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KEEP IT MOVING! _ Bishop T.D. Jakes Powerful Sermon on Faith Over Fear & Gods Miracles · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Get your Bibles and go to the book of Exodus
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  Speaker 1: chapter number 4, it's 14, verse 4 through 9, and
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  Speaker 1: then we're going to skip down to 13 through 18.
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  Speaker 1: The book of Exodus chapter number 14, verse 4 through 9,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're going to go through 9 through 13.
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  Speaker 1: But before we read it, I want you to, if
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  Speaker 1: you can, in your mind, in your heart, in your spirit,
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  Speaker 1: in order to feel the impact of the text, once
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  Speaker 1: you have it, stand to your feet for the reading
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  Speaker 1: of the word. And after this, you can sit the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the time. I didn't tell you to wear
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  Speaker 1: them shoes. Don't blame me. Looking cute is expensive. Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to go back in your mind. I
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  Speaker 1: want to put the text in context. These are the
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  Speaker 1: people of God, but they haven't really been the people
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  Speaker 1: of God for a long time. They have been in
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  Speaker 1: captivity for 400 years in Egypt. They have been in
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  Speaker 1: Egypt 430 years. But the last 400 years they have
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  Speaker 1: been enslaved. Now we consider the fact that 40 years
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  Speaker 1: is typically in scriptures a generation. 10 generations are living
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  Speaker 1: off of the memory of God. There is some memory
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  Speaker 1: of God left because they knew enough about him after
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  Speaker 1: 10 generations to still call on him. But their faith
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  Speaker 1: and their theology and their understanding of God is diluted
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  Speaker 1: by time and polluted by association with the Egyptians. This
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  Speaker 1: is proven because later when they get in the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: and they try to build an image of God, they
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  Speaker 1: build the image of the Egyptians' God. Because who you
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  Speaker 1: hang out with does affect you. And yet with just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of faith that they had left enough
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  Speaker 1: to call on God by reason of the intense bondage
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  Speaker 1: that was placed on them, they cried unto God and
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  Speaker 1: God heard them. I'm so glad that you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be perfect or have everything right for God to
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  Speaker 1: hear you. You don't earn the right to be heard.
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  Speaker 1: God heard them. They were struggling, but God heard them.
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  Speaker 1: They were broken, but God heard them. They didn't even
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  Speaker 1: have full understanding of who he was, but God heard
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  Speaker 1: them and sent Moses to deliver them. Now Moses was
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  Speaker 1: somebody they should have known, but Moses has been on
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  Speaker 1: the backside of the desert for 40 years. So whereas
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  Speaker 1: the old people might have remembered him, The young people
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know who he was. And Moses has the
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  Speaker 1: responsibility of leading a people that he is kin to,
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  Speaker 1: but not familiar with.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now he is leading them out of bondage and away
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  Speaker 1: from Pharaoh. And they have told Pharaoh, let my people
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  Speaker 1: go that they may worship me in the wilderness. And
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  Speaker 1: as they began to leave, Pharaoh changed his mind. Uh-oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's right. And as they're trying to escape and they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to flee, Pharaoh now sets out to take them back.
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  Speaker 1: At least that. Maybe kill them. This is not a democracy.
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  Speaker 1: There are no court systems. There will be no litigation.
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  Speaker 1: They can't file charges. Whatever Pharaoh decides to do to
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  Speaker 1: them is done. So as they are fleeing and they
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  Speaker 1: sense Pharaoh coming, who knows what is going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: So as you step into this text, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to step into it as them. And then it will
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  Speaker 1: be my responsibility to make it relative to you. But
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  Speaker 1: you can't appreciate what the text means until you go
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  Speaker 1: back to the utter fear of leaving everything that is
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  Speaker 1: familiar and being on the run. The vulnerability of not
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  Speaker 1: being protected, having neither social or economic power or political
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  Speaker 1: status or a voice to fight back. And here comes
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  Speaker 1: a bigger force coming against you than you've ever had
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  Speaker 1: on 600 chosen chariots. And you walking. You can hear
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  Speaker 1: the hoof prints. Of the chariots of your past. About
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  Speaker 1: to overtake you. And they're on horseback. And you got
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  Speaker 1: on a pair of Nikes. That's what's going on in
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  Speaker 1: this text. Now put the text on the screen. Let's
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  Speaker 1: take a look at it. And God says and I
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  Speaker 1: will harden Pharaoh's heart. And he will pursue them. But
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  Speaker 1: I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all
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  Speaker 1: his army. And the Egyptians will know that I am
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. So the Israelites did this. When the king
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: and his officials changed their minds about them and said,
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  Speaker 1: What have we done? We have let the Israelites go
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  Speaker 1: and have lost their services. Wow. So he had his
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  Speaker 1: chariots made ready and took his army with him. He
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  Speaker 1: took 600 of the best chariots along with all the
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  Speaker 1: other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord, wait a minute. The Lord. The Lord hardened
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  Speaker 1: the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, so that he
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  Speaker 1: pursued the Israelites who were marching out boldly. The same
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  Speaker 1: God who told them to go hardened the heart of
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  Speaker 1: the one who's chasing them. Hmm. The Egyptians, all Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 1: horses and chariots, horsemen and troops, pursued the Israelites and
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  Speaker 1: overtook them as they camped by the sea of Pah. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: let me try it. Hagaroth, opposite Baal Zephon. That Hagaroth
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  Speaker 1: was hard. Especially on a few hours of sleep. Moses
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  Speaker 1: answered the people, do not be afraid. Stand firm and
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  Speaker 1: you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today.
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  Speaker 1: The Egyptians that you see today, you will never see again. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can stop right there. You can go home right there.
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  Speaker 1: The Egyptians that you see today, you will never see
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  Speaker 1: them again. Come on. The Lord will fight for you.
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  Speaker 1: You need only be still. Then the Lord said to Moses,
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  Speaker 1: why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites.
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  Speaker 1: Tell the Israelites to move on. Come on, give me
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  Speaker 1: the rest of it. Raise your staff and stretch out
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  Speaker 1: your hand over the sea to divide the water so
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  Speaker 1: that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
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  Speaker 1: I will harden the heart of the Egyptians so that
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  Speaker 1: they will go in after them. And I will gain
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  Speaker 1: glory through Pharaoh and all his army through his chariots
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  Speaker 1: and his horsemen. The Egyptians will know. They will know.
