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Partnering with God in Business: Prayer, Discernment and Spiritual Warfare with James Williams · Profitable Christian Business

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  Hello and welcome to another episode of the Profitable Christian Business Podcast.
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  I'm your host, Doug Greathouse, and today's guest is James Williams.
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  James is an author, podcaster, YouTuber, speaker, and creator of dark waters.
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  James has built his work around bold conversations about faith, spiritual warfare, biblical worldview, supernatural encounters, and obedience to God.
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  What really stood out to me before this interview wasn't simply the subjects James talks about.
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  It's the way he describes his relationship with God in business.
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  James intentionally gives roughly two and a half hours of his day to prayer and scripture.
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  He describes God as his business partner, and he believes Christian observers can build what he calls business altars.
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  Businesses where God's presence and biblical principles shape the way we are served, led, and impacted.
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  He's also stepped into assignments that stretched him far outside his comfort zone from building AI tools for his church, participate participating in a biblical worldview debate
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  despite having no previous debate experience.
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  Today we're going to talk about what it means to truly partner with God in business, how to discern his direction when there is no roadmap, how to build businesses that become
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  places of spiritual influence, how to trust God when obedience takes you somewhere you don't feel qualified to go.
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  James, welcome to the Profitable Christian Business Podcast.
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  I'm happy to be here with you, Doug, man.
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  It's been great getting to know you and talking to you a little bit.
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  I'm excited about what we're gonna peel back some of the layers of the onion, man.
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  I think it's gonna be fun.
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  I really think it's gonna be fantastic.
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  Amen.
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  Amen to that.
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  So we had a previous conversation for all the listeners.
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  I like to do like a fifteen minute kind of getting to know you call before we ever um have this call so that I get to know the guests.
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  And one of the things a lot of the things that we're going to discuss are things that James brought up to me on or on that call.
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  James, you brought you mentioned the on that call that uh you get up at three AM sometimes to pray.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  so for a Christian, we when people in the Kingdom of Darkness, they call the three AM hour the witching hour, right?
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  For us, it's the hour of mystery.
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  And it's the it's the transition from when um when night is turning into day.
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  So you're when you're up at three AM and you're praying, you're actually meeting the day.
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  We see the counterfeit versions of this kind of from the
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  esoteric uh movements, the stuff stolen from the Bible where people say stuff like command your morning, right?
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  They'd be like, Did you command your morning?
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  Were you up at 5 a.m.
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  and you should command your morning, right?
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  And they'll tell you, get up in the morning and, you know, start your work at 5 a.m.
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  and start whatever, drink your coffee at 5 a.m.
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  or start your workout at 5 a.m.
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  Well for us, it's starting our day with the Lord.
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  So we spare our day spending time in prayer.
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  And if you go into the Bible, you see where Jesus
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  would leave out from his disciples and early in the morning he would wake up and pray because what Jesus was doing was he was getting the download of what he was supposed to do
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  for that day early in the morning.
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  And so I don't do it every morning, but there are mornings where I know I have to do it.
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  And so um God has given me certain signs in my life to where I know, okay, well something's going on.
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  I need to be up at that hour.
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  It's called the gates of prayer.
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  Just for those of you guys who are Christian businessmen.
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  Um
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  There's the 12 midnight gate, which is the gate of legislation.
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  There's the 12 noon gate, which is the hour of judgment.
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  There's the six PM gate, which is the hour of communion.
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  There's the nine PM gate, which is the hour of mercy.
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  And then you go into the threes, um, three a.m.
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  mystery, three p.m.
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  mercy, uh, I hit six, I hit nine.
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  Yeah.
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  And you hit the dare those are the gates of prayer.
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  Those are times where um
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  where you can go into prayer.
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  And as a businessman, I tell you people find it hard to believe that my day revolves around prayer.
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  Um, and it took a long time for me to get to that point.
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  But once you come to the understanding that if your day revolves around the Lord, everything will be sustained.
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  So like I I'll the let's say there I don't allow myself to schedule an interview at twelve noon.
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  At twelve noon and three PM
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  There's nothing ever scheduled.
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  So from 12 to 1, that block is cut off.
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  From three to four, that block of time is cut off.
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  Um, and then the half hour of prayer can come anytime throughout the rest of the the day.
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  You know, it could just be I'm sitting there um working on my computer and I'll be sitting there praying as I'm working.
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  And it's important that we dedicate time to the Lord in prayer because as my business partner, that's how I get leadership and guidance.
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  For example, I'm tired today.
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  So I know when I'm tired, I know to praise and worship the Lord because I know as I praise and worship him and sing to him, instantly my spirit is refreshed.
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  And you learn those kind of things from having what I like to call a business altar to the Lord, where he's your business partner.
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  So you learn how to engage with him throughout your business day.
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  And that engaging with him throughout your business day therefore makes it easier for you to engage with him in a time of need, in a time of fear.
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  And a time of anxiety because you have a relationship where you know he answers those prayers.
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  So for us businessmen who are Christian businessmen, we have a unique advantage if we carve out the time of the day for the Lord.
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  And I know it's hard because there's a lot of things that need to be done.
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  But I'll tell you, Doug, what happened for me was as I started to carve time out for him, he started to give me systems that gave me more time.
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  And it's been beautiful because technically I could literally at this point, if I wanted to, I could spend six hours a day with him.
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  Because he gave me a system that allows me to do stuff so quickly that I don't have anything else to do throughout the day.
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  It's just me kind of like taking my time, doing this, doing that, going a little bit slower.
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  Um, but he gave me a system that made it a lot easier for.
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  That there there's so many things that I I want to pick up from everything everything you just said, including going back to the hours of prayer.
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  I want to or the it's gates of prayer is what you called it.
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  Uh I want to dive into that, but first I want to kind of go into something you just said because I know this is something that every business person that's listening to this right
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  now is kinda like, Okay, that all sounds good, right?
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  Um, but I yeah, I'm just I'm just overwhelmed, right?
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  Where do I and and I'm just gonna precede this because I I I kinda know where where
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  I I think you're gonna go, but maybe you're not.
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  Um it's having not enough faith, right?
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  If we think that um it's his time, it's not our time, right?
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  He controls the time.
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  So if we're if we're praying that we're we're overwhelmed and we don't have time for the for the Lord, I mean, what is that, right?
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  Um He's gonna get it kind of like He did for you.
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  He gave you back your time.
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  He's in control of it.
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  So if you could just dive into a little bit more on that.
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  Okay.
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  so everything in the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and God is about sacrifice.
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  And how do we know it's about sacrifice?
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  Because Jesus was a sacrifice on a cross for us, right?
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  So your time is a sacrifice.
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  And so I sacrifice my time to spend with him.
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  But this is an understanding.
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  The Bible says, Bring forth to me my saints, those who make a covenant with me by sacrifice.
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  I'm paraphrasing, but
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  You guys can Google it.
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  I'm close.
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  I'm close.
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  Um, and so my business agreement with him is an agreement of sacrifice.
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  First of all, I sacrifice my time, which is I'm sacrificing of myself.
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  The second sacrifice is that I'm making is the sacrifice of the the fact that I think I know what works and I think I know what's right, right?
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  The sacrifice of what I was called my pride and my ego, thinking I know which direction I should go.
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  Now, believe me and you had this conversation about this, Doug.
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  on our first thing when I was talking about after the debate how I felt.
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  The second thing is, um, the third thing is the sacrifice of my finances and my basically my will is what I'm doing.
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  And so you're gonna have to make a sacrifice.
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  Now, in the context, biblical context of sacrifices, if you go out through the Bible, every time there was a sacrifice, fire came down from heaven.
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  And so you'll see when you make that sacrifice, the Lord responds to that sacrifice.
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  The problem is, um, and I used to be a guy that would work
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  18 hours a day.
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  But it didn't work out well in the end.
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  Cause it wasn't able to be sustained.
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  So I would go through these kind of ups and downs, these waves where it was prosperity and then a crash, and prosperity and a crash, and prosperity and a crash.
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  And so since I've been doing this with the Lord and walking with him this way, everything has been a steadily a steady incline, a level off, where things will level off for me.
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  And then in that leveling off period, I call it a peace period where he's like, okay.
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  We've done this, we've done this, we've done this.
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  These are the things you need to fix before you go to this next level.
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  Excuse me.
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  So he'll show me things about myself, things about my business, things about the way I communicate, and then give me opportunities through people to fix those things.
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  So it was like yesterday I did a consult consultation with a young lady, and she's like, I want to be on social media.
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  And while she was talking, he said, Okay, are you gonna be a coward?
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  Are you gonna tell her the truth?
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  I said, I'm gonna tell her the truth.
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  He said, Tell her the truth.
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  So I told her everything that needed to be done.
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  And when I got through consulting her, I was sitting here and he said, You did a good job.
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  He said, But we're going to work on you being more direct with people because you don't want to hurt their feelings, but they need to know what's going on.
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  So as you go through these waves with him, he's he's fine-tuning your engine for the next level.
