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08/19/26 Pastor Brenda Kunneman · LOH Church Archive

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  LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH, ARE WE IN THE HOUSE THIS EVENING?
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  I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW, BUT
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  JESUS IS STILL ON THE THRONE.
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  I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S NEWS TO ANYBODY,
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  BUT WE'RE GONNA LIFT UP THE NAME OF JESUS
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  BECAUSE HE IS THE UNDEFEATED CHAMPION.
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  HE IS STILL ON THE THRONE, HE STILL REIGNS.
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  SO NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH,
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  REMEMBER THAT JESUS IS STILL ON THE THRONE
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  AND WE CAN LIFT UP A PRAISE TO HIM AND HE WILL
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  ANSWER. HE IS THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING WE NEED, AMEN.
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  LET'S GO, Y'ALL.
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  Y'ALL KNOW THIS, SING!
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  I'M GONNA TEACH YOU GUYS A NEW ONE TONIGHT.
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  IT'S REAL SIMPLE.
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  YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO MOVE A LITTLE BIT, YOU CAN.
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  HEY! ? SING TO THE LORD OF GLORY
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  THIS IS THE CHORUS RIGHT HERE.
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  IS HE WORTHY OF PRAISE?
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  I SAID, IS HE WORTHY OF PRAISE?
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  SEE, OUR GOD IS FOREVER ON THE THRONE, SO HE
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  DESERVES ALL OUR PRAISE.
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  EVERYTHING THAT WE ARE, EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN BE, WE
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  GIVE GLORY AND HONOR TO GOD.
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  AMEN. THIS PART SAYS,
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  (MUSIC)
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  NOW I KNOW SOME OF Y'ALL GOT A PRAISE IN YOUR FEET.
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  AND I KNOW YOU HAVE A PRAISE THAT'S OUTSIDE YOUR SEAT.
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  SO IF YOU HAVE THE VICTORY, MOVE WITH ME.
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  I SEE YOU, I SEE YOU. LETS GO, LETS GO.
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  OH, WHO'S WORTHY OF PRAISE.
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  OH, WE HONOR YOU, LORD.
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  OH, GOD, YOU'RE WORTHY.
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  GOD, YOU'RE WORTHY.
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  GOD, YOU'RE WORTHY OF ALL THE PRAISE.
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  ALL THE PRAISE.
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  GOD, YOU ARE WORTHY OF ALL THE PRAISE.
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  GOD, YOU ARE WORTHY OF ALL THE PRAISE.
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  GOD, WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT YOUR GRACE?
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  LORD, WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT YOUR GRACE?
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  OH, WE THANK YOU, LORD.
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  WE THANK YOU, LORD.
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  WE PRAISE THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS.
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  WE LIFT UP THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS.
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  OH GOD, WE PRAISE YOU.
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  OH GOD, WE LIFT YOU UP.
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  OH GOD, WE HONOR YOU.
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  BE MAGNIFIED, OH LORD.
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  COME ON, LET 'EM KNOW, LET 'EM KNOW, LET 'EM KNOW.
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  HE'S BEEN GOOD, HE'S BEEN GOOD, HE'S BEEN FAITHFUL.
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  HE'S BEEN FAITHFUL, HE'S BEEN FAITHFUL.
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  EVEN WHEN WE HAVE NOT BEEN FAITHFUL, HE DOES NOT CHANGE.
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  HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER.
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  HE DOESN'T CHANGE.
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  HIS LOVE NEVER CHANGES.
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  THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN SEPARATE US
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  FROM THE LOVE OF GOD.
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  YOU DESERVE THE PRAISE.
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  YOU DESERVE THE PRAISE.
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  OH. PRAISE THE NAME OF JESUS.
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  (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
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  I BELIEVE IN THIS ATMOSPHERE THAT THERE ARE
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  DOORS IN YOUR LIFE THAT ARE GOING TO BE BUSTED
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  OPEN BECAUSE OF YOUR PRAISE, BECAUSE OF YOUR PRAISE.
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  RELEASE, RELEASE, RELEASE, RELEASE.
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  THERE IS NO REASON, NO REASON FOR US NOT TO
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  GIVE HIM PRAISE AND GLORY BECAUSE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT.
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  THE WORD SAYS HE INHABITS THE PRAISE OF HIS PEOPLE.
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  TONIGHT, LET'S GIVE GOD A PLACE TO RESIDE.
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  (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
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  WE PRAISE YOUR NAME
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  WE HONOR YOU, O GOD
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  WE BLESS YOUR NAME, O GOD
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  WE PRAISE YOU, O LORD
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  O LORD, O LORD
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  (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
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  WE RELEASE OUR PRAISE
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  LORD, WE RELEASE OUR PRAISE
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  COME ON, SAY, LORD WE RELEASE OUR PRAISE
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  YES, GOD, YES, GOD, WE RELEASE WE RELEASE OUR PRAISE
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  OH, OH, WE RELEASE, HEY
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  COME ON, RELEASE IT!
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  COME ON!
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  COME ON, LET'S BEGIN TO SING IN OTHER TONGUES.
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  BEGIN TO SING IN THE SPIRIT.
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  PAUL SAID, "I SING WITH THE TONGUES OF MEN
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  AND TONGUES OF ANGELS."
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  COME ON, BEGIN TO RELEASE A NEW SONG IN OTHER TONGUES.
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  YOU'RE RELEASING YOUR PRAISE OVER THAT AREA THAT
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  YOU'VE BEEN BATTLING OVER.
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  COME ON, RELEASE IT.
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  YOU ONLINE, RELEASE YOUR PRAISE, RELEASE YOUR PRAISE.
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  COME ON.
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  RELEASE PRAISE.
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  (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
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  WHOO!
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  COME ON, DON'T STOP!
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  COME ON, SOMETHING IS SHIFTING!
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  (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
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  KEEP RELEASING YOUR PRAISE.
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  COME ON.
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  (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
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  SOMETHING IS HAPPENING!
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  (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
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  OH, COME ON!
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  COME ON, WE'RE GOING SOMEWHERE IN THE SPIRIT REALM!
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  [MUSIC]
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  WOW! I DON'T KNOW, I FEEL LIKE THAT KIND OF THING JUST
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  MAKES THE DEVIL SO SCARED.
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  AND YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T ALWAYS HAVE TO PUT
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  WORDS TO YOUR PRAISE.
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  SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA...
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  THE BIBLE SAYS WITH GROANINGS THAT CAN'T BE UTTERED.
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  YOU, COME ON JUDY, YOU CAN'T PUT A WORD TO IT.
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  IT JUST MEANS THERE'S TIMES THAT YOU JUST GOTTA GET OVER THERE
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  AND FLOW WITH THE SPIRIT, THE SOUND OF THE ANGELS.
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  I THINK ANGELS ARE IN THE ROOM.
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  JUST LISTEN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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  WE LOVE YOU, WE LOVE YOU.
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  OH, COME ON, JUST LOVE ON HIM.
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  WE LOVE YOU, WE LOVE YOU.
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  WE LOVE YOU, WE LOVE YOU.
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  OH, JUST GIVE HIM YOUR LOVE.
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  WE GIVE YOU OUR LOVE.
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  OH, WE LOVE YOU.
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  WE LOVE YOU, WE LOVE YOU.
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  COME ON, JUST LOVE.
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  SOMETHING HAPPENS WHEN YOU JUST LOVE ON HIM.
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  TELL HIM YOU LOVE HIM.
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  TELL HIM YOU'RE GRATEFUL.
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  COME ON.
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  WE LOVE YOU, JESUS.
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  SOME OF YOU NEED TO JUST SAY THE NAME OF JESUS.
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  WE LOVE THE NAME OF JESUS.
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  OH, YOUR NAME, JESUS.
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  THE NAME OF JESUS.
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  THE NAME OF JESUS.
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  COME ON, JUST SAY IT.
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  SAY THE NAME JESUS.
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  JESUS.
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  JESUS. JESUS.
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  OH. JESUS.
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  SAY THE NAME OF JESUS.
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  COME ON, PROPHESY THE NAME OF JESUS.
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  COME ON, THE NAME, THE NAME THAT'S HIGHER,
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  THE NAME THAT'S GREATER.
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  COME ON, THE NAME OF JESUS.
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  COME ON, YES.
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  COME ON.
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  IT MAKES THE DEVIL TREMBLE.
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  COME ON, ONE MORE TIME.
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  COME ON, GIVE HIM A GREAT BIG SHOUT OF PRAISE.
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  WOO! WOO!
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  GLORY, I THINK YOU WANT TO CELEBRATE THE NAME OF JESUS.
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  WOO!
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  HALLELUJAH!
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  HALLELUJAH!
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  HALLELUJAH!
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  (MUSIC)
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  SO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, I THINK SOMETHING THAT WE
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  NEED MORE MOMENTS IN THE CHURCH COMING BACK TO. YOU KNOW, I LOOK
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  BACK, SOME OF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER, WE KNOW PASTOR DOUG
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  IS. WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR YEARS. I CAN GIVE HIM A HARD
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  TIME. YOU KNOW, YOU GO BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN PEOPLE WOULD GO TO
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  A BIG CRUSADE, A BENNY HINN CRUSADE, AND SOME OF US
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  REMEMBER, PEOPLE WOULD JUST MINISTER TO THE LORD. WE WEREN'T
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  ASKING FOR ANYTHING. NOBODY WAS JUST BOOHOOING AND WORRYING
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  ABOUT THEIR ISSUES. JUST MINISTERING TO THE LORD. AND I
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  THINK THAT'S THE ENVIRONMENT, JANET, THAT RELEASES MIRACLES.
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  AND WE'RE HIGH TIME FOR A NEW FLOW. CAN YOU AGREE WITH THAT?
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  AMEN AND AMEN. WELL, I'M PROMISING I'M NOT GOING LATE
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  TONIGHT. SO TURN AROUND, HUG SOMEBODY WHILE I SWITCH
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  MICROPHONES. WANNA WELCOME EVERYBODY THAT'S JOINING US
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  ONLINE TONIGHT. WE'RE GONNA GET IN THE WORD. SO LET SOMEBODY
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  KNOW, HUG ON SOMEBODY IN THE HOUSE OF GOD.
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  AMEN. PRAISE THE LORD. I'M GOING TO GET RIGHT INTO IT. I'M GOING
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  TO GIVE YOU ABOUT LIKE A HALF A SECOND TO CATCH YOUR BREATH. AND
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  THEN THEY'RE GOING TO PUT UP THE OFFERING INFORMATION UP ON THE
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  SCREEN. I'M NOT GOING TO SHARE A SCRIPTURE. YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT TO
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  DO, RIGHT? I HAVE TO PREACH IT TO YOU EVERY TIME. AND SO PUT
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  ALL THAT INFORMATION UP THERE. AND JUST A COUPLE THINGS WHILE
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  THE USHERS ARE SERVING YOU. AND USHERS, YOU CAN GO RIGHT INTO
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  COLLECTING ENVELOPES OR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE USING THEIR PHONE.
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  BY THE WAY, I WANNA THANK ALL OF THE ONLINE GROUP FOR YOUR
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  PARTICIPATION TONIGHT. AND I WANNA LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT WE
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  HAVE OPENED THE GIVING FUND FOR OPENING THE HEAVENS 2026. ARE
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  YOU GUYS EXCITED FOR THE CONFERENCE?
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  (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
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  I'M PUMPED. I MEAN, I'LL BE HONEST. I'M REALLY EXCITED. I
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  WAS IN THERE DOING SOMETHING IN THE BATHROOM THE OTHER DAY,
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  CLEANING UP SOME COSMETIC ITEMS, AND I THOUGHT, I DON'T HAVE TO
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  PACK YOU UP FOR OPENING THE HEAVENS AND PUT YOU IN A
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  SUITCASE. SO I'M PRETTY PUMPED ABOUT THAT. BUT I'M JUST EXCITED
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  TO HOST ALL THE PEOPLE AT THE TABERNACLE THIS YEAR. AND THERE
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  ARE SO MANY PEOPLE, AND SO MANY OF US KNOW THIS IS TRUE. THEY
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  COME ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE ARENA, AND THEN MAKE SURE THEY
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  HAVE TIME TO COME DRIVE BY THE CAMPUS. WELL, NOW EVERYBODY GETS
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  TO COME INSIDE, AND WE HAVE PLENTY OF ROOM FOR YOU. LOOKING
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  AT REGISTRATION NUMBERS, AND WE ARE GONNA BE RIGHT ON TARGET.
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  YOU'RE GONNA BE VERY PLEASED. AND JUST SO MANY GOOD THINGS.