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  Speaker 1: that I am the Lord when I gain glory through
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh his chariots and his horsemen somebody say amen I
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  Speaker 1: want to use for a subject remain standing for just
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  Speaker 1: a few more minutes I want to use for a
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  Speaker 1: subject keep it moving because the Lord said tell Israel
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  Speaker 1: to move on But I'm scared Lord. Move on. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen. Move on. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm in danger Lord. Move on. But I'm feeling vulnerable Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Move on. How do you keep it moving when all
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  Speaker 1: hell is breaking loose in your life? How can God
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  Speaker 1: set this situation up and put me, if you love me,
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  Speaker 1: how could you put me in a situation like this?
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  Speaker 1: And you know I'm human and you know I'm scared.
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  Speaker 1: And yet you still say, move on. Look at your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor on your left and your right and say keep
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  Speaker 1: it moving I know the conditions are not everything that
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  Speaker 1: you want them to be. I know all the circumstances
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  Speaker 1: are not the way you would like for them to be.
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  Speaker 1: I know that there are impending dangers that threaten your progress.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you don't have the insurance of an outcome.
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  Speaker 1: And when you don't have insurance, it is difficult to
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  Speaker 1: have assurance. All you have is God's command in your
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  Speaker 1: life that God said, keep it moving. Let's pray about
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  Speaker 1: this and then we're going to talk about it. Father,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, we approach that throne, oh God,
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  Speaker 1: and we honor you and we bless your name because
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  Speaker 1: you are God. If you don't do anything, we still
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  Speaker 1: honor you just because you are God. And beside you,
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  Speaker 1: there is no other. Open up the volume of the
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  Speaker 1: book and speak to us in such a way, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that we understand more clearly your word, the profundity of
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  Speaker 1: your word, the relevance of your word, the power of
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  Speaker 1: your word, but most importantly, the spirit of your word.
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  Speaker 1: For what shall it profit us to understand the letter
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  Speaker 1: of your word and then fail to understand the spirit
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  Speaker 1: and the intent in which it is derived? Speak out
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  Speaker 1: of the volume of the book, oh God. Speak to
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  Speaker 1: us in such a way that we will have strength
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  Speaker 1: for the week. We call it done in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody shout amen. All right, you can sit down. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to get up till tomorrow. So I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the airport the other day and I ran into a
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  Speaker 1: fellow clergyman, a pastor here in the city. And we
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  Speaker 1: were exchanging pleasantries. How you doing? Hi, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: So forth and so on. And he said, I want
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  Speaker 1: to ask you a question. I said, OK. He said,
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  Speaker 1: how do you keep it fresh? He said, you always
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  Speaker 1: seem excited. You always got a fresh word. You're always
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  Speaker 1: going for it. He said, how do you keep it fresh?
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  Speaker 1: And I kind of didn't exactly know how to answer that.
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  Speaker 1: Because I hadn't really thought about it like that. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like I was trying to be fresh. Am I fresh?
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  Speaker 1: It's not like I get up in the morning and pray, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: help me to keep it fresh. And then my daughter
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  Speaker 1: texted me and she said, one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I admire about you is that you're never afraid to
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  Speaker 1: be a sophomore again. You know, she has a way
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  Speaker 1: of saying stuff that takes you into deep thought. A
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  Speaker 1: sophomore again, that you're not afraid to recreate yourself, that
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  Speaker 1: you're not afraid to be adventurous, that you're not afraid
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  Speaker 1: to be back at one again, like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
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  Speaker 1: 11 is one again on the next level. 21 is
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  Speaker 1: one again on the next level. 31 is one again
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  Speaker 1: on the next level. 41 is one again on the
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  Speaker 1: next level. 51 is one again on the next level.
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  Speaker 1: 61 is one again on the next level. And some
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  Speaker 1: people don't grow because they're not willing to give up
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  Speaker 1: the 10 to be one again. And if you're not
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  Speaker 1: willing to give up the 10, you'll stay where you
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  Speaker 1: are for the prestige of having reached 10. And not
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  Speaker 1: willing to go back to one again. You fail to
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  Speaker 1: grow to what your capacity was meant to be. Because
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to be a sophomore once you've been
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  Speaker 1: a senior. You don't want to say I don't know again.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to do anything that's out of your
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  Speaker 1: comfort zone again. You don't want to go into the
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  Speaker 1: unfamiliar again. And you stop growing because you stop going.
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  Speaker 1: In order to keep growing, you have to keep going.
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  Speaker 1: Are you following what I'm saying? And you cannot love
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  Speaker 1: the prestige of 10 to the degree that you fail
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  Speaker 1: to come to 11. 11 puts you in a room
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  Speaker 1: with 20s. And some people can't stand to be in
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  Speaker 1: a room with 20s once they have reached 10. They'd
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  Speaker 1: rather be a big fish in a small pond than
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  Speaker 1: to swim into a bigger stream and be surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: whales and sharks and dolphins and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They like image more than reality. Speaking of fish, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was reading this thing about, right now, salmon. And
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  Speaker 1: they were talking about how the polar bears are starving
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  Speaker 1: because we're eating up all their food. Salmon has become
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  Speaker 1: so popular all over the world that now when the
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  Speaker 1: polar bears get ready to fish for food and go eat,
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  Speaker 1: they can't eat the salmon that they normally eat because
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  Speaker 1: it's on all of our restaurant menus and it's all
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  Speaker 1: over the world. And I don't mean to make you
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  Speaker 1: feel guilty if you're eating salmon because I know you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to lose weight and all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I get it. But we're eating up the polar bears
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  Speaker 1: food and they were talking about salmon. But before salmon
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  Speaker 1: was so popular, it used to be cod. And everybody
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  Speaker 1: was eating cod. And cod was on the East Coast.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry, this doesn't sound like it has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with it, but it will in a minute. Cod
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  Speaker 1: was on the East Coast and people on the East
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  Speaker 1: Coast were all eating cod. And back then, in order
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  Speaker 1: to get it to the West Coast, because the West
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  Speaker 1: Coast started wanting dishes that were made from cod, they
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  Speaker 1: had to put it on train. And it took a
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  Speaker 1: long time to get it from the East Coast to
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  Speaker 1: the West Coast. So what they did, they started putting
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  Speaker 1: the cod on ice. But by the time they got
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  Speaker 1: it to the West Coast and tried to cook it,
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  Speaker 1: it had lost its taste and its texture. And it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't fresh. So they said, I tell you what we'll do.
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  Speaker 1: We won't. put it on ice, we'll leave them alive
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  Speaker 1: and we'll put them in big fish tanks and we'll
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  Speaker 1: send them on the train and they'll travel by train
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  Speaker 1: and then when they get them there, they'll be fresh
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  Speaker 1: and they did that and when they got there and
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  Speaker 1: they got ready to cook the cod, it still didn't
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  Speaker 1: taste right and the texture wasn't right. They couldn't find
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  Speaker 1: a way to ship it and get it to be fresh.