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  But it it comes by sacrifice.
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  And the sacrifice of time in prayer allows you to hear him throughout the day, throughout the busy day when things are going crazy.
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  You can hear his leadership and his guidance.
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  For example, when um when I just did this debate, I've never debated before, right?
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  And I'm talking to him about the debate.
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  Lord, do you want me to do this debate?
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  And I'm I'm making sure he's going with me before I even tell the people, yes, I'm like three days.
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  Hey, and you should always understand this when you're in partnership with him, you don't make decisions on your own.
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  Hey, do you want me to do this debate?
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  He don't say nothing.
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  Next day, do you want me to do this debate?
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  He don't say nothing.
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  I okay, well, maybe it's too noisy.
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  I'm too noisy.
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  It's not you.
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  So I wake up at three and I go outside and I sit.
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  I said, okay, it's quiet.
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  There's nothing going on.
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  I'm not distracted.
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  There's nothing.
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  I need to talk to you about this debate.
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  And I'm just talking.
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  Yes, you're going to win.
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  Cause I'm going with you.
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  Once he said he was going with me on the debate, I said, okay, cool.
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  Call the people.
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  Let's go do the debate.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Cause I know I always he agreed I won.
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  And I even told people this.
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  It's like I already won a debate.
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  It's like, how you know?
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  Because he agreed.
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  Mm.
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  he going with me and I won.
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  So we're not really worried about it.
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  But then that you go through the work phase of it, right?
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  And the work phase is him telling me, okay, you need to study this, study this.
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  But he fed me all the information I needed to put in my mind.
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  So when I went on the stage, and this think of this debate scenario as you negotiating a contract, as you going in to make a sales pitch.
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  When you work with him, he's gonna give you all the information.
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  And it the way it comes into your brain is it comes as an idea.
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  comes as a concept or come as a little flash of an image of something that you should do.
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  And being in prayer for those hours make me sensitive to where I can know and understand what he's saying.
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  And to get deeper than that, we had to get into how how the spirits actually communicate with people.
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  But i you get to this point to where you have an intimacy with the Holy Spirit, to where you understand what he's saying and you sense what he's saying and you hear what he's
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  saying all the way throughout the the throughout the day.
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  And that makes you kind of a mystery when you walk into a room with men because you understand what they're saying, you understand what they're doing, you see through things
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  and they're like, Well, how do you know that?
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  Because I'm with my spirit, which is the Holy Spirit, and God is with me.
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  I'm not in here by myself.
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  Wow.
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  Um I I think it's gonna be a minute before we get to the get to the question I had about the about the gates of prayer because y you just you just opened up into something else.
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  I wanna pull that thread that you kind of exposed there and that was how like what I'm relating it to is hearing the voice of God, right?
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  Like a lot of people like I don't hear the I don't hear his voice, right?
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  Um or they or they're or they're praying and praying, just waiting, waiting to hear his voice.
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  So um you you said it a little bit in there about how to hear from spirits, right?
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  Um so can you let's go ahead and take that dive.
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  Okay, so number one, in order to hear from the Holy Spirit, you need to you need to have knowledge, right?
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  So knowledge in the Bible is Yada.
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  It's a knowing, and it's knowing by experience.
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  So you know him by experience.
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  And you can look this look up everything I'm saying.
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  Look up knowledge, look up the Hebrew, and it's gonna take you to Yada.
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  And when you get to Yada, it'll say a knowing, experiential knowing uh of the spirit, of of of a spiritual knowing.
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  So you know by experience.
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  This is why the prayer is so important.
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  It has to be your foundation.
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  Because what happens is in a place of prayer, you'll be praying to the Lord and He'll say something.
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  And you'll be That I don't know if that was me or that was Him.
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  Was that my thought?
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  Well, how how can I tell?
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  And in that place, you you you you weed out this lack of understanding of hearing the voice of God.
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  But if you've never went through that process,
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  Then you don't know.
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  So you don't know if it's your flesh speaking.
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  You don't know if it's fear speaking.
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  You don't know if it's anxiety speaking.
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  You don't know if it's the Lord speaking.
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  But I'll tell you how you can easily know what is speaking, it's by studying the word of God.
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  So this is where Bible study comes in and studying the word because you know what God thinks of you.
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  So for example, Psalms one says, Blessed is a man that who walks not in the council of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor seat in the seat of the scornful.
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  But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law does he meditate day and night.
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  And it gives you a secret there, right?
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  Blessed is the man who does not do these things, sit in the council of the the wicked, stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of scoffers.
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  So you're not wicked, you're not sinning, you're not sitting in the seat of scoffers, right?
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  But you delight in the law of the law of the Lord, and you meditate on it day and night.
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  So in the context of, and I'm answering your question about how you can hear from the spirit, in the context of.
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  Understanding what the Holy Spirit is saying, it comes from you delighting in his law, delighting in his word, and then meditating on his word.
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  And so as you do that, now you start to feel you become you become to you, it's almost like you start to digest what the Bible says and it becomes a part of you.
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  Um, if I'm not mistaken, yeah, catalabano is what it's called.
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  That's why the Holy Spirit wanted me to look that up.
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  It's called Cantalabano, which means to lay hold of or seize the knowledge of something.
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  So you're laying hold on the word.
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  It's not like you ever been with someone and they say, I'm a Christian, and they'll just spit out spitch scriptures and it's just like dry and it feels like, yeah, they know it,
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  but there's no spirit behind it.
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  That's because they never experienced katalambano, which means they have not seized the word.
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  They have not ex they have not held it and touched it and moved it around and and massaged it to where it became a part of them.
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  Right?
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  But
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  Back to Psalms 1.
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  What Psalms 1 says is once you do these things, you're like a tree planted by the streams of water, which yields fruit in its season, his leaf does not wit wither, and whatever he
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  does prospers.
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  So within the context of understanding, handling scripture in prayer, now what happens when the Holy Spirit starts to talk to you, and another spirit could be your flesh, with
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  which we define flesh as you, it could be doubt, fear, anxiety.
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  Now you know what the Lord says about you.
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  And so you believe what he says about you.
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  And once you have that understanding of what he says, you realize, okay, God ain't saying that I'm afraid because there's no fear in God.
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  God ain't saying that I might lose because he don't lose.
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  God is not saying that they're gonna defeat me because he ain't never been defeated.
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  So now there's this clear dividing line between what you know he says, because you know what he says about you and about himself, and what everything else is saying, what you
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  what the world is saying.
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  And so now that's how you can clarify the voice that you're hearing.
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  The next way that you know that the Holy Spirit speaks is he speaks in little quick flashes of an image.
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  I call them like quick imagination.
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  So you could be sitting here that that in fact it happened earlier before we started this interview.
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  I'm walking around and getting my coffee, I'm doing this, I'm doing that, and he he flashes um a old Bible study slide that I did about um dominion, priesthood, dom
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  priesthood, dominion, and kingship.
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  And he just flashes the big the cover of it.
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  I'm like, okay.
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  So let I go come sit down at my computer, I start scrolling, stop right there.
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  Catalambano.
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  And I was like, I remember Catalambano.
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  That's a point you're gonna need for the day.
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  So I wrote it down on his card.
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  And I was like, anything else?
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  He's like, no, everything else, that's the one thing.
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  And so you as you have this the relationship with him, you understand that that flash of that image means something.
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  Many people experience this where he'll he'll give you flashes or little
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  bits, nuggets of understanding, and people call it a gut feeling.
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  Outside of the Lord, they'll call it a gut feeling.
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  When I was in business, I would without the Lord, I would call it, I got a gut feeling about this guy, you know, and he's this.
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  Well, in his kingdom, it's an unction about a sm situation or a matter.
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  And since I've started working with him this way, now I understand.
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  If you tell me, if he gives me an unction, a feeling, a quick image flash, I respond to it immediately because it's him communicating to me.
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  Now, in a quiet time where it's just nothing going on, I'm not distracted.
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  Then I can sit just sit there and hold a conversation, and then I'll hear his voice saying, Okay, well, this is what you did wrong.
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  This is this, this is this, this is this, this is this.
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  And I'm like, okay, I'm taking notes.
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  And I'm I want to repent because I was afraid of that situation.
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  Um, help me understand how not to be afraid.
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  I help me to do better in this thing.
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  And then it happens.
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  So, yes, the way you hear from spirits is number one, understanding the word of God so you won't be deceived.
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  Number two,
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  Meditating on the word of God because as you meditate, it unfolds itself and you massage and you handle the word of God.
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  And then number three, he'll communicate with like flashes of images and sometimes even an imagination is a vision.
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  So he'll drag you into a vision, like an imagination, which is you know, if you sit in class, ladies and gentlemen, when you were a kid and you got bored, you would daydream,
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  right?
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  You would just sit there and it it's a dream, it's a vision.
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  So you'll be sitting there and just pheom, you're gone into a daydream.
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  That's a vision.
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  We just call them daydreams.
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  If you were had your eyes closed, you will call that a dream or a vision.
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  And so it's those ways that you he communicates with you in business.
