot. Ask the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, what can I give? What can I do?
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  Speaker 1: How can I serve you? How can I make it
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  Speaker 1: hard on the devil? Help me to do something to
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  Speaker 1: keep my church. This is my church. Somebody holler, this
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  Speaker 1: is my church. My God. What can I do? What
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  Speaker 1: shall I render unto the Lord for all of his
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  Speaker 1: benefits toward me? Ask him. I'm not sure you're pleased
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  Speaker 1: with how I've been giving. I'm not sure you're pleased
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  Speaker 1: with how I've been serving. I'm ready to do more
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom of God. The QR code is up there.
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  Speaker 1: You can punch your phone and give. You can punch
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  Speaker 1: your phone and stop a demon. Glory to God. When
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  Speaker 1: you're ready to give, stand to your feet. If you're
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  Speaker 1: at home, stand to your feet. One lady said we
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  Speaker 1: had her dancing around her living room.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Her children thought she was crazy. She said, I was
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  Speaker 1: dancing around my coffee table. Church is not just a building.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. Church is a spirit. Hallelujah. And it's working.
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  Speaker 1: And it's working. And it's working. And it's working. Until
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  Speaker 1: he that letteth, that's us, be taken out of the way,
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  Speaker 1: the man of sin cannot be revealed. They're trying to
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  Speaker 1: take us out of the way. I've seen the time
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  Speaker 1: that you couldn't get a sinner to talk about the church.
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  Speaker 1: If I could be totally honest, when I was growing up,
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  Speaker 1: we'd be walking down the street just cussing like sailors
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  Speaker 1: and get to the church and say, shut up, man,
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  Speaker 1: we by the church. don't leave me out there by
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: myself anybody remember that day when people had reverence for
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the church now they get on the loudspeakers and talk
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  Speaker 1: like animals lift up your seed as a banner unto
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the Lord lift it up lift it up you're lifting
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  Speaker 1: up a standard against the enemy Father, now in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus, whether it is in North Carolina or Nairobi,
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  Speaker 1: wherever you find faith, whether it's in the back row
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  Speaker 1: or in the front pew or in the pulpit, in
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  Speaker 1: the musicians' tent, wherever it is, whether it's a security
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  Speaker 1: guard that got touched by the Holy Spirit, that God
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  Speaker 1: has me here for a reason. I'm not just here
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  Speaker 1: to protect people. I'm here to hold back the forces
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  Speaker 1: of the enemy. Hallelujah. And I'm going to get in
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  Speaker 1: on this. Hallelujah. I'm going to step into this. My
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  Speaker 1: Father and my God, I come to you in the invincible, eternable,
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  Speaker 1: immutable name of Jesus that name that has been exalted
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  Speaker 1: above every name that at the name of Jesus every
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  Speaker 1: knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess I come
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  Speaker 1: to you right now for all you've done for me
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  Speaker 1: the least I can do is help you hold back
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  Speaker 1: the antichrist till the man of sin be revealed I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to stand on my watch I'm not just going
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  Speaker 1: to receive the blessings I'm going to stand on my watch.
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  Speaker 1: Do it for me now. Do it for me now.
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  Speaker 1: Put me in a position where I can. Open up
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  Speaker 1: a door where I can. Open up a window where
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  Speaker 1: you can. Lift up a floodgate where you can. Here
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  Speaker 1: are my tithes. I lay them before you. Here are
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  Speaker 1: my offerings. I lay it before you. Here's my voice.
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  Speaker 1: Here's my gift. Here's my singing. Here's my greeting. Here's
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: my serving. Here's my ushering. Whatever I can give to
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  Speaker 1: hold back the forces of the enemy. I will not
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  Speaker 1: be slack. But I will do what you called me
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  Speaker 1: to do. Right now. In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah give him a praise I feel it too if
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  Speaker 1: you're giving a tangible physical offering pass it all the
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  Speaker 1: way down to the left everybody who touch it bless
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  Speaker 1: it bless it multiply it Lord like two fish and
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  Speaker 1: five loaves of bread hallelujah hallelujah PMTs serve the people
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  Speaker 1: of God Somebody that's got a burning Holy Ghost praise
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  Speaker 1: down on the inside, would you just let it out
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  Speaker 1: for a minute? I dare you to praise me.
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  Speaker 4: I dare you to.
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  Speaker 1: Praise him I double beg you to praise him I.
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  Speaker 3: Double beg you to praise him Don't let his name
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  Speaker 3: go down.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let his name go down Do all you can
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  Speaker 1: till you can't do no more Don't let.
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  Speaker 3: His name go down Don't let his name go down
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  Speaker 3: Don't let his name go.
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  Speaker 1: Down.
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  Speaker 3: Do all you.
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  Speaker 1: Can till you can't do no more.
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  Speaker 3: Don't let his name go down.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Don't let his name go down. Don't let his name
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  Speaker 3: go down. Do all you can till you can't do
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  Speaker 3: no more. Don't let anything go down.
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  Speaker 1: Standing to your feet as we prepare our hearts to
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  Speaker 1: go to the word of God. That we might hear
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  Speaker 1: what the spirit of the Lord is saying to the church.
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  Speaker 1: For the flower fades and the grass withers, but the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord shall stand forever. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: 1 Samuel chapter 3, beginning at verse number 1. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to read down to verse 10. When you have it,
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  Speaker 1: say amen. Reading out of the NIV this morning, there's
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  Speaker 1: some clarity of thought that the NIV provides. that I
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  Speaker 1: think is pertinent to the text today. The boy Samuel
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  Speaker 1: ministered before the Lord under Eli. In those days, the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord was rare. There was not many visions.
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  Speaker 1: One night, Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that
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  Speaker 1: he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place.
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  Speaker 1: The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and
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  Speaker 1: Samuel was lying down in the house of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: where the ark of God was. Then the Lord called Samuel, Samuel!
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  Speaker 1: And Samuel answered, here am I. And he ran to
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  Speaker 1: Eli and said, here I am, you called me. But
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  Speaker 1: Eli said, I did not call. Go back and lie down.
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  Speaker 1: So he went and lay down. Again, the Lord called, Samuel.
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  Speaker 1: And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said,
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  Speaker 1: here I am, you call me. My son, Eli said,
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  Speaker 1: I did not call, go back, lay down. Now Samuel
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  Speaker 1: did not yet know the Lord. The word of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord had not yet been revealed to him. A third
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  Speaker 1: time the Lord called, Samuel. And Samuel got up and
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  Speaker 1: went to Eli and said, here I am, you called me.
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  Speaker 1: Then Eli realized the Lord was calling the boy. So
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  Speaker 1: Eli told Samuel, go and lie down. And if he
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  Speaker 1: calls you, say, speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.
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  Speaker 1: So Samuel went and lay down in his place. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord came and stood there calling as at other times, Samuel, Samuel.
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  Speaker 1: Then Samuel said, speak for your servant is listening. Can
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: you say amen? Go back to, I think it's the
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  Speaker 1: second verse, if you could. And let's look at, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: that's it right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where I
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  Speaker 1: want to, that right there. One night. That's all I
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  Speaker 1: want is that. One night. Look at somebody say one night.
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  Speaker 1: One night. If I were to use a subject, my
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: subject would be the night shift. Now, this might not
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: be for everybody. It's just for people that have been
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: feeling like they're on the verge of a shift.
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  Speaker 6: And....
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  Speaker 1: A shift creates turbulence and mayhem and confusion and a
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: little disorder. But you can tell that God is at
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: work doing something. And the Lord wanted me to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that he's going to work. He's going to work
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  Speaker 1: the night shift. You were looking for him in the
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: morning because weeping may endure for a night, but joy
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  Speaker 1: cometh in the morning. But no, God said, this time
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to work the night. Yeah, if you're watching online,
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  Speaker 1: type it on the paper. Type it. Type it in
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  Speaker 1: the notes. The night shift. The night shift. He's coming
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  Speaker 1: on the night shift. He's coming on the night shift.