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  Speaker 1: Now I can understand why it wasn't fresh once it
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  Speaker 1: was frozen. But to be alive and not be fresh
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  Speaker 1: was confusing. Yeah, I'm back. How can you be alive
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  Speaker 1: and not be fresh? Traveling and not be fresh. Swimming
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  Speaker 1: and not be fresh. Raising a family and not be fresh.
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  Speaker 1: Look fresh, but not be fresh. Dress fresh, but not
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  Speaker 1: be fresh. Smell fresh, but not be fresh. When they
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  Speaker 1: tasted it, it wasn't fresh. So in a last ditch
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  Speaker 1: effort to try to fix the problem, they decided to
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  Speaker 1: put some catfish in the tank. Now catfish are natural
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  Speaker 1: predators to cod. And putting a few catfish in the
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  Speaker 1: tank meant that all the while they were traveling, the
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  Speaker 1: cod had to be on the run. And when they
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  Speaker 1: finally got them there this time, now they were still fresh.
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  Speaker 1: Because in order for the cod to be fresh, it
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  Speaker 1: had to be in an environment of catfish. Yes. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord knows exactly what kind of catfish to put in
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  Speaker 1: your life to keep you fresh. And even though fresh
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  Speaker 1: means being uncomfortable and even fresh means being on the
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  Speaker 1: run and being fresh means that you're being chased. I
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  Speaker 1: know you've been praying for a tank with no catfish.
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  Speaker 1: But God uses the catfish to keep you fresh. And
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  Speaker 1: if you think about it in your life, all your life,
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  Speaker 1: you've had something chasing you. You don't really pray right
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  Speaker 1: until something is after you. You don't really seek his
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  Speaker 1: face until something is out to you. You don't really
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  Speaker 1: call on his name until something is out to you.
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  Speaker 1: You don't really reach your potential of greatness until something
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  Speaker 1: is behind you saying you gotta go all the way.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta finish that class. You gotta graduate. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: get your degree. You gotta open up that business. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta make this marriage work. You gotta get this stuff together.
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  Speaker 1: It's not because you're always so happy with things. but
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  Speaker 1: it's them dadgum catfish. Shake hands with somebody and say,
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  Speaker 1: what are your catfish? Yeah. What are your, what are your,
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  Speaker 1: what are your catfish? Pharaoh was Israel's catfish. And God
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  Speaker 1: hardened his heart. So that they could see his glory.
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  Speaker 1: And he created the situation. To put them in a
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  Speaker 1: predicament that they couldn't get out of. So that they
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  Speaker 1: would know that it's not by might nor by power,
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  Speaker 1: but by my spirit, saith the Lord, that brings you
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  Speaker 1: out of every dungeon, every trap, every device that the
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  Speaker 1: enemy comes up against you. If you didn't have opposition,
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't have opposition, you would think you got
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  Speaker 1: there by yourself. But thank God for the catfish that
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  Speaker 1: lets you know. Can you imagine the utter terror of
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  Speaker 1: having a two-year-old in one hand and a newborn baby
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  Speaker 1: in your arms and being a slave on the run
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  Speaker 1: from a Pharaoh who doesn't just come after you, but
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  Speaker 1: he gets his best chariots. See, some of you are
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  Speaker 1: crying out in distress. But you have to understand, other
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  Speaker 1: people look at you and say you're whining. But they
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  Speaker 1: don't understand, you're not running from horses. You're running from
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  Speaker 1: 600 chosen chariots. Satan has shot his best shot trying
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  Speaker 1: to take you down. And you're not in trouble because
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  Speaker 1: you're weak. You're not in trouble because you're not consistent.
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  Speaker 1: You're in trouble because the enemy has loose assassins to
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  Speaker 1: utterly annihilate you. And you are in a fearful atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: And you're moving forward, but you're under attack. The train
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  Speaker 1: is still rolling, but the catfish are still nipping at you.
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  Speaker 1: You can see where you're gaining ground, but you keep
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  Speaker 1: looking back because you know that you got to keep
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  Speaker 1: moving because you got something chasing you. Somebody in this
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  Speaker 1: room has got a devil to fight. I know in
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  Speaker 1: the church inside, some people come because they got a
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  Speaker 1: nice dress to wear. And some people come because they're
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  Speaker 1: looking for a girlfriend. And some people come because they
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  Speaker 1: want to do business. But some of us are here
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  Speaker 1: because of the catfish. Some people are here because they're curious,
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  Speaker 1: but other people are here because you've got catfish chasing
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  Speaker 1: you and you're saying, give us this day our daily
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  Speaker 1: bread and forgive us our trespasses that we gave you.
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  Speaker 1: Those who trespass, lead us not into temptation. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, Lord, please deliver us from evil. These people
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  Speaker 1: are fleeing from oppression. And they're going where they've never
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  Speaker 1: been to do something that they have never done with
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  Speaker 1: someone leading them that they have never met. I've been
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  Speaker 1: here 10 years. I never shook your hand. Moses has
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  Speaker 1: been gone 40 years. It's not like he's been hanging
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  Speaker 1: out at Starbucks with these people. And they are up
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  Speaker 1: under his leadership. And he has led them to a
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  Speaker 1: scary place. I would like to submit for your consideration
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  Speaker 1: that you are not living until you have been living
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  Speaker 1: in a scary place. You don't know who you are
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  Speaker 1: until you've been in a scary place. You don't know
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  Speaker 1: what God can do until you've been in a scary place.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what faith is until you've been in
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  Speaker 1: a scary place. You don't know how powerful your God
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  Speaker 1: is until you've been in a scary place. Up until then,
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  Speaker 1: it's just religion and doctrine and theology. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: Women's Sunday and the Men's Sunday and the Cat Fry Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're in a scary place, it changes what
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  Speaker 1: church is. feels like to you because of the catfish
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  Speaker 1: which brings me to this whole fear that they had
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  Speaker 1: and what's funny here is the cohabitation of faith and
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  Speaker 1: fear They had enough faith to go so we can't
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  Speaker 1: say they didn't have faith. They packed up everything they
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  Speaker 1: had and left in the middle of the night at
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  Speaker 1: the dictates of the Holy Spirit to go someplace they've
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  Speaker 1: never been. That took faith. It took faith to go.
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  Speaker 1: And God brought them out. The death angel had passed
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  Speaker 1: through that night. And the Bible says that every house
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  Speaker 1: that didn't have blood on it, the death angel had
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  Speaker 1: stepped in and taken a son out of the house,
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  Speaker 1: a son out of the house. That's quite an offering.
