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Tomorrow Belongs to God, Your Future Is Already in His Hands Trust God’s Timing · Jakes Messages and Purpose

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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go to the word of God. I
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  Speaker 1: think I got everything done. Amen. That needed to be done.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Matthew 6, 25 through 34. And let's go
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  Speaker 1: to the word. Let's go to work. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew 6 is something you ought to include in your
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  Speaker 1: Bible study. In part in case I don't finish today,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just a great text. It's just a great text.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to be reading out the NIV. If
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  Speaker 1: you're watching online, we'll put it up on the screen
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  Speaker 1: for you. The Gospel of St. Matthew 6, 25 through 34. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, do not worry about your life.
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  Speaker 2: I told you.
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  Speaker 1: Do not worry about your life, like what you will
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  Speaker 1: eat or drink or about your body, what you will wear.
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  Speaker 1: Is not life more than food and the body more
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  Speaker 1: than clothes? Look at the birds of the air. They
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  Speaker 1: do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
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  Speaker 1: and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not
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  Speaker 1: much more valuable than they? Amen. Can any one of
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  Speaker 1: you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
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  Speaker 1: And why do you worry about clothes? See how the
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  Speaker 1: flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
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  Speaker 1: Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all
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  Speaker 1: his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that
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  Speaker 1: is how God clothes the grass of the field, which
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  Speaker 1: is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire,
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  Speaker 1: will he not much more clothe you? You of little faith.
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  Speaker 1: So do not worry saying, what shall we eat or
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  Speaker 1: what shall we drink or what shall we wear? For
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  Speaker 1: the pagans run after all these things. And your heavenly
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  Speaker 1: father knows that you need them. He's not against them.
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  Speaker 1: He knows that you need them. But seek ye first.
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  Speaker 2: But seek ye first. But seek ye first.
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  Speaker 1: His kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will
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  Speaker 1: be given to you and all these things. He's not
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  Speaker 1: preaching against things. He's talking about priorities. All these things
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  Speaker 1: will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what I want you to look at. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: do not worry about tomorrow. Say that with me. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: do not worry about tomorrow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Say it again.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow. The reason I have
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  Speaker 1: you saying it You know that faith comes by hearing
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  Speaker 1: and hearing by the word of God. But your soul
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  Speaker 1: needs to hear yourself say, do not worry. It's one
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  Speaker 1: thing to hear me say it, but when you say
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  Speaker 1: it to yourself, when you say things to yourself, you
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  Speaker 1: give birth inside of yourself. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: For tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough
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  Speaker 1: trouble of its own.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that good?
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  Speaker 1: I want to preach this morning, tomorrow belongs to God.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody say, tomorrow belongs to God. Say it again, tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: belongs to God.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of the living God falls fresh on us today
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  Speaker 1: as we delve into your word. We need your word,
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  Speaker 1: your precepts, your guidance, your direction, your correction, your instruction.
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  Speaker 1: inflame the word of God inside of us let it
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  Speaker 1: swell up in us let it be magnified let it
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  Speaker 1: multiply let it be fruitful in us in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus we pray amen on your way to your
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  Speaker 1: seat say tomorrow belongs to God type it on the
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  Speaker 1: line tomorrow belongs to God You know, whenever somebody asks
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  Speaker 1: you how you're doing, I always make the reference that
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  Speaker 1: nobody stops for you to answer. And then I started
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  Speaker 1: thinking about it, and I started realizing if they were
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  Speaker 1: to stop.
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  Speaker 2: What would I answer?
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  Speaker 1: Because really how I'm doing is a big conversation. It
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  Speaker 1: depends on which me you're talking about. Amen. There's about
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  Speaker 1: 10 of us going, how am I doing in my body?
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  Speaker 1: How am I doing in my finances? How am I
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  Speaker 1: doing in my mind? How am I doing in my business?
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  Speaker 1: How am I doing in my family? How am I
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  Speaker 1: doing all kinds of ways? Emotionally, this is mental health.
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  Speaker 1: How am I doing? It's a long conversation. So if
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  Speaker 1: you don't have like three or four hours, just wave
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  Speaker 1: at me. Don't ask me no questions you don't have
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  Speaker 1: time to spend time getting the answer to. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: just me, but how many of you have found yourself
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  Speaker 1: struggling to rest in today for fear of tomorrow? Struggling
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  Speaker 1: to rest in today for.
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  Speaker 2: Fear of tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: We're living in the most uncertain times that I have
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  Speaker 1: ever seen. You can't be quite sure of anything. You
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  Speaker 1: can't be sure of the values of our world, of
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  Speaker 1: our country, of our government, of the place you work.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be sure. Everything's shifting. Everybody's shifting. Everybody's gone
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  Speaker 1: blind to what they said yesterday. There are no absolutes anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Things don't have to be bad just to be threatening.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that something has happened. It's like a cloud of,
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  Speaker 1: suppose this doesn't work. Suppose that doesn't work. Suppose this happens.
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  Speaker 1: Suppose that happens. Suppose, suppose, suppose. Often the threat rests
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  Speaker 1: solely in the crevices of your own mind. Am I
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  Speaker 1: the only one that ever feels threatened? Just threatened sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you don't even know what you're threatened about you just
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  Speaker 1: feel threatened It's it's it's often the threat test solely
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  Speaker 1: in the crevices of your mind to the point that
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  Speaker 1: you wake up late at night and it's like the
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  Speaker 1: night of the living dead and you find yourself in
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  Speaker 1: situations and Circumstance where all these entombed issues come out
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  Speaker 1: in your dreams Come out in insomnia Or just an
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  Speaker 1: overall feeling of dis-ease. We should really look at that
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  Speaker 1: word dis-ease. Because we say it disease. But disease is dis-ease.