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  And it you but you have to spend time with him.
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  Because if you don't spend time with him, all those things can lead to deception and lead to bad decisions.
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  So it it all hinges on the amount of time you're willing to sacrifice to be with him.
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  And that sacrifice is made because you understand that he is God.
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  And that you, if you're gonna come to him, you come to him by faith.
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  And then more importantly, you've got to the point to where you acknowledge that he knows better than you.
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  And that's how come I can do it because I know without a doubt that my God knows more and is better than any his knowledge and wisdom is better than anything I've ever accumulated.
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  So I can I can happily stop what I'm doing.
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  I can happily stop typing and say, Yep, I know what I think is gonna work, but that ain't gonna work.
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  You you know what's gonna work.
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  Work.
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  And if it take two hours for him to tell me, fine.
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  I'll wait.
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  But once you give it to me, once you give me that information, it's gonna work.
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  To the audience.
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  Genesis 1:1.
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  In the beginning, God.
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  And think about everything he created since the beginning.
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  Everything he created works.
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  Everything.
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  Sun still works.
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  The water's still wet.
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  The grass still grows.
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  The trees still grow.
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  Cows still run around outside of Bill Gates messing with him.
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  birds still fly.
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  Everything still does what he intended it to do.
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  And this is your God.
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  So I want to sit down with the one who made everything work.
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  Okay.
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  And I'll I would ask questions like this of him, Doug.
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  I'd be like, yo, and this I talk like sit three AM, yo.
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  I was wondering.
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  When Abraham left Ur, and it was him and his wife, and they were just walking.
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  And wasn't Abraham afraid?
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  You know, what wasn't his wife in his ear like, you got us leaving this city because you heard from this God?
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  And I'll ask him questions like, how did he deal with that?
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  Because the Bible doesn't give us any of that information.
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  And so I'm just sitting there, and this is what intimacy is.
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  Because I'm like, you know, sometimes I feel like him a little bit because you got me going over here doing this, and man, I don't know what I'm doing.
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  You got me running around.
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  You got me running around doing this.
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  And and he'll say, Does it, did it work out?
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  Well, yeah, it worked out.
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  That's how it worked out for Abraham.
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  And I'll be like, well, you know, he the one that sent his wife to go hang out with Pharaoh because he was afraid.
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  Yeah, because he was afraid.
• 21:06
  Oh, yeah.
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  Like, yeah, you're right, because he was afraid.
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  But it's the intimacy is that.
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  Now, if you can, if, if you can build that level of intimacy with the Lord, then who's going to defeat you in business?
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  What person's gonna out negotiate you?
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  What individual is gonna stop you from getting what the Lord has for you?
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  Nobody's not gonna nobody's gonna stop you.
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  They just can't stop.
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  That is that is so strong.
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  And like to the to the name of this podcast, you want to know how to have a problem Christian business.
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  I I I think James just laid it down right there.
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  Um I I want to tag on to some of what you said though.
• 21:43
  Um unrepented sin, right?
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  how that can block your communication with God.
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  Um and I I I love what you said because it reminds me also of the um sermon that my pastor just gave this past Sunday was on Malachi.
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  giving your best, right?
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  Your best sacrifice.
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  Like sometimes we think that 15 minute prayer in the morning, that's that's the best, right?
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  Um so uh if you can just dive into a little bit of how um unrepentant sin might block your communication with God.
• 22:16
  Yeah, let's do that.
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  Let me give you guys one more thing and we'll go to unrepension sin.
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  There's an advantage that I have coming from New Orleans as it pertains to business.
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  And I don't think the average Christian businessman understands this.
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  See, in New Orleans, when you go into a room to do business, there are men who have charms in their wallets.
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  Because they it's a it's a city of voodoo and hoodoo and voodoo.
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  Um Santa Ria's there, everything's there.
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  There's men who have like the lesser keys of Solomon, the keys of Solomon where they prick their fingers and put blood on a seal.
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  And there's men who light candles for business to get money.
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  And so business is more spiritual than you'll ever imagine.
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  And so you're going into a situation as a Christian who w does not pray, who does not have an um, who does not have an altar to prayer.
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  And altar to prayer is a time per day where you pray every day.
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  It's not like a space.
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  You can have a closet.
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  Like this technically, this room that I'm in is my prayer closet, which is like my prayer altar.
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  I come in here to pray, but it's not like an altar where I'm cutting up chickens and birds and stuff, right?
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  It's it's a place where I come to be quiet and pray.
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  But you don't have an altar to prayer where you're praying.
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  And then you walk into a room with a guy who wanted to get a contract, and that's n that last night that guy went and slit the throat of a goat over an altar to get a spirit to go
• 23:38
  out ahead of him.
• 23:39
  Yeah.
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  To establish dominion and domination over you as you're going into that meeting.
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  So then you walk into the meeting and everybody ignores you.
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  And I've experienced this in New Orleans.
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  And I'm like, yo, why these people ignore me?
• 23:50
  This dude don't know what the hell he's talking about.
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  Like he, he, he, he, he ain't never did nothing.
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  I have all the experience.
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  I have this.
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  And then later on, I'll ask somebody, it's like, man, you know, he do that.
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  They'd be like, man, he do hoodoo stuff, man.
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  We cut the roots and this, this, this.
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  I'm like, but it's gonna fail.
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  And sure enough, he gets the contract.
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  The contract fails.
• 24:10
  Right.
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  But he gets the money and he kind of it's it's wicked because he'll get the money, he'll abuse the money, never do the work, do this, this, this, but he got it, right?
• 24:18
  So understand as a businessman, going into that environment, you're going into an environment full of spirits.
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  Period.
• 24:27
  When you go into a when you go, let's say you open a coffee shop business, and it's a Christian coffee shop business, right?
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  You don't have to have crosses all over the wall, you don't have to do none of that, but you're a Christian businessman, right?
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  And
• 24:39
  What's coming into that shop?
• 24:40
  Everybody that's carrying spirits on them is coming into the shop.
• 24:44
  Going back to what Doug was asking about, like sin, iniquity, and transgression of the bloodline.
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  So you're engaging with people who have spirits on them all day long.
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  Some of them have the Holy Spirit, some of them have spirits of competition.
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  Some I call it Absalon, the spirit of Absalom.
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  You're running to him in business, which Absalom was the one that tried to overthrow David's son that tried to overthrow him.
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  And he did all these different things to try and overthrow David.
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  You should study him.
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  The spirit of the orphan spirit, you'll find that in business.
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  Leviathan spirit, you'll find that in business.
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  There's all kind of spirits that you'll find in business.
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  You'll find from the female perspective, you'll find the queen of heaven in business, which is basically Jezebel, where there's a woman that's trying to rule and overthrow and
• 25:26
  do everything.
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  So you going in there like la da da da dee dee dee.
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  uh whoa, whoa.
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  And they like we're gonna get you.
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  We're gonna rip his head off.
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  ah And you're like, what the hell is this?
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  Instead, when you go in from a place of prayer, you walk in as a lion, and then you see them for who they are.
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  You sit at the table like, this is Jezebel because look how she's behaving.
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  This, this, this is Leviathan, because look at the level of pride.
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  And you understand that okay, that person with the Leviathan spirit, that pride is going to drive them to where they isolate everybody.
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  I really don't have to fight him because he's going to fall on his own.
• 26:03
  But over here, this Jezebel.
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  It's she's slick, so she's gonna try and turn everybody against me with her words.
• 26:09
  you'll find the Ahab and Jezebel combination where it's Ahab who's controlled by Jezebel, but Jezebel doesn't have any power, so she's the secretary, and she controls the man of
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  power with her emotions.
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  So now he's coming at you, but it's really you need to take her out.
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  It's all these different things that you'll understand.
• 26:26
  Now, to get to the iniquity, sin, and transgression, I like to use a ruler.
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  I don't know if this is gonna be a seen on a podcast, but
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  I'll just talk you through it.
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  I'm showing a ruler with four inches, right?
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  And that represents four generations of your family.
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  You'll find that some Christian businessmen don't have many problems because they're a fourth generation Christian businessman, right?
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  Um, and because you're a fourth generation Christian businessman and there's been a culture in your family of tithing, of making sacrifices, of giving, you don't run into
• 26:58
  many issues.
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  You you actually are having a lot of success, right?
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  Um, that means that.
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  Throughout your family, there's been uh a relationship with the Lord that's been sustained.
• 27:08
  And so they have success.
• 27:09
  I've run into men like that.
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  They're on the fourth generation.
• 27:12
  They don't really even understand how they have the success that they have.
• 27:15
  They just like, yeah, things go well for me.
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  I never had to deal with a demon.
• 27:18
  I never had to deal with that.
• 27:19
  I don't I sleep well at night.
• 27:21
  And I'm like, okay, tell me about your great grandfather.
• 27:22
  My great grandfather was a preacher and a businessman and this, and he built churches.
• 27:26
  Okay.
• 27:27
  That's that's why you don't have a problem, sir.
