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🔴 LIVE SUNDAY God Is Restoring What You Lost Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Will bring we can sense in our spirit that where
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  Speaker 1: we are is not all that God has for us
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  Speaker 1: we can sense in our spirit that there is something
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  Speaker 1: looming in our future that is brighter than this present
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  Speaker 1: danger but how do we get it when the evidence
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  Speaker 1: all around us now often suggests that this is a
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  Speaker 1: moment of chaos and crisis and agony, and yet there
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  Speaker 1: is something in our spirit that has us dancing this morning.
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  Speaker 1: To those casual observers that may have wandered into the service,
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  Speaker 1: do not think that we are dancing without trouble. Don't
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  Speaker 1: think that we are dancing without pain or challenges or
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  Speaker 1: adversities or family crisis or financial crisis or emotional crisis.
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  Speaker 1: We are dancing in spite. In fact, the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the matter is when trouble gets worse, we become better. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: better at praising God, better at seeking God, better at
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  Speaker 1: honoring God. He becomes the place we go to. He
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  Speaker 1: becomes the nourishment that we receive. He becomes the bread
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  Speaker 1: on our table. He becomes the water that quenches our thirst.
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  Speaker 1: We come down to the well for one water and
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  Speaker 1: leave field with another because we are in trouble. We
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  Speaker 1: are more focused in trouble. Most of what I have
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  Speaker 1: learned about God that's worth repeating, I have not learned
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  Speaker 1: on the mountaintops. But I have learned them in the
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  Speaker 1: valleys of despair. In the valleys of agony. And yet
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  Speaker 1: there is something that keeps us alive. I love what
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  Speaker 1: David said. He said, the Lord is my light and
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  Speaker 1: my salvation. Of whom shall I fear? He is the
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  Speaker 1: strength of my life. Whom shall I be afraid of?
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  Speaker 1: When the wicked He acknowledges them. When the wicked, even
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  Speaker 1: my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat
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  Speaker 1: up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. He admits that
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  Speaker 1: he's besieged, though hosts should encamp against me. My heart
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  Speaker 1: shall not fear, though wars should rise against me in
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  Speaker 1: this place. Will I be confident? One thing have I
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  Speaker 1: desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that
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  Speaker 1: I may dwell in the house of the Lord all
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  Speaker 1: the days of my life to behold the beauty of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord and to inquire in His temple. Now I've
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  Speaker 1: been talking to FIPA this week and I've been preparing
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  Speaker 1: for our pastors and leadership conference and I've been thinking
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  Speaker 1: about leadership and what does it really mean to be
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  Speaker 1: a leader. And I am determined that real leaders have
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  Speaker 1: to be, as I preached a few weeks ago, steady
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  Speaker 1: in the storms. steady in unsteadiness, stable in instability, consistent
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  Speaker 1: in crisis. I prophesied as I was commanded. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know whether it was going to work or not, but
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  Speaker 1: I prophesied as I was commanded. Can these bones live again?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I did what you told me
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  Speaker 1: to do. Success for me is not to raise the bones.
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  Speaker 1: Success for me is to obey the God that said
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  Speaker 1: preach to the bones. It's my job to preach to them.
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  Speaker 1: It's your job to raise them. These are trying times
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  Speaker 1: and these are difficult times. And I will admit that
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  Speaker 1: I am even theologically perplexed because on one hand, I
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  Speaker 1: hear Jesus say, take no thought of what you should
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  Speaker 1: wear and what you should eat and where you should live.
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  Speaker 1: It almost suggests that I should be complacent, detached, relaxed,
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  Speaker 1: that just don't worry about anything. And then he goes on,
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  Speaker 1: the apostle Paul says to us, be anxious for nothing.
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  Speaker 1: But in everything with prayer and supplication, make your requests
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  Speaker 1: made known unto God. Yeah, that thing right there, the
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  Speaker 1: peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall guard your heart,
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  Speaker 1: your mind, your emotions. I need security, not around my body,
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  Speaker 1: but around my emotions to keep away the anxiety and
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  Speaker 1: the depression and the fear. And he's telling me to
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  Speaker 1: be anxious for nothing. And yet, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: the wise man Solomon in Ecclesiastes tells me to look
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  Speaker 1: on the ant, you sluggard. And prepare for winter while
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  Speaker 1: it's summer. Not to waste my days in vanity, but
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  Speaker 1: to have a strategy that incorporates sustenance for survival. These
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  Speaker 1: things seem contradictory one to the other. And then I
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  Speaker 1: look at Joseph, whose strategy was so complete that he
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  Speaker 1: used the seven years of plenty against the seven years
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  Speaker 1: of famine. And he controlled what was next by the
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  Speaker 1: way he thought. And when I look at the two
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  Speaker 1: things together, I get confused because I'm a strategist by nature.
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  Speaker 1: And when Jesus says take no thought, It goes against
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  Speaker 1: everything in me not to take thought. My sister texted
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  Speaker 1: us last night and said, be sure you leave your
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  Speaker 1: water running. It's going to freeze. I immediately turned the
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  Speaker 1: shower on just real low, just a drip because we
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  Speaker 1: old school. That's why you have to be over 50
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  Speaker 1: to get texts like that. When you're 20, you don't
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  Speaker 1: get texts like that. But when you're over 50, you
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  Speaker 1: get texts to leave your water running. And while I
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  Speaker 1: believe God for my pipes, and I believe God to
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  Speaker 1: take care of my house, I still kept my water running.
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  Speaker 1: We just came out of a season where there was
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  Speaker 1: a national debate about wearing masks. You know, and they
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  Speaker 1: said if you had faith, you wouldn't wear them. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe God. But, you know, I noticed that the
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  Speaker 1: people who said faith would make them not wear them
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  Speaker 1: wore seatbelts. So, I thought if you really had faith,
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  Speaker 1: unbuckle your seatbelt. So what does it mean to lead
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  Speaker 1: in turbulent times and how does faith express itself in
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  Speaker 1: times that are perplexing? It creates stress, not only because
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  Speaker 1: of what we are enduring, but how does our faith
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  Speaker 1: show up in the crisis? What does that look like?
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  Speaker 1: And for different people, you will get different answers. Some
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  Speaker 1: people say they have so much faith, they don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about anything So they don't have life insurance or health
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  Speaker 1: insurance or anything like that. I'm serious. They don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about anything. They don't go to doctors. They don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about anything. They could drive on the wrong side of
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  Speaker 1: the road. They don't worry about any. How does faith
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  Speaker 1: show up in a crisis? How does faith manifest itself
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  Speaker 1: when God himself tells us to be strategic and rewards
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  Speaker 1: Joseph for the strategy? And Joseph becomes the prince of
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  Speaker 1: Egypt because he's thinking ahead and yet Jesus says take
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  Speaker 1: no thought. But if I only take that phrase without
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  Speaker 1: reading the rest of the text, Jesus isn't telling us
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  Speaker 1: to be mindless. Amen. He is not telling us to
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  Speaker 1: be mindless. He's telling us not to worry. He's not
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  Speaker 1: saying we can't have a strategy. He's telling us not
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  Speaker 1: to worry. He's managing our emotions against anxiety. When the
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  Speaker 1: apostle Paul says, be anxious for nothing. It didn't tell
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  Speaker 1: you not to want something. It just says not to
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  Speaker 1: be anxious about it. Don't allow your emotions to make
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  Speaker 1: you frantic just because you have a plan. Are you
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  Speaker 1: hearing what I'm saying? One of my favorite quotes out
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  Speaker 1: of then Senator Obama, later President Obama, wrote a book
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  Speaker 1: called The Audacity of Hope. And he says, and I quote,
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  Speaker 1: I now realize that the presence of doubt doesn't diminish
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  Speaker 1: the presence of faith. That it is possible to have doubt.
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  Speaker 1: I lost him, Jesus. and faith simultaneously. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why I lost you because I'm talking about you.
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  Speaker 1: There is no question that you believe God, but there
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  Speaker 1: are still moments that you stay up at night. How
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  Speaker 1: does faith show up in our life in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of a crisis when the prophecy was positive, but the
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  Speaker 1: circumstance has now entered into a season of chaos? David
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  Speaker 1: is a leader. He is a leader, not because Samuel
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  Speaker 1: anointed him. He is a leader. People cannot make you
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  Speaker 1: what you are not. Let me give you further reference.
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  Speaker 1: God says to Moses, anoint men to be elders that
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  Speaker 1: you know to be elders. I cannot make you something
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  Speaker 1: by giving you a title or a desk or an
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  Speaker 1: office or a position. If you are not that, you
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  Speaker 1: are not that. Let me go deeper. A degree doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make you a teacher. You can have a degree in
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  Speaker 1: education and still not be a teacher. A teacher is
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  Speaker 1: something that's in you. Oh, I'm going to go deeper.
