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Preparing yourself for greatness by T.D Jakes · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: God is not given influence in this season to people
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  Speaker 1: who need self ingrandizement and self promotion. God has given
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  Speaker 1: influence to humble people who will lay on their face
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  Speaker 1: before God and say to God be the glory for
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  Speaker 1: the things he has done. In order to have impact,
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  Speaker 1: God has to give you influence in the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: the people. And that's something that God has to do
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  Speaker 1: because you can't do You cannot control how people see you.
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  Speaker 1: Your arrogance is a lethal weapon that ought to be
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  Speaker 1: registered because you cannot say I don't know, little Mama.
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  Speaker 1: For preachers, it is not what you know about the
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  Speaker 1: text that makes you a great preacher. It's what you
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  Speaker 1: ask of the text. If you come to the text
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  Speaker 1: as a fool, you will leave as a professor. But
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  Speaker 1: if you come to the text as a professor, you
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  Speaker 1: will walk away as a fool. Say it again, Ah
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  Speaker 1: don't know, for we know not what to pray for
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  Speaker 1: as we are. But the Spirit itself makes this intercession
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  Speaker 1: for us with drunings and moanings that cannot be uttered.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we
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  Speaker 1: don't know. We don't know what it's gonna be like.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know what's gonna happen. We don't know what
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow is gonna bring. We don't know how to live
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  Speaker 1: in the Promised Land. We don't know how to fight
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  Speaker 1: this kind of fight. We don't know josph Will like
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  Speaker 1: we knew Moses. We don't know where we are. We're
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  Speaker 1: in transition. And when you're in transition, nobody has to
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  Speaker 1: say anything for you to be irritable. You're irritable because
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  Speaker 1: you're scared. You're irritable because your norm has been shattered.
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  Speaker 1: You're irritable because you're in a nebulous place. You're irritable
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  Speaker 1: because you have landed in the city, but you haven't
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  Speaker 1: checked into the hotel. Tradition will not produce transformation. Transformation
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  Speaker 1: is personal. Be you transformed by the renewing of your mind?
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  Speaker 1: Romans twelfth two. That's personal, that's not congregational. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get transformation because you go to the Potter's house. You
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  Speaker 1: can go to the Potter's house until you're an old woman.
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  Speaker 1: But if you are not transformed by the renewing of
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  Speaker 1: your mind, you won't be able to make it. In
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  Speaker 1: Romans eight, when it talks about we know that all
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  Speaker 1: things work together for the good of them that love
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, for we know, we know, we know, And
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  Speaker 1: then it finally says, we know not what to pray
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  Speaker 1: for as we are. That humility of saying we know
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  Speaker 1: not is I don't No, Joshua, you don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to lead Israel, you don't know how to follow. Joshua
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know how to lead. I know he doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: how to lead because the first thing he does is
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  Speaker 1: pull out his sword against an angel and.
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  Speaker 2: Ask God, whose side are you on? What?
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  Speaker 1: What I don't know produces a praying church who wants
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  Speaker 1: God to be on your side more than you seek
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  Speaker 1: to be on his side. Are you spending all your
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  Speaker 1: time trying to talk God to bless what you plan?
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  Speaker 1: Or are you humbly coming to him and say, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: give me your plan because I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to do this. Today, I'm gonna talk to
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  Speaker 1: you about three things and I'll be gone. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk to you about influence. I'm gonna talk to you
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  Speaker 1: about impact ediments, and I'm going to talk to you
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  Speaker 1: about instigators. I'm going to talk to you about influence.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to you about impediments because that's
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  Speaker 1: what the flood is and impediment, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you about instigators. Give me a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: and I'll be done. What God says to Joshua is
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  Speaker 1: vitally important. He says, I am going to magnify you
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  Speaker 1: in the eyes of the people, which means God says,
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  Speaker 1: I am going to give you influence. Don't confuse affluence
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  Speaker 1: with influence, because there are many people who are affluent,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't have influence. They're affluent, they're well known,
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  Speaker 1: they're recognizable, they have big names, they have big officers,
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  Speaker 1: they have big sweets, but they don't have effect on
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  Speaker 1: the people who follow them. Affluence does not equate with influence.
