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God Is About to Push You Out of the Place Where You Settled Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: You can be complacent and not know it. You don't
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  Speaker 1: always have the benefit of having someone in your ear
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  Speaker 1: raising you, developing you, coming from a culture, an environment,
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  Speaker 1: a family culture or environment that lends itself to causing
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  Speaker 1: you to believe that there is something exceptional that God
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  Speaker 1: has planned for your life. And if you're not careful,
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  Speaker 1: most of us settle. It is easy to settle. If
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  Speaker 1: I take this glass and I pour sand in it
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  Speaker 1: and put a spoon in it and stir it up,
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  Speaker 1: I have to work to settle it, to stir it up,
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  Speaker 1: but I have to do nothing for it to settle.
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  Speaker 1: When I take the spoon out, left to its own devices,
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  Speaker 1: it settles. And when we settle, we often settle into
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  Speaker 1: a place of complacency. Now, complacency is defined like this.
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  Speaker 1: It is a feeling of quiet pleasure or security. Often
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  Speaker 1: while unaware of some potential danger or defect or the like,
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  Speaker 1: self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation or condition.
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  Speaker 1: Just satisfied, just satisfied. And in and of itself, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sound bad to be satisfied. What makes it bad
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  Speaker 1: is when we are satisfied with less than what God
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  Speaker 1: has for us. And it is easy to become satisfied
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  Speaker 1: with less than what God has for us because we
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  Speaker 1: don't always know what God has for us. And we
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  Speaker 1: don't always understand what it takes to really revolutionize our
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  Speaker 1: lives and come to a place where we really go
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  Speaker 1: after what God has. It is difficult now to distinguish
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  Speaker 1: between like peace and faith and things that we're taught
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  Speaker 1: in church and complacency. How do you determine the difference
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  Speaker 1: between peace, which is also a calm and a settle
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  Speaker 1: and a relaxation and complacency? So let's distinguish it by
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  Speaker 1: saying there's a difference between trusting God after you have
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  Speaker 1: done all you can do As opposed to complacency is
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  Speaker 1: the assumption that you can invest less effort and still
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  Speaker 1: maintain more responsibility. You get to the point in your
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  Speaker 1: mind that you don't think that you really have to
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  Speaker 1: give your best because you're in now. Let me break
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  Speaker 1: it down where you can get it good. It's the
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  Speaker 1: difference between the dating you and the married you. You're
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  Speaker 1: in now. It's the difference between your first month on
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  Speaker 1: the job and your 10th year on the job. Complacency.
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  Speaker 1: Complacency begins to occur when we no longer put our
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  Speaker 1: full effort into becoming what God wants us to be.
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  Speaker 1: We are living in a world that creates two polarized ideologies.
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  Speaker 1: Follow me. I want you to think with me a
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  Speaker 1: little while. We're going to have church in a minute,
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  Speaker 1: but I want you to think for a little while.
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  Speaker 1: The world has two polarizing ideologies that I want to
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  Speaker 1: deal with. One is a deep feeling of inadequacy. On
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  Speaker 1: one hand, you got people who feel inadequate. This is
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  Speaker 1: a voice that says your best is not enough. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're not enough. They live with an inferiority complex.
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  Speaker 1: An insecurity. Nothing they do is ever applauded. Within. Within.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that it's not applauded outwardly. But inwardly,
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  Speaker 1: you never clap for you. You never appreciate your accomplishment.
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  Speaker 1: You're off to the next battle. You're off to the
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  Speaker 1: next thing. And when you look back at it, there's
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  Speaker 1: always something wrong with it. And you can always see
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong with it. And you can never see what's
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  Speaker 1: right with it. You have been conditioned to see yourself
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  Speaker 1: from a position of inferiority. Often we seek affirmation from others.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you hungry for affirmation. You're starving for affirmation. See,
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  Speaker 1: when you clap for yourself, you don't desperately need somebody
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  Speaker 1: else to clap for you. This is important. It's ruining
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  Speaker 1: our relationship because we don't often marry because we want companionship.
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  Speaker 1: We sometimes marry because we want affirmation. So we assign
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  Speaker 1: to our spouse the job of clapping. And as long
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  Speaker 1: as they clap, we're good. But the spouse eventually gets
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  Speaker 1: tired of clapping into the life of someone who's leaking.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever tried that, no matter how much you
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  Speaker 1: clap for them, they never hold on to your clapping.
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  Speaker 1: These are the people that keep asking you, do you
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  Speaker 1: love me? You asked me that yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think I'm pretty? I told you Monday you're pretty.
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  Speaker 1: This is Tuesday. It leaked out already. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: I'm smart? Yes, I think you're smart. And then I
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  Speaker 1: feel dumb. The reason it's leaking is because you are
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  Speaker 1: pouring into them things that they don't agree with. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not just talking about so much just believing in oneself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about believing in God. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about allowing positivity to be internalized when it is due.
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  Speaker 1: When it is really due. I mean, when you've really
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  Speaker 1: done the work and you've done a good job. To
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  Speaker 1: take a moment. And I have to work on this
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  Speaker 1: in my own life. To take a moment to take
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  Speaker 1: in good moments. Sometimes I'm so busy going on to
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  Speaker 1: the next thing that I don't take time to just
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  Speaker 1: see law. The word see law in Psalms is a
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  Speaker 1: musical term that means to pause and just breathe in
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  Speaker 1: and just take that in and really allow that to
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  Speaker 1: soak into you what you've been able to accomplish. Am
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  Speaker 1: I talking good this morning? If you don't internalize it,
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  Speaker 1: don't assign me the job of telling you what you
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  Speaker 1: ought to be telling yourself. I'm not talking about pumping
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  Speaker 1: yourself up when it's not good. I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: lying to yourself when it's not good. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: applauding yourself when it is good. Clap for yourself. Some
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  Speaker 1: of y'all even felt funny doing that. You just felt
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  Speaker 1: funny doing that. You're not used to clapping for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: But God shows us how to do this in the
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  Speaker 1: book of Genesis. The Bible says that God stepped out
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  Speaker 1: on nothing and said, let there be something and let
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  Speaker 1: there be light. And there was light. And the evening
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  Speaker 1: and the morning was the first day. And guess what?
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  Speaker 1: No angels, no choir, no spouse, no friends, no person
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  Speaker 1: came along. Nobody started dancing. No praise team came along.
