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Vision Sunday/Alignment - Ps Cjay · Wave Point Jbay

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Hey podcast fam CJ Hansen the pastor of wave
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point church. Thank you so much for joining us
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today We love you and we pray that this message
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will build your faith and empower you to share
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the message of Jesus to the world Enjoy If you're
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here for the first time, thank you so much for
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joining us this morning. It's probably the best
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Sunday that you can come to church if you're
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here for the first time, amen? Because if there's
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something that I love speaking about, that is
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vision. And not just vision corporately for us
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as a church, but vision for yourself. That's
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it. In the worship while we were busy singing,
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I'm playing here. As you can see, I haven't been
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in a while so they let me play. You will play
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and you will preach as well, all right? You haven't
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been here in a while. But I love it and it reminds
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me of not so long ago when it was just me behind
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the piano playing and leading the worship. Remember
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those times, right? But I thank God that I wasn't
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doing it without vision. There was vision there
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was always vision behind everything that we were
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doing even in the earlier years of church Otherwise,
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we wouldn't be here today We would still be stuck
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at 20 15 people if there was no Vision because
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what does the Bible see say that my people? perish
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They perish they they go astray. They go they
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lose their way things go a little bit a bit murky
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and muddy as you go along why because there is
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no vision And another scripture says when it
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speaks about vision, it says that vision has
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to be casted all the time, where there is no
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prophetic vision, which means when something
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is prophetic, something is fresh from the heart
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of God. Hello? So why is a Sunday like this important?
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It's not that we're gonna redo our vision. The
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vision of Waypoint will stay the vision of Waypoint,
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but here's the thing, vision leaks. Let me say
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it again. Vision leaks. How many times when your
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kids were growing up as parents and you keep
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having to tell them every single day, don't forget
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to do this, don't forget to do this. Can you
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do, don't remember them? And then they do it
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again. Why? Because vision leaks. And Sundays
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like this, I love it. Why? Because we just get
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to dial in a little bit and relook again at our
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vision as a church corporately. But I also want
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you to take time today to look at your vision.
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What is it that God has told? You, why are you
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here? What was the mandate? What was the scripture
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that God gave you 10 years ago? Are you still
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with that scripture? Are you still standing on
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that word? That's what these Sundays are about.
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Just to redarl it in a little bit, hallelujah.
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So I'm excited to be here. I know my wife's been
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preaching up a storm the last couple of weeks,
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hallelujah. Amen, come on. And I'm so blessed
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and I'm so thankful for my wife. Man, you know
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what, I said something to Sintershe last year.
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Sometimes we think that what's best is what God's
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best is for us. And if we settle, we will miss
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out actually on the best that God has for us.
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So I want you to take some stock today and think
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about the things that you trust in God for, and
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you saying, man, if I get this, this will be
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the best for me. If I get this person, this husband,
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or this person that's gonna be my wife, it will
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be the best for me. I want you to take some stock
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today and just say, God, is that really the best
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for me? Because I don't wanna miss out, because
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God will bless you at that level. But if there's
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something else that he has for you, I rather
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wanna step into that. Hallelujah? So this morning,
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if you can shout me down, if you can say some
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amens, you know how I'd appreciate it, is that
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okay? All right. I can feel a little bit in the
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house this morning. It's the 25th of January.
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And some of you have already started telling
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yourself it's probably gonna be the same again
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this year. It doesn't feel like anything is gonna
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change in 2026. I want you to be careful of that.
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I want you to be careful that the enemy doesn't
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come and whisper lies in your ear. And as a result
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of him whispering lies in your ear, what happens?
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Your vision begins to leak. And before you know
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you're living, you're just living every day,
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every day, but not actually intentionally and
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with a vision. Amen? I love this scripture. It
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says, and then God answered. That's a good scripture
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right there. And then God answered. Come on,
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He's a God that responds to you. He's a God that
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speaks back to you. Amen? If you just begin to
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lean in, if you just put your ear on His heart
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and on His chest, He will speak to you. And the
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Bible says, and then God answered and He says
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this, write this. He says, write what you see.