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  Speaker 1: Your body was not designed to ingest dis-ease. And yet
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  Speaker 1: we are living in a world that is increasingly diseasing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I stopped listening at the same story play
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  Speaker 1: over and over on the news over and over again
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  Speaker 1: because I don't need to reinforce. I heard that already.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to hear everybody comment on everything about
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  Speaker 1: it because it creates a spirit of dis-ease. And the
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  Speaker 1: reason we have a home is a place to rest in.
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  Speaker 1: A place to relax in. A place to renew yourself in.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't mean all things are going bad. That's
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  Speaker 1: one thing. But when your life is an oxymoron, you know,
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  Speaker 1: an oxymoron is when two contrasting things coexist in the
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  Speaker 1: same space.
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  Speaker 2: Like hot ice.
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  Speaker 1: An oxymoron is a term that doesn't make sense and
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  Speaker 1: yet it is true. Your life doesn't make sense and
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  Speaker 1: yet it is true. It kind of reminds me of
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  Speaker 1: Charles Dickens' statement and I quote, it was the best
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  Speaker 1: of times and it was the worst of times. It
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  Speaker 1: was the age of wisdom. It was the age of foolishness.
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  Speaker 1: It was the epoch of belief. It was the epoch
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  Speaker 1: of incredulity. It was the season of light. It was
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  Speaker 1: the season of darkness. It was the spring of hope.
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  Speaker 1: And it was the winter of despair. All at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. And you're weaving through the traffic of laughter
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  Speaker 1: and tears. Weaving through the traffic trying to dodge the
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  Speaker 1: cars of.
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  Speaker 2: Pain and power.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness and agony all at the same time staring out
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  Speaker 1: of a glass that that should be clear late at
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  Speaker 1: night a window that is darkened by night instead all
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  Speaker 1: we see is the sleepless eyes staring out of glass
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  Speaker 1: so blackened by night that your house is a house
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  Speaker 1: of mirrors and your life resembles a carnival You don't
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  Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying unless you woke up in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night and stared out of a window
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  Speaker 1: where you couldn't see anything except your own reflection. And
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  Speaker 1: instead of it being a house of rest, it is
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  Speaker 1: a carnival of disease. A bill we can't pay. A
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  Speaker 1: child we can't heal. A job we hate. Or a
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  Speaker 1: lurking sense of danger. It is in a roommate to
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  Speaker 1: an impending blessing. A lurking sense of danger is roommate
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  Speaker 1: to an impending blessing. So on one hand, I'm the happiest,
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  Speaker 1: saddest I've ever been. I'm the happiest, saddest I've ever been.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the most victorious, defeated I've ever been. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: most accomplished insecure I've ever been. All at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Best and worst at times, all at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in here that can relate to it?
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  Speaker 1: Now I know that there is a spiritual quorum of
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  Speaker 1: people in here who only profess what's good. But when
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  Speaker 1: nobody's looking, you worry about what's bad. You always have
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  Speaker 1: a positive confession and I'm not hating on you going
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  Speaker 1: with your positive confession. But to the people who want
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  Speaker 1: to keep it real in here. You live your life
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  Speaker 1: braced almost for the next shoe to drop. And you
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  Speaker 1: don't know which shoe it's going to be. Is it
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  Speaker 1: going to be a blessing shoe or is it going
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  Speaker 1: to be a burdensome shoe? But you brace for it.
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  Speaker 1: Either way it comes. Either way it comes, I got
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  Speaker 1: to deal with it. Whatever it is, I got to.
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  Speaker 1: The uncertainty is worse than the shoe drop. Can anybody
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  Speaker 1: relate to what I'm talking about? Why are the weapons
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  Speaker 1: of our warfare not more accessible when we need them
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  Speaker 1: the most? I don't need the weapons of my warfare
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  Speaker 1: so much in church. I need the weapons of my
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  Speaker 1: warfare to activate at 3 o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: I need the weapons of my warfare to activate when
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the grocery store and somebody has said something
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  Speaker 1: to me so crazy that I'm not sure whether I'm
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  Speaker 1: called to ministry or not. I might be called to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of the crypts. There are people that
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  Speaker 1: make me feel like a gang leader every now and then.
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  Speaker 1: And I need the weapons of my warfare to work
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  Speaker 1: for me right then. Why are they not more accessible?
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  Speaker 1: Because you can get in the crisis, in the storm,
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  Speaker 1: in the test, in the hospital, in the rain, at
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  Speaker 1: the cemetery, at the IRS meeting, at the accountant's office,
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  Speaker 1: and forget everything you heard Sunday. It's not that we
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  Speaker 1: don't have the weapons. They're not always accessible because we
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  Speaker 1: don't use them enough to keep them close enough that
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  Speaker 1: they become a norm. They become a Sunday morning accessory.
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  Speaker 1: And in the time of trouble, you got it. You
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  Speaker 1: got it in trouble, but you got to find it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it reminds me of several years ago, we
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  Speaker 1: were at Woman Dark Lucid. It was the first really
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  Speaker 1: big one. We had 54,000 women, and we were in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: and I was amazed and worried and happy and sad
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  Speaker 1: and glad and confident and nervous and walking by faith
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  Speaker 1: and scared to death. So this has been going on
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  Speaker 1: a long time. 54,000 women, and we made it to
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  Speaker 1: the end of the conference. We had filled up half
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  Speaker 1: of the Georgia Dome with 54,000 women. We had packed
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  Speaker 1: it out for us at that time. That was really
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  Speaker 1: great success. And everybody was leaving. It was wonderful. It
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  Speaker 1: was a success. The power got failed. People were healed.
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  Speaker 1: They were delivered. All kinds of things happened. Yokes were
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  Speaker 1: broken over. People have been abused and molested and ostracized.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a powerful meeting. And it was so
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  Speaker 1: powerful that even after the meeting was over, we went
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  Speaker 1: to the airport and we were singing in the airport.
