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STOP DOUBTING YOURSELF_GOD HAS BEEN PREPARING YOU FOR THIS MOMENT _ Jakes Purpose and Power_ · Jakes Messages and Purpose

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Speaker 1: But the word of the Lord stands forever. Job esteemed
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Speaker 1: it above his necessary food. David said, it was a
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Speaker 1: lamp unto my feet and a light unto my pathway.
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Speaker 1: Oh God, the centurion said, speak the word only and
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Speaker 1: my daughter shall be healed. That's all we want you
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Speaker 1: to do today is speak the.
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Speaker 2: Word to us.
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Speaker 1: And allow us to examine our perspectives, our ideas, our philosophies,
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Speaker 1: and challenge how we live with your eternal word. I
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Speaker 1: believe you for increase today in the invincible, eternal, immutable
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ, our King, and all the believers
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Speaker 1: in the house said amen. Somebody ought to say amen again.
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Speaker 1: You may be seated in the presence of God. It
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Speaker 1: is an interesting text that lay before us today. It
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Speaker 1: is not the normal text that we would consider. It
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Speaker 1: stops short of dealing with the magnanimous, powerful display of
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Speaker 1: God's power through his instrument that defeated the foe of Goliath.
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Speaker 1: And yet it does not even examine who David is
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Speaker 1: in the fullest potential of his power and his prophetic value.
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Speaker 1: The sliver of the text that I've chosen to discuss
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Speaker 1: with you today starts out in the most simplistic and
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Speaker 1: mundane way. It is only meaningful to us because we
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Speaker 1: know how the story is. And we know the story.
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Speaker 1: But I want you to indulge me in a moment
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Speaker 1: and imagine if you were David and you didn't know
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Speaker 1: how the day was going to end. Imagine if you
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Speaker 1: were David and you had listened at your father that night,
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Speaker 1: give you instructions what you were to do. Now understand
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Speaker 1: all of your bigger brothers are in the battle. They
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Speaker 1: have fancy swords and uniforms. They have shields. They have
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Speaker 1: put on all of this armor. They have red velvet
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Speaker 1: garments and capes adorning them because they are the army
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Speaker 1: of Israel. And you, you're just a youngster, an upstart.
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Speaker 1: My grandmother would say a whippersnapper that they left at
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Speaker 1: home to take care of the sheep. He's the baby boy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's a baby boy. And I want to talk to
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Speaker 1: you about that because he is the baby boy. He's
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Speaker 1: the little one. And little things matter. And so he
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Speaker 1: is given a little assignment. The little boy is given
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Speaker 1: a little assignment. And he does this with this attitude.
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Speaker 1: He makes up in his mind that in the morning
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Speaker 1: I will rise up early. I will assign the welfare,
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Speaker 1: the taking care of my sheep to somebody to be
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Speaker 1: a substitute shepherd in my absence while I run this
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Speaker 1: little errand for my father and I get in my
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Speaker 1: hands this ephah of corn or wheat or whatever substance
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Speaker 1: it was and ten loaves of bread and run down
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Speaker 1: here with a little lunch. In essence, David is a
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Speaker 1: delivery boy. It's a little thing that he set out
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Speaker 1: to do. You must understand when we start talking about
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Speaker 1: this that David has no idea what will happen by
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Speaker 1: the end of the day. It is not the mighty
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Speaker 1: majestic moves of God that we need help with how
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Speaker 1: to handle. It is the mundane, ritualistic, ordinary days that
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Speaker 1: stand in between the mountaintop experiences that we live in
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Speaker 1: most of the time. We have more days of normalcy
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Speaker 1: and complacency than we do of spectacular displays of power.
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Speaker 1: This is just another morning for David to get up
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Speaker 1: with yet another chore to do. And he wipes his
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Speaker 1: face and brushes his teeth and grabs his bag full
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Speaker 1: of food and decides I'm going down there to be
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Speaker 1: at a particular place to do what my father told
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Speaker 1: me to do.
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Speaker 2: But I want you to.
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Speaker 1: Understand, though, in spite of the simplicity of the assignment,
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Speaker 1: in spite of the smallness of the assignment, in spite
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Speaker 1: of how little it is, in spite of how little
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Speaker 1: David himself is, in spite of the fact that he
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Speaker 1: is so young and too young to be in the battle,
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Speaker 1: I want you to understand that little things matter. I
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Speaker 1: want you to understand little things matter. And until you
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Speaker 1: understand that little things matter, you will never be able
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Speaker 1: to fulfill your destiny.
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Speaker 2: Throughout the course of our discussion, I'm going to.
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Speaker 1: Give you some lesson tips that I want you to
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Speaker 1: jot down and I want you to remember. It's what
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Speaker 1: separates the giant killers from the giant watchers. These principles,
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Speaker 1: these transferable truths are just as relevant today as they
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Speaker 1: have ever been. In fact, the first one I want
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Speaker 1: you to write down is great people do little things
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Speaker 1: with excellence. Great people do little things with excellence. Great
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Speaker 1: people don't just do great things with excellence. They do
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Speaker 1: little things with excellence. They understand how important it is
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Speaker 1: to do normal things. In fact, it is a sure
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Speaker 1: sign that you're going to end up in a great
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Speaker 1: place when you give great detail to little things, when
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Speaker 1: something little goes wrong and it bothers you, when you
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Speaker 1: want to make sure that everything is right, even though
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Speaker 1: you don't have a title and you don't have a
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Speaker 1: position and you don't have recognition and you don't have prestige,
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Speaker 1: but you have a standard to which you hold yourself to.
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Speaker 2: It's not about them.
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Speaker 1: It's about a standard you hold yourself to, and the
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Speaker 1: standard is a standard of excellence. Excellence doesn't start when
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Speaker 1: the lights come on. Excellence doesn't start when the crowd gathers.
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Speaker 1: Excellence doesn't come when everybody's watching. Excellence is nurtured in
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Speaker 1: mediocrity in ordinary days when you begin to appreciate the
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Speaker 1: power of the words before. Nothing about this story forewarns
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Speaker 1: us of the significance of this day. There's no warning.
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Speaker 1: There's no warning label. God puts no warning label on greatness.
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Speaker 1: He does not tell you that when you meet this person,
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Speaker 1: it is going to change your life. He does not
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Speaker 1: tell you that when you walk through this door, you'll
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Speaker 1: never be the same again. He does not tell you
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Speaker 1: that this little job, this little assignment that you're going
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Speaker 1: on is going to be the catalyst through which your
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Speaker 1: destiny is released. He doesn't tell you anything like that.
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Speaker 1: David is the baby of his family. He has a
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Speaker 1: little chore to do. It's just an ordinary chore. He
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Speaker 1: has a little assignment to take care of. He has
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Speaker 1: to manage his normal and yet perform a little assignment.
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Speaker 1: God has given him practice with managing responsibility because he
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Speaker 1: is grooming him for greatness. I don't know who I'm
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Speaker 1: talking to out there, but God is grooming you for greatness.