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  Speaker 1: The night shift. He's moving on the night shift. The
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  Speaker 1: spirit of the living God falls fresh on us while
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  Speaker 1: we endeavor to declare your word. There is no God
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  Speaker 1: like you. You're in a class all by yourself. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for being who you are and who you
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  Speaker 1: are is who you were and who you were is
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  Speaker 1: who you will be. For you are the Lord our
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  Speaker 1: God and you change not. Your mercy is new. Your
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  Speaker 1: grace is new. Your revelation is new. Speak, Lord, for
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: thy servant hears. In Jesus' name, with all of your might,
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  Speaker 1: shout amen. You may be seated in his presence. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to work. Many, many years ago when I
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: was in West Virginia and a much, much younger man,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: I worked shift work. I had never worked shift work before,
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  Speaker 1: but the idea behind shift work, particularly in factories, was
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  Speaker 1: so that the company could have 24 hours of production.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: And because of union laws and restrictions, they could not
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  Speaker 1: work one individual for 24 hours. So they divided the
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  Speaker 1: 24 hours into eight hour shifts so that so far
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: as they were concerned, they were getting 24 hours of production.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as we were concerned, we had three shifts.
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  Speaker 1: The first shift was from seven to three, and that
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: wasn't so bad. The second shift was the one I hated.
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  Speaker 1: It was from 3 to 11. I hated that shift
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: because it was right in the middle. Too late to
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: be early, too early to be late. Everything. And then
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: once you got used to it, now you have to
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: get used to it, there was always the night shift. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and once you got used to the night shift, you
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  Speaker 1: woke up, you had plenty of daylight and time to
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  Speaker 1: do whatever you had to do. The bosses didn't work
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: the night shift. They had a little bit more peace.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of quiet on the night shift. You
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: could be more productive. You could pray on the night
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: shift while you got your work done because they were
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: going to check you out in the morning, but you
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: didn't have the oversight that you had during the day
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  Speaker 1: it was, the funny thing about it was, we were
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: going to work when others were leaving work. And we
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: were leaving work when others were coming to work. And
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  Speaker 1: as it is with shifts, so it is with life.
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  Speaker 1: While we are leaving, there's always somebody coming. And while
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  Speaker 1: we are coming, there's always somebody leaving. The funeral homes
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  Speaker 1: are full at the same time that the nurseries are.
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  Speaker 1: The cycle of life is forever rotating from shift to shift.
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  Speaker 1: I could go back through church history and show you
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  Speaker 1: how God has never left himself without a witness. No
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  Speaker 1: matter how great the preacher or teacher may have been,
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  Speaker 1: there's always been somebody who came along and continued to
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  Speaker 1: flow up under that unction because God will never be
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  Speaker 1: left without wisdom, without a word, without insight. As great
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  Speaker 1: as Moses was, God still had Joshua. And the beat
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  Speaker 1: continues from generation to generation. God understands. It is only
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  Speaker 1: our arrogance that makes us think that we are irreplaceable.
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  Speaker 1: None of us, none of us, none of us, none
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  Speaker 1: of us are irreplaceable. Not a musician, not a singer,
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  Speaker 1: not a choir member, not a preacher, not a business owner,
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  Speaker 1: not a company. There'll always be somebody who creates something new.
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  Speaker 1: There'll be another innovation. Apple I has Apple II, Apple III, IV, V, VI.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what number they're on now, about 15.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: You know, there's always a recycling industry. And so when
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  Speaker 1: we come into this text, we come into this text
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  Speaker 1: understanding that we are in the middle of recycling, shifting.
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  Speaker 1: Shifting sounds good, but it doesn't always feel good. Shifting
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: is tumultuous and shifting is emotional and shifting is painful
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  Speaker 1: and shifting is painful. We say, you know, I'm shifting, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: But shifting in the moment means that nothing is stable.
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  Speaker 1: The people who are coming are getting ready to go
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  Speaker 1: to work and the people who are leaving are getting
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: ready to leave. And if you're not careful, if you
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: work in a hospital and they're changing a shift, you
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: get ready to call one nurse and she's getting off.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: And so she doesn't respond. The other one might be
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: slow because she's coming on. When shifts go, there's a
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: certain amount of turbulence and entangling and confusion. And this
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: text is written in the middle of a shift. It's
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: a shift. It's a shift. It's a shift. It's a shift.
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  Speaker 1: And the funny thing is, is that God often works
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  Speaker 1: his greatest works when things are in their darkest hours.
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  Speaker 1: God often works his greatest works when things are in
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  Speaker 1: their darkest hour I know you think God did his
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  Speaker 1: greatest work when you saw the breakthrough and when the
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  Speaker 1: answer came and when the lump shrunk and when the
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  Speaker 1: mountain moved and when the check came but those are
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  Speaker 1: the after effects of what he did when you thought
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't doing anything at all God works the night shift.
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  Speaker 1: I'll prove. Look at Paul and Silas at midnight. Paul
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: and Silas prayed and God sent angels to shake the
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  Speaker 1: prison and the prison doors came open or Peter, who
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: was locked up in the inner sanctum of the jail,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: was led out, not in the morning, but in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night. Look at somebody. I'm coming out
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  Speaker 1: at night. Or what about blind Bartimaeus when Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: on the way to the cross and Jesus stopped and
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  Speaker 1: healed him and blind Bartimaeus was delivered. Oh, excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're saying, oh, Bishop, you got confused. Bartimaeus
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  Speaker 1: got healed in the daytime. Yeah, it was daytime to
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  Speaker 1: the disciples. but it was nighttime to Blind Bartimaeus. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to use him because sometimes while everybody else is
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  Speaker 1: having day, and they're bragging about what a great day
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: it is, you're having your own personal darkness, your own
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: personal midnight. Is there anybody in here who understands what
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: it's like to have your own personal night? while other
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: people are having day. It creates a different dynamic in
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the worship service because they're half praising God because it's daytime,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: but you're screaming out Jesus because you're having your own
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: personal night. Look at your neighbor and say, I know
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  Speaker 1: what time it is for me. You might not know
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  Speaker 1: what time it is for me, but I know what
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  Speaker 1: time it is for me. Just because you got daylight
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  Speaker 1: don't mean I have daylight. Just because your rent's paid
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean mine is paid. Just because your marriage is
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  Speaker 1: going well doesn't mean mine is going well. Every now
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: and then God allows us to have a personal night.