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  ALSO, THE PARTNER LUNCHEON'S OPEN, SO, WOW, GET OUT THERE AND
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  REGISTER FOR THAT. WE'RE GONNA HAVE BOX LUNCH RIGHT HERE IN THE
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  TABERNACLE AND IT'S GONNA BE AN AMAZING TIME. I REALLY BELIEVE
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  THAT THERE'S JUST GONNA BE AN AMAZING TIME OF MINISTRY ALL
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  THAT WEEKEND AND SO IF YOU DIDN'T REGISTER, GET OUT THERE,
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  GO TO OPENINGTHEHEAVENS.ORG AND GET REGISTERED, AMEN? ALL RIGHT,
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  COUPLE OTHER QUICK ANNOUNCEMENTS I WANNA GIVE TO EVERYBODY. SO
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  OCTOBER 5TH, MARK IT IN YOUR CALENDAR. WE ARE DOING A SPECIAL
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  EVENT CALLED VOTE YOUR VALUES. AND THIS IS ALL GONNA BE ABOUT
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  ENCOURAGING PASTORS TO TALK TO THEIR CHURCHES ABOUT GETTING OUT
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  TO VOTE THIS NOVEMBER. AND I THINK NEBRASKA NEEDS TO VOTE,
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  AMEN. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE COME TO LEARN IS HOW LOW
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  VOTER TURNOUT CAN BE FOR ELECTIONS. WE'RE GONNA BE DOING
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  THAT OCTOBER THE 5TH, IT'S MONDAY NIGHT. WE HAVE RICK GREEN
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  IS GONNA BE HERE. GIVE IT UP FOR RICK. WE'RE WORKING ON A COUPLE
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  OTHER SPEAKERS AND WE HAVE SOME POLITICAL CANDIDATES THAT'LL BE
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  HERE AND YOU'LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT FROM SOME OF THEM. WE'RE
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  JUST GONNA TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO
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  CHRISTIANS, RIGHT? CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS IN NEBRASKA THAT CARE
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  ABOUT NOT ALLOWING TRANSGENDER, THINGS LIKE TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY
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  JUST HAVE FREE REIN. SO I DO ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS, PUT IT ON
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  YOUR CALENDAR, BE HERE, LET'S JUST SHOW UP IN FORCE. AND THOSE
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  OF YOU THAT ARE PART OF LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH THAT, AND WE WILL
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  BE STREAMING IT BY THE WAY. THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE PART OF
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  LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH THAT LIVE IN THE AREA, IF YOU CAN MAKE A
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  GOOD SHOWING THAT NIGHT, IT'LL BE AMAZING. AND WE JUST WANT TO
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  JUST SHOW THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO VOTE. AND THIS IS
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  A BIG MIDTERM, AND I BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO SEE WHAT WE'RE
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  PRAYING FOR. AMEN? SO COME. IT'S COMPLETELY FREE, AND IT'S JUST
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  GOING TO BE A GOOD TIME. SO YOU CAN GET OUT THERE AND FIND OUT
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  ALL THE INFORMATION. AND THEN ALSO, ONE MORE ANNOUNCEMENT, FOR
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  ALL OF YOU THAT ARE WONDERING, WE NEED A PROPHETIC PULSE. SO
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  WE'VE BEEN COOKING UP SOMETHING FRESH. AND, OKAY, I'M JUST GOING
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  TO LAY IT OUT. SO WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S FLASHPOINT HAD TO GO
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  START WEDNESDAYS, RIGHT? AND THEN PUT YOUR PASTOR ON ON
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  WEDNESDAYS. YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU'RE LAUGHING. AND SO WE WERE LIKE,
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  WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. SO WE'VE DECIDED RATHER THAN DO
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  LIVE PULSE, I KNOW YOU GUYS ENJOY THOSE, BUT THEY'RE HARDER
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  TO CALENDAR FOR US. SO WE ARE GONNA START DOING THE LAST
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  SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH. WE ARE GONNA AIR, OR THE FIRST, I'M
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  SORRY. I SAID IT BACKWARDS. THE FIRST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH,
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  SEVEN O'CLOCK WILL BE THE PROPHETIC PULSE. SO IT'S GONNA
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  BE IN THE STUDIO, WE'LL BE GOING ON THERE, WE'LL BRING IT OUT TO
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  YOU LIVE, YOU CAN COMMENT. AND WE'RE GONNA DO IT LIKE AN ACTUAL
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  TV PROGRAM SO THAT WE CAN NETWORK IT. ONE OF THE THINGS
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  WE'RE TRYING TO WORK ON NOW IS BRINGING OVTV TO A FULL NETWORK
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  TRAFFIC, SO MEANING THAT IT'S A 24/7 NETWORK WITH PROGRAMMING.
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  AND SO WE NEED TO BRING ALL OF OUR,
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  YEAH, GIVE GOD A HAND FOR THAT.
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  (APPLAUSE)
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  IT IS WHY WE DO NEED PEOPLE TO SUPPORT OVTV SO WE CAN HAVE THE
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  FINANCES TO DO IT. SO THAT'S GONNA BE EXCITING. SO THAT IS IN
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  THE WORKS, BUT WE WANNA BRING THE PROPHETIC PULSE TO BE PART
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  OF THAT. HOW MANY OF YOU THINK IT OUGHT TO BE A SHOW? AND SO
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  PASTOR AND I ARE GONNA GET IN AND GO A LITTLE OLD SCHOOL. NOW,
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  SOME OF YOU ARE HERE, HAVE BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE
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  PROPHETIC PULSE STARTED WITH PASTOR HANK AND I ON THE
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  TELEPHONE. JUST THE TWO OF US SITTING IN HIS OFFICE AT A DESK.
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  ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THESE DAYS? AND SOMEBODY FINALLY TOLD US,
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  THEY SAID, "COULD YOU PUT IT ON FACEBOOK?" THE FIRST NIGHT WE
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  PUT IT ON FACEBOOK, IT GOT TROLLED SO BAD. I MEAN, THE
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  DEVIL SHOWED UP IN FORCE. BUT WE DIDN'T GIVE UP. WE SAID, "WELL,
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  WE'LL KEEP DOING IT." AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE DID MORE THINGS,
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  AND YOU'VE SEEN WHERE THE PULSES SAY, "NOW WE'RE KIND OF WANTING
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  TO GO TO A FULL-BLOWN PROGRAM." THE ONLY PROGRAM PASTOR HANK AND
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  I DO TOGETHER HAS BEEN NEW LEVEL. AND I FEEL LIKE WE NEED
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  TO GET ON TOGETHER AND JUST TALK THE PROPHETIC AND GO THROUGH,
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  AND WE'LL STILL GO THROUGH ALL HIS PROPHECIES AND ALL OF THE
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  THINGS, BUT WE JUST FELT LIKE IT WAS TIME FOR A GOOD CHANGE AND
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  WE WON'T BE COMPETING WITH FLASHPOINT. SO SUNDAY NIGHT,
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  COME ON BABY. IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME. SO BE LOOKING FOR THAT
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  FIRST SUNDAY IN SEPTEMBER BEFORE OTH. MARK THAT DATE DOWN. WHAT
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  IS THAT DATE? IS IT THE 5TH? THE 5TH RIGHT BEFORE THE CONFERENCE.
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  SO YOU'LL SEE THE FIRST AIRING OF THE PROPHETIC PULSE. SO IT'S
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  GONNA BE AWESOME. SO BE LOOKING FOR ALL OF THAT GOOD STUFF AND
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  PASTOR HAS SOME JUICY PROPHECIES TO SHARE. ALL RIGHT, WELL, LET'S
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  GET INTO THE WORD TONIGHT. I'M GONNA GO TO JAMES, THE BOOK OF
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  JAMES. I DIDN'T EVEN BRING ANY NOTES. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? I
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  COULD GO DANGEROUS. WE COULD GO REALLY LATE OR WE CAN GET YOU
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  OUT OF HERE EARLY NOW THE SCHOOL STARTED. SO WE'LL SEE WHAT
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  HAPPENS, BUT I KNOW. I THOUGHT, LORD, IF I MAKE NOTES, THEY'LL
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  STAY TILL NINE O'CLOCK. AND ALL THE PARENTS OUT THERE, HOW MANY
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  OF YOUR KIDS ARE BACK IN SCHOOL? ALL THE PARENTS BACK IN THERE,
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  OR KIDS ARE BACK IN SCHOOL, YOU WOULDN'T THANK ME IF I GET YOU
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  OUT TOO LATE. SO, BUT I WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT. WE'RE
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  GONNA GO THROUGH THE FIRST CHAPTER, WELL, NOT THE WHOLE
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  FIRST CHAPTER, BUT PART OF IT. WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT, YOU
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  KNOW, HOW TO RESPOND AND REACT WHEN YOU GO THROUGH KIND OF A
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  TRIAL OR A CHALLENGE OR SOMETHING ADVERSE. EVERYBODY
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  GOES THROUGH IT. AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR NATION
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  RIGHT NOW. I MEAN, IT'S AMAZING. PEOPLE ONLINE, PASTOR WILL
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  PROPHESY, PROPHESY, PROPHESY, AND SAY, "GOD HAS THESE THINGS
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  PLANNED." AND PEOPLE WILL INVARIABLY IN THE SAME PROPHECY
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  GO, "I'M TERRIFIED." THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE
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  COUNTRY AND ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING. AND SO IT JUST
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  HAS SPARKED IN ME A REMINDER THAT THERE ARE THINGS WE HAVE TO
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  DO TO NAVIGATE ADVERSE TIMES. AS CHRISTIANS ON A PERSONAL LEVEL,
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  ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, ON A CORPORATE LEVEL, WE HAVE TO BE
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  ABLE TO KNOW HOW TO GO THROUGH THINGS. YOU KNOW, WE'VE SEEN THE
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  BODY OF CHRIST. HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD AGREE WITH THIS? THE BODY
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  OF CHRIST HAS GONE THROUGH, WOW, JUST SOME DIFFERENT CHANGES.
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  THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. WE'VE SEEN KIND OF SOME ROCKY ROAD WITH
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  MINISTRIES OUT THERE. A LOT OF STUFF THE ENEMY HAS JUST THROWN
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  AT THE CHURCH. AND WE HAVE TO, I WANT TO BE A MATURE BELIEVER
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  THAT KNOWS HOW TO HANDLE ADVERSITY AND DO IT RIGHT. SO
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  I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT FROM, WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO
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  TAKE THIS LITTLE PASSAGE IN JAMES AND SEE IF WE CAN SQUEEZE
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  EVERY LITTLE BIT OF JUICE OUT OF THESE VERSES. LET'S DO IT, ARE
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  YOU READY? JAMES, LOOK AT JAMES 1.1. JAMES, A SERVANT OF GOD AND
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  OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THE 12 TRIBES WHICH ARE SCATTERED
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  ABROAD, GREETING, I SEND MY GREETING. MY BROTHERS, HE'S
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  TALKING TO THE CHURCH NOW, RIGHT? COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU
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  FALL INTO DIFFERENT, KING JAMES SAYS, DIVERSE TESTS, DIVERSE
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  TRIALS. NOW, IT'S NOT A MATTER OF IF IT'LL HAPPEN, IT'S A
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  MATTER OF WHEN, RIGHT? YOU'VE HEARD, YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID IT,
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  HE SAID IN THIS LIFE, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TRIALS. YOU'RE GONNA
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  HAVE TRIBULATIONS, YOU'RE GONNA GO THROUGH STUFF, YOU'RE GONNA
• 43:11
  GO THROUGH THINGS THAT FEEL REALLY HARD AT TIMES. IT'LL FEEL
• 43:14
  LIKE YOU'RE LOOKING AT AN IMPOSSIBLE MOUNTAIN THAT'LL
• 43:17
  NEVER MOVE. AND SO I WANT YOU TO BE THINKING ABOUT AMERICA, BUT
• 43:22
  THINK ABOUT YOUR OWN LIFE, THINGS THAT YOU HAVE LOOKED AT.
• 43:26
  AND HE SAID, YOU'LL GO THROUGH DIFFERENT ONES. NOW, I DON'T
• 43:28
  KNOW WHY THIS IS SO SHOCKING TO US BELIEVERS. IT'S LIKE THE
• 43:34
  BIBLE SAYS WE WILL GO THROUGH THINGS. WE WILL GO THROUGH
• 43:38
  ADVERSITIES. AND YET AN ADVERSITY HITS OUR HOUSE AND WE
• 43:41
  BE TRIPPING. LIKE, I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS IS HAPPENING. YOU KNOW,
• 43:49
  PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND LIKE IN CIRCLES. AND YET, YOU KNOW, THE
• 43:56
  BIBLE'S CLEAR THAT YOU WILL GO THROUGH ADVERSE MOMENTS. NOW,
• 44:02
  ADVERSITY CAN COME MANY DIFFERENT WAYS, BUT FIRST OF
• 44:05
  ALL, I'LL JUST SAY IT SHOULD NOT BE A SHOCK THAT WE FACE HARD
• 44:09
  TIMES. IT COULD BE A SERIES OF THINGS, AND IT WON'T JUST BE A
• 44:15
  TRIAL, BUT IT COULD BE SEVERAL, RIGHT, THROUGHOUT OUR LIFETIME.
• 44:22
  AND SO FIRST OF ALL, I'LL JUST SAY THAT'S WHY WE SHOULD BE MORE
• 44:25
  SUPPORTIVE OF EACH OTHER. AMEN, THAT'S A GOOD PLACE FOR A REALLY
• 44:30
  GOOD AMEN. WE SHOULD UPLIFT EACH OTHER, OKAY, KNOWING THAT PEOPLE
• 44:37
  GO THROUGH THINGS. BUT I'M LOOKING AT THIS WORD DIVERSE.
• 44:40
  NOW, I'LL JUST SAY THIS, TRIALS CAN COME FROM SEVERAL SOURCES,
• 44:44
  AND WE'LL JUST KIND OF DIVERT HERE FOR A MINUTE. THERE ARE
• 44:49
  TRIALS THAT WE CAUSE OURSELF. WE DON'T LIKE THOSE. IT'S AMAZING,
• 44:58
  PEOPLE ACT SO SHOCKED. AND LIKE, YOU DUG YOUR OWN HOLE. AND SO
• 45:04
  THERE ARE TRIALS WE CAN CAUSE OURSELF. YOU HANG AROUND THE
• 45:07
  WRONG CROWD, DON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN YOU GO DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
• 45:10
  WITH THOSE PEOPLE. YOU COMMIT ERROR OR SIN OR YOU AVOID DOING
• 45:17
  RIGHTEOUS THINGS. AND I'M NOT JUST SAYING SIN, BUT YOU SET UP
• 45:22
  YOUR OWN HURT, YOUR OWN TRIAL. SO THERE ARE, FIRST OF ALL, A
• 45:26
  LOT OF CHRISTIANS WHO ARE GOING THROUGH TRIALS THAT THEY
• 45:30
  THEMSELVES CREATED. NOW, I'LL JUST SAY IT LIKE THIS. USUALLY
• 45:35
  IN THAT SCENARIO, PEOPLE DO KNOW, RIGHT? YOU SHOULDN'T BE
• 45:40
  SHOCKED. IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE HANGING WITH THE WRONG CROWD,
• 45:42
  YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING NEGATIVE THINGS ALL THE TIME,
• 45:46
  YOU KNOW YOU KNOW YOU, YOU GO WITH YOU TO WORK. RIGHT? OKAY,
• 45:54
  YOU GO WITH YOU TO GET COFFEE IN THE MORNING. SO YOU YOURSELF
• 46:00
  KNOW WHAT YOU SAY, COME ON, WHAT YOU DO. YOU KNOW HOW YOU REACT
• 46:08
  WHEN SOMETHING DOESN'T GO YOUR WAY. YOU KNOW, RIGHT? YOU CAN
• 46:14
  PUT ON A SHOW ON A SUNDAY AND CUSS LIKE A SAILOR ON A TUESDAY.