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Speaker 1: I know it doesn't look great right now. Your wallet
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Speaker 1: doesn't look great right now. Your house doesn't look great
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Speaker 1: right now. Your car doesn't look great right now. Your
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Speaker 1: situation doesn't look great right now. People push past you
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Speaker 1: trying to get to great people, but God is grooming
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Speaker 1: you for greatness. If you cannot manage the little things...
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Speaker 1: you'll never be able to manage the big things. If
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Speaker 1: the little things overwhelm you, if you complain and collapse
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Speaker 1: about little things, you'll never be ready for the greater
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Speaker 1: things that God is about to do in your life.
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Speaker 1: But the Lord told me to get somebody ready. I
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Speaker 1: don't know who it is, but God told me to
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Speaker 1: get you ready. If it's you, you ought to give
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Speaker 1: him a praise. God told me to get you ready.
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Speaker 1: In spite of how small it looks right now, it's
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Speaker 1: bigger than you think. In spite of how small you
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Speaker 1: look right now, it's bigger than you think.
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Speaker 2: David does not know who he is yet.
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Speaker 1: He's yet to realize the full strength and power of
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Speaker 1: what he is about to be. David has not been
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Speaker 1: recognized as being a king. He doesn't really understand the
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Speaker 1: magnitude of his position. He thinks he's just an errand boy.
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Speaker 1: He thinks he's just going down there to carry lunch.
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Speaker 1: He has no idea he is going to be in
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Speaker 1: the fight of his life. He would have prepared differently
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Speaker 1: if he would have known he was going into battle.
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Speaker 1: But he came down there to do a little thing. Oh,
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Speaker 1: but it was bigger than you think. David didn't know
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Speaker 1: that he was walking into a battle and David didn't
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Speaker 1: even know who Goliath was. Many of you have not
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Speaker 1: yet met your Goliath, but your Goliath is coming. Your
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Speaker 1: Goliath is coming, and that's why I got to get
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Speaker 1: you ready for it. You don't even know that your
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Speaker 1: Goliath is coming, and he's coming without warning, and he's
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Speaker 1: coming without an invitation, and he's coming without you having preparation.
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Speaker 1: It is just that everything that you have been through
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Speaker 1: in your past has been getting you ready. The little
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Speaker 1: things have been getting you ready. The small task has
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Speaker 1: been getting you ready. The lion that attacked the cub
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Speaker 1: is getting you ready. The bear that came down after
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Speaker 1: your sheep is getting you ready. They don't come with
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Speaker 1: a sign on their neck that says, I'm getting you
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Speaker 1: ready for Goliath. But these light afflictions, which are but
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Speaker 1: for a moment, are getting you ready for the fight
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Speaker 1: of your life so that when you get in the
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Speaker 1: fight of your life, it will not feel like the
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Speaker 1: fight of your life because all of the fights that
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Speaker 1: preceded it will cause you to deal with this fight
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Speaker 1: with another level of confidence and strength. That's why you
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Speaker 1: got to rejoice when you've been afflicted. Rejoice when you've
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Speaker 1: been up under attack. Rejoice when all hell has broken
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Speaker 1: loose in your life because God's got you in training camp. Ah!
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody today that's in the
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Speaker 1: boot camp of greatness. Oh, you're in the boot camp
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Speaker 1: of greatness because you're bigger than you think and you
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Speaker 1: don't even know it.
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Speaker 2: And God is about to blow your mind. Somebody logged on.
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Speaker 1: This broadcast today because God is telling you I'm getting
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Speaker 1: ready to blow your mind. Shatter the way you think.
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Speaker 1: Shatter your perspectives and your attitude. Shatter how you define greatness.
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Speaker 1: Shatter how you define responsibility. Shatter what you call pressure.
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Speaker 1: I'm exposing you to pressure because I'm building up your
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Speaker 1: tolerance because where I'm getting ready to take you, what
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Speaker 1: was precious to me is going to become your normal.
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Speaker 1: And I got to recalibrate you and train the way
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Speaker 1: you think. In the book of Ephesians chapter 3, verse 20,
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Speaker 1: it reads, Now unto him that is able to do
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Speaker 1: exceeding and abundantly above all that we may ask or think,
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Speaker 1: that God is able to do more than all that
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Speaker 1: we may ask or think according to the power that
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Speaker 1: worketh in us. In other words, God will not live
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Speaker 1: in the jail cell of your mentality. He will not
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Speaker 1: limit himself to be incarcerated by your ideas. In other words,
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Speaker 1: God is about to blow your mind. He said, I'm
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Speaker 1: bigger than what you think this day is bigger than
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Speaker 1: what you think it is this moment is bigger than
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Speaker 1: what you think it is go ahead and get your
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Speaker 1: little tin loaves and get on your little camel and
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Speaker 1: saddle up and go ahead and put your little quilt
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Speaker 1: on the back of the camel and ride on down
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Speaker 1: to the camp because you think this is ordinary but
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Speaker 1: it's bigger than you think because I'm able to do exceedingly,
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Speaker 1: abundantly above all that ye may ask or think. My
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Speaker 1: thoughts are above your thoughts, my ways above your ways.
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Speaker 1: As high as heaven is above the earth, so are
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Speaker 1: my thoughts above your thoughts and my ways above your ways.
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Speaker 1: And just because it starts out small does not mean
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Speaker 1: that it ends up small. That's why the Bible said,
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Speaker 1: despise not the day of small beginnings. Because whenever God's
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Speaker 1: getting ready to do great things in your life, He
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Speaker 1: tests you on small things. I said he tests you
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Speaker 1: on small things. Until you are faithful over a few,
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Speaker 1: you can't be faithful over many. Until you can be
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Speaker 1: trusted with lunch, you cannot be trusted with giants. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody that can't be trusted
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Speaker 1: with lunch. Because you're holding out for the big thing.
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Speaker 1: And when the big thing comes, you're going to be amazing.
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Speaker 1: Until then, you're just lazy and slothful and laid back
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Speaker 1: and taking it easy. And you don't understand it is
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Speaker 1: how you handle the little things that determines what's coming
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Speaker 1: next in your life.
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Speaker 2: Get your head right.
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Speaker 1: Today, today, today, today is an opportunity for you to
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Speaker 1: get your head right. Today, people ignore the performance of
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Speaker 1: little things waiting on.
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Speaker 2: The next big thing. But the next big thing is
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Speaker 2: a little thing. I'm going to say that again. The
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Speaker 2: next big thing is a little thing.
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Speaker 1: If David had overslept, he would have got there too late.
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Speaker 1: And if he would have got there too late, he
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Speaker 1: would have missed the greatest moment of his life five
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Speaker 1: minutes later.
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Speaker 2: And none of it would have happened.
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Speaker 1: 20 minutes later, and he would have missed this earth-shattering
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Speaker 1: experience that was to come on his life. Suppose David
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Speaker 1: was late with lunch. That's why you're not ready to
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Speaker 1: be great until you think everything is important. Until everything
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Speaker 1: matters to you. If David had gotten there late, he
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Speaker 1: would have missed it. Had David shown up early, he
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Speaker 1: would have been premature. The timing has got to be right. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.
