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The Vacation Chronicles: The blessings in uncomfortable places · Mountain Mover's Prayer

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Good morning, No welcome the Mountain Movers. Good morning, good morning,
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good morn. You're welcome. You for me needed to share it out to
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you know, going in. Good morning, Miss Dullars, come on in
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share it out so we can let this message and this encouragement go to encourage
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the people that got a ma'am all right, we are right on time.
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We're right on time. So I am going to go ahead and get started.
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So I want to welcome you to Mountain Movers Prayer, where we pray
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until the mountains are moved. I am apostle doctor Joe Williams. I wanted
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to lead past the Abundant Life Worship Center here in Chicago. We are located
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at seventy seven on one South Exchange, and we would love for you to
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be God's guests any Sunday, every Sunday, good morning, pass or any
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Sunday. We start at nine am with prayer. Nine thirty starts service and
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so we're gonna be continuing in our lessons called the Vacation chronicles, and so
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today I want to talk about blessings in the uncomfortable places. Amen. So
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you know how we've been doing this. I've been sharing with you my excursion,
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my trips, that the things the Lord had me doing over the summer.
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And I'm gonna do the same today. So I'm gonna share with you
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the trip and the things, and then I'm going to come back and share
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with you the lessons that the Lord gave to me as I went on this
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trip. So we've been talking about my trip to Mexico. I mean talking
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about my trip to Mexico. Excuse me. So one of the things one
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of the excursions that my children did was oh no, this is not about
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the excursion. Let me let me make me stay in the right story.
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Gotta give you the right story. I'm jumping ahead. Well, one of
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the things that well and the plans was in this resort, there was a
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nightly show, right, and these nightly shows were in the arena and the
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venue that they had there on the resort. Now, when we came,
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we got there that Sundays that so we're gonna go that Sunday night for the
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very first show. So again, let me start this all by telling y'all
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what I jeweled. Denise Williams used to come, used to confess over herself.
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I want you to I want you to hear the way that I said.
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This is what I confessed over myself. I say to myself, I
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don't like heat. I get sick in the heat. I don't like heat.
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I don't like bugs. I don't like eating outdoors, I don't like
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doing none of that. So this is the mindset that I have. Even
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once we get to Mexico. Correct. So here we are, and this
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this beautiful resort. I mean, if you've seen the previous ones, I
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show you see that I've got this beautiful I have this very beautiful view that
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I get to see, right, So I've I mean, it's just a
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beautiful place. Even where my room is located, it's in a more air
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conditioned area. So a lot of the events or a lot of the hallways
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of this resort are kind of open, right, So they're open to the
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outside, so you get that warm, that heat. So in my section
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where my room was, once you get past a certain door, it gets
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cool. It's air that's right up my alley. So we get dressed,
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we go to dinner, we get ready to go to to watch one of
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the shows. Right, So as we go to watch one of the shows,
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what happens is I realize that the venue is outdoors. You heard what
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I said at the beginning. I don't like hot, I don't like heat,
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I don't like bugs, I don't like eat outdoors. So I kind
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of got a little bit of an attitude, right, I just got a
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little bit of attitude. How many of us have had attitudes because stuff is
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not necessarily going the way we think they should, or it doesn't align with
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what we think it should be. So I had a little bit of an
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attitude. Okay, So I go to sit down. It is really hot,
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even though it's nighttime, like in where I live. I live in
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Chicago. Why I'm at sometimes when it gets hot even though it's hot all
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day, because you get to the evening, you get a little bit of
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a breeze so it gets a little cooler, and I'm not so it was
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not cool. I think it was still ninety degrees in the middle of the
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night, So it was hot. So we're sitting there now, I don't
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got dressed, so I'm dressed for dinner with ant eate dinner, we're coming
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to the show. So we're sitting there, and as I'm sitting there,
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i'n't getting an attitude because I'm hot, I'm sweaty, I'm uncomfortable. I
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don't want to be here. So the way that it started the show,
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there was the big show that was gonna be in front of you, but
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behind you was another so they were like two stages. There was a smaller
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stage behind you. So when we started off, we were facing the smaller
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stage. There was there was a band that was a plane. They were
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singing in Spanish. Now I got another attitude. Can I just be transparent
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with y'all? I got another attitude? Do you know if I had an
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attitude because I don't speak Spanish, so I didn't really know what they were
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saying. The beat the music sounded fine, but I didn't know what they
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were saying. So I had another attitude. So as I'm sitting here,
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my kids are with me, and my whole family were sitting here, I
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got an attitude. I'm like, Okay, I don't know what they're saying.
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Hopefully this will be over soon. I'm ready to go. So I'm
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sitting here, so Finally the band behind us stopped playing and they tell us
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we turn around and we go to watch the main show. It was a
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beautiful you know, they come out and these fabulous costumes and they're doing these
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dances and again they're singing in Spanish. So I copied another attitude. I
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got another attitude because I'm like, you know, I don't really know what
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they're saying. Maybe I should just go back to my room. That's that's
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the thought I had. As quickly as I had that thought, the Holy
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Spirit told me that I need to adjust my attitude. Holy Spirit spoke to
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me and said, don't you go nowhere? And I was like, huh.