• 27:29
  But they don't, they don't understand.
• 27:31
  Because they haven't been through like the mud and the muck and the fight.
• 27:34
  Then there's those of us who, um, generations of our family, we've made mistakes.
• 27:39
  And this is where the blood of Jesus comes in in business.
• 27:42
  Now, the Bible says the blood of Jesus um speaks to better things than the blood of Abel, and it blots out ordinances written contrary to us, right?
• 27:52
  Or yeah, it's ordinances written contrary to us.
• 27:54
  And so the blood of Jesus, in the context of being the businessman, there may be ordinances written in the spirit realm.
• 28:00
  By demonic entities.
• 28:01
  Let's say your your grandfather robbed somebody and then started a business, right?
• 28:08
  And he robbed them and killed them.
• 28:09
  He stole the money and then started a business, became a successful businessman.
• 28:12
  Well, that's blood money that's speaking against him, and that blood money is now speaking against you.
• 28:17
  And that's an ordinance written in the spirit realm.
• 28:19
  Thou shalt not kill or commit murder, right?
• 28:22
  So he murdered somebody, then he stole, then he started a business.
• 28:25
  So the whole business is built on murder and theft.
• 28:29
  Those spirits.
• 28:31
  In the context of business, have um they have dominion over the business that flows through your family.
• 28:38
  Well, somebody has to go and repent and deal with that.
• 28:41
  So you go in, you say, Okay, Lord, I found out my great grandfather, like my great uncle, and I give you this personal thing, my great uncle was um a hitman for Bumpy Johnson.
• 28:52
  So when I found that out, because the Lord kept on telling me, Hey, you got murder in your blood, and I don't know, I don't know.
• 28:56
  What are you talking about?
• 28:58
  And
• 28:58
  My dad came and told me, and so I went to the Lord, said Lord, I want to repent for the murder in my bloodline, the bloodshed.
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  And I went in the prayer.
• 29:06
  And um, after praying about five minutes, I found myself crying and snotting and realized there was a whole lot more murder in my bloodline than I knew about.
• 29:16
  But I repented of it, and we were washed clean of that thing.
• 29:21
  Then I went back to doing what I was doing.
• 29:23
  So there's gonna be time periods where and this is where the intimacy is very important, ladies and gentlemen.
• 29:27
  Many times you may be struggling in business because it's not something that you're doing.
• 29:31
  It's something that has not been addressed.
• 29:33
  Now, there I naturally I can hear somebody saying, Well, I'm a Christian and I'm absolved of my sins.
• 29:39
  And so this guy's talking about stuff that my great-great-grandparents did.
• 29:43
  But when I became a Christian, I was created a new creature and I was washed as clean as snow, white as snow.
• 29:48
  Yes, you were.
• 29:49
  Absolutely, you were.
• 29:51
  But the most important thing is from a business person, you'll understand this is that those were legal.
• 29:56
  binding agreements that your grandfather, your great grandfather, your great grandmother had with a spirit because of the behaviors that they did.
• 30:03
  You washed, but that there is still a legal binding agreement.
• 30:09
  That's no different than um us signing a contract to um let's say it's a toilet tissue contract, right?
• 30:16
  And and we signed a toilet tissue contract with Yale University.
• 30:21
  And we signed a contract in nineteen eighty five
• 30:25
  This is a perpetual contract, nineteen eighty five.
• 30:28
  And it's you know, it's forever that we gonna provide the toilet tissue at Yale University.
• 30:34
  And then in two thousand, here comes one of your grandchildren that's not the nicest person on the planet.
• 30:40
  He a little bit crazy and he real flamboyant.
• 30:43
  He walks in all cocky and weird and crazy and like, Yeah, you know, I'm running this contract.
• 30:47
  They may not like him, but guess what?
• 30:49
  That's a legal binding contract.
• 30:51
  It's a binding contract in perpetuity forever.
• 30:55
  So don't matter how they the the the people in the resource that that cut the check feel about your great grandson, it's a binding contract and a binding agreement.
• 31:03
  And so it's real easy to deal with.
• 31:05
  This is why you need to understand the blood of Jesus Christ, because the blood of Jesus Christ is a propitiation, meaning it's a payment, a ransom for those things.
• 31:12
  And so when I go into prayer and I understand that, okay, Lord, we need to I want to cleanse this, clean this up.
• 31:18
  And you clean it up by repenting for it, acknowledging it, repenting, the Bible says.
• 31:22
  In James 1 9, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness.
• 31:28
  So you go into confession.
• 31:30
  You ain't got to go to like the the Catholic you know, to a priest.
• 31:35
  You get on your knees.
• 31:36
  Lord, I want to confess that my great uncle was a ranked devil, that he murdered people, he did this, and he probably never apologized.
• 31:44
  But I'm coming to you before you because you sit outside of time and space and you see all these things, you're Alpha Omega.
• 31:50
  I, James Williams.
• 31:52
  As a priest and a king of this bloodline, I repent for what he did.
• 31:56
  By the way, I repent for any adultery, any fornication, any theft, any uh any murder, any lust.
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  I Lord, I want to clean up this bloodline.
• 32:07
  Enmity, strife.
• 32:08
  I want to clean it up.
• 32:09
  And then I'll say, Hey, Lord, if there's something specific, show me what that specific thing is that you want me to repent of.
• 32:16
  And I say I repent, and I plead the blood of Jesus Christ over and ask that you forgive us.
• 32:20
  And I get up and I'll start going on about my business.
• 32:23
  And then you go through this process where the Lord will start showing you little things.
• 32:27
  He'll he'll even animate an auntie or an uncle or a cousin to come and t confess things to you so you can deal with them.
• 32:36
  Remember in the Bible, guys, it talks about guys God's eyes going to and fro through the earth, looking for one that would intercede.
• 32:43
  And so for each bloodline, he's looking for somebody who intercede.
• 32:48
  You as a businessman, as a businesswoman,
• 32:50
  It's very, very important that you do this because you there in the Bible there's kingship and there's priesthood, right?
• 32:58
  Priesthood is you serving the Lord, you praising to the Lord, you ministering to the Lord.
• 33:02
  Kingship is your influence in the world to draw men unto him.
• 33:06
  Jesus said, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
• 33:10
  So kingship is you allowing the Lord to function through you for his will to be done.
• 33:16
  Like me having this conversation is a part of my kingship where I'm talking to you.
• 33:20
  But it's not really me talking at this point in time.
• 33:22
  It's him talking at this point in time.
• 33:23
  That's why the pace picked up like this, right?
• 33:26
  Because I'm not thinking, right?
• 33:28
  So the the the kingship is this aspect of it.
• 33:32
  And so for your kingship to be strong, your priesthood must be stronger.
• 33:36
  So the stronger your priesthood, the stronger your kingship.
• 33:39
  So your priesthood is, hey Lord, I repent.
• 33:41
  Hey Lord, I love you.
• 33:43
  Hey Lord, I'm gonna sing a song that you do.
• 33:44
  Hey Lord, it's 3 a.m.
• 33:45
  I'm scared.
• 33:46
  I want to talk to you about this.
• 33:47
  That's your priesthood.
• 33:49
  That aspect of your life emboldens and empowers your kingship.
• 33:54
  And it's through that priesthood where you we're deal the Lord or cleaning up sin, iniquity, and transgression, that your kingship is elevated.
• 34:02
  And more importantly, it's stabilized.
• 34:04
  Because us as businessmen, we have these ups and these downs and these ups and downs.
• 34:09
  And when you go back and look through uh in the Bible, the the individuals like Abraham, I mean, he had a pretty consistent thing.
• 34:18
  You know, you know, he had the issue where he got the money from the Egypt, came out of Egypt.
• 34:23
  He was so wealthy that him and Lot and their herdsmen would beef out because he'd be like, man, we got too much.
• 34:28
  And then Lot left him and ended up in Sodom.
• 34:32
  The first time Lot ever decided he was gonna know what he was gonna do, he's gonna go off on his own.
• 34:36
  He ended up in a perverse ranked devil town, right?
• 34:39
  But Abraham was consistent.
• 34:41
  He was so consistent that it was crazy.
• 34:43
  But you don't want to know why?
• 34:44
  Because he was intimate with the Lord.
• 34:48
  Yeah.
• 34:48
  Wow.
• 34:51
  again, so much to digest, but so good, so good.
• 34:53
  Um I have things called rewind moments um on on the podcast and I think you could just rewind everything that that James said from the very beginning of this podcast.
• 35:04
  Um and and listen to it again.
• 35:09
  you like this, Doug, that's not me.
• 35:11
  Like, and I I'm just because this is a business podcast and I love doing business, I'm gonna tell you guys how you know it's not me.
• 35:20
  See, there's a time period where there's and you'll experience this the more of you become intimate with him.
• 35:25
  And like I'm getting a chill now because he's like, Okay, you're gonna give me my glory.
• 35:28
  Yeah, I'm gonna give you your glory, Lord, because I you it's you.
• 35:32
  There's a time period in business where it's gonna be
• 35:36
  Part is going to be you.