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  Speaker 1: I might give you a chicken or something. But they
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  Speaker 1: had the faith to believe God to go. And they
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  Speaker 1: were doing real good until they ran into the fear factor.
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  Speaker 1: In President Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, he wrote
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  Speaker 1: a line that stays with me all the time. The
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  Speaker 1: presence of faith is not the absence of doubt. You
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  Speaker 1: have to think about that a minute. The presence of
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  Speaker 1: faith is not the absence of doubt. That doubt and
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  Speaker 1: faith can live in the same space. I believe you.
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  Speaker 1: but I'm worried. I trust you, but I'm nervous. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's going to be all right, but I'm still
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  Speaker 1: up at two o'clock in the morning. Now, this message
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  Speaker 1: is for the real people. Church people are not going
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  Speaker 1: to own up to the fact that there are some
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  Speaker 1: things that can happen to you. I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: many scriptures you know. I don't care how long you've
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  Speaker 1: been in church. I don't care if you can quote
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  Speaker 1: the entire New Testament. There are some things that can
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  Speaker 1: happen in your life that makes your heart start beating
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  Speaker 1: in your chest until it looks like your dress is jumping.
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  Speaker 1: And you do like Peter and you say,' Terrace thou
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  Speaker 1: not that we perish?' We like to think that people
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  Speaker 1: are good or evil and right and wrong or up
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  Speaker 1: and down. Believers are unbelievers, but the truth of the
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  Speaker 1: matter is believers have doubt. And they get scared sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we're not supposed to. But when you hear the
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  Speaker 1: hoof prints of Of something that you dreaded. That you
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  Speaker 1: had had 400 years of trauma with. And you finally
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  Speaker 1: thought you got away. And all of a sudden you
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  Speaker 1: hear the hoof prints of something trying to overtake you.
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  Speaker 1: That you have dedicated and risked everything in your life
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  Speaker 1: to escape. It's hard to be cool and scared. You
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  Speaker 1: can look cool. There are some people that can look
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  Speaker 1: like nothing bothers them. And you say, Lord, I wish
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  Speaker 1: I was more like them. Stop praying prayers where you
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  Speaker 1: wish you were more like people. Because you can't tell
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  Speaker 1: what's going on inside of me by looking at my face.
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  Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is, I can look cool
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  Speaker 1: and still be frightened out of my wits. Pharaoh had
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  Speaker 1: absolute power. He had no Congress. He had no Senate.
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  Speaker 1: He had no Supreme Court. He had nobody to check him.
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  Speaker 1: He could kill him. And absolute power produces absolute terror.
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  Speaker 1: If I know I'm totally at your mercy and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how things are going to end up, it's terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: I want to speak to your worry. I want to
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  Speaker 1: speak to your fear. I want to speak to your anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: I want to speak to the thing that speaks to
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  Speaker 1: you when church is over. I want to speak to
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  Speaker 1: the thing that's got you up at two o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. I want to speak to you about the
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  Speaker 1: thing that you can't speak to other people about. Because
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  Speaker 1: it's too personal, and it's too scary, and it's too dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't even want to talk about it, but
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  Speaker 1: it's chasing you around your tank. It's chasing you around
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  Speaker 1: your tank. Fear. I'm talking about real fear. I was
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  Speaker 1: in South Africa. I'm going to get back to you
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  Speaker 1: in a minute. I'm going to talk to you. I
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  Speaker 1: was in South Africa, and one of the brothers that
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  Speaker 1: was in South Africa is scared of monkeys. And the
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  Speaker 1: monkeys are all over the place in South Africa. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're eating breakfast out on the terrace or something
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  Speaker 1: like this, the monkey is waiting on you to move.
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  Speaker 1: Because they will come in and take your roll while
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  Speaker 1: before you can put butter on it they'll come in
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  Speaker 1: and take your roll and laugh at you I thought
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  Speaker 1: the monkeys was cute he was having a spasm and
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  Speaker 1: he said I'm scared of monkeys it didn't really bother
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  Speaker 1: me like that because I figured I'm bigger than the
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  Speaker 1: monkey And if it came down to it and we
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  Speaker 1: had to knuckle, I know it might not be Christian,
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  Speaker 1: but I will fight a monkey. Especially if I'm hungry,
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  Speaker 1: I will flat out punch a monkey. Uh-oh, the animal
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  Speaker 1: rights people are in here. Praise for my strength in
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the Lord. If you're not paying for that breakfast, put
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  Speaker 1: my roll down. That's where I was about it. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: would have been reading about me in the South African
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  Speaker 1: telegram where your pastor punched out a monkey over a road.
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  Speaker 1: So I wasn't scared of the monkey. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: were cute. But I am scared of some things. And
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  Speaker 1: just because I'm not scared of what you're scared of
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean... that your fear is not real. Because everybody's
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  Speaker 1: scared of something. I looked like a hero in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'll protect you. I said, the monkey wasn't
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  Speaker 1: but that big. It wasn't like it was a gorilla
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  Speaker 1: or nothing like that. That would have changed. I would
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  Speaker 1: have took this out of the sermon. I wouldn't even.
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  Speaker 1: Fear does stuff to the body. Living under constant fear,
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  Speaker 1: though it is an emotion, it actually takes toll on
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  Speaker 1: the body. It affects your physical health. It even weakens
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: your immune system. Affects your digestive tract. Does damage to
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  Speaker 1: your cardiovascular system. Fear does stuff that doctors can detect
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  Speaker 1: in the body that you have no reason to be
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  Speaker 1: sick and yet your body is responding to something that
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  Speaker 1: the doctor cannot detect. They're just seeing the effects of
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  Speaker 1: fear on the body. Irritable bowel syndrome, all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: stuff happening to you. Decreased fertility because you're afraid. Because
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  Speaker 1: your body is taking all of your blood and directing
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  Speaker 1: it toward fight or flight. Increasing your sight so you
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  Speaker 1: can see and your legs so you can run. The
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  Speaker 1: blood that normally feeds your body and your functions is
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  Speaker 1: fleeing because you are in fight or flight mode. So
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: fear takes a toll on you because our primal instinct
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: is to flee or fight. But fear doesn't just take
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  Speaker 1: a toll on your body, it also takes a toll
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  Speaker 1: on your mind. They call it amygdala hijack. It affects
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  Speaker 1: your mind. It hijacks everything. Your brain perceives everything differently
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  Speaker 1: when you're afraid. You can't trust your judgment when you're afraid.