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  Speaker 1: God says to Joshua, I'm going to give you influence.
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  Speaker 1: Influence is leadership flowing out of him. It's what flows
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  Speaker 1: out of you. It's what flows out of It's not
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  Speaker 1: just what you say. It's stuff that subconsciously, like the
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  Speaker 1: effluence is the lava that flows out of a rock.
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  Speaker 1: Effluence is what is not just what you're doing and
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying. What is flowing out of you affects
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  Speaker 1: everything around you. The subconscious things that you emit into
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere is effluence. So we got affluence, we got influence,
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  Speaker 1: and we got effluence. He was already effluent, or he
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  Speaker 1: would have been commanding, or he would not have been
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  Speaker 1: commanding or leading people. He was a warrior, But because
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  Speaker 1: he was a warrior didn't make him Moses. Influence, however,
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  Speaker 1: is the ability to have a measurable impact on others' decisions,
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  Speaker 1: behaviors and effect outcomes.
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  Speaker 2: Influence.
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  Speaker 1: And there's not a person in this room or a
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  Speaker 1: person watching online who doesn't need influence. If it's just
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  Speaker 1: over your daughter, if it's just over your son, if
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  Speaker 1: it's just in your job and in your position, or
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  Speaker 1: with your team or on your staff, whatever it is
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  Speaker 1: that's up under your auspesis, it's a terrible thing to
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  Speaker 1: lead something without influence. Well, we think of great influencers
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  Speaker 1: who positively or even controversially affected the world around them.
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  Speaker 1: We mustn't confuse their affluence here either. In reality, many
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  Speaker 1: many influencers may not have been affluent at all. Martin
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  Speaker 1: Luther was an affluent but when he translated the Latin
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  Speaker 1: scriptures over into the German language in fifteen twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: it gave him influence that led to the Protestant movement,
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  Speaker 1: of which we and Baptists and Methodists and Ames and
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  Speaker 1: United Methodists and Church of God in Christ and Church
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  Speaker 1: of God and Church of God and Prophecy and everybody
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  Speaker 1: else is a part of the collective protests that came
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  Speaker 1: when the Bible fell into the hands of people who
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  Speaker 1: could read it. It gave him influence because it affected
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  Speaker 1: our behavior, our decisions, and our choices. What are how
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  Speaker 1: effective at you are you at influencing other people's behaviors, decisions,
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  Speaker 1: and outcomes. That influence doesn't come by yelling, screaming, arguing, nagging, complaining,
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  Speaker 1: cussing people out, breaking dishes, going at them with skillets.
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  Speaker 1: You can't make people respect you.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot buy respect.
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  Speaker 1: Giving me gifts, sending me cards, giving me money doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make me respect you to the point of affecting my decisions,
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  Speaker 1: my outcomes. Oh my God, I'm preaching, God said I.
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  Speaker 1: God said, I am going to magnify you before the people.
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  Speaker 1: Don't confuse titles with influencers. You getting more to I'm
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  Speaker 1: their apostle, that's the big thing. Now, I'm apostle. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a chief apostle. I'm going from a bishop to be
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  Speaker 1: an apostle. I'm going to be an apostle, but I
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  Speaker 1: was a bishop, and the other guy's an apostle, but
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  Speaker 1: he's getting ready to be coordinated. A bitual.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up.
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  Speaker 1: Changing the title doesn't change the impact. If you have influence,
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  Speaker 1: you got influence whether they gave you the title or not.
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  Speaker 1: Titles are not influenced. Don't confuse degrees and education and
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  Speaker 1: intellect with influence. You can have more degrees than a
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  Speaker 1: thermometer and influence absolute. Let nobody, God says to Johnsuahre,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to magnify you in the eyes of the people.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: Because some of you, God is getting ready to magnify
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  Speaker 1: you in the eyes of the people. If God magnifies you,
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  Speaker 1: would you magnify him or magnify the Lord with me
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  Speaker 1: and let us exalt his name together. If God gives
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  Speaker 1: you the power to influence people's decisions, outcome, and purpose,
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  Speaker 1: would you then magnify God or would you magnify yourself
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  Speaker 1: and brag about how smart you are and how capable
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  Speaker 1: you are. Because God is not giving influence in this
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  Speaker 1: season to people who need self ingrandizement, and self promotion.