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Write it out in big block letters so that it
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can be read on the run. How cool is that? Write
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it down in big bold letters so that it can be
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read on the run. I mean, think about it, which
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means that you cannot write the vision that God
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has put in your heart just on a small little
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piece of paper. God is saying, I want you to
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be bold about the vision that I've given you.
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I want you to be bold about the dream that I've
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given you. Why? So that when people run past
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you, it can be read on the run. And have you
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ever been in a big city with a big bull board?
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Have you seen that? You drive down the freeway,
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you can do 120, but as you do 120, you can read
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the vision. You can read that statement on the
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wall, right? That's what God is saying. Your
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vision has to be that big that it can be read
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on the run. But here's the problem is that some
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of us, we don't even write it down. Pastor God
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gave me that idea to start a business. He's given
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me this, he's given me, but we don't even write
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it down. It's not vision if it's not written
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down. Write it down, write it down so that it
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can be read on the run. Amen. What is vision?
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Vision is not what I can see with my sight. Vision
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is what I see when my eyes are closed. What do
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I see? What do I see down the line for 2026?
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What do I see for my life? What do I see for
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my children? When I begin to close my eyes, I
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say, God, you need to give me a vision. What
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do I see? you know yesterday I was I was walking
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on a beach there and I was just going over my
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notes and praying and just speaking to the Lord
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because This is like an important Sunday for
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me why because I love vision. I love casting
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Vision, you know and and I remember ten years
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ago This year ten years ago. I was on the beach
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on Paradise Beach over there ten years ago And
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I had a vision and a dream in my heart for days
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like today For days like where you will be in
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the room For days like today when I will play
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the keyboard not in another church, but in our
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church Days like today when we sense the atmosphere
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and the presence of God days like today It's
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what I envisioned ten years ago. I was walking
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on a beach and things were so different back
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then Things are so different. It was so different
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for us as a family where we were it was different
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for us Financially where we were but somehow
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God gave me a vision And when I used to walk
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on that beach every morning with my wife, we
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were beginning to pray about WavePoint Church.
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We begin to see it in existence. I remember going
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to conferences, standing at conferences, and
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I hear the people worship, and I say to myself,
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God, I hear this in Jefferies Bay. I see this
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in Jefferies Bay. It is vision what got me here.
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It's vision that got me here. And I want you
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to come alive this morning. I want you to say,
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if you don't have a vision, I say, God, that
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you give me a new vision. Let me begin to see
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the promises that you have for me Hallelujah
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And when God gives you that vision be bold about
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it so that it can be read on the run. I love
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that scripture I didn't even know it was like
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written like that. It's in the message translation
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So that it can be read on the run. Hallelujah
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Come on. I'm a result of the goodness of God.
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Don't get me wrong, but also God gave me a word
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God will give you a picture of your future and
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if you trust it And if you zero in on it, young
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people, I wanna encourage you, 10 years seems
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a long time, but it goes past like that. Purpose
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in your heart today, purpose in your heart, God,
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give me a vision. You might think that while
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I still have time and I'm still kinda just hanging
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about, whatever, 10 years go by like this. 10
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years go by like this in your marriage. Don't
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coast, don't just take it easy. Hello? I don't
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know you guys yet, but yesterday when I was walking
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on that beach, I was praying for you. And I pray
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that God will give you a vision in the months
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that you are here. And if God has given you a
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vision already, that you will begin to dial it
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in. You'll begin to take time over the next couple
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of months. And we're not playing around. We're
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not just here for surfing. Hello? We hear that
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God will clear and give us clear direction of
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where we're going. Amen? Can I release that to
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you? Is that okay? All right, awesome. She's
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smiling, so that's good. It's all good, it's
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all good. So I've got, I don't have a lot of
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time, but I have almost like something prepared
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that is threefold and I wanna speak about vision.