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  Speaker 1: You see everything as negative when you're afraid. It affects
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  Speaker 1: everything about your decisions when you're afraid. We used to
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: call it paranoia. You're just paranoid. Is there anybody in
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: here that's ever just been paranoid? The phone rings and
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  Speaker 1: you jump. Or you just feel like something is about
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  Speaker 1: to happen. My wife describes it as if feeling like
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: a balloon is full of water and it's about to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: bust up over your head and you don't know who's
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: got the pin. Anxiety. It affects everything. And if you're
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: up under it long enough, it causes the brain now
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  Speaker 1: hijacked to remember certain things like How something smelt or
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: sight or sound will take you right back to that spot.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: So you end up with post-traumatic stress disorder. It's over,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not over for you. And there are triggers
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  Speaker 1: that can take you right back to that space and
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  Speaker 1: you will react off a trigger though the problem is gone.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I want you to think about that because I think
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  Speaker 1: what I'm teaching right now has destroyed more marriages and
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  Speaker 1: more ministries than anything we could talk about. It's not
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. It's that what is going on is
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  Speaker 1: triggered something that went on. Nobody ever got destroyed by hoofbeats.
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  Speaker 1: But the sound of the hoofbeats is a trigger. And
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: reminds them of the abuse of 400 years. And Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: has actually hurt nobody. But they heard him coming. And
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  Speaker 1: they were struck with terror. You have to be careful.
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  Speaker 1: We were singing a minute ago the devil is a liar.
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  Speaker 1: And he is. But the lie can be a trigger.
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  Speaker 1: And when he brings up what could happen and you
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  Speaker 1: remember something that did happen, it's almost as if it
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  Speaker 1: is happening. Oh. And all of a sudden you overreact
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  Speaker 1: in this situation and people who haven't been through what
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: you've been through don't understand why you are flipping out
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  Speaker 1: over this situation. But it's a trigger. And you're horrified.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't always have to be a horse coming.
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  Speaker 1: It can be a heartbreak. It can be a disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: It can be a lost job. It can be a
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  Speaker 1: lost opportunity. And all of a sudden, instead of being
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  Speaker 1: rational and saying, well, I have to find me another job.
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  Speaker 1: You want to kill yourself. Oh God, my life is over.
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  Speaker 1: I'm cursed. That goes right. You're just... And you just
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  Speaker 1: spanned them out. And Pharaoh hadn't even touched you. You
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  Speaker 1: just heard hoof prints. And your life, your joy, your peace,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: your amygdala has hijacked the opportunity you have to be
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: happy right now. Because it keeps dragging you back into
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: something that you are actually out of. Oh, y'all missed that.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Y'all missed that. See, the Bible said the enemy comes
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  Speaker 1: to kill, steal, and destroy. And one of the things
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  Speaker 1: he will do is steal the peace of where you
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  Speaker 1: are with the threat of where you've been. And all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, when you hear the hook prints coming,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like he got you, but it reminds you
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  Speaker 1: that he used to have you. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: it's as if you're already dead. Now they're cursing where
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: they're at and wishing for where they've been and saying,
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  Speaker 1: why didn't you leave us in Egypt? Why didn't you
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  Speaker 1: leave us where we just got through praying to get
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: out of? Because if you're not careful, fear will cause
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: you to be stuck at 10 rather than risk going
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: to 11. Amen. Oh God, who am I talking to?
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody. I don't know who I'm talking to.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's getting ready to step into the next dimension. And
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: God is getting you ready for something. And he needed
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: you to hear this message. Nudge your neighbor and say,
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  Speaker 1: don't get stuck. Because fear can paralyze you. Fear can
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  Speaker 1: shut you down. Fear can immobilize you. Fear can make
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  Speaker 1: you run everybody away, even people who are going to
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  Speaker 1: help you. But the fear that you might get hurt again,
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  Speaker 1: just get out. Pack your stuff and get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: You're just like my daddy. Go on, get out. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going through this again. And fear can make you
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: drive away people who are trying to help you. And
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: so there the Israelites are mad at Moses. Because your
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: perception of who's with you and who's against you can
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  Speaker 1: be disrupted by fear. Fear of rejection. Fear of disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: Fear of failure can make you not try Fear of
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  Speaker 1: falling can make you not climb. Fear of being defeated
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  Speaker 1: can make you not fight. There are a lot of you,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: you're not as passive as everybody thinks you are, and
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  Speaker 1: you're not as apathetical as they define you. you to
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: be it's just that you're afraid you'll fall so maybe
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't climb if I don't climb I don't fall
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  Speaker 1: if I don't go I won't have to go back
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: if I'm a slave I wouldn't have to deal with
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: this take me back And all of a sudden the sights,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the sounds, the smells become triggers that make us forfeit
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: what God has in front of us. And yet in
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: spite of all of this, in spite of what fear
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  Speaker 1: has done to the mind, in spite of what fear
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: does to the body, in spite of all of these circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says that God is going to get some
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  Speaker 1: glory out of this. Now, I want you to say
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  Speaker 1: that with me. God is going to get some glory
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: out of this. It's about to sink in. Let's do
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  Speaker 1: it again. God is going to get some glory out
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  Speaker 1: of this. I want you to think about whatever your
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: this is, whatever your catfish are, whatever your Pharaoh is,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: whatever that thing that kept you up at night. Say
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: it again. God is going to get some glory out
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: of this. Now give him 30 seconds of crazy praise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. Yes. See, the reason I got you praising him,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to break that paralysis. I'm trying to break
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: that paralysis that's got you stuck in the same spot, buffering, buffering, buffering, buffering, buffering, worrying, worrying, worrying, upset, upset, upset,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: mood swings, mood swings, mood swings. If you praise him,
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  Speaker 1: you'll break that paralysis. I'm going to praise him until
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I get my family back. I'm going to praise him
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: until I get my courage back. I'm going to praise
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  Speaker 1: him until I get my strength back. I'm going to
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: praise him until I get my fight back. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to praise him until I get a sense of direction back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to praise him until I get up off
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  Speaker 1: the floor. I'm going to praise him until I stand
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  Speaker 1: up and start walking. Somebody help me praise him. Touch
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  Speaker 1: three people that are being blessed around you and say,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: keep it moving, keep it moving, keep it moving. Keep
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: it moving. Keep it moving. Keep it moving. When you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what to do, When you don't know where
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  Speaker 1: to go. When you're worried about what might happen. When
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: the enemy is threatening your future. When your past is
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: trying to overtake you. Oh my God, I feel you
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  Speaker 1: preaching to me this morning. I feel you preaching to
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: me this morning. I don't know whether I'm preaching to
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: you or you're preaching to me. Or maybe we're iron
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: is sharpening iron. Iron is sharpening iron. Iron is sharpening iron.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: So Moses is talking to God because sometimes you don't
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  Speaker 1: have nobody else to talk to. He can't talk to Pharaoh.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh is chasing him. And he can't talk to Israel.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: because they're mad at him and sometimes in the fearful
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: place the worst part of the fear is that there's
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: nobody to talk to and maybe I wouldn't be so
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: afraid if I could just talk about it and Moses
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: has nobody to talk to So he cries out to God.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: The best prayer meetings come out of the worst situations.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have a great prayer meeting because it's Wednesday.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: You have a great prayer meeting because all hell is
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: breaking loose. You have a great prayer meeting because the
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: catfish are in your tent. You have a great prayer
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: meeting because Pharaoh is after your hiney and it will
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: make you different. I know you're conservative and you're quiet
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: and you're just not that kind of person. But if
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: you get in enough trouble, if you get enough trouble
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: going after you, trouble will make you act like you're
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Pentecostal whether you are or not. It'll have you running
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: around your house talking in tongues. I wish I had
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: a witness in this place. And Moses is looking up
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  Speaker 1: to God like, I didn't sign up for this. Have
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: you ever told God, I didn't sign up for this?