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  Speaker 1: God clapped for himself. He said, and it was good.
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  Speaker 1: And it was good. It doesn't have to be finished
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  Speaker 1: to be good. It doesn't have to be finished to
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  Speaker 1: be good. God said, I got some more to do tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: but that I've already done, that was good. That was
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  Speaker 1: good right there. And see, some of you wait too
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  Speaker 1: late to clap. You're not going to clap till it's finished,
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  Speaker 1: but you got to clap behind every accomplishment and celebrate
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  Speaker 1: every step. The steps of a good man are ordered
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  Speaker 1: by the Lord and he delighteth in the way. And
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  Speaker 1: every time you take a stop, you need to clap
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  Speaker 1: for that step because at least I'm further than where
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  Speaker 1: I was. I may not be where I'm going, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm further than where I was. Am I talking to
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  Speaker 1: anybody this morning? And so you need to praise God
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  Speaker 1: for baby steps. Praise God for progress. Praise God for improvement.
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  Speaker 1: Celebrate within yourself and not be afraid to look yourself
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  Speaker 1: in the mirror and say you did that well. You
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  Speaker 1: did that real well. You'll never be able to determine
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  Speaker 1: who you need in your life until you fill your
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  Speaker 1: own void. You'll choose somebody out of your pain. And
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  Speaker 1: then when you get well, you don't want them. I
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  Speaker 1: call it marrying your nurse. You're attracted to them because
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  Speaker 1: you're sick. And they're good at making you feel better.
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  Speaker 1: But then when you get better, you have no purpose
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  Speaker 1: for them in your life. And all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: you say you've outgrown them. No, you haven't outgrown them.
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  Speaker 1: You just built a world around your affliction. On the
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  Speaker 1: other extreme, but equally as dangerous, but the antithesis of
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  Speaker 1: inferiority is the assumption that what God has given to
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  Speaker 1: you requires nothing of you. You don't put anything into it.
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  Speaker 1: You just received it. You got it. You think it
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  Speaker 1: ought to be there. Anything you add to your life
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  Speaker 1: requires your attention. If you have a goldfish, you have
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  Speaker 1: to feed it. If you get a cute little peacock,
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  Speaker 1: you got to walk it. You got to take it out.
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  Speaker 1: You got to clean it. You got to take it
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  Speaker 1: to the vet. If you buy a car you're going
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  Speaker 1: to need oil. If you buy a car you're going
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  Speaker 1: to need gas. Anything you add to your life is
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  Speaker 1: going to require more of you. Stop adding more than
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  Speaker 1: you're willing to maintain. Say this word with me, no.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you have said yes so much because you
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  Speaker 1: assume that you are collecting whatnots to keep on a shelf.
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  Speaker 1: But in reality, you keep saying yes and not really
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  Speaker 1: taking care of what you already got. You keep adding
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  Speaker 1: more and more and more and more to your life.
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  Speaker 1: And then somewhere on some therapist's couch, you say, I'm
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  Speaker 1: overwhelmed and I'm nervous and I got anxiety. And I
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  Speaker 1: guess you do. To him who much is given, much
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  Speaker 1: is required. This grandiose mentality that you have has led
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  Speaker 1: you to a place of utter frustration. You underestimate what
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  Speaker 1: greatness costs. I'm going to say that again. You underestimate
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  Speaker 1: what greatness costs. This is a dangerous thing. You don't
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  Speaker 1: seek to keep up, advance your skills, study or work out.
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  Speaker 1: You don't seek to maintain the relationship, keep it spicy
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  Speaker 1: and interesting. You think I've got that on lock. You
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  Speaker 1: do not have that on lock. Come on, come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on. You never.
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  Speaker 1: You never have it on lock. You don't have your
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  Speaker 1: husband on lock. You don't have your wife on lock.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have your career on lock. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: your child on lock. You don't have your mama on lock.
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  Speaker 1: You don't ever have anything on lock. That's why you
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  Speaker 1: got to celebrate people while you have them. You have
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  Speaker 1: to love them while you got them. You got to
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  Speaker 1: pour into them while they're there. You don't have it
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  Speaker 1: on lock. Somebody is after your job right now. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: is after your spouse right now. Somebody is after your
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  Speaker 1: house right now. Somebody is after your position right now.
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  Speaker 1: Never fall into complacency and think that you are so
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  Speaker 1: wonderful that you're just being there is all that's required.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Complacency will not do it. You have got to put
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  Speaker 1: some grind in it. some sweat into it, some work
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  Speaker 1: into it. That's why you don't need too many it's.
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  Speaker 1: Because every it you take on is going to take
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  Speaker 1: something from you. It's going to give something to you,
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  Speaker 1: but it's going to take something from you. And there
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  Speaker 1: may not be enough of you to handle all the
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  Speaker 1: places you said yes to. And you've got to be
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  Speaker 1: able to evaluate, am I a pint-sized container with a
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  Speaker 1: gallon-sized appetite? Complacency expects reward without sacrifice. You want to
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  Speaker 1: be rewarded as if you were doing more than you're
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  Speaker 1: really doing. They take people, places, and things for granted.
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  Speaker 1: That's all it means. You just take them for granted.
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  Speaker 1: You just think they'll always be there. And often blame
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  Speaker 1: anyone past, present, or future to avoid taking responsibility for outcomes.
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  Speaker 1: You'll even blame God. God didn't come through. I paid
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  Speaker 1: my tithes, I gave my offers, and they said God
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  Speaker 1: was going to give me a double portion, and God
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  Speaker 1: didn't come through. He did come through. You spent it.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all not going to like me today, and it's Mother's Day.
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  Speaker 1: The message might not be good, but the dinner after
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  Speaker 1: this is going to blow your mind. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a great dinner after this. Come on, somebody. You
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. God gets blamed for everything that we didn't
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  Speaker 1: do ourselves. God didn't do it you can't sit back
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  Speaker 1: apathetically indifferently put it on autopilot and expect God to
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  Speaker 1: do everything in your life it does not work it
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  Speaker 1: is a lackadaisical attitude it is a naivety that we
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  Speaker 1: take for granted and assume that we are just so
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  Speaker 1: wonderful and we are just so special and we are
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  Speaker 1: just so great and we are just so grandiose that
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  Speaker 1: they ought to be glad that I showed up for
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  Speaker 1: work this morning no I'm not glad that you showed
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  Speaker 1: up what did you get done And it starts in
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  Speaker 1: our childhood. You're just wonderful. You're just gorgeous. You're just special.