• 46:17
  YOU KNOW, RIGHT? SO PEOPLE, LET'S JUST BE REAL, PEOPLE
• 46:22
  CREATE THEIR OWN TRIALS, OKAY? AND THEN ACT LIKE, "I DON'T KNOW
• 46:27
  WHY I'M GOING THROUGH THIS." NO, YOU DO KNOW, OKAY? WHAT HAVE YOU
• 46:30
  BEEN SOWING AND DOING, OKAY? IN WORD AND DEED, SO THAT'S ONE
• 46:34
  KIND OF TRIAL. AND THEN THERE'S THE KIND OF TRIALS, SO YEAH, A,
• 46:38
  THE ONES WE CREATE FOR OURSELF. AND WE DON'T LIKE THOSE, WE CAN
• 46:42
  AVOID THOSE. THOSE ARE THINGS THAT THE BIBLE TEACHES US
• 46:44
  ACTUALLY HOW TO AVOID THEM. AMEN. A SECOND KIND OF TRIAL
• 46:50
  THAT WE CAN GO THROUGH IS THE TRIALS THAT ARE CREATED BY
• 46:52
  PEOPLE AROUND US. YOU KNOW, FRIENDS AND FAMILY, THEY CAN
• 46:56
  CAUSE US TROUBLE. COME ON, DON'T RAISE YOUR HANDS. ANY PARENTS
• 47:00
  EVER RAISE TEENAGERS? YOU KNOW, OKAY, OR YOU KNOW, TRIALS THAT
• 47:06
  ARE CAUSED BY A SPOUSE, MAYBE THAT ISN'T SAVED. THEY'RE NOT
• 47:09
  BORN AGAIN AND THEY'RE GIVING YOU A DIFFICULT TIME. OKAY,
• 47:13
  SOMETIMES OUR TRIALS ARE THE CHOICES CREATED BY OTHER PEOPLE.
• 47:18
  AND WHAT THEY'RE CHOOSING TO DO, THAT WE ARE TIED SOMEHOW TO
• 47:21
  THEIR LIFE. IT COULD BE A BOSS AT WORK THAT'S GIVEN YOU A
• 47:24
  PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT TIME, RIGHT? AND CAUSING YOU A TRIAL.
• 47:29
  SO OUR OWN CHOICES CAN CAUSE DIVERSE TRIBULATIONS. OTHER
• 47:35
  PEOPLE AROUND US CAN MAKE OUR LIFE UNPEACEFUL. AND SOMETIMES
• 47:40
  WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT 'CAUSE THEY'RE JUST GONNA CHOOSE
• 47:43
  POOR THINGS. AND THEN THERE'S THOSE KIND OF TRIALS I FEEL LIKE
• 47:46
  COME JUST FROM STRAIGHT FROM THE SPIRIT REALM. YOU KNOW, LIKE AN
• 47:50
  ATTACK ON YOUR BODY OR SOME SORT OF INCIDENT THAT TAKES PLACE.
• 47:55
  MAYBE IT'S A STORM AND THE TREE FELL DOWN AND TOTALED YOUR CAR.
• 47:59
  AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT ANYTHING. YOU CHOSE, ANYBODY
• 48:01
  ELSE CHOSE, IT WAS JUST DEMONIC. RIGHT, SO THESE ARE THE DIVERSE.
• 48:05
  BUT THE POINT IS WE SHOULD NOT BE AT ALL SURPRISED THAT WE GO
• 48:11
  THROUGH TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS IN THIS WORLD. NOW THE KEY IS,
• 48:15
  HERE'S WHAT JAMES SAYS. LET'S LOOK AT IT TOGETHER. MY BRETHREN
• 48:20
  COUNTED ALL JOY. NOW I LOOK AT THAT AND I'M THINKING, LORD,
• 48:24
  THIS CANNOT POSSIBLY MEAN THAT EVERY TIME WE'RE IN A TRIAL,
• 48:27
  WE'RE LIKE, YIPPEE! I'M SO EXCITED THIS IS HAPPENING. I'VE
• 48:34
  DONE THAT NEVER. NOBODY IS EXCITED TO GO THROUGH. SO I LOOK
• 48:42
  AT THIS AND I STARE AT IT AND STARE. SEE, THIS IS HOW I DO
• 48:45
  WITH THE WORD. I LOOK AT IT, I CHEW ON IT, I READ IT IN THREE
• 48:49
  OR FOUR DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, TAKE TIME
• 48:52
  TO DO THAT IN YOUR LIFE. THINK ABOUT WHAT IT'S SAYING TO YOU
• 48:56
  PERSONALLY. OKAY, COUNT IT ALL JOY. NOW, I LOOK AT THAT, WHEN I
• 49:01
  COUNT IT ALL JOY, I SEE IT MORE AS A BELIEVER. COME ON, WE'RE
• 49:06
  PEOPLE OF FAITH, RIGHT? AS A BELIEVER, WE SHOULD COUNT IT AS
• 49:09
  AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRAY, AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK RIGHT, AN
• 49:16
  OPPORTUNITY TO TRUST GOD. OKAY, TRUST DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU
• 49:21
  DON'T HAVE A REASON TO HAVE TO TRUST. I TALKED ABOUT THAT ON
• 49:24
  SUNDAY AT THE OFFERING. YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE TO TRUST WHEN THINGS
• 49:29
  ARE NOT GOING THE WAY YOU WANTED THEM TO GO. SO COUNT IT ALL JOY
• 49:34
  COULD ALSO MEAN THAT I MAKE A DECISION, RIGHT, TO SEE THIS AS
• 49:39
  AN OPPORTUNITY. NOW, EMOTIONALLY, YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE
• 49:43
  THAT. EVEN THAT, YOU THINK, MAN, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING THROUGH THIS
• 49:47
  HARDSHIP, I GOT THIS REPORT, THIS HAS HAPPENED, THAT PERSON'S
• 49:50
  ACTING UP, THIS IS GOING ON, THINGS ARE GOING DOWN STRANGE AT
• 49:54
  WORK. YOU KNOW, I'M NOT THINKING, MAN, I'M SUPER EXCITED
• 49:58
  FOR THAT. BUT I BELIEVE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT
• 50:02
  MATTERS HERE IN COUNTING IT ALL JOY IS THAT WE CHOOSE TO OPERATE
• 50:09
  IN THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT OF FIRST OF ALL, SELF-CONTROL. I
• 50:14
  THINK SELF-CONTROL IN NOT ONLY THE CHURCH, BUT IN THE WORLD,
• 50:17
  THE BIBLE SAYS IN THE LAST DAYS, PEOPLE WILL BE HEADY, THEY'LL BE
• 50:21
  RASH, THEY'LL DO STUPID THINGS THEY WON'T THINK BEFORE THEY
• 50:25
  LEAP. AND SO TO, WHEN I COUNT SOMETHING ALL JOY, I'M
• 50:30
  IMMEDIATELY PRESSED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO WALK IN A MEASURE OF
• 50:39
  SELF-CONTROL. THAT MEANS THAT WHEN SOMETHING GOES DOWN, THAT I
• 50:46
  DON'T FREAK OUT, RIGHT? I DON'T HAVE TO CALL THREE PEOPLE AND
• 50:51
  GO, "OH MY GOODNESS, LOOK AT THAT LADY." I DON'T HAVE TO RUN
• 50:55
  TO MAKE A POST. OKAY? IT'S ALL SIGNS OF A LACK, A LOT OF SOCIAL
• 51:03
  MEDIA. I KNOW, EVERY SERMON I PREACH, I HARP ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
• 51:07
  BUT HONESTLY, I FEEL LIKE IT'S ENCOURAGED A LOT OF LACK OF
• 51:10
  SELF-CONTROL. YOU KNOW, THEY HAD A THING ON FLASHPOINT LAST
• 51:13
  NIGHT. DID YOU SEE THAT LADY THAT'S SUING META? ANYBODY WATCH
• 51:16
  THAT? AND I'M NO FAN OF ZUCKERBUCK, BUT HONESTLY, IN MY
• 51:22
  HEART, I MEAN, I'M LIKE, OKAY, IT'S NOT JUST DANGEROUS FOR
• 51:26
  CHILDREN, IT'S RUINING ADULTS, OKAY? THE SCROLL IS A DEMONIC
• 51:31
  WHEEL THAT JUST GOES ON FOREVER AND THEY CAN FEED INTO OUR BRAIN
• 51:36
  JUST ABOUT ANYTHING THEY WANNA FEED IN THERE. AND SO IT'S
• 51:40
  ENCOURAGED A LOT OF LACK OF SELF-CONTROL. BUT I THINK
• 51:44
  COUNTING IT ALL JOY MEANS THAT I MAKE THE CHOICE WHEN I AM FACED
• 51:49
  WITH SOMETHING IN MY LIFE, COME ON, IN AMERICA, IN THE WORLD,
• 51:55
  WITH PEOPLE, WITH MY MONEY, MY FINANCE, WHEN I'M FACED WITH
• 52:00
  SOMETHING, I CHOOSE TO MAINTAIN MY COMPOSURE. OKAY, SOMETIMES
• 52:08
  THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU'RE IN A TRIAL IS TO SAY
• 52:11
  NOTHING TO ANYBODY. LET THAT SINK IN. OKAY, YOU CAN TELL FOUR
• 52:19
  PEOPLE, AND YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE TELEPHONE. THEN THEY'LL TELL
• 52:21
  THREE PEOPLE AND FOUR OTHER PEOPLE, AND THE NEXT THING YOU
• 52:23
  KNOW, IT'S ON THE NEWS. IT'S CRAZY, AND THEN THEY DON'T HAVE
• 52:29
  THE TRUTH ANYWAY. SO THE KEY POINT IS, COUNT IT ALL JOY MEANS
• 52:35
  I HAVE TO FIRST MAINTAIN A PLACE OF COMPOSURE, SELF-CONTROL. YOU
• 52:40
  KNOW, YOU THINK THAT FRUIT OF SELF-CONTROL STARTS HERE, STARTS
• 52:45
  UP IN OUR MIND. OKAY? IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, SELF-CONTROL IS NOT
• 52:49
  THAT YOU RUN AROUND SCREAMING. MOST PEOPLE DON'T DO THAT. A
• 52:53
  LACK OF SELF-CONTROL MEANS WE ALLOW ALL KINDS OF SCENARIOS TO
• 52:57
  GO THROUGH THIS NOGGIN OF OURS AND WE MAKE UP ALL SORTS. YOU
• 53:01
  KNOW, AND THE DEVIL LOVES TO PLAY OFF OUR IMAGINATION. HE
• 53:04
  LOVES TO SIT ON YOUR SHOULDER AND FEED WHISPERS OF WORST-CASE
• 53:08
  SCENARIOS. OKAY. WELL, WHAT IF THAT HAPPENS WHEN THE DOCTOR
• 53:13
  GAVE YOU THAT REPORT ABOUT YOUR ARM OR YOUR LEG? WHAT IF, WHAT
• 53:18
  IF, YOU KNOW, AND SO THE ENEMY IS ALWAYS THERE TO TRY TO GIVE
• 53:21
  YOU A WORST-CASE SCENARIO AND WE HAVE TO TAKE CONTROL, COME ON,
• 53:25
  SELF-CONTROL ON OUR EMOTIONS, IT'S A BREEDING GROUND OF WHERE
• 53:30
  UNBELIEF BEGINS. AMEN. SO THIS IS WHERE, WHY THE APOSTLE JAMES
• 53:37
  IS TELLING THE CHURCH, "COUNT IT ALL JOY," IN OTHER WORDS,
• 53:41
  MAINTAIN A PLACE OF COMPOSURE, PAUSE, PAUSE, AND GO, "OKAY, I'M
• 53:50
  FACING THIS REPORT, THAT'S HAPPENING. I GOT THIS BILL."
• 53:54
  COME ON, ANYBODY GOT A BILL IN THE MAIL THEY DIDN'T EXPECT? AND
• 53:58
  YOU'RE THINKING, YOU KNOW, THE FIRST THING THAT'LL POP IN
• 54:00
  PEOPLE'S MINDS A LOT OF TIMES IS, "HOW AM I GONNA PAY THAT?"
• 54:03
  OKAY, AND THEN THAT'S WHAT THE DEVIL WILL DO. HE'LL SAY, "HOW
• 54:08
  YOU GONNA PAY THAT? ARE YOU MAD THAT IT CAME?" I'M LIKE, "WELL,
• 54:12
  YOU PROBABLY SPENT THE MONEY. BUT MAYBE IT WAS A DOCTOR BILL
• 54:17
  THAT YOU DIDN'T PLAN. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ALWAYS OUT FOR YOUR
• 54:19
  CASH. YOU KNOW, YOU WALK IN AND BLINK AND THEY'LL CHARGE YOU
• 54:23
  $500 JUST TO LOOK. SO, SO COUNT IT ALL JOY MEANS THAT I HAVE TO
• 54:32
  IMMEDIATELY BE HAD THE DISCIPLINE. COME ON SOMEBODY TO
• 54:37
  TAKE CONTROL OF WHAT IS ALLOWED TO PROCESS THROUGH MY THOUGHTS.