• 35:37
  You're going to be driving a car, right?
• 35:39
  You're like driving, you turn on ignition, you start driving.
• 35:42
  You're driving, you're driving.
• 35:43
  You know how they had a saying, Jesus take the wheel.
• 35:45
  There's going to be a point where he takes the wheel.
• 35:47
  Boom.
• 35:47
  And he grabs it.
• 35:48
  And when he drives, it accelerates.
• 35:52
  And if you're in that phase of acceleration, your job is just to sit back and relax.
• 35:57
  Because now he's driving.
• 35:58
  And you'll know he's driving because things start to come out of your mind, things start to come out of your spirit, they come out of your heart, and they pour out.
• 36:06
  I've experienced this in like in negotiations with people where I'm talking to somebody, we're talking about this, this, this, and I have these points.
• 36:14
  And then next thing you know, boom, I'm gone.
• 36:16
  And the guy's like, Well, that's what I was thinking.
• 36:19
  I was thinking we should do this, this, this, this, this.
• 36:21
  And then words come out of my mouth like, Well, yeah, you were thinking that, but because of ABC D E F G, you are trying to account for the extra expense.
• 36:30
  And so this is my offer to you to account for the extra expense.
• 36:34
  How about we do this, this, this?
• 36:35
  He's like, it feels like you're reading my mind.
• 36:37
  And I'm like, I'm not gonna say nothing.
• 36:39
  I'm not reading your mind.
• 36:40
  You, Jesus wants this done for his kingdom.
• 36:43
  You know what I'm saying?
• 36:44
  Now I'll tell you guys the other thing.
• 36:45
  The one thing you gotta be aware of, and you need to be prepared for is the sacrifice of time, the sacrifice of energy, the sacrifice of attention, which you will, which you will
• 36:57
  do because you will give him this.
• 37:00
  Then there comes the sacrifice of finances.
• 37:03
  And so there's times where.
• 37:04
  I've done things, and the Lord like, okay, you um, you, you, that was $5,000.
• 37:11
  He'll say, Do you love me?
• 37:12
  And I'll be like, man.
• 37:13
  Like, oh man.
• 37:15
  $4,000 of that gonna go to here.
• 37:17
  It's like, man, that's that's okay.
• 37:20
  $4,000 going to this place.
• 37:22
  So this seed into this.
• 37:24
  But then here's the beauty of it.
• 37:27
  You sow the seed, and
• 37:30
  You ca there's this inner turmoil about it a little bit, like, man, that was four thousand dollars, Lord.
• 37:34
  Da-da-da-da.
• 37:35
  You sow the seed into wherever he wants it to go, right?
• 37:39
  And then you forget about it.
• 37:41
  And then he'll he'll bring it back up to you later.
• 37:43
  So you'll be doing something six months later.
• 37:45
  He'll be like, hey, go look at this.
• 37:47
  And you go look, and you'll see where your seed has grown.
• 37:50
  Because in that moment, that person needed that thing in order for him to do what he wanted to do.
• 37:56
  And then you watch this beautiful tree blossom.
• 37:59
  You're like, wow.
• 38:00
  He was like, that's because of your seed.
• 38:02
  And that's counted as righteousness unto you.
• 38:04
  And then he explained it to me, ladies and gentlemen.
• 38:06
  He said, you know, every time you do a podcast and you turn men unto me, that's counted as righteousness.
• 38:13
  He's like, that's the wealthier building in my kingdom.
• 38:16
  And I was like, Well, I want I I understand what you're saying, but you know, I gotta pay the light bill, my lord.
• 38:23
  I gotta pay the rent.
• 38:24
  I understand what you're saying.
• 38:25
  I'm down with you, but how we gonna get these things paid?
• 38:28
  And then he'll just say something like, Is your lights on right now?
• 38:31
  Like, yeah, have your lights turned off?
• 38:32
  No.
• 38:33
  Okay, stop it.
• 38:34
  But he's funny.
• 38:36
  But I come to realize that all he wants is an intimate relationship with someone to where he can use you to funnel money through, words through, and blessings through people.
• 38:48
  And all these tests that I kind of go through, all the tests that you guys are going to go through, are gonna be things to where you get to the point to where he can say, okay, I
• 38:55
  can trust you with this.
• 38:57
  I you've sacrificed enough of yourself.
• 38:59
  You've carved up carved off your arm for me.
• 39:01
  You've carved off your finger for me.
• 39:03
  All these different pieces and parts of you that you thought were so great that I know aren't that great.
• 39:09
  You've carved all those pieces off now replaced them, and now I can trust you.
• 39:13
  And ladies and gentlemen, for example, us as businessmen, there's they'll tell us to look up people like Mark Zuckerberg, right?
• 39:22
  There was a time period it was like, Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook and he
• 39:26
  You know, they wrote books about Mark Zuckerberg.
• 39:28
  Um, what's the lady's name that started ARK Investments, Kathy or whatever her name is?
• 39:33
  They they they hold these people up in front of us like these people are these uh the the paradigms of business.
• 39:41
  But in our kingdom, there's men and women like that.
• 39:43
  So if you go back and look at businessmen and women in the kingdom of God, there's JC Penny, who actually was a Christian businessman.
• 39:50
  Um, there's R.G.
• 39:52
  Tarant, Turant, the guy who did the
• 39:54
  He he ended up having a reverse 90% tide where he gave the Lord 90% of the money and he had 10% of the money.
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  There's all these businessmen and women, and the one thing all of them have in common is this.
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  They all came to the understanding that they could not do it on their own.
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  Every last one of them.
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  When you read their stories, their their their understanding is, God, I'm insufficient.
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  I can't do this without you.
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  If you will help me, then I'll do whatever you want me to do.
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  I'll do this.
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  And so much of our business life is God trying to drive us to that point.
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  Bankruptcies are those moments.
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  Um, repossessions are those moments, foreclosures are those moments.
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  Um, business failures are those moments.
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  Those are the moments when you're supposed to be saying, Lord, I can't do this without you.
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  Sorry.
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  I just can't.
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  I can't.
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  I had a friend of mine just recently, his car got repossessed, right?
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  Businessman.
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  He calls me.
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  He says, Man, you know they came and picked up my car this morning.
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  And as he's saying that, I'm
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  I'm I'm sensing the Holy Spirit's about to start talking.
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  So now there's about to be two conversations.
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  And so he's saying, you know, they came at twelve midnight.
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  We caught on camera, but I slept through it.
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  You know, the last time they came to get my car, I woke up and I went out there and I talked with the guy and kept the car.
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  But this time, for some reason, we slept through it.
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  And the Lord said, I made him sleep through it.
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  I'm like, my, here we go.
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  Please don't make me tell this man something.
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  Please, please, please, please.
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  And he's talking about his feelings and his emotions.
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  And as he talks, he says, You know, I come to realize something.
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  I was like, what, man?
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  He said, I don't need a luxury car.
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  He said, That was fourteen hundred dollars a month that I just didn't need.
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  I don't have the income to do that.
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  I should be making five million dollars a a year before I have that kind of luxury car.
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  And it was stupid.
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  And Holy Spirit said, Mm, now he's starting to get it.
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  And I said, Hey man, how's your titan looking in your uh your sacrificial giving?
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  He was like, Well, you know, we kind of fell back on our tides, you know, things got a little tight and da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
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  And I watched
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  Over the couple of days, because he kept calling me, and I could be doing something, the Holy Spirit said, answer that phone call.
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  There are other calls that'll come, he'd be like, Nope, keep going.
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  This one answer.
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  And you watched him go through this understanding of what his priorities are.
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  Now, this guy recently built an altar of prayer where he gets up at five o'clock every morning and he's reads the Bible and he prays from five to seven, or maybe five to six
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  thirty.
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  I don't want to lie.
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  Let's just give him five to seven, just to give him space.
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  But I it's an hour worth of Bible read and then prayer.
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  He's been doing it for like six months.
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  And yesterday we're talking, and he says, he says, you know, man, prior to me having a time with prayer with the Lord, if my car got repossessed, I would just feel like it was,
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  I would just feel so disappointed and hurt.
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  And he said, It it doesn't really matter.
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  I said, Uh-huh.
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  And he was he's like, Why?
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  I said, Because your priorities are different now.
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  And I just I said, Can I be honest with you?
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  And he was Yeah, I said, This may hurt your feelings.
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  I said, So I'm gonna ask you again, can I be honest with you?
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  He said, Yeah.
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  I said, The reason why you bought that vehicle is because you wanted people to perceive you a certain way.
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  You need to worry about how God perceives you and don't worry about how people perceive you.
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  I say, So now you're going through the phase where you don't care about how people perceive you, but how God perceives you, and therefore the vehicle gonna come back because
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  now you'll be able to sustain the vehicle.
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  And he just started kind of like crying.
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  I was like, Yeah, that's how it works, though.
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  And so I'm rambling, ladies and gentlemen, but
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  These are the things we experience as business people.
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  I'm sorry.