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  Speaker 1: You're just wonderful. And you think you're so wonderful that
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to work? That's wrong. You're not that wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: We're not that amazed by you. We're not that caught
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  Speaker 1: up with you that you can be derelict of your
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  Speaker 1: responsibilities and now you want to be celebrated. It is
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  Speaker 1: difficult to celebrate a mother that didn't mother. It is
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  Speaker 1: difficult to celebrate a man as the head of a
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  Speaker 1: household and he's not there and he doesn't provide and
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't do it, he doesn't work. But I'm the
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  Speaker 1: man of this house. I'm glad you told me because
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  Speaker 1: these bills ain't saying nothing. Stop taking trophies for races
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  Speaker 1: you didn't run. Stop taking trophies for races you didn't run.
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  Speaker 1: Write that down and put it on the line. Put
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  Speaker 1: it in your head. Stop taking trophies for races you
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  Speaker 1: didn't run. Stop comparing yourself to other people, other couples,
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  Speaker 1: other careers, other jobs, because if you don't put that
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  Speaker 1: work in, you don't get that result. You can't say
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  Speaker 1: to your wife, I want you to treat me like
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  Speaker 1: Sister Jakes treats Bishop Jakes. You don't act like Bishop Jakes.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't do what Bishop Jakes did. You didn't serve
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  Speaker 1: like Bishop Jakes did. You didn't stand by me. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't go through the fire with me. You don't get
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  Speaker 1: that just because you're in the building. You got to
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  Speaker 1: put some work into that. Complacency.
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  Speaker 3: Complacency.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to mess with you this morning. Complacency leads
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  Speaker 1: to frustration. The Bible said comparing yourself with one another
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  Speaker 1: is not wise. Oh, I'm going to get to you.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't make you happy, I'm going to make
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  Speaker 1: you good and mad. One way or the other, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to get some kind of reactions out of you.
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  Speaker 1: Complacency expects reward without sacrifice. Then it creates a lukewarm,
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  Speaker 1: nauseating attitude in God. God said, I wish you were
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  Speaker 1: either hot or cold. But because you are lukewarm, complacent
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  Speaker 1: people are lukewarm people. I spew you out of my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing worse than a lukewarm employee. Maybe there is
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  Speaker 1: some worse. A lukewarm manager is worse. A lukewarm CEO.
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  Speaker 1: Lukewarm people are nauseating.
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  Speaker 3: Lukewarm.
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  Speaker 1: You're not hot. You're not cold. You're indifferent. Lukewarm doesn't
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  Speaker 1: change the temperature in my mouth. You're the only one
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  Speaker 1: got it in the whole church. Lukewarm doesn't change the
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  Speaker 1: temperature in my mouth. If your coming and going doesn't
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  Speaker 1: change the temperature that I had without you. Oh Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I can see him getting mad now. You have to
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  Speaker 1: be courageous enough to ask yourself a question, am I
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  Speaker 1: a lukewarm person? Am I a lukewarm daughter? Am I
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  Speaker 1: a lukewarm son? My mother used to say all the
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  Speaker 1: time to us, do something that makes folk miss you.
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  Speaker 1: What would they not have if you're not there? If
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  Speaker 1: you can't point to several significant things, I'm talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't figure out whether this message is for
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  Speaker 1: you or not, if you can't answer that question, what
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  Speaker 1: do you bring to the table? And what do you
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  Speaker 1: keep bringing to the table? And how are you advancing
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  Speaker 1: what you're bringing to the table? And how do you
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  Speaker 1: avoid being complacent? All these years, Hannah has settled into
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  Speaker 1: a routine and Elkanah has enabled her by making it
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  Speaker 1: as if she had what she did not have because
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  Speaker 1: he loved her. Some people love us to our own detriment.
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  Speaker 1: They give us compliments and this is what's unfair in
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  Speaker 1: a relationship because a lot of times when somebody ends
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  Speaker 1: up leaving you, you're shocked because they just bought you
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  Speaker 1: roses the day before but you didn't earn them. They
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  Speaker 1: just gave them to you because they're supposed to. It's
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  Speaker 1: February 14th. It was supposed to give you roses, brought
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  Speaker 1: you roses. Don't mean I'm happy. It means I got
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  Speaker 1: a calendar. Don't woo me. It happens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It does not mean a thing. If you cannot point
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  Speaker 1: to how you change the temperature when I take you in,
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  Speaker 1: you are lukewarm. What do I lose if you leave?
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  Speaker 1: It's like somebody getting ready to leave your company. and
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  Speaker 1: they want to exit meeting with you. For what? Go. Go.
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  Speaker 1: God bless. See you later. Have a nice life. Go.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: We couldn't tell you was here anyway. See, see, and
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  Speaker 1: people of faith are really good at this because it
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  Speaker 1: is so easy to give God our job. I'm walking
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  Speaker 1: by faith. I just believe God's going to handle it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just believing God. My career is on lock. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just believing God. I plead the angels of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and care about them. I plead the blood. You plead
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  Speaker 1: the blood all you want to all over your house,
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  Speaker 1: but the blood ain't going to make breakfast. The blood
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to cook dinner. The blood ain't going to
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  Speaker 1: make happiness. The blood ain't going to have sex. The
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  Speaker 1: blood ain't going to do any of the things. You
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  Speaker 1: plead the blood until all the walls are painted red
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  Speaker 1: in your house. You can anoint your children. until they
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  Speaker 1: are as greasy as KFC, but that does not take
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  Speaker 1: the place of mothering your child. There is something required
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  Speaker 1: of you. You have to put some work into it.
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  Speaker 1: Stop having babies you're not going to take care of.
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  Speaker 1: And that ain't just for the women, that's for the
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  Speaker 1: men too. Stop having babies you ain't going to take
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  Speaker 1: care of. Don't run up to him and tell him,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to be my baby daddy. No, I
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  Speaker 1: want you to get some diapers. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: bring some groceries in this house. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: at least pay half of this rent. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to add some wisdom and some love and attention and time.
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  Speaker 1: Give him a job description that goes along with the baby.
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  Speaker 1: God put Adam and Eve in the garden. He set
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  Speaker 1: them up in the garden. He made everything right. He
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  Speaker 1: put a system in place. He put a system in place.