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  Speaker 1: God has given influence to humble people who will lay
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  Speaker 1: on their face before God and say, to God be
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  Speaker 1: the glory for the things he has done. Are you
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  Speaker 1: in the building, give me some power on nobody. Are
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  Speaker 1: you in the building? Are you here in the building?
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  Speaker 1: Are you in the balcony? Are you up there in
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  Speaker 1: the balcony? Anywhere? Are you online? Anywhere? Is there anybody
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  Speaker 1: left that God can magnify you? And you will remember
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  Speaker 1: to magnify the Lord. God created trouble to give him influence,
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  Speaker 1: which leads me to impediments. I'm going in front of
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  Speaker 1: influence to impediment. Can I take a little bit longer today?
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  Speaker 1: Because I came fully loaded. I didn't bring a happy meal.
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  Speaker 1: I brought a five course for lay me me on
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  Speaker 1: dinner served in segments and courses with sorbet in between
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  Speaker 1: each segment. Are you ready for this? The flood was
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  Speaker 1: an impediment. The flood was an impediment that God used
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  Speaker 1: to increase Joshua's influence. You've been asking God to move
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  Speaker 1: the impediment, but if God removes the impediment, you won't
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  Speaker 1: have the influence. How you respond to your impediment is
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  Speaker 1: what gives you influence. What's this, oh got I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm so excited. See Joshua, when he was
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  Speaker 1: up under Moses had seen the grapes. He has seen
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  Speaker 1: the grapes of the Promised Land. He had foretasted the grapes,
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  Speaker 1: but he had not seen the flood. The flood was
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  Speaker 1: associated with the harvests, so it didn't flood all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So the last time Joshua was there, he talks about
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  Speaker 1: the giants that were in the land, the sons of Hanaike,
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  Speaker 1: but he doesn't mention the flood. He had since spies over,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't come back talking about the flood. They
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  Speaker 1: had not seen the flood, Remember josh Worth three point fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, Sir Jordan overflows all his banks all
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  Speaker 1: the time of harvest. The flood and the harvests are connected.
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  Speaker 1: Joshua has come to the Promised Land at the time
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  Speaker 1: of the harvest, which means it's raining a lot, and
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  Speaker 1: all the waters of Jerusalem have no place to flow.
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  Speaker 2: But down.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to Israel, I've seen the Sea of Gollie,
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  Speaker 1: I've been to the Jordan River. I was shocked when
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  Speaker 1: I got to the Jordan River. Were you shocked when
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  Speaker 1: you got to the Jordan River. I was shocked when
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  Speaker 1: I got to the Jordan River. I was disappointed. When
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  Speaker 1: I got to the Jordan River, I was expecting to
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  Speaker 1: at least see the Canawa River, the river from Charles.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it would be like a river. I got
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  Speaker 1: to the Jordan River. Man looked like a creek. I said,
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  Speaker 1: so Jamas baptized. The Jordan River is no wider than
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  Speaker 1: this stage. I was so disappointed because in my head
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  Speaker 1: I saw something that was big. But when I came
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  Speaker 1: to the Jordan River, it was not during a flood.