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  Speaker 1: A ring doesn't make you a wife. You can put
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  Speaker 1: a ring on a man's hand, it doesn't make him
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  Speaker 1: a husband. You can put a ring on a woman's hand,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't make her a wife. The Bible said, whosoever
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  Speaker 1: findeth a wife, findeth a good thing. So she has
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  Speaker 1: to be a wife when I find her. If I
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  Speaker 1: don't find her a wife, I can't make her a
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  Speaker 1: David is a king. He is a king. He is
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  Speaker 1: a leader. But his situations in the text do not
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  Speaker 1: reflect the magnitude of his capacity to lead. What do
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  Speaker 1: you do when your life don't look like who you are?
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  Speaker 1: What do you do when you go through a season
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  Speaker 1: in your life that stands in the face of your
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  Speaker 1: prophecy and mocks it like Ishmael mocking Isaac? And you
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  Speaker 1: look out the window and you can see the promise
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  Speaker 1: and the problem playing in the same backyard. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever had your promise and your problem playing in the
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  Speaker 1: same backyard? There are times, my brothers and sisters, that
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  Speaker 1: you preach power and you drive home crying. There are times,
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  Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters, that you say to those with
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  Speaker 1: whom you have the responsibility of leading, if it's not
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of children, don't worry, baby, everything's going to
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  Speaker 1: be okay. And you go to bed and you think, oh, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Can I get a witness in here? Are there any
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  Speaker 1: mamas in here or daddies in here that told the
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  Speaker 1: kids don't worry about it. That's not yours to worry about.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be fine. And you went back and
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  Speaker 1: you got in the car and you drove around and
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  Speaker 1: around and around in circles saying. Such is the moment
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  Speaker 1: before us now. For David has come to the cave
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  Speaker 1: of Adullam, he has escaped Gath. Gath is a city
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  Speaker 1: amongst the Philistines at the time. The Philistines is where
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  Speaker 1: David went to hide because the people that he was
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  Speaker 1: leading and the army that he was once assigned captain
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  Speaker 1: of is now hunting him. Y'all didn't get that. His
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  Speaker 1: own folks are hunting him to the degree that he
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  Speaker 1: is safer with the enemy than he is with the family.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you can't say anything because your family
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  Speaker 1: might be watching on TV. But the holidays are coming.
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  Speaker 1: And you got mixed emotions about them coming. Because all
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  Speaker 1: of us don't have the kind of families we see
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  Speaker 1: on TV. And you know they're all coming over inspecting everything.
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  Speaker 1: tasting everything, complaining about anything, asking you where, how come
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  Speaker 1: you ain't had children? How come you're not married yet?
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  Speaker 1: What did you put in this dressing? Where did you
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  Speaker 1: get this from? What is this supposed to be? This
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  Speaker 1: turkey is dry and you got to deal to the
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  Speaker 1: point that you are safer with the enemy than you
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  Speaker 1: are with your own family. Everybody's got some folks in
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  Speaker 1: their family that you are related to but you're not
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  Speaker 1: kin to. And their rejection of him after his loyalty
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  Speaker 1: to them and his service to them and his kindness
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  Speaker 1: to them and his endurance and patience for them has
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  Speaker 1: driven him to run to Gath. Gath is the place
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  Speaker 1: where the giants dwell. Gath is the place where the
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  Speaker 1: Philistines live. And he thought they wouldn't recognize him. But
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  Speaker 1: he could only stay amongst them so long. Because you
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  Speaker 1: can only run so long. And eventually they discovered him.
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  Speaker 1: But David is so gifted and so creative that David
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  Speaker 1: feigns himself to be insane. Or he would have been murdered.
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you got to go crazy to get out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't understand what I'm saying. Sometimes you got to
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  Speaker 1: go crazy, not crazy, crazy to get out of it
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  Speaker 1: because people are trying to take you out and you
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  Speaker 1: just got to flip all the way around. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's only maybe, maybe, maybe about 10 people in here
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  Speaker 1: have ever had somebody push you till you went... I mean,
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  Speaker 1: pull your wig off crazy. Uh-huh, yeah. I mean, yank
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  Speaker 1: your earrings off crazy. I mean, kick your stilettos off crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I said, okay, you want crazy? You got... You got...
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  Speaker 1: You got... It's not good to push us too far.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think because we're anointed we won't flip on you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: don't let the hallelujah fool you. I was talking to God.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't talking to you. And if you push me
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  Speaker 1: in a corner, don't make me have to show you
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  Speaker 1: why he had to anoint me in the first place
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  Speaker 1: because I need this anointing. If I don't get this anointing,
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  Speaker 1: I told somebody I was messing with one of my
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  Speaker 1: children I said now I know who you think she
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  Speaker 1: is but she not who you think she is if
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  Speaker 1: you push her far enough you gonna she gonna go
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  Speaker 1: to foaming on you she gonna go to foaming on
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  Speaker 1: you you gonna find out all the muscles in the
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  Speaker 1: world ain't gonna help you cause she gonna go Is
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  Speaker 1: there anybody in here that ever had to go crazy
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  Speaker 1: because somebody was trying to dominate, control, intimidate, isolate, destroy,
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  Speaker 1: curse you, humiliate you, degrade you, and you've been as
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  Speaker 1: nice as you knew how to be nice, and finally
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  Speaker 1: it gets to a point where you say, that ain't working.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to turn into something that I
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  Speaker 1: don't even like to be to make you understand. You
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  Speaker 1: talking to me? And the king of the Philistines came
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  Speaker 1: down and said, why have you summoned me when you
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  Speaker 1: can clearly see this man is crazy? I'm just talking
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  Speaker 1: about what the text says. And I know that's not
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  Speaker 1: politically correct, but that's what the text says. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about what the text says. And so David escaped.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever escaped? Didn't have time to pack. gotta
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  Speaker 1: escape didn't have time to do your hair to get
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  Speaker 1: your nails done get a pedicure none of that kind
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  Speaker 1: of cute stuff like that no shave no trim no
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  Speaker 1: line cuz I gotta escape The word escape, see, the
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  Speaker 1: first word was left, and then it says escape. It's
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  Speaker 1: one thing to leave. It's another thing to escape. Some
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  Speaker 1: of us are here today because we escaped. If we'd
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  Speaker 1: have kept on the path we were on, we would
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  Speaker 1: have been destroyed, but we escaped. And the reason we
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  Speaker 1: were dancing, he's my everything, because we were thinking back,
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  Speaker 1: remembering how we escaped. When I start thinking about all
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  Speaker 1: the things I escaped and all the near calamities and disasters.
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  Speaker 1: When you got to escape, you got to escape. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you got to scale down, even if you have
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  Speaker 1: to downsize, even if you have to give up the
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  Speaker 1: palace and live in a cave, when enough is enough,
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  Speaker 1: I'll live in a trailer. You're not going to intimidate
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  Speaker 1: me with what you got because I can break it
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  Speaker 1: down up in here. And he escaped to the cave
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  Speaker 1: of Adullam. Now, Scholars tell us that the cave of
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  Speaker 1: Adullam isn't far from the valley he killed Goliath in.
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  Speaker 1: It is not far away. So we find David in
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  Speaker 1: a place where he thinks, by now, I thought I
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  Speaker 1: would be further. I really, for all the things I
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  Speaker 1: had to fight, I'm not that far from where I
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  Speaker 1: started from. It isn't far from where he was anointed
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  Speaker 1: to be king. And the people he's anointed to be
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  Speaker 1: king over are trying to kill him. Because sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: people You want to help the most. Seek to destroy
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  Speaker 1: you and take his life. He's not far from where
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  Speaker 1: he was anointed to be king, but his circumstances seem
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  Speaker 1: millions of miles away from his success. And frankly, he
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  Speaker 1: is a king in a crisis. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who this is for. But the Lord told me to
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  Speaker 1: tell you you're a king. Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait.
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  Speaker 1: You may be in a cave, but you are a king.
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  Speaker 1: So then, I then begin to question in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: how can David be a king, Lord, without a kingdom?
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  Speaker 1: A leader without a following. A wife without a husband.
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  Speaker 1: A husband without a wife. And suddenly I began to
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  Speaker 1: understand by God's standards that God doesn't define success by
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  Speaker 1: public approvals. My circumstances may be in direct contradiction with
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  Speaker 1: who I am, but it cannot rob me of who
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  Speaker 1: I am. I am a doctor if I don't have
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  Speaker 1: an office. I am an architect if I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a client. I am a good person even if you
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  Speaker 1: don't like me. I do have worth even if you
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  Speaker 1: don't recognize it. Your reaction does not determine my identity.
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  Speaker 1: He is a king in a cave. I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: some people today. I'm talking to some people today. You see,
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  Speaker 1: how do we end up in a Doolam? A Doolam,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, means refuge and you find yourself in
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  Speaker 1: a place living like a refugee running from a king
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  Speaker 1: kingdom that doesn't want you and an enemy that's trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill you he is in a cave alone a
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  Speaker 1: ruler without a domain. I am. It may not look
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  Speaker 1: like it but I am. You may not follow me
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  Speaker 1: but I'm a leader. You may not acknowledge me but
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  Speaker 1: I'm a leader. You can call me by my name, Jakes. Hey, Jakes,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Say whatever you want to say. But
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  Speaker 1: if it's in you, it's in you. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: of what's around you. I'm talking to what is in you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you hide in. If you are,
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  Speaker 1: you are what you are. In the middle of it all,
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  Speaker 1: David is anointed. But the question comes, can I go deeper?