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  Speaker 1: He brought them into a system that had irrigation. He
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  Speaker 1: brought them into a system that was beautiful. He brought
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  Speaker 1: them into a system that was fruitful and then told
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  Speaker 1: them to till it, to work it, to garden it.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that God gives you something doesn't absolve you
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  Speaker 1: of the responsibility of working it. Type on the line,
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  Speaker 1: work that thing. You got to work that thing. If
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  Speaker 1: you're going to turn your job into a career, you
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  Speaker 1: got to work that thing. If you're going to turn
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  Speaker 1: around and break the curse off of your family, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to work that thing. If you're going
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  Speaker 1: to lose weight, you got to work that thing. Glory
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  Speaker 1: to God. That's why I'm fat today. You got to
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  Speaker 1: work that thing. You got to work that thing. It's
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  Speaker 1: not going to come. I keep waiting on a pill.
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting on an injection. I'm waiting on a drug.
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  Speaker 1: I ended up with a treadmill. Maybe someday they're going
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  Speaker 1: to come up with something that we can just inject
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  Speaker 1: and come out here with biceps and triceps. Until then,
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  Speaker 1: you got to lift them weights. Are you hearing what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? Some people live their whole lives
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  Speaker 1: complacent and you might get by with it until God's purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. This is it. Until God's purpose is compromised
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  Speaker 1: by your complacency. You can live your whole life being
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  Speaker 1: complacent and you might be married to an enabler who
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  Speaker 1: makes it legal for you to be complacent because they
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  Speaker 1: give you a double portion because they love you. But
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: that love is also enabling you not to be your
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  Speaker 1: best self. I have learned sometimes when somebody's crying, let
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: them cry. Don't fix everything for everybody. Don't create a
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  Speaker 1: false reality that makes them feel good about something they
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: need to feel bad about. They need to feel bad
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  Speaker 1: about it. Because when you start getting in the way
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  Speaker 1: of what God has purposed for your life, then God
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  Speaker 1: has to send something to provoke you. Somebody holler, provoke me.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let me spend my whole life living beneath my purpose,
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  Speaker 1: living beneath my potential, living beneath what I could be,
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  Speaker 1: living beneath where I ought to be going. I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm preaching to you because deep down inside, there's a
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  Speaker 1: voice down inside of you that suspects that there is
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  Speaker 1: more that God has for you than what you are
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: experiencing right now, or you wouldn't even be listening at me.
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  Speaker 1: It is that haunting, nagging suspicion that there's something else.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: You don't even know what it is. You don't even
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: know how to get it. But there's a nagging suspicion
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  Speaker 1: that you were put here on this planet to do
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  Speaker 1: more than what you're doing right now. And I came
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  Speaker 1: to irritate you. I came to get on your nerves.
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  Speaker 1: I came to stir you up. I came to holler
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  Speaker 1: in your ear. I came to get you frustrated. Go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and cry. You need to cry. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: take some tears to break the yoke of complacency that's
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  Speaker 1: been hanging over your life. I don't know who I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to, but if you hear this word and you
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  Speaker 1: know it's for you, give God five seconds of crazy praise.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to stir this thing up, baby. I'm
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: getting ready to stir this thing up in here. I'm
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: getting ready to stir this thing up. If I stir
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: you up on Sunday, it's going to change your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to stir you up until you stop
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  Speaker 1: settling for bad credit. Settling for being miserable at home.
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  Speaker 1: Settling for not accomplishing what God created you to do.
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  Speaker 1: The devil is alive. I rebuke the spirit of settling
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  Speaker 1: right now. Complacency has got to go. In the mighty
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus, somebody help me break this yoke. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to ride it until I break it. I'm going
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to ride it until it falls apart. I'm going to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: ride it until it collapses on the floor. Somebody shout
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  Speaker 1: unto God. Fist bump three people and tell them something
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: is about to happen. Something's about to happen. Something's about
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to happen. Something's about to happen. Something's about to happen.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Something's about to happen. Something's about to happen. Something's about
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Something's about to happen. Something's about to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Something's about to happen. Something's about to happen. I thought
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I was just going to get a nice little Mother's
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Day message. No, I'm about to get a revolution. I'm
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: about to have a resurrection. I'm about to have an awakening.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to get stirred up. Something's about to happen
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  Speaker 1: in my life. I can't hear you, church. Give him
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  Speaker 1: a praise. You may be seated. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: a little further.
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  Speaker 2: Woof.
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  Speaker 1: If I had any hair, it'd be standing up on
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  Speaker 1: the top of my head. Because I think there's something
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  Speaker 1: else inside of you. I think there's more inside of you.
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  Speaker 1: I think God created you for a purpose. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you're a mistake. I don't think you're an accident.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what the circumstances of your birth were.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have been designed and created by God
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  Speaker 1: and that you are to be an asset to the world.
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  Speaker 1: You are to change the world in some way. You
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  Speaker 1: are to make a difference in the world. Even if
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: it's a little difference, you're supposed to make some kind
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: of difference in the world. Forbes Women.com wrote a very
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: interesting article about complacency for women in careers. And I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: was reading the article and it talked about complacency will
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: ruin your career. And it said some things I want
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to share with you. Though the article was written to
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: career women, it's really genderless truth. It applies to ministry, marriage,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: any aspirational accomplishment that you might have in your life.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: All of it is true. They gave five warning signs
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  Speaker 1: of complacency, and I want to share them with you.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, you are complacent when you are no longer
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  Speaker 1: striving to do your best in every area. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: that stretches you too much, drop some areas. I'd rather
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: have less areas and do more than more areas and
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: do less. In the country, we used to say it
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: like this. You can be a mile wide and an
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  Speaker 1: inch deep. So you spread yourself so thin that you're
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  Speaker 1: ineffective at everything. If you know you can only handle
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: three things. only take on three things because if you're
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: not you're complacent when you're number one no longer striving
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  Speaker 1: to do your best to bring the best your best
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: mind your best self to really be present where you
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: are Visionaries have a challenge with this because visionaries always
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  Speaker 1: have a tendency to live in where they're going at
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  Speaker 1: the expense of where you are. So when you get
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  Speaker 1: to where you're going, you have lost where you are. Ooh, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: that's good. Visionaries, I'm not talking to evil people. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to good people. Visionaries, you are so consumed with
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: your goal and your vision and your future and what's
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: next that you are negating, starving, underutilizing, unavailable for your now.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: You can't neglect now and earn next. Number two, You're
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  Speaker 1: operating off of an old playbook. You must remain a
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  Speaker 1: lifelong learner. What was best 20 years ago is not
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: best now. When I learned to type, we had a typewriter.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't know what I'm talking about. We didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a laptop. We had a typewriter. It was a manual typewriter.