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I didn't ask for this stuff that's happening in my
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: life right now. You didn't tell me I was going
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: to get in school. My parents were going to get
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: a divorce. I didn't sign up for this. You didn't
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: tell me my husband was going to cheat on me.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't sign up for this. You didn't tell me
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: my baby was going to be born deformed. What do
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: you do when you find yourself in something that you
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: didn't sign up for? Because you know something I found
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: out about God? God is weak on details. He don't
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: tell you all the details. Just go down there and
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: tell Pharaoh to let my people go. He didn't mention
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: he's going to try to kill you when you do it.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Them little details kind of help a brother out. I
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: would kind of like to know if you're going to
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: assign 600 hit men to come kill me before I
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: get started. I didn't sign up for this. And he
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: looks up to God and he says, what am I
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: supposed to do? The people you sent me to help,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: they don't even like me. The people I'm trying to
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: help don't like me. my own child don't like me
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: my mama don't like me my dad the people who
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: are supposed to be on my team I don't mind
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: having to fight the devils but the people that are
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: y'all ain't ready for me I thought y'all wanted me
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: to come home what do you do when the very
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: people that you're trying to help don't even appreciate you
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I don't mind fighting my enemies, but I didn't expect
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: to have to fight you too. And then God says
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: the strangest thing here. He calls on God to help
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: and God does absolutely nothing. Now preachers don't preach about that.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: They preach the sermons where you called on the Lord
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: and the Lord moved. I don't really need you to
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: tell me what to do when I call on the
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Lord and the Lord moves. I need somebody to tell
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: me what to do. when I call on the Lord.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I want to take series on that. What do you
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: do when you ask him to heal and he doesn't?
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: And you're asking for prosperity and they take your car.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: What do you do when things aren't turning out the
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: way you had in mind? I'll tell you what you do.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Keep it moving. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: You don't hear the power of what I'm saying. You
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: don't understand that some of the release of the power
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: of God can only be released if you... Yeah, if
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: you don't keep it moving, it's not going to work.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: The enemy is trying to shut you down and leave
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: you paralyzed. But the Lord said, I don't care what
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: triggers you hear. I don't care what sound you heard.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: so God says to Moses tell the people to keep
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: it moving and God said to me to tell you
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  Speaker 1: keep it moving I know you're scared, but keep it moving.
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  Speaker 1: I know the enemy is playing your triggers, but keep
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  Speaker 1: it moving. I know you don't know the outcome of
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  Speaker 1: this situation, but keep it moving. I know you wish
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  Speaker 1: I would clear the tank of all the catfish, but
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  Speaker 1: keep it moving. I'm God and I know what you
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  Speaker 1: need and I know what it takes to keep you
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  Speaker 1: fresh and I know what it takes to get the
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  Speaker 1: glory out of your life and it's my job to
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  Speaker 1: be God and it's your job to... I made it
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  Speaker 1: all the way. I started preaching when I was 19.
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  Speaker 1: And they said I wouldn't last two weeks. And I
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  Speaker 1: made it all the way to 62. I'm chasing you.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't got there yet, but I'm on your heels, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming after you. Because you can't go ahead if
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  Speaker 1: you don't keep it moving. So I kept it moving
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  Speaker 1: when I was broke. And I kept it moving when
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  Speaker 1: I had some money. And I kept it moving when
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  Speaker 1: things were going right. And I kept it moving when
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  Speaker 1: things were going bad. And I kept it moving when
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  Speaker 1: I had the faith. And I kept it moving when
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  Speaker 1: I was scared out of my mind. To all of it.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're scared, but keep it moving. Keep it moving.
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  Speaker 1: What I got planned will only work if you... See,
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  Speaker 1: I got something set up down the road that's going
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  Speaker 1: to fix this whole problem. But you got to be
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  Speaker 1: in the right place in order for my plan to activate.
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  Speaker 1: If you stop right here, I can't get no glory
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  Speaker 1: out of your life. But if you just keep it
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  Speaker 1: moving right down the road, I got a setup for
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  Speaker 1: everything that's trying to attack you right now. Who am
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  Speaker 1: I preaching to? You see, what I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 1: you to understand is that if they would have stopped
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  Speaker 1: right there, Pharaoh would have overtook them. He would have
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  Speaker 1: destroyed them. The miracle was in the movement. The miracle
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  Speaker 1: was Was in the movements. The miracle. Was in the movement.
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  Speaker 1: The miracle. Was in the movement. The miracle. Is in
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  Speaker 1: the movement. And there's somebody this morning. That the enemy
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  Speaker 1: is trying to paralyze you. With fear. And he's causing
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  Speaker 1: all your triggers to go off. And the Lord said
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  Speaker 1: if you just keep it moving. You're going to walk
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  Speaker 1: right into the power of God. And God's going to
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  Speaker 1: get the glory. Amen. See, we always preach about what
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  Speaker 1: happened at the Red Sea, but you got to get
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  Speaker 1: to the Red Sea in order for that to happen.
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  Speaker 1: And the enemy doesn't even want you to make it
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  Speaker 1: to the Red Sea. Another thing, the other reason God
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  Speaker 1: didn't say anything Is that he wanted Moses to discover
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  Speaker 1: what was in his hand. God didn't need to do
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  Speaker 1: anything else. Because he had already equipped Moses for where
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  Speaker 1: he was at this stage in his life. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm preaching to. But God has already
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  Speaker 1: equipped you. And his grace is sufficient. Somebody talk to
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  Speaker 1: me this morning. His grace. I know it's painful, but
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  Speaker 1: his grace is sufficient. I know you're crying all night long,
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  Speaker 1: but his grace is sufficient. I already put enough stuff
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  Speaker 1: in your hand. That if you learn to use what
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  Speaker 1: I gave you, no weapon formed against you shall be
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  Speaker 1: able to prosper. In fact, I set this up so
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  Speaker 1: you could see what you got. I hardened his heart
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  Speaker 1: so you could see what you got. I made him
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  Speaker 1: chase you so you could see what you got. I
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  Speaker 1: sent him after you so you would stay fresh. What
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is that Pharaoh is your catfish.