• 54:41
  OKAY, AND I'M GOING TO TELL YOU IT WILL TAKE SOME DISCIPLINE,
• 54:46
  BUT IT IS THE THE EARMARK OF THE MOST MATURE OF SAINTS. I MEAN,
• 54:52
  HAVE YOU HEARD THE STORY? ANDREW WOMMACK TOLD A STORY ABOUT WHEN
• 54:54
  HIS SON HAD DIED. ANYBODY HEARD HIS STORY? AND HE GETS A CALL IN
• 54:58
  THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND HIS SON, I THINK, WAS IN A CAR
• 55:02
  ACCIDENT, AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, I, UH, IMMEDIATELY THEY SAID,
• 55:07
  "HE'S KILLED." NOT THE NEWS HE WANTED TO HEAR. IT WAS IN THE
• 55:10
  MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND IF YOU'VE NOT HEARD THE STORY, YOU
• 55:12
  CAN GO LISTEN TO HIM. HE'LL PROBABLY TELL IT BETTER THAN I
• 55:14
  AM, BUT I'M JUST GONNA GIVE YOU THE RUNDOWN. AND HE SAID, "MY
• 55:17
  WIFE AND I IMMEDIATELY DECIDED, "IN THE CAR, GOING TO THE
• 55:21
  MORGUE, PEOPLE, TO PRAISE GOD." NOW HE SAID, "AT FIRST I HAD TO
• 55:27
  DO IT THROUGH GRITTED TEETH, "BUT AS I KEPT PRAISING, AND WE
• 55:32
  WERE DRIVING, "AND I KEPT PRAISING, THE JOY OF THE LORD
• 55:35
  CAME. "AND I GOT TO THAT HOSPITAL, AND THERE MY SON IS
• 55:38
  LAYING IN AN ICEBOX WITH A TOE TAG." AND END OF THE STORY IS,
• 55:44
  HE PRAISED GOD, AND HE WOKE UP AND STARTED TALKING. NOW I'M
• 55:48
  TELLING YOU, THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT, COME ON, GIVE GOD A
• 55:52
  PRAISE FOR THAT. I DON'T KNOW, I CAN'T SPEAK TO IT, IF THERE
• 55:58
  WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT DIFFERENT OUTCOME HAD HE STARTED
• 56:02
  WEEPING AND CRYING AND WENT THE ROUTE OF GRIEF. I DON'T KNOW.
• 56:05
  NOW, BUT THE NATURAL HUMAN RESPONSE, COME ON AND PEOPLE
• 56:09
  TELL YOU, "OH, THAT'S HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO RESPOND. "THAT'S
• 56:12
  WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO." OKAY, WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS,
• 56:16
  YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO REACT FEARFULLY 'CAUSE IT'S A SCARY
• 56:20
  THING. YET, COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU FALL INTO DIFFERENT
• 56:25
  KINDS, ALL THE KINDS OF TESTS AND TRIALS THAT ONE CAN THINK UP
• 56:30
  IN THEIR MIND. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO MAINTAIN THE COMPOSURE
• 56:34
  EMOTIONALLY, AMEN, AND MAINTAIN A POSITION OF FAITH. NOW, I WILL
• 56:42
  TELL YOU THAT DISCIPLINE IS ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS A
• 56:46
  CHRISTIAN WILL HAVE TO LEARN TO DO. IT'S ONE OF THE GREATEST,
• 56:51
  MOST MATURING THINGS THAT A BELIEVER CAN DO, IS MAINTAIN
• 56:56
  COMPOSURE AND SOMETIMES SHUT YOUR MOUTH. RIGHT? COUNT IT ALL
• 57:05
  JOY. WHEN YOU FALL INTO ALL THESE TESTS AND THESE TRIALS,
• 57:10
  OKAY, IT'S NOT A SURPRISE, FIRST OF ALL. YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW,
• 57:14
  MAYBE THE ATTITUDE OUGHTA BE WHEN YOU GET HIT WITH SOMETHING
• 57:17
  OR THERE'S AN ATTACK, MAYBE THE ATTITUDE OUGHT TO BE, HERE WE
• 57:21
  GO, LET'S GO. COME ON, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GOD TO SHOW
• 57:25
  HIMSELF. I MEAN, AT LEAST IF ANYTHING, THE FIRST THING OUT OF
• 57:29
  OUR MOUTH OUGHT TO BE ONE OF FAITH. AND YOU DON'T ALWAYS KNOW
• 57:34
  WHAT YOU'RE FACING, BUT YOU FACE IT AND YOU FACE IT IN FAITH.
• 57:38
  COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU FALL IN. IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S ANOTHER
• 57:40
  OPPORTUNITY FOR ME TO MAINTAIN MY DISCIPLINE. THE FRUIT OF THE
• 57:46
  SPIRIT OF SELF-CONTROL. LOVE. COME ON, IMAGINE IF WE JUST TOOK
• 57:52
  THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT AND PUT THEM INTO PLAY WHEN WE'RE IN A
• 57:56
  TRIAL. WALK IN LOVE RATHER THAN EXPOSE SOMEBODY ONLINE. RIGHT?
• 58:06
  JOY. PEACE. MY NEW BOOK, COMMANDING PEACE, COMES OUT
• 58:12
  SEPTEMBER 1. I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT. I TALK ABOUT SOME OF THIS
• 58:16
  STUFF IN THERE. I'M VERY PUMPED. MAINTAIN LOVE, JOY, PEACE, COME
• 58:20
  ON. PATIENCE. OKAY, JAMES TALKS ABOUT THAT. ALL OF THE FRUITS OF
• 58:27
  THE SPIRIT, SELF-CONTROL, LONG-SUFFERING. OKAY, NONE OF
• 58:32
  THESE ARE THE EARMARKS OF THIS CURRENT CULTURE. AND I BELIEVE
• 58:37
  THEY KIND OF DID A NOSEDIVE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. PEOPLE HAVE
• 58:40
  NO PATIENCE WITH PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE READY TO CRUCIFY THEIR
• 58:43
  BROTHER AT THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY. PEOPLE GET UPSET
• 58:47
  EASILY. AND I HAVE TO ASK MYSELF, HOW AM I AS A BELIEVER
• 58:52
  DIFFERENT IN THESE THINGS THAN THE WAY THE WORLD RESPONDS TO
• 58:56
  ADVERSITY? WE SHOULD BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. WE SHOULD
• 59:01
  HAVE AN ABSOLUTE DIFFERENT RESPONSE. OKAY, THE BIBLE SAYS
• 59:05
  IN THE LAST DAYS, "MANY SHALL BE OFFENDED." WELL, THAT SHOULDN'T
• 59:08
  BE ME. OKAY, AND OFFENDED DOESN'T JUST MEAN MAD AT PEOPLE.
• 59:13
  OFFENDED ALSO MEANS TO, YOU KNOW, BE TRIPPED UP BY
• 59:17
  SOMETHING, TAKEN OFF COURSE. SO COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU FALL
• 59:22
  INTO THESE THINGS. KNOWING THIS, IN OTHER WORDS, WE HAVE TO KNOW
• 59:27
  THAT WE KNOW, KNOW THIS. AND BY THE WAY, IT'S NOT A SHOCK. THE
• 59:31
  BIBLE SAYS THAT THE DEVIL, JUST TO UNDERSCORE THE POINT, THAT
• 59:35
  TRIALS SHOULDN'T BE A SHOCK. FIRST PETER 5 AND 8 SAYS THE
• 59:38
  DEVIL GOES ABOUT LIKE WHAT? A ROARING LION LOOKING FOR
• 59:43
  SOMEBODY TO DEVOUR. WELL, DON'T LET IT BE YOU. JUST DECIDE IT'S
• 59:47
  NOT GONNA BE ME. I'M NOT GONNA ALLOW HIM TO DEVOUR MY BRAIN
• 59:53
  WITH HIS LIES. BUT THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S
• 59:57
  AMAZING TO ME, WHEN WE GO THROUGH SOMETHING, WE THINK
• 1:00:00
  WE'RE THE ONLY ONE, OKAY, THAT HAS EVER BEEN THROUGH ANYTHING
• 1:00:06
  THIS HARD. I MEAN, AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT'S EVER HAD A PITY
• 1:00:09
  PARTY? AND WE THINK THAT THIS SITUATION, NOBODY UNDERSTANDS
• 1:00:15
  FULLY. AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, I THINK IT'S THE REASON WE
• 1:00:17
  TALK TOO MUCH ABOUT OUR PROBLEMS. WE'RE LOOKING FOR
• 1:00:21
  SOMEBODY TO EMPATHIZE WITH WHERE WE ARE. OKAY, WE'RE LOOKING FOR
• 1:00:26
  SOMEBODY TO, OH YEAH, YOU KNOW, THAT HAPPENED WITH ME AT THE
• 1:00:29
  DOCTOR TOO. AND THEN PEOPLE COMPARE NOTES ON THEIR AILMENTS.
• 1:00:35
  AND YOU KNOW, ALL WE'RE DOING IS GIVING, POURING GASOLINE ON THE
• 1:00:38
  DEVIL'S FIRE. AND OH, YOU KNOW, AND THAT HAPPENED TO ME. YOU
• 1:00:42
  KNOW, WE WANT SOMEBODY TO RELATE TO IN THE PROBLEM. CAN I TELL
• 1:00:47
  YOU, THAT'S ANOTHER DISCIPLINE WE NEED TO HAVE. YES, ASK FOR
• 1:00:50
  PRAYER. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT.
• 1:00:52
  ASK PEOPLE FOR PRAYER. SAY, "PLEASE PRAY FOR ME. I GOT A BAD
• 1:00:55
  DOCTOR'S REPORT. IT'S ALL I'M GOING TO SAY." IMAGINE THAT. YOU
• 1:01:00
  KNOW, BUT PEOPLE DETAIL. I SEE IT ONLINE, ON THE COMMENTS.
• 1:01:03
  PEOPLE, "I WENT THROUGH THIS AND THE DOCTOR WROTE THAT AND I GOT
• 1:01:06
  TWO X-RAYS OF FOUR BROKEN FINGERS AND THEY BROKE MY LEG
• 1:01:09
  AND FELL OFF THE BIKE THREE TIMES AND THEY COULDN'T GET A
• 1:01:13
  CANE TO FIT ME.
• 1:01:14
  AND THEN I GOT THE CANE AND THEN IT DIDN'T WORK RIGHT. AND NOW,
• 1:01:17
  YOU KNOW, THEY WANT ME TO GET ON THE STATIONARY BIKE AND I CAN'T
• 1:01:21
  EVEN CLIMB UP THERE. AND I'M TELLING YOU, PRAY, PRAY FOR ME.
• 1:01:25
  I'M LIKE, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO NAVIGATE THAT MESS. I DON'T
• 1:01:30
  EVEN KNOW WHAT TO PRAY. AM I PRAYING FOR YOU TO GET ON THE
• 1:01:32
  BIKE? AM I PRAYING FOR YOU TO GET A NEW CANE? WHAT ARE YOU
• 1:01:35
  ASKING? I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO PRAY FOR.
• 1:01:38
  (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
• 1:01:41
  BUT YOU KNOW, WE DO THESE THINGS BECAUSE WE WANT SOMEBODY TO COME
• 1:01:45
  INTO THE EMOTIONAL ABYSS WITH US. BECAUSE WE DON'T FEEL LIKE
• 1:01:49
  WE GOT ANYBODY. WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE BY OURSELF, COME ON. THE
• 1:01:52
  DEVIL LOVES TO ISOLATE EVERY CHRISTIAN IN THEIR TRIAL. EVERY
• 1:01:58
  PERSON. IF WE'RE NOT CAREFUL, SO, AND THEN THE BIBLE GOES ON
• 1:02:02
  WHERE IT SAYS THAT, I DON'T KNOW, THEY COULD MAYBE PUT IT UP
• 1:02:06
  THERE. IT SAYS THAT, GO BACK TO 1 PETER 5, IT SAYS THAT, "BE
• 1:02:11
  SOBER, BE VIGILANT, "YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL WALKS ABOUT
• 1:02:14
  LIKE A ROARING LION," SEEKING SOMEONE TO DEVOUR. LOOK AT THE
• 1:02:16
  NEXT VERSE. "RESIST HIM STEADFAST." WELL, WHERE DOES THE
• 1:02:21
  RESISTANCE START? YOU DON'T GET A BROOM OUT AND SWING IT AROUND
• 1:02:26
  YOUR LIVING ROOM. AND DEVIL, I'M RESISTING YOU IN THE NAME OF
• 1:02:32
  JESUS. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I MIGHT'VE DONE THAT A TIME OR
• 1:02:34
  TWO. PASTOR HANK COULD TELL THE STORY WHEN WE WAS TRYING TO GROW
• 1:02:39
  THE CHURCH AND WE WERE JUST REAL NEW AND WE HAD MORE EMPTY CHAIRS
• 1:02:42
  THAN FULL ONES. HE SAID, "YEAH, I CAME IN HERE, I THREW SOME
• 1:02:45
  CHAIRS. "I THREW THEM." I SAID, "YOU'LL NOT MOCK ME." BUT THE
• 1:02:50
  KEY IS, YOU KNOW, THAT DOESN'T, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN BE MAD AT LIFE
• 1:02:55
  AND PUNCH A HOLE IN YOUR DRYWALL. THAT IS NOT GONNA GET
• 1:02:59
  RID OF THE DEVIL. IT'S NOT GONNA HELP. IT'S NOT GONNA HELP YOU
• 1:03:05
  GET RID OF THE ENEMY BECAUSE YOU AIRED OUT YOUR COMPLAINT TO SIX
• 1:03:10
  FOLKS OR TO YOUR SPOUSE, RIGHT? YOUR SPOUSE IS JUST LIKE, BE
• 1:03:17
  NICE. RESIST HIM STEADFAST IN THE FAITH, KNOWING, WATCH THIS,
• 1:03:26
  THE SAME. EVERYBODY SAY SAME.