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  Speaker 1: It made noise. You had to depress every key. If
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: you could type 90 words a minute on an old typewriter,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: you ought to be doing 150 on a laptop. Because
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: them things, you almost had to crank them and spin it.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are living in a laptop world, but
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you've got a manual typewriter effort. I'm going to drive
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  Speaker 1: home that number two. It's important. I'm not finished with
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  Speaker 1: it yet. You need to understand giving somebody what they
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  Speaker 1: used to need doesn't work. You have a tendency to
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  Speaker 1: not really grow. You're not doing anything to grow. It
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: was good 20 years ago. It was enough 20 years ago.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Complacency assumes that what was enough is enough. How do
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I fix that? Ask, seek, knock, read, get magazines, keep
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: enhancing yourself, developing yourself. You cannot be a doctor and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: not take any more classes once you get your degree.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a doctor. I'm through with it. No, I leave them.
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  Speaker 1: Because they'll still be giving you liniment and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. You take some liniment for that, you'll be
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: all right. No, liniment? Do they still make liniment? No.
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  Speaker 1: You have to keep enhancing yourself. Which means you have
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: to be comfortably uncomfortable. You have to be comfortable with
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: being uncomfortable. To be living on the edge where you
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: got to keep assuming that I need to know more.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I need to grow. I need to go further. Let
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: me hit number three. Let me hit number three. You
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: aren't seeking to take advantage of new opportunities. You're not
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: seeking to take advantage of new opportunity. I like to
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: call this remaining in a state of growth and challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Just as much as you need rest and no one
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: has to tell you to lay down, you need new
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: challenges to keep you engaged. I shouldn't have to tell
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  Speaker 1: you you're tired, you need to go to bed. Nobody
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: has to tell you to go to bed. I shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have to tell you to get up in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't have to tell you that you need to
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: keep reading, keep growing, keep learning, keep studying, keep praying,
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  Speaker 1: keep worshiping, keep talking to God. You can't wait till
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Sunday morning to have a worship. You know why it's
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: so hard on y'all to lead people into worship? They
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: wait for Sunday morning to worship God there are people
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  Speaker 1: in this room that haven't worshipped God all week and
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: there you are supposed to in 15 or 20 minutes
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: compensate for a life that hadn't worshipped God all week
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: long and you up there giving them a grade on
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the worship service we came to worship we didn't come
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: to raise the dead we didn't come to raise the
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: dead Just like you have sensitivities inside of you that
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  Speaker 1: let you know when you're tired or let you know
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  Speaker 1: when you're hungry. You need to sharpen your sensitivity to
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  Speaker 1: let you know when you need to learn, grow, enhance, accessorize, develop,
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  Speaker 1: come to the next level. Are you with me? Number four,
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  Speaker 1: you aren't maintaining or building your contacts and relationships that
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: are the currency of growth. You have no more growth.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Then you have relationships. And you, no, I just, I don't,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to keep this like it is. Then don't grow.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: And be complacent. And take the risk of missing your destiny.
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  Speaker 1: You need to keep it fresh. You need to keep
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: it fresh. You need to keep it fresh. You need
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to be on the cutting edge. You need to walk
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: up on stages to challenge you. They make you nervous.
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  Speaker 1: Walk in the rooms where you don't know exactly what
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: to say. You need to walk in the spaces where
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: you have to pray. And say, oh God, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: in here now, okay? I'm getting ready to make this presentation.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't go with me, Lord, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get this done. I need your help, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I need your help. Lord, I'm getting ready to do this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of my element. I'm out of my comfort zone, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh God, scare me again, Jesus. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: We're walking into this door. Come on. Who am I
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: talking to? I'm talking to somebody. If all your contacts
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: are old contacts, you don't have no contacts. Relationships are indicators.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: They are indicators of the currency of growth. All you
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: have is the same old friends you had when you
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: was drinking at the strip club. And those are the
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: only people who you can befriend. It means you haven't changed.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't grown. You haven't developed. Your new friends ought
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: to make your old friends uncomfortable. If ain't nobody said
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: to you recently, you think you so much. You ain't growing. See,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: that's a real compliment. When people walk up to you
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: out of your old life and say, you thank you
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: so much, they're really complimenting you. They're saying that you're growing.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: They're saying that you're entering into another level of life.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Stop getting mad at that. That's a compliment. It's a
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: sign that you're growing. Oh my God, I feel the
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost talking to somebody in this room right now.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: You know you're not complacent when you walk in the
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: rooms and they're talking about what you used to think
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: was funny and now you think it's silly. You used
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: to think they were fun and now they're boring. You
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: can laugh for a few minutes and then you want
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: to go. When you get through talking about old times,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: you don't have nothing to talk about because everything that's
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: on your head is not on their mind. That is
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: a sign you are growing to the next level. Come on,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: talk to me somebody. You're not supposed to get along
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: with everybody. Everybody's not supposed to like you. Stop dumbing
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: down who you are so you can fit in with
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: where you left. I'm going to break it down until
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: you get it. Give me number five. I'm going to
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: come on through this. Number five, you don't risk sharing
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: your opinion or ideas. These people drive me crazy. Whatever
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: you say, they agree with it. They never add nothing
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: to the conversation. They won't risk being wrong, so they
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: just parakeet your ideas. They don't risk sharing your opinion
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: or your ideas as a sign that you are complacent.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Fear has got you locked in. Have an opinion. Even
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: if they don't do it, have an opinion. Open your
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: mouth and speak it. You wait on others to be
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: assertive while you just go along. to get along Without
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: taking the risk of offering your contribution, whether it is
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: used or not, you will never be able to evaluate
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: whether you are growing or not because you are playing
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: it safe. You're hiding, Adam. Get out from behind them
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: fig leaves and let me see what's really going on here.
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  Speaker 1: You're hiding. You're hiding. Your silence is a cover-up. Because
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you are afraid to take risks. You cannot be a
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: leader and not take risks. You cannot be a leader
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  Speaker 1: and not get on people's nerves. Everybody's not supposed to
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: like you if you're going to be a frontliner. Stop
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: crying about people hating on you. They're supposed to hate
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  Speaker 1: on you. If you're a leader, they are going to
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: hate on you. That's part of the job requirement. Hannah
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  Speaker 1: is trying to settle in to something that is beneath her.
