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Stay Quiet After Disrespect, Your Silence Is Your Strength T.D. Jakes Purpose and Power · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Before I say another word, let me tell you something real.
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  Speaker 1: This message is not for the faint of heart. It's
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  Speaker 1: not for the petty, the prideful, or the easily provoked.
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  Speaker 1: This word is for the called, for the anointed, for
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  Speaker 1: those who have been disrespected, dismissed, and lied on, but
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  Speaker 1: didn't clap back because deep down you knew your destiny
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  Speaker 1: was louder than their disrespect. I came to tell somebody
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  Speaker 1: in this room, the enemy wants your reaction because your reaction.
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  Speaker 2: It's a distraction.
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  Speaker 1: He knows if he can get you to fight small battles,
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  Speaker 1: you'll never reach your big breakthrough. So today I'm not
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  Speaker 1: just preaching a sermon. I'm delivering a strategy. I'm giving
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  Speaker 1: you spiritual keys that will unlock doors your anger could
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  Speaker 1: never open. If you've ever been overlooked, if you've ever
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  Speaker 1: had to bite your tongue until it bled, if you've
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  Speaker 1: ever walked away from disrespect with tears in your eyes
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  Speaker 1: but fire in your spirit, then this word is for you.
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  Speaker 2: Stay in your seat lean in close.
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  Speaker 1: Because what I'm about to say next might just save
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  Speaker 1: your voice your peace and your purpose you see too
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  Speaker 1: many people confuse silence with surrender they think if you
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  Speaker 1: don't answer back if you don't retaliate if you don't
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  Speaker 1: come down to their level it must mean you're afraid
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  Speaker 1: or worse, that you're weak. But let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: It takes real strength to stay silent when your pride
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  Speaker 1: is screaming to speak. It takes strength to hold your
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  Speaker 1: peace when your flesh is ready to throw words like stones.
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  Speaker 1: It takes strength to be still when everything in you
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  Speaker 1: wants to set the record straight. But silence is not absence.
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  Speaker 1: Silence is not void. Silence is not weakness. Silence is
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  Speaker 1: discipline swinging every shadow. You were never meant to waste
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  Speaker 1: your oil on dry ground. The enemy knows he can't
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  Speaker 1: stop your calling, but he'll try to distract your character.
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  Speaker 1: He knows your future is anointed, so he sends disrespect
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  Speaker 1: as bait. He uses offense as a trap, hoping you'll
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  Speaker 1: throw away your peace for a moment of pride. But
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  Speaker 1: when you stay quiet, when you learn how to rise
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  Speaker 1: above the noise, You frustrate the enemy. You confuse your critics.
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  Speaker 1: You protect your purpose. You've got to learn how to
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  Speaker 1: be secure enough to walk away without explaining yourself. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to know that silence can't be misquoted. That quiet
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean defeat. It means you've chosen not to fight
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  Speaker 1: battles that God never told you to enter. Let them talk.
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  Speaker 1: Let them assume, let them lie. Because at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, their words are just wind. And you've
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  Speaker 1: got a rock solid foundation that doesn't shift with every storm.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are praying for peace, but God is
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  Speaker 1: waiting for you to choose it. Peace doesn't always show
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  Speaker 1: up wrapped in comfort. It comes when you choose not
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  Speaker 1: to react. When you decide not to let their fire
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  Speaker 1: burn your focus. When you sit in the stillness and
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  Speaker 1: trust that God sees all, hears all.
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  Speaker 2: And judges all I know it hurts I know.
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  Speaker 1: The disrespect cuts deep I know your flesh wants justice
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  Speaker 1: wants revenge want to put them in their place but
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  Speaker 1: hear me don't let a moment of emotion rob you
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  Speaker 1: of your eternal elevation you're going somewhere they can't follow
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  Speaker 1: you're being called higher and higher places require quieter spirits
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  Speaker 1: have you ever noticed that eagles don't flop around in
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  Speaker 1: every fight They soar. They rise. They don't waste time
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  Speaker 1: chasing every crow that squawks at them. Silence is maturity.
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  Speaker 1: Silence is power under control. Because anybody can shout. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: can curse. Anybody can clap back. That don't take nothing
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  Speaker 1: but a bruised ego and a loud mouth. But it
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  Speaker 1: takes a person of character, a person of vision, a
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  Speaker 1: person of purpose to stand in the face of disrespect
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  Speaker 1: and choose stillness.
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  Speaker 2: Over strife.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you have been wasting your energy fighting battles
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  Speaker 1: that aren't worthy of your voice. You've been arguing with
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  Speaker 1: people who are committed to misunderstanding you. You've been lowering
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  Speaker 1: yourself just to prove a point. There's someone who is
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  Speaker 1: never trying to understand it. And every time you do that,
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  Speaker 1: you drain yourself. You step down from the high place
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  Speaker 1: God called you to. You let your emotions hijack your destiny.