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  Speaker 1: Is anointing enough? He's anointed, but he has no experience.
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  Speaker 1: All education doesn't come in institutions. Some education comes through experience.
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  Speaker 1: And you can be anointed to be something, but haven't
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  Speaker 1: earned the experience to be established on the level that
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  Speaker 1: you're in. And the distance between his anointing and him
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  Speaker 1: actually acquiring that which he is anointed to run requires
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  Speaker 1: that he has a body of experiences established. that temper
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  Speaker 1: him in such a way that he learns, like Paul,
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  Speaker 1: how to abase and abound, how to have lack and
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  Speaker 1: how to have plenty. He has learned that the state
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  Speaker 1: he's in does not define who he is. So we
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  Speaker 1: meet him in the cave, his head freshly doused with oil,
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  Speaker 1: but his mind is void of experience. Experience is no
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  Speaker 1: small thing. When your anointing is powerful, your apprenticeship will
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  Speaker 1: be painful. Y'all didn't hear what I'm saying. When your
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  Speaker 1: anointing is powerful, your apprenticeship will be painful because God
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  Speaker 1: won't give that kind of power and not balance it
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  Speaker 1: with that kind of pain. The greater the pain, the
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  Speaker 1: greater the power. If you're going to have the power,
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  Speaker 1: you got to be prepared to deal with the pain.
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  Speaker 1: The pain is a part of the power. And in fact,
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  Speaker 1: you will understand who you are by who hates you
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  Speaker 1: David is hated by a king because he is a king.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have pain that's commensurate, not to your situation,
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  Speaker 1: but to your identity. When you are a king, your
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  Speaker 1: name will be brought up amongst kings. And don't be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if your enemies don't graduate today. with your anointing
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  Speaker 1: to another level and your frustration is commensurate to your anointing.
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  Speaker 1: Let me break it down plain. New levels bring new devils.
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  Speaker 1: When you get to another level, you've got another level
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  Speaker 1: of devil to fight. David killed Philistines and now he's
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  Speaker 1: had to flee them. He killed their giants. And now
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  Speaker 1: he has to flee them. He is in a dulem.
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  Speaker 1: I almost named this church a dulem ministries. And before
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  Speaker 1: I finish, you're going to see why. He is in
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  Speaker 1: a dulem. No one seeks refuge without some element of fear.
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  Speaker 1: Yet David has undeniable faith. There is no one in
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  Speaker 1: here that can honestly say that David has no faith
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  Speaker 1: because David has thrown rocks at giants. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to some people in this room that didn't have
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  Speaker 1: much to work with, but you worked with what you
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  Speaker 1: had and you threw rocks. at Giants and you ran
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  Speaker 1: after stuff that other people were running from and you
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  Speaker 1: had the nerve to be indignant, didn't have an AK-47,
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a cannon, didn't have a gun, didn't own
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  Speaker 1: a chariot. All you had was a bag full of rocks,
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  Speaker 1: but you had the nerve to be bold with your
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  Speaker 1: bag of rocks and you threw your rocks at the
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  Speaker 1: problem till the thing fell down. If I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: you holler at your boy. So there is no question
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  Speaker 1: that you have faith, but you wouldn't run for refuge
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't have fear. So there has to be
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  Speaker 1: some element of truth to the fact that the presence
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  Speaker 1: of fear or doubt does not mean that you don't
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  Speaker 1: have faith. Let me prove it by the Bible. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I believe. But help my unbelief. I'm in a dulum
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  Speaker 1: because I believe, but I have elements of unbelief. I
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  Speaker 1: stretched out on your word and I walked on water.
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  Speaker 1: But when I saw the winds and waves, I said,
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  Speaker 1: oh my God, I'm walking on water and I began
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  Speaker 1: to sink. So I have both things living in me
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. And I don't know whether to
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  Speaker 1: fight or the Philistines or fight the other voices that
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  Speaker 1: are coming up in my head because I got a
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  Speaker 1: fight on the inside and a fight on the outside
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. And every now and then I
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  Speaker 1: need a break. Let me get away. Let me regroup.
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  Speaker 1: Let me run into a cave. Let me get my
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  Speaker 1: head together because I don't know what to do next.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: to do. I don't know what to do. The crisis
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  Speaker 1: is not the current because I have survived this present danger.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not so worried about this present danger. I got
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  Speaker 1: out of it. It was close, Jackie, but I made it.
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  Speaker 1: They tried to kill me, but I made it. It
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  Speaker 1: broke my heart, but I made it. I hid amongst
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  Speaker 1: my enemies, but I made it. I had to go crazy,
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  Speaker 1: but I made it. I've been through hell, but I
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  Speaker 1: made it. But now that I have survived, problem is
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  Speaker 1: not what I survived because I made it to safe.
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  Speaker 1: A dulem is safe. You can't have refuge in a
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  Speaker 1: place that's not safe. How many folks know you're safe?
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  Speaker 1: You may not be satisfied, but you're safe. You may
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  Speaker 1: not have attained what you hope to attain, but you're safe.
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  Speaker 1: You count not yourself to have apprehended, but you're safe.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to rub that in the devil's face
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  Speaker 1: because he didn't want you to be safe. If you
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  Speaker 1: made it to safe, I want you to take the
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  Speaker 1: roof off of this building right now. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You got a right to praise him. You could have
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  Speaker 1: been dead. You could have lost your mind. You could
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  Speaker 1: have been destroyed. You got a right to praise him.
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  Speaker 1: I said you got a right to praise him. I
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  Speaker 1: said you got a right to praise him. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care whether they understand it or don't. You got a
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  Speaker 1: right to praise him. I don't care whether they like
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  Speaker 1: you or don't. You got a right to praise him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if they roll their eyes at you
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  Speaker 1: or don't. You got a right to praise him. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: that was on the hit list of hell and you're
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  Speaker 1: still here, you need to take a minute and give
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  Speaker 1: your God some... I may not have the car I want,
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  Speaker 1: I'm safe. I may not wear name brand clothes but
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  Speaker 1: I'm safe. I may not have the house of my
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  Speaker 1: dreams or the family I wanted but I made it
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  Speaker 1: to safe. I can't hear you. Make some noise in
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  Speaker 1: this place. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Three people tell him I made it past danger. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I made it. I made it. I made it. I
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  Speaker 1: made it. I made it. I made it past danger.
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  Speaker 1: I made it past danger. Ain't nobody beating me. Ain't
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  Speaker 1: nobody knocking me upside the head. Ain't nobody gonna put
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  Speaker 1: me out of my apartment. I made it past danger.
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  Speaker 1: I made it past my scary place. I made it
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  Speaker 1: moving into another city. I made it. I made it.
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  Speaker 1: I figured it out. I got there. I come this
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  Speaker 1: far by faith, leaning on the Lord. I made it
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  Speaker 1: out of my scary place. I'm still here. You praising
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  Speaker 1: him about your car. I'm praising him about my safe.
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  Speaker 1: You praising him about your palace. I'm praising him because
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  Speaker 1: I'm safe. I'm not crazy. I didn't lose my mind.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't blow my brains out. I should have been
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  Speaker 1: locked up in jail, but I made it to safe.
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  Speaker 1: To God be the glory. It is not this kind
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  Speaker 1: of danger that has me on my knees. It is
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  Speaker 1: not my now. It's my next. It is the uncertainty,
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  Speaker 1: the instability, the fragility, the vulnerability of not knowing God.
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  Speaker 1: What's next? Is there anybody in here that ever wonders
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  Speaker 1: what's next? The kingdom that God promised me is trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill me. The men that I trained under Saul
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  Speaker 1: have attacked me. And I am running from a king
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  Speaker 1: to a cave. And I'm here. And I'm safe. But
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  Speaker 1: what keeps me up at night is what's next. I
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  Speaker 1: can pay my bills. I'm okay, I'm safe. I got
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  Speaker 1: some food in the icebox. I'm safe. When the weather change,
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  Speaker 1: I can turn the heat on. I'm safe. But what
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  Speaker 1: worries me is the crisis of next. A dulem is
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  Speaker 1: a good place for hangover, a layover, but I can't
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  Speaker 1: live in a layover. And the Lord told me to
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  Speaker 1: tell you why he put you in a dulem. I
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  Speaker 1: only read two verses and because that's all I need.
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  Speaker 1: A doolum is when you find out who you are
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  Speaker 1: without them. Oh, y'all don't hear how good I'm preaching
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  Speaker 1: this morning. A dulem is the place that God puts
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  Speaker 1: you in of self-discovery where you learn to appreciate who
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  Speaker 1: you are apart from all the people you thought were
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  Speaker 1: going to go with you. A dulem is the place
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  Speaker 1: that God puts you in that makes you know I'm
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  Speaker 1: a king if I don't have a kingdom. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: grown woman. I'm a grown man. I bring something to
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  Speaker 1: the table. I'm the CEO of me. I'm the chief
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  Speaker 1: executive officer of myself. A dulem is where you learn
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  Speaker 1: to have confidence and boldness and self-esteem. A dulem is
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  Speaker 1: where you get your courage back. A dulem is where
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  Speaker 1: you come out of your coma and you come to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And God has proven to you that if nobody is
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  Speaker 1: for you, I'm still for you. I'm on your side.