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  Speaker 1: Still Jesus stood still and started working in Bartimaeus' night.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Because he's God. Jesus walked on the water at night.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: He waited till it was dark and came to meet
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: the disciples in the darkness of night. Can you recognize
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: him in the night season? Jesus was born at night.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: That's why the wise men followed the stars. They understood
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: that Jesus was born in the night and the Bible
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: says that the shepherds were grazing in the field at
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: night when Joseph came to put Mary in the barn
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  Speaker 1: and the baby was born in a manger. Born at night,
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  Speaker 1: works at night, heals at night. liberates at night, sets
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  Speaker 1: free at night, gives sight at night, shakes the earth
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  Speaker 1: at night. Expect him to do great things, great work,
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  Speaker 1: great work at your nighttime. Somebody say at night, at night,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: at night, at night, at night, at night. The bridegroom
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: comes at night. The bridegroom comes at night. Behold, he comes.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: That's why you got to keep your lamp. trimmed and
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: burning because he comes at night. The creation started at
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: night and God said let there be light and there
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: was light and it was good. Eve was created at night.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Adam was put into a deep sleep and God pulled
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Eve out of him in the middle of the night.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: Abraham entered into covenant with God at night and while
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: he was asleep God turned into a smoking furnace and
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: a burning lamp and started walking in the midst of
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: his people because God is working at night. I don't
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: know who's at night season, but God sent this word
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: to you. Jacob laid his head upon a stone and
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: God appeared to him in the middle of night and
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: the heavens opened up and the ladder descended. And I'm
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: telling you you're more anointed at night than you are
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: during the day. You might dance more during the day,
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: but you're more anointed at night when all hell is
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: breaking loose and demons are trembling and it seems like
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: you're not going to get out. That's when the anointing
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: of God is keeping you. It might not be shaking you,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: but it's keeping you. It's holding your head together. It's
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: keeping you from collapsing. It's keeping you from having a
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: nervous breakdown. God God often does his best work. Expect
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: him to do his greatest work at night. Nudge your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor and say, he's working on me. He's working on me.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: He's working on me. He's working on me. Now to
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: put the text into context, we must realize before we
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  Speaker 1: consider Samuel we must consider Hannah, his mother, because your
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  Speaker 1: story never begins with you. Your story doesn't begin with you,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: neither does your struggle. Your story and your struggle began
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: before you were born. So it would be inappropriate for
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: me to just leap over Hannah and talk about Samuel
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: because if there were no Hannah, there wouldn't be no Samuel.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: And Samuel is born out of Hannah's night. out of
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Hannah's barrenness, out of her dark season, out of her pain,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: out of her tumultuous thirst to have something that she
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: couldn't have. That's how Samuel was born in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing you have to understand is Samuel
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: is Hannah's offering. And it's amazing to me that Hannah
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: doesn't get more credit for her offering. We often talk
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: about Abraham's offering up his son, Isaac, on Mount Moriah.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: But we very seldom give Hannah credit that she also
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: offered up her son. It wasn't Elkanah that offered him up.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: It was Hannah that offered up her son. Isn't it
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: funny how we maximize what men do and minimize what
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: women do? Come on, stay with me. I'm headed somewhere.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: I'm headed somewhere. But truth be told, Hannah went through
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: the same thing that Abraham did. Abraham's loins were shut up,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: couldn't produce a child. God finally gives him a child
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  Speaker 1: and then requires of him a first fruit offering to
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  Speaker 1: offer up his son Abraham. his only son, his only
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  Speaker 1: begotten son, and to take thy son whom thou lovest
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  Speaker 1: and offer him up on the mountaintop. Hannah in the
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  Speaker 1: same way has been bearing all her life, prayed that
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  Speaker 1: she might have a child. She's sitting up in a
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: situation where Penina's having children and all of a sudden
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: she finally prayed her way into having a child up
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: under the premise that she would give up her child
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: to God. Now, I know there are a lot. How
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: many mamas do I have in the room? Yeah, I
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: know every mama in the room knows that no matter
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: how much you love your children, they get on your
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: nerves sometimes. Yeah, they pluck your last nerve. My wife
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: has a little sign in the bathroom that says mama's
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: last nerve. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes they pluck your
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: last nerve, but they never pluck your nerve so bad
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: you want to you might threaten them like you're gonna
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: give them away you might tell them you're gonna give
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: them away but to give your son away we can't
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: hardly get you to give an offering now Hannah gave
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: me Come on, somebody. Hannah gave her son away. Now,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: unlike most mothers who decide to give their children up
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: for adoption, and that might be some situations where it's
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: necessary to do that. Generally, they take the baby at
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: birth and the mother doesn't have an experience with her child.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: She just relinquishes all rights to the child and the
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: child is given to the adoptive mother or given to
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: the adoptive agency and they take it away because they
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: don't want any bonding between the mother and the child.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: But that was not the case with Hannah. Hannah got
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: to keep her child and nurse her child. and in
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: other words she kept him till she had winged him
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: so she had time to bond with him and still
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: had to give him up there must have been a
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: certain feeling of abandonment with Samuel because while everybody else
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: got to have a mama he didn't have a mother
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: except once a year his mother visited him brought him
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: a coat that creates certain feelings predispositions that we all
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: have our struggle is in our story you see you
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: praying about your circumstance but your struggle is in your
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: story Your circumstance is just fruit from your story. The
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: story started before you got here. Your mama wouldn't have
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: acted like that if she didn't have a story. Your
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: daddy wouldn't have walked away if he didn't have a story.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: And you think it's all about you like life began
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: with you, but you just one shift in the cycle.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: This has been going on before you have even got here.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: And you were set up, some of you were set
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: up in such a way that you would have predisposition
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: that you are more needy than other people, more thirsty
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: than other people, more sensitive than other people, more angry
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: than other people. That's why your neck goes to pop
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: and you flip out on people real fast. You don't
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: even understand. You were set in a situation that lends
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: itself to hostility because you go off on people in
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: your life now over things that happened back then. It's
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: all continuous. It's a cycle. It's a setup. You're just
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: one shift in the cycle of what God is doing.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: But the Lord told me to tell you, he's going
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: to work on your shift. He's going to work on
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: your shift. He's going to move on your shift. There's
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: some people in this room, you're going to get a
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: breakthrough on your shift that the day shift didn't get,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: that the afternoon shift didn't get. God saved it for
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: such a time as this, and God's going to do
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: it for you. Shall yes! My God, my God, my God,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: my God. I'm not blaming anybody. I'm not making excuses.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just acknowledging the fact that my birthday wasn't my
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: start day. That's just when my shift began.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: But the engines were already running and the manufacturing had
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: already started. And so I was born into a shift.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Sometimes when you work shift work, if there's something going
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: on and you inherit somebody else's problem. Yeah, sometimes you
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: have to fight somebody else's battle. Glory to God. David
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: had to fight Goliath, and Goliath wasn't even his battle.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you was born into a fight that you didn't
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: even ask for. I wish I had 10 witnesses that
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: would holler at me right now. Yeah, yes, shout, I
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: didn't ask for it. But you got the right one, baby. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: it might not have started with me, but it's going
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: in with me. It might not have started on my ship,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: but before this night is over, I'm going to get
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: a breakthrough on this situation. If that's your story, take
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: a second and give him a 30-second pray. It's going
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: in on this ship. God is going to do it
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: on this ship. I'm always amazed at how the writers
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: introduce the story to us. In verse 1, it kind
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: of sets the stage. It says that the boy serves
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: under Eli. In those days, the word of the Lord
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: was rare, and there was not many visions. It's setting
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: the stage so that you can see that the barren
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: boy is now in a barren temple. He's gone from
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: a barren mama to a barren temple. The word of
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: the Lord is rare and there was no open vision.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Now the word of the Lord being rare in the
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: temple is much like the womb of Hannah being barren.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: And God has taken him from one barrenness into another.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: He has predispositioned him in such a way that he
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: is able to survive in environments that other people wouldn't
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: be able to survive in because he was born in.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: His normal is different from other people's normal. His predisposition
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: is different from other people's normal. Some people couldn't survive
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: in the atmosphere that he grew in, but since he
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: came out of a barren womb and he stepped into
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: a barren temple he was used to surviving in isolation
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: and barrenness it didn't bother him that Eli had no
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: vision it didn't bother him that Hophni and Phinehas were
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: whoring all over the church it didn't bother him because
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: he was used to barrenness nor did it affect him
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: because he was able to withstand his environment seeing as
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: he was born in what he has to deal with
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: So the writer takes the time to set the stage
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: for us in verse 1, giving us seemingly unimportant details,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: and yet they are important for a lot of reasons,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: some of which I will deal with in just a moment.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: Can I preach on? See, everything is normal until verse 2.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: One night, Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Listen to that. One night, one night, Eli, whose eyes
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: were becoming so weak. Now, there's one thing for Eli
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: to be laying down, and it's another thing for him
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: to have bad eyesight. He is a priest with bad eyesight.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: He is a priest with bad eyesight. And he could
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: barely see. He was lying down in his usual place. Listen,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: why did you take the time to tell me that
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: he is laying down in his usual place? Everything has
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: become usual. Everything has become routine. Everything has become mundane.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm scared of in the church today. It's
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: that things become usual, that we get too much routine
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: going on. You can be contemporary and still become routine.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: I don't care how you change, what you wear, what
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: you do, what you put on, what kind of songs
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: you sing, it can still become your routine. And anytime
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: it becomes a routine to you, you don't get the revelation.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: Because you're in a routine. I came to dig somebody
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: out of a rut Hallelujah, you go to work the
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: same way you drive home the same direction You always
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: get on the same interstate. You always take the back
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: road You always go to the same grocery store. You
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: always go I came to break your routine I came
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: to break your routine I came to break your routine
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: because God's getting ready to shift things in your life.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: You're getting ready to shock the devil because you're not
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: going to be in the same place you used to be.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: God is getting ready to shift you. God is getting
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: ready to shift you. The devil thought he was going
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: to kill you, but the devil is alive because I
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: feel a shift coming in your life. I don't know
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: who I'm talking to, but make some noise if I'm
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: coming your direction. Everyone was gone to sleep. Everyone was
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: gone to sleep. Everyone was gone to sleep in their
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: usual place at their usual time. No unpredictability exists in
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: this temple. No unpredictability exists in the temple. A good
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: service should be unpredictable. See, it's unpredictable. Now that bothers
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of people. but if you're going to walk
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: with God, you got to be used to things being unpredictable.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: When I got ready to pass you the torch, the
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: staff kept asking me, when do you want the bench?