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  Speaker 1: And God put him in the tank. The devil didn't
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  Speaker 1: put him in the table. The Bible doesn't say that
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  Speaker 1: the devil sent Pharaoh. It said the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart.
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  Speaker 1: You'll never know what you got. Until God puts catfish
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  Speaker 1: in your table. You'll never know what you got. Until Pharaoh...
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  Speaker 1: comes after you. And everything in your head telling you
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  Speaker 1: you don't think right when you're scared says go back
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  Speaker 1: to something that you're trying to get out of. Because
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  Speaker 1: it don't seem like this church thing is working. This
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  Speaker 1: Jesus thing ain't working out for me right now. I
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  Speaker 1: lost my house, had to move back in with my mama.
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  Speaker 1: This Jesus thing, this tithing thing, it ain't working for me.
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  Speaker 1: This praying thing. This living for Jesus stuff. My husband
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  Speaker 1: left me because I was living for Jesus. Seemed like
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  Speaker 1: the people in the world were nicer than the people...
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  Speaker 1: And so all God says to Moses is to tell
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  Speaker 1: the people to keep it moving and use what you got.
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  Speaker 1: If you use what I gave you, you will find
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  Speaker 1: that it is more than what you thought. You thought
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  Speaker 1: I gave you this stick so when you got tired
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  Speaker 1: you could lean on it. But there are tricks in
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  Speaker 1: your stick. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise. surprise. I disguise
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  Speaker 1: my power in ordinary things so that in the time
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  Speaker 1: of trouble, the enemy won't even know what hit him.
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  Speaker 1: But if you stretch for what's you, touch your neighbor
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  Speaker 1: and say, I got something. I know it don't look
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  Speaker 1: like much, but I got something. I know it don't
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  Speaker 1: look dangerous, but I got something. If you won't count
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  Speaker 1: up your chariots, at least let me brag about my stick.
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  Speaker 1: I got something that God gave me that will outlast
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  Speaker 1: all of your tricks. Slap your name and say there's
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  Speaker 1: tricks in your stick. Don't give it up. Don't throw
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: it away. Don't cast it aside. Don't count it out.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Don't give it up. It's trivial because God will put
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: tricks in your stick. If it would have looked like
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  Speaker 1: a weapon, the enemy would have took it. Amen. But
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: God will. I'm about to feel like.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: Preaching up in here. God will.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Yes he will. I started reading the Bible. And almost
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: every miracle in the Bible. Came out of something that
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: they already had. A handful of meal. a pot of oil,
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  Speaker 1: two fish and five loaves of bread, a rag and
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: a rock. Hallelujah to God. Hallelujah to God. Hallelujah to God.
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  Speaker 1: You're not in this thing by yourself. You're not in
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: it by yourself. In fact, It is Pharaoh chasing you
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: that activates the tricks in your stick. Now keep it moving.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: And when you get to the right spot, stretch out
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: what I gave you. And the Bible said that when
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Moses stretched out his rod... that the Red Sea got
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: up and started walking hither and thither to quote it exactly,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: God sent a strong wind to blow back the Red
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Sea so the children of Israel could walk across And
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: not only did he let them go through it, he
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: didn't even let them get money. The Bible said that
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: they walk through on dry ground. Whoever I'm preaching to,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: God said you're going to go through it on dry ground.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: I feel a dry ground crane. And you were never
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: in trouble anyway. Because if you read the text, the
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  Speaker 1: closer they got to the Red Sea. The Bible says
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: that God sent an angel to get behind them. So
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh couldn't have got them anyway because God's already got
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: you covered. Slap your neighbor and say, I got back up.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not in it by myself. I'm not fighting by myself.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: I'm not living by myself.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not preaching by myself. So my brothers and my sisters,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Potter's House family, When the winds came. And blew back
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: the Red Sea. And they stepped down. Into the seabed.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: Walking on dry ground. They were walking in between. Two
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: walls of water. Now picture that with me. God has
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: made a way. But even the way he made is scary.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Because I got my baby in this water. I got
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: my mama in this water. I got my grandmama in
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: this water. I got my children in this water. And
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: there's a wall on this side. And there's a wall
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: on that side. And if they crash in, they're going
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: to kill me. So whatever be time, I got to
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: keep it moving. Slap your neighbor and say, keep it moving.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: This is what I want you to see and I'm
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: almost finished. Even when God makes a way, it's scary.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Even when God performs a miracle, the miracle is... Now,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: when we read about it and we preach about it,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: we shout about it. But if you are walking through
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: with your children... Through two walls of water so high
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: you can't see over them. And you don't see nothing
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: holding it up. But you're making it. I want to
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: talk to somebody. That's going through something right now. You
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: don't see nothing holding it up. Your finances don't work
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: out on paper. It don't make no sense that you're
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: still here. But something is holding it up. And the
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: Lord told Moses, tell the people, Keep it moving. And
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: the wind. Held up the water. To the last Israelite.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: Had crossed over. Later in the New Testament. Paul when
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: he preaches in Corinth. Would call it baptism. Said they
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: were baptized unto Moses. In the cloud and in the sea.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: That means they went in one way and they came
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: out another. They stepped in slaves, but they came out sons.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: They stepped in as runaways, but they came out as
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  Speaker 1: a nation. You who were not a people became a people.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Then he says to Moses, close it up. And the
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  Speaker 1: same rod. This is the dual nature of God. The
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  Speaker 1: same God that opens doors. Closes doors. The funny thing
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: about it was. When he opened the way. They didn't shout. See,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: we always shout when God makes a way. But the
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: Bible said that they didn't shout until God shut the door.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: I need to take a moment and thank him for
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: the doors he shut. yeah yeah yes yes I want
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: to thank him for the doors he shut for the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: job I didn't get, for the business that didn't work out,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: for the girl I didn't marry. Thank you, Lord, for
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: the door you shut. If I'd have got it, it
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: would have killed me. Thank you, Lord, for shut, shut, shut,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: shut the door. When God shut the door, the enemy
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: that was chasing them drowned in the Red Sea. But
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: not only did he drown the enemy. He drowned any
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: potential the enemy had to pursue them any further. So
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: the Bible said, the enemies that you see today, you
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: shall see them today. Y'all don't hear me. Y'all don't
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: hear me.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: Y'all don't hear me. There's some stuff you had to
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: fight with that.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: God said you shall see them no more.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: I dare you to praise him. I double dare you
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: to praise him.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to move out from where you are
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: and touch seven people and say no more! No more!