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  Speaker 1: You get 54,000 predominantly black women singing in the airport
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  Speaker 1: and the security goes nuts. They don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: People laying hands on people in the restaurant. See, our culture,
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  Speaker 1: when we get happy, we don't hide it. When we
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  Speaker 1: get mad, we don't hide it. When we dance, we
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  Speaker 1: don't hide it. Whatever we feel, you gonna get some
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  Speaker 1: of that today.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Multiply by 54,000 and you'll see the picture. We besieged
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  Speaker 1: the airport. We filled it with glee and singing all
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  Speaker 1: in the corridor. It was crazy. We turned it into church, woman,
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  Speaker 1: I'll lose two. I mean, people like the Pace sisters
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  Speaker 1: and the Clark sisters and all these people were all
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  Speaker 1: there in the airport and we were getting it on
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  Speaker 1: and people were taking pictures and I was young then.
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  Speaker 1: They were taking pictures and all up in my face
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  Speaker 1: and I was trying to wave at everybody and check
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  Speaker 1: my bags in and go through the magnometer and everything
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  Speaker 1: was wonderful and oh, thank you for having it.
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  Speaker 2: You God's man. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: I want a picture with the man of God. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going through there. And my family's going through there.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going through the airport. And I got my
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  Speaker 1: mom with me. And we're having a wonderful time. Generations
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  Speaker 1: of women rejoicing. When you got 54,000 women taking pictures
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  Speaker 1: and screaming, all the other people was trying to figure out,
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  Speaker 1: who is he? And I wasn't sure how to answer
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  Speaker 1: that question. Because it takes years to answer it.
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  Speaker 2: Who is he?
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  Speaker 1: But I was sure I was going to be waving
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  Speaker 1: and being nice. I've always been gregarious and I'm going,
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  Speaker 1: I was waving at people and they was taking pictures
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  Speaker 1: and I was posing with strangers and taking pictures with
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  Speaker 1: babies and.
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  Speaker 2: All that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: When all of a sudden I looked around and we
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  Speaker 1: were surrounded by police.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, what happened?
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  Speaker 1: We were at the magnometers checking in our bags and
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  Speaker 1: I was taking pictures and everything. I wasn't paying a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of attention. And the next thing I knew,
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  Speaker 1: police were all around me. Come to find out, one
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  Speaker 1: of our bags had a Pearl revolver in it.
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  Speaker 2: And it was my mother's.
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  Speaker 1: Now you got to understand this. I got all these
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  Speaker 1: security and deacons and friends and all these people around here.
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  Speaker 1: They ain't got nothing. My mother is loaded.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: She got a little baby Glock down in her pocketbook.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I talked about I wish you would. And
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  Speaker 1: we're going through the thing and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: they said we found this in the bag. Now it
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  Speaker 1: is a big bag. It's her pocketbook. And my mother
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  Speaker 1: carried big pocketbooks and it was in the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the pocketbook.
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  Speaker 2: I was so mad at her.
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  Speaker 1: I told you I got 54,000 women around me taking
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  Speaker 1: pictures and all of a sudden the police have surrounded
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  Speaker 1: us and they're taking us in the back. And I
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  Speaker 1: seriously thought about taking her life.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I'd take you out right now.
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  Speaker 1: And she was embarrassed, but she said, this is what
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  Speaker 1: she said to me, it was just a little one.
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  Speaker 1: Like I left a machine gun at home, you know?
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  Speaker 1: So you oughta be glad I didn't bring my real
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  Speaker 1: stuff out here. But you know, it was just a little,
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  Speaker 1: the thing that amazed me though, is that it was
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  Speaker 1: under the makeup, it was under all kinds of tissues,
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  Speaker 1: it was under all kinds of other stuff, but if
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  Speaker 1: somebody would have snatched us, by the time she got
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  Speaker 1: to the gun, I said, mama, why are you carrying
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  Speaker 1: a gun you can't access? If you're going to carry
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  Speaker 1: the thing up in here, at least be able to
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  Speaker 1: get to it. I could see my mama saying, you
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  Speaker 1: just wait a minute. Wait, wait a minute. You keep
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  Speaker 1: talking a minute. When I get to this, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to stretch out my body and we'd all been dead.
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  Speaker 1: How accessible are your weapons? You have them, but can
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  Speaker 1: you reach them in time? In the time of trouble,
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  Speaker 1: in the time of stress, in the time of agony,
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  Speaker 1: in the time of pain, in the time of frustration
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  Speaker 1: and agony and disorientation and dis-ease. Do you only have
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  Speaker 1: your weapons when you come to church? Or does it
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  Speaker 1: work in your house? Does it work on your job?
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  Speaker 1: Does it work at 2 o'clock in the morning? Does
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  Speaker 1: it work when all hell comes against you? It's not
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  Speaker 1: enough to teach you to carry it if you can't
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  Speaker 1: reach it. You got to be able to activate. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: say activate. You got to be able to activate. You
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  Speaker 1: got to be able to activate. You can't activate your
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  Speaker 1: faith if it's in the bottom of your pocketbook, mama.
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  Speaker 1: You can't activate what you can't access. The challenge that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is having is to try to teach his disciples
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  Speaker 1: to make prayer a lifestyle. To make it a lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: You know why worship service is sometimes difficult? Because we're outnumbered.
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  Speaker 1: You hear them say this morning, I listened to Sister
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  Speaker 1: April say this morning how they were out here early
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  Speaker 1: singing the worship songs before you got here. But if
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  Speaker 1: they're out here worshiping before you come and you're in
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  Speaker 1: the car cussing before you come, the distance between where
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  Speaker 1: your head is at and where our head is at
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  Speaker 1: is so far. Or maybe you're just worried. And we
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  Speaker 1: got to crack through ice. To get through nights and
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  Speaker 1: nights and nights of disease. Jesus in the pretext of
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  Speaker 1: this text is teaching his disciples about prayer. And they
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  Speaker 1: are asking him teach us to pray because he has
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  Speaker 1: modeled prayer in front of them.