• 1:03:30
  SAME. IT'S THE SAME. IT'S THE SAME. IT MAY HAVE A DIFFERENT
• 1:03:33
  COLOR HAT. IT MAY DRESS UP IN A DIFFERENT SWEATER AND SHOES, BUT
• 1:03:39
  THE TRIALS OF LIFE ARE THE SAME. I THINK IT'S THE REASON THE
• 1:03:45
  BIBLE HAD THE BOOK OF JOB IN THERE. 'CAUSE WHEN YOU THINK
• 1:03:49
  YOUR STORY IS THE WORST OF THE WORST, OF THE WORST, RIGHT?
• 1:03:55
  YOU'VE GONE THROUGH THE WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT ANYBODY IN
• 1:03:58
  THE WORLD COULD GO THROUGH. LISTEN, AND I'M NOT UNDERCUTTING
• 1:04:03
  THAT. I'M NOT SAYING PEOPLE DON'T GO THROUGH REAL PAIN.
• 1:04:06
  YEAH, WE GO THROUGH REAL THINGS, OKAY? PEOPLE HAVE LOST LOVED
• 1:04:09
  ONES, THEY'RE GRIEVING. OKAY, BUT THE REASON I BELIEVE THE
• 1:04:13
  BOOK OF JOB IS IN THE BIBLE, 'CAUSE JOB, I DON'T KNOW THAT
• 1:04:18
  ANYBODY CAN MEASURE UP TO LOSING HIS FAMILY TWO TIMES. AND ALL
• 1:04:24
  HIS BELONGING IS IN HIS POSSESSIONS AND HIS HEALTH. I
• 1:04:28
  MEAN, EVERYTHING A CHRISTIAN CAN NAME, HE LOST AT ONE POINT. SO
• 1:04:34
  IT SAYS, "KNOW THAT THE SAME SUFFERINGS ARE EXPERIENCED BY
• 1:04:40
  YOUR BRETHREN THAT ARE IN THE WORLD." THE SAME THING. SO
• 1:04:44
  SOMEBODY ELSE IS GOING THROUGH SOMETHING. SO YOU ARE NOT ALONE
• 1:04:48
  IN THE TRIAL. SO THE DISCIPLINE THEN THEREFORE, OKAY, 'CAUSE
• 1:04:53
  THERE'S OTHER PEOPLE, YOU THINK, "OH, WELL, I GOT THIS DOCTOR'S
• 1:04:56
  REPORT AND THE DOCTOR SAID THIS AND THIS AND IT WAS ALL NEGATIVE
• 1:04:59
  AND POOR." I PROMISE YOU THERE'S PROBABLY SOMEBODY IN SECTION C
• 1:05:02
  OF THE CHURCH THAT GOT A SIMILAR DOCTOR'S REPORT. YOU JUST DON'T
• 1:05:06
  KNOW ABOUT IT, OKAY? BECAUSE THE ENEMY IS THE SAME, OKAY? KNOWING
• 1:05:12
  THESE SAME THINGS ARE GOING ON WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. SO YOU'RE
• 1:05:16
  NOT ALONE AND THEY'RE EXPERIENCED BY YOUR BRETHREN
• 1:05:20
  THAT ARE IN THE WORLD. SO GO BACK TO JAMES KNOWING THIS, THAT
• 1:05:24
  THE SAME TESTING OF OUR FAITH, OF ALL OF THESE DIVERSE THINGS
• 1:05:30
  WE GO THROUGH. THIS IS WHY AS PASTOR, WE'RE GOING INTO THE
• 1:05:34
  MIDTERMS AND HE IS TALKING SO MUCH ABOUT, LISTEN, GOD'S BEEN
• 1:05:38
  SAYING, HOW MANY OF YOU HEAR IT EVERY SUNDAY? GOD'S BEEN SAYING,
• 1:05:41
  GOD'S BEEN SAYING, GOD'S BEEN REVEALING. AND THEN WE ALL LOVE
• 1:05:45
  IT WHEN HIS PROPHECIES COME TO PASS. OH, WE'RE SO EXCITED. LOOK
• 1:05:48
  AT THAT HAPPEN. IT'S IN THE NEWS, BUT GET IN FAITH OVER IT.
• 1:05:51
  IF GOD IS BRINGING IT TO PASS, RIGHT, THEN WE NEED TO COUNT IT
• 1:05:58
  ALL JOY. OKAY, THE LORD'S BEEN TALKING, THE LORD'S BEEN
• 1:06:02
  SPEAKING, AND THEN SOME LIBERAL LEFTIST GOES AND DOES SOME RASH.
• 1:06:07
  DON'T GET UPSET, OKAY? THE VICTORY IS THERE. KNOWING THIS,
• 1:06:12
  THAT THE TESTING OF YOUR FAITH WORKS. NOW THAT WORD PATIENCE IS
• 1:06:16
  THE WORD IN THE GREEK, I'M NOT AN EXPERT, BUT YOU KNOW, I'VE
• 1:06:20
  STUDIED A FEW OF THESE THINGS. IT MEANS TO HAVE CHEERFUL, BUT
• 1:06:24
  VERY COMMITTED ENDURANCE. SO THAT ALREADY TELLS ME THAT NOT
• 1:06:29
  EVERY TRIAL GOES AWAY AT ONCE, OKAY? SOME THINGS YOU MAY HAVE
• 1:06:34
  TO RESIST. YOU MIGHT HAVE TO GET UP AND RESIST AGAIN. YEAH, BUT
• 1:06:38
  PASTOR BRENDA, HANDS WERE LAID ON ME ON SUNDAY, AND I STILL HAD
• 1:06:41
  THIS SYMPTOM. THERE'S STILL SOMETHING GOING ON IN MY KNEE OR
• 1:06:44
  SOMETHING GOING ON IN MY, THERE'S STILL AN ISSUE. I GOT
• 1:06:48
  PRAYER FOR IT. WELL, THERE MAY BE ANOTHER STRATEGY OF
• 1:06:52
  RESISTANCE THAT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO
• 1:06:55
  UNDERTAKE. SO IT BRINGS FORTH COMMITTED, CHEERFUL ENDURANCE.
• 1:07:02
  YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT OF IT LIKE THIS TODAY. I WAS READING THESE
• 1:07:04
  VERSES OVER AND OVER AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, I THOUGHT,
• 1:07:07
  YOU KNOW, LORD, IF WE DIDN'T GO THROUGH ANYTHING, WE WOULD BE
• 1:07:10
  SPINELESS WUSSES. A BUNCH OF SPOILED CHILDREN THAT NEVER HAD
• 1:07:18
  TO LEARN TO WALK ON OUR OWN. OKAY, IF ALL WE DO IS CRY AND
• 1:07:23
  WHINE WHEN WE GO THROUGH A HARD TIME, WE HAVEN'T LEARNED HOW TO
• 1:07:28
  DO ANYTHING WORTH ANYTHING FULL OF FAITH. I HEARD ONE PREACHER
• 1:07:32
  SAY A LONG TIME AGO, I LOVE THIS. HE SAID, YOU KNOW,
• 1:07:35
  SOMEWHERE WE'VE GOT TO GET STRONGER AND MORE POWERFUL IN
• 1:07:39
  OUR FAITH THAN BELIEVING GOD JUST FOR OUR POOR LITTLE SELF.
• 1:07:45
  AND THE TROUBLE IS MOST PEOPLE NEVER ATTAIN TO A GREATER LEVEL
• 1:07:51
  OF STANDING STRONG OVER THEIR OWN TRIALS, MUCH LESS A BROTHER
• 1:07:55
  OR SISTER. AND I, LISTEN, I DON'T WANT TO BE A PERSON THAT
• 1:07:59
  WHEN WE ALL COME TOGETHER ON A SUNDAY AND WE PRAY, WHERE WE
• 1:08:02
  PRAY EMPTY PRAYERS FOR EACH OTHER. OKAY, I WANT TO GET TO A
• 1:08:07
  PLACE IN MY DISCIPLINE, MY MATURITY, MY WALK WITH THE LORD,
• 1:08:12
  WHERE I DISCIPLINE MYSELF TO RESPOND AND REACT TO THINGS IN
• 1:08:16
  FAITH SO THAT I CAN EXHIBIT THAT SAME FAITH FOR SOMEBODY ELSE.
• 1:08:21
  COME ON, THAT'S WHAT JESUS WAS. NOW, EVEN THOUGH HE, AND HE
• 1:08:25
  WOULDN'T EVEN LET PEOPLE DEPEND ON HIS FAITH. THINK ABOUT THAT.
• 1:08:29
  HE WAS FULL OF FAITH. I MEAN, I'M STILL, READ THE STORY OF THE
• 1:08:35
  STORM AND THE BOAT IN MARK 4, AND I'M LIKE, LORD, HERE ARE
• 1:08:39
  THESE PEOPLE, THEY ROCKED, THE BOAT WAS GOING. YOU SAID, WHERE
• 1:08:45
  WAS YOUR FAITH? I'M LIKE, THEY MIGHT'VE BEEN SEASICK. I DON'T
• 1:08:50
  KNOW IF BUBBA AND THE OTHER BOAT FELL OVER THE BOARD. WE DON'T
• 1:08:54
  KNOW. OKAY, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THEIR BOAT WAS FULL OF WATER AND
• 1:08:59
  JESUS EXPECTED THEM TO RESPOND WITH EMOTIONAL FAITH DISCIPLINE.
• 1:09:06
  KNOWING THIS, THAT THESE THINGS ARE MAKING YOU STRONG. THAT'S
• 1:09:09
  WHAT VERSE THREE IS SAYING. THESE THINGS ARE MAKING YOU
• 1:09:13
  TOUGHEN UP. COME ON, TOUGHEN UP AS A CHRISTIAN. IF I COULD SAY
• 1:09:17
  ANYTHING THAT WE ALL NEED IS, COME ON, TOUGHEN UP AS
• 1:09:22
  BELIEVERS. AND IF YOU THINK, WELL, THAT SOUNDS SO HARSH,
• 1:09:27
  PASTOR BRENDA, IF YOU ONLY KNEW. WELL, I'M LIKE, WELL, THINK FOR
• 1:09:31
  A MOMENT, AND I DON'T MEAN TO LIKE BE THE DEBBIE DOWNER ON A
• 1:09:34
  WEDNESDAY ON THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL, BUT I'M JUST GONNA SAY,
• 1:09:38
  IF YOU THINK THAT, THINK ABOUT THE CHRISTIANS OVERSEAS GETTING
• 1:09:42
  BEHEADED JUST FOR NAMING THE NAME OF JESUS. OKAY, COME ON,
• 1:09:46
  THINK ABOUT THAT. JUST TO EVEN PROFESS CHRIST, THEY ARE BEING
• 1:09:51
  TAKEN AND BEHEADED. SO COME ON, WE CAN BUCK UP. OKAY, KNOWING
• 1:09:58
  THIS, THESE THINGS ARE MAKING US STRONG. THAT'S WHAT VERSE THREE
• 1:10:01
  IS SAYING. THESE THINGS ARE MAKING US TOUGHER. THEY'RE
• 1:10:04
  HELPING US TO MATURE ON HOW TO RESPOND WHEN THE NOT SO
• 1:10:10
  SURPRISING DIVERSE CHALLENGES OF LIFE HAPPEN. OKAY, AND CAN I BE
• 1:10:16
  HONEST? ALL RIGHT, THE BODY OF CHRIST IS AMONG THE MOST
• 1:10:20
  COMPASSIONATE BUT NOBODY WANTS TO SIT WITH YOU IN THE FOYER
• 1:10:23
  WHILE YOU CRY YOUR EYES OUT. AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE THEY DON'T LOVE
• 1:10:28
  YOU. THEY JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT. THEY DON'T KNOW
• 1:10:30
  IF THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO HAND YOU A KLEENEX, GIVE YOU A HUG, GIVE
• 1:10:35
  YOU GOOD ADVICE, RIGHT? AND SO I'M NOT SAYING YOU DON'T REACH
• 1:10:39
  OUT TO PEOPLE, BUT WHAT I AM SAYING, WE HAVE TO DISCIPLINE
• 1:10:43
  OURSELVES TO BE BIBLICAL SAINTS, OKAY? IF JESUS WAS HERE, I DON'T
• 1:10:48
  KNOW. IT'S LIKE I HEARD PASTOR HANKS SAY ONE TIME, "I THINK
• 1:10:50
  JESUS IS GOING TO COME BACK WITH A SPANKING SPOON." MAYBE LIKE,
• 1:10:55
  YOU KNOW, AND I FEEL LIKE IT. I FEEL LIKE IF HE WOULD WALK
• 1:10:58
  THROUGH THE FOYER OF MOST CHURCHES, HE'D PROBABLY SAY TO
• 1:11:00
  PEOPLE, "WHERE'S YOUR FAITH? WHERE'S YOUR FAITH? WHERE'S YOUR
• 1:11:04
  FAITH?" I MEAN, AND LISTEN, I'M HOLDING MYSELF ACCOUNTABLE.