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And then I wanna give you a word that I feel
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God has given to us as a church this year. Amen,
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is that okay? Cool, so here's the thing with
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WavePoint is that our vision is always a place
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to belong, to connect with Jesus and to empower
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people to change their world. This is now What's
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six years ago? When did we do straight up seven
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years ago? myself Roy and a couple of people
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Sharon we were just in a room and what we did
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we took a big white board and All Roy did was
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he began to ask me questions He began to take
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me down this pathway of hours 40 I turned 41
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at the time and he began to take me down 40 years
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of just my laughs asking questions and the Lord
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is already I placed this vision in my heart before
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coming to Jefferies Bay, but within him asking
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questions, it began to dial in the vision. Things
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began to make even more sense. Oh, is that why
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this happened? Because God needed to shape me
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for this moment, right? And literally after a
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couple of days, we walked away and we had a plan
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on a page. Is that what you call it? PO something.
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Sorry, those are fancy words. You know, I'll
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leave it for those guys. But we had a plan on
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a page seven years ago. And I don't have it here
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this morning, and next week when I'm back here,
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I'm gonna put it up on the screen. And vrachtach.
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If you don't know what that means, vrachtach.
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Vrachtach. I went and found that plan on a page,
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and it is incredible to see how we are starting
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to hit all those things seven years later. I'm
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telling you, when you begin to refine, when you
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begin to dial in and take time, Take time to
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just take some time Intentionality get in a room
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with somebody that loves you that that cares
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for you that believes in you And let them begin
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to ask you some questions about the future. Where
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are you right now? What's going on in my life
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right now? What do I need to refine? What do
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I need to dial in? Why am I keep using this word
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dial in because this word dial in it's actually
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a surfing term By now if you can tell I'm a surfer
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hallelujah phrase guy a Surfer that hasn't surfed
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in 25 days So I don't know if it still makes
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me one, but you know But before I get to that
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I'm I think I'm running ahead of myself But I
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just want to want to say this to you when you
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walked into the door this morning There's a little
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board and some stuff that's lying there and you
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can see the actual board next to it That's finished
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the shaper took time to shape the board But actually
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there's a process that takes place with the surfer
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and the surfboard shaper Is that there's a process
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where he shapes the board and then he starts
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working with the surfer and he begins to dial
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in some things on the board Why because when
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he takes time to dial it in with the surfer is
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so that you can have maximum speed while you're
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riding down the line You know what I mean, and
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I believe prophetically this morning is what
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God wants to do for you He's already given you
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something he has given you a word, but he wants
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you to allow him to begin to dial in some things
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in your life So that you can have the right of
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your life Sorry, I'm running ahead of myself,
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but I got to tell you this last year. I think
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it was November Waves are cooking kitchen windows
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beats break four foot five foot I can say six
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foot you wouldn't know You know, I can exaggerate
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that, but you wouldn't know. But it was a big
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solid beach break. And somehow over the last
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couple of months, I've come to love to surf the
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beach break. Because it's so quick and you have
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to react. You need to be on your feet. And I
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remember that morning was Friday morning after
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prayer. It's maybe because I came to pray, you
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know? And I was sitting in the back and I saw
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the wave. Sam shouted me down. And the next moment
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he just said, boss, CJ, go. And I went, and this
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wave was this big. I mean, I'm going down the
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line, not even right, I'm going left. And it's
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just going. I look beyond me, the wave is like
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just going, right? But what was so amazing for
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me is that it's just that feeling. It is true
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what they say, only a surfer knows. There's a
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feeling that comes with it. There's an, you know
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what I mean? It's like, you're like, this is
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so good, right? But what's even better is that
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as I finished my ride, I looked around and the
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rest of my crew was sitting in the back saying,
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Boss, the CJ is amazing. Right? But you have
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to take time to be dialed in. You know what I
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mean? I know I keep going ahead of myself, but
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I got the privilege for our shaper locally to
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shape me aboard. And what I didn't know at the
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time was when I was on a foamy, he was out there