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  Speaker 1: I got your back. I'm fighting. So a dulem is
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  Speaker 1: where you get three things. First, you get you back.
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  Speaker 1: A dulem is where you find out you are enough.
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  Speaker 1: A dulem is where God puts you in a place
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  Speaker 1: that you never thought you could get to in all
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  Speaker 1: the world and a new normal emerges in your life.
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  Speaker 1: And God didn't let you get the kingdom the way
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  Speaker 1: you thought you were going to get the kingdom because
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  Speaker 1: you weren't ready yet. If God would have given you
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom the way you thought you were going to
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  Speaker 1: get the kingdom, you would have praised the kingdom. But
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  Speaker 1: God put you in a dulem so that when you
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  Speaker 1: do get the kingdom, you will praise the God of
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom because you will understand. that if it had
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  Speaker 1: not been for the Lord that was on your side
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  Speaker 1: oh God I feel like preaching I would have been
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  Speaker 1: swallowed up but thanks be unto God thanks be unto
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  Speaker 1: God but thanks be unto God who gives us the
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  Speaker 1: victory somebody shout God gave me the victory God gave
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  Speaker 1: me the victory. Jonathan didn't do it. Saul didn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: Riches didn't do it. God gave me the victory. If
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  Speaker 1: there's anybody in the house that God gave the victory,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a chance to identify yourself.
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  Speaker 1: So the scripture only says three important things. One, David
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  Speaker 1: fled and escaped to Adullam. Two, his brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: and family came to where he was. Don't read over
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  Speaker 1: that because they was the folks there. who never let
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  Speaker 1: him into their circle. But God has so turned it
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  Speaker 1: around that while David couldn't get in, they had to
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  Speaker 1: turn around and come to where he was. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm talking to, but whatever you're worried about,
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  Speaker 1: God said, in your family, I'm going to turn it around.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to turn it around. You just stay right
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  Speaker 1: where I put you. I'm going to bring them to you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to legitimize you. I'm going to validate you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to restore unto you the years that the
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  Speaker 1: canker worm and the palmer worm and the locust ate up.
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  Speaker 1: And if you just be still, they're going to come
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  Speaker 1: to you. When you have grown enough that he can
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  Speaker 1: trust you to bring them. When you aren't so bitter
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  Speaker 1: that he cannot bring better. So he puts you in
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  Speaker 1: the cave so that when they come you wouldn't act
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  Speaker 1: out on them over what they took you through. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my God. Who am I preaching to? He said, I
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  Speaker 1: got to give you a layover because you're not ready
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  Speaker 1: to land yet. I got to give you a layover
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  Speaker 1: so you can get your head together so that when
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  Speaker 1: I start pulling your life together, you will be healed
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  Speaker 1: enough to receive the people who rejected you. Right now
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  Speaker 1: you're in a state of rejection and you have anger
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: and hostility about how they treated you. But I had
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  Speaker 1: to take you through a worse enemy to bring you
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  Speaker 1: to a place that you could deal with a lesser enemy.
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  Speaker 1: So I let the other folk try to kill you
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  Speaker 1: so that you could measure what they did against what
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  Speaker 1: your family did and you'd open up your cave. Slack
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  Speaker 1: somebody and say, open up your cave. They're coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Open up your cave. Open up your safe place. Open
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  Speaker 1: it up. They're coming back. Open it up. They're coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Open it up. They're coming back. Open it up. Open
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  Speaker 1: it up. Open it up. Open it up. Open it up.
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  Speaker 1: Open it up. So number one, he found, you found you.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, you found your family. Number three is the
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  Speaker 1: one I love the best. There were men in Saul's
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  Speaker 1: army that weren't really with Saul. Sometimes the host that
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  Speaker 1: encamps around you is not really in agreement with the
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  Speaker 1: attack against you. And God has to let you survive
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  Speaker 1: long enough for them to recognize that I've been on
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  Speaker 1: the wrong side of this story. And the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: That David gathered. No, no, no, no. He didn't gather them.
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  Speaker 1: They came to him. That's what the text says. 400
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  Speaker 1: men came to him. And the Bible says they were
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  Speaker 1: in three categories. They were distressed. They were in debt.
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  Speaker 1: And they were discontented. And they came to him. What
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  Speaker 1: comes to you will always be a reflection of where
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  Speaker 1: you are. You will always attract what you are. Because
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  Speaker 1: David was in distress. And David was in debt. And
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  Speaker 1: David was discontented. He drew what he was. Amen. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't get that. Y'all don't get how good that is.
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  Speaker 1: 400 times God multiplied 400 times of what David was. Distress, debt,
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  Speaker 1: and discontentment all recognized him. Because they could relate To him.
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  Speaker 1: And they came. You don't. See this is what you
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  Speaker 1: got to see. Let me make sure you get it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to go after what's next. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: said what's next is coming to you. You just stand
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  Speaker 1: right there in a dueling. Now that you've come to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: stop trying to figure it out. Stop trying to work
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  Speaker 1: it out. Stop trying to make it happen. Just stand
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  Speaker 1: right there in the cave. God said, whatever's yours, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to send it to you. Whatever I got for you,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to come right to you. You ain't going
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  Speaker 1: to have to fight for it. You ain't going to
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  Speaker 1: have to prove nothing for it. All you got to
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  Speaker 1: do is stand there. They're going to find you in
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  Speaker 1: your cave. So his self found him. His family found him.
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  Speaker 1: His people found him. 400 times where you are. 400
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  Speaker 1: times more of where you are. And the Bible said
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  Speaker 1: when they found him, they made him their leader. Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. I'm almost done. His majesty of the moment.
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  Speaker 1: David was alone. And now in a cave, which really
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a cave, but that's another lesson. In a cave,
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  Speaker 1: he now has his whole family has come back together
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  Speaker 1: through the worst circumstances. God uses the worst stuff to
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  Speaker 1: bring about the best results. They have come into realignment
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  Speaker 1: in a way they've never been in alignment before. Wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute. And 400 times where he was, these men
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  Speaker 1: left Saul, heard where David was, And came to him
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  Speaker 1: with me. At this point, Saul is the greater and
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  Speaker 1: David is the lesser. God says, I'm going to draw
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  Speaker 1: people whose decisions don't make sense. They're going to leave
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  Speaker 1: greater opportunities for connectivity. It's not going to be about cash.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be about connectivity. Because of all the
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  Speaker 1: things you've been through, they know you can relate to them.
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  Speaker 1: They are going to come to you and make them
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  Speaker 1: your leader, not because of the oil on your head,
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  Speaker 1: but because of the experiences you endured. You have earned
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  Speaker 1: the right to lead by the things you suffered. Who
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  Speaker 1: am I talking to? I got an anointing on me
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  Speaker 1: for leaders. I got an anointing on me for people
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  Speaker 1: who don't even recognize that you're a leader. because all
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  Speaker 1: you can see is your cave and your situation and
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  Speaker 1: your circumstance but that's where you're getting your credentials I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna show you one more thing and I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: finished your shadow God said, before I show you this,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I want you to emphasize this point because
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: they don't get it yet. Make sure they get that
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  Speaker 1: I am drawing them now. They're coming up the path.
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  Speaker 1: They're coming over the rocks. They're coming over the heels.
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  Speaker 1: They're coming, they're coming, they're coming. They're coming, they're coming,
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  Speaker 1: they're coming. Some people are following you who never followed
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  Speaker 1: you before. Some people are listening at you who never
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  Speaker 1: listened at you before. Some people are hooking up with
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  Speaker 1: you who were on the other side attacking you. They're
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  Speaker 1: switching sides right now. God said, he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: your vindicator. He's going to be your defense attorney. He's
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: going to stand up for you. You don't have to
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: fight the battle. The battle is not yours. The battle
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  Speaker 1: belongs to God. Distressed. I said, Lord, that's everything I
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: built my ministry on. That's why I almost called it
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: a doula. Because I'm anointed to minister to people in distress.
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  Speaker 1: I'm anointed to minister to people whose hearts are overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm anointed to minister to people not only that are
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: in distress, but are in debt. I will turn somebody
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  Speaker 1: in debt into a business owner, into an entrepreneur, into
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  Speaker 1: a leader in their community. I will take you from
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  Speaker 1: welfare to somewhere. I will preach to you until your
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  Speaker 1: lights come back on. I will preach to you until
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  Speaker 1: you leave the garage apartment and end up owning the
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  Speaker 1: whole building. I got an anointing. To cause you to prosper.
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  Speaker 1: That when I start ministering the gospel, money comes. Influence comes.