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Speaker 1: With God, everything is about timing. With God, everything is
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Speaker 1: about timing. There's a time to mourn, and there's a
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Speaker 1: time to laugh, and there's a time to cry, and
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Speaker 1: there's a time to plant, and there's a time to harvest,
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Speaker 1: and there's a time that God wants you to be
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Speaker 1: there with lunch. And he does not tell you that
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Speaker 1: the lunch is a trip switch that is going to
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Speaker 1: connect you with your destiny. He just tells you that
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Speaker 1: it's lunch and sees will you be there on time.
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Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and say, show up on time.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Sharp on time.
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Speaker 1: David showed up as the fight was starting. He was
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Speaker 1: exactly where he was supposed to be when he was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be there.
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Speaker 2: That is absolutely amazing.
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Speaker 1: The cataclysmic explosion of destiny and time collides when David
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Speaker 1: jumps off of his camel and shows up just as
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Speaker 1: the battle has gone into array and the Philistines have
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Speaker 1: begun to march out to attack Israel. David shows up
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Speaker 1: in that exact moment because it was predestined. It was predestined.
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Speaker 1: It was predestined for generations to generations to generations. God
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Speaker 1: has been setting things up. I don't know who I'm
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Speaker 1: talking to, but you're about to walk into something that
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Speaker 1: God has been setting up for a long time. My
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Speaker 1: second lesson I want to get to you is showing
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Speaker 1: up for the battle is half the battle. Just showing
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Speaker 1: up for the battle is half the battle. Just showing up.
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Speaker 1: Just being in your place. Just being where you're supposed
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Speaker 1: to be when you're supposed to be there is half
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Speaker 1: the battle. You don't have to have all the answers.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to have all the solutions. You don't
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Speaker 1: have to have the favor of the army. You don't
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Speaker 1: have to have the support of your brethren. Just show up.
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Speaker 1: That's why the devil doesn't want you to be where
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there
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Speaker 1: because half the battle is determined by showing up on time.
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Speaker 1: Somebody shout hallelujah. And I want you to understand for David,
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Speaker 1: it is just another morning. It's just another moment. For Israel,
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Speaker 1: it's just another battle. For the Philistines, it's just another fight.
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Speaker 1: But for God, for God, this is a careful orchestration
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Speaker 1: of the providence of God. When we start to understand
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Speaker 1: the providence of God, providence is the timely preparation for
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Speaker 1: future eventualities. The timely preparation for future eventualities. When you
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Speaker 1: talk about God's providence, you talk about the things that
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Speaker 1: God has been working on before David's father ever met
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Speaker 1: his mother. God was working on this morning. Do you
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Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying to you? It is only in
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Speaker 1: this trip that we realize why David's great-great-great-grandmother, Naomi, had
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Speaker 1: to leave her home and go over into Moab. For
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Speaker 1: had Naomi not gone over into Moab, and there she
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Speaker 1: found her sons getting married to a Moabitess named Ruth,
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Speaker 1: and had she not lost her sons, and had she
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Speaker 1: not lost her husband, and had she not spent 10
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Speaker 1: years in Moab, and had she not decided after 10 years,
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Speaker 1: I'm going back. to Bethlehem, and had Ruth not decided
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Speaker 1: to go with her mother-in-law back to Bethlehem, she would
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Speaker 1: not have met Boaz. And had she not met Boaz,
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Speaker 1: they wouldn't have had the baby Obed. And had they
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Speaker 1: not had the baby Obed, they wouldn't have had the
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Speaker 1: grandchild Jesse. And had they not had Jesse, they wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have had David. All of this God has been working
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Speaker 1: on for several generations, and it was important. that David's
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Speaker 1: great-great-grandparents would trace all the way back to Boaz.
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Speaker 2: Boaz.
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Speaker 1: Boaz and Ruth, that they would meet and that they
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Speaker 1: would fall in love and that they would mate and
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Speaker 1: that through their lineage that David would come because God
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Speaker 1: is positioning David to be king on the throne and
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Speaker 1: he has to start the kingdom out with a kid.
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Speaker 2: He has been working on this for years.
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Speaker 1: And though this morning feels like an ordinary morning, just another, oh, God,
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Speaker 1: I got to go. Daddy wants me to carry this.
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Speaker 1: Had he not gotten up that morning, he would have
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Speaker 1: missed the moment that God had been planning for four generations. Wow.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm talking to, but you are
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Speaker 1: just now coming into a moment that God has been
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Speaker 1: setting up for four generations. Setting the stage that you
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Speaker 1: would be in the right place at the right time.
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Speaker 1: First of all, that you would be. First of all,
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Speaker 1: that you would be. And then that you would be
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Speaker 1: at the right place at the right time. And this
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Speaker 1: is the time that David now intersects with destiny. David
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Speaker 1: goes down to meet Saul, not as his successor. He
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Speaker 1: goes down to meet Saul as if he is running
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Speaker 1: an Uber service with a lunch. God has strange ways
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Speaker 1: of connecting you in the right place at the right time. Oh, hallelujah.
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Speaker 2: That brings me to lesson number three.
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Speaker 1: Providence makes sense out of the nonsensical things in life.
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Speaker 1: Providence makes sense out of the nonsensical things in life.
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Speaker 1: Naomi couldn't figure out, why did my husband die? Why
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Speaker 1: did I lose my sons? And why did I leave
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Speaker 1: Bethlehem to escape a famine and go to Moab for
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Speaker 1: 10 years only to find out that the people who
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Speaker 1: stayed in Bethlehem didn't die?
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Speaker 2: It wasn't really the famine that drew her to Moab
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Speaker 2: in the first place.
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Speaker 1: It was God orchestrating her life so that she could
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Speaker 1: bring Ruth into the lineage. So that God could show
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Speaker 1: us that he had a plan that included the idolaters,
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Speaker 1: the Gentiles, the unworthy. That in the lineage of Jesus'
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Speaker 1: bloodline would come a Moabitess. And when she comes home
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Speaker 1: with Ruth, she just does not get it. She is
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Speaker 1: bitter and she's upset. Because a lot of things you're
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Speaker 1: trying to understand today, it may take years or generations
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Speaker 1: for you to understand why you had to lose, what
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Speaker 1: you had to lose, who you had to lose, when
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Speaker 1: you had to lose it. Nobody teaches about providence, but
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Speaker 1: providence lets you know that your God is a strategist.
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Speaker 1: He said, I lift up this one and I take
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Speaker 1: down that one. I am God and besides me there
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Speaker 1: is no other. I decide who comes up and I
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Speaker 1: decide who comes down. I am the potter and you
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Speaker 1: are the clay and you got to trust me. Even
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Speaker 1: when it doesn't make sense, you got to trust that
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Speaker 1: my providence is stitching something together that your great, great, great,
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Speaker 1: great grandchildren are going to benefit from. I don't know
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Speaker 1: whether you can handle that, but I'm preaching to somebody.