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  Speaker 2: The text comes after him.
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  Speaker 1: Giving them the model prayer, what we call the Lord's Prayer,
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  Speaker 1: which we ought to call the disciples' prayer, because it's
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  Speaker 1: really the prayer he gave.
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  Speaker 2: Us to pray. Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed.
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  Speaker 1: Be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done
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  Speaker 1: on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this
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  Speaker 1: day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as
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  Speaker 1: we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not
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  Speaker 1: into temptation, but deliver us from evil. That prayer right there,
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  Speaker 1: he gave them that template for prayer. But the real
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  Speaker 1: model is how he lived his life, not just what
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  Speaker 1: he said. He told them that real prayer has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with eloquence. He associated that with the Pharisees.
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  Speaker 1: They were known for their swelling words and their long prayers.
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  Speaker 1: He wants us to know that prayer doesn't inform God. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: it invites him. God doesn't need you to tell him
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. He already knows what's going on. You
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  Speaker 1: don't pray to inform him. You pray to invite him. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. I'm going to drop
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  Speaker 1: something heavy on you. I'm going to drop some heavy
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  Speaker 1: stuff on you. You pray to invite him into your finances.
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  Speaker 1: You invite him. You don't inform him. Lord, you know
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  Speaker 1: the rent is due on Thursday. Yeah, I know that.
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  Speaker 1: You know I got laid off. Yeah, I was there.
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  Speaker 1: You know they hurt my feelings. I quit my job.
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  Speaker 1: I got mad. I just want to. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know. You don't inform him. You invite him. Come
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  Speaker 1: into my good decision. Come into my bad decision. Come
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  Speaker 1: into what I regret. Come into the place where I
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  Speaker 1: reacted out of my emotions rather than your word. I
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  Speaker 1: invite you into the situation. I invite you into the
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  Speaker 1: job I shouldn't have took. The deal I shouldn't have done,
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  Speaker 1: the place I need your direction because my mouth gets
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  Speaker 1: me in trouble. I need your word to prevail over
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  Speaker 1: my word so that I can be better heard and
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  Speaker 1: be more effective. I invite you. Let's just take a
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  Speaker 1: moment right now and invite him. Let's invite him. Let's
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  Speaker 1: invite him. Let's invite him. Let's invite him. See, you
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  Speaker 1: got ready to praise, but I want you to pray.
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  Speaker 1: Let's invite him. Let's invite him. My house shall be
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  Speaker 1: called a house of prayer. You've made it a den
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  Speaker 1: of thieves, but it should be called.
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  Speaker 2: A house of prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' conviction about prayer is evident throughout the scriptures. It
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  Speaker 1: is so evident throughout the scriptures that he tantalized them
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  Speaker 1: until they taught us, teach us to pray. Because every
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  Speaker 1: time they turned around over and over again, Jesus slips
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  Speaker 1: away from the crowd and his responsibility to spend.
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  Speaker 2: Time in prayer.
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  Speaker 1: His benefits are demonstrated through his life. His benefits are
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  Speaker 1: demonstrated through his life to the point that they finally say,
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  Speaker 1: you're teaching us about the kingdom. The kingdom of heaven
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  Speaker 1: is like it. The kingdom of heaven is like it.
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  Speaker 1: The kingdom of heaven is like it. But what you're
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  Speaker 1: not teaching us is every so often you go apart
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  Speaker 1: to the mountain by yourself and hide yourself behind a
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  Speaker 1: rock and do something that makes you able to walk
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  Speaker 1: on water when you come out. Teach us how to
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  Speaker 1: do that. Teach us how to do that right there.
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  Speaker 1: Teach us how to do that right there. Teach us
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  Speaker 1: how to do that right there. Teach us how to
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  Speaker 1: do that right there. They had seen him do it
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  Speaker 1: in so many different ways. And I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: you a few ways that Jesus models prayer and the
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  Speaker 1: benefits of prayer for you to jot down. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: peace in the storm. Peace in the storm is a
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  Speaker 1: result of communion with God. They are in a tornado
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus is at rest.
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  Speaker 2: This is what prayer does for you.
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  Speaker 1: It braces you against external extremities so that you're not
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  Speaker 1: always reacting to what you see going on around you.
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  Speaker 1: When you have a lifestyle of prayer, you don't act
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  Speaker 1: like the crowd. Everybody's screaming and running and jumping off
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  Speaker 1: the boat. But when you've been talking to God before
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  Speaker 1: the storm, you have peace in the storm. Oh, y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying. I got chill bumps on
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  Speaker 1: my arm. You got peace in the middle of the store.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in here that's had unexplainable peace? You
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  Speaker 1: don't even know. It's not even your character. It's not
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  Speaker 1: even your nature. That comes from having a consistent relationship
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  Speaker 1: prayer life, not a church prayer life, not an, oh,
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  Speaker 1: thou God who ruleth the winds and waves and stands
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  Speaker 1: on eternity and overlooks the corridors of time into thy prison.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: This is the kind of prayer where you drive down
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  Speaker 1: the road and say, Jesus, I don't know what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do about this, but I'm trusting you about that.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't want me to do this, I
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  Speaker 1: need you to, this is the kind of prayer that
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  Speaker 1: is not eloquent. It is just you crying out, hey!