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Holy Spirit said no, you cannot leave. He said you need to
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stay right where you are. Don't you move. So I'm trying to figure
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out, well, what I can't move? He said, you got a
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bad He basically told me I had a foul attitude. I was like,
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okay, the Holy Spirit, I'm getting checked and I'm like, well,
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what's why's my attitude foul? He was like, you are missing what others
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have set up for you. My kids, my husband, they all went
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through the process of good morning everybody, my husband, my kids. They
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all went through the process of setting up this this trip that we were all
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taking, right, but all I could see was what my selfishness in that
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moment was. I don't like heat, I don't like bugs, I don't
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like to eat outside. So I want to go back here. I'm hot.
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I just want to go to my room. And Holy Spirit, no,
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you can't go anywhere. You need to stay in position. And then
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he told me, and I need you to have your mother ever told you
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fix your face. I heard fix your face, fix your face, and
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I was like, what do you mean fix my face? He was like,
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cause you got the wrong You're wearing the wrong face, You're wearing the
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wrong attitude, he said, So fix your face. So he said,
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you need to think about you need to change your confession, you need to
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change your mind. You need to change what it is that you are doing.
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And so I did, I said to myself while I was sitting,
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and I was like, okay, well, let me find something good about
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it. So I'm watching these dances. I'm like, well, who do
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you see? So I'm not as hot as they are cause they got on
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food guards. They dancing and singing and doing all kinds of stuff, and
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I think they must have changed forty times. I was like, yes,
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so I'm not as hot as them. So I kind of sat back and
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said, okay, well, what can I do since I can't leave.
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I was like, okay, let me order a little, you know,
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a little fruity drink, a little little you know, soft drink or not
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alcoholic drink. So they my kids said, mine, here is some of
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the non alcoholic drinks. So I ordered me a little fruity drink and I
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just sat there and I watched the performance. And so we were there seven
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days. So for seven days I had to go and fix my face and
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go to the shows. They were fun. I started to have fun when
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my kids we were laughing at some stuff. We actually had one time where
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there was a Michael Jackson impersonator, so we had a whole thing going on
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about that. And so, you know, some of the performances were just
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really phenomenal. So we enjoyed ourselves. But you know what started to happen.
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I want you to hear this. Over the seven days, my I
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had an adjustment in my attitude. And as we got to the end of
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this time, then the Lord said, now I can speak to you about
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you know what I've been calling the vacation chronicles. And he told me there's
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some blessing in some uncomfortable places, he said, But many of my children
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are missing them because they have they come first of all, with a preconceived
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idea of what it's supposed to be like. Secondly, they've come with them
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with the wrong kind of mindset, he said. And thirdly they ain't they
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got they face, they face all toe up, they face not fixed.
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Your face not fixed, your face, not face. And basically what was
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saying to me was you ungrateful. Oh my good. So let me just
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go and share with you through my little story of my transparent moment of y'all
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telling me, of you, me telling you guys, of just how my
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face was my fix and how I needed to get some stuff together. So
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let me walk you through the things that the Lord showed me through this lesson.
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This is proverb twenty four and ten. It says, if you face
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in the day of adversity, your strength is small, Your strength is small.
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And so Lord was saying small strength is means it is limited in its
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ability, limited in this capacity, or limited in its power. Let me
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hear you, let me tell you, let me it's feeling good. What
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does it mean when you have small strength? Again? Small strength means that's
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a limited in your ability. Good morning, everybody. Limited in your capacity
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or limited in your power? So why is that a problem. The problem
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is because we have a God who tells us to trust him, put our
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faith in him, and he gives us all that we need. Therefore,
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if we faint, if we grow weary, or if we give up or
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as I was, or if we start to complain because it's not a condition
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that we wanted to be, or it's not conducive to what we think it's
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gonna make us feel comfortable, it is because we are trusted in ourselves and
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not in Him. Who come on, somebody, God said, it's time
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for us to deal with our small strength. Let me keep reading subscriptures so
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I can keep telling you what the Lord said. James one, verse two
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through four says, count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet
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trials of various kinds, For you know that the testing of your faith produces
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steadfastness, And let steadfastness come on have its full effect, that you may
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be perfect and complete and lacked in nothing. God says to tell my children,
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tested faith indoors, hear what I say, tested faith, indoors,
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tested faith indoors to says something means it's been proven to work, and in
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the way and in that way, we know it's working. Why because it
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will produce a certain kind of fruit steadfastness. That's the ability to stick to
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it. And when we are able to stick to a thing, we find
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ourselves being perfected, completed, and we lack nothing because we stayed in process.
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See this the way that the way that the Lord told me to see.
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Think about gold. How do you know if gold is real or not?
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Try burning it? Come on, somebody, come on, I want
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you to hear me. If it's real gold, what will happen? It'll
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just get brighter as you apply flames to it, but it actually will not
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catch fire and burn. If you burn a peace and it starts to get
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darker, or or at nights you have imitation gold. Why let me hear
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Let me. I want you to hear this because God said, when it's
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real, gold is fire proof. Fire proof? What do I mean?
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Fire is the way that they test gold and they use it to burn off
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all impurities because once they burn off all of the impurities. What's left is
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twenty four carried gold. Therefore, God is allowing some of us to go
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into some hot, some fiery conditions with the sole purpose of burning off the
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impurities in our lives. And then the end result it's going it's gonna be
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that we're gonna show up in pure gold. Now you might say, well,
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what does you being being able to sit in the heat got to do
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with this? Oh, thank you for asking. See Juel man I started
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off and said Juel had spoke over her own self. Juel had said,
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I get sick in the heat. Juel had said, I can't. I
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don't like the heat. Juel said, these were my confession. Juwel said,
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I don't like the heat. Juel said, I don't like eating.