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  Speaker 1: You were never meant to bark back at every voice
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  Speaker 1: that barks at you. You were never meant.
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  Speaker 2: They ascend.
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  Speaker 1: And in their ascent, the air gets too thin for
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  Speaker 1: the crow to survive. That's what God is doing with you.
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  Speaker 1: He's raising you. And you can't take everybody with you.
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  Speaker 1: You can't respond to everybody. You can't explain yourself to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Your silence is a sign you've grown. It's a sign
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  Speaker 1: you trust God to fight the battles that aren't worth
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  Speaker 1: your breath. Because if they could kill your character with
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  Speaker 1: their comments, they would have already done it.
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  Speaker 2: But they can't.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't give you your identity and they can't take
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  Speaker 1: it away. You were crowned in silence. And you'll be
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  Speaker 1: protected in silence. So the next time disrespect knocks on
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  Speaker 1: your door, Don't open it with your mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Open it with your maturity.
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  Speaker 1: Let them see that what they try to destroy only
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  Speaker 1: deepen your discipline. That your silence is not your silence.
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  Speaker 2: It's your strategy.
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  Speaker 1: Because silence doesn't mean nothing is happening. Sometimes the most
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  Speaker 1: powerful things God does in your life are done in
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  Speaker 1: the quiet. While they're talking, God is building. While they're mocking,
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  Speaker 1: God is moving. While they're doubting, God is developing. So
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  Speaker 1: stay silent and let God speak. Let your silence be
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  Speaker 1: the loudest voice in the room. There comes a moment
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  Speaker 1: in your journey when you realize that not every battle
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  Speaker 1: is worth your energy. Not every insult deserves a reply.
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  Speaker 1: Not every challenge requires your engagement. You see, disrespect isn't
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  Speaker 1: always about you. It's often a reflection of what's broken
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  Speaker 1: in them. But if you're not careful, you'll let their
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  Speaker 1: brokenness break your peace. You'll let their storm drown your stillness.
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  Speaker 1: You'll let their noise distract you from your assignment. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the trick of the enemy. He sends chaos dressed
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  Speaker 1: up as confrontation. Hoping you come down off your wall
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  Speaker 1: to deal with it. He sends offense hoping to detour
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  Speaker 1: your obedience. Because the enemy knows... He doesn't need to
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  Speaker 1: destroy you. He just needs to distract you. If he
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  Speaker 1: can get you out of character, he can delay your calling.
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  Speaker 1: If he can get you to chase every bark, he
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  Speaker 1: can wear you out before you ever reach your breakthrough.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you are tired.
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  Speaker 1: Not because you're doing too much, but because you've allowed
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  Speaker 1: too much access. You've let too many people pull you
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  Speaker 1: into their mess, their drama, their bitterness. You've let people
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  Speaker 1: who don't know your heart define your response. But I
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  Speaker 1: hear God saying you don't have to fight every fire.
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  Speaker 1: Some flames burn out when you stop feeding them. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to learn how to protect your peace like it's
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  Speaker 1: a treasure because it is. You work too hard to
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  Speaker 1: get here. You've cried too many nights. You've prayed through
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  Speaker 1: too many storms. You survived too many setbacks to let
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  Speaker 1: someone's careless words pull you out of alignment with your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't come this far to trade your peace for
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  Speaker 1: their chaos. There is a calm that comes when you
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  Speaker 1: know who you are. There is a stillness that rises
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  Speaker 1: up in your spirit when you realize you're not obligated
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  Speaker 1: to respond to every accusation. You're not responsible for changing
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  Speaker 1: their mind. You're not called to convince people who are
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  Speaker 1: committed to misunderstanding you. Sometimes the most spiritual thing you
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  Speaker 1: can do is walk away. You've got to know when
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  Speaker 1: to be silent, not because you don't have a response,
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  Speaker 1: but because you've matured past the need to respond. That's
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  Speaker 1: not weakness, that's wisdom. That's not fear, that's focus, spirit.
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  Speaker 1: When you keep your peace, you keep your perspective. When
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  Speaker 1: you hold your peace... You hold your position. That's why
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  Speaker 1: the enemy keeps coming at you sideways because he knows
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  Speaker 1: if you ever stop reacting and start resting, if you
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  Speaker 1: ever stop clapping back and start listening to God, if
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  Speaker 1: you ever stop giving him your attention and start guarding
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  Speaker 1: your anointing, you'll become unstoppable. You'll walk in rooms with authority.