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  Speaker 1: Somebody holler, help! The woman who said that, who authored
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  Speaker 1: that book, her daughter was grievously vexed with the devil.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't have time to be eloquent. When you're in
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  Speaker 1: a fight with the devil, you don't have time to
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  Speaker 1: be eloquent. We don't need an exercise in your vocabulary.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need you to tune up. We need you
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  Speaker 1: to open your mouth, help! And the benefits of prayer
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  Speaker 1: is demonstrated in the storm. How you react to the
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  Speaker 1: storm determines how far you're going to go. You can't
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  Speaker 1: be a leader if you freak out. You got to
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  Speaker 1: keep a calm head in a crisis. I might freak
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  Speaker 1: out after the crisis, but in the middle of the crisis,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stand up to this. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things I love about my wife, I love about her,
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  Speaker 1: my wife does not freak out in a crisis. No,
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  Speaker 1: she goes into lockdown mode like something you have not seen. Now,
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  Speaker 1: two weeks later, she may burst into tears. But while
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  Speaker 1: you are in the store, she going to box like
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tyson. She going to box. No, let me tell you, girl,
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  Speaker 1: you bad with that. She going to box like Mike Tyson.
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  Speaker 1: I was raised to box like that. I was raised
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  Speaker 1: to fight like that. If you started getting hysterical, my
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  Speaker 1: mother would slap you. She said, you may not have
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  Speaker 1: the peace of God, but you're going to have the
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  Speaker 1: peace of Oda because I'm going to knock you out.
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  Speaker 1: You hold it together. You hold it together. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even fall apart at her funeral because I could hear her.
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  Speaker 2: I was about to collapse.
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  Speaker 1: We were closing the casket and I was about to
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  Speaker 1: collapse and I could.
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  Speaker 2: Hear her say, what good would that do?
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  Speaker 1: Discipline. Discipline over your emotions. We have a generation, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about all of us, all ages that are
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  Speaker 1: alive in this era of undisciplined people who say whatever
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  Speaker 1: they think, however they think, whenever they want to.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have no prayer life.
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  Speaker 1: You talk to people when you ought to be talking
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  Speaker 1: to God. If you start talking to God, it'll change
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  Speaker 1: how you talk to people.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus demonstrates prayer for them, number two, deliverance for others.
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  Speaker 1: He comes down off of the Mount of Transfiguration. The
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  Speaker 1: disciples have been wrestling with this boy, fighting for his life.
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  Speaker 1: He's casting himself into the water. He's casting himself into
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  Speaker 1: the fire. They cannot control this demon. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to some people who have a demon that's out
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  Speaker 1: of control in your life and you cannot control it.
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  Speaker 1: And when Jesus comes down, the boy's father embarrasses the
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  Speaker 1: disciples by saying, I brought him to your disciples and
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't do nothing with him there are some things
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  Speaker 1: you have to bring directly to Jesus You don't need
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  Speaker 1: an appointment with the bishop. You don't need an appointment
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  Speaker 1: with a counselor. You don't need an appointment with a team.
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  Speaker 1: Some stuff you got is some demons you got to
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  Speaker 1: take to Jesus. Never mind the fact that the boy
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  Speaker 1: got in the fire but didn't get burned up and
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  Speaker 1: got in the water and he never drowned. Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: already present, but you're tired of going through the struggle
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  Speaker 1: and the fight and the warfare. Jesus says, bring him
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  Speaker 1: to me. And afterwards the disciples asked him, what went wrong?
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  Speaker 1: And I respect them for that. Because no failure makes
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  Speaker 1: you a failure until, unless you will not examine, what
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  Speaker 1: did I do wrong? If you learn from it, it
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  Speaker 1: can't be a failure. Jesus said, you didn't do anything wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It's what you didn't do. This kind cometh out by
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  Speaker 1: much prayer and fasting. So Jesus is gradually teaching them
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  Speaker 1: about prayer. Number three, he teaches them submission to the process.
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  Speaker 1: Through prayer, he teaches them that when it gets hard
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  Speaker 1: to submit to the process, and it often does, and
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  Speaker 1: it even did for Jesus, so stop trying to sell
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  Speaker 1: me this bill that everything is easy for you. If
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  Speaker 1: it got hard for Jesus, I know it got hard
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  Speaker 1: for you, so shut up. If you just want my faith,
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  Speaker 1: it ain't nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up!
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  Speaker 1: Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up. You a
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  Speaker 1: liar and a hypocrite too. It got hard for Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus took his inner circle out to the garden
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  Speaker 1: of Gethsemane just so that he would be able to
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  Speaker 1: pray his way into submission to the process. Father, if
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  Speaker 1: it be thy will, pass this bitter cup for me.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes God's will will carry you through roads you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to ride on. Oh, y'all don't hear, talk to me, somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes God's will will carry you through roads you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to ride on, roads you didn't pick, roads you
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  Speaker 1: didn't foresee, roads you didn't design, and frankly, roads you
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  Speaker 1: don't like. But it's still God's will because God is
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  Speaker 1: not in your life for your lacks. Oh, y'all didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear me. That was so good. God is not in
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  Speaker 1: your life or your locks. And Jesus, Jesus goes into
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  Speaker 1: the garden of Gethsemane and says, this is how you
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  Speaker 1: submit to the part you don't like. Because God will
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  Speaker 1: send what you don't like to kill your flesh. You
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  Speaker 1: know the cross was designed to kill the flesh. And
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  Speaker 1: the flesh will always scream out when the nails go in.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus goes to the garden and prays so he
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  Speaker 1: has grace for the cross. I've always thought that we
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  Speaker 1: pay more attention to the cross than we do the garden.
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  Speaker 1: Because the cross is only where he demonstrated the power
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  Speaker 1: of the garden. You trying to deal with the cross
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have no garden of prayer. I come
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  Speaker 1: to the garden alone while the dew is still on
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  Speaker 1: the roses. And the voice I hear falling on my ear,
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  Speaker 1: the Son of God discloses. Hey! And he walks with
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  Speaker 1: me and he talks with me and he tells me
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  Speaker 1: I am his own and the joy we share.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. As we.