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: And when do you want the oil? And when do
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: you want this? I said, don't worry about it. Just
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: follow my lead. In the moment, I'm going to show
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  Speaker 1: you what to do when it's time to do it. Unpredictable.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we plan too much. We don't leave room for
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  Speaker 1: God to do what he wants to do, however he
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  Speaker 1: wants to do it, because we got to keep God
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  Speaker 1: on our schedule. But God said, I will work on
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  Speaker 1: your schedule. I'm not going to do it just because
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  Speaker 1: you got an attitude. You can't stick out your lips
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  Speaker 1: and make me change my mind. You can get rid
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  Speaker 1: of that little pouty face you got because that's not
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  Speaker 1: going to move me. I'm going to move when I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to move. I'm going to heal when I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to heal. I'm going to take who I'm going to take.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to raise who I'm going to raise. Ain't
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  Speaker 1: no need in you being jealous. What I got for you,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: can't nobody get it but you. You just got to
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  Speaker 1: wait until I'm ready to release it in your life. Hey!
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  Speaker 1: Everybody had gotten into a routine. In verse 4, God
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  Speaker 1: breaks the pattern and deviates from the normal. Verse 4
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  Speaker 1: is where the disruption begins. Verse 4 is where God
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  Speaker 1: breaks the pattern. I came to tell somebody you might
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  Speaker 1: be watching online, God's getting ready to break the pattern.
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  Speaker 1: You've been in a routine a long time, but God's
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to break the pattern. He's getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: break things up. He's getting ready to shake things up.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting ready to move some things you thought couldn't
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  Speaker 1: be moved. He's getting ready to break some yokes you
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  Speaker 1: thought couldn't be broken. He's getting ready to bring down
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  Speaker 1: some strongholds that's been standing for generations. God's getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to break the ritual and break the routine. God is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a disruptor. God's going to break into
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  Speaker 1: your life and shake things up in your life. Verse
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  Speaker 1: 4 introduces the disruption because in the silence.
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  Speaker 7: God speaks. And he breaks the silence and he penetrates.
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  Speaker 1: The darkness. And he invades a temple that he has
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  Speaker 1: pretty much forsaken. Ha, ha, ha. I just thought about
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: some people that the devil thinks he got and he
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  Speaker 1: don't think they gonna get away, but God's gonna do
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  Speaker 1: a comeback. God's gonna do an encore. God's gonna do
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  Speaker 1: an uprising. God's gonna do a release in your life.
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  Speaker 1: God's getting ready to break the cycle and break the routine.
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  Speaker 1: Tell every addiction to get off me. Get off me,
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  Speaker 1: get off me, get off me. God's getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: break the routine in your life. Shout hallelujah somebody. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be ready. You got to be ready
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  Speaker 1: for this. You got to be ready for this. You
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  Speaker 1: got to be ready for this because whenever God sends
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  Speaker 1: a disruption, it's going to affect everything around you because
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  Speaker 1: people have gotten used to you being in your usual place.
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  Speaker 1: And when you get out of your usual place, they
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  Speaker 1: get an attitude because you're not where you usually are.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to release you right now from living
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  Speaker 1: up to other people's expectations. This ain't about their comfort.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to make somebody uncomfortable. Some of your
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  Speaker 1: friends might not want to be your friends anymore because
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: you're not going to be in your usual place. Slap
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  Speaker 1: somebody and tell them I'm coming out. Coming out of
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  Speaker 1: my usual place. I'm coming out of my usual ready.
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming out of my usual routine. I'm coming out
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  Speaker 1: of my usual. Expect me to be unusual. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to dress unusual. I'm going to move unusual. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say some unexpected stuff. I'm not going to fit
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  Speaker 1: in your pattern and fit in your routine. And you
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  Speaker 1: just got to be able to deal with it. If
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  Speaker 1: you can't deal with it, leave me alone. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to stay in a box so you like me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to shut down just to get along
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  Speaker 1: with you. The devil is a liar. If I get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to break out, I'm going to break out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be in my usual place. You've
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  Speaker 1: been delivered from a lot of things, but God's getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to deliver you from people. Who am I preaching to?
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  Speaker 1: I release you today. I release you today. You spend
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  Speaker 1: half your life in your usual place. You don't want
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  Speaker 1: nobody to say nothing about you. You don't want nobody
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  Speaker 1: to talk about you. Then you don't want what God
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  Speaker 1: has for you. Because if God shifts you, you can't
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  Speaker 1: stay in your usual place. I need one second of
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  Speaker 1: crazy praise from some crazy people who are getting out
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  Speaker 1: of your usual place. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: coming out of my usual place. I don't normally jump,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going to jump this morning. I don't normally holler,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going to holler this morning. I don't normally
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  Speaker 1: worship up front, but I'm coming up front this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting out of my usual place. I want hell
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  Speaker 1: to know that I'm not going to stay in the
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  Speaker 1: same place I was. I'm coming out of my usual place.
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  Speaker 1: Who just got released? Holler at your boy. Some of
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  Speaker 1: y'all coming to this church at all is a breakthrough.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: You're not in your usual place. The devil's looking for
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  Speaker 1: you at your old church and you moved out of
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: your usual place. He's looking for you to stay at
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: home and you moved out of your usual place. God's
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  Speaker 1: got a blessing in here for somebody who's willing to
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: step out of your usual place. Get out of your
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  Speaker 1: comfort zone. God is getting ready to break things up.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody give him a praise. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Nudge
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor and tell him I'm about to be unusual.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't like unusual, you ain't going to like
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  Speaker 1: me because I'm about to be unusual. I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: break out of my shell. Don't expect me to stay
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  Speaker 1: where I used to stay because I heard a word
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  Speaker 1: from God that's going to disrupt my sleep pattern. God
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  Speaker 1: is going to do some amazing stuff. Shout hallelujah. Shout hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Shout hallelujah. Sound of hallelujah. Sound of hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Sound of hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Sit with me, sit with me, sit with me. Calm down,
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  Speaker 1: calm down. Calm down, calm down. I got to regain
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  Speaker 1: my composure. I got to regain my composure. I got
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: to regain my composure because I feel something about to
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: take over this place. I feel something about to wreck
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: this place. I feel something about to set it off
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  Speaker 1: in this place. I feel like being unusual. I feel
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: like getting unusual. I got to get out of these
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  Speaker 1: first four verses and add some insights here. When the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says in the first verse that Samuel served under
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  Speaker 1: Eli and that there was, the word of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: was scarce, and there was no open vision. It's a hint.
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  Speaker 1: It's a preview. See, Samuel is not so much Eli's successor.
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  Speaker 1: You don't use Samuel as Eli's successor like Elijah and Elijah.
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  Speaker 1: like Paul and Timothy. Not only are they not in
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  Speaker 1: the same chain, they're not of the same order. Eli
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  Speaker 1: is a priest. Samuel is a prophet. Perhaps one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest prophets of the Old Testament is Samuel. And
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  Speaker 1: what God has done, he has forced a prophet into
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  Speaker 1: the house of a priest. This is the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the formation of the Messiah, who is prophet. You see,
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  Speaker 1: so all we have up until now is priests. But
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  Speaker 1: out of the barrenness of Hannah's womb doesn't come Eli's successor.
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  Speaker 1: It becomes Eli's prophet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason the prophet had to come next is
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  Speaker 1: that the prophet is the one who anoints the king.
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  Speaker 1: God got an order he don't even explain to you.
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  Speaker 1: He does stuff for his own reason. He's got his
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  Speaker 1: own methodology. He works all things according to the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of his own will. Say amen. So we are watching
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  Speaker 1: the shift between the priest to the prophet. The prophet
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  Speaker 1: is under the priest. Amen. Before it's over, the priest
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  Speaker 1: is going to be under the prophets. That double shot. See,
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  Speaker 1: oh God, I want to go so deep. See, when
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  Speaker 1: we worship, when we praise, when we give offerings, we're
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  Speaker 1: working like priests. When I get up to preach, I'm
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  Speaker 1: working like a prophet. Hallelujah. So all while you're worshiping,
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  Speaker 1: I'm up under you. Hallelujah. But when I get up
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  Speaker 1: to preach, you're up under this anointing. We just acted
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  Speaker 1: out what the text is all about. If the priest
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  Speaker 1: comes first, here comes the prophet. You provoke the word
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  Speaker 1: of God by how you worship. You provoke the word
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  Speaker 1: of God by how you lift him up. You provoke
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  Speaker 1: the word of God by how you lift your hands
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  Speaker 1: and raise your hand. The priest comes before the prophet
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  Speaker 1: is released. This is not just a succession. This is
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  Speaker 1: a transformation. This is a revolution. This is a move.