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  Like I've I've I've experienced this stuff.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Where it gets bad.
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  But understanding that moment where it's bad, that's the moment where you get presented the opportunity where you turn to the Lord and say, Lord, you know what?
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  I can't do this without you.
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  It's not a bad, it's not the end of the world.
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  It's just the end of that thing and an opportunity for you to rebuild with him.
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  The funny thing is that you bring up that story is that I have a similar story.
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  Me and my wife, while my business was first starting out, our car was repossessed.
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  It was the only car that we had.
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  and it was funny, it w it was soon after that, we like we weren't tithing like we should have been.
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  And we started tithing out of we gave what we didn't have, basically.
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  Um and the way that life changed from that point um was incredible.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  we realized it's not ours.
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  It's his.
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  So
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  But it's spiritual law.
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  I mean, it really is spiritual law.
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  And that this is I'm gonna tell you the thing that the thing that aggravated me the most, the closer I got to the Lord, was as I started studying and under because my school of the
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  spirit is different.
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  Matter of fact, watch this.
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  Let's talk about how you can enter the school of the spirit um around your daily life.
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  Let's cause I was getting ready to tell a story, but let me just give a how to, right?
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  So everybody has a phone, they have these devices.
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  First thing you do is you go through your phone and you purge everything that has does not have to do with like something that's righteous as of God.
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  So a lot of people like to watch football, they like to watch basketball, like to watch baseball, you like your favorite TV show.
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  Go on your YouTube and purge all that.
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  Not interested, not interested, not interested, not interested.
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  Get rid of it.
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  So it's not clogged in your feed.
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  The next thing you do is you start typing in Christian businessmen, Christian Businessmen podcast.
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  How to build the business altar to God.
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  How to work with God in business.
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  And then you subscribe to all the stuff that you can find.
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  Right?
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  Subscribe to everything.
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  Then you say, okay, Lord, throughout my day, I want to have an agreement with you.
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  Feed me information throughout my day that'll help me grow with you.
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  Use this device because this is nothing, your cell phone is nothing more than a portal.
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  Use this portal to feed me to bring me closer to you.
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  And watch what happens.
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  You'll realize that you're sitting there and the perfect video will come up for you to have the perfect understanding.
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  And so I did the same thing, but I did it with all things that pertain to the kingdom.
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  I was like, okay, spiritual warfare, business, relationships, child raising.
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  Cause I said, Lord, I don't know how to do none of this.
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  I suck at it all.
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  I just I suck at everything.
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  And so the school of the spirit started for me where it'd be one minister from Africa that would come up, like Theodore Effing, who's if you've never heard him, you should check him
• 46:08
  out.
• 46:08
  Theodore Effing talking about making covenants with vows to God with sacrifice.
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  Then another guy from China popping up.
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  And he's talking about um watchman knee and talking watchman knee stuff.
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  Then another lady popping up about parenting from a Christian perspective.
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  And so I would just, while I'm working, I would let that play and I will keep on doing what I'm doing.
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  And then there's these pauses where someone will say something and it sinks into your spirit.
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  And then later on, once it's sunk in and I got quiet time, I'll go back and be like, well, how does this work?
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  Bah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  And then the Lord will explain it to
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  But what I did was I purged all the nonsense distractions away from me.
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  Things that really don't matter.
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  Like I'm my wife even says I'm weird because I won't watch, she'll make me watch a football game.
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  She's like, let's watch the Saints game.
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  I'm like, that's stupid.
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  I'm not watching the Saints game.
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  I want to watch the Saints game.
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  Okay, well I'll sit down and watch it with you.
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  But I I purge things that don't matter.
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  So I can make room for him.
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  And we all have room for him.
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  Give you a perfect example, Doug.
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  The average businessman on the in the morning time, they're driving away to work.
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  They want a way to work in traffic.
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  And on that commute to traffic, let's say it's 30 minutes there to an hour there, 30 minutes back home to an hour back home.
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  That's two hours a day that you could spend in the Word of God by watching a sermon or listening to something.
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  There's two hours a day that you can make your tithe immediately to the Lord.
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  Or let's say it's 30 minutes.
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  That's an hour a day.
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  So we have time as entrepreneurs.
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  We have time as businessmen.
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  We just don't want to use that time the way
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  We could.
• 47:42
  And it's the most effective way you can use that time.
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  And then as you realize how effective the use of the time is, then you'll start to make even more time because you realize the effective utilization of the time by being in the
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  spirit and talking to the Lord and hanging out with him.
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  It's way more effective than anything you can do.
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  But right now they tell us that we should read business books and listen to business podcasts.
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  And I mean, there's there's knowledge within that, but
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  Why do I need to go to someone who's only just peeling layers of what the Lord already spoke and what he taught?
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  That's all they're doing.
• 48:17
  They're just taking a Bible and they've they've they've they've uh they've hijacked the Bible and used tenets in the Bible.
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  Like I know Robert Green, the author of The Forty Eight Laws of Power.
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  Interviewed him multiple times back in the day.
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  But it wasn't until I got close to the Lord that I started reading.
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  The Bible real closely.
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  I was like, Robert stole a lot of this stuff from the Bible, it's just an inverse of what the Bible says.
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  And some of his biblical laws of engagement with people, and he just took it into this context and turned it into this sorcery.
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  This is basically what it is, which is manipulation.
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  But it's just biblical knowledge on how people act and how people behave.
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  And you get the same knowledge from the Bible.
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  You really do.
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  If you look at the kings in the Bible and you study all the kings, the book of kings, and the things that happen with the kings.
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  You'll see mistake after mistake after mistake after mistake after mistake after mistake in the context of your kingship with the Lord.
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  And you'll be like, wow, if I do what he did, I can expect to get the exact same result.
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  Think we gotta get you back for a second podcast because I wanna dive into the courts of heaven.
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  I don't know if we have time for all that.
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  Uh I wanna also go back to the to the gates of prayer.
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  Okay.
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  All right, so so let's um let's dive in a little bit.
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  Um because when you were talking about the gates of prayer, um you mentioned a couple words that sounded legal legally.
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  Legalized, legally, whatever I always so kind of dive into the
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  I wanna ask one important question.
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  Can you point those kind of back to the Bible at all, those those gates of prayer, and just kind of dive into it overall?
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  Okay, if you want to find the gates of prayer, the the easiest way to find the gates of prayer is um understand that Jesus Christ is the pattern for all men.
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  So the gates of prayer are patterned after Jesus Christ's walk.
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  So for example, the hour of communion is based upon a time where Jesus and the disciples would sit down and they would literally have communion where they would sit down and talk,
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  right?
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  Um, which was the six o'clock hour, which you know in the Hebrew calendar.
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  The day starts at n it starts in the nighttime.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Then it goes.
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  So you'll go and you'll see when Jesus sat down with them.
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  When you start talking about the hour of legislation, um, you'll find where Jesus was up early in the morning praying, and you'll find that that's between midnight, 3 a.m.
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  And then there's the other hour, which is the hour of mystery, when he when he um when he right before he walked on water, you'll go find in that context, and I can I can send it
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  to you guys because it's a whole lesson.
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  I'll send it to you so you can you can you can add it to this.
• 50:55
  Um right before he walked on water, uh, he spent all a whole bunch of time.
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  He spent the whole entire night in prayer.
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  And so the hours or the gates of prayer are based upon when Jesus showed them how he taught the disciples to pray.
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  one of them is based upon Paul and Silas being in prison and um the the the church making prayers for them and the
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  And the bars opening up in prison and the gates shaking.
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  It's so much stuff that when you get into this.
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  It's deep Bible study.
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  However, it's the it's revolves around what Jesus showed us.
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  And I know it sounds weird because the average person is like, Well, you can pray anytime you want.
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  Absolutely, you can pray anytime you want.
• 51:42
  I encourage you to pray anytime you want.
• 51:44
  I encourage you to pray as a businessman, I encourage you to pray every fifteen minutes.
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  I'm sorry.
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  Especially if you're going into Yeah.
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  If especially if you're going in a big business where there's people who you know a big business that's doing sorcery, divination, witchcraft, you should pray every fifteen
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  minutes.
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  You mean just
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  Just stop five minutes of prayer.
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  Boom.
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  Sporadically pray throughout your day.
• 52:04
  Um, but the winds of prayer is actually called the winds of prayer, the gates of prayer or wind, W-H-E-N of prayer, um, is essential because it gives you a time frame to organize
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  your life around.
• 52:20
  the hour of judgment is the hour when Jesus Christ was crucified, which is when the world was the satanic kingdom was actually judged.
• 52:26
  That's where the hour of judgment comes from.
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  The hour of mercy.
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  Um,
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  Comes from a time period where Jesus showed the woman at the well mercy.
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  Uh remember they were trying to stone her, and um and Jesus just bent over and started writing on the sand.
• 52:43
  He was like, you know, let who who is without sin cast the first stone.
• 52:47
  These are different things that we're taught.
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  Now, you the interesting thing about this, ladies and gentlemen, is in the
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  The old Christians, like the original church, they knew these things.