• 1:11:08
  WHERE'S YOUR FAITH? WHERE'S YOUR FAITH? YOU KNOW, PASTOR HANK AND
• 1:11:11
  I, WE TRY TO BE EXTREMELY DISCIPLINED IN OUR HOUSE. YOU
• 1:11:15
  KNOW, THE MINUTE WE, ONE OF US, GETS OUT A LINE WITH OUR MOUTH,
• 1:11:20
  LIKE, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, AND IT'S REALLY ROUGH. YOU KNOW, WHEN
• 1:11:23
  YOUR SPOUSE CORRECTS YOUR FAITH, IT ALWAYS GOES OVER SO GOOD. BUT
• 1:11:31
  IF SOMEBODY, IF, I MEAN, APPARENTLY YOU'RE LAUGHING
• 1:11:36
  'CAUSE YOU'VE ALL TRIED IT. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE LEARNED WITH
• 1:11:40
  EACH OTHER TO SAY, IS THAT THE HARVEST YOU WANT? OKAY? PULL
• 1:11:46
  BACK YOUR MIND, OKAY? IN FACT, I THINK I'M GONNA DO A SERIES,
• 1:11:50
  MAYBE COMING UP ON SUNDAY, THE BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND, 'CAUSE
• 1:11:53
  I THINK IT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TO ADDRESS, SO
• 1:11:56
  MAYBE WE'LL TEACH ON THAT. BUT IT SAID, NOW, OKAY, LET'S GO TO
• 1:12:00
  VERSE FOUR. OKAY, SO PATIENCE, COME ON. IT'S TEACHING US SOME
• 1:12:04
  SPIRITUAL MUSCLE THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH, WHAT WE'RE
• 1:12:06
  FACING. AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE, BY THE WAY, I'M JUST GONNA SAY IT
• 1:12:11
  LIKE THIS, IT'S NOT BECAUSE GOD IS HARSH. IT'S NOT BECAUSE HE'S
• 1:12:15
  HARD AND HAS NO FEELINGS. THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS WAS TOUCHED
• 1:12:19
  WITH THE FEELINGS OF OUR INFIRMITIES, OKAY? BUT HE'S
• 1:12:22
  GIVEN US THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A WAY OUT. THAT'S THE THING. THE
• 1:12:27
  BIBLE SAYS THAT HE THAT COMES TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS AND
• 1:12:30
  THAT HE IS A REWARDER OF THOSE THAT DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM. BUT
• 1:12:33
  WITHOUT FAITH, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD. BUT LET PATIENCE
• 1:12:40
  HAVE HER COMPLETE WORK. THAT MEANS YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO, YOU
• 1:12:44
  MIGHT HAVE TO GET UP AND BOX AROUND, FEEL LIKE YOU GOT
• 1:12:49
  KNOCKED OUT AND GO AT IT AGAIN. SEE, YOU MAY HAVE TO GET UP AND
• 1:12:53
  GO BACK AT IT AGAIN. I DON'T KNOW, I DO NOT KNOW FROM
• 1:12:57
  ANYTHING THAT I FIND IN SCRIPTURE WHY SOME MIRACLES ARE
• 1:13:00
  INSTANT AND SOME TOOK TIME. I DON'T KNOW, AND WE SEE IT. WE
• 1:13:04
  SEE IT THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE. GOD GAVE A SERIES OF MIRACLES TO THE
• 1:13:09
  CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BUT SOME THINGS HE MADE THEM WALK THE
• 1:13:11
  PROCESS. OKAY. HE PURPOSELY DROVE THEM INTO THE WILDERNESS
• 1:13:17
  SO THEY COULD BE, THE BIBLE SAYS IN DEUTERONOMY, I THINK IT'S
• 1:13:19
  CHAPTER TWO, IT SAYS HE TOOK THEM INTO THE WILDERNESS TO TEST
• 1:13:23
  THEM AND TRY THEM AND FIND OUT WHAT WAS IN THEIR HEART. AND OF
• 1:13:27
  COURSE WE KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY. SO THE KEY IS, LET
• 1:13:30
  PATIENCE. SOMETIMES IT'S GONNA BE A PROCESS THAT WE HAVE TO GO
• 1:13:33
  THROUGH. AND THERE'S INTERCESSION INVOLVED, OKAY? OUR
• 1:13:39
  SPEAKING IS INVOLVED. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO,
• 1:13:43
  ESPECIALLY WHEN WE CAN'T CONTROL THE TRIAL, OKAY? WE CAN'T
• 1:13:47
  CONTROL THE FACT THAT MAYBE THE STORM HAPPENED AND OUR ROOF, WE
• 1:13:50
  LOST THE HOUSE, OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE. SOME SITUATION, MAYBE
• 1:13:54
  YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. BUT NOW YOU'RE HAVING TO
• 1:13:58
  NAVIGATE THE CHALLENGE OF IT. AND YOU KNOW HOW INSURANCE
• 1:14:01
  COMPANIES ARE, THEY'RE LIKE, WELL, WE'LL PAY TWO THIRDS. AND
• 1:14:05
  YOU'VE GOTTA COME UP WITH ALL THE MONEY YOU DIDN'T EXPECT TO
• 1:14:07
  HAVE OR PUT A TRASH BAG ON YOUR ROOF. FUNNY STORY, PASTOR HANK
• 1:14:12
  AND I USED TO LIVE IN A HOUSE THAT HAD, WHAT DO THEY CALL
• 1:14:16
  THOSE? SKYLIGHTS, THE WINDOWS AT THE TOP AND THE ROOF. I DON'T
• 1:14:20
  THINK THEY MAKE THOSE AS MUCH ANYMORE FOR THIS REASON,
• 1:14:23
  ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIVE IN NEBRASKA. WE HAD A HAIL STORM.
• 1:14:26
  THE BOYS WERE REALLY LITTLE. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS STORM CAME.
• 1:14:30
  AND YOU KNOW, PASTOR JUST LOVES HEIGHTS. AND SURE ENOUGH, THE
• 1:14:34
  HAIL BROKE OUT BOTH SKYLIGHTS IN OUR BATHROOMS AND IT WAS IN THE
• 1:14:37
  MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. SO SURELY ENOUGH, GUESS WHAT WE'RE DOING?
• 1:14:41
  WE GET OUT A LADDER. WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING. WE GET OUT A
• 1:14:45
  LADDER AND CLIMB THE ROOF AND TAPE DOWN TRASH BAGS. NOW, NEVER
• 1:14:51
  AGAIN. I'M CALLING PASTOR DOUG IF THAT EVER HAPPENS. I DON'T
• 1:14:54
  KNOW WHAT I'M DOING, BUT ANYWAY. I DON'T KNOW, WE'LL CALL
• 1:14:57
  SOMEBODY ELSE. BUT THE POINT BEING IS THINGS HAPPEN, OKAY? SO
• 1:15:04
  OUR REACTION, KNOW THAT SOMETIMES, AND I'LL BE HONEST
• 1:15:08
  WITH YOU, THERE MAY BE TIMES YOU'RE GOING THROUGH MULTIPLE
• 1:15:11
  TRIALS AT THE SAME TIME. ANYBODY EVER BEEN THERE? AND ONE TIME
• 1:15:15
  WHEN WE WERE FIRST MARRIED AND OH MY GOODNESS, OUR LIFE FELT
• 1:15:18
  LIKE A TORNADO EVERY DAY. WE WERE BROKE, OKAY? WE HAD
• 1:15:23
  NOTHING. I MEAN, GETTING OUR FOOD AT THE GROCERY STORE. I
• 1:15:26
  REMEMBER ONE TIME I WALKED INTO BAKER'S SUPERMARKET OVER IN
• 1:15:30
  PAPILLION. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THAT'S STILL THERE. AND THIS WAS
• 1:15:33
  BACK WHEN WE KEPT THE CHECKBOOK REGISTERS, BOB, YOU KNOW, AND WE
• 1:15:37
  HAD TO WRITE DOWN WHAT OUR BALANCE WAS. AND I MEAN, I WOULD
• 1:15:39
  KEEP IT TO THE PENNY 'CAUSE I DID NOT WANNA SPEND THE $15
• 1:15:42
  OVERDRAFT CHARGE, I COULDN'T AFFORD IT. AND SO I WALKED IN
• 1:15:47
  THERE AND ONE TIME WE HAD $30 LEFT IN OUR CHECKBOOK TO GO GET
• 1:15:51
  GROCERIES AND I THOUGHT, IT'S A GREAT DAY, GOD. I MEAN, WE ARE
• 1:15:54
  GONNA EAT GOOD TONIGHT 'CAUSE YOU COULD BUY RICE FOR 50 CENTS
• 1:15:57
  AND A GOOD SIZE BAG OF IT AND YOU COULD EAT, WE BOUGHT
• 1:16:01
  EVERYTHING ON THE CHEAP, WENT THROUGH WITH OUR LITTLE
• 1:16:03
  CALCULATOR AND I THINK I SPENT 29.99.
• 1:16:06
  LEFT MYSELF 50 CENTS IN THE CHECKBOOK, AND I'M TELLING YOU
• 1:16:09
  RIGHT NOW. BUT YOU KNOW, WE WENT THROUGH THAT. WE WERE TRYING TO
• 1:16:14
  GET ON THE ROAD TO PREACH, AND WE GOT THE LEFT FOOT OF
• 1:16:16
  FELLOWSHIP OUT OF THE DENOMINATION THAT DIDN'T PREACH
• 1:16:19
  FAITH, SO WE GOT KICKED OUT OF THAT. OH MY GOODNESS, WE WERE
• 1:16:23
  FIRED FROM THE MINISTRY. WE DIDN'T KNOW, I MEAN, WE DIDN'T
• 1:16:26
  HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE. WE WERE GOING, WE ALMOST GOT EVICTED
• 1:16:29
  THREE TIMES FROM THE APARTMENT THAT WE LIVED IN. I'M LIKE,
• 1:16:31
  LORD, THIS IS NOT HOW I THOUGHT I'D START OUT MY LIFE. AND SO
• 1:16:36
  PASTOR HANK FINALLY WENT TO OUR PASTOR AT THE TIME AND HE SAYS,
• 1:16:39
  I JUST FEEL LIKE I'M IN THIS CONSTANT TORNADO. AND EVERY ONCE
• 1:16:44
  IN A WHILE I'LL GET A LITTLE REPRIEVE AND MY ARM WILL STICK
• 1:16:47
  OUT AND I'M LIKE, AH. AND THEN IT GETS YANKED BACK IN AND THE
• 1:16:51
  NEXT THING MY LEG WILL STICK OUT, AH. AND IT'LL YANK BACK IN
• 1:16:56
  AND, AND, "PASTOR, I'M TIRED OF IT." AND PASTOR, HE SAYS, HE WAS
• 1:17:01
  JUST REAL SIMPLE. HE GOES, HE WAS A REAL SWEET MAN. HE GOES,
• 1:17:05
  "YOU KNOW, ALL YOU HAVE TO KNOW IS IT'S ONE DEVIL." AND I
• 1:17:11
  THOUGHT, OKAY, SEE, SOMETIMES YOU WILL GO THROUGH MULTIPLE
• 1:17:14
  THINGS, BUT IT'S GONNA BUILD SOME SPIRITUAL MUSCLE IF YOU DO
• 1:17:17
  IT THE RIGHT WAY, OKAY? THAT'S THE KEY. HE SAID, "LET IT HAVE
• 1:17:21
  ITS COMPLETE WORK." NOW I LOOK BACK ON SOME OF THOSE EARLY
• 1:17:25
  YEARS AND ALL THOSE THINGS THAT WERE SO AWFUL. I'M LIKE, WELL,
• 1:17:28
  FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE STILL ALIVE. SO GOD HAD IT, RIGHT? OKAY, GOD
• 1:17:34
  KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING. BUT NOW I LOOK BACK AND I'M LIKE, OKAY,
• 1:17:39
  SEE, LORD, WE WOULDN'T BE NEAR THE PASTORAL LEADERS HAD WE NOT
• 1:17:43
  GONE THROUGH THOSE THINGS. THERE WERE TESTINGS THAT GOD HAD TO
• 1:17:47
  ALLOW AT THAT TIME. AND GOD DID THAT WITH ISRAEL. AND GOD'S UP
• 1:17:53
  THERE IN HEAVEN GOING, YOU'RE NOT GONNA DIE. I GOT YOU. OKAY,
• 1:17:58
  I GOT THIS. BUT THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO. THEIR BABIES
• 1:18:02
  WERE SCREAMING BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE WATER. SO HE SAID,
• 1:18:07
  LET PATIENCE HAVE ITS COMPLETE WORK SO BY THE END OF IT, YOU
• 1:18:14
  WILL BE COMPLETE. COME ON, I DON'T WANNA BE A ARMLESS,
• 1:18:18
  SPINELESS CHRISTIAN. YOU WILL BE COMPLETE. YOU WILL BE MATURED.
• 1:18:27
  YOU WILL BE MATURE, COMPLETE AND FULL. COME ON, NOW YOU CAN TEACH
• 1:18:33
  OTHER PEOPLE. YOU KNOW HOW TO WALK AS A BELIEVER. OKAY, I
• 1:18:39
  MEAN, AND YOU KNOW, SOME THINGS AFTER YOU GO THROUGH THEM,
• 1:18:42
  YOU'RE LIKE, "AH, DEBBIE, YOU CAN'T USE THAT ONE ON ME, I'VE
• 1:18:44
  BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, WORE THE SHIRT AND OVERCAME." COMPLETE
• 1:18:50
  AND ENTIRE. PUT THAT ONE UP IN THE, PUT VERSE FOUR UP IN THE
• 1:18:56
  NEW LIVING. OH, 818, I GOT TO GET DONE. THERE YOU GO. SO LET
• 1:19:03
  IT GROW. IN OTHER WORDS, LET THE ENDURANCE GROW. FOR WHEN YOUR
• 1:19:07
  ENDURANCE IS FULLY DEVELOPED, OKAY, THAT'S WHY SOMETIMES YOU
• 1:19:14
  CAN'T WIG OUT AND CRY AND REACT AND RESPOND AND LET YOUR MOUTH
• 1:19:19
  JUST SAY ANYTHING. 'CAUSE WHEN YOUR ENDURANCE IS FULLY
• 1:19:24
  DEVELOPED, YOU WILL BE PERFECT. THAT WORD DOESN'T MEAN YOU NEVER
• 1:19:27
  MAKE MISTAKES. IT MEANS YOU ARE MATURED. YOU'VE GROWN UP. COME
• 1:19:33
  ON, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD GIVES US EPHESIANS THE FOURTH
• 1:19:36
  CHAPTER. HE GIVES APOSTLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, PASTORS,
• 1:19:39
  AND TEACHERS FOR THE PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS TO DO THE WORK OF
• 1:19:44
  THE MINISTRY. THAT YOU MIGHT BE FULLY DEVELOPED, THAT YOU WILL
• 1:19:48
  BE MATURE AND COMPLETE. COME ON, MAN, IMAGINE IF THAT KIND OF
• 1:19:55
  MATURITY WOULD BE WHAT'S EXEMPLIFIED ON SOCIAL, OF THE
• 1:19:59
  CHURCH. AND I LOVE THIS PART, LACKING OR NEEDING NOTHING. NOW,
• 1:20:07
  ALL RIGHT, I THOUGHT ON THAT. I'M LIKE, LORD, DOES THAT MEAN
• 1:20:11
  WE DON'T EVER HAVE, LIKE THERE'S SOME UTOPIA WHERE WE LIVE WHERE
• 1:20:18
  WE DON'T NEED NO MONEY, OUR HEALTH IS PERFECT, WE NEVER HAVE
• 1:20:22
  A TOOTHACHE. I MEAN, I'M TELLING YOU, THERE'S SOME UTOPIA OF LIFE
• 1:20:26
  AND NONE OF THE FAMILY ACTS UP, NONE OF THE KIDS ACT UP, AND OUR
• 1:20:30
  MARRIAGE IS JUST PERFECT. EVERYTHING'S JUST PERFECT. THE
• 1:20:35
  CAR NEVER BREAKS. LACKING IN NOTHING. I MEAN, IT MEANS LIKE
• 1:20:41
  NO NEED, RIGHT? AND I THOUGHT, NO, WAIT A MINUTE THOUGH.