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  Speaker 1: And the irony of it is, they said the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord was scarce in those days and there
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: was no open vision. And yet the prophet was growing
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: in the scarcity. Y'all can't handle this. Prosperity grows in poverty.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the Bible said, let the poor say that I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Let the weak say that I'm. See, you can be
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  Speaker 1: weak on top and be strong underneath. Y'all don't hear
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You can be poor on top and
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: have prosperity growing up under you. It does not yet
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  Speaker 1: appear what you shall be, but it's still growing up.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I use the NIV, because the prophet is
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  Speaker 1: still a boy, but he's coming, he's coming, he's coming,
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  Speaker 1: he's coming, he's coming. Your prophecy is still a boy.
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  Speaker 1: But it's coming, it's coming, it's coming. It's up under
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  Speaker 1: your priesthood. That's why I'm trying to get you to worship.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: Because when you worship, you're getting closer to releasing that
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: prophetic utterance that exists in your life. And that's why
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: the devil doesn't want you to worship. Because worship makes
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  Speaker 1: the water break. It makes the baby give birth. It
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: releases a prophetic utterance. Somebody shout yes! And then I
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: want to point out the extreme generational change. It is
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  Speaker 1: not that Samuel and Eli just represent two generations. The
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  Speaker 1: truth of the matter is Eli is a boy. I
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: mean Samuel is a boy when Eli is an old man.
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  Speaker 1: Samuel is young enough to be Hophni's son. So you
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  Speaker 1: got this grandfather character who is old and the other
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: extreme is a boy is in the house. And it
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: is an extreme shift. It's gonna skip a generation. You
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: don't see it. where you thought you would see it.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: But here it comes from the place you didn't expect
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: to see it, from a person you didn't expect to
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: see it from, from a woman that you thought was drunk.
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  Speaker 1: Here comes the change that God's gonna bring in your life.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you gotta stop looking down your nose at
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: people and calling people out their name. Because sometimes God
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: will use somebody you thought was drunk to be the
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: next level of blessing in your life. Somebody holler for me.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: I feel like hollering this morning. I feel like screaming
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: this morning. And then when I was praying about it,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: the Lord said, I want you to tell them in
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: the night shift, the light shimmers. Yes. In the night shift,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: the light shimmers. Night doesn't mean total blackout. It says,
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  Speaker 1: and ere the lamp of God went out. Now, you
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: all were raised with electric lights, and I was too.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: But when I went to my grandmother's house, they would
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: have candle lights and oil lamps. And when the lamps
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: were going out, as they start to go out, they flicker.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: The night has shimmering light, moments of illumination, glimpses, shadows,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: moments of revelation, moments of insight. You can't see it
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: clearly because it's shimmering. But you've got glimpses. You would
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: have framed it. but you caught shimmers of light. Every
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: time the devil thought he had you, God let the
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: light shimmer. You're still in a nice season, but you
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: got a flicker of light. You got a flicker of light.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: And sometimes a flicker is all you need. If you
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: get a flicker of light, you can hold on a
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: little while longer. Some of y'all came out with a
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: flicker of light. You're like the woman who said, I
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: don't need the loaf. If I get a crumb, I'll
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: come out on a crumb. I wish I had some
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: crummy people who'll come out on a crumb. If you
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: give me a half a chance, I'll scratch myself out
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: the rest of the way. I may not have daylight,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: but if I got shimmering light, if I know two scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: if I know one and a half scriptures, if I
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: can sing a little bit, I may not be on
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: the praise team, but if I can sing while I'm
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: doing my dishes, I can break a yoke over my house.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some people that are standing
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: in shimmering light. Make some noise. Shimmering light, shimmering light,
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  Speaker 1: shimmering light, shimmering light, shimmering light is somewhere between night
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  Speaker 1: and day. Shimmering light casts shadows. It's just enough. It
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: is in shimmering light. It is in shimmering light of
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: the most holy place. It's in the shimmering candle light.
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  Speaker 1: The oil, there's still some oil left. It hadn't all
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  Speaker 1: gone out yet. I still got a little bit of
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: oil left. It may not be in the lamp, but
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: it's in the wick. the devil tried to wear you
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: out but you still got a little bit of oil
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: left come on make some noise I still got I
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: still got shimmering light I still got shimmering light I
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: did some things I was ashamed of and the devil's
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: trying to make me feel guilty and spend the rest
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: of my life in condemnation but the devil is alive
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: my lamp might be empty but my witch is wet
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: And it is in the flickering light. See, flickering light.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: The light in the temple is the word of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: It is a flickering light. I catch a word every
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: now and then. I catch a word every now and then. See,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: in the outer court you have daylights. In the inner
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: court you have divine light. In the holies of holies,
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: you have glorious light. And the air, the lamp went out.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: The voice of God spoke. Samuel, Samuel. Now when he
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: calls him, he calls him twice. I don't know whether
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  Speaker 1: he called him twice or Samuel heard it twice. Because
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: the Bible said, once have I spoken it, twice have
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  Speaker 1: I heard it. Power belongs to God. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: whether God speaks from heaven and it echoes in the earth.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, all I got to do is say
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  Speaker 1: it one time. But when it echoes, twice have I
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  Speaker 1: heard it. Power. Power belongs to God. Samuel, Samuel, or Moses, Moses,
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  Speaker 1: take off your shoes. The ground you stand on is
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: holy ground. Or surely, surely, or verily, verily, whenever you
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: hear that call, that will be done on earth as
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  Speaker 1: it is in heaven. Samuel, Samuel. Who am I preaching
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: to today? You got a covenant keeping God. You got
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: a God that's made an oath. You got a God
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: that's made an agreement. Your witness is in heaven. Your
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  Speaker 1: record is on high. God said, I swear I'm gonna
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: bless you. Oh, y'all don't believe it. Let me find somebody.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: God said, I swear I'm gonna bless you. Y'all ain't
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: got it either. Let me find somebody. God said, I
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: swear I'm going to bless you. Y'all almost got it.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: Let me try these over here. God said, I swear
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: I'm going to bless you. Let me throw it in
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: the pool. God said, I swear I'm going to bless you.
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  Speaker 1: You need to praise him like you got the blessing
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  Speaker 1: on you. Now I'm going to come here. I'm going
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: to bring it here. I'm going to bring it right here.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: Samuel knows being a boy raised up in the temple,
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: serving under Eli. He knows the service of God. but
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: he don't know God. He knows the service of God,
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: but he does not know the voice of God. I'm
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: gonna go a little bit deeper. Some people know the
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: word of God, but they don't know the voice of God.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: They can quote scriptures all day long, but they don't
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: know the voice of God. And so Samuel is laying
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  Speaker 1: in his bed and he does not know the voice
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: of God because the word of the Lord was scarce
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: in those days. He hadn't experienced the voice of God.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: He had only experienced the voice of Eli. And so
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: when God spoke to him, when God first speaks to you,
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: he sounds like your teacher. So he wakes up and
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: he says, Eli, you call me? I call thee not.
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  Speaker 1: Go back and lay down again. Anytime you're in a shift,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: there is a period of confusion. How can I lay down?
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: Every time I lay down, he calls me. Every time
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: I get up and go to what I'm used to,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: I keep going to what I'm used to, trying to
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: find out what I'm going to do. And I keep
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: going to what I'm used to. I keep leaning on
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  Speaker 1: what I'm used to. I keep showing up in my
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  Speaker 1: usual place. But what's calling me is unusual. I have
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  Speaker 1: no point of context for it. I have no point
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  Speaker 1: of reference for it. So all I can do is
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  Speaker 1: go to what I know. Eli, did you call me?
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  Speaker 1: I call thee not. Go back and lay down again.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: Now this is the routine. He lays down again. God
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: calls him again. He goes back to Eli. Look at
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  Speaker 1: how he serves. Look at how he serves. That he
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: will get up in the middle of the night to
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: serve a priest that's going blind. A priest who's lost
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  Speaker 1: control of his house. But none of that affects the
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  Speaker 1: level of Samuel's service to Eli. Because Eli is still
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  Speaker 1: the priest. He is serving a priest that God has rejected.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: But he is still the priest until we respect the position.