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  Speaker 1: So if you come to my backyard and it hadn't
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  Speaker 1: been a flood, it's actually quite dry. But because it's
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  Speaker 1: in a floodplain, if you come at another time, bring
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  Speaker 1: your swimming drunks. Because the little pond in my backyard
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  Speaker 1: overflows to the point that I had to claim insurance
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  Speaker 1: and rebald. Not because I lived with the river into
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  Speaker 1: my backyard, but in that season it flooded. You are
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  Speaker 1: in a flooding season, and the Lord wants you to
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  Speaker 1: hear this word today, because the Lord ordered the impediment
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  Speaker 1: of the flood to give you influence. You handle this
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  Speaker 1: flood will determine the influence for the rest of your
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  Speaker 1: life because you are leading a group of people who
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  Speaker 1: have no point of reference. So God has simulated a
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  Speaker 1: crisis to prove his promise that as I was with Moses,
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  Speaker 1: so shall I be with you. So God has turned
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  Speaker 1: a creek into a river so that he can demonstrate
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  Speaker 1: his power in your life. Instead of reducing the devil
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  Speaker 1: and pleading the blood, I want you to thank God
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  Speaker 1: for the flood in your life. Come on, come on,
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  Speaker 1: because the flood is a sign that the harvest is
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  Speaker 1: in process. And the flood is a sign that God
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  Speaker 1: is about to give you influence beyond your wildest dreams.
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  Speaker 1: Because how you deal with this impediment will determine the
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  Speaker 1: influence that you walk in the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't cross.
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  Speaker 1: This short and you will never kill the Canaanites, the Garishites,
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  Speaker 1: the Habites, the Hiptites, or the Jebbisides, everything you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be depends on how you handle this flood. It was
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  Speaker 1: a creek when you saw it. Now it's a flood
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  Speaker 1: when you get up to it and you're standing there
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  Speaker 1: at the Jordan wondering what to do You don't need evacuation,
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  Speaker 1: you need ammunition. Joshua is leading the people to where
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  Speaker 1: he has already been, just like Moses led them to
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  Speaker 1: the place he'd already been. You cannot lead people the
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  Speaker 1: places you haven't gone, So stop trying to be a
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  Speaker 1: tour god in a place you don't know nothing about.
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  Speaker 1: So Joshua is leading them to a place that he
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  Speaker 1: has been before. He is proficient at crossing the Jordan
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  Speaker 1: when it's not a flood, but now it's a flood,
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  Speaker 1: and all he has is the promise of God that
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  Speaker 1: as I was with Moses, so shall I be with you.
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  Speaker 1: The only difference is I'm a harry on it. The
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  Speaker 1: only difference is is that at the Red Sea, Moses
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  Speaker 1: stretchedforth his rod and the water's parted and they walked
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  Speaker 1: across on dry ground. But when Joshua gets to the Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: the flood has turned it into an amazing river. And
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  Speaker 1: Josua stands there at the Jordan river and standing there
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  Speaker 1: is not working.
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  Speaker 2: He can't stretch forth this rod. That's not working.
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  Speaker 1: God said, I'm gonna be with you like I was
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  Speaker 1: with Moses, but I'm not gonna do it like I
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  Speaker 1: did with Moses, So you can't imitate your Moses and
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  Speaker 1: cross your Jordan. Who am I preaching to in this place?
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  Speaker 1: Slap your neighbor and say, I'm gonna cross over. I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to crossover. I'm about to leave the old me
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  Speaker 1: and cross over to a new me. I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: leave my old place and cross over to a new place.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to step out of this zone and step
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  Speaker 1: into that zone. Everybody won't be able to go with me,
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  Speaker 1: So some people are gonna have to stay on this
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  Speaker 1: side of the Jordan, because not every tribe is able
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  Speaker 1: to cross over a floodplain. But the Lord sent me
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  Speaker 1: here to preach to somebody that's standing in front of
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  Speaker 1: a flood. You can't bring everybody with you. Some people
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  Speaker 1: got to pitch their tent out in the desert because
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  Speaker 1: they are desert babies. They are not kingdom builders, and
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  Speaker 1: you gotta let them pitch their tent within their comfort zone.
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  Speaker 1: But there are a few of us that have come
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  Speaker 1: too far to fall short of the promise of God.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in this house that's come too far
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  Speaker 1: to settle on the desert. You've been through too much,
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  Speaker 1: you cried too many nights, you enduring hardness and whatever
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  Speaker 1: you gotta go through. I'm going to step into this
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  Speaker 1: jodan and make something happen. Give me thirty seconds of
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  Speaker 1: crazy pray. I got a ball away. I got a
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  Speaker 1: ball away. If Mama don't go in, Daddy on't go,
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  Speaker 1: insisted on go, and brother don't go, I got to
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  Speaker 1: go all the way.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to work it. My rod ain't working, but.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something to get my miracle from the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you stretch forth your row and it worked for Moses,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't work for you. It's not Moses' method.