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I don't like bugs. I'm not going in the heat. And then Juel
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had an attitude anytime she had to be in any kind of hot condition.
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I used to get attitude. People invite me to the house, I want
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to go inside. They gotta sit in outside eating. I don't want to
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eat outside in the barbecue. I wanna go outside. I want to fight
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with the book. So I would have an attitude. The Lord said Juel,
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because of what you had confessed and over yourself, you were actually you
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were living up to what you confess. So guess what you couldn't stand the
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heat. Let's look at that in a spiritual application. How many of us
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have said, Lord, that's too heart God, I can't do that.
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That's too much for me. Oh, I don't understand why I got to
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go this way? This ain't fail, this, that and the other.
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How many of us have confessed over ourselves when we have come into some heart
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fiery conditions, and what has happened because of it? We find ourselves succumbing,
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We find ourselves not able to stand. When God said, I've been
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using the heat to burn off the impurities so that you could be fireproof.
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Come on, somebody, so he said, many of us gotta change our
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confessions. Good morning, those that are coming in. He said, it's
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time for us to change our confession. And he used that time while I
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was in Mexico in that ninety degree hundred degree weather in the nighttime, sitting
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out there in the openness. He said no, because what I said was
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I started to adjust. God wants us to get to the place with him
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that we understand that there is some beauty that's gonna happen even in the fire
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replaced. Some of the beauty is simply that you're learning how to become fireproof.
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Oh, come on, somebody, what's the fireproof? You are fireproof
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because what God has daughter is He's burning off the impurity so that you show
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up like pure gold. Oh this blessing, y'all, this is blessing me.
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Let me keep going, Let me keep going. I'm gonna show a
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little more, a little more of what the Lord said to me. Good
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morning, sister. Second second Corinthians four eight nine says we are afflicted in
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every way, but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair, persecuted
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but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed. Can I tell you what
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God is saying to us today. He is saying, that's right, fireproof.
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What God is saying to us is that I need I need a people.
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Yeah, blah blah, I need a people. That's not only fireproof,
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I need a people that He all said that a heat resisted. Just
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like I didn't like the heat and had convinced myself that I couldn't take the
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heat. I had allowed my faith to be tested or endure the crush of
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that heat. See that was a message. There was a lesson even going
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on it. I had to allow my faith to be tested. I and
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what had began to happen is I actually began to build up a resistance to
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the heat. I won't tell you so because something happened interesting to me.
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When I came back from Mexico. I went to Texas, maybe like the
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not that week, but a week after, a week so later, and
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I was walking around in the heats and it was hot in Texas. It
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was in the hundreds, and it was up there too. The heat in
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deck was hot. So I was in Texas. I was walking around in
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Texas. We had went. I went with my my sisters and my nieces.
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And while we were out here walking around in this heat, where it
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went shopping. I put on a jacket because you know, I know,
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sometimes when you go to eat, it's a little cool. So I put
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on a jacket. But when I came out, I only would have taken
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that jacket off because I was too hot. I forgot about it, you
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know why, because I wasn't hot. I wasn't hot. I was actually
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very comfortable why. And the Lord he talked to me about this, and
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he said why. He said, because you had built up in an ability
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to not succumb to the heat. What God is trying to do in our
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lives that help us to learn how not to faint in the midst of hot
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seasons we face, and in doing so we get the blessings that's in the
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midst of the uncomfortable places. See, I could have said, no,
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I'm not staying, I'm going, but I would have missed the memories that
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I made with my children in that moment. I would have missed the beauty
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of the outfits and the dancers and the music. After while it didn't even
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matter that they were singing in the Spanish, I began to kind of understand
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based on the stories they were telling. I began to understand. Sometimes God
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said, we don't hear the language yet, we don't understand and discern yet
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because we have not said long enough to pay attention. Because if we pay
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attention, what will start to happen is we will be able to understand and
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discern what is actually going on. My God, My God, that's right,
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don't faith He's saying, I need my children to be able to stand
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in the conditions that you find yourself in, because how many of us give
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up and quit? How many of us give up and quit? Let me
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go to this next scripture. Well, I forgot to put it in,
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but I'm reading first Peter five and ten, First Peter five and teen,
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and it says that after you have suffered a little while, the God of
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all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will
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himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. Let me read that
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again, first Peter five and ten says, and after you have suffered just
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a little while. See you are we too busy looking at the current condition
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and don't realize God said that's a little while. Now I'm gonna put a
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pin right there for some of us be like a little while. I've been
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going through this for nine years. I've been going through this for ten years.
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I've been dealing with this before years. I've been healing with this.
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This amount of time has out a little time because if God said it's a
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little time, it's little into reference to the blessings that He's gonna give you.
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Because God has a way of even if you suffer for five years.
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He can give you an investment on that five years that will surpass the five
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years that you that you suffered. Could you hear what I just said?