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  Speaker 1: Not just a person, the position. So he goes back
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  Speaker 1: to him. I called in, go and lay down. Now
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: this is the tug. Watch this, watch this. This is
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: the tug between generations. The young man can hear God.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: The old man couldn't hear him. Now the Bible said
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: he couldn't see, but it didn't say nothing about his ears.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: But he cannot hear what the young man can hear.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: The young man can hear God. And he can hear
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  Speaker 1: God to the point that he's disruptive, anxious, irritating, disturbs
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: his sleep, keeps getting up again. Some of you can
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: hear God so clear. And then when you try to
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: act on what God told you to do, they send
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: you back. And when they send you back, it plays
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: into your rejection issues. It plays into your abandonment issues.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: And you think they don't believe in you because they
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: send you back. But they're sending you back because they
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: don't hear what you hear. All they can do is
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: send you back because they haven't heard what you heard.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: Somebody holler, I hear it.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 6: I hear it.
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  Speaker 1: My money's not right, but I hear it. My friends
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: are not right, but I hear it. I don't have
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: no building for it, but I hear it. Somebody holler,
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: I hear it. I'm preaching to somebody online, I hear it.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: It won't let me rest. It won't let me rest.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: It won't let me lay down. It won't let me
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: sleep because I keep hearing it. I don't know how
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: to do it, but I hear it. Now watch this.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: This is why we can't throw either extremes away. I'm
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: not talking about you and your parents. I'm talking about
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: from grandparent on down. Eli can't hear it, but he
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: can interpret it. Samuel can hear it, but he don't
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: know what to do with it. So when Eli perceived
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: that the Lord had called him, not only did he
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: perceive that God had called him, he told him what
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: to say. See, some of us, God has kept us
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: in the earth just to tell you what to do.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: with what you got. We're not trying to control you.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: We're trying to stop the vicious cycle of going back
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: and forth and back and forth and back and forth
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: and back and forth. So we're going to script you.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: It's going to be your job, your anointing. I'm just
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: giving you the script. So Eli told him, Eli said,
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: go back and lay down in your place. In other words,
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: go back and be where God expects you to be.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: Get in the position where he talks to you. Go
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: to the place where you hear from God. Who am
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: I preaching to? God said, Eli told him, don't be
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: in another place. I want you to lay in the
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: place where God is talking to you. Where it feels
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: like somebody's been reading your mail. Where it feels like
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: somebody's in your business. Where it feels like they're speaking
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: about stuff that you ain't never talked to them about.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: Go back, because that is the place of revelation. And
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: lay there. Don't leave there. Lay there. And if he
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: calls you again... I'm gonna tell you what to say. Now,
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: if you're hard-headed, and I'm grown, ain't nobody telling me
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: what to say, then you're gonna miss what God has
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: for you. Because even though you're right, I can't hear
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: it anymore, I still know how to respond to it.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: So he told him, go. and lay down again in
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: the place, I can't get off that point, in the
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: place where God expects you. There's something about being in
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: the place. In other words, God ain't gonna speak to
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: you somewhere else if this is your place. You remember
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: when Hagar was running from Sarai and she ran out
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: in the wilderness with her baby and she was about
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: to die? God didn't feed her in that place. He
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: told her to go back to the place where my
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: provision is. He sends Samuel back to the place to wait.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: The one thing boys hate to do is wait. Because
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: you got all that energy and you got all that
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: passion and you got all that excitement, but some stuff
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: you got to wait on. So you got to wait
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: on him to call you again. And he said, if
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: he calls you again, Lord, I blew it the first
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: three times you called me. I went to the flesh
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: the first three times you called me. I tried to
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: find the solution in people the first few times you
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: called me. But if, if you would just give me
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: one more chance, I got direction now how to respond.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: I wasn't disobedient. I was ignorant how to respond. I
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: had never heard you talk to me like that before.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: I didn't know how to respond. If you call me again,
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: now imagine waiting, wondering. Wonder if you'll... Oh, yes, Lord.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: Wonder if you'll Call me again. Have I gotten so
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: far out there? Have I made so many wrong turns
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: that maybe you got somebody else? And I'm waiting and
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: the light is going out. And things are getting worse
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: instead of better. And it's getting dark. It's getting dark
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: and I'm running out of time and I'm not sure
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: he still wants me. I wonder will he, will he
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: call me again? Is he through with me? Has he
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: forgotten me? He had to be thinking like that. Because
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: three times in his confusion, he had messed up his
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: past opportunities. This should have happened on call one. He's
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: gone through three calls of going to Eli. But Eli
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: was all he knew. And you went where you knew.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: Only to go back to where you were. Only to
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: get called and go back to what you know. Only
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: to go back to where you were. Can I help you? Oh,
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: you don't want me. You didn't ask me to sing.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: You don't ask me to preach. You don't give me
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: an opportunity. You won't help me get my business started.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: You won't help me get a rejection, rejection, rejection. You
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: just like my mama. You just like my mama. Every
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: time I come to you, you give me away. If
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: he would have severed his relationship with Eli, he would
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: have messed up his relationship with God. Because in spite
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: of all of Eli's faults, Eli still knew how to
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: respond to God. So he submits. What I love about
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: Samuel is that he submits God. And goes back to
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: where he was. The Lord said, I wasn't playing Satan.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: The Lord said, I have a meeting place between me
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: and you. And all you have to do is get there.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: And I will always tell you what to do. Adam,
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: where art thou? You're not in the meeting place. Moses
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: built a tabernacle in the wilderness. What is tabernacle? It's a...
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: When God sent Jesus, he sent divinity to humanity because
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: Jesus is a... I am the way, the truth, and
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: the life. No man cometh unto the Father, save he
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: come by me. Go back to the meeting place and
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: lay down And if he calls you again, this is
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: the humility of the text. I cannot assume that I
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: have endless opportunities to go back and forth. I don't
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: know if you're going to call me again. But if
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: you call me again, I know what to say now.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: Because I have served under Eli. So there's this big
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: argument going on in the world, in some parts of
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: the world today, a generational argument between the former and
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: the latter. And they're arguing over who's relevant and who isn't.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: They both are. The reason they both are, he called
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: the young because they're strong. He called the old because
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: they know the way. They know the way. Eli was old,
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: but he knew the way. He couldn't run the plays,
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: but he knew the way. You understand what I'm talking about?
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: So one doesn't operate independent of the other. So the
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: day shift can't go home before the night shift comes on.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: the night shift can't go home until the day shift
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: comes back and God said until you learn how to
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: work interdependently you will never be effective Because I can't
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: run the plays anymore, but I know how to play
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: the game. The challenge of the older generation is to
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: not be jealous of the younger generation to the point
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: that you won't give them the benefit of what you learned.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: The challenge of the younger generation is to understand that
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: some old systems still work. And in your desire to
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: be innovative, there are still some laws you can't break.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: And one of them is to lay down in the
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: right place and wait on the Lord. And if... I
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: can't make him call you. That's how I talk. I
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: can't make him call you. I can't make him speak.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: I can't even make you go to the place. But
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: if you go back to the place, see, see, see, see,
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: I gotta stop. The powerful thing to me about watching
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: you run around the stage and preach is I remember
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: you as a little girl sitting right over there in
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: the corner with your head down to come back full
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: circle to the place. God said, I'm going to bless
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: you right Right in the place where you felt rejection.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: Right in the place where you felt disgrace. Right in
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: the place where you felt shame. Right in the place
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: where you thought nobody would ever accept you. Right in
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: the place where you thought you'd never be anybody. God said,
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: that's still the place. And I'm going to bring you
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: back to the place. I'm going to bring you right
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: back to the spot. To the spot. To the very spot.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: Show me where you laid him down. Show me where
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: you gave up. Show me where you wanted to quit.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: Show me where you wanted to run from. Show me
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: where you tried to hide from. I'm going to bring
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: you right back to the blaze. Samuel. See, they shout
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: because they see the woman preaching. I'm over here shouting
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: because I see the little girl preacher. I see the
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: little girl preacher who thought her life was over. That's
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: what I'm shouting about. Because you'll always be my baby.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: So I see you like you're still a child sitting
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: over the corner with a big belly holding Malachi in
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: your arms. Now what you holding? And it ain't just
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: for her, it's for you too. Some of you, God's
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: getting ready to do something in your life. He's going
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: to break every curse, every bondage, every shame, every struggle
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: on your life. If I'm preaching to you, give him
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: 60 seconds of crazy. I mean, no, no, no, no.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: Crazy praise. Curse-breaking praise. You're breaking praise. Thirst-quenching praise. Praise
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: him like you lost your mind. Praise him like you
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: just heard from God. Praise him like you got another chance.