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  Speaker 2: None of us have ever....
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  Speaker 1: I wish we sung some of that stuff again. I
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  Speaker 1: wish we sent some of that stuff again that encouraged
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  Speaker 1: people to come to the garden of prayer. Number four,
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  Speaker 1: the pardoning of guilt and sin. He teaches us this
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  Speaker 1: through prayer. When the man sick of palsy is carried
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  Speaker 1: by four people and they have to climb up the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine carrying a man who is sick of palsy, paralyzed,
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  Speaker 1: up the wall, across the roof with four people and
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  Speaker 1: lower him down into the presence of Jesus. And Jesus
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  Speaker 1: says to him, son, thy sins are forgiven thee. And
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  Speaker 1: then they doubted that he had the right to do that.
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  Speaker 1: He said, what is easier to say, son, thy sins
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  Speaker 1: are forgiven thee or take up your bed and walk?
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Is there a correlation between the palsy and the sin?
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  Speaker 1: Because Jesus prioritized the forgiveness of sin over the pain
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  Speaker 1: that brought him to Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: Could the pain have caused the paralysis?
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  Speaker 1: Are you carrying guilt that you can't get rid of
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  Speaker 1: to the point that it's showing up in infirmities in
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: your body? Are you carrying too much that you're not
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: even designed for? Do you go to God in prayer?
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Do you go to God in prayer? I don't mean
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: like you dial 911. I mean on a daily, continual
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: basis that flushes your soul of the toxicity. You're so
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  Speaker 1: careful about what you eat. You're a pescatarian. I'm a vegan.
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  Speaker 1: I don't eat this. I don't eat milk. You're so
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  Speaker 1: careful about what you put in your body. Are you
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  Speaker 1: careful about what you put in your soul? Are you
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  Speaker 1: careful about what you put in your soul? You're reading
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  Speaker 1: every label, you're counting fat grams, too much protein in that,
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  Speaker 1: I don't do anything with caffeine, I don't do that, that, that,
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  Speaker 1: shut up! You gossip, you talk to me about people,
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  Speaker 1: you lie on folks, you criticize everybody, so your flesh
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  Speaker 1: is going to be clean, but your spirit is filthy.
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  Speaker 1: Prayer will clean out your spirit. Prayer will clean out
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  Speaker 1: your heart. Prayer will change the way you treat people.
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  Speaker 1: Prayer will change how you react. You can take up
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  Speaker 1: your bed and walk when you get rid of your guilt.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Number five, prayer is your secret weapon. Prayer is your
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  Speaker 1: secret weapon. Jesus teaches in the text that when you pray,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: don't be out in the streets praying like the Pharisees.
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  Speaker 1: He said, but go into your secret closet and shut
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  Speaker 1: the door. And he says, the God who hears in
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  Speaker 1: secret will reward you in the open. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to be a public success, you got to be a
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: private prayer. Oh, y'all ain't gonna help me. If you're
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: gonna be a public success, you gotta be a private
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  Speaker 1: prayer warrior. What happens on the outside is determined by
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  Speaker 1: what happens on your knees. Get down on your knees
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  Speaker 1: and pray. Shut your mouth and pray. Shut your fuss
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and pray. Get down on your knees and seek God's face.
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  Speaker 1: Prayer is your secret weapon. You got it.
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  Speaker 2: It's in there.
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  Speaker 1: It's somewhere down in that pocketbook. It's something down up
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  Speaker 1: under that makeup. You got more makeup than prayer up,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: but if you dig down in that bag deep enough,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: we can hit, I know you don't have no prayer life,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: because if I call you to the altar for prayer,
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  Speaker 1: you pray five minutes and you get tired. That means
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  Speaker 1: you have not exercised prayer to the point that you
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: have a real prayer life. You will dance 30 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: but you won't pray five. Come on, come on, come on,
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  Speaker 1: don't leave now. Stay right here, stay right here, I
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  Speaker 1: got something for.
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  Speaker 2: You.
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  Speaker 1: Not somebody tell him I got a devil to fight.
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  Speaker 1: If y'all have time to try to be the cutest
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: in the room, go with your fine self and your
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  Speaker 1: Gucci bag, but I got a devil to fight, and
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: if I have to lay out on my face, if
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I have to crawl on my knees, if I have
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  Speaker 1: to clap.
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  Speaker 2: My hands and slob up.
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  Speaker 1: And say, I gotta die, I'm not gonna stop till
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  Speaker 1: I break it. Somebody go into a prayer mode, a
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  Speaker 1: war cry, a shout unto God, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: we are living in a time right now that if
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: the church doesn't get back on its.
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  Speaker 2: Knees, all hell is going to break loose.
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  Speaker 1: It's taking over our country. It's taking over our government.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: It's taking over our streets. You ain't even safe in
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: the grocery store.
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  Speaker 2: But I heard.
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  Speaker 1: God say, if my people who are called by my
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  Speaker 1: name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face,
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  Speaker 1: and turn from the wicked way. Then will I forgive
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  Speaker 1: their sins and heal their land.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Somebody give me some prayer in this place. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: You won't find it in a minute. Keep on digging
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  Speaker 1: down in that bag. It's somewhere down in your pocketbook.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: You won't find it in a minute. Get on down
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: in that bag. Get on down. It's a little funny
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  Speaker 1: right now, but when I get past your camouflage, somewhere
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: down in you is a praying spirit, a holy ghost
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: that's been waiting to be activated. I dare you to
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: activate your prayer language. Sit down, let me give you
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  Speaker 1: number six, I gotta go. I felt something break. I
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: don't know who it's in, but a yoke just broke
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  Speaker 1: in somebody's life.
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  Speaker 2: Science!