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  Speaker 1: Favor comes. Glory comes. There are some people in this
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  Speaker 1: room that can testify that ever since you've been eating
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  Speaker 1: this word, things have been turning around in your favor.
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  Speaker 1: There's an anointing on me. But I had to suffer first.
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  Speaker 1: I had to do without work first. I had to
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  Speaker 1: dig ditches first. I had to get weak first. But
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: the Bible said, after you suffer a while, I'll establish
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  Speaker 1: you and make you perfect. And there's something down in
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  Speaker 1: me that I will draw people who are in distress,
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  Speaker 1: in debt. And the third one is the most important, discontentment.
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  Speaker 1: I draw people discontented because these are the people who
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  Speaker 1: suspect that there's something greater in them. you every person
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  Speaker 1: in this church is either walking into your destiny or
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: suspicious that you got a destiny your discontentment is a
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  Speaker 1: sign from the spirit that where you are is not
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  Speaker 1: where you're going to be and you're willing to put
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  Speaker 1: the work in to go to the next level if
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  Speaker 1: I got that part right if I understand my anointing
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  Speaker 1: if I understand my gifting if I understand my glory
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  Speaker 1: I Holler at me right now. What I got ain't
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  Speaker 1: for everybody. I don't worry about my haters. I don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about the people who don't get it. They don't
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  Speaker 1: understand my numbers. They don't understand it's not for you.
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  Speaker 1: Everything God got for me, he's going to bring it
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  Speaker 1: to me. He'll make you move. He'll make you change cities.
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  Speaker 1: He'll make you come to conferences you've never been to.
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  Speaker 1: been to before you'll change armies you'll switch sides and
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  Speaker 1: the same anointing that's on me is on you you
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  Speaker 1: are a magnet you are a drawing force you got
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  Speaker 1: power to move stuff you just stand still it's coming
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  Speaker 1: slap seven people and tell them it's coming Everything you've
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  Speaker 1: been praying for. Everything you've been waiting on. Everything you've
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  Speaker 1: been worried about. Everything you've been doing without. Your money
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  Speaker 1: is coming. Your family is coming. Your people are coming.
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  Speaker 1: Your kingdom is coming. Your influence is coming. Your credibility
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  Speaker 1: is coming. Your strength is coming. Your power is coming.
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  Speaker 1: Your favor is coming. Your will is coming. Your fight
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  Speaker 1: is coming. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. It's coming. It's coming.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. Slap somebody. Say next.
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  Speaker 1: Your next is coming. Your next is coming. Your next.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what the devil does. He can't stop
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  Speaker 1: it from coming. Inflation can't stop it. Recession can't stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Racism can't stop it. Genderism can't stop it. Pride can't
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  Speaker 1: stop it. Your past can't stop it. What God has
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  Speaker 1: for you is for you. God said your next is
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  Speaker 1: in the bag. Sarah, the Lord said, the next time
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  Speaker 1: you go in that building where Woman Evolved is going
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  Speaker 1: to be, take as many women as you can with you.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, anoint. every seat in that building and
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  Speaker 1: pray in the holy ghost and stand in the center
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  Speaker 1: of it and shout and god's going to draw them
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  Speaker 1: from the north the south the east and the west
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  Speaker 1: you ain't got to worry about him coming god said
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna do the drawing I don't know who I'm
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  Speaker 1: preaching to. In this place, there are people that need
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  Speaker 1: a financial breakthrough to build what you're trying to build.
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  Speaker 1: But the finances are on their way. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to shout like it's already here. Shout like it's already done.
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  Speaker 1: Shout like he's already got it. Oh, you playing around. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you playing around. Oh, you can't believe it. You better
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  Speaker 1: open your mouth. You are drawn to this ministry because
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  Speaker 1: you are kin to this minister. And what God did
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  Speaker 1: in my life is just a reflection. It's just a commercial.
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  Speaker 1: It's just an offering of what he's about to do
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  Speaker 1: in your life. God is about to flip it all
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  Speaker 1: the way around. This is not a sermon. It's a prophecy.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a sermon. It's a prophetic utterance. This
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  Speaker 1: is not a sermon. It's a word sent from God.
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  Speaker 1: The crisis of next is God is bringing your next
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  Speaker 1: into your now. Some of you don't have a money problem.
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  Speaker 1: You have a people problem. You can't find the right
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  Speaker 1: people that you need to be around you, to incubate
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  Speaker 1: what God has put inside of you. But God said
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  Speaker 1: he's got 400 people. He's gonna wrap around your vision
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna wrap around what you're trying to build he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna wrap it around that school he's gonna wrap it
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  Speaker 1: around that business he's gonna wrap it around that nursery
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna wrap it around that vision and they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: cross over from bigger and better jobs to come to
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  Speaker 1: be with you because as you discover who you are,
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  Speaker 1: your magnetism is going to pull them from where they are.
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  Speaker 1: Slap somebody and say, get ready, they're coming. You haven't
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  Speaker 1: met them, but they're coming. You don't know them, but
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  Speaker 1: they're coming. You haven't seen them, but they're coming. They're
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  Speaker 1: wearing the wrong uniform, but they're coming. You're a little
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  Speaker 1: bit scared of them, but they're coming. God is about
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  Speaker 1: to raise them up. Now hush and hear me good. Hush, hush,
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  Speaker 1: hear me good. Your discontentment that you hide from everybody
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  Speaker 1: is not demonic. It is prophetic. Your discontentment has been
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  Speaker 1: placed inside of you to keep you from settling down.
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  Speaker 1: to be less than what you were created to be.
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  Speaker 1: Your discontentment is what he uses to give you the
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  Speaker 1: courage to cause disruption. Because if you were contented, you
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  Speaker 1: would be passive and you would stay where you are.
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  Speaker 1: But God scared you up. And I stirred you up.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle of the night. And you don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to talk to people about it. Because people say.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to stay where you are. You got it good.
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  Speaker 1: You got it together. You're already established. But you can't
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  Speaker 1: settle for that. Because your spirit knows. That your next
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  Speaker 1: is not in your now. And you're getting right down.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting ready to make a shift. Somebody better get
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  Speaker 1: this mic for me. Because I swear it's burning. In
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  Speaker 1: my hands. There is going to be a relief. Every
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  Speaker 1: discontented person, raise your hand. Every person who's suspicious that
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  Speaker 1: there's something else in you, raise your hand. Every person
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  Speaker 1: in you that is taunted by the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: have not lived your fullest dream. You have not climbed
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  Speaker 1: your highest mountain. You have not done everything that's down
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  Speaker 1: inside of you, raise your hand. And stop being troubled
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  Speaker 1: by the discontentment because God is going to use it
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  Speaker 1: to draw you out. He's going to use it to
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  Speaker 1: pull you into exceptionalism. If you weren't discontented, you would
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  Speaker 1: be lazy. Your discontentment is sent into your life to
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  Speaker 1: drive you into your destiny. So stop wrestling with it
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  Speaker 1: and use it to climb this hill. Your David is
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  Speaker 1: waiting on you. Your destiny is waiting on you in
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: the crisis of next life. is broken by the message
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  Speaker 1: of now. This word that I have delivered to you
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  Speaker 1: now is God's answer to the prayer you've been praying
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  Speaker 1: about what's next. God said, you aren't gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: make it happen. You're gonna get to watch it happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming in your direction. And it's coming soon. 400
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  Speaker 1: times above everything you went through. And when I was
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  Speaker 1: studying the text, Dr. James, there was a point that
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  Speaker 1: I discovered these men that came to him. And when
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  Speaker 1: they came to him, they were in distress. They were
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  Speaker 1: in debt and they were in discontentment. But when he
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  Speaker 1: finished with them, By the time we get to 2 Chronicles,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible does not describe them as being in distress
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  Speaker 1: or debt or discontentment. 2 Chronicles says that they have
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  Speaker 1: become mighty men of valor with swords and force and might.
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  Speaker 1: And God said what they're going to come to you.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this in seed form of what they're going to be.
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  Speaker 1: And it is your job. To bring about the transformation
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  Speaker 1: into what they are capable of being. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: come distressed, in debt, and they're going to come discontented.
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  Speaker 1: But God said you are not to lead them like
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  Speaker 1: he sends them. Nor be discouraged because he didn't send
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  Speaker 1: you a finished product. He's sending it to you in
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  Speaker 1: seed form. And you're going to have to turn them
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  Speaker 1: into what God wants you to have to rule with.
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  Speaker 1: So instead of turning them into a gang or a mob.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: He strengthened their skills. He mentored their potentials. And they
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: became mighty men of valor. They were never described again
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  Speaker 1: the way he found them. Because the impact of his
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  Speaker 1: influence was so great that the more men he gathered,
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  Speaker 1: the more he transformed them into what they were going
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: to be. And this is the beginning of the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: The kingdom come. You are on the verge of ushering
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom. This is bigger than church. This is
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: bigger than church. This is kingdom. This is dominion. This
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  Speaker 1: is power. This is authority. This is a revolution. This
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  Speaker 1: is an uprising. This is a movement. Don't be depressed
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  Speaker 1: when church folk don't like it. Because this is bigger
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: than a church. This is a revolution. Shout at me.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to come to you for transformation, but they're
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: going to connect to you from the place of your frustrations.