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: Praise him like he opened up a door. Somebody holla,
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: I'm getting it back. I'm getting it back. I'm getting
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: it back. Now play them like you got it back.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: Play them like you got it. Play them like you
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: got it. The Lord said to me, the Lord said
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: to me, there are some people in this room that
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: he's trying to call you back to the place of
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: your confusion, of your chaos, that there's going to be
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: a night shift. Wait, wait, wait. Let me give you
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: this prophecy. The Lord said to Samuel, I'm going to
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: do things through you that causes both ears of them
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: that hear it to tingle. I am going to use
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: you like no other prophet has ever been used in
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: the scriptures. I'm going to use you in life. I'm
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: going to use you after your life. I'm going to
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: use you to anoint kings. I'm going to bring you
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: before princes. I'm going to bring you into positions of power.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if you got faith enough to
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: believe it. And God said all of that when Samuel
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: had not yet known the Lord. This is not just
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: about churches. This is about your life, your business, your career,
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: your degree. Your entrepreneurship, whatever your calling in the earth is,
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: whatever your calling, everybody ain't called to the pulpit. Everybody's
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: not supposed to do this. Everybody's not created to do this.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: Don't be one dimensional. There's some things that God created
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: you for that you had some delays and some setbacks
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: and some mistakes and some mishaps. And God wants you
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: to come back to the place. Yeshada kobo chadah. God said,
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: go back to the place where you heard my voice. Speak, Lord,
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: for thy servant hears. Say it all over the place. Speak, Lord,
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: for thy servant hears. Type it online. Speak, Lord. for
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: thy servant hears. I'm not going to be up in
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: God's face telling him what he ought to do. I'm
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: not going to be bossing God. I'm not going to
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: be telling God how to run his business. I am
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: going to obey whatever you tell me to do. If
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: you open up this door for me, if you give
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: me another chance, it can't die by you. He said,
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: I'm working the night shift. Every person in this room
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: that's been in a night, in a dark place, I
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: don't care how it looks on the surface. I'm not
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: talking about the shimmering, but you've been in a night
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: place and there was no clear vision. Come to this altar.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: Stay with us, Sarah, if you can. I was amazed
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: when she said, I hear God saying, it's not just
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: for you, it's for your children too. Because of this
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: same time she was saying it, that was what the
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit was saying to me. That this ain't about you.
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: This is about what comes next after you. And a
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: breakthrough is coming to your children. And the enemy is
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: fighting you. I was talking to an orthopedic doctor. And
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: he said, when you got pain in your knee, he
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: said it's often deceptive. He said a lot of times
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: the problem is in your hip, but the pain is
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: felt in your knee. See, sometimes you think it's about you,
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: but it's about what God is going to do through
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: you to the next generation. How many of you can
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: praise him for your children and your grandchildren?
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I learned. This is the
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: fight of your life. It is the fight of your life.
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: I was telling my son-in-law, my daughter, that I gave
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: my baby, Woman R. Luce, to my baby. Because suddenly
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: I realized that God didn't have me build it for me.
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: That even before she was old enough to be out
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: of diapers, it was already hers. God is going to
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: give you houses that you didn't build. Vineyards that you
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: didn't grow. Some of the stuff you plowing through right now,
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: it ain't even about you. It's about who's next in line.
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: Do you hear what I'm saying to you? This is
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: what the Holy Spirit told me to share with you.
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: There are no perfect mothers. So all the things that
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: you have been accused of and all the things you
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: accuse yourself of, you can't do nothing about none of them.
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: You can say, I'm sorry, but you can't change yesterday.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: There are no perfect fathers. All you can do is
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: the best you can and keep it moving. Apologize when
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: you need to, correct it when you can, but be
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: there because your presence makes a difference. Seed to seed
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: to seed. I listened to that man on TV. He
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: said he was senator or somebody important. And he said
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: his parents were immigrants who came to this country. And
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: now he's running the country that they came into. They
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: didn't even know when they came that they were carrying
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: a senator. And he said they had to work all
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: kind of odd jobs and fight and fight and fight
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: and fight and fight and fight just to make ends
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: meet and send him to school. And now he's running
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: the country they slipped into. You don't know what you got.
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: You don't know what God is going to do. And
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: some of you are going to have to praise him
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: for kids you ain't had yet. Do you understand what
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: I'm saying? Kids, you ain't had that. But they're on
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: the way. And God is prepping you, Hannah. God is
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: prepping you, Hannah. Because a Samuel is coming out of you.
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  Speaker 1: A Samuel is coming out of you. And when you
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  Speaker 1: get him, you're going to have to give him back
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  Speaker 1: to God. And turn him over to God. This is
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  Speaker 1: prophetic utterance. Do you get this? You're watching online, this
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: word is for you. It is to you, it is
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  Speaker 1: to your situation, to your generations. We are not taught
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: enough in this country about generational blessings. We're not taught
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: about family. We get our lessons about family from TV.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: That stuff ain't real. I do TV, that's scripts. Real
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  Speaker 1: family is hard. Real family is tough and it hurts.
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  Speaker 1: And it'll break your heart and it'll keep you up
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  Speaker 1: at night. And you ain't never finish. Real family is
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  Speaker 1: hard work. That stuff you see on TV is something
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: somebody wrote. Stop looking for somebody you saw on TV.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a movie, baby. It's just a movie. Real
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: people are complicated. Real people are complicated. That's why you
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: can't look at Samuel and not look at Hannah. She
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: got everything to do with how he turned out. Both
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: good and bad. It all shapes you. It's not just
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: good stuff that shapes you. It's bad stuff. It's not
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: just right decisions. It's bad decisions. God knows exactly what
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: tool to use to shape you out to be who
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: you need to be. Stop running from the dysfunction. Samuel
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: was born in dysfunction. His ministry started in dysfunction. No
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: dysfunction can stop God from functioning. Do y'all hear what
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? I ain't got no reason to
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  Speaker 1: lie to you. I'm 65 years old. I can slide
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: on in on a banana peel. I could sell enough
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: hot bologna to get in from here. I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: what I know. Do not give up on your seed.
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  Speaker 1: Even when they give up on you. Even when they
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  Speaker 1: talk out of their head. Even when you don't get
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: the reaction and the validation that you deserve and that
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: you think you got coming, stay in your place. Stay
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: in your place. Stay in your place. Some stuff they
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: ain't gonna see till you gone. But stay in your place.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray over your family. I'm gonna pray over
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: your future. Some of you don't even have kids. I'm
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: gonna pray over your future. A birth woman now at loose.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you got businesses, companies, dreams, visions, books, goals
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: down in you. Your kids going to be the things
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: you build. They going to go through toddlers, adolescence, adulthood,
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: just like a person. but it's something you gonna birth.
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: You're pregnant with purpose. Some of you are right in
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: the middle of it. Some of you are in the
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: stage that I'm in. Your children are grown. They steal
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: your children. They steal your children. They ain't gonna never
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: not be your children. They might tell you I'm grown
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: and they right. They grown, but they steal your children.
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: They grown children. And I'm going to say something. And
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: you just got to learn to live with it because
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say something. If I see a train
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: about to hit you, yeah, I'm going to say something.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: Because we're family. All of us. And all of us
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: got issues. Hear me? All of us got issues. The
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: Bible said there is none righteous. No, not one. Not one.
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  Speaker 1: Not one. So don't you tell me that you got
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: it all together because the Bible say you a liar.
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: So all those voices that have been telling you that
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: you are abnormal, something wrong with you, and you ain't
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: this and you ain't that, something wrong with everybody. So
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: you got to redefine normal. Normal is off. That's what
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: normal look like. And when I found that out, I
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: got a lot better. Your story ain't much different from mine.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: The names are different. The dates are different. Life is life.