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God said, I can give you at a return on your investment. Do
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you know when you're willing to go through and suffer for Christ? That is,
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in a sense, your see your investment. And God says, I
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can give a return on your investment. So he says, So that's why
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it's just a little while, because you're gonna get the benefits of why you
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stay. You're gonna get the benefit of why you trusted. You're gonna get
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the benefit and the rewards for being willing to stay in the place where God
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has called you to be. Come on, somebody, so it says,
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and you have suffered a little while, and as using after you have suffered
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a little while, the God of all grades, who has called you to
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his eternal glory in Christ, will himself. He can't say I'm sending nobody
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else myself. He said, I am me, God Christ, the Holy
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Ghost. I'm showing up myself and I'm gonna restore. I'm gonna confirm,
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I'm gonna strengthen, and I'm gonna establish you. Let me tell you what
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the Lord said. You learn how to find the cool breeze even in the
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midst of hot seasons. Come on, somebody, because over that week,
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as I said, I went from being uncomfortable to learning how to deal with
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the heat. From time to time, I would catch a breeze. They
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had these real big fans in the ceiling, and so from time to time
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I would catch a breeze. I would catch it. I would catch a
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breeze, but I could. I felt like I learned how to stay in
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that moment even after the breeze was gone. Come on, somebody, what
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do I mean? See? I felt it right, I felt the fan
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hit me. But I learned how to establish my mind. So it was
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no longer focused on I'm hot, and I learned how to establish my mind
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to focus on I gotta cooling in the moment. I savored how it felt
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to me. God wants us to savor the comfort, the restoration, the
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strength, all that he sends to us in any time we're going through and
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anytime we're suffering time because of the heat of life. He's saying, look,
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my son, my daughter, learn how to savor what I give you.
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Learn how that even as you're waiting, I got something coming for you.
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Learn to understand that it's gonna be a little while. So just have
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faith that, Okay, that breathe that I just got right there, that
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that Holy Spirit breathe, and that that I got right there, I'm gonna
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that's gonna restore me for a moment. That's gonna confirm me, that's gonna
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strengthen me, and that's gonna establish me in this moment. So even if
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I gotta keep walking through, he gonna keep sending me those moments for me
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the savor so that I can be refreshed and renewed. So I learned how
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to find conference even in the midst of the hot conditions. So he says,
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he doesn't want us wasting time complaining about how hot it is, how
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hot the fire is, how hot the trial is, how difficult it is,
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he said, Stop complaining about the negative. He said, instead,
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dwell in the cool weed out of our side that he sins in the breezy
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moments of our lives. Jesus, y'all catching all this, y'all, catching
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this, this blessing, you, this blessing you, catch it, catch
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it? Come on, somebody, let me, let me, let me
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go on Romans two twelve and two. Romans twelve and two. Romans twelve
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and two says, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed
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by the renewing of your mind. That's why we gotta dwell there, that
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by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is the
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good and acceptable? What is good and acceptable and perfect? Remember I told
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you how did they test? Go fire? So I don't know why we
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keep saying, well, Lord, you know we were like, Lord,
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here I am, hands held high, have your way, proves me.
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And then when the fire come, we go hold up, Lord, move
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the fire. This saint right, he said, we got to change your
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confession. So I had to change what I was saying about myself because that
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is what I was going to continue to get. I was gonna continue to
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feel hot. I was gonna continue to have an attitude. I was gonna
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come away from that vacation with a complaint in my mind instead of a praise
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or my lips. Can you hear what I'm saying? See, we gotta
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change our confession because once I changed it, you're renewing of your mind.
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Then I was able to see, receive, and stand in what God's perfect
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will for me was in that very moment. Can I tell you something we
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only see see that God is concerned about us when we at church, or
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when we preaching, or when we're doing something of a spiritual nature. God
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is. God is trying to perfect you in every moment, even when you're
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standing in the long line in Walmart and everybody is doing their own thing and
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you just wish these people would move. You are being perfected. That's a
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heat moment for you because some of y'all impatience. So God is letting me
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your patience be tried in the Walmart line. God has said, I used
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every part of your life in and of ourselfs too, to transform you so
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that you have a renewed mind, that you change your confession over yourself.
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So God said to me, that's what he said. He said, take
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the complaints out of your mouth and the complaints out of your spirit. I
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said, wait, what hold on? I want y'all to think about that,
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Oh man, He said, take the complaint out of your mouth and
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the complaint out of your spirit. What he was saying to me is that
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it's not just what I was speaking. That was causing an issue because I
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didn't say nothing. I had rehearsed it in my mind. And what stuff
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you rehearse in your mind, then that becomes part of your sightlence confession.
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Can you put that in a comment, silent confession? Do know many of
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y'all got silent confessions. You ain't said it out loud, you ain't said
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it to anybody, but you've been rehearsing it in your mind. God said,
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that's part of your silent confession. And then this is what he said.
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What happens with those silent confessions, They then result in what my soul
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will result in, what your soul is expecting. Oh, thank you,
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thank you. Silent confessions. Look at that. Look at that. So
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then what he said, when you have that silent confession, that what you
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haven't even said yet, what it results in is what your soul now begins
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to expect. That's right. And then those complaints will become rooted in your
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spirit. That's why he said, take the complaint out of your mouth and
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the complaint out of your spirit. Oh my god, see I had to
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repent. Well like that word to repent. We feel like repent is only
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for the Savior. Can I tell you the repenting is all for the say
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also for the safe volks. You know why you gotta repent? Repent means
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I've come to an understanding that something is not in alignment with God. Therefore
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I am denouncing it coming out of agreement with it. I am I am
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owning enough to the fact that I was not in the right place. So
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I'm gonna repent. So I'm gonna repent. Some of us got to repent
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for the silent confessions. We have silent confessions, stuff that we have said
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over and over and over again in our don't nobody, ain't nobody, And
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then because don't nobody or because nobody did this, you know what we do?
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Well, I'm there. I'm never gonna trust again. I ain't nobody
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gonna ever do this to me again. I'm not gonna let nobody in.