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Speaker 1: I'm preaching to somebody right now that it doesn't have
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Speaker 1: to make sense to you, Naomi. I don't have to
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Speaker 1: explain why I had you move. I don't have to
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Speaker 1: even explain why you lost your husband. I don't even
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Speaker 1: have to explain why you lost your child. But over time,
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Speaker 1: you will see that I never lost you. control of
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Speaker 1: your life for a moment. Good God almighty. I've never
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Speaker 1: lost control of your life even when it felt like
19:48
Speaker 1: your life was out of control. when it felt like
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Speaker 1: the devil run, when it felt like the devil had
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Speaker 1: the victory, when it felt like you had utterly failed.
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Speaker 2: I've never lost control. I work all.
19:58
Speaker 1: Things after the counsel of my own will and I
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Speaker 1: move this and I move that and I move the
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Speaker 1: other and I bring this one in and I take
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Speaker 1: that one out. Because I'm working on something, and it's
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Speaker 1: going to be bigger than you think. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be bigger than you think. I've been working on this
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Speaker 1: for generations. It's going to be bigger than you think.
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Speaker 1: So when David comes walking down to the battlefield carrying lunch,
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Speaker 1: he thinks it's about the lunch. It's not about his lunch.
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Speaker 1: It's about his legacy. It's not about the bread. It's
20:29
Speaker 1: not about the food. It's not about the cheese. That
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Speaker 1: was just what God used. To get you in the
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Speaker 1: field of your destiny. Like your great-great-grandmother was gleaning in
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Speaker 1: the corners of the field. I orchestrated her to be
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Speaker 1: over in the corner of the field so that Boaz
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Speaker 1: would look out there and see her and she would
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Speaker 1: catch his eye. Had she been late, she would have
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Speaker 1: never met him. God will put you in the right
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Speaker 1: place at the right time because he's working all things
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Speaker 1: after the counsel of his own will. And he'll cause
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Speaker 1: you to love who you love and like who you
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Speaker 1: like and meet who you meet and be drawn to
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Speaker 1: who you're drawn to because what God is doing is
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Speaker 1: bigger than you think. Now David is down here carrying
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Speaker 1: lunch into legacy. And he gets down just in time
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Speaker 1: that he can hear the hoof prints. Can't you hear
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Speaker 1: the hoof prints? The hoof prints of the Philistines coming.
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Speaker 1: And they're coming out against the armies of Israel. And
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Speaker 1: David is coming with his lunch. And he harries up
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Speaker 1: and checks his camel in for somebody to take care
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Speaker 1: of his stuff. And runs down to the battlefield to
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Speaker 1: talk to the men to see how his brothers are
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Speaker 1: carrying his lunch.
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Speaker 2: But it's bigger than you think.
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Speaker 1: Just when they see the army of the Philistines out
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Speaker 1: from the behind the ranks of the front lines of
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Speaker 1: the army of the Philistines comes this giant named Goliath.
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Speaker 1: And David happened, he happened, he happened to be there
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Speaker 1: at the moment that Goliath was first presented. And the
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Speaker 1: Bible says in the 23rd verse, and he talked with them.
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Speaker 1: And behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath,
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Speaker 1: Goliath by name, out of the army of the Philistines
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Speaker 1: and spake according to the same words.
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Speaker 2: And David heard them.
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Speaker 1: When Goliath came out there talking smack, David heard them. Now,
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Speaker 1: everybody heard them, but the Bible doesn't mention who else
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Speaker 1: heard them because they heard it, but it didn't affect
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Speaker 1: them like it affected David. When David heard him say that,
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Speaker 1: David thought, now, wait a minute now. Wait a minute.
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Speaker 1: Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should insult the
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Speaker 1: armies of the living God? And so David starts asking questions.
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Speaker 1: What shall be given to the man?
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Speaker 2: To the man.
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Speaker 1: The kid asks the question, what shall be given to
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Speaker 1: the man that killeth Goliath? And it seems so crazy
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Speaker 1: because David was so little and Goliath was so big.
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Speaker 1: And now you have to grapple when you have a
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Speaker 1: great challenge and a small stature.
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Speaker 2: The dichotomy between the two that have stepped.
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Speaker 1: On the stage is so wide that it seems insurmountable.
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Speaker 1: How could something so little go after something so big?
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Speaker 1: Somebody has got a great big vision and a little
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Speaker 1: bit of money. Somebody's got a great big calling and
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Speaker 1: a little tiny church. Somebody's got a great big dream
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Speaker 1: and a little bit of help. The dichotomy between the
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Speaker 1: smallness of the boy And the height of the giant
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Speaker 1: is an opportunity for God to show himself strong. Don't
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Speaker 1: you think that God could have used a big man
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Speaker 1: against a big man? Don't you think that God could
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Speaker 1: have raised up a giant against a giant? But God said,
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Speaker 1: my strength is made perfect in weakness. So I'll choose
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Speaker 1: the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody that's listening at me
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Speaker 1: right now who has felt inadequate. I want you to
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Speaker 1: see the dichotomy between the big tall giant and the
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Speaker 1: little tiny boy. I want you to understand that historians,
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Speaker 1: Jewish historians, suggest to us that David was only about 4'10,
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Speaker 1: maybe 5 feet at the most. Just a little boy,
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Speaker 1: just a short little boy, 4'10, not even 5 feet.
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Speaker 1: On the other hand, some have suggested that Goliath was
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Speaker 1: as tall as 9 feet tall.
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Speaker 2: So he was, in essence, twice the size of David.
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Speaker 2: Little boy. Huge giant.
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Speaker 1: And anybody who was standing on the outside would think
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Speaker 1: as big as God is, God would be with the
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Speaker 1: big guy.
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Speaker 2: But no, God.
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Speaker 1: God. Good God, Almighty God. It's with a little guy
25:10
Speaker 1: I never will forget. When I started pastoring, they all
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Speaker 1: made fun of me, and they called me the boy pastor.
25:15
Speaker 1: And I was preaching in Montgomery, West Virginia, and I
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Speaker 1: had about seven members, and they said, that boy is
25:19
Speaker 1: going out there to preach. And they was trying to
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Speaker 1: make me feel bad about myself, but I fought them back.
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Speaker 1: I said, David was a boy when he killed Goliath,
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Speaker 1: but it didn't make him any less dead.
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Speaker 2: God will use a little thing.
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Speaker 1: That's why the enemy is trying to make you feel inadequate,
25:37
Speaker 1: because he wants to slander you. your potentials and your
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Speaker 1: possibilities and deactivate your faith and your courage. And he's
25:45
Speaker 1: using how things look to you to intimidate you so
25:49
Speaker 1: that you don't think you're the woman for the job,
25:51
Speaker 1: so that you don't think that you can preach well enough,
25:53
Speaker 1: so that you don't think that you can sing well enough,
25:55
Speaker 1: so that you don't think that you're worthy of where
25:57
Speaker 1: God is about to place you, so that you don't
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Speaker 1: think that you're worthy to hang out with the crowd
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Speaker 1: that you're about to step into and you're coming into.