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  Speaker 1: She has everything a woman could want. She has a
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: well-to-do husband who loves her. She has an environment that
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: allows her to do pretty much whatever she pleases. She's
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: sitting good. She's doing really good. She cares. He cares
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: about her. Everything would be fine if it wasn't for Peninnah.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Penina comes into her life as a ministry. Write this down,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: the ministry of Penina. I want you to identify Peninas
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  Speaker 1: in your life. There are people that God sends in
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: your life solely to get on your nerves. Amen. They
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: are there to save you from mediocrity. They are there
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: to provoke you to jealousy. They are there to show
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: off that God has something more. And if you're not careful,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: you will acquiesce into becoming their hater rather than to
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: allow them to become your stimulator. Either you're going to
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: be a hater or you're going to be stimulated. But
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: God sends Penina and all of her kids and all
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: of their jelly and peanut butter stained jaws as a
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: sign to you that what they said about you isn't true.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: There is more possible for you in your life. God,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: thank you for Penina. Thank you for Penina. Thank you
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: for Penina. In the face of all the obstacles and
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: the challenges, God just sent Penina. Are you hearing what
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? Hannah didn't realize, watch this, that
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: her purpose was hidden behind her problem. Her problem was
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: that she was barren. Her purpose was hidden behind her problem.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Whenever God, this is, please get this if you don't
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: get anything else. Whenever God has a great purpose in
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: your life, he will put a great problem in front
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: of it. Why are you writing that down? Write this down.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Find your giant. When you find your giant, you'll find
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  Speaker 1: your kingdom. There wouldn't have been a Goliath in David's life.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Goliath was the greatest thing that could have ever happened
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  Speaker 1: to David. David would still be taking care of sheep
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't for Goliath. Goliath is the gateway to
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  Speaker 1: the next dimension. Whenever God is getting ready to take
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: you into a new zone, there will always be a
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: big problem standing in its way. The big problem is
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: a sign that as soon as you get over this,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: you're going to step in. Did you see that? You're
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: going to step into, you're about to step into a
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: brand new dimension. Stop shrinking back from Goliath. Stop shrinking
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: back from Peninnah. It's a sign that God has something
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: else for you. So cry if you want to. Fuss
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: if you want to. But when you get through crying
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: and fussing, now it's time to fight. Now it's time
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: to fight. Personal testimony, quick personal testimony. The first time
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I got ready to speak in front of what I
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: call a big crowd, which was about 120 people. That
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: was big. Don't laugh till you try. Don't laugh till
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: you try. 120 people with three rows of church mothers
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: on the front row, all dressed in white. I came
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: up in a church where being spiritual meant looking evil.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: And the more anointed you are, you squinted your eyes
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: and looked hateful. And the more hateful you looked, the
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: more holy they thought you were. And I had to
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: go past all them church mothers and go stand up
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: in front of them and preach. And here was my problem.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: In order to preach, I needed a mic. I don't
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: really need one. I probably could have hollered and covered
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: the room. And my hands would shake so bad. And
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: then when I knew my hands were shaking and they
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: could see it, they would shake worse and I thought
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: I cannot speak in front of people because my hands
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: shake now my my purpose is on the other side
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: The thing that annoys you, the thing that irritates you,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: the thing that scares you, the thing that frustrates you
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: is the very sign that God has something on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of it for you. Somebody holler, leap over it.
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  Speaker 4: Leap over it.
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  Speaker 1: Questions jumped up in my head. I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: them to you real quick. Questions jumped up in my head.
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  Speaker 1: Why did God choose a barren woman to birth a prophet?
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  Speaker 1: Why did God choose a barren woman to birth the prophet?
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't he just give Samuel to Peninnah? It was
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  Speaker 1: easy for her to have babies. God never does what's easy.
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  Speaker 1: He does what's divine. God never does what's easy. He
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  Speaker 1: does what's divine. It's always going to be complicated. Why
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  Speaker 1: did God choose a barren woman to birth a prophet?
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  Speaker 1: Why did God use a boy to kill Goliath? Why
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  Speaker 1: did God send a backslider to preach to Nineveh? Why
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  Speaker 1: did God use a century old man to have Isaac?
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  Speaker 1: Why did God use a virgin to birth Jesus? Why
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  Speaker 1: did Jesus tell a man whose hand was withered, stretch
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  Speaker 1: forth your hand? Who tells a blind man to go
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  Speaker 1: wash in a pool he couldn't see how to get to?
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you. Who stands
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  Speaker 1: in front of a tomb and tells a dead man
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  Speaker 1: to come forth? That's how you know it's God. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: it's hard, it's God. Whenever it's difficult, it's God. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: it goes against the grain, it's God. Whenever it frustrates you,
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  Speaker 1: it's God. Penina was in her life to get on
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  Speaker 1: her nerves. Penina was there to provoke Hannah. For the
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  Speaker 1: first time in all of those years, Hannah got, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, Hannah stood up. Somebody shout, Hannah stood up.
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  Speaker 1: I came to tell everybody in this room, this is
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  Speaker 1: the hour. This is the time. This is the moment
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  Speaker 1: for you to stand up and say I'm through crying,
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  Speaker 1: I'm through being depressed, I'm through being frustrated, whatever it
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  Speaker 1: takes to break this yoke in my life, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to break this yoke in my life. This is your hour.
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  Speaker 1: This is your moment. That's why God has you here.
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  Speaker 1: That's why God gave me this word on Mother's Day
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  Speaker 1: when he knew you would show up so that you
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  Speaker 1: could get this word. Your barren days are behind you.
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  Speaker 1: Your birthing days are before you. Your barren days are
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  Speaker 1: behind you. Your birthing days are before you. God is
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  Speaker 1: about to do a new thing in your life. Because
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  Speaker 1: you're provoked. Slap somebody and tell them I'm provoked. Elbow
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  Speaker 1: somebody and tell them I'm provoked.
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  Speaker 3: I'm provoked.
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  Speaker 1: I'm running out of time. I'm running out of energy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm running out of strength. If it's ever going to
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  Speaker 1: happen in my life, it's going to have to happen
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  Speaker 1: right now. I want all the provoked people in this
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  Speaker 1: room to open your mouth and make something happen. Holler.