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And we start to make these silent confessions, even if we don't say I'm
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out loud, and then we wonder why we can't be in good relationships.
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We wonder why things won't open up for us because we have silently made these
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confessions and they have rooted themselves in our soul. Because now that's what we
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have fed our soul that should have been dead, but we're feeding dead food.
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It's like feeding poison to yourself. And then you wonder why. You
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see, God said we got to stop feeding poison to ourselves in our confessions
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and then wondering why we see it, He said, it's time to make
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a change. So you know, I gotta give y'all the visual part,
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right, because that's just who I am. I'm very visual. So I
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have a visual a visual part of this that I want to share as well.
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And so this was I don't remember what DAVI this was, but as
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we started to go, we were watching the shows, and so this was
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one day when they kind of did like the circus thing. They had the
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acrobats, they were doing all kinds of things and it was really it was
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really nice. And so in my focus, if my focus would have been
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on the heat, I could have missed the artist street of the performance.
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And so from a spiritual perspective, too many of us are missing the joy
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or blessing that God has for us because we would have left the area us
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where the blessings were showing up because we weren't comfortable with the heat. God
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said, sometimes you gotta be okay with the heat of the moment because there's
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an artist tree of the spirit that's about to show up. There's something in
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the in the spirit that's gonna show up, that's gonna wow you, that's
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gonna make you say, whoa, that's something I never seen before. And
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if we don't we if we moved to too quick because see, we think
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I'm a moving gona somewhere comfortable, God said, no, I'm bringing the
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show if you will right where the heat is, and this is where you
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could kind of see a little bit. We was outside. So that was
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the one show when they were singing and I was like, I have no
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clue what they saying. They're singing in Spanish. I'm like okay, And
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like I said, I had an attitude. I had an attitude because I
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was and I couldn't understand what they were saying. So I was ready to
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go. So this was that first act before the main show. So when
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this group stopped singing and we turned our trails around watched the other show.
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The spiritual message the Lord was speaking to me was change what you're comfortable with.
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We are not gonna always be in places and spaces that accommodate what we
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are comfortable with. See, I'm comfortable with English because that's the language I
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speak. What I really felt like I would saying to me is how many
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of us are really ready to go to nations when we are looking for what
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is convenient and comfortable for us? Would you be ready if the Lord situate
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people or people group or situations that wasn't in your comfort zone? Could you
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stand the heat that would bless me? Because I'm gonna tell you something.
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I really feel like the Lord has set me up for some kind of mission
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trips, so y'all don't be surprised. I for a year or two,
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I tell y'all going to Africa or somewhere else, because I believe he was
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setting me up and for that for show. But he and how many of
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us we keep talking about I'm going to nations, I'm going here, I'm
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going there. But you ain't comfortable. You gotta get out of your comfort
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zone because it's not gonna be about you. We're not entitled. This was
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one of the performers. Look at this beautiful dress that she had on,
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and the Lord was telling me, you know, this was just I wanted
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to show you the elaborateness of the gowns and the costumes that they had on.
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The colors were brilliant. But if I had allowed that heat to keep
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me away, I would have miss seen the details and the beauty of the
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shows. The spiritual message God gave me was too many of us are missing
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the brilliance or the glory of God his wonderful display because we're moving too quickly.
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See I would I would have missed that beautiful display. God said,
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many of us are missed in his glory because we're moving too quick. The
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problem is we assume God could want us to be in the midst of hot
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conditions. Instead, God wants us to realize that they are blessings we are
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missing because we're assumed this wrongling. In fact, God signs sometimes sends us
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into the fire or the heat because he has something there. In fact,
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his glory is there, and that's where he's calling us to meet him.
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Oh my God. See, I don't want to miss him as much as
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I don't like the heat. I don't want to miss the Lord. I
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don't want to miss the Lord. These were some of the other the costumes
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you could see just the elaborateness. Look at the beauty, and this is
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not and to be honest, this is not even doing justice of what these
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costumes look like. And the fact that these people had taken the time to
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do and put on all of this beautiful array of clothing. And so,
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you know, let me just share what the Lord said, the is that
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we gotta be willing to go in and not miss what he has. Now,
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let me show you this next picture. This was again one of our
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going out. We went out on the boat. Again. It was hot,
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but at this point I'm learning to just listen to what the Lord see.
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So we want a catamaran, and they were taking us out into the
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middle of the water, and in the midst of the water there was this
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base and you could see that this water is greener than the water in the
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distance, which is blue, which meant we actually could go off the side
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of the boat and you could swim in these places. And so what what
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I learned is that this green area are more of the shallow places in the
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water. And the reason you could see the green is because the water is
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being i mean the sun is being able to reflect to the bottom, giving
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the water this green color. So what God said to me about this,
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if we are willing to go out, go out on the water side.
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Remember I talk last week about going on that boat when God said, if
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you are willing to go out on the water. So remember, waters mean
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things. Water's got a lot of stuff. Water has a lot of meanings.
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Water can also mean emotions. Sometimes our emotions are keeping us from going
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out. Waters can mean people group situations. So many of us are not
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being We're allowing our confessions to keep us from going out on the waters.