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  Speaker 1: It's Moses's annoyting that is on you to cross over
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  Speaker 1: this season in your life. If I'm answering prayers, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm answering questions, if I'm speaking to your destiny high atable,
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  Speaker 1: there is no way to get to the grapes without
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  Speaker 1: dealing with the impediments. The things that impede your progress
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  Speaker 1: are a sign of your progress. There wouldn't be an
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  Speaker 1: impediment if there weren't grapes on the other side of this,
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  Speaker 1: if there weren't milk and highney on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of this. Slap your neighbor and say get to the
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  Speaker 1: other side. If you gotta crawl, if you gotta get
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  Speaker 1: money here, if you gotta stretch out, if you gotta
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  Speaker 1: do something unusual, if you gotta be disruptive, if you
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  Speaker 1: gotta break a chain, if you gotta break a yoke,
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  Speaker 1: make something happen.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord told me to tell you. Make it happen.
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  Speaker 2: Take it on the line. I'm gonna make it happen.
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  Speaker 2: I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't mad enough, you ain't radical enough, you're not
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  Speaker 1: aggressive enough. I'm gonna give you another chance to make
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  Speaker 1: some noise. If you're gonna make it happen. Anytime you
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  Speaker 1: switch rolls in front of people, it's hard for them
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  Speaker 1: to see you in the new light.
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  Speaker 2: They say, I knew you win.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you were an hourly worker and now
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  Speaker 1: you become a part of management, the people who are
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  Speaker 1: hourly workers feel like you betray them, and they start
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  Speaker 1: acting funny.
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  Speaker 2: Now you a boss, Now you the rule over me.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you go through transitions, then the environment around you
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  Speaker 1: becomes frustrated because.
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  Speaker 2: They say you change, as if there was a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you change, Yes, I change everything, living changes everything,
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  Speaker 1: Living changes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm supposed to change.
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  Speaker 1: It would be a shame for me to be forty
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  Speaker 1: years old and not change, fifty years old and not
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  Speaker 1: change thirty five years old and still acting like I'm twelve.
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  Speaker 1: I change as a part of the sign that God
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  Speaker 1: lives in me, and he dwells in me, and he
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  Speaker 1: develops me, and he increased me. Say man, somebody, So
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  Speaker 1: when Joshua moves into this new role, what fascinated me
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  Speaker 1: in the text is that God says to Joshua that
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  Speaker 1: I will exalt you or I will increase you in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of the people. Okay, will I will raise
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  Speaker 1: you up? And this gives you influence because titles don't
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  Speaker 1: give you influence. Okay, just because they call you something,
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  Speaker 1: don't make you that influence enables you to act on
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  Speaker 1: what they call you effectively. One of the things I
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  Speaker 1: pray for all the time. I never prayed to be famous.
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  Speaker 1: I never prayed to be famous. I never prayed to
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  Speaker 1: be a public figure. I never even wanted any of that.
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  Speaker 1: I prayed to be effective because the thing that I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be is not effective. Are you hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? And so when you start talking about influence,
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  Speaker 1: let's defy influence. Influence is a capacity to have any
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  Speaker 1: effect on the character development, on the character development or
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  Speaker 1: behavior of someone or something, or effect itself, like the
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  Speaker 1: influence of television violence. It could be a thing, it
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  Speaker 1: could be a person, but it makes you effective at
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  Speaker 1: producing change. Its influence. It's quantifiable. You can measure your impact.