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: You gonna be okay. I promise. If you don't give up,
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: you gonna be okay. You know it's scary. You wonder
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: do you have enough? So did I. When she told
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: me she was pregnant with that girl, I almost jumped
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: off the top of the building. I thought, I can't
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: take care of what we got. But she managed to
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: eat pretty good. We did okay. It doesn't matter where
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: you start. It matters where you finish. Are y'all with
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: me this morning? If you're with me online, I want
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: you to believe God for your family. In a minute,
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: I'm going to challenge you to sow a seed for
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: your seed. I'm not telling you how much. Somebody's $ 100,
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: somebody might be $ 10. A seed for your seed. I'm planting,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't want it to start with this. Keep planting,
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  Speaker 1: not fussing, not nagging. That don't work. Just plant it.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: You ought to think about that. You could do it
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: that way, but there might be another way to do
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: about it. Go about it. You got to be careful
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: because you raised them to be independent. Now you can't
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: be mad because they're independent. So you got to go
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: from giving orders to suggestions. And if you keep giving
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: the suggestion over and over again, you fuss it. Cause
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: they heard you the first time. And if they decide
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: to go with their advice over yours, you can't feel
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: rejected and act out. Cause you'd raise them to think
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: for their self and you ain't always thought straight either.
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: Am I right? Stay on line because until we break
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: these generational issues, they are tied to prosperity. They are
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: tied to spirituality. They are tied to academics. They are
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: tied to the promises of God in your life. Are
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: you with me? I felt the heart of God when
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 1: I looked at you I won't put you on the spot,
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: but I felt the heart of God when I looked
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: at you. I felt the heart of God reaching right
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: to your heart. Right to your darkest places. Right to
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: your deepest pain. He loves you. He really loves you.
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: And if you trust him, you're going to be okay.
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: You need to hear that. Because he told me to
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: make sure you hear that. Because you don't hear that enough.
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: Especially from a man. Can I give you a hug?
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  Speaker 1: Come here.
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  Speaker 2: You will be just fine.
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: You will be just fine. Get together. Get yourself together.
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: Get yourself together.
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 2: Get yourself together.
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: Get yourself together. Put yourself together. You can do this.
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: You can do this.
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  Speaker 5: You can do this.
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: You from here? You here? You here in the city? Yes. Yeah.
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: You here? I was born in Dallas. You was born
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: in Dallas? Okay. I want you to come back. I
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: want you to sit here. I want you to stay
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: in this place. He's going to speak to you in
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: this place. We're going to crawl through, cry through Whatever
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: we got to go through, God got something for you. Yeah,
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: you know it, don't you? Yeah, yeah, good. Go on
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: down there. You can't take my church. Go on down there.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: Lift your hands up. Father God, in Jesus' name, while
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: we're working on ourselves, we're also working on our children.
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: And sometimes what we are scared of in them is
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: because of what went through us. And we are not
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: finished with us and we're not finished with them and
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: you are not finished with us and here we are.
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: I have the audacity to believe you to break every
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: curse to break through every bondage and I lift up
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: our seed before you. In fact, I give our seed
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: to you. You're the best parent there ever was. And
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: I turn our seed over to you for the harvest
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 1: of a lifetime is never money. It is always in
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: your children and your children's children, and your children's children,
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: they will rise up and call you blessed. So, Lord,
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to pray a selfish prayer just for me.
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: I'm praying a prayer for the future, for the things
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: that shall be. No matter how dark it seems right now,
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: there's a shift coming, and we receive it by faith
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. Amen. Praise him with everything
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: you got. Everything. For real. Out your mouth. Come on.
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 2: Out, out, out, out, out, out, out.
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  Speaker 2: .
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  Speaker 1: Out your mouth. Out your mouth. Let stress go. Let
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: anger go. Let frustration go. Let fear go. Let guilt go.
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: Let shame go. Let it all go. Listen to me,
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going to dismiss you from right here. I'm going
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: to dismiss you from right here. I want everybody under
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: the sound of my voice that's got a seed to
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 1: sow a seed. Whether you're online or in the building,
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: I want you to sow a seed for your seed.
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: Whether it's the seed of your business, the seed of
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: your company, the seed of your life, I want you
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: to sow a seed for a seed. Quickly. We're working
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: on ours. We ain't finished. We still working just like
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 1: y'all working. We ain't finished, but we working on it.
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: We working on it. You don't mind the information's on
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: the screen. Sow a seed for your seed. Sow into them,
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: even if they ain't listening. If they won't take your wisdom,
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: give them your love. Just give them your love. Give
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 1: them your love. I've never seen love lose a fight.
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 1: I've never seen love lose a fight. If there's anybody
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: that would like to be a member of the Potter's House,
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 1: come to my left. The doors of this church are
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: open for membership. If there's anybody in here not sure
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: of heaven, come to my right. I don't want you
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 1: to leave here inspired and going to hell. That's not
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: what we do. We preach the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: If you're giving in an envelope, Put it in an envelope.
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 1: If you're texting to give, text to give. A seed
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: for a seed. On your level. If you're on the $ 1, 000 level,
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: sow a thousand. If you're a hundred, sow a hundred.
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: If you're a $ 10, sow a ten. A hundred. Wherever
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: you are. On your level. A seed for a seed.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 2: I told her.
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: I almost had her preach this morning. She just got
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: off the road. She said, I will if you want
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: me to. I said, I want you to preach tired.
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: I'll preach. I got a little bit out of you anyway. Amen.
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: How many are glad you came to church this morning?
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 1: You can forgive me, don't forget the message tonight, Shift.
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: If you're giving, hold your seat up. Father, I ask
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 1: you not to see seeds, but sons and daughters and granddaughters.
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 1: and visions and businesses and companies and things that are
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: in our head because we are pregnant in our mind
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 1: before we're pregnant anywhere else. And we give birth to
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: vision and concepts and dreams. I ask you for increase,
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: for favor in the midst of all this confusion going
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: on and Hoffman and Phineas and Eli and all this
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: stuff that's happening. Lord, let us have a Samuel. a prophet,
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 1: a true word, a move from God, a touch that
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: we live to see in our lifetime. Turn it in
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: our lifetime. Let it shift so we can see it.
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 1: You said we could ask for what we will. I
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: want to see it. I want to see the change.
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: I want to see it. I want to see it
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: over each family, each mama, each daddy, each person, each
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 1: young person who's trying to manifest something better than where
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: they came from. I want to see it. Online, I
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: want to see it. Somebody's giving overseas. I want to
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: see it. Somebody's in another time zone. I want to
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: see it. Somebody doesn't even go to this church and
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: they were supposed to go to their church and they
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: couldn't cut me off. I want to see it. In
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: Jesus name. Amen. Pass it all the way to the left.
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: Pass it all the way to the left. Anybody joining
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: our church this morning? Anybody want to make this your
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: church hall? Come right now. Come right now. Welcome. Come on. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 1: Y'all scared me for a minute. I ain't never had
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: a Sunday that nobody joined. I said, did I preach
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: that bad? Come on. God bless you. Come on. Welcome.
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the family. Welcome to the family. God bless you.
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the family. Welcome to the family. We're glad
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: to have you. We're glad to have you. Hey, big guy, welcome.
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the family. I'll put you on security. Welcome
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: to the family. I'm glad to have you. Welcome to
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: the family. Welcome to the family. Welcome to the family.
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: Come on down. Welcome to the family. Welcome to the family.
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: I'm glad to have you. I'm really glad to have you.
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not just saying that. I'm really glad to have you.
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 1: Anybody else? Give a big hand clap for each one
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: of them. Welcome to the family. Come on down. I'm
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: glad to have you. It's a good thing. Anybody cooking
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 1: oxtail today? I'm just saying. In case you wanted some company.
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: Banana pudding. Girl, don't play with me. Thank you. I'll
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: be over there with a cereal bowl talking about praise
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: the Lord. Praise the Lord. Come on down. I thought
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: you was already down. You had to get your pocketbook, okay. Yeah,
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: get your pocketbook, girl. Everybody in here don't love Jesus. Amen. Amen.
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: Rule number one, protect thyself at all times. I just
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 1: keep it real. Everybody good? Anybody else? Y'all ready to
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: go home? Let's go home. Stand up. Come here, Benny.
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: I pray this closing prayer. Deacon Adams. Thank you, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Bishop.
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  Speaker 8: Gracious God that you are, once again we call upon
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  Speaker 8: you to say thank you, God. Thank you for the
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 8: word that you have provided for us this day, God.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Allow this word to continue as we continue our week, Father.
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  Speaker 8: I ask, O Heavenly Father, that you continue to bless us,
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  Speaker 8: guide us, and lead us and direct us, God. I ask,
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 8: O Heavenly Father, right now, that you continue to bless
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 8: the bishop and his family, God, as we continue to walk,
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 8: to follow you, Father, to follow our dreams, the things
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 8: that you've called us to do in Jesus' precious name.