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Speaker 1: the situation from a perspective of smallness, because if the
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Speaker 1: devil can convince you that you are small, you are
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Speaker 1: already defeated. The Bible said that we were in their
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Speaker 1: sight as grasshoppers, and so were we in our own sight.
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Speaker 1: Whenever you think you're a grasshopper, you're not ready to
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Speaker 1: possess the promised land. You got to know who you are.
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Speaker 1: in spite of your stature. You have to understand who
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Speaker 1: you are in spite of your wallet. You have to
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Speaker 1: know who you are in spite of your academics. You
26:32
Speaker 1: have to know who you are in spite of your
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Speaker 1: husband leaving you. You have to know who you are
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Speaker 1: and what you got. I rebuke the spirit of inferiority.
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Speaker 1: I rebuke the spirit of inadequacy. I rebuke the spirit
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Speaker 1: of incapacitation. Little is much when God gets in it.
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Speaker 2: Little boy.
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Speaker 1: Of all the people in Israel, God uses the little thing.
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Speaker 2: Good God of mercy.
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Speaker 1: God who owns heaven and earth. God who could have
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Speaker 1: sent the angels from heaven. God who could have sent
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Speaker 1: Michael and Gabriel. So the little boy to get into
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Speaker 1: a big fight. I want to talk to somebody that's
27:10
Speaker 1: in a big fight right now. And the odds are
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Speaker 1: against you. And it doesn't look good. And you're trying
27:15
Speaker 1: to get up your confidence. And you're trying to get
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Speaker 1: up your strength. And Satan is so afraid that you
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Speaker 1: would feel capable that he will cause your own brother,
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Speaker 1: your own brethren to rise up against you and belittle
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Speaker 1: you in front of everybody. And there David was, the
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Speaker 1: little boy, coming up against a big thing. a thing
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Speaker 1: that was twice his size. You would think that his
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Speaker 1: brothers would have supported him, but the enemy used his
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Speaker 1: brethren to try to further deflate his confidence. Eliab said,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing up here? I know your foolery
27:51
Speaker 1: and your trickery. Why don't you go back home? Eliab
27:54
Speaker 1: is reinforcing David's spirit of inadequacies. I want you to
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Speaker 1: identify your Eliabs. Everybody has those Eliabs in their lives.
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Speaker 1: People that you let in that you thought would support you.
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Speaker 1: People that you came down to help, and instead of
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Speaker 1: them helping you, they bring you down.
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Speaker 2: See, you don't get it yet.
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Speaker 1: David was coming to bring Eliab's lunch, and instead of
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Speaker 1: Eliab being grateful for the lunch, Eliab is trying to
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Speaker 1: tear down. Have you ever tried to help somebody who
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Speaker 1: wasn't trying to help you? Have you ever tried to
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Speaker 1: encourage somebody who wasn't trying to encourage you?
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Speaker 2: Have you ever?
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Speaker 1: Bad somebody that was trying to bring you down to
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Speaker 1: your knees and make you feel inferior in front of people.
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Speaker 1: Open to humiliation. He said, where are them sheep, them
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Speaker 1: few sheep you're supposed to be taking care of? I
28:43
Speaker 1: could have understood it if it was anybody else but
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Speaker 1: his brother. I could have understood it if it would
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Speaker 1: have been any other soldier. I could have understood it
28:50
Speaker 1: had it come from the Philistines. I could have understood
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Speaker 1: it had it come from somebody in the community. I
28:55
Speaker 1: could have understood it had it come from the camp.
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Speaker 1: But from his own house, he is attacked. Eliab rose
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Speaker 1: up against him. And I came to speak to somebody
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Speaker 1: who was wounded by somebody that you loved. I wanted
29:10
Speaker 1: to come to talk to somebody who already had to
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Speaker 1: fight off feeling inadequate. And instead of getting some help
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Speaker 1: from the people that love you, they reinforced your insecurity.
29:22
Speaker 1: They laughed at your dream. And they told you, you
29:25
Speaker 1: don't belong on the level you're on. But I came
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Speaker 1: to tell you, if you didn't belong in this spot,
29:32
Speaker 1: God wouldn't have put you in it. And if you
29:34
Speaker 1: didn't have what it takes, God wouldn't have brought you
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Speaker 1: down here into this fight. And if you didn't deserve
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Speaker 1: to be here, you would not have been here.
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Speaker 2: You were called for such a time as this.
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Speaker 1: And this moment, this moment right here, this moment right here,
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Speaker 1: this moment right here, God told me to tell you,
29:56
Speaker 1: it's bigger than you think. It's bigger than you It's
29:59
Speaker 1: bigger than you think. It's not about the bread. It's
30:02
Speaker 1: not about the cheese. It's not about the seed. It's
30:04
Speaker 1: not about the grain. This thing that's happening right now
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Speaker 1: is bigger than you think. That's why Eliab is trying
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Speaker 1: to discourage you because you're on to something. Look at
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Speaker 1: somebody and holler, you're on to something. David didn't plan
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Speaker 1: to fight that day. It wasn't what he saw. It
30:21
Speaker 1: wasn't what he planned. It wasn't what he had in mind.
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Speaker 1: And when you just looked at what he saw, you
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Speaker 1: would see how he could feel inadequate. He's no match
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Speaker 1: for Goliath. He's not the size of Goliath. He has
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Speaker 1: no weapons like Goliath. He has no army backup like Goliath.
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Speaker 1: If you look at what he saw, you would quit.
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Speaker 1: But the Bible doesn't emphasize what he saw. The Bible
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Speaker 1: emphasizes what he heard. It doesn't say when David saw that.
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Speaker 1: It says when he heard that. In fact, the sentence
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Speaker 1: is so simple. And David heard him. For we walk
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Speaker 1: not by sight, but by faith. And faith cometh by what? Hearing.
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Speaker 1: And hearing by the word of God. This is the
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Speaker 1: fight between sight and hearing. Are you going to believe
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Speaker 1: the way it looks? Or are you going to believe
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Speaker 1: what you heard? And David heard him. Why did it
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Speaker 1: say that David heard him and it doesn't mention anybody
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Speaker 1: else hearing him? Are all the other men deaf? Absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: It is not just that David heard Goliath. It is
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Speaker 1: how he heard Goliath. It was how he heard him.
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Speaker 1: He heard it as an outrage. He heard it as
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Speaker 1: an insult. He heard it as a mockery. He heard
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Speaker 1: it in a way that said, I will not let
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Speaker 1: this go down. He heard it as a solace, as
31:48
Speaker 1: a challenge. He heard it as something to be riled
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Speaker 1: against and to be fought. How you hear a thing
31:54
Speaker 1: determines how you respond to it. Some people can hear
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Speaker 1: it and run. Everybody else heard it and they were horrified.