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  Speaker 1: You're frustrated about the same things. You're angry about the
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: same things. You're sick of the same things. And they're
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: gonna connect with you because they're tired of being with
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: people who don't get it. Who gets it in here?
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  Speaker 1: That's why I tell people everywhere there is no place
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  Speaker 1: I would rather preach than right here at the Potter's house.
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  Speaker 1: It is not the size of the room, but I
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  Speaker 1: like to preach to people who get it. Holler at me,
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  Speaker 1: I get it. Type it on the line, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't be watching if you didn't get it. You
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be driving if you didn't get it. You wouldn't
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: be singing if you didn't get it. Some of you
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  Speaker 1: moved here because everybody who moved here hollered at me not.
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  Speaker 1: There's my evidence. You are my evidence. You are my adulam.
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  Speaker 1: You are my sign that God will make folk move,
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  Speaker 1: get up and relocate because they are drawn to what
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: they are akin to. And no weapon. No weapon. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: better get me. No weapon. No weapon. formed against you
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  Speaker 1: shall be able. Everybody touch somebody, their shoulder, their arm,
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  Speaker 1: their elbow. I don't care what it is. Touch them.
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  Speaker 1: Is there nobody to touch where you're watching, just right
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  Speaker 1: touch on the screen. Just right touch on the screen. Touch, touch, touch.
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  Speaker 1: We're coming into agreement. We're coming into agreement around emotional disorders,
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  Speaker 1: financial disorders, and disruptive thinking. Yeah. Where we are discontented
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: enough to be disruptive enough. Those are the things that
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  Speaker 1: brought us into alignment. And your sister don't get it.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: And your family don't understand it. But you cannot stay
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  Speaker 1: where you've been any longer. The reason Elisha left his
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  Speaker 1: mom and them. is because he knew Elijah had his next.
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  Speaker 1: Your next is in my mouth. That's what the Bible said,
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  Speaker 1: meant when it said, believe the words of the prophet
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  Speaker 1: and you shall prosper. You only follow somebody When your
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  Speaker 1: next is in their mouth. I don't care whether you
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  Speaker 1: black or white or brown or speak English or Spanish
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: or Portuguese. I don't care if you speak Mandarin. I'm
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  Speaker 1: still speaking to your next. There is greatness down inside
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  Speaker 1: of you. I'm not talking about popularity. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about fame. I'm talking about greatness. Greatness has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with crowds. David's crowds will come much later, but
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  Speaker 1: his greatness met him in a cave. God said, your
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  Speaker 1: greatness will meet you in the cave on the run
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  Speaker 1: at a time when you felt like you ain't got nobody.
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  Speaker 1: That's what God is going to show you. You have
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  Speaker 1: not met your people yet. You have not met your
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  Speaker 1: people yet. Stop being frustrated with the people you got
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: around you. They're not your people. They're placeholders. Your people
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: are coming. They're moving. They're moving. They're migrating. Some of
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  Speaker 1: you have people in this church that are sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the opposite side of the church. You're going to bump
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: into them in the hallway. Your next is being galvanized.
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  Speaker 1: Your next is online. Your next is online. Your next
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  Speaker 1: is going to inbox you. Your next is going to
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: come walking right into your situation. Out of nowhere. 400
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  Speaker 1: times because they get it. The person that you're touching
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  Speaker 1: is here because they get it. I have members that
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  Speaker 1: are Jewish. I have members that came from the Catholic Church.
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  Speaker 1: I have members that were Muslims. I have members that
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  Speaker 1: came from nobody's church. I have members that are Baptist
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  Speaker 1: and Methodist and Presbyterian and Episcopalian. Those were all the
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  Speaker 1: uniforms they had on when they walked in. But God
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  Speaker 1: is about to do a new thing. Amen. Some of
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  Speaker 1: them came out of the strip club. Some of them
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  Speaker 1: came out of the crack house. Some of them came
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: out of the prison house. Some of them came out
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: of embezzlement. Some of them came out of adultery. Some
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  Speaker 1: of them came out of fornication and perversion. But God
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: is about to do a new thing. Squeeze that person.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: You're connected. You're connected. You're connected. You're connected. My next
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  Speaker 1: begins now. father I decree and declare that every person
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  Speaker 1: that's touching someone has laid hold on their necks it
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: may not be the individual that they're touching but the
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  Speaker 1: individual that they're touching is symbolic that God is about
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  Speaker 1: to bring within arm's reach what is next in your
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  Speaker 1: life and he's going to draw them by the spirit
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  Speaker 1: And they're coming. The resources are coming. That doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: mean that you owe people. It means you don't have
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  Speaker 1: enough to facilitate what you see. The resources are coming.
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  Speaker 1: There are people that are going to come to this
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: year's leadership conference that you're the leader of one. But
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: the people are coming. You got a business and you
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: ain't got nobody employed but you and your wife. But
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: the help is coming. God is getting ready to transition
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: and revolutionize your life. I may not finish it, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm the one to set it off. I may only
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  Speaker 1: plant it and somebody else water it and God gives
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: the increase. But I have an anointing on my life
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: to set it off. Your next begins right. Oh, brain.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: We can sense in our spirit that where we are
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: is not all that God has for us. We can
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: sense in our spirit that there is something looming in
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: our future that is brighter than this present danger. But
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: how do we get it? When the evidence all around
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: us now often suggests that this is a moment of
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  Speaker 1: of chaos and crisis and agony. And yet there is
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  Speaker 1: something in our spirit that has us dancing this morning.
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  Speaker 1: To those casual observers that may have wandered into the service,
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  Speaker 1: do not think that we are dancing without trouble. Don't
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  Speaker 1: think that we are dancing without pain. or challenges or
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: adversities or family crisis or financial crisis or emotional crisis,
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  Speaker 1: we are dancing in spite. In fact, the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the matter is when trouble gets worse, we become better.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: Better at praising God, better at seeking God, better at
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: honoring God. He becomes the place we go to. He
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  Speaker 1: becomes the nourishment that we receive. He becomes the bread
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: on our table. He becomes the water that quenches our thirst.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: We come down to the well for one water and
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  Speaker 1: leave field with another because we are in trouble. We
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: are more focused in trouble. Most of what I have
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  Speaker 1: learned about God that's worth repeating, I have not learned
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: on the mountaintops. But I have learned them in the
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  Speaker 1: valleys of despair. In the valleys of agony. And yet
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: there is something that keeps us alive. I love what
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  Speaker 1: David said. He said, the Lord is my light and
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: my salvation. Of whom shall I fear? He is the
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: strength of my life. Whom shall I be afraid of?
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: When the wicked He acknowledges them. When the wicked, even
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. He admits that
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: he's besieged, though hosts should encamp against me. My heart
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: shall not fear, though wars should rise against me. In this...
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: Will I be confident? One thing have I desired of
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may
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  Speaker 1: dwell in the house of the Lord all the days
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: and to inquire in His temple. Now I've been talking
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: the FIPA this week and I've been preparing for our
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  Speaker 1: pastors and leadership conference and I've been thinking about leadership
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: and what does it really mean to be a leader.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: And I am determined that real leaders have to be,
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  Speaker 1: as I preached a few weeks ago, steady in the storms.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Steady in unsteadiness, stable in instability, consistent in crisis. I
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  Speaker 1: prophesied as I was commanded. I didn't know whether it
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  Speaker 1: was going to work or not, but I prophesied as
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  Speaker 1: I was commanded. Can these bones live again? I don't know,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: but I did what you told me to do. Success
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: for me. is not to raise the bones success for
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: me is to obey the God that said preach to
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: the bones it's my job to preach to them it's
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: your job to raise them And these are trying times
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: and these are difficult times. And I will admit that
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: I am even theologically perplexed because on one hand, I
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  Speaker 1: hear Jesus say, take no thought of what you should
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  Speaker 1: wear and what you should eat and where you should live.
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  Speaker 1: It almost suggests that I should be complacent, detached, relaxed,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: that just don't worry about anything. And then he goes on,
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  Speaker 1: the apostle Paul says to us, be anxious for nothing.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: But in everything with prayer and supplication, make your requests
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  Speaker 1: made known unto God. Yeah, that thing right there, the
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall guard your heart,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: your mind, your emotions. I need security, not around my body,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: but around my emotions to keep away the anxiety and
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: the depression and the fear. And he's telling me to
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: be anxious for nothing. And yet, on the other hand,
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: the wise man Solomon in Ecclesiastes tells me to look
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  Speaker 1: on the ant, you sluggard. And prepare for winter while
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: it's summer. Not to waste my days in vanity, but
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: to have a strategy that incorporates sustenance for survival. These
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: things seem contradictory one to the other. And then I
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: look at Joseph whose strategy was so complete that he
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: used the seven years of plenty against the seven years
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: of famine. And he controlled what was next by the
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: way he thought. And when I look at the two
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  Speaker 1: things together I get confused because I'm a strategist by nature.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: And when Jesus says take no thought It goes against
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  Speaker 1: everything in me not to take thought. My sister texted
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  Speaker 1: us last night and said, be sure you leave your
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: water running. It's going to freeze. I immediately turned the
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: shower on just real low, just a drip because we
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: old school. That's why you have to be over 50
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  Speaker 1: to get texts like that. When you're 20, you don't
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  Speaker 1: get texts like that. But when you're over 50, you
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: get texts to leave your water running. And while I
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  Speaker 1: believe God for my pipes, and I believe God to
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  Speaker 1: take care of my house, I still kept my water running.