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  Speaker 2: Yell.
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  Speaker 1: Jump.
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  Speaker 4: Scream.
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  Speaker 1: Let the devil know, I know God has something else
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  Speaker 1: for me. I know God has more for me. I
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  Speaker 1: no longer believe the lie that I got to die barren.
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  Speaker 1: The devil is a lie. I won't be barren in
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  Speaker 1: my home. I won't be barren in my business. I
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  Speaker 1: won't be barren in my life. I won't be barren
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  Speaker 1: with my children. The devil is a lie. I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to birth a miracle. I'm about to birth a promise.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to birth a building. I'm about to birth
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  Speaker 1: a book. I'm about to birth a business. I feel
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  Speaker 1: the labor. I feel the contractions. I feel the groaning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to deliver. This is Mother's Day. This is
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  Speaker 1: the day we go into labor. This is the day
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  Speaker 1: we give birth. This is the day that we push.
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  Speaker 1: Shove your neighbor and say.
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  Speaker 2: Push.
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  Speaker 1: Push. Push. Push. What the Bible says. When Zion travails, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I need my mic. When Zion travails, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: when Zion travails, sons and daughters shall be born. Travail
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  Speaker 1: is labor. I'm going into labor. I'm going into work.
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  Speaker 1: If I have to stagger labor, to the altar. If
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  Speaker 1: I have to scream, if I have to go scared,
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  Speaker 1: if I have to go with my hands shaking, if
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  Speaker 1: I have to go with my knees knocking, I will
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  Speaker 1: go into labor. When Zion travails, sons and daughters shall
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  Speaker 1: be born. Look at somebody say, I'm about to be
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  Speaker 1: a mother.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to birth a barbershop.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to birth an accounting firm. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: birth a law degree. I'm going to birth a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to birth a prophet. I'm going to birth
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  Speaker 1: a promise. I need 30 seconds of crazy, ridiculous, supernatural,
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  Speaker 1: thirst quenching, mind renewing praise. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him.
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  Speaker 1: What they told you you couldn't do is a lie
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  Speaker 1: from the pits of hell. Greater is he that is
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  Speaker 1: in you than he that's in the world. Make a
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  Speaker 1: joyful noise unto the Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Glory, glory.
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  Speaker 1: I'm provoked. I'm provoked. I'm provoked. I'm provoked to my purpose.
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  Speaker 1: I refuse to live and die and not find out
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  Speaker 1: who I am, what I can be, what I can have,
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  Speaker 1: what I can do.
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  Speaker 3: I I am officially provoked.
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  Speaker 1: I need a thousand people in this room that are
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  Speaker 1: provoked toward your purpose to go into a crazy praise
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  Speaker 1: and receive this word.
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  Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Glory.
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  Speaker 1: Glory. I can't believe that some of you are still
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  Speaker 1: standing there with.
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  Speaker 3: Your teeth in your mouth when the Bible is clear.
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  Speaker 1: What Hannah did in church affected what happened in her womb.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't do it in here, you can't break
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  Speaker 1: it out there. But if you do it in here,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: it's going to break out there. And the Bible said,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: because she got drunk.
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  Speaker 3: In the house of.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord, something broke in her house. If you want
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: to break it in your house, break it in the
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: potter's house. Make some noise in this place. Oh, what? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: do it, God. I'm going to break it. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to break it in here. I'm going to break it
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  Speaker 1: in here. I'm going to break it in here.
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  Speaker 3: Until I look like I'm drunk.
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  Speaker 1: Until I look like I'm crazy. But I got a
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  Speaker 1: curse to break. I got a giant to kill. I
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: got a panita in my life. I'm going to break
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  Speaker 1: it this morning. I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 3: Break that thing. Break that thing. Break that thing.
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  Speaker 1: Can't nobody break it for you. The praise team can't
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: break it. The choir can't break it. The ushers can't
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  Speaker 1: break it. But if you want to break up your barrenness,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: you need to break it in the spirit. If you
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: break it in the spirit, it'll break in the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: If you break it in the spirit, it'll break in.
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  Speaker 3: If you break it in the spirit... It'll break in
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  Speaker 3: the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody ought to break it. Break that debt. Break that depression.
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  Speaker 3: Break that fear.
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  Speaker 1: Break it right now.
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  Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: It's breaking, it's breaking, it's breaking.
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  Speaker 2: It's breaking.
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  Speaker 3: It's breaking, it's breaking, it's breaking, it's breaking.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: It's breaking, it's breaking, it's breaking, it's breaking!
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Breaking? We're breaking, it's breaking, it's breaking, it's breaking!
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  Speaker 3: Break it in your mind.
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  Speaker 2: Break it in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 1: Break that I can't. Break that I can't do it.
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  Speaker 3: I can't be it. I can't have it. You got
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: to break it right now.
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  Speaker 1: I want everybody that's got something to break to leap
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  Speaker 1: out of now. Get away from them other people. Leap
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: out of now and break it in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Right now. Take me right to church.
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  Speaker 1: Right now.
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  Speaker 3: Take me to church. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's rock and roll right.
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  Speaker 4: Now It's rock and roll right now It's.
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  Speaker 3: Too many stars.
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  Speaker 2: It's breaking It's breaking right now It's breaking right now
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  Speaker 2: It's breaking.
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  Speaker 4: Right now.
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  Speaker 1: You better break it.
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  Speaker 4: Can't nobody do.
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  Speaker 1: It but you.
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  Speaker 3: Can't nobody do it for you.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta do it for yourself.
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna break it right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it right now. I'm not drunk. I'm
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: not crazy. I'm not stupid.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta break this thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna break it on the altar. I'm gonna break
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: it on the altar. I'm gonna break it on the altar.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna break it in the spirit. I'm gonna break it.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: And break it. And break it.
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  Speaker 1: And break it.
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  Speaker 4: And break it. And break it.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, by faith, I want you to declare this by faith.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you're online or in the building, I want you
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: to declare it by faith. Nerd somebody and tell them
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: I feel a breakthrough. I feel a breakthrough. Something just broke.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Something just broke. Something just broke. I've been complacent. I've
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: been laid back. But today it's over. I'm going to
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: get everything that God has for me.