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  Speaker 1: And I was thinking about sometimes when I was younger,
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  Speaker 1: I'd have dreams and I'd there'd be somebody chasing me,
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  Speaker 1: or I'd be in a fight with somebody and I'd
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  Speaker 1: be punching them, but it had no effect. Hey, anybody
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  Speaker 1: have those kind of dreams where you just couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't get that good one in, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: you thought you landed it, but it did it. It's
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  Speaker 1: just turned into nothing. That's a nightmare. I'd wake up
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  Speaker 1: almost screaming. Or you're running but you can't get up
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  Speaker 1: any speed, you can't get up any traction. Some people
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  Speaker 1: live their lives like I had my dream. They punch
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  Speaker 1: without impact, they run without gaining ground, They expend energy,
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  Speaker 1: but they see no results. In order to have impact,
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  Speaker 1: God has to give you influence in the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: the people. And that's something that God has to do
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  Speaker 1: because you can't do. You cannot control how people see you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if you change your hair, change your dress,
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  Speaker 1: change your clothes, give more degrees than a thermometer, spin
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  Speaker 1: all around, do whatever you want to do. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: control how people see you. God can control how people
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  Speaker 1: see you, and so God says, I'm going to control
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  Speaker 1: how they see you for my glory. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to change how the whole world sees you, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to give you influence in proportion to the authority
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  Speaker 1: that I've given you. So this message is a one
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  Speaker 1: size fits all message. It will work whether you're the
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  Speaker 1: governor or the president or a papa and you just
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  Speaker 1: want to influence your son or a wife, and you
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  Speaker 1: just want to influence your husband, whatever you have dominion over,
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  Speaker 1: you want to have influence. So the less time you have,
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  Speaker 1: the more valuable it comes. It becomes I can't stand
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  Speaker 1: for you to waste my time because my time is
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  Speaker 1: valuable to me. I don't want to engage my effort
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  Speaker 1: doing things that I am not effective at. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you have to pray for God to give you the
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  Speaker 1: stature that is necess sih not in your eyes, in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of those that you hope to influence. So
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  Speaker 1: God created trouble to raise Joshua's influence. Okay, that's where
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  Speaker 1: we left off Sunday. God created trouble because how you
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  Speaker 1: manage crisis changes how people see you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So we started talking about the president in Ukraine and
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  Speaker 1: we started talking about how he said I don't need evacuation,
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  Speaker 1: I need ammunition, and all of a sudden, that one
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  Speaker 1: phrase changed how people saw him. What you say in
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  Speaker 1: a storm changes how people see you, changes how they
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  Speaker 1: respect you. That's why the enemy is always trying to
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  Speaker 1: get you to go off under pressure, because the enemy
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  Speaker 1: knows that if you go off under pressure, you decrease
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  Speaker 1: your influence with your hysteria. If you want to be strong,
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  Speaker 1: you want to be strong under pressure, then you gain
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  Speaker 1: influence under pressure. And in order to be strong, there
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  Speaker 1: are certain things that you need to know. You need
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  Speaker 1: to know that you are doing what you were created
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  Speaker 1: to do, even if it's not a big thing, even
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  Speaker 1: if it's not a great thing to other people. It
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  Speaker 1: only matters to the people that it matters to, and
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  Speaker 1: it shouldn't matter to you what outside people think about
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  Speaker 1: inside influence. The reason we have so much misery in
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  Speaker 1: the world today is that you are because social medium
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  Speaker 1: attempts you to try to get outside people to form
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  Speaker 1: an opinion about your inside ability, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: if they don't like the posts, you want to take
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  Speaker 1: it down, or if they say something weird, you want
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  Speaker 1: to freak out about it. But in reality, I'm letting
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  Speaker 1: you observe something that is frankly none of your business.