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  Speaker 1: You'll navigate criticism with grace. You'll move through conflict with confidence,
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  Speaker 1: not because you've mastered them, but because you've mastered you.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need to prove who you are to people
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  Speaker 1: who never had the capacity to recognize your worth. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need to respond to shade when you were made
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  Speaker 1: to shine. You don't have to swing at every insult.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you win by standing still. Let them talk. When
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was on trial, they lied on him. They mocked him.
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  Speaker 1: They accused him falsely. And the Bible says he answered
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  Speaker 1: them not a word.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because when you know your cross is ahead, you don't
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  Speaker 1: come down to argue with people at the gate. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't trade his peace for their chaos. He didn't trade
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  Speaker 1: his purpose for their pettiness. And neither should you. Stop
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  Speaker 1: letting people bait you into conversations. that cost you your
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  Speaker 1: clarity stop letting them draw you into arguments that god
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  Speaker 1: never told you to enter some folks thrive off chaos
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  Speaker 1: they stir it live in it feed on it and
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  Speaker 1: if you're not careful you'll become what you entertain You'll
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  Speaker 1: lose sight of your identity in the fog of their dysfunction.
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  Speaker 1: There's power in peace. Peace is your posture. Peace is
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  Speaker 1: your weapon. Peace is proof that you're not driven by ego,
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  Speaker 1: but led by.
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  Speaker 2: Let them rage. Let them lie. Let them post.
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  Speaker 1: Let them think they got the best of you, but
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  Speaker 1: you stay in peace. Let your peace preach louder than
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  Speaker 1: your pain. Let your peace tell the story. Let your
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  Speaker 1: peace say I'm not who I used to be. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not fighting the way I used to fight. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: reacting the way I used to react. I'm grown too
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  Speaker 1: much to go back and forth with people who have
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  Speaker 1: no idea where God has taken me.
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  Speaker 2: And hear me when I say this.
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  Speaker 1: The same peace that confused your enemy will comfort your spirit.
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  Speaker 1: The same peace that keeps you quiet will open doors
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  Speaker 1: that arguments never could. The same peace that helps you
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  Speaker 1: walk away will position you to walk away into the
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  Speaker 1: next level of what God has for you.
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  Speaker 2: So next time.
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  Speaker 1: Disrespect comes knocking, don't answer with your pride. Don't answer
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  Speaker 1: with your pain. Answer with your peace. Don't trade your
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  Speaker 1: crown for their chaos. There are some things your ego
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  Speaker 1: wants to fix, but only God can heal. There are
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  Speaker 1: some battles your pride wants to win, but only God
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  Speaker 1: can fight. And when you finally understand that, you'll stop
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  Speaker 1: rushing to respond and you'll start resting in God's authority
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  Speaker 1: you see silence isn't just self-control it's surrender it's saying
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  Speaker 1: god i trust you more than i trust my own
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  Speaker 1: reaction i trust your justice more than i trust my
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  Speaker 1: anger i trust your timing more than i trust my
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  Speaker 1: need to be understood that kind of trust doesn't come
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  Speaker 1: easy it comes through trials through heartbreak through disappointment Through
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  Speaker 1: moments where you were disrespected, dishonored and discarded and still
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  Speaker 1: chose not to retaliate. But that's where real growth happens.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the oil is pressed. Because every time you
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  Speaker 1: bite the tongue when you know you could tear them apart.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you choose silence when your name is being dragged.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you humble yourself and walk away instead of
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  Speaker 1: lashing out. You are choosing God over ego. You are
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  Speaker 1: placing the battle back into the hands of the one
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  Speaker 1: who never lost a fight. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: Vengeance feels good for a moment, but it empties your soul.
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  Speaker 1: You can win an argument and still lose your anointing.
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  Speaker 1: You can get the last word and still miss the
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  Speaker 1: deeper work God is trying to do in you.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes God allows.
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  Speaker 1: The disrespect not so you can rise up and defend yourself,
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  Speaker 1: but so he can see if you're mature enough to
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  Speaker 1: let him defend you.
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  Speaker 2: Do you trust him with that?
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  Speaker 1: Do you trust them when people lie on you, when
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  Speaker 1: they twist your words, when they steal your credit, when
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  Speaker 1: they dishonor your name in rooms? They're not even in.
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  Speaker 1: Can you trust them when your flesh is screaming, say something,
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  Speaker 1: do something, prove something? It's easy to trust God when
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  Speaker 1: everything's peaceful, when everybody's kind, when nobody's testing your limits.
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  Speaker 1: But trust gets real when silence feels like injustice, when
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  Speaker 1: turning the other cheek feels like defeat, when holding your
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  Speaker 1: peace feels like letting them win. But I came to
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  Speaker 1: tell you today, they didn't win because it's not about
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  Speaker 1: what they said. It's not about what they did. It's
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  Speaker 1: about what God is building in you. God is developing discipline.