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  These are things that were kind of broken off and we lost these, these understandings.
• 53:05
  And when you're competing with someone who functions through the dark realm, and there's plenty of people who do this, they have this unbroken lineage of understanding of
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  spiritual things.
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  And it's the spiritual things are combined with the natural things.
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  Um, they understand that all things, um,
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  That there's an invisible realm and a visible realm, and that they things come from that invisible realm into this realm that we're in, that we live in.
• 53:34
  So the decisions are made in that invisible realm.
• 53:37
  They affect things in the invisible realm.
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  So they can manifest, which is what they call.
• 53:41
  They say we manifest into the natural realm.
• 53:43
  They understand this concept.
• 53:45
  And so you'll run into them doing magic, sorcery, divination, spells, all the rest of this because they're trying to bring something from the invisible realm into our realm.
• 53:55
  And the way we deal with that invisible realm is through prayer.
• 53:59
  The way we deal with that invisible realm is through our partnership with the Holy Spirit and having understanding of these things.
• 54:05
  And so we petition the Lord to help us pull things from that realm and bring them into reality.
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  And that's how it ends up being our blessings.
• 54:13
  We petition the Lord for a blessing.
• 54:14
  We make requests, petitions of the Lord.
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  We make decrees and declarations over things.
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  Um, and that's how you bring things into this realm in our kingdom.
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  In their kingdom, it's I'm gonna kill a goat, a chicken, a bull, and a p a spirit's gonna go do it for me.
• 54:30
  In our kingdom, it's really based upon sacrifice of time, energy, and attention to the Lord and relationship in which those things come.
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  I I feel like you're going to when I ask you this question, it's gonna be a lot of what you've already said, but I I wanna phrase it in this way because I think it's important
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  because um I think there's probably a lot of business people out there that feel like they're being attacked in their businesses or in their homes.
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  And maybe it's because they've failed to put that hedge of protection around their businesses and their homes.
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  Right?
• 55:01
  Um so can you just kind of talk about um how to create that hedge of protection um around your businesses, around your homes?
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  Sure.
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  So let's talk about the nature of an attack real quick.
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  As a Christian, the nature of an attack is um nothing can touch you.
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  man, I don't want to go that deep.
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  Yeah.
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  As a Christian, you hear people say, Nothing can touch you unless the Lord allows it to touch you, right?
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  And that's 100% true.
• 55:30
  So then the question is, why is the Lord allowing this thing to touch me?
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  Right?
• 55:34
  And so the first thing, let's just say it's restlessness or sleeplessness, unless because that's one of the contexts where Satan will use your lack of rest to try and get at you.
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  You you say, Okay, why am I not sleeping?
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  Now the question is not to yourself, the question is to the Lord.
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  Because the Bible promises you.
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  Restful, peaceful sleep.
• 55:53
  The word says he gives he gives his beloved sweet sleep.
• 55:56
  And it's described as sweet sleep.
• 55:59
  So the question is why am I not having sweet sleep?
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  So you take that question to the Lord.
• 56:03
  This goes back to intimacy.
• 56:04
  Everything that I'm saying goes back to intimacy.
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  It's not coming back from what James says.
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  You're taking these things back to him.
• 56:09
  So you say, Hey Lord, how come I'm not sleeping?
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  What's going on?
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  What did I do?
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  What did I do?
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  Never ask him what what did I do?
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  He don't answer.
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  Go back again.
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  Understand he's a king, he answers when he wants the answer.
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  He ain't your genie.
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  He's a king.
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  So don't get it twisted.
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  He's a king.
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  Go back again.
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  Hey, you know, my rest has been off.
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  I'm trying to figure out why I'm not resting.
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  Many times, what ends up happening is the Lord allows things to touch us, to shift us, because he knows the hearts of men.
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  He knows how to manage men.
• 56:42
  He's the ultimate business manager.
• 56:44
  Like he's the ultimate manager, human resource manager because he understands how men and women function, because he made us.
• 56:50
  So for him to nudge you, he let stuff touch you.
• 56:53
  That's kind of like last night.
• 56:54
  I told you I was up at three because I heard had a dream and I heard somebody ringing the doorbell, ding dong.
• 56:59
  And was like, hell no, we're not playing that kind of game.
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  Boom, I'm up.
• 57:02
  Boom, it boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
• 57:04
  But I learned that over time because I heard that before, and it was like ding dong.
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  And I was like, somebody ring the doorbell.
• 57:10
  And I would stay asleep.
• 57:12
  And the next day I had the worst day.
• 57:13
  And now I don't know what's coming.
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  I don't know who ringing the door, but I'm coming to see you.
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  I'm going, and I'm not opening the front door.
• 57:19
  I'm opening the door in the spirit realm.
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  Let me go see who you is.
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  That's ringing on my doorbell.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Because I don't know what you think coming in his household, but it ain't coming in his house, right?
• 57:27
  Um, and so from the context of that story, you you develop this understanding that prayer is very important because, again, it's how you engage with the Lord.
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  So you'll get the feedback on what needs to be done.
• 57:40
  Now, how to pray for a hedge of protection.
• 57:42
  It's scriptural-based prayer, right?
• 57:44
  Um, the Lord says that.
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  Uh, I was praying this this morning.
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  I can't give you the exact scripture, but he was saying, I will be a wall of fire around her.
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  And I think it was talking about.
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  So the Lord describes himself as a wall of fire.
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  He describes himself as a mountain that protects you.
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  So what you do is you pray, you say, Lord, your word says that you would be a wall of fire around about her.
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  Lord, I'm asking you that you be a wall of fire around me and my family.
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  Your word says that we shall decree a thing and it shall be established unto us.
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  Lord, I decree and declare angelic protection and heads of protection around my household.
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  Lord, I plead the blood of Jesus Christ over my household, over my business, every hole, window, door, weep hole, crack in the foundation.
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  I plead the blood of Jesus Christ over it.
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  And the voice of the blood of Jesus speaks for me and my family as they travel throughout their day, as we engage in business.
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  Lord, I ask that you go ahead of me to lead and guide my path, clear the path, the devil, his minions, and even his businessmen, Lord.
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  And you pray his word.
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  So now it gets crazy because what you do now is you start to.
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  Take the Bible and you find promises.
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  What does the Lord say?
• 58:50
  What are all his promises about protection?
• 58:52
  Everybody likes to go to Psalms 91, right?
• 58:54
  He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide and rood uh under his feather, under his wings.
• 59:00
  They go into that, right?
• 59:00
  Thou shalt not be afraid of the terrors that come by night, nor the pestilence that lurk in darkness, nor the destructions that waste at noonday.
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  Those are all classifications of things that we deal with, right?
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  Destructions are a real entity.
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  terrors are a real entity, pestilences are real entities.
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  And so now you start to pray against those things that will come against your business.
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  I I will say this.
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  You pray scriptural based prayer, not feeling, not emotion-based, scriptural-based prayer.
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  Because and as you go through the process of understanding how to pray scriptural-based prayer, what'll end up happening is you start to memorize scripture.
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  But you won't memorize it like first Peter two, nine says this.
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  You'll memorize it from the the katalambano aspect of it.
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  You've touched it.
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  You you you understand how it works.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  You've laid hold to it.
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  That's why a lot of people, when I'm dealing with interviews, they was like, Well, James, you don't give the scriptural reference.
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  And and but anybody who knows, they're like, nah, this dude is speaking all scripture.
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  Because it's katalambano for me, it's no, this is Lord, your word says, um, your word says, every tongue that rises up against us in judgment, thou shalt condemn, right?
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  So when the scourge of the tongue comes in business, which is people who are, well, he's this, he's that, he's this, he's this.
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  no, no, that's a scourge of the tongue.
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  Lord, your word says, Every tongue that rises up against us in judgment, thou shalt condemn.
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  Lord, I condemn their tongues in the realm of the Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  And Lord, I ask that you judge those tongues.
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  And that's the end of that.
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  I'm not dealing with that.
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  Then you'll notice the scourge goes down like that.
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  People just stop talking.
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  But it's because I understand that there's a scourge of a tongue and that there's a promise to deal with the scourge of tongue.
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  Even if you look at that scripture where it says, um, that I just gave from Isaiah, if you go further back,
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  It talks about the waster and a destroyer.
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  Many times in business, there's a waster that comes into your business, and there's a destroyer that comes into your business.
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  Um, I had a gentleman that I had hired for a little while, and this is how I learned the the the about wasters.
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  And I give you the profile of a spiritual waster.
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  He came into my business.
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  We had an agreement.
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  I said, okay, you're gonna do a show on Saturday nights, right?
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  And you'll do that show every Saturday night.
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  I'll pay you, I think it was like $110 a show.
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  So he comes in, he does one show.
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  Um, he does a second show, does a third show, he does a fourth show, he gets the first paycheck.
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  He does not do another show at all.
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  But then he starts calling me for money all the time.
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  Hey man, can you can you can you send me a hundred bucks?