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surfing. And by the time I came to him and asked
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him to shape me a board, he already was watching
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me. He's been watching me all along. And as we
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begin to speak about shaping me this board, he
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started saying to me, you do this in the water,
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the waves are like this, you need, we paddle
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a lot out there, kitchen windows, so I need to
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make you a little bit more volume in your board,
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your rocker needs to be a little bit more, you
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know, like that language and stuff. And I was
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so surprised, I was so surprised. And I began
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to realize that The shaper, which is God. He's
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so intentional about you. He watches you. He
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knows what you need. He knows what he needs to
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dial in. And when you are willing to lay your
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life down on that little thing there in the shaping
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bay and allow the shaper just to come and take
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the machine and will be painful sometimes for
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stuff to come off. You know, you'd have to take
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a little bit of sandpaper, which is a bit. They
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need to have to just kind of do this. But I can
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tell you if you allow him that, you'll have the
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right of your life. You'll have the right of
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your life if you allow him to dial in your vision,
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hallelujah. So our vision is a place to belong,
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to connect with Jesus and to be empowered to
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change your world. And this year corporately
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for us is that I really want us to pay attention
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to that. I want us to dial in. That vision and
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I actually I want us to come into unity with
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the vision You shouldn't be here if you don't
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believe in the vision of this house Let me say
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it again. You shouldn't be here if you don't
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believe in the vision of this house not believing
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CJ Because I can I can disappoint you I might
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not answer your call next week or I might not
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respond when you want me to respond You will
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get disappointed by CJ. But if you say I believe
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that God is aligning me with this Vision, a place
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to belong, connect with Jesus and empower to
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change your world. Then you need to be here.
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Is there anybody that can say that this vision
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has impacted my life? I've experienced it and
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I've seen it. Anybody? Same for me. Amen. Obviously
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every year we, you know, we take time to pray
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and we trust God for a word for us as church.
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And this is not a, it's not, our vision doesn't
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change. And I believe what that word does, it
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is part of helping us with the dialing in of
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what we need to focus on in 2026. Amen. Can I
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give you that real quick? All right. I was at
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a conference last year, October, and this pastor
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was doing the offering. Can you believe it? God
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speaks to me in offering somehow. And he went
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to Genesis 11 and he read the scripture. And
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when he read it, it just came alive in me. I
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saw something in it. Quickly give some context.
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This is the story about the Tower of Babel. Who
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knows the story of what happened? The people,
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right? And how many know that scripture, what
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it does, it helps us, it guides us, we can learn
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from scripture. Amen. We know that this was a
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little bit of a bad situation, but I saw something
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in it that I believe, and if we can take it out
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of that, it will help us in 2026. Amen. So I
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wanna read it to you. In verse one, he says,
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and now the whole world had won. language. And
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they had a common speech. And he says, as people
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move each word, they found a plane in Shana and
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settled there. They said to each other, come,
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let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They
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used brick instead of stone and tar for mortar.
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And verse four, and then they said, come, let
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us build ourselves a city. With a tower that
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reaches to the heavens so that they so that we
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may make a name for ourselves Within there we
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see the problem is that they had the ability
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to build something, but they kept pointing everything
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to themselves Let's do it for ourselves. Let
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it benefit me It's all about us and we as a people
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But what is powerful that we can learn from this
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the scripture is that the Bible says that the
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people spoke one language Throughout it, we see
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that they were in oneness. They were in unity.
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They had a common cause that they wanted to go
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after, right? The problem that the people here
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got into is that their common cause and what
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they wanted to do, it didn't line up with what
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God wanted to do. Does it make sense? And then
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this one here in verse four, sorry, verse five.
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the
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tower the people were building I want this is
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important This is what I'm gonna land on and
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the Lord came down to see the city in the tower
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With the children of men built and this is what
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God says. What's the next one verse 6? And the
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Lord said behold What are the people? Come on.