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  Speaker 1: You understand, so your opinion doesn't really matter to me.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't have any authority with you, then it's
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  Speaker 1: just an opinion, and opinions are coming. Everybody's got one.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's got one. And when you bring yourself down to
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  Speaker 1: the point that you allow people to make you come
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  Speaker 1: off the wall that God has assigned you on because
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  Speaker 1: of somebody's opinion who is not assigned to you, then
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  Speaker 1: you give up your influence over the people you have
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  Speaker 1: influence with because of somebody that doesn't even matter one
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  Speaker 1: way or the other. It doesn't even make any sense
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  Speaker 1: or you hear what I'm saying. So it's not enough
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  Speaker 1: for God to raise your influence in the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: external people. If you're leaking internally. Oh yeah, we're about
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  Speaker 1: to go there. We're about to go there. We're about
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  Speaker 1: to get down into the depths of it. We're about
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  Speaker 1: to get down into the depths of Why Paul prayed
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  Speaker 1: in ephisions that the eyes of your understanding being enlightened,
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  Speaker 1: that you might know. You have to know. It's not
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  Speaker 1: enough for them to know if you don't know, what
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  Speaker 1: is the hope of your calling. So in order for
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  Speaker 1: me to have influence, in influence, it starts in me.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot convince outside people to believe something about me
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  Speaker 1: that I don't believe about myself. That will make you
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  Speaker 1: an impostor. And the stress many of us have right
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  Speaker 1: now is that we have impostor syndrome where we feel
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  Speaker 1: like we are living a fake life. And we think
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  Speaker 1: that we're living a fake life not because we have inconsistencies,
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  Speaker 1: because we all do, but because we are not convinced
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  Speaker 1: of our purpose. So Paul prays that the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: your understanding may be in enlightened. Okay, you can't be
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  Speaker 1: an external light if you don't have internal light. That
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of your understanding might be enlightened. So before
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  Speaker 1: God starts elevating Joshua in the eyes of the people,
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  Speaker 1: he talks to Joshua by himself, and he says, as
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  Speaker 1: I was with Moses, so shall I be with you,
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  Speaker 1: Be strong and very courageous, for I am with thee
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  Speaker 1: to deliver the whethersoever that Joshua, you have to know
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  Speaker 1: you're the man. Then he created the swelling of the
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  Speaker 1: Jordan to give an outer display of what he had
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  Speaker 1: convinced Joshua of inwardly. So the question tonight for you
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  Speaker 1: is are you convinced? Y'all not talking to me, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to you. Are you convinced? Because if you're
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  Speaker 1: not convinced, the enemy has already defeated you. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: influence where you are not fully persuaded. So Paul praised
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  Speaker 1: that the eyes of your understanding might be enlightened, that
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  Speaker 1: you might know, not wish, not the hope, not think,
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  Speaker 1: but that you might know what is the hope of
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  Speaker 1: his calling, and what is the richest of his inheritance
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  Speaker 1: in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of
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  Speaker 1: his power to usward who believed? You have to know
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  Speaker 1: that this is my purpose, this is my place, this
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  Speaker 1: is my gift, this is what I do, this is
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  Speaker 1: what I am. Is not about you knowing it I
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  Speaker 1: have to know it first. You can't have more of
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  Speaker 1: this without having more of that. It all connects together.
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  Speaker 1: And when God increases your influence, he will also increase
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  Speaker 1: your enemies. So how do you thrive in an environment
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  Speaker 1: of conflict? God has increased Joshua's influence with his people,
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  Speaker 1: but he has also increased Joshua's enemies the Hittites of
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  Speaker 1: Jeffy Sites and Garashites. The Canaanites are riding around on
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  Speaker 1: chariots on top of the wall. Why because Joshua's having
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  Speaker 1: an increase? Who am I talking to tonight? Any time
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  Speaker 1: God gives you increase, you'll look out and you'll see
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  Speaker 1: barriers and restrictions that you never saw before. You'll see
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  Speaker 1: what was a creek turn into a river and overflow
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  Speaker 1: its banks and flood Because you're on the verge of
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  Speaker 1: stepping into another level of influence. And when you're on
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  Speaker 1: the verge of stepping into another level of influence, there
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  Speaker 1: will be certain floods that come in your life and
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  Speaker 1: you have to be prepared to deal with the flood
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  Speaker 1: so that you can get to the harvest.
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  Speaker 2: Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: So? Why is influence the currency of impact and purpose.