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  Speaker 3: Shout yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, God. So watch this. I'm just about finished.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I want you to understand. What Hannah
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: did in church affected what happened at home. The Bible
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: says when she got back home and lay with Elkanah,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: For the first time, after years and years of believing
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: what she couldn't do.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: It happened.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: We are going to make that thing happen. The enemy
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: has lulled you into complacency. as if it were impossible,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: but God sent a word provoked to purpose. The baby
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Hannah had changed all of history. We don't read about
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: none of Penina's kids changing jack. My Lord. My Lord.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Because that which comes easy changes nothing. That which comes
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: easy changes nothing. That that she sweated and prayed and
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: crawled and cried for changed everything. And the Lord told
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: me this Sunday to preach this word that you have
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: a purpose and that the purpose is on the other
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: side of what they say you can't do what they
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: say you can't have, what they say you can't be.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: And you've been laying on this side of your dream
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: and God is about to shift you to this side
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: of your dream. Now let me check. How many people
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: it resonates with you that you have a Penina situation.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Penina is your best friend. She provokes you to show
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: up for the fight. Your best friend is not your
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: best friend. Your best friend is the person who keeps
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: flaunting in front of your face what they know is
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: hard for you to do. They are God's commercial. It
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: wouldn't irritate you if you couldn't change it. The reason
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: it irks you The reason you're frustrated by it is
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: because you're called to it. Everybody saw Goliath. But nobody
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: reacted to Goliath like David did. David said, I can't
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: believe this uncircumcised Philistine. Y'all mean this is what you're
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: up against? Oh no, that he would come up against
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: the armies of Israel? But wait a minute, David, you
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: ain't even in the army. He said, that's why I
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: can do it. That's why I can do it. Because
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't drink the Kool-Aid. I came from somewhere else.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: I have another spirit. And I'm telling you, you're going
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: to learn today. Oh yeah, you're going to learn today.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: You're going to learn today. Can you imagine how shocked
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Penina looked when Hannah started putting on weight? And all
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, Penina has to redefine how she sees Hannah.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: People are going to have to redefine I wish I
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: had some faith. Let me talk to the folk online.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: People are going to have to redefine how they see you.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: Because they want you to remain complacent and stay in
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: your place. Nobody who changed the world stayed in their place.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: Nobody who changed the world stayed in their place. From
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: George Washington to Martin Luther, nobody stayed in their place.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: To Rosa Parks, nobody stayed in their place. To Nelson Mandela,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: nobody stayed in their place. You can't change the world
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: and stay in your place. The kingdom suffers violence. And
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: the violent take it by force. Who's ready to take
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: it by force? Today I want to pray with you
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: that something that I said today got you so stirred
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: that you won't settle. I want to pray that the
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: gift of God that is laying dormant in you would
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: be stirred up. That it would be stirred up and
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: that you won't let it settle. The whole purpose we
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: come to church, we don't come to church to praise
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: the Lord. You should be doing that all week. We
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: come to church to have our faith stirred up. so
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: that we don't settle for less than what God has
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: ordered for us to accomplish. I'm not competing with your success.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not competing against you. I'm competing against what God
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: has ordained for me. Have all the babies you want.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: You can't have mine. You can't have mine. Look at
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: somebody and say, you can't have mine. I'm the man
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: for the job. You're the woman for the job. And
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: somewhere along the way, you lapsed into complacency. Content with
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: less than what God has ordained for you. It's not
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: just about business. It's not just about money. It might
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: be about relationships. It might be about callings on your life.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: There's something else God wants for you and you know it.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: I almost call this message, there's more for you. How
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: many know there's more for you? There's more for you.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: Four words, there's more for you. There's more for you.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: That's why you're here. That's why you're watching. That nagging, haunting,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: frustrating feeling. That irritating feeling that there's more for you.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: Something is missing. I'm not saying you're not saved. I'm
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: not saying you don't love God. But in your life,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: you were put here to do something else and you
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: know it. And the clock is ticking. And the clock
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: is ticking. Once God opened up Hannah's womb, it was open.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: And Samuel was just the beginning of many more to come.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: This is your launch date. And I know it's in
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: the natural, it's Mother's Day. But you don't have to
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: be a woman to be a mother. There are men
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: in this room that are about to birth something in
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: this stage in your life. Don't y'all get quiet on me.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Because we birth first anyway. We birth you. The Bible
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: said Eve was brought out of Adam. So the first
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: birth came from a man. Brother, why have you stopped
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: birthing and building and become complacent? You lost your roar.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Get your roar back, man. Get your roar back. Just
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: because your wife is birthing doesn't mean you've been replaced.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: God wants to do something in you. If this message
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: is speaking to you, bow your head. I want to
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: pray for you. You're online, bow your head. I want
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: to pray for you. This is a water-breaking sermon. It
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: is meant To cause you to go into birth. It
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: is meant to break the bondage of complacency. It is
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: meant to stir you up. To make you hungry. To
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: get on your nerves. To irritate you. I'm not going
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: to die until I see who I am. I'm not
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: going to die until I see what I can do.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: If Hannah would have died before she gave birth, it
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: would have changed the entire remaining Bible. Samuel anointed kings.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Samuel changed structures. Samuel was God's man. Samuel anointed David.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: Samuel set him aside. Out of David came Jesus. Everything
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: was predicated on this barren woman. Breaking beyond her barrenness.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: In many ways she is the mother of the movement.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: And God chose a barren woman. God chooses the most
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: unlikely people to do the most amazing stuff. Lift your hands.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: You're the one. Father, right now, every raised hand, every
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: open heart. We got a giant. We got a withered arm.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: We speak with a lisp. We stutter when we talk.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: But you chose the foolishness of this world to confound
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: the wise. What you're about to do in that person
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: with their hands raised right now is crazy. It's antithetical
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: to what everybody thinks about them. You sent me to
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: stir them up this morning and I did my best.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, finish the job. if you have to have
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: them walk in the floor at three o'clock in the morning,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: finish them off. I pray that they would never be
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: the same again. I pray that chains would break off
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: of their mind and off of their spirit. I pray
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: that they would have the faith to believe that a
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: poor boy born in a raggedy house on the side
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: of a hill in the mountains of West Virginia could
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: shape nations I pray that they would not allow their
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: past to destroy their future. I pray that they would
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: stop rehearsing the history and start walking into their destiny.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: I pray that they would be provoked to purpose in
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: Jesus' name. Amen. If you receive it, praise him in
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: your own way.