• 1:20:45
  LACKING OR COMPLETE WANTING NOTHING, MEANING THAT YOUR
• 1:20:49
  APPROACH IN LIFE, PAUL SAID IT LIKE THIS, HE SAID, I KNOW HOW
• 1:20:54
  TO LIVE IN ABUNDANCE, AND I KNOW HOW TO LIVE WHEN I DON'T HAVE
• 1:20:58
  STUFF. I KNOW HOW TO DO IT BOTH WAYS AND I'M STILL THE SAME.
• 1:21:03
  LACKING AND NOTHING SOMETIMES, I MEAN, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT EVERY
• 1:21:06
  SHIP HAS COME TO THE HARBOR. WHAT IT'S SAYING IS YOU WON'T
• 1:21:11
  HAVE A NEED BECAUSE YOU'LL KNOW THAT GOD'S ALREADY FULFILLED IT.
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  AND IT WILL BE FULFILLED. AND IF IT'S NOT FULFILLED YET, IT'S
• 1:21:17
  COMING. COME ON. IF IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET, IT'S GOING TO
• 1:21:21
  HAPPEN. I NEED NOTHING BECAUSE GOD WILL SUPPLY EVERYTHING I
• 1:21:28
  NEED. NOW THAT IS A GROWTH POINT THAT EVERY CHRISTIAN MUST COME
• 1:21:35
  INTO. LOOK AT VERSE FIVE. NOW HERE'S THE THING. SOMETIMES WHEN
• 1:21:42
  WE GO THROUGH TRIALS, WE HAVE TO MAKE DECISIONS, RIGHT? OKAY. THE
• 1:21:46
  DOCTOR'S TELLING YOU, YOU NEED TO TAKE THIS. YOU NEED TO HAVE
• 1:21:49
  THAT PROCEDURE. YOU GOT TO KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT SO-AND-SO. YOU
• 1:21:54
  GOT TO FIGURE OUT, ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO MAKE A PHONE CALL?
• 1:21:58
  YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE DECISION THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO MAKE?
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  'CAUSE A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE'RE FACING SOMETHING, WE'RE FACED
• 1:22:04
  WITH DECISIONS. YOU KNOW, HAND OUT PINK SLIPS AT WORK, TELLING
• 1:22:07
  THEY'RE GONNA LAY OFF PEOPLE. THEN YOU'RE FACED WITH A
• 1:22:10
  DECISION. WHERE DO I GO START LOOKING FOR A JOB? OKAY, AND SO
• 1:22:14
  WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE RASH DECISIONS, DO WE? WE WANT TO
• 1:22:17
  MAKE SPIRIT-LED CHOICES. WE WANT TO DO THINGS ACCORDING TO THE
• 1:22:22
  WAY GOD WOULD WANT US TO DO IT. I THINK THAT'S THE HEART OF
• 1:22:24
  EVERY BELIEVER. HE SAID, SO WHEN YOU'RE IN A TRIAL, YOU'RE IN
• 1:22:30
  THESE DIVERSE THINGS WE GO THROUGH. AND BY THE WAY, THEY'RE
• 1:22:33
  NEVER ONE AND DONE. WE WILL FACE THE TRIALS OF LIFE FROM NOW
• 1:22:38
  UNTIL WE GO TO HEAVEN. AND AGAIN, NOT OUR CHOICE, RIGHT?
• 1:22:43
  SOME OF THEM ARE OUR CHOICES. OKAY. WE SPOKE THEM INTO
• 1:22:46
  EXISTENCE. SOME OF THEM ARE THE WAY OTHER PEOPLE BEHAVE, AND
• 1:22:49
  SOME ARE JUST BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A FALLEN WORLD. I'VE TAUGHT ON
• 1:22:52
  THAT BEFORE. BUT IF ANY OF YOU ARE IN A PLACE, YOU GOTTA MAKE A
• 1:22:55
  CHOICE. YOU GOTTA DECIDE SOME THINGS. IF ANY OF YOU LACK
• 1:22:58
  WISDOM, LET HIM ASK OF GOD. YOU KNOW, ONE THING I PRAY ON A
• 1:23:03
  REGULAR BASIS, AND I'M LEARNING THIS MORE AND MORE IN MY LIFE,
• 1:23:06
  WHEN WE'RE FACED WITH THINGS, WHEN WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE
• 1:23:09
  BUILDING OF THE TABERNACLE, OR MAKING CHOICES, YOU KNOW, WE'RE
• 1:23:13
  HAVING TO BELIEVE FOR FINANCES, RIGHT? THIS HAS BEEN LIKE THE
• 1:23:16
  WHOLE OF OUR MINISTRY. AND WE'RE HAVING TO BELIEVE GOD. YOU KNOW,
• 1:23:20
  I DON'T LET FINANCIAL LACK KEEP ME UP AT NIGHT. I'M TELLING YOU.
• 1:23:24
  AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, THE FINANCES OF THE CHURCH HAVE BEEN
• 1:23:26
  LESS THAN THEY WERE WHEN WE BUILT THE TABERNACLE. AND PEOPLE
• 1:23:29
  THINK, WELL, YOU GET A BILL AND IT'S ALL GOOD. WE'RE THE
• 1:23:32
  ECONOMY, WHATEVER. LISTEN, I'VE BEEN HERE, DONE THAT, WORE THE
• 1:23:35
  SHIRT. I DON'T STAY UP AT NIGHT WONDERING HOW TO PAY THE BILLS.
• 1:23:40
  I'M TELLING YOU, OKAY? I DISCIPLINED THAT A LONG TIME
• 1:23:44
  AGO, OKAY? AND I FOUND THAT IT'S SO MUCH BETTER TO GO TO BED AND
• 1:23:47
  GET A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP, OKAY? EIGHT HOURS IS WAY BETTER THAN
• 1:23:51
  FOUR. BUT IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, ASK GOD. I MAKE THE
• 1:23:59
  HABIT, LORD, NOW I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THAT. I'M
• 1:24:02
  ASKING YOU TO SHOW US AND GIVE US SOME DIRECTION. IT'S BEEN
• 1:24:07
  PROBABLY RARE THAT I'VE EVER HAD SOMETHING COME AT US AUDIBLE.
• 1:24:13
  IT'S NOT LIKE EVERY TIME I SAY, YOU KNOW, LORD, I JUST NEED THE
• 1:24:15
  WISDOM, THE GUY'S LIKE, GO DOWN THAT STREET, TURN ON THE LEFT,
• 1:24:18
  GO DOWN OVER THERE AND THERE'LL BE SOMEBODY THAT'LL GIVE YOU $5
• 1:24:21
  MILLION. I'VE NEVER HAD IT LIKE THAT, OKAY? BUT HE WILL GIVE YOU
• 1:24:26
  WISDOM IF YOU INCLUDE HIM IN THE CONVERSATION. ALL THY WAYS
• 1:24:30
  ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, HE'LL DIRECT YOUR PATH. ASK OF GOD WHO WILL
• 1:24:33
  GIVE TO ALL MEN FREELY. OKAY, NOW WISDOM, I FOUND OUT, DOES
• 1:24:39
  NOT COME SOMETIMES IN AN OBVIOUS WAY. MOST OF THE TIME YOU HAVE
• 1:24:46
  TO KIND OF LIKE STEP FORWARD. I MEAN, SOME THINGS ARE REALLY
• 1:24:48
  OBVIOUS. YOU KNOW, IF SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, YOU FIND SOMEBODY HURT
• 1:24:52
  AND THEY NEED AN AMBULANCE, OKAY, IT'S A NO-BRAINER, YOU
• 1:24:54
  CALL 911, IT'S NOT HARD. BUT THERE'S SOME THINGS WE DON'T
• 1:24:58
  KNOW THE ANSWER. SO WE MAKE A STEP IN THAT DIRECTION. AND AS
• 1:25:02
  LONG AS YOU'RE SAYING, GOD, GIVE ME WISDOM, AND YOU'RE NOT DOING
• 1:25:06
  IT OUT OF FEAR. THIS IS THE KEY. SOMETIMES WE CALL SO AND SO CUZ
• 1:25:11
  WE'RE SCARED, OKAY? WE FREAK OUT BECAUSE, AND SO WE REACT RATHER
• 1:25:18
  THAN RESPOND IN FAITH. IF YOU LACK WISDOM, PASTOR AND I, WE
• 1:25:22
  SIT DOWN AND WE SAY, NOW LORD, GIVE US WISDOM, HELP US TO MAKE
• 1:25:24
  THE RIGHT DECISIONS TODAY. I'M ASKING YOU TO SHOW US, WE'RE ON
• 1:25:28
  A PROGRAM OR WE HAVE TO GO TO, OR WE'RE WORKING ON A PROJECT
• 1:25:32
  FOR THE CHURCH, LORD. I'M ASKING YOU TO SHOW US, WHAT IS OUR NEXT
• 1:25:35
  STEP? WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO? WE DON'T WANT TO STEP OUT IN
• 1:25:38
  THE FLESH. AND HE SAID, GOD WILL GIVE WISDOM TO ALL MEN
• 1:25:42
  LIBERALLY. MOST OF THE TIME, THE WISDOM THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED
• 1:25:45
  FROM GOD, I'M GONNA TELL YOU, WHEN WE FIRST BOUGHT THIS
• 1:25:48
  BUILDING, YOU COULDN'T MAKE THIS UP IF YOU TRIED. BUT I BELIEVE
• 1:25:53
  THIS PRAYER CAME TO PASS THIS WHOLE PROPERTY. WHEN WE FIRST
• 1:25:55
  STARTED THE CHURCH, PASTOR WAS OUT LOOKING FOR LAND. LIKE WE
• 1:26:01
  WANNA BUILD A BUILDING. SOME OF YOU GO BACK FAR ENOUGH TO
• 1:26:03
  REMEMBER ALL THOSE DAYS, LOOKING FOR PROPERTY. LIKE HE GOES, I
• 1:26:06
  HATE THIS PLAZA. IT'S THE UGLIEST PLACE IN THE WORLD. THE
• 1:26:09
  PARKING LOT'S FULL OF HOLES. THERE'S BIRDS NESTING IN THE
• 1:26:12
  ROOF. I DON'T WANNA BE IN HERE. AND HE SAID, NOBODY WANTS TO
• 1:26:17
  COME TO THIS CHURCH BECAUSE IT'S UGLY. AND SO WE WENT AROUND, WE
• 1:26:21
  DROVE ALL OVER THE PLACE, LOOKED IN FARM FIELDS, LOOKING FOR
• 1:26:25
  PLACES WE COULD BUILD A BUILDING. WE LOOKED FOR OTHER
• 1:26:27
  BUILDINGS. WE DID ALL THE THINGS. BUT ONE THING WE ALWAYS
• 1:26:29
  PRAYED WAS, LORD, GIVE US THE WISDOM. AND SO NOTHING WOULD
• 1:26:34
  EVER SHOW UP. AND SO THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD EVER COME UP IS
• 1:26:37
  THERE'D BE ANOTHER TENANT THAT WOULD MOVE OUT OF THIS BUILDING
• 1:26:40
  AND A SPACE WOULD GO UP FOR LEASE. SO WE'RE LIKE, WELL, WE
• 1:26:43
  NEED A SPACE FOR THE YOUTH, LORD. I GUESS IF IT'S A GOOD
• 1:26:47
  DEAL, WE'LL, WE'LL RENT THE SPACE FOR THE YOUTH. AND SO THEN
• 1:26:49
  WE'D ADD ANOTHER SPACE FOR THE YOUTH AND THEN ANOTHER SPACE
• 1:26:53
  WOULD COME UP AND WE BUST A HOLE IN THE WALL. PAUL BLACKBURN WAS
• 1:26:56
  A PART OF A LOT OF THOSE. I THINK YOU BUSTED HOLES FOR THIS
• 1:26:58
  CHURCH PROBABLY MORE THAN ANYBODY IN HERE. AND I MEAN,
• 1:27:02
  BACK THEN WE PAINTED IT OURSELF. WE BUILT IT OURSELF. WE PUT
• 1:27:06
  STUFF UP, TORE STUFF DOWN, CHANGED CEILING TILES. MARK, YOU
• 1:27:10
  WOULD HAVE SEEN THE DAY, I'M TELLING YOU. I
• 1:27:13
  MEAN, SO, AND ANOTHER SPACE WOULD COME OPEN, ANOTHER WOULD
• 1:27:18
  COME OPEN. AND FINALLY ONE DAY, THE LANDLORD OR THE OWNER AT
• 1:27:21
  THAT TIME, THEY CAME TO US AND THEY SAID, IF YOU LEAVE HERE,
• 1:27:25
  CUZ PASTOR WAS STILL LIKE, I MEAN, I THINK BY THEN WE HAD 20
• 1:27:28
  SOMETHING THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OF THE WHOLE BUILDING. AND HE
• 1:27:31
  FINALLY SAID, "IF YOU LEAVE HERE, "YOU'RE GONNA LEAVE THIS
• 1:27:34
  HUGE HOLE." I MEAN, 'CAUSE IT WAS THE LEGO CHURCH. I MEAN, YOU
• 1:27:39
  GO TO THE SOUTH END OF THE BUILDING, I MEAN, IT GOES THIS
• 1:27:41
  WAY AND THIS WAY AND THAT, AND NOBODY COULD ROB IT. THEY WOULD
• 1:27:44
  NEVER KNOW HOW TO GET OUT. I MEAN, IT'S CRAZY, IT'S CRAZY.