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  Speaker 1: We just came out of a season where there was
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  Speaker 1: a national debate about wearing masks. You know, and they
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  Speaker 1: said if you had faith, you wouldn't wear them. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe God. But, you know, I noticed that the
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  Speaker 1: people who said faith would make them not wear them
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  Speaker 1: wore seatbelts. So I thought if you really had faith,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: unbuckle your seatbelt. So what does it mean to lead
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  Speaker 1: in turbulent times and how does faith express itself in
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  Speaker 1: times that are perplexing? It creates stress, not only because
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  Speaker 1: of what we are enduring, but how does our faith
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  Speaker 1: show up in the crisis? What does that look like?
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  Speaker 1: And for different people, you will get different answers. Some
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  Speaker 1: people say they have so much faith, they don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about anything So they don't have life insurance or health
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  Speaker 1: insurance or anything like that. I'm serious. They don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about anything. They don't go to doctors. They don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about anything. They could drive on the wrong side of
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  Speaker 1: the road. They don't worry about any. How does faith
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  Speaker 1: show up in a crisis? How does faith manifest itself
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  Speaker 1: when God himself tells us to be strategic and rewards
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  Speaker 1: Joseph for the strategy? And Joseph becomes the prince of
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  Speaker 1: Egypt because he's thinking ahead and yet Jesus says take
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  Speaker 1: no thought. But if I only take that phrase without
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  Speaker 1: reading the rest of the text, Jesus isn't telling us
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  Speaker 1: to be mindless. He is not telling us to be mindless.
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  Speaker 1: He's telling us not to worry. He's not saying we
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: can't have a strategy. He's telling us not to worry.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: He's managing our emotions against anxiety. When the apostle Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: be anxious for nothing. It didn't tell you not to
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  Speaker 1: want something. It just says not to be anxious about it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't allow your emotions to make you frantic just because
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  Speaker 1: you have a plan. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite quotes out of then Senator Obama,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: later President Obama, wrote a book called The Audacity of Hope.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, and I quote, I now realize that
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  Speaker 1: the presence of doubt doesn't diminish the presence of faith.
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  Speaker 1: That it is possible to have doubt. I lost him, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: and faith simultaneously. And I don't know why I lost
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  Speaker 1: you because I'm talking about you. There is no question
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  Speaker 1: that you believe God, but there are still moments that
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: you stay up at night. How does faith show up
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  Speaker 1: in our life in the midst of a crisis when
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: the prophecy was positive, but the circumstance has now entered
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  Speaker 1: into a season of Of chaos. David is a leader.
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  Speaker 1: He is a leader, not because Samuel anointed him. He
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  Speaker 1: is a leader. People cannot make you what you are not.
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  Speaker 1: Let me give you further reference. God says to Moses,
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  Speaker 1: anoint men to be elders that you know to be elders.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot make you something by giving you a title
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  Speaker 1: or a desk or an office or a position. If
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  Speaker 1: you are not that, you are not that. Let me
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  Speaker 1: go deeper. A degree doesn't make you a teacher. You
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  Speaker 1: can have a degree in education and still not be
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  Speaker 1: a teacher. A teacher is something that's in you. Oh,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go deeper. A ring doesn't make you
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  Speaker 1: a wife. You can put a ring on a man's hand,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't make him a husband. You can put a
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  Speaker 1: ring on a woman's hand, it doesn't make her a wife.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said, whosoever findeth a wife, findeth a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: So she has to be a wife when I find her.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't find her a wife, I can't make
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  Speaker 1: her a David is a king. He is a king.
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  Speaker 1: He is a leader. But his situations in the text
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  Speaker 1: do not reflect the magnitude of his capacity to lead.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do when your life don't look like
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  Speaker 1: who you are? What do you do when you go
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  Speaker 1: through a season in your life that stands in the
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  Speaker 1: face of your prophecy and marks it like Ishmael marking Isaac?
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  Speaker 1: And you look out the window and you can see
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  Speaker 1: the promise and the problem playing in the same backyard.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever had your promise and your problem playing
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: in the same backyard? There are times, my brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 1: that you preach power and you drive home crying. There
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: are times, my brothers and sisters, that you say to
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  Speaker 1: those with whom you have the responsibility of leading, if
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  Speaker 1: it's not a bunch of children, don't worry, baby, everything's
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: going to be okay. And you go to bed and
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: you think, oh, Jesus. Can I get a witness in here?
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  Speaker 1: Are there any mamas in here or daddies in here
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  Speaker 1: that told the kids don't worry about it. That's not
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  Speaker 1: yours to worry about. It's going to be fine. And
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: you went back and you got in the car and
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: you drove around and around and around in circles saying.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: Such is the moment before us now. For David has
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  Speaker 1: come to The cave of Adullam. He has escaped Gath.
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  Speaker 1: Gath is a city amongst the Philistines at the time.
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  Speaker 1: The Philistines is where David went to hide because the
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  Speaker 1: people that he was leading and the army that he
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: was once assigned captain of is now hunting him. Y'all
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: didn't get that. His own folks are hunting him to
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  Speaker 1: the degree that he is safer with the enemy than
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: he is with the family. And I know you can't
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  Speaker 1: say anything because your family might be watching on TV,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: but the holidays are coming and you got mixed emotions
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: about them coming because all of us don't have the
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: kind of families we see on TV. And you know,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: they're all coming over, inspecting everything. tasting everything, complaining about anything,
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: asking you where, how come you ain't had children? How
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: come you're not married yet? What did you put in
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: this dressing? Where did you get this from? What is
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: this supposed to be? This turkey is dry and you
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: got to deal to the point that you are safer
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: with the enemy than you are with your own family. Oh,
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: come on. Everybody's got some folks in their family that
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  Speaker 1: you are related to, but you're not kin to. And
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: their rejection of him after his loyalty to them and
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  Speaker 1: his service to them and his kindness to them and
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  Speaker 1: his endurance and patience for them has driven him to
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  Speaker 1: run to Gath. Gath is the place where the giants dwell.
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  Speaker 1: Gath is the place where the Philistines live. And he
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  Speaker 1: thought they wouldn't recognize him But he could only stay
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  Speaker 1: amongst them so long. Because you can only run so long.
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  Speaker 1: And eventually they discovered him. But David is so gifted
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: and so creative that David feigns himself to be insane.
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  Speaker 1: Or he would have been murdered. sometimes you got to
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  Speaker 1: go crazy to get out of it. Y'all don't understand
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Sometimes you got to go crazy, not crazy,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: crazy to get out of it because people are trying
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: to take you out and you just got to flip
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  Speaker 1: all the way around. I know it's only maybe, maybe,
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: maybe about 10 people in here have ever had somebody
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: push you till you went... I mean, pull your wig
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: off crazy. Uh-huh, yeah. I mean, yank your earrings off crazy.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, kick your stilettos off crazy. I said, okay,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: you want crazy? You got... You got... You got... It's
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: not good to push us too far. Don't think because
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  Speaker 1: we're anointed we won't flip on you. Yeah, don't let
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: the hallelujah fool you. I was talking to God. I
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: wasn't talking to you. And if you push me in
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  Speaker 1: a corner, don't make me have to show you why
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  Speaker 1: he had to anoint me in the first place because
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: I need this anointing. If I don't get this anointing,
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: I told somebody I was messing with one of my children.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: I said, now, I know who you think she is.