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: No more!
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  Speaker 2: No more!
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  Speaker 1: Move! No more! Keep it moving!
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: No more!
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: You shall see it no more! You shall fight it
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: no more! You shall have it no more! Give me
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: some Holy Ghost music. Take me to church. I'm feeling
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: kind of sanctified. No more!
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  Speaker 2: No more!
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: No more! So Miriam grabbed the tambourine and began to
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: beat that thing to the glory of God. For Pharaoh
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: and his army got drowned in the Red Sea. Somebody
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: put your hands together and give God some praise. No more.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: No more. No more. Get it in your spirit. Get
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: it in your mind. Get it in your mouth. Get
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: it in your heart.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: No more.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, it's the end of me. has been
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: after you and you've been up under attack, I dare
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: you to take just a minute and thank God like
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: he's drowning in the Red Sea. I dare you to
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: drown him in a praise and tell the devil no more.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: No more! No more! No more!
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: No more! Give him a praise. I said, give him
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  Speaker 1: a praise. If you know how to praise, give God
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: a praise. A praise.
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  Speaker 2: A praise.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: A praise. Give the Lord a praise. Father, we thank
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  Speaker 1: you today. The enemy we.
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  Speaker 2: See, we'll see him no more. The enemy we call,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: we'll see him no more.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: I hear the sound of victory in the house. Some
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: people think that praising God like that is a denominational thing.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a Pentecostal thing. Maybe it's an ethnic thing.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: But the Bible said that the children of Israel got
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: tambourines and started beating them at the Red Sea. And
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: they started dancing in the presence of God. And while
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: they were dancing, their devils were drowning. So there are
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: three reasons. I'll say this and I'm out. There are
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: three reasons that he closed the Red Sea. One was
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: to drown the present danger. Two was to drown the
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: potential of the danger continuing. But the third one to
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: me is the most important one. When he closed the
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Red Sea... he drowned any potential they had of ever
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: going back. No matter whatever they had to deal with,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: the rest of the journey, going back was off the table.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: Because God has shut down The Red Sea. Join hands
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: with somebody. Leave no one untouched. Span the aisles. Leave
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: no one untouched. Except somebody who don't want to be touched.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: Leave them alone. Thank you. Thank you. My wife and
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  Speaker 1: I have been married 38 years. We had good days
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: and bad days. We had happy days and crying days.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: We had nervous days and scared days. We didn't eat
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: it up in years. We ate it up in days.
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  Speaker 1: The trick to being married 38 years is to keep
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  Speaker 1: it moving. You look around and it's 38 years. You
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: look around and you've been married 50 years. You look
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: around if you just keep it moving. Squeeze that hand
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: because the person you're touching is moving. Got some things
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: they're scared of. And God sent this message to them today.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: Because they've been in positions where they didn't know what
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: to do. The triggers that upset them. they can smell
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: them or see them or hear them approaching. And this
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: is a prophetic word in their life that all you
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  Speaker 1: have to do to get the victory is keep it moving.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Squeeze that hand. God is going to drown any potential
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: you had of going back to being who you were.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: You will never be that again. You will never go
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: through that again. You might have to fight something else
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: but you will never have to fight that again. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: this Sunday morning I speak to trauma. This Sunday morning
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: I speak to triggers. There are some traumas that we
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  Speaker 1: have been through and some we might be going through
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: that were meant to paralyze us. But we will not
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: be paralyzed. There are some triggers that when they come up,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: we react in predictable ways because of the traumas. But
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: this day I pronounce those triggers are defeated. Defeated. And
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: I thank you Lord because you allow these things to
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: happen to keep my prayer life fresh. Not only will
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  Speaker 1: I be delivered but I'll be fresh when I get there.
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  Speaker 1: Most of all we thank you Lord because you shut
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  Speaker 1: the door on any possibility of me going back to
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  Speaker 1: who or what or how I used to be. And
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: so as I stand in this church this morning, I
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  Speaker 1: rebuke the terror The terrorists we don't talk about. I
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: rebuke the terrorists we don't tell about. The terrorists that
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: threaten us and discombobulate us and make us hard to
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: get along with because it looks like we're evil but
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: really we're scared. Squeeze that hand. I pray that every
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  Speaker 1: believer in this room would know that they are not alone.
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  Speaker 1: That God sent an angel in between you and what
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: you're afraid of. Glory. This is what science would call
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: a controlled experiment. That God has not lost control of
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: your situation in spite of the hoof prints. In spite
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: of the sound. In spite of how you feel. That
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: your feelings cannot be trusted. Your feelings are reacting to
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: past trauma. Regardless to how you feel, Lord, I pray
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: that they would just keep it moving. That the victory
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: is in the movement. The miracle is in the movement.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: The provision is in the movement. The grace is in
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: the movement. Hallelujah. The answer is in the movement. The
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: new door is in the movement. The promised land is
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: in the movement. Amen. The prophecy is in the movement.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord. I'm not going to have to
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: spend the rest of my life looking back over my
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: shoulder because you're going to settle these chariots right here. How?
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: You're going to fix these horses right now. You're going
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: to shut down this situation. You're going to shut it down.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be up every night. The person
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: you're touching right now, God is shutting down things. He's
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: going to drown them till you see them drown. The
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: Bible said the dead bodies were all up on the
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: side of the bank. And Miriam started dancing over top
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: of them because she saw the enemy destroyed. And I
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: rebuke the spirit of fear. I rebuke the paralysis. I
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: rebuke the anxiety. I rebuke the physical manifestations of your stress.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: The rashes, the diseases, the dysfunctions, the disorder in your body,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: in your bowels, in your stomach, in your heart. In
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: your cardiovascular system. In your behavior. In your sleep patterns.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: I rebuke it now. How? I rebuke it now. I
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: rebuke it now. I rebuke it now. Your cognitive functions,
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  Speaker 1: your brain, your memory, your emotions. I rebuke it now.
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  Speaker 1: Years of being in stress. The enemies were controlling. I
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  Speaker 1: rebuke it now. Physical infirmities, emotional infirmities. I rebuke it now. Now, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: restore unto us the joys of thy salvation. And we
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  Speaker 1: give you praise for it. In Jesus name. Give him
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  Speaker 1: all the praise you got.