• 1:27:48
  I'M LIKE, WE HAVE BUILT-IN SECURITY. IT'S LIKE A CORNFIELD
• 1:27:51
  GOING THROUGH HERE. YOU CAN'T FIND WHAT DOOR OPENS, AND THEN
• 1:27:54
  IF IT CLOSES, IT LOCKS. YOU'RE IN BIG TROUBLE IF YOU DIDN'T
• 1:27:58
  HAVE YOUR KEY THAT DAY. AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE DAYS OF THE FOBS,
• 1:28:02
  PASTOR MARK. WE HAD TO HAVE THE KEYS TO ALL THE DOOR. PASTOR
• 1:28:07
  TOM, WHO'S IN HEAVEN NOW, ALIVE AT THAT TIME, WENT AROUND WITH A
• 1:28:11
  RING OF KEYS. AND WE HAD A BIG RING, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US. IT
• 1:28:16
  WAS LIKE A MIRACLE THE DAY WE FINALLY HAD A MASTER KEY. I
• 1:28:20
  MEAN, LIKE EVERY DOOR HAD A DIFFERENT LOCK. IT WAS A
• 1:28:23
  DISASTER. AND I'M LIKE, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT EVEN WORRIED ABOUT
• 1:28:27
  A SECURITY SYSTEM. LES, WE DIDN'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. THE
• 1:28:30
  ROBBER COULDN'T GET IN AND HE COULDN'T DEFINITELY NOT FIND HIS
• 1:28:33
  WAY OUT. IT'S CRAZY. YOU KNOW, AND IF HE DID GET STUCK IN HERE,
• 1:28:38
  HE'D HEAR THE PIGEONS UP TOP. DUH, DUH, DUH, DUH, DUH, DUH,
• 1:28:40
  DUH, DUH, DUH. I MEAN, IT WAS LIKE HAUNTING. BUT YOU KNOW,
• 1:28:47
  LITTLE BY LITTLE, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW,
• 1:28:50
  THEN THE OWNER SAID, "WILL YOU COME AND BUY THIS?" AND THEN WE
• 1:28:53
  THOUGHT, "WELL, IF WE'RE GOING TO BUY IT, WE SHOULD AT LEAST
• 1:28:55
  SEE IF WE CAN BUILD A BIGGER SANCTUARY BECAUSE THIS ONE'S
• 1:28:57
  SMALL." AND THAT WAS THE OLD SANCTUARY BACK THEN, WHICH
• 1:29:01
  HAS... THAT EVEN GREW A FEW TIMES. AND SO WE GOT AN INITIAL
• 1:29:04
  PLAN TO BUILD A TABERNACLE. IT WASN'T EVEN NEAR AS NICE AS THIS
• 1:29:08
  ONE. IT WAS MUCH MORE CUT BACK. AND THEN THE NEXT THING YOU
• 1:29:12
  KNOW, THE REST IS HISTORY. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE PIZZA
• 1:29:14
  BUILDING AND ALL THE THINGS THAT, WE COULDN'T HAVE MADE THAT
• 1:29:16
  UP IF WE TRIED. IF YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME, YOU'RE GONNA SIT
• 1:29:19
  DOWN HERE, THE FIRST TIME WE RENTED A SPACE IN THIS PROPERTY,
• 1:29:23
  AND FOR 500 A MONTH, IT WAS 3,800 SQUARE FEET. IF YOU'RE
• 1:29:26
  GONNA TELL ME ALL OF THIS WOULD HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN HERE, I
• 1:29:28
  WOULD SAY THAT'S AN IMPOSSIBLE. OKAY, BUT IF YOU ASK GOD FOR
• 1:29:32
  WISDOM, GOD, HELP ME KNOW WHAT TO DO. HELP ME. AND GOD IS UP
• 1:29:40
  THERE, AND IT'S NOT LIKE ONE, NOT ONE TIME DID WE HAVE A
• 1:29:43
  VISION, LIKE, "OH, YOU'RE GONNA BUST IN THAT, YOU SHOULD WALK
• 1:29:45
  OVER THERE AND RENT THAT EXTRA SPACE, AND GO OUT AND KNOCK OUT
• 1:29:48
  THE WALL AND CALL PAUL AND DO THE..." NONE OF THAT. WE HAD NO,
• 1:29:52
  LIKE, OPEN VISION OR AN ANGEL APPEARING. OKAY?
• 1:30:01
  AND LO AND BEHOLD, HERE WE STAND. IF THIS ISN'T A TESTAMENT
• 1:30:06
  TO WHAT GOD CAN DO IF YOU TRUST HIM. AND DON'T GET FREAKED OUT.
• 1:30:11
  GIVE TO ALL MEN, IN FACT, THE FIRST LOAN WE TRIED TO GET TO
• 1:30:14
  BUY THE BUILDING, WE GOT TURNED DOWN. I'M TELLING YOU, GOD KNOWS
• 1:30:19
  WHAT HE'S DOING. GIVE TO ALL MEN LIBERALLY AND ABRADE, HE'LL DO
• 1:30:24
  IT WITHOUT REBUKE. HE KNOWS YOU'RE TRYING TO TRUST. IF YOU
• 1:30:28
  STAY IN FAITH, USE SELF-CONTROL. AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN HIM. GOD
• 1:30:33
  WAS GIVING WISDOM AND WE DIDN'T KNOW IT. THAT'S THE THING,
• 1:30:37
  RIGHT? ALL RIGHT, LET ME READ THE LAST PART. I SAID WE'D GET
• 1:30:41
  OUT EARLY, BUT I JUST CAN'T BE QUIET. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
• 1:30:47
  "IT SHALL BE, BUT LET HIM ASK IN FAITH WITHOUT WAVERING."
• 1:30:53
  SOMEBODY ASKED US ONE TIME, THEY SAID, "WELL, WHAT DO YOU DO TO
• 1:30:56
  NAVIGATE "THESE 30 YEARS OF MINISTRY?" I SAID, "WELL, I
• 1:30:59
  DON'T EXACTLY KNOW. "I MEAN, WE MADE A LOT OF MISTAKES ALONG THE
• 1:31:01
  WAY, "BUT I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING PASTOR AND I "HAVE ALWAYS
• 1:31:03
  TRIED TO DO IS DO OUR BEST "TO KEEP OUR MOUTH STRAIGHT AND
• 1:31:07
  FILLED WITH FAITH." AND THERE WERE PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY TO
• 1:31:10
  NOT HAVE THAT. SO, IT SAID, "LET HIM ASK IN FAITH, WITHOUT ANY
• 1:31:16
  WAVERING," I THINK THIS VERSE SHOULD SPEAK FOR ITSELF, "FOR HE
• 1:31:20
  THAT WAVERS IS LIKE THE WAVE OF THE SEA, DRIVEN WITH THE WIND
• 1:31:24
  AND TOSSED." I WONDER IF THAT'S WHY JESUS WAS ASLEEP ON THE
• 1:31:27
  PILLOW. HE'D BE LIKE, "LET THEM JUST ROCK BACK AND FORTH A
• 1:31:30
  LITTLE LONGER, 'CAUSE HE THAT WAVERS, THEIR BOAT'S GONNA GET
• 1:31:36
  FULL OF WATER. HE THAT WAVERS IS LIKE THE WAVE OF THE SEA DRIVEN
• 1:31:41
  BY THE WIND AND TOSSED ABOUT. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU END UP WITH NO
• 1:31:44
  DIRECTION. SO YOU KNOW, THE THING OF IT IS, THIS IS WHAT
• 1:31:47
  JAMES SAYS, IT SAYS YOU CAN'T HAVE BLESSING COMING OUT OF ONE
• 1:31:50
  SIDE OF YOUR MOUTH AND UNBELIEF OUT OF THE OTHER. OKAY? THEY
• 1:31:54
  DON'T MIX TOGETHER. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND I'VE DONE
• 1:31:58
  THIS TO MYSELF, COME ON, WE TORPEDO OUR OWN PRAYERS. OKAY?
• 1:32:04
  HOW MANY PEOPLE TORPEDO, THEY GET IN A PRAYER LINE AND TORPEDO
• 1:32:08
  IT BY WHAT GETS SAID WHEN THEY STEP OUTSIDE IN THE PARKING LOT.
• 1:32:13
  NOTHING WAVERING, HE THAT WAVERS IS TOSSED AROUND. HE HAS NO
• 1:32:17
  DIRECTION. IN OTHER WORDS, THAT'S WHY ISRAEL STAYED AT ZERO
• 1:32:22
  FOR 40 YEARS. LET NOT THAT MAN THINK, YOU CAN STAND TO YOUR
• 1:32:27
  FEET, THINK THAT HE SHALL RECEIVE ANYTHING. COME ON, IS
• 1:32:33
  ANYTHING ANYTHING? ANYTHING FROM THE LORD. AND I WROTE THIS IN MY
• 1:32:41
  LITTLE MARGIN HERE IN MY BIBLE. I MEAN, I'VE GOT SO MANY NOTES
• 1:32:45
  ON THIS PAGE, CHECK IT OUT. IT'S GONNA FALL OUT SOON. THERE'S SO
• 1:32:52
  MUCH GOOD STUFF IN HERE. LOOK, AND SO I WROTE IN HERE IN MY
• 1:32:57
  LITTLE SPACE, THAT MEANS YOU GET NO RESULTS. I THOUGHT, LORD, I
• 1:33:05
  DON'T WANT THAT TO BE ME. I WANT TO HAVE RESULTS, OKAY? I WANT TO
• 1:33:11
  WALK OUT THESE THINGS SO THAT I CAN LIVE IN THE RESULTS FOR A
• 1:33:15
  DOUBLE-MINDED PERSON. FAITH, FAITH, FAITH, UNBELIEF,
• 1:33:19
  UNBELIEF, UNBELIEF, OKAY? OKAY, WE COME IN, OH YES, LORD, YOU'RE
• 1:33:26
  GONNA HEAL ME. I THANK YOU FOR MY HEALING. AND BOOM, WE COME
• 1:33:30
  IN, OH, THESE KNEES. AND GOD'S LIKE, I'M NOT UNDOING IT. NOW,
• 1:33:40
  PASTOR BRENDA, WELL, I FEEL LIKE I HAVE BEEN IN FAITH. I'VE BEEN
• 1:33:43
  SPEAKING, I'VE BEEN DECLARING. WELL, ALL I'M SAYING, I DON'T
• 1:33:47
  FOLLOW YOU AROUND, BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IS IF YOU PUT THE WORD TO
• 1:33:52
  WORK, THE WORD IS TRUE. I TOLD GOD A LONG TIME AGO, NOT ONE
• 1:33:57
  TIME WILL I LOOK AT ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN HEREIN.
• 1:34:00
  YOU SAID THE ANGELS OF THE LORD ARE ENCAMPED ROUND ABOUT ME THAT
• 1:34:04
  I CANNOT EVEN DASH MY FOOT AGAINST A STONE. WELL, PASTOR
• 1:34:07
  BRENDA, IN 2023, YOU WERE IN A SERIOUS CAR WRECK. I DON'T KNOW
• 1:34:10
  WHY THAT HAPPENED. I DON'T. GOD PRESERVED MY LIFE. THAT'S ALL I
• 1:34:16
  KNOW. AND THAT DOES NOT MAKE THE WORD OF GOD UNFAITHFUL. WE GOTTA
• 1:34:24
  GET THAT DOWN, 'CAUSE THAT WOULD BE LIKE TELLING THE DIVINE THAT
• 1:34:27
  HE LIED. SO, NO RESULTS. LET NOT THAT PERSON THAT'S MIXING FAITH,
• 1:34:35
  UNBELIEF, NEGATIVE WITH PRAYER, THINK THEY'LL RECEIVE ANYTHING
• 1:34:40
  OF THE LORD. FOR A DOUBLE-MINDED PERSON IS UNSTABLE. THIS IS THE
• 1:34:47
  LAST PART I'LL LEAVE YOU WITH. I'LL PUT IT UP, MAKE SURE THEY
• 1:34:51
  CAN SEE IT. A DOUBLE-MINDED PERSON OR MAN IS UNSTABLE IN A
• 1:34:56
  FEW OF HIS WAYS. THAT HIT ME. THAT MEANS IN EVERYTHING YOU
• 1:35:02
  WILL WALK IN SPIRITUAL INSTABILITY. THINK ABOUT THAT.
• 1:35:06
  AND I'M LIKE, NO, THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE ME. COUNT IT ALL JOY
• 1:35:12
  WHEN YOU FALL INTO A TEST OR A TRIAL, 'CAUSE NOW YOU HAVE AN
• 1:35:16
  OPPORTUNITY TO DISCIPLINE YOUR HEAD AND USE IT AS ANOTHER
• 1:35:21
  STRIPE IN YOUR BELT TO WALK IN FAITH AND SEE A VICTORY IN JESUS
• 1:35:25
  NAME. AMEN, DID YOU GET SOMETHING OUT OF THAT TONIGHT?
• 1:35:28
  ALL RIGHT, GO HOME AND HAVE A FROZEN PIZZA. GOD BLESS YOU,
• 1:35:32
  THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOU THAT JOINED US. GOOD NIGHT.