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Speaker 1: David heard it and he got hot. Watch how you
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Speaker 1: react to what you hear because it is some indication
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Speaker 1: to what you have been empowered to change. You can't
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Speaker 1: change what you're not insulted by. You can't change it
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Speaker 1: until you hear it right, until you hear it as
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Speaker 1: a challenge. Until you hear it as an insult. Until
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Speaker 1: you hear it as something to be fought against. That's
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Speaker 1: lesson number four. Lesson number four is this.
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Speaker 2: Get this out.
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Speaker 1: What you believe will always overcome what you see. What
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Speaker 1: you believe will always overcome what you see. I don't
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Speaker 1: care what you see. I don't care how out of
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Speaker 1: sorts it is. I don't care how dichotomous it is.
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Speaker 1: I don't care how ridiculous it is.
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Speaker 2: What you believe.
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Speaker 1: Will always fight off what you see. Somebody right now
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Speaker 1: is in a fight and everything you see says this
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Speaker 1: is impossible and it's ridiculous and I don't have the
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Speaker 1: resources and I don't have the backup and I don't
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Speaker 1: have the education and I don't have the money and
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Speaker 1: I don't have the training and I feel so small
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Speaker 1: and I feel so inadequate. I didn't ask you how
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Speaker 1: you feel. I asked you what do you believe? David
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Speaker 1: believed that God was not to be trifled with. David
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Speaker 1: believed in the God of Israel. David believed in the
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Speaker 1: armies of the living God. David believed that he was
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Speaker 1: bigger than the enemy. David believed that he had the victory.
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Speaker 1: David believed that he was an overcomer. David believed that
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Speaker 1: he was more than enough. David believed that if God
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Speaker 1: sent him, he was more than the world sent against him.
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Speaker 1: David so believed that he could do it, that even
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Speaker 1: without Eliab's help, without the support of his friends, without
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Speaker 1: the backup of his family, David said, I'll fight him.
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Speaker 2: Let's go.
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Speaker 1: Let's get after it. Let's get down. You mess with
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Speaker 1: the wrong black man this time. Let's go. You underestimate
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Speaker 1: me just because I'm four foot ten. Don't you look
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Speaker 1: at what you see. You need to look at what's
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Speaker 1: down inside of me.
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Speaker 2: Greater is he that's in me. Hallelujah. Who am I
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Speaker 2: preaching to?
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Speaker 1: You've been underestimated all of your life. They've always told
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Speaker 1: you what you couldn't be and what you couldn't do
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Speaker 1: and what you couldn't have and what you couldn't become,
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Speaker 1: but the devil is alive. This is a showdown moment
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Speaker 1: in your life. This is a moment for God to
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Speaker 1: show himself strong in your life. This is a moment
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Speaker 1: for God to show up. And in spite of how
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Speaker 1: you feel, God is going to do what you believe.
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Speaker 1: So speak to your feelings and tell yourself to get
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Speaker 1: a grip. Speak to your emotions and call them up
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Speaker 1: unto order. Speak to every negative voice that says you
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Speaker 1: belong back in the sheep field and say, no, I'm going.
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Speaker 2: To fight today. I'm going to fight today.
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Speaker 1: Somebody say, I'm going to fight today.
34:48
Speaker 2: I'm going to fight today. Say it. I'm going to
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Speaker 2: fight today. I'm going to fight today.
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Speaker 1: Win or lose, shoot or dribble, I'm.
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Speaker 2: Going to fight today.
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Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 1: You will not get the victory. You will not defeat me.
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Speaker 1: You will not bully me. You will not hold me.
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Speaker 2: Greater is he.
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Speaker 1: There he stood with his four-foot self. There he stood
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Speaker 1: with no sword and no shield. There he stood with
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Speaker 1: no training and no background. He wasn't even enlisted in
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Speaker 1: the army. He wasn't even in the service. But he
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Speaker 1: made up in his mind, I will fight you back.
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Speaker 1: I will fight you back. And in spite of his stature,
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Speaker 1: God brought him before the king.
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Speaker 2: Your gifts.
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Speaker 1: Will make room for you. And bring you before the king.
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Speaker 1: Who ever heard of such a thing? That a boy
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Speaker 1: would be brought to the king as a solution to
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Speaker 1: a national crisis over top of the whole army. They
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Speaker 1: brought in this little boy and said, this little boy
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Speaker 1: down here is talking smack. While the army is running,
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Speaker 1: he's talking smack. Now the army looks big. But David
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Speaker 1: was big on the inside. He was little on the outside,
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Speaker 1: but he was big on the inside. And if you're
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Speaker 1: big enough on the inside, they'll bring you before kings.
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Speaker 1: They'll set you before princes. They'll move you into positions
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Speaker 1: of power. If you know who you are, if you
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Speaker 1: walk in the room like you're supposed to be there,
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Speaker 1: people start paying attention. And all of the soldiers that
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Speaker 1: should have been on the field brought David before the king.
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Speaker 1: And the Lord told me to tell you to get
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Speaker 1: ready for the shift. Get ready for the shift. Get
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Speaker 1: ready for the shift. I know you're scared, but get
36:51
Speaker 1: ready for the shift. I know you're nervous, but get
36:53
Speaker 1: ready for the shift. I know you feel incompetent, but
36:56
Speaker 1: get ready for the shift. I know you have insecurities,
36:58
Speaker 1: but get ready for the shift. I know you feel insufficient,
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Speaker 1: but get ready for the shift. God is going to
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Speaker 1: bring you before the king. And he sent me here
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Speaker 1: to tell you that it's bigger than you think. And
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Speaker 1: here David is standing before the king. And they brought
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Speaker 1: him before the king. And the king told him, what
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Speaker 1: you come to do? He said, I came to kill Goliath.
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Speaker 2: Now look at this.
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Speaker 1: Whoever killed Goliath would win Saul's daughter. Whoever killed Goliath
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Speaker 1: would be enriched financially. Whoever killed Goliath, their family would
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Speaker 1: never have to pay taxes the rest of their life.
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Speaker 1: David is fighting Goliath. for a family that don't even
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Speaker 1: like him. You haven't fought until you fought for somebody
37:48
Speaker 1: who don't even appreciate you.
37:50
Speaker 2: You haven't fought until.
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Speaker 1: You fought for somebody who thinks you don't even belong
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Speaker 1: in the place that you're in. But the reason David
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Speaker 1: was on the battlefield was if he killed Goliath, his daddy,
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Speaker 1: who didn't even like him, would no longer have to
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Speaker 1: pay taxes. Sometimes You have to fight even when people
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Speaker 1: don't appreciate you. And David walks in the room and
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Speaker 1: he says, I'll take him on. And he said, I
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Speaker 1: will kill Goliath. Killing Goliath changed David's family's life. Killing
38:23
Speaker 1: Goliath changed David's life. Killing Goliath changed how the army
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Speaker 1: saw him. Killing Goliath set David up to be positioned
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Speaker 1: to be king. As I get ready to come to
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Speaker 1: the close of this message, I want to warn you,
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Speaker 1: whenever God is about to elevate you, there's always.