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  Speaker 1: But she's not who you think she is. If you
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: push her far enough, she's going to go to foaming
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  Speaker 1: on you. She's going to go to foaming on you.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: You're going to find out all the muscles in the
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: world ain't going to help you because she's going to go.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in here that ever had to go
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  Speaker 1: crazy because somebody was trying to dominate, control, intimidate, isolate, destroy,
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  Speaker 1: curse you, humiliate you, degrade you, and you've been as
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: nice as you knew how to be nice, and finally
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: it gets to a point where you say, that ain't working.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to turn into something that I
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  Speaker 1: don't even like to be to make you understand. You,
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  Speaker 1: you talking to me? You, you, you, you. And the
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  Speaker 1: king of the Philistines came down and said, why have
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: you summoned me when you can clearly see this man
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  Speaker 1: is crazy? I'm just talking about what the text says.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: And I know that's not politically correct, but that's what
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  Speaker 1: the text says. So I'm talking about what the text says.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: And so David escaped. Have you ever escaped? Didn't have
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  Speaker 1: time to pack. Gotta escape. Didn't have time to do
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  Speaker 1: your hair, to get your nails done, get a pedicure,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: none of that kind of cute stuff like that. No shave,
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  Speaker 1: no trim, no line, because I got to escape. The
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: word escape, see, the first word was left, and then
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: it says escape. It's one thing to leave. It's another
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: thing to escape. Some of us are here today because
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: we escaped. If we'd have kept on the path we
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: were on, we would have been destroyed, but we escaped.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason we were dancing, he's my everything, because
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: we were thinking back, remembering how we escaped. When I
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: start thinking about all the things I escaped and all
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: the near calamities and disasters. When you got to escape,
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: you got to escape. Even if you got to scale down,
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  Speaker 1: even if you have to downsize, even if you have
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  Speaker 1: to give up the palace and live in a cave,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: when enough is enough, I'll live in a trailer. You're
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  Speaker 1: not going to intimidate me with what you got because
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: I can break it down up in here. And he
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: escaped to the cave of Adullam. Now, Scholars tell us
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  Speaker 1: that the cave of Adullam isn't far from the valley
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: he killed Goliath in. It is not far away. So
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: we find David in a place where he thinks, by now,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I would be further. I really, for all
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  Speaker 1: the things I had to fight, I'm not that far
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  Speaker 1: from where I started from. It isn't far from where
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: he was anointed to be king. And the people he's
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: anointed to be king over are trying to kill him.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: Because sometimes the people You want to help the most.
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  Speaker 1: Seek to destroy you and take his life. He's not
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: far from where he was anointed to be king, but
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: his circumstances seem millions of miles away from his success.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: And frankly, he is a king in a crisis. And
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know who this is for. But the Lord
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: told me to tell you you're a king. Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait.
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  Speaker 1: You may be in a cave, but you are a king.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: So then, I then begin to question in my mind,
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: how can David be a king, Lord, without a kingdom?
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  Speaker 1: A leader without a following. A wife without a husband.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: A husband without a wife. And suddenly I begin to
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: understand by God's standards that God doesn't define success by
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: public approval. My circumstances may be in direct contradiction with
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: who I am, but it cannot rob me of who
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: I am. I am a doctor if I don't have
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: an office. I am an architect if I don't have
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: a client. I am a good person even if you
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: don't like me. I do have worth even if you
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: don't recognize it. Your reaction does not determine my identity.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: He is a king in a cave. I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: some people today. I'm talking to some people today. You see,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: how do we end up in a dulem? A dulem,
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: by the way, means refuge and you find yourself in
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: a place living like a refugee running from a king
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: kingdom that doesn't want you and an enemy that's trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill you he is in a cave alone A
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: ruler without a domain. I am. It may not look
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: like it, but I am. You may not follow me,
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: but I'm a leader. You may not acknowledge me, but
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: I'm a leader. You can call me by my name, Jakes. Hey, Jakes,
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: what's going on? Say whatever you want to say. But
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: if it's in you, it's in you. I'm not talking
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: of what's around you. I'm talking to what is in you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you hide in. If you are,
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: you are what you are. In the middle of it all,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: David is anointed. The question comes, can I go deeper?
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: Is anointing enough? He's anointed, but he has no experience.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: All education doesn't come in institutions. Some education comes through experience.
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  Speaker 1: And you can be anointed to be something, but haven't
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: earned the experience to be established on the level that
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: you're in. And the distance between his anointing and him
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: actually acquiring that which he is anointed to run requires
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: that he has a body of experiences established. that temper
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: him in such a way that he learns, like Paul,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: how to abase and abound, how to have lack and
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: how to have plenty. He has learned that the state
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: he's in does not define who he is. So we
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: meet him in the cave, his head freshly doused with oil,
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: but his mind is void of experience. Experience is no
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  Speaker 1: small thing. When your anointing is powerful, your apprenticeship will
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  Speaker 1: be painful. Y'all didn't hear what I'm saying. When your
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: anointing is powerful, your apprenticeship will be painful because God
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: won't give that kind of power and not balance it
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: with that kind of pain. The greater the pain, the
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: greater the power. If you're going to have the power,
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: you got to be prepared to deal with the pain.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: The pain is a part of the power. And in fact,
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: you will understand who you are by who hates you
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: David is hated by a king because he is a king.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: You're going to have pain that's commensurate not to your
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: situation but to your identity. When you are a king,
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: your name will be brought up amongst kings. And don't
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: be surprised if your enemies don't graduate. with your anointing
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: to another level, and your frustration is commensurate to your anointing.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: Let me break it down plain. New levels bring new devils.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: When you get to another level, you've got another level
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: of devil to fight. David killed Philistines, and now he's
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: had to flee them. He killed their giants. And now
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: he has to flee them. He is in a dulem.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: I almost named this church a dulem ministries. And before
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: I finish, you're going to see why. He is in
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: a dulem. No one seeks refuge without some element of fear.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: Yet David has undeniable faith. There is no one in
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: here that can honestly say that David has no faith
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: because David has thrown rocks at giants. I want to
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: talk to some people in this room that didn't have
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: much to work with, but you worked with what you
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: had and you threw rocks at giants and you ran
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: after stuff that other people were running from. And you
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: had the nerve to be indignant. Didn't have an AK-47.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: Didn't have a cannon. Didn't have a gun. Didn't own
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: a chariot. All you had was a bag full of rocks.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: But you had the nerve to be bold with your
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: bag of rocks. And you threw your rocks at the
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: problem till the thing fell down. If I'm talking about you,
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: holler at your boy. So there is no question that
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: you have faith. But you wouldn't run for refuge if
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: you didn't have fear. So there has to be some
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: element of truth to the fact that the presence of
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: fear or doubt does not mean that you don't have faith.
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  Speaker 1: Let me prove it by the Bible. Lord, I believe.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: But help my unbelief. I'm in a dulem because I believe,
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: but I have elements of unbelief. I stretched out on
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: your word and I walked on water. But when I
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: saw the winds and waves, I said, oh my God,
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: I'm walking on water and I began to sink. So
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: I have both things living in me at the same time.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: And I don't know whether to fight or the Philistines
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: or fight the other voices that are coming up in
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: my head because I got a fight on the inside
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: and a fight on the outside at the same time.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: And every now and then I need a break. Let
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: me get away. Let me regroup. Let me run into
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: a cave. Let me get my head together because I
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I don't know what
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: to do. The crisis is not the current because I
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: have survived this present danger. Amen. I'm not so worried
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: about this present danger. I got out of it. It
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  Speaker 1: was close, Jackie, but I made it. They tried to
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  Speaker 1: kill me, but I made it. It broke my heart,
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  Speaker 1: but I made it. I hid amongst my enemies, but
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  Speaker 1: I made it. I had to go crazy, but I
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  Speaker 1: made it. I've been through hell, but I made it.
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  Speaker 1: But now that I have survived, My problem is not
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  Speaker 1: what I survived. Because I made it to safe. A
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  Speaker 1: dulem is safe. You can't have refuge in a place
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  Speaker 1: that's not safe. How many folks know you're safe? You
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  Speaker 1: may not be satisfied, but you're safe. You may not
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  Speaker 1: have attained what you hope to attain, but you're safe.
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  Speaker 1: You count not yourself to have apprehended, but you're safe.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to rub that in the devil's face
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  Speaker 1: because he didn't want you to be safe. If you
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  Speaker 1: made it to safe, I want you to take the
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  Speaker 1: roof off of this building right now. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You got a right to praise him. You could have
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  Speaker 1: been dead. You could have lost your mind. You could
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  Speaker 1: have been destroyed. You got a right to praise him.
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  Speaker 1: I said, you got a right to praise him. I said,
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  Speaker 1: you got a right to praise him. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: whether they understand it or don't. You got a right
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  Speaker 1: to praise him. I don't care whether they lock you
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  Speaker 1: or don't. You got a right to praise him. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care if they roll their eyes at you or don't.
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  Speaker 1: You got a right to praise him. Anybody that was
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  Speaker 1: on the hit list of hell, And you're still here.
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  Speaker 1: You need to take. a minute and give your god
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  Speaker 1: some i may not have the car i want I'm safe.
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  Speaker 1: I may not wear name brand clothes, but I'm safe.
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  Speaker 1: I may not have the house of my dreams or
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  Speaker 1: the family I wanted, but I made it to safe.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. Make some noise in this place. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Three people tell him I made it past danger. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I made it. I made it. I made it. I
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  Speaker 1: made it. I made it. I made it past danger.
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  Speaker 1: I made it past danger. Ain't nobody beating me. Ain't
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  Speaker 1: nobody knocking me upside the head. Ain't nobody gonna put
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: me out of my apartment. I made it past danger.
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  Speaker 1: I made it past my scary place. I made it
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  Speaker 1: moving into another city. I made it. I made it.
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  Speaker 1: I figured it out. I got there. I come this
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  Speaker 1: far by faith leaning on the lord i made it
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  Speaker 1: out of my scary place i'm still here you praising
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  Speaker 1: him about your car i'm praising him about my safe
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  Speaker 1: you praising him about your palace i'm