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  Speaker 1: Let me give you number six. He gave me six
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  Speaker 1: things to give you. I want to make sure you
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  Speaker 1: get them. Number six, prayer is not about church. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord said the most interesting thing to me when I
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: was studying. He said, I want you to understand that
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: prayer is a part of self-care. You ever talk about
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: you got to get self-care. You got to get self-care.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: You got to get self-care. Self-care is soul care. Prayer
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: is a part of self-care. If the psychologists and the
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: psychiatrists were here, they would tell you to journal. The
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit says prayer is journaling with God. tell him
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  Speaker 1: all about our troubles he will hear us when he
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  Speaker 1: will answer or when you feel a little and you
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  Speaker 1: know a little you'll find just now let us have
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: a little talk with Jesus we're going to tell him
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  Speaker 1: all about us he will hear us.
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  Speaker 2: He will have to buy when you feel and you
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: know you'll find out. Let us.
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  Speaker 1: Have we ought to tell him he will he will
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  Speaker 1: have to buy when you feel and you and you.
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  Speaker 2: You know that?
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: See, the old folk knew how to have self-care. They
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: might not have gone to the spa, they might not
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: have got a massage, they might not have played around
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: the golf, they didn't have the money to do all
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: of that, but they would shut themselves up and say,
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  Speaker 1: oh God, in the name of Jesus, Approach our throne,
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  Speaker 1: cause I know you're able.
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  Speaker 2: Lift this burden, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't get it out, I can't take this load.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I know it's old fashioned. I know it's not contemporary.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: I know it's not your style. But this old fashioned
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: devil you fighting right now, you gonna have to get
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: your grandmama's war clothes out and declare war. Anybody hear
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Anybody hear what I'm saying? Anybody hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Clap your hands and give me 30
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  Speaker 1: seconds of praise. Do you not know that prayer will
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: tip the scales in your favor? Prayer will tip the
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: scales in your favor. Your daughter needs to see you pray.
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  Speaker 1: Your son needs to see you pray. Not just when
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: you're in front of people. It needs to not be
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: strange to come in your house and hear your mama praying.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Your house should be called a house of prayer. You
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: gotta bring prayer back in your house. Cut off the
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: housewives of LA and the housewives of Atlanta and the
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: housewives of actors and the housewives of movie stars and
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  Speaker 1: get down on your knees and start calling on Jesus.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: When I say prayer will tip the scales in your favor,
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  Speaker 1: we're not praying about yesterday because there's nothing that can
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  Speaker 1: be done about yesterday. You got to come out of yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing nobody can do about yesterday. You don't see
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  Speaker 1: anywhere in the Bible where anybody is praying about yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And yet every time you get a microphone, you crying
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  Speaker 1: about yesterday. Come out of your history. Come out of
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  Speaker 1: your history. It don't matter who was right. It don't
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  Speaker 1: matter who was wrong. You got a devil in front
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  Speaker 1: of you to fight. You can't fight the devil behind
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  Speaker 1: you and have your hands free for the devil in
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  Speaker 1: front of you.
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  Speaker 2: Who am I talking.
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  Speaker 1: To? Sit down.
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  Speaker 2: I got to hurry. I'm running out.
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  Speaker 1: Of time. Yeah, you can't stay if you don't pray.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. I'm going to rush through this. Worry
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  Speaker 1: nullifies prayer. So over and over, Jesus says, do not worry.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a request. It's a command. Do not worry.
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  Speaker 1: Worry nullifies prayer. You can pray real good, but if
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  Speaker 1: you worry better than you pray, you nullified what you
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  Speaker 1: prayed for. Worry nullifies prayer. It cancels out prayer. Worry
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  Speaker 1: is to have faith in the negative things. Worry is
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  Speaker 1: faith turned inside out. Worry is responding to the negative
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  Speaker 1: voice louder than you do the positive. Your thought life
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  Speaker 1: is infected by worry. You can't make sound decisions when
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  Speaker 1: you're worrying. Anxiety is literally worrying about tomorrow. Worrying about
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  Speaker 1: something that hadn't even happened yet. Where are we going
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  Speaker 1: to stay? What are we going to do? What did
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  Speaker 1: that happen? You want to know everything you control, freak.
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  Speaker 1: You profess to walk by faith and not by sight,
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  Speaker 1: and yet you want to know everything about something that
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  Speaker 1: hadn't even happened yet? You're making yourself anxious. You're making
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  Speaker 1: yourself sick. You're making yourself hard to live with. Because
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  Speaker 1: you think everybody has to report to your office. God
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  Speaker 1: is not going to report to your office. He's not
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  Speaker 1: going to give you details. You're just going to have
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  Speaker 1: to walk out there to a place I will show you,
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  Speaker 1: and when you get there, I'm going to show it
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  Speaker 1: to you, and you got to walk by faith, and
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  Speaker 1: God knows you don't like it, and God knows you
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  Speaker 1: ain't good at it, but you gotta get good at it.
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  Speaker 1: Dig down in your pocketbook and get your weapons out
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  Speaker 1: because one of those weapons is resisting the temptation to
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  Speaker 1: worry about tomorrow because tomorrow belongs, say it again.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow belongs to God. Say it again.
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  Speaker 1: The thief is on the cross and he's dying and
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  Speaker 1: he's nailed to the tree and he's getting ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And all he asked God to do is remember me
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  Speaker 1: when you get to the kingdom. Just remember me. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't ask him to save me. He just said, just
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  Speaker 1: remember me. Just remember me when you get to the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow belongs to God. I'm going to share one more
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  Speaker 1: quick scripture and then I'm going to move on. Take
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  Speaker 1: me to Jezebel. Take me to Jezebel and I'm out.
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  Speaker 1: Take me to, yeah. First Kings 19, one through eight.