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Speaker 2: A Goliath in front of you.
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Speaker 1: Goliath is always the gatekeeper on the next move of God.
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Speaker 1: Who am I talking to? Until you find your Goliath,
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Speaker 1: you won't find your throne. Whenever you're close to your throne,
38:58
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what I know in my personal experience,
39:01
Speaker 1: whenever you're close to your throne, Goliath will always stick
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Speaker 1: up his ugly head to fight you. He is always
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Speaker 1: an alarm system that you're close to the treasure. Satan
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Speaker 1: always leaves the Goliath to guard your treasure. When you
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Speaker 1: find your Goliath, you have found your treasure. Wherever the
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Speaker 1: giant is, that's where destiny is calling you. And when
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Speaker 1: you see the giant, don't run from the giant. Because
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Speaker 1: if you run from the giant, you will run from
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Speaker 1: your destiny. While everybody else was running away from it,
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Speaker 1: David was running toward it because he knew that the
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Speaker 1: giant was the key to the next dimension in his life.
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Speaker 1: Now hear me, I feel a prophetic influence coming over
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Speaker 1: me right now. That Goliath that you see right now
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Speaker 1: is proof positive that he's guarding your treasure. When you
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Speaker 1: take him out, God is going to open up something
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Speaker 1: amazing for you. Don't run from the giant. Run at him.
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Speaker 1: Run straight at him. Now, you have to understand, they
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Speaker 1: tried to give David Saul's armor. David put it on,
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Speaker 1: but it didn't fit. You can't fight your Goliath being
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Speaker 1: somebody else. You have to fight your Goliath as yourself
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Speaker 1: because it was you that God brought to the place.
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Speaker 1: Don't show up as a stranger. Who am I talking to?
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Speaker 1: Don't show up as nobody else. It's you that God blessed.
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Speaker 1: It's you that God called. It's you that God anointed.
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Speaker 1: It's you that God set aside. It's you that God
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Speaker 1: prepared for such a moment as this. Show up as yourself.
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Speaker 1: And he shook off Saul's armor, and he said, I can't.
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Speaker 1: I can't fight in your armor.
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Speaker 2: And you know what?
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Speaker 1: I always made the mistake whenever I read this text.
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Speaker 1: I thought that David left home with five smooth stones,
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Speaker 1: but he didn't. He said, wait a minute, all he
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Speaker 1: had with him was a bag, a shepherd's bag. And
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Speaker 1: he had to go down to the brook and get
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Speaker 1: him some stones. Because you have to realize, David didn't
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Speaker 1: even come down there to fight. So this was an emergency.
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Speaker 1: And in an emergency, you got to use what's at
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Speaker 1: your disposal. In an emergency, you got to use what's
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Speaker 1: within your reach. In an emergency, you got to go
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Speaker 1: back to the basics. In an emergency, you got to
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Speaker 1: go back to your roots. Somebody said, how in the world,
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Speaker 1: after 43 years, can you stand to preach in an
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Speaker 1: empty church? I said, because I started in an empty church.
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Speaker 1: And in an emergency, I know how to go back.
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Speaker 1: I know how to go back. You messed with the
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Speaker 1: wrong one. And I know how.
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Speaker 2: I came out of the storefront. I know how to.
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Speaker 1: Stand flat footed all by myself and preach the unadulterated
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Speaker 1: word of God.
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Speaker 2: David knew how.
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Speaker 1: To fight with rocks. He didn't know nothing about shields.
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Speaker 1: He didn't know nothing about swords. He didn't know nothing
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Speaker 1: about catapults. He didn't know nothing about horses. All he
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Speaker 1: knew how to fight with was rocks. But whatever you're
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Speaker 1: good at, God will use something you got. God will
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Speaker 1: use something that you're used to. God will use something
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Speaker 1: that you're familiar with. And David, there David was, the
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Speaker 1: would-be king of Israel is down in the riverbed like
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Speaker 1: a child looking amongst the crawdads picking out rocks.
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Speaker 2: I want that one. That one's too rough.
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Speaker 1: I want that one right here and that one right there.
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Speaker 1: And he made him a weapon. He made him a weapon.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't even a slingshot. It was a shepherd's bag
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Speaker 1: turned into a slingshot. It was a bag. It was
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Speaker 1: a rag and a rock. And he ran down on
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Speaker 1: that field and said, what did you say? He ran
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Speaker 1: down on that field and the dichotomy was so strong
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Speaker 1: that Goliath snickered And that is it.
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Speaker 3: That's what they all got to send against me today.
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Speaker 3: That little boy with that rag in that rug, that's
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Speaker 3: what's going to kill me? What am I, a dog
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Speaker 3: that you send this kid down here to kill me?
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Speaker 3: The enemy was insulted that God would send so little
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Speaker 3: after so much. But what the devil didn't know is
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Speaker 3: that it's bigger than you think.
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Speaker 1: How?
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Speaker 2: The devil didn't know it? How?
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Speaker 1: That's what he don't know about you. He don't know
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Speaker 1: you bigger than he thinks. He don't know that you're
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Speaker 1: bigger than he thinks. He doesn't know that God's going
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Speaker 1: to use you in a greater way than he thinks.
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Speaker 1: In spite of how you grew up, in spite of
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Speaker 1: what happened in your childhood, in spite of your background,
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Speaker 1: in spite of your hardship, in spite of your insecurities,
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Speaker 1: the message that God gave me for you is that
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Speaker 1: it's bigger than you think.
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Speaker 2: And I close this message today. I want you to
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Speaker 2: understand this.
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Speaker 1: Whatever you had in your mind that God was going
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Speaker 1: to do, get it out. Whatever you thought was going
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Speaker 1: to happen, get rid of it. Whatever you thought God
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Speaker 1: might do in your life is too small. The Holy
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Speaker 1: Ghost said, this is bigger than you think. Lift your hands.
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Speaker 1: Open up your mouth. And say yes to the bigness.
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Speaker 1: With your four-foot self.
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Speaker 2: Hallelujah!
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Speaker 1: With your worried self. With your insecure, intimidated self. Let
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Speaker 1: God hear your voice. Because what he's about to do
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Speaker 1: in your life is bigger than you think. And I
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Speaker 1: know he lied and lurked. And I know they didn't
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Speaker 1: treat you right and they didn't welcome you. And I
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Speaker 1: know they didn't do... what you thought they would do
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Speaker 1: when you thought they would do it. But the Lord
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Speaker 1: sent me here to tell you the reason he's caused
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Speaker 1: all this hubbub in your life was to shift you
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Speaker 1: into position because what he's getting ready to do.
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Speaker 2: Is bigger. No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: It's bigger than that. Think again. It's bigger than that.