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But God said, if you're willing to come out on the waters, he
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said, I'll give you the ability to discern the safe areas in the water,
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those places where you can find rest or In this instance, this was
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the spot where we could get off the boat and swim because it wasn't super
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deep. But God is saying, I got some safe spots for you on
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this journey. There's some places in the midst of your travel where you're gonna
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be able to put your feet in the water. You're gonna be able to
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rest and not worry about being pulled under, not worry about being overcome or
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overtaken a man. So I'm gonna show you this last picture, and then
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I'm gonna pray. If you have a need for prayer, please put it
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in the comment. I hope this, this little this, my little Sunday
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school let, has been a blessing to you, this last picture. After
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being in Mexico for a week, my body began to adjust to the heat,
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as I said, and I was able to stay out longer, and
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as a result, I was able to enjoy the vacation the weather. And
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so spiritually speaking, God is saying, is as as our ability to just
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stand in the midst of the heat built we have the wherewithal to enjoy the
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journey. God doesn't want us missing the beauty and the blessings because we're running
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from the heat. See this picture. As hot as it was, I
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would go out on the balcony and then come back in because it was too
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hot. But I was able to go out in the morning, even though
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it was already hot, and just watch the sun rise, and then I
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could come out in the afternoon. Sometimes I would sit out out on there
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in the afternoon. A couple of times I just fell asleep sitting on this
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balcony. What God is said, I don't want you to miss my blessings
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because you were allowing the heat of the moment to keep you from seeing me.
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So let me just give you a recap and then I'm going to pray,
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hollelu you. What was the What was the message that I really want
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you to take away from from from this today? And that is God wants
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us to understand a few things. One, every hot condition doesn't mean we
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used to run from them. There's some hot conditions that you and I gotta
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go into and say, God, help me to discern what it is you
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want me to discern in this place. Help me to see what it is
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that I need to see. Help me be not miss the blessing, even
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though this is an uncomfortable place. Even though the heat is extreme, the
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hottest overwearing over is burdening me. Even though I'm in the midst of this
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place. God, I'm asking you to show me. I don't want to
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miss the blessing, just like the Lord didn't want me to miss that show.
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Those shows I didn't want to miss, and you don't want to miss
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those things that are going on around us. And so we're gonna ask the
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Lord help us because we don't want our strength to be small. We don't
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want to be limited in our ability to stand. We're asking God to help
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us and that even as he tests our faith, and we know that his
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testing is to make us fireproof, MEAs bringing up a heat resistance in us,
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so that we can stand no matter what it is that we are are
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dealing with. And then finally he said, don't forget to change your confession.
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What have you confessed over yourself? What have you confessed in yourself?
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What have you come in agreement with us, alive with from the enemy.
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When you change your confession, even if it has not come out of your
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mouth, you've confessed it in your thought life, and your thought life has
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turned around and began to believe those things. So God, I come to
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you now, right now, in the name of Jesus, and I come
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and I ask Father for you to help I bring tomorrow to you. Right
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now. Lord, we're praying for her daughter. Father. We praying for
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her daughter, Lord God, that was assaulted, and Lord, we ask
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that you would help her that even with her mother, help her, Lord
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to be able to handle this from the high plate it or telp her to
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handle this from your from your strategy, from your place, Lord, let
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not the anger overwhelm her, nor let nor let shame or anything calls you
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her daughter to withdraw or to even blame herself. Father, we're asking first
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and foremost that you would heal the heart of this young woman. We ask
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that you would help her, Lord God, to find the healing that she
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needs. And Father, put the white people around her that will help her
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to find that healing, to walk in that healing, even as a family,
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Lord God, I pray you would give them the strength to walk through
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this together. Father, because this is a hot place, this is a
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fiery place. But Father, even in that, God, I pray that
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you would breathe something good out of this for her and her daughter. Lord
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God, even if it's just a drawing her closer to you, Lord God,
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praying that you will help her so that she does not pick up the
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burden, the weight the things that even were done to her. Lord God,
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we come now and we just we speak to everything. Nothing may nothing
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be rooted in her heart, nothing rooted in her spirit, nothing rooted in
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her soul about this situation that happened to her. So God, we're asking
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right now, with the name of Jesus, that you would help because Father,
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even though we also ask that you take away not shame, but take
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away blame. Take away blame even from her mom. You can't blame yourself.
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Father, take away blame. So we God, we asked right now
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with the name of Jesus, that you would just gird this family up your
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protection of God. We're asking also for justice in this case, Lord God,
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that you would give this family justice, and that in doing so,
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that that would even allow us some more healing and closure for this individual.
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Father, and I pray right now that you be with her, that your
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love would be released to her, that she would find your comfort, she
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would find your peace, your refreshing, and that you would establish her.
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God, I pray now in the name of Jesus, that you would establish
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her. Lord God, I pray that it does not do anything to her
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identity, that it does not do anything to herself worth and her value.
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But Father, right now, with the name of Jesus, we come as
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a community of believers, because y'all be praying with me for this. Y'all
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we believe in as a community of believer, that you are going to heal,
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that you're going to step in, that you're going to do what only
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you can do. We don't always understand the why, we don't understand the
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why did it happen. But God, we understand that you still the God
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that can take care of this. I thank you, Lord God, that
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her life is still here, that this enemy did not try to did not
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take her life. I thank you, Lord God that she still have life
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in her. And Father, we decree and declare that the life that in
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her shall glorifyre You. We declare and declare that the life in her shall
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bring you honor. And God, we thank you now for all that you're
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gonna do for her. And we just ask Father, that you would help
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them, that you would help them, that you would help them. Father,
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you are an ever present help in times of need and trouble. And
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so Father, I just thank you Father. Now I shut up the mouths
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of whispering and gossip and and and and anybody that would try to appoint a
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blame. We shut that down now. In the name of Jesus, Lord
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God, I ask you to just just in ca and encumbace her in your
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love, and that that be the only thing that this family hears and sees
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is help and support. And God, we say thank you now for all
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that you're going to do for them. Now, Father, I also ask
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right now, in the name of Jesus it saw what of ourselves, that
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you heal Karen's body right now, Lord God, that even as she is
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dealing with COVID. Father, we thank you because you are the healer.