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  Speaker 1: And get this get this and I'm out. I just
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  Speaker 1: in fact, I don't even have to go to 80
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  Speaker 1: I think I can go to three and get it
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  Speaker 1: now a have told Jezebel Everything Elijah had done and
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  Speaker 1: how he had killed all the prophets with.
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  Speaker 2: The sword.
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  Speaker 1: So Jezebel sent a messenger so Jezebel sent a messenger
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  Speaker 1: to to Elijah. Jezebel sent a worrying messenger to Elijah.
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  Speaker 1: Jezebel sent the spirit of worry to Elijah. It would
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  Speaker 1: only work if she threatened him. She didn't kill him.
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  Speaker 1: She just threatened him. Isn't it funny how there will
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  Speaker 1: always be somebody to bring you back news to worry you?
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  Speaker 1: Listen to what I'm saying. Jezebel didn't kill him. She
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  Speaker 1: sent a messenger to threaten him. What is threatening you? What?
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking you a question. What is threatening you? Jezebel
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  Speaker 1: sent that message. idolatrous Jezebel, prophet killing Jezebel, praise killing Jezebel,
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  Speaker 1: faith killing Jezebel, comfort killing Jezebel, confidence disrupting Jezebel will
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  Speaker 1: always send you a message. And this is the message.
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  Speaker 1: May the gods deal with me. be it ever so severely,
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  Speaker 1: if by this time tomorrow I do not make your
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  Speaker 1: life like one of them other prophets I killed. Elijah
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  Speaker 1: was afraid and ran for his life. Elijah who didn't
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  Speaker 1: run from nothing ran from worry. When he came to
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  Speaker 1: Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there. Because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: like Jesus in Gethsemane, you can't take nobody with you.
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  Speaker 1: While he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: he came to a broom bush. The King James says
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  Speaker 1: a juniper tree. Sat down under it and prayed that
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  Speaker 1: he might die. I want to speak to every person
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  Speaker 1: who's trapped and so worried that you want to die.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow belongs to God. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Get this.
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  Speaker 1: You're worried to death or in pain about yesterday. Yesterday
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  Speaker 1: is trying to get you to kill tomorrow. And you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what a day will bring. She said, if
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  Speaker 1: I don't take you out in the next 24 hours,
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  Speaker 1: may the gods deal with me. I'm going to kill
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  Speaker 1: you just like I killed the others. And he started
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  Speaker 1: running and got up under the tree and said, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to die, God, I want you to take me.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I have had enough, Lord. I want an
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  Speaker 1: honest answer. How many people have said to God, I
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  Speaker 1: have had enough? Elijah came to God and said, I
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  Speaker 1: have had enough. Now he is a day's journey in
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  Speaker 1: his travels and doesn't notice that that Jezebel is a liar,
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  Speaker 1: for him to be alive to complain is a miracle,
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  Speaker 1: cause she said tomorrow, She said, by this time tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: I will take your life. And he ought to be
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  Speaker 1: shouting up under the juniper tree because 24 hours later,
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  Speaker 1: he's still alive. Let me tell you, some of you
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  Speaker 1: are worried about stuff you ought to be shouting about
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  Speaker 1: because if the devil had his way, he would have
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  Speaker 1: took you out by now. But because tomorrow belongs to God,
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  Speaker 1: I want somebody who's living in a miracle, who's standing
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  Speaker 1: in faith to give God.
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  Speaker 2: Some glory right now.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. I want somebody that the
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  Speaker 1: enemy tried to take out and threatened you all your
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  Speaker 1: life and said by this time tomorrow, I'm gonna destroy
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  Speaker 1: you and you are still alive to get out from
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  Speaker 1: under that cute stuff and praise God like you're grateful.
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  Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, all three of them, tomorrow belongs to God.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow belongs to God. Tomorrow belongs to God. If it
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  Speaker 1: didn't belong to God, I'd be dead. If it didn't
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  Speaker 1: belong to God, I'd have a nervous breakdown. If it
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  Speaker 1: didn't belong to God, I'd lose my mind. If it
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  Speaker 1: didn't belong to God, I'd throw in the towel. If
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  Speaker 1: it didn't belong to God, I'd blow my brains out.
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  Speaker 1: But tomorrow belongs to God. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: You're walking in yesterday's tomorrow. Nothing you went through took
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  Speaker 1: you out. If you survived yesterday, you can survive today.
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  Speaker 1: And if you survive today, you can make it to tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Hell is lying. Jezebel is a liar. The doctor is
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  Speaker 1: a liar. The disease is a liar. The IRS is
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  Speaker 1: a liar. Tomorrow belongs to God. I wish I had
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  Speaker 1: a praiser somewhere in this house that could praise God
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  Speaker 1: for tomorrow. Praise God for tomorrow. Praise God for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't stepped in it yet, but I'm praising you by.
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  Speaker 2: Faith for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Touch me people, tell them I'm praising God
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  Speaker 1: because Jezebel was wrong. I'm praising God because Jezebel was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I'm praising God because Jezebel was wrong. And when you
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  Speaker 1: get to the third one, praise him like you lost
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  Speaker 1: your mind.
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  Speaker 2: Praise him like you lost your mind.
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  Speaker 1: Said the bell was rung said the bell was rung
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  Speaker 1: said the bell was rung I don't understand it. I
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  Speaker 1: know there are people in this room that survived cancer,
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  Speaker 1: had heart attacks, had disruptions, been through hell, like to die,
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  Speaker 1: and you're still here, and you're standing around looking at
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  Speaker 1: people with your teeth in your mouth. You ought to
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  Speaker 1: praise God that Jezebel was wrong. Put it on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: Put it on the big screen.
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  Speaker 2: Let everybody see it. Jezebel was wrong. Jezebel was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still here. I'm still here. I don't have all
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  Speaker 1: the answers. I cannot see tomorrow. But one thing I
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  Speaker 1: do know, Jezebel was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Jezebel, you're lying.