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What are the people? The people is one and they
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have all won Language and this they begin to
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do and now Nothing will be restrained from them,
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which they have imagined to do And when I saw
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that and when I read that it just leaped into
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me and I said God What if wave point is the church
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where you come down and you say nothing that
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they imagined to do they can't do Why because
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they are in? Unity, they are a people that are
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in oneness. Does it make sense? And as I saw
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this and I begin to sit in this atmosphere, the
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Lord dropped the word in my heart and I knew
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that this is the word for 2026. And this is our
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word, alignment. The people were aligned. They
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were aligned, they were in oneness. And that's
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my prayer this year as we dialing into what are
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we actually doing? We're coming into alignment.
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Hello, maybe I want to tell you last year wasn't
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a failure. You were just misaligned. That's it.
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You were just misaligned. Don't let the enemy
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lie to you. Don't let it make you feel guilty.
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Like, oh, is this gonna be the same year again?
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No, you were just misaligned. And if you begin
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to realign yourself again, just begin to realign
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yourself with the things of God again. Realignment
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again, I can tell you and you trust me that God
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will begin to shift things in your life. Hallelujah.
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And I'm gonna be back next week, hopefully. And
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I wanna come and share a little bit more on alignment.
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Is that okay? Right? God, I believe that He wants
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us to align this year. You know, I have a little
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book. I don't know if you guys saw the post that
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I did two weeks ago. I've got a little book that
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I go back to every year. And in that book, I
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wrote the vision down of WavePoint Church. In
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that book, I wrote the word that God gave me.
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for WavePoint shirts. And every year in the beginning,
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what do I do? I go and realign myself with what
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God said. Does that make sense? When your car
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goes out of alignment, what happens? You start
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spending more money on fuel. When things are
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out of alignment, you're starting to spend more
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time on things that you're not supposed to be
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spending time on. But when we begin to realign.
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So God, I'm gonna realign. And here's the thing
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is that I got an injury a couple of months ago.
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When I was surfing, my wife was like, yaw. And
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when I got injured the first time, I went for
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physio. I got better. It was like six weeks.
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It got better. I thought it was better. But what
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I didn't realize that something worse or something
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happened deeper than just what I was feeling
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in my... Remember I said to you, I had all these
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little... What's the medical word for your glutes?
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I had all these glutes on my screen. Remember
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that. All right, because I thought that my glute
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was giving me problems. But actually what I didn't
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know that the problem was in my back. I hurt
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my back. The disc moved and it was starting to
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push against my nerve, my sciatic nerve. And
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the more and more that I was thinking people
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were trying to fix my back or trying to fix the
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pain, sorry, that was in my leg. It was actually
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my back that needed to be fixed. And while I
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was lying on the couch then I couldn't do anything.
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God was saying that CJ is that I'm realigning
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you. It's realigning you. And as you begin to
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realign what happened, the pain and all those
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things started disappearing. Amen. So I wanna
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next week speak a little bit more on alignment,
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amen? That as we align and I had a cool closing
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here, I'm gonna close with this. Alignment precedes
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acceleration. Amos 3 verse 3 says, Can two walk
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together unless they are in agreement? Can we
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walk together unless we are aligned? Then we
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can walk together and then we can actually do
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things together. Hello? The Bible says an unstable
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man is, yeah. Sorry, a double -minded man is
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unstable in his ways. Get aligned, get into alignment.
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And when God sees the people who are one, nothing
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that we imagined, we cannot be restrained from
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it. When God sees us as a people of one, we will
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build a building for him. We wanna be in oneness.
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We wanna be aligned, amen. So today I want us
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to as a church, I want us to say yes to alignment.