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You are the healer. You are the healer. Father. I thank you
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that even as she heals, there won't be any of the residual none of
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the residual things that sometimes happen with people. We just decree and declare,
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Lord God, that she will receive full restoration to everything inside of her,
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full restoration. None of the brain fag Father, none of the fogginess,
43:32
none of the loss of taste, Father or smeil. Father. So we
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thank you now even none of the things that sometimes people are dealing with on
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the aftermath. So God, we thank you. Now we decree complete healing
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over her. In the name of Jesus, Lord God, I ask you
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to Teximonique and her family and her children. Father, they are standing in
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need of prayer. So God, we thank you now for you are you
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are our answer. We have no problem with Come in and say into you
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God that we don't know what to do, and we don't know how to
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do it. Moses said, if you don't go, I'm not going.
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If you don't go with us, we're not going. Father. If you
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don't show us the way, we don't know where to go. If you
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don't direct us, we don't know how to get there. So Father,
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it is we humbly come before you and say, Father, give us what
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we need as parents, give us what we need over our family. Father,
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I ask that you do that for Monique, that you help her to
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pray for her children, but she also got to release them into your hand.
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So Father, I thank you now that you are helping Monique release her
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children completely into your hand, and because you love them more than she could
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ever love them. And so Father, I pray now, is she releases
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her children into your hand, Father, that you would draw them by your
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spirit, you would draw them to you, Lord God, and that they
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would have such an encounter with you, such an encounter with your glory,
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such an encounter with your presence, that in doing so God, they will
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be able to come to recognition that they need a savior. They will come
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to the place of repentance. They will come to the place. They say,
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what must I do to be saved? So, Father, God,
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I pray that you do that. And I pray that Lord, not just
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for her, but Lord for all the families, our children, if they're
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not saved. We pray that you would do that. Father. I bring
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Quinn to you now. Father, she's praying for a successful workshop. We're
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binding up all distractions, anything that the enemy would try to do to come
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in and to change and to shift the things. God, we decree and
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declare now that you're going to set up the right atmosphere, the right hearts
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of the people. I thank you for those that are going to give.
45:31
I thank you for those that are going to support. I thank you for
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those that it's going to be a blessing too. I thank you, Lord
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God that not only is this workshop going to be one that's useful, but
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Father, I thank you. It's like I see a chain reaction in a
45:44
good way that it's going to begin to help people to see, well,
45:46
you know, I need help, she needs help, that person needs help.
45:50
So Father, they will begin to come and seek the help that they
45:52
need so they can come out of these wrong relationships. They can come out
45:57
of these destructive and relationships. So Father, I pray Lord God, that
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you would do what only you can do, help your people to begin to
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see, help these women begin to see, Lord God, for the change
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in their lives. Father, And I know that even though this is direct
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that they're women. Father, I thank you that they're going to be men,
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that lives are going to be changed. That well, even the abusers
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e connor resend it at ourselves, they're gonna see because some of them aren't
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abusers because they were abused. Some of them are abuses because that's the only
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thing they know. Some of them are abusers because they never were taught anything
46:31
different. So Father God, I thank you for even in this workshop,
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that it will it will expand the knowledge, that the information will expand to
46:40
places that even whether the abuser will come to a place and saying I need
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help. I don't want to be like this. What do I need to
46:47
change? Father, I just thank you for what you are doing. So
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God, I thank you for giving her all of the resources that she needs,
46:53
for giving her everything that's gonna help her to be able to move and
46:59
do the things that you would call for her to do. So Father God,
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we're just thanking you now, right now, in the name of Jesus,
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I pray for Neon. God. I asked right now that you would
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be where he is and in the being where he is. God. I
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asked that you would help him with the things that he stand in need of.
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Father God, I asked that you continue to comfort his heart and continue
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to help him to know that you are with him. That you are the
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gods that never breaks a promise. He says to tell you, Neon,
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he is a God that never breaks a promise. The things that you awaken,
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on, the things that you are trusting for the things that you are
47:30
have put in God's hand, he said, I am a faithful God,
47:34
and you can trust me. So God, I asked that you would continue
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to build him up in his faith. Build him up, Lord God,
47:40
from from one level to the next. Lord, I build him up and
47:45
his ability to stand, build him up in his trust and faith. Build
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him up, Lord God, as the man of God that you would call
47:52
for him to be. Father, I thank you, even in his time
47:54
of prayer, in his time of worship with you alone, God, I
47:58
asked that you would give him visitation. I just speak visitations over this lave.
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Now in the name of Jesus, that the Lord would meet you,
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and to cascenting it of ourself, that the Lord would meet you in your
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time of visitation. God said, what are you ready to give up to
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go up? God said, what are you ready to give up to go
48:17
up? Some of us gotta give up some time. Some of us gotta
48:21
make that space for God. And when we make that space for God,
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he said, I'm gonna meet you in that place. Go into where your
48:29
private place is with the Lord and let him meet you there. It's in
48:32
that place, God says, you will see things change. God said,
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it's in that place that you will see deliverance. It is in that place
48:40
you will see healing. God said, I am a God that is able.