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  Can you do this?
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  Can you do this?
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  Can you do this?
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  Can you do this?
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  And I noticed as he was
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  In covenant with me, in agreement with me, all these weird stupid things started happening.
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  Like um, just little unexpected expenses, stuff breaking, that just wasn't happening.
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  None of this stuff was happening until this guy came into a covenant agreement with me.
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  And so I'm watching as these stupid things happen.
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  I'm like, yo, this can't be Satan because me and Satan ain't got this kind of leverage over me.
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  I pray every day.
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  I pray every night.
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  I didn't I don't know where this coming from, but I had an agreement with someone who was under judgment.
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  And their waster was on him.
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  So his whole life, everything he touched, he would waste.
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  The minute I got rid of him, everything took off.
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  And so in business, you'll find people who are wasters that are coming.
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  Then there's people who and these are spirits that are uh people are under judgment of these spirits, right?
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  Then there's a destroyer.
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  And I learned he's the hard way.
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  There's another guy that came in, and he was actually the first one that came.
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  And no matter what you did with him, he would destroy it.
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  I was teaching.
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  How to do YouTube.
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  He got YouTube channel where he had 10,000 subscribers and he just destroyed it.
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  And it just blew up.
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  And I was like, why would you blow your channel up like that?
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  He went off, started something new, and left YouTube, started doing some stuff with some cars and blew that up.
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  And I'm like, then he came back to YouTube.
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  May you help me again?
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  I was like, yeah, I'll help you.
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  And I helped him get to 10,000.
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  He blew it up again.
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  And then I realized, wait, I'm this guy's destroying everything.
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  And then watch this.
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  As time progressed, as I grew and I grew and I got bigger and I got bigger, then he turned to destroy me.
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  And when he came to destroy me, he threw everything he had at me to destroy me.
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  Everything.
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  I mean, all the knowledge, wisdom, and understanding he had from conversation.
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  He threw everything.
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  I'm talking about every arrow, every dart, every flame sword.
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  He threw everything.
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  And this is where I learned spiritual warfare because the Lord would have me sit there and he's online talking crazy.
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  The Lord would have me sit there.
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  He said, sit there and watch that.
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  I'm like, why am I gonna sit here and watch a man lie about me?
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  Sit and watch.
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  And so I had to sit and watch.
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  And he said, That's a lie.
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  Uh, condemn that.
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  Condemn that.
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  Condemn that.
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  Condemn that.
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  I Why don't I just go online?
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  He said, No, I want you to learn this lesson.
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  Condemn that tongue, condemn that tongue, condemn that tongue.
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  And it went on for that went on for like six months.
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  But he wouldn't let me say anything.
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  And then um, there was one night, it was 3 a.m.
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  and I'm up.
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  And I'm actually aggravated about the things that are being said because it gets into some stuff that I never did.
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  It's just flat out lies.
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  And I'm like, Lord, I'm tired of this.
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  And he said, okay.
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  He said, here's what we're going to do.
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  He said, I want you to come into the courts of heaven.
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  And he said, I want you to build the case.
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  He said, I want you to ask for judgment.
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  So I'm like, all right.
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  So I go through scripture and I build a case.
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  And I ask the Lord to judge.
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  He says, Ask me to judge him, but bring him into repentance and unto righteousness.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  So say, Lord, I ask for a judgment based upon your word, that you judge him, that you bring him into repentance, and then you save him and bring him into righteousness.
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  About a week later, the guy goes into the hospital.
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  Two weeks after that, he comes out of the hospital.
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  Three weeks after that, he calls me and apologized crying.
• 1:05:04
  Another three weeks after that, he calls me and says, You know, I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.
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  Will you teach me?
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  About the Bible.
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  And I'm now I'm at this point where I'm in this trap where the Lord says, Okay, so now let's see how your heart is.
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  Do you love me?
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  And I'm like, every time he says, Do you love me?
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  I'm like, okay, you're gonna make me give up a piece of myself.
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  I was like, He says, forgive him and teach him.
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  And so I forgave the dude and I started teaching.
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  Then the dude comes back and he's like, Well, man, I won't be on your YouTube channel.
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  I said, Sir, that will never happen.
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  I said, You can't do that.
• 1:05:36
  I said, but I can teach you about the word of God, but you'll never have access to nothing that I have like that again because you violated it.
• 1:05:42
  And boom.
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  And so that's kind of the process that we go through.
• 1:05:45
  I kind of went off the, I didn't, I'm sorry, Lord, I repent.
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  The Lord went with what direction he wanted to go.
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  But I think you guys get the gist of what I'm saying.
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  It's scriptural-based prayer, which leads to these understandings.
• 1:05:55
  Those understandings allow you to deal with the legalistic nature of things that are happening, not only in your bloodline, but in business and things that are happening
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  around your business.
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  And then you yourself.
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  Through your priesthood, you go in and you work with the Lord and you commune with the Lord, which allows your kingship, which is uh actual shining forth where you you are a
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  light on a on a hill, a city on top of a hill.
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  That's how you become a city on a hill.
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  It's through priesthood.
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  And if you want to see it, there's demonic priesthoods, which leads to men and women being those cities on the hill, but it's demonic.
• 1:06:29
  You'll see them, the richest people in the world, you'd be Why do you think they're philanthropists?
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  They give away so much.
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  It's a part of their demonic priesthood.
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  And it leads them to being these super powerful popular people.
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  Wow.
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  Uh what a great, what a great interview.
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  Uh James.
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  Thank you so much.
• 1:06:46
  I do ask one well, first off, this is a good segue because you talked about your YouTube channel.
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  Talk about like how people can learn like get some more of what you just laid down.
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  Where where can they go?
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  How can they follow you?
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  Um, all that kind of good stuff.
• 1:06:59
  Um, it's the Dark Waters channel on YouTube.
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  and that's pretty much it.
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  We do have a Bible study group.
• 1:07:08
  I really go into this in our Bible study it's called Strongman Praying, and it's strongmenpraying.com.
• 1:07:14
  Um, our Bible study, we go into we into all this, we're going to spiritual cities, how to take territories, all that.
• 1:07:19
  Um, but just if you just want to get the understanding, it it's it's really at the Dark Waters channel.
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  Because I'm gonna talk about I talk about all these things.
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  um, from a biblical worldview perspective, including politics, including war, including everything.
• 1:07:34
  Um, but that's where you can find it.
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  Awesome.
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  We'll put that that link below.
• 1:07:39
  And I think you just also just wrote a book, right?
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  So I'll put a link to that book as well.
• 1:07:44
  Yeah, and that book will give you a good understanding.
• 1:07:46
  So the book is how to get you've been served, how to get victory in the courts of heaven.
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  We should do another interview where we actually talk about the courts of heaven.
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  Because unfortunately, people don't have the understanding that the spirit realm is a very legalistic realm.
• 1:08:01
  Because spirits don't forgive, they cleanse.
• 1:08:04
  So the spirit realm is extremely they don't forget, they don't forgive.
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  It's extremely legalistic.
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  It's why Jesus Christ had to die.
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  Because the legalistic nature of the spirit realm.
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  And we're everything that we deal with in this natural realm is a reflection of something that happened in the spiritual realm.
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  But we have the blood of Jesus, which is the highest blood there is, the blood of atonement.
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  And it's that blood that allows us to have victory in any realm.
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  Mm.
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  Amen.
• 1:08:32
  Uh I I I think you're right.
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  Um I think we should schedule part two.
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  Um and and you and I will connect after that.
• 1:08:38
  I ask one last question on every single one of these podcasts because um I say this every time.
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  I don't want to leave any wisdom that is on your heart or whatever the Lord is putting on your heart that you felt has left been left unsaid, unsaid.
• 1:08:49
  Um so this is like this last question is just a f a free free for all, if you will.
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  So do you have any parting words of wisdom or advice to leave the listeners?
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  Yeah, that's simple.
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  Pray.
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  Pray.
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  Um, take time and pray.
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  And everything that I'm telling you hinges on you making a decision that you don't know what's right, you don't know what's best and praying.
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  That that's how I got to this point.
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  That's how I got to this level of understanding was prayer.
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  Period.
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  Anybody who tells you anything other than that, they lying to you.
• 1:09:23
  'Cause it was the prayer that led to me studying the word so much, and it was the prayer that allowed me to to to
• 1:09:30
  That bolstered me when I was going through challenges, and it was a prayer that allowed me to hear from the Lord.
• 1:09:34
  So it's prayer.
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  Pray.
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  That's what I'm gonna say.
• 1:09:37
  Awesome.
• 1:09:38
  Uh I'm just gonna tag onto that a little bit and it's a challenge, right?
• 1:09:41
  Because a lot of people are here, yeah, I believe in power of prayer.
• 1:09:45
  Are you impl are you are you really believing by taking action and actually praying and sacrificing the time um for prayer?
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  You can say all you want that you believe in it, but put your put your actions behind that, right?
• 1:09:59
  So well thank thank you again, James, and until next time, entrepreneurs, keep moving forward.