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I want us to say yes to positioning. And I want
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us to say yes to what God has spoken to us. 2026,
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alignment. And here's the thing for some of us
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here is that you might not experience the thing
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that you want yet in 2026. But here's the thing,
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if you align, if you come into alignment in 2026,
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what could happen in 2027? That's it. This year,
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I got up with so much pain. I was like, for a
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couple of weeks, I was just lying in pain and
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pain. And I was like, but God, you gave a word
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last New Year's Eve. You're doing a new thing.
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And I don't feel like I'm sitting in a new thing.
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Why? Because some things were out of alignment
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in my... physical body I Can't just go back to
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surfing now There's a process that I need to
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walk out before I can get back into that water
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And I might not remember the feeling that I said
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to you earlier that you feel when you're surfing
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I might not have that feeling this year And I
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have to be okay with it because I want to come
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into a line And if it means that in general in
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January next year that I get back into the water
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and start surfing again It means that because
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I don't want to shortcut what God wants to do
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in my life. The doctor booked me off a couple
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of weeks ago. He said, you're not going to church.
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We're launching a church. I have to be at church.
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He says, so are you focusing on right now or
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are you seeing down the line? And that's what
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alignment is. He's saying, I'm putting all the
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things that I saw quickly, the quick gratification.
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God give me a quick little word. I'm putting
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all those things aside and say, I'm gonna align
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with what God wants me. And I can guarantee you,
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it might not be in a month, it might not be in
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six months, but 2027 is coming. Things can shift
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in 2027 for you, hallelujah. Amen, can we stand
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on our feet? Amen. Come on, this year we're gonna
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allow God to shape us, amen. We're gonna get
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into the shaping bay. and let him make us and
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let him, he says, I'm the potter, you are the
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clay. Some of us, we are misaligned. We think
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that we are the potter. Not just think, we've
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taken the place of the potter. God, I get this.
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Talk about alignment, I can get myself into alignment.
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But we need to allow him, we need the things
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shift. You are out of alignment. You're not in
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where God wants you to be. Allow him to be the
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potter. and you'd be the clay. And say, God,
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in whatever way you wanna mold me and shape me
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and make me, I've been pushing against it. I've
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been just resisting you. I know that I'm supposed
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to go in this direction, but I'm still pushing
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to go into this direction. But this morning,
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today, as we were talking about vision and what
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God wants to do, I realized that I'm not aligned
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with him in my life. I'm not aligned. Jesus came
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and what did he do? He realigned us with God.
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He got on that cross, he died for us so that
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we can come into alignment with God. So the first
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place that we can start off today is to get in
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alignment with Jesus. Alignment starts by surrender.
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Say, Jesus, I surrender my life to you. That's
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where it starts this morning for you. And I wanna
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give you that opportunity, if you standing here
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this morning, you say, CJ, my life is not aligned
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with Jesus yet. If I really had to look at my
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life, I am not 100 % aligned. with Jesus. Can
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I ask every eye to be closed as we give this
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moment and allow this moment for people. If that's
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you this morning, on the count of three, I want
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you to lift up your hand and we wanna pray for
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you. I'm not gonna put you on the spot or anything,
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but we wanna pray with you. And then I wanna
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make another call is that maybe you've given
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your life to Jesus, you've walked with the Lord,
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but you know that there's some areas in your
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life that is not 100 % aligned with him. There's
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still some things that are pulling my attention.
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It's like, am I gonna have the same year again?
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Am I gonna have to go through the same thing?
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No, you don't have to, just realign. Realign,
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just realign, just realign. Is it gonna cost
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you something? Yes, it probably will cost you
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some friends, it will cost you, you're gonna
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have to give up something, but I can tell you
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now that your life will change. The chains that
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what you've been looking for maybe in friends
29:02
and in alcohol or with partying or whatever that
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may be. You know when you come back home, it's
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like, man, there's still something missing. I'm
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still out of alignment. This is the moment that
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God's creating for you this morning is to come
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into alignment. So if that's you, just as a response,
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I want you to lift up your hand. This is not
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a moment to embarrass. This is just, God, I wanna
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come into alignment.