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Speaker 1: It's bigger than you think. What God is getting ready
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Speaker 1: to do in your life is bigger than that. So
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Speaker 1: I'll rehearse this for you. Number one, great people do
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Speaker 1: little things with excellence. Number two, showing up for the
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Speaker 1: battle is half the battle. Number three, providence makes sense
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Speaker 1: out of the nonsensical. And number four, what you believe
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Speaker 1: will always overcome.
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Speaker 2: What you seek.
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Speaker 1: He threw that little bitty rock at Goliath. He could
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Speaker 1: hardly even see it. But it was bigger than he thought.
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Speaker 1: It hit him in the head. It knocked him to
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Speaker 1: the ground. And then we see why David had no sword.
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Speaker 1: Because God used Goliath's sword to kill him. God is
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Speaker 1: going to use what your enemy is trying to use
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Speaker 1: on you. God's going to use it on him. And
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Speaker 1: Goliath was beheaded by his own sword. I want you
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Speaker 1: to praise God while your Goliath bleeds.
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Speaker 2: You will prevail.
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Speaker 1: And you don't have to be no taller. And you
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Speaker 1: don't have to be any richer. You don't have to
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Speaker 1: be any richer. And you don't have to be any
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Speaker 1: greater or any wiser or any smarter. Because you are bigger.
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Speaker 2: Than you think.
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Speaker 1: Because God is bigger than you think. Because your little
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Speaker 1: weapons that you got down out the brook that don't
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Speaker 1: look like nothing but the toys of a kid are
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Speaker 1: bigger than you think. Don't be afraid to throw it.
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Speaker 1: It looks small, but throw it. It looks small but invested.
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Speaker 1: It looks small but planted. Because your little seed might
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Speaker 1: be real small, but it's bigger than you think. For
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Speaker 1: what do you believe in God to do? It looks
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Speaker 1: paradoxical to everything that you're trying to do. But the
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Speaker 1: Lord told me to tell you that it's bigger than
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Speaker 1: you think. Thank you. It is no accident that you
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Speaker 1: are listening at this message today. This is the Sunday
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Speaker 1: that sets in array the armies of the living God.
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Speaker 1: And things are about to shift for you in spite
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Speaker 1: of how you feel.
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Speaker 2: You've been nursing your feelings all of your life. Your
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Speaker 2: victory is not in your.
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Speaker 1: Feelings, sweetheart. Your victory is in your faith. And David
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Speaker 1: heard him. Out of all the people that heard him,
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Speaker 1: when the right one heard him, he said, you're going
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Speaker 1: down today. You're going down today. And everything that was
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Speaker 1: promised to him, he got it. He ended up with
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Speaker 1: Saul's daughter. He ended up rich and wealthy. His family
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Speaker 1: ended up paying no taxes. And he ended up with
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Speaker 1: the throne of the king. Because this day that nobody
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Speaker 1: preaches about, this lunch that nobody preaches about, these tin
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Speaker 1: loaves that nobody preaches about, this ephah full of corn
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Speaker 1: that nobody preaches about, they don't preach about it because
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Speaker 1: they don't think it's big. They don't preach about the
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Speaker 1: trip and getting up early in the morning to bring
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Speaker 1: a lunch because they don't think it's big. but when
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Speaker 1: I read it God told me it's bigger than you
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Speaker 1: think I leave those words with you teach them to
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Speaker 1: your children tell them they're bigger than they think share
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Speaker 1: it with your spouse you're bigger than you think teach
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Speaker 1: it to your ministry You're bigger than you think. I
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Speaker 1: know the odds are against you and things don't look good.
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Speaker 1: But God said it's bigger than you think. Can I
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Speaker 1: pray with you right now? I want to have an
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Speaker 1: honest moment, just me and you. An honest moment with
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Speaker 1: people who don't feel like they're enough. Who late at
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Speaker 1: night when everybody else has gone to sleep feel like
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Speaker 1: that they're an imposter in their own life. And that
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Speaker 1: people respect you more than you respect yourself and they
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Speaker 1: believe in you and they expect things from you that
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Speaker 1: you don't think you can do yourself because they see
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Speaker 1: greatness and you measured yourself and you know you're only
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Speaker 1: four foot tall.
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Speaker 2: I want to pray with people.
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Speaker 1: Who have backed away from challenges because you measured yourself
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Speaker 1: who don't know how to receive compliments because you measured
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Speaker 1: yourself who don't know how to take on new challenges
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Speaker 1: and feel strange in big rooms with new people because
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Speaker 1: you feel so vulnerable, so insufficient, so less than. I
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Speaker 1: want you to just be honest and let me in
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Speaker 1: that room that you don't show anybody so you and
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Speaker 1: I can touch and agree. I don't want to pray
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Speaker 1: for who you pretend to be. I want to pray
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Speaker 1: for the four-foot you. Who's standing down in the field
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Speaker 1: looking at something that's so tall you can't see the
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Speaker 1: end of it? I want to pray with the part
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Speaker 1: of you that shrinks away from opportunities. That makes excuses
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Speaker 1: when you have chances. The part of you that tries
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Speaker 1: to stay quiet and be invisible in rooms. Because you
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Speaker 1: don't feel like you're enough. And you never have. But
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Speaker 1: today God wants to heal you. And he's going to
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Speaker 1: use this word to do it. And I know the
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Speaker 1: people that should have built you up didn't build you up.
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Speaker 1: And the voices that should have told you who you were,
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Speaker 1: they laughed at you and told you to go back
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Speaker 1: home and take care of your sheep.
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Speaker 2: But that's why God sent me.
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Speaker 1: To remind you, in spite of how you measure yourself,
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Speaker 1: you're bigger than you think. And as you and I
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Speaker 1: pray today, the Holy Spirit said, don't be scared. You're
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Speaker 1: standing on the precipice of a great opportunity. Don't forfeit it.
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Speaker 1: Don't make an excuse and run and hide. Because of
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Speaker 1: your feelings of inadequacy, you have always thought you were inadequate.
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Speaker 1: And you have always been wrong. I touch and agree
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Speaker 1: with you right now. In the name of Jesus. That
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Speaker 1: that part of you, that lying, abusive voice that has
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Speaker 1: always tormented you, would be rebuked by the power of God.
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Speaker 1: And that once and for all, you would stand in
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Speaker 1: the integrity of who God says you are. That once
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Speaker 1: and for all, you would run after the thing that's
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Speaker 1: running after you with rocks in your hand. Because you
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Speaker 1: know who you are. That once and for all, as
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Speaker 1: you and I touch and agree, that you would recognize
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Speaker 1: that your God is bigger than your biggest doubts and
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Speaker 1: your biggest fears and your biggest worries.
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Speaker 2: And because he's in you, you too.
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Speaker 1: Are bigger than you think.
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Speaker 2: If I don't rebuke this spirit, it's going to kill
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Speaker 2: your life. It's going to kill your ministry. It's going
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Speaker 2: to kill your opportunity. It's going to kill your marriage.
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Speaker 2: It's going to kill your family. It's going to kill
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Speaker 2: your career. It's going to kill your company.
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Speaker 1: I come against that.