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I am well able, says the Lord. God. I thank you
48:47
today for what you're doing. For then when it seems hot, because God
48:52
says, I am perfecting you. I am bringing you to the place well.
48:57
I am doing more than you even thought I could do. So God,
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I thank you. Now continue to build us, continue to help us,
49:04
continue to strengthen us. Father, I thank you for you breaking us
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fireproof, and I thank you in the process you are perfecting what is on
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the inside of you. God said, I'm perfecting every gift for so profets
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in the name of Jesus. God say, I'm perfecting you in my holiness.
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I'm perfecting you in my righteousness. I'm perfecting you by my word.
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I'm perfecting you by my spirit. And as I perfect you, then your
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words will be more in frequency. God said, in this season, what
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I'm doing is I'm aligning frequency. I'm aligning your frequency so that your sound
49:42
is the sound that I speak through you. He says, I'm aligning your
49:45
frequency to intercessors, those that pray, ill coll not share that. I've
49:49
a sort that it else you your notable suit. God said. For those
49:53
that are intercessors and pray, he said, in that time that you sacrifice,
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in that time that you give up for him, he says, come
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to me, because in that time I'm perfecting you. Yes, it might
50:07
be hot. Sometimes the press doesn't feel fair, but God says, I'm
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teaching you how to be heat resistant, so that even when the enemy comes
50:15
against you, because you are in relationship with Me, you're able to see
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it and you're able to call. You're able to combat those things because you're
50:24
not fighting in your power God says, I am fighting for you. I
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myself says the Lord. It's showing up to perfect you. I myself am
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showing up to renew you and refresh you. I myself says the Lord,
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is the one that's coming and doing the things that needs to be done in
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you. He says, So intercessors, come deeper into your preyer life.
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Come deeper into my time and session with me. God said, if you
50:49
give thirty minutes, give me, give me an hour. God is saying,
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I need more because in the more, he said, I have revelations
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in the more I have answers, in the more I have strategy, in
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the more I have healing, in the more I have deliverance in the more.
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In the more, and the more that you're willing to sacrifice, in
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the more that you're willing to stay in position. Because even in that high
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position, God said, my glory, and of myself, he says,
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my glory is showing up of a sudden conditty, my s oh, he
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said, my glory is showing up. He said, many of many of
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us are missing it because we keep snatching ourselves out. He said, But
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stay there, even if it feels uncomfortable. Stay there ask him for the
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discernment, what am I doing? Why am I in this space? And
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when we stay he said, the more, the more, the more,
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the more, the more, the more, the greater, the greater,
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the greater, the greater capacity even for you. See, we need to
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stay in position because God has expanded even our capacity. See, I didn't
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used to get sick from the heat. God, I'm gonna share with you
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next week. I used to get sick from the heat. But because I
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began to change my confession, even when it tried to hit me, I
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said, no, My new confession is I'm going to stay the course.
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That's right. I'm going to stay in position because God got something here from
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me now. And in staying in position, God said, I'm expanding you.
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Your capacity is growing, your ability is becoming greater, greater, greater,
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greater, greater, greater. It is what God has given to us
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in this season. So Father, I thank you, I thank you,
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I thank you, it out, I thank you, I thank you Lord,
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oh it and am by So Lord, we thank you now for all
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that you are doing in us. And we come today Lord God, and
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we repent for the wrong confessions. Father, If we had any wrong confessions,
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even if we didn't say it out of our mouths, but if we
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had our own confessions in our hearts, in our minds, in our felt
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processes, that we had allowed to steep into our soul. God, we
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come now and we repent for that. We say, Father, we repent
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of not aligning our minds to your we did. We come now and repent
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for not putting on the mind of Christ about a situation, about not putting
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on a mind of Christ, about a way, not putting on the mind
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of Christ about an idea. So Father, we come now and we say,
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forgive us. And in your forgiveness of us for having wrong confessions,
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God, we thank you for pouring into us that. Now our confession is
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that we're gonna do what scriptures say. We're gonna not only think on but
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we're gonna confess those things which are good and pure and lovely and of a
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good report. We're gonna believe your report. What does the Lord reports say,
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and what the Lord reports say is what we're going to align our confession
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with. And when we align our confession to what you say, God,
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then we know that we are standing in the right place. So God,
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we just give you praise now and we say thank you for not only do
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our confessions change, our mind change and our soul changes. And as we
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change God, we will see us align ourselves to the things that you have
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called for us in Jesus's name. A man and a man, A man,
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A man, a man, a man. Who I pray that that
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was a blessing for you. I'm I'm I got one more lesson that we're
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gonna be doing now next week. Let me just give you some heads up.
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On the twenty eighth, I will not be live at ten thirty.
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I will be doing it at seven o'clock that evening, So you can join
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me at seven pm on next next Thursday, because I have some appointments during
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that time. But I want to give you this last lesson as from the
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vacation chronicle. See y'all told y'all gotta be talking to me about all kinds
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of stuff. It don't matter where I go. And so this next lesson
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is called are you ready for the Climate? Are you ready for the climate?
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I took a trip back to the jungle, So I'm gonna tell you
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about my trip in the jungle and when when we meet, so again we
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will be meeting at seven pm next Thursday. So as we always say what
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we're gonna do, we're gonna pray until the mountains are moved. God bless
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you. I prayed that you have a good day and that the Lord continues
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to help you. And no, let the Lord continue, let you,
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let the Lord continue to make you fire proof a man. God bless