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  Speaker 1: God is shaping your character. God is preparing you for
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  Speaker 1: elevation and elevation requires insulation. You can't go higher if
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  Speaker 1: everything shakes you down low. If you always have to
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  Speaker 1: clap back, if you always have to defend yourself, if
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  Speaker 1: you always need validation, you're just settled the score. He
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  Speaker 1: elevates you above the battle. He blesses you in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of your enemies. He turns what they meant for
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  Speaker 1: evil into a platform for your purpose. But you've got
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  Speaker 1: to be willing to step back and let him step in.
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  Speaker 1: Stop trying to fix with flesh what only faith can heal.
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  Speaker 1: Stop trying to force justice when God is writing a
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  Speaker 1: story that ends in your favor. You may not see
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  Speaker 1: it now, but there's a bigger picture unfolding. And if
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  Speaker 1: you jump in too soon with your emotions, you may
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  Speaker 1: interrupt what God is trying to finish. Some things are
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  Speaker 1: beneath your destiny. Some responses are too expensive. They'll cost
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  Speaker 1: you peace. They'll cost you focus. They'll cost you momentum.
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  Speaker 1: But when you choose stillness over shoutings, when you choose
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  Speaker 1: trust over tantrums, when you choose God over ego, then
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  Speaker 1: heaven fights for you.
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  Speaker 2: The door is open. Not free. You're still bound.
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  Speaker 1: But when you release the fight, when you release the offense,
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  Speaker 1: when you release the need to prove your worth, that's
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  Speaker 1: when you walk in power. That's when the enemy starts
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  Speaker 1: getting nervous. Because now he sees he can't provoke you
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  Speaker 1: the way he used to. He can't bait you with foolishness.
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  Speaker 1: He can't pull you into unnecessary warfare. Now you've matured
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  Speaker 1: to the point where you say, I don't need to
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  Speaker 1: fix this. God's got it. You don't have to shout
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  Speaker 1: to be strong. You don't have to poke the response
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  Speaker 1: to prove your position. Sometimes the most powerful move you
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  Speaker 1: can make is to say nothing and let God do everything.
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  Speaker 1: He sees what they did. He heard what they said.
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  Speaker 1: He knows what you've been through And he knows how
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  Speaker 1: to vindicate the righteous in ways no earthly retaliation ever could.
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  Speaker 1: When God defends you, he does. But no man can shut.
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  Speaker 1: Then peace floods your soul like a river. Not because
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  Speaker 1: the storm stopped, but because you did. Let God handle
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  Speaker 1: what your ego can't fix. Let him vindicate you. Let
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  Speaker 1: him prepare the table. Let him show your enemies... that
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  Speaker 1: the one they disrespected was the one he called. The
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  Speaker 1: battle is not yours. It belongs to the Lord. There's
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  Speaker 1: something sacred about silence when you understand your destiny. When
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  Speaker 1: you truly realize where God is taking you, you don't
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  Speaker 1: waste time reacting to what's behind you. You stop explaining
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  Speaker 1: yourself to people who don't even have the spiritual eyesight
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  Speaker 1: to see where you're headed. You stop entertaining nonsense when
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  Speaker 1: you've got an anointing on your life. You stop reacting
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  Speaker 1: to every ounce of disrespect because you recognize that your
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  Speaker 1: purpose is too precious to be delayed by petty to
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  Speaker 1: tell you today you are carrying something heavy, something divine,
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  Speaker 1: something eternal. God didn't deposit that vision, that gift, that
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  Speaker 1: fire in your soul just for you to be distracted
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  Speaker 1: by people who can't handle your calling. You're not just
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  Speaker 1: passing through this life. You've been assigned, appointed, positioned, marked
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  Speaker 1: by heaven. And the enemy knows that that's why the
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  Speaker 1: attacks are personal. That's why the disrespect cuts so deep.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the people you thought you could trust turn
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  Speaker 1: around and try to tear you down. The enemy isn't
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  Speaker 1: fighting you over where you are. He's fighting you over
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  Speaker 1: where you're going. He knows if you ever lock in,
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  Speaker 1: if you ever stop turning back to fight shadows, If
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  Speaker 1: you ever stop wasting your time explaining yourself to unqualified voices,
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  Speaker 1: then nothing will stop the power of God working through you.
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  Speaker 2: So what does he do?
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  Speaker 1: He sends distractions wrapped in disrespect. He sends detours packaged
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  Speaker 1: as drama. And if you're not discerning, you'll spend all
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  Speaker 1: your time defending the version of yourself that God is
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  Speaker 1: trying to evolve. You don't have to prove your worth
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  Speaker 1: to people who don't know you.