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  Speaker 1: You can't if this water is just water. But if
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  Speaker 1: I put kool aid in it, I will influence it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it will never be water again if something as simple
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  Speaker 1: as a tablespool of kool aid will influence this water.
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  Speaker 1: How can you live a life where you are being
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  Speaker 1: poured into something that doesn't change. Somebody out to miss you,
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  Speaker 1: somebody out to call you, somebody out to see about you.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody ought to think, Oh, if you were here, my
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  Speaker 1: life would be better. Influence is not just about you.
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  Speaker 1: It is about your ability to affect the behavior of
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  Speaker 1: those around you. Come on the day you walk in
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  Speaker 1: the room and they don't look up, You've lost influence.
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  Speaker 1: The day you walk in the room they keep on
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  Speaker 1: reading the book, You've lost influence. I don't care whether
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  Speaker 1: it's your kids, your wife, your husband. You need to
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  Speaker 1: measure influence. How did I change what I was exposed to?
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  Speaker 1: And the reason we get frustrated sometimes is that days
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  Speaker 1: go by which we can't get back again, go by
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  Speaker 1: which we can't get back, months go by which we
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  Speaker 1: can't get back, and we cannot see our impact on
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  Speaker 1: those that matter most around us. I'm telling you, but
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  Speaker 1: I say that's real. It's hard to come into a
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  Speaker 1: situation where it's still just like it was for you
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  Speaker 1: got there. If I pour myself into you, you ought
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  Speaker 1: to turn into something else. If I pour myself into you,
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  Speaker 1: you ought to turn into something else. If I pour
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  Speaker 1: my wisdom into you, you ought to turn into something else.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you don't turn into something else, it suggests
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  Speaker 1: to me that I'm impotent and I have no influence
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  Speaker 1: in your life, which leads to frustration because I'm not
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  Speaker 1: seeing any result. So that brings us to the question,
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  Speaker 1: can influence me? Increase? Go to Luke two fifty two.
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  Speaker 1: Some of y'all know exactly where I'm going with this.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God
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  Speaker 1: and Man. Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in
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  Speaker 1: favor with God and Man. Some people think if you
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  Speaker 1: increase with God, you can't increase with man. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna talk to the deep folks in here
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  Speaker 1: a minute. You running around with all this kind of people,
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  Speaker 1: You're doing, all of this kind of stuff, You've done
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: all of that. They think true holiness is increasing with
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  Speaker 1: favor with God and not with man, but Jesus increased
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  Speaker 1: with favor with God, and somebody shall increase. Okay, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to increase my influence, I've already told you
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be some restrictions, and there's gonna be some attacks,
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  Speaker 1: and there's going to be some adversities. But as I
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  Speaker 1: am exposed to it, God builds up my tolerance to
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  Speaker 1: the level of my influence. Oh, is somebody getting anything
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  Speaker 1: out of this tonight? God builds up my tolerance to
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the level of my influence. That's why I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to live your life, because I haven't been built up
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  Speaker 1: enough to have tolerance to be you. I have tolerance
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  Speaker 1: to handle my level of influence. That's why I can't
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  Speaker 1: put my mouth on you and what you did, because
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're going through on your level
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  Speaker 1: of y'all don't hear what I'm saying. It's easy for
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  Speaker 1: people to sit back in a cracker box and start
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  Speaker 1: talking about somebody on Capitol Hill because you don't have
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  Speaker 1: tolerance for the level of pressure they're under. You say,
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand. No, you don't understand, So shut up
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  Speaker 1: to the people that God is increasing, don't stop growing
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  Speaker 1: because of the attacks, because the attacks are not worthy
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  Speaker 1: to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed
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  Speaker 1: in You. Don't stay down low to make other people comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Don't diminish yourself so that you won't make them uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Their comfort is not your responsibility. Go ahead and make
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  Speaker 1: them uncomfortable, and let them say whatever they've got to say,
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  Speaker 1: because God is getting ready to increase your influence. Who
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  Speaker 1: am I talking to? In fact, you can tell who
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  Speaker 1: can grow with you and who can go with you
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  Speaker 1: by who gets uncomfortable at your growth.