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GOD IS ABOUT TO TURN YOUR STORY AROUND Bishop T.D. Jakes Powerful Sermon · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Without you I can do nothing, but with you all
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  Speaker 1: things become possible. Take me and use me any way
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  Speaker 1: you want to use me. For thine is the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: and the power and the glory forever and ever and ever.
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  Speaker 1: My soul says, Amen. Amen. You may be seated in
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  Speaker 1: the presence of God. Yeah, let's go to work. It
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  Speaker 1: is odd that there is so little preaching done about
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  Speaker 1: this part of Joseph's life. Because this is the harvest
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  Speaker 1: of the faithfulness that came through the suffering of his life.
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  Speaker 1: And yet we preach more about the suffering of and
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  Speaker 1: the sacrifice, then we do the harvest. We preach about
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  Speaker 1: how he was abandoned and abused, mistreated and ostracized, but
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  Speaker 1: we don't teach people that he came to an end
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  Speaker 1: of suffering. That not only did he survive, but he thrived.
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  Speaker 1: And that his latter day was greater than his former day.
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  Speaker 1: That in spite of a rough start and a raggedy middle,
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  Speaker 1: ultimately in the end everything that God promised him came
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  Speaker 1: to pass. He took him a roundabout way to get there,
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  Speaker 1: but he got them there. This text which is seldom discussed,
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  Speaker 1: evokes a myriad of emotions because having gotten there and
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  Speaker 1: been sustained and is now the prince of Egypt, he
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  Speaker 1: is a Hebrew boy, the prince of Egypt. God doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to raise you up amongst your own people. God
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  Speaker 1: will take you out of your element because sometimes when
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  Speaker 1: you're around your own people, they don't appreciate who you
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  Speaker 1: really are. God will take you out of your element
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  Speaker 1: and take you to a place where your gifts can
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  Speaker 1: be seen and utilized. And he raised him up there.
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  Speaker 1: This text also shows us our God working through a
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  Speaker 1: dysfunctional family to accomplish his own divine purpose. Jacob's family was,
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  Speaker 1: as the young people say, tore up from the floor.
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  Speaker 1: The story starts in the treacherous deceit of Joseph's brothers
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  Speaker 1: and the plot that caused his father's head to gradually
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  Speaker 1: age prematurely. Brokenhearted and fragmented, raising children that don't love
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  Speaker 1: each other is a stressful thing. It picks up here
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  Speaker 1: toward the end with the kind of promiscuous grace that
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  Speaker 1: redeems the guilty and creates a stage for the purpose
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  Speaker 1: Joseph was chosen to be made manifest. It exploits before
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  Speaker 1: us the magnitude and the majesty of the breadth of
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  Speaker 1: the kind of person Joseph was. It was not merely
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  Speaker 1: his coat. It was his character. They could take his coat,
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  Speaker 1: but they couldn't take his character. He had the kind
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  Speaker 1: of magnanimous ability, the voluminous capacity to be able to
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  Speaker 1: have the kind of love that was tough enough to
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  Speaker 1: withstand the obstacles of his times. It's going to be challenging.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's not easy to jump up and say yeah
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  Speaker 1: I got it like that. Until you've had it tested
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  Speaker 1: like that. The family had been badly disjointed. The reconciliation
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  Speaker 1: brings Joseph to tears. Joseph who has a chariot behind Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: Who commands the authority over the finances for the entire
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  Speaker 1: nation of Egypt. Joseph, who is revered amongst the Egyptians,
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  Speaker 1: burst out in tears in the face of his brethren.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of being unjustly treated by them. In spite
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  Speaker 1: of the way they ostracized him and humiliated him. In
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  Speaker 1: spite of the way they set out to murder him.
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  Speaker 1: Literally murder him. and decided instead to throw him in
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  Speaker 1: a pit to be devoured by animals or taken captive
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  Speaker 1: as a slave, they didn't care which, they stood back
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  Speaker 1: to watch him die. Have you ever had people that
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  Speaker 1: stood back Y'all don't understand. I'm going to talk to this.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever had anybody that stood by to watch
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  Speaker 1: you die, set you up, and just waited for you
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  Speaker 1: to fall and folded their arms? Of course you have.
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  Speaker 1: You can't live in this world and not attract enemies
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  Speaker 1: and haters and naysayers and people who despise you. That's
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  Speaker 1: a part of this world. Out of 8 billion people
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  Speaker 1: on the planet, everybody is not going to like you.
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  Speaker 1: We understand that. But it's not just that they hated him.
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  Speaker 1: It was that they were also his brethren. It is
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  Speaker 1: not just what they did. It is who they were.
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  Speaker 1: And yet Joseph when he is on top and he
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  Speaker 1: has the power to be vindictive. He has the power
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  Speaker 1: to get even. He has the power to seek revenge.
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  Speaker 1: He has the power to annihilate them. He has the
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  Speaker 1: power to destroy their lives. He has the power to
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  Speaker 1: cut them completely off. He has the power to cut
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  Speaker 1: off their food supply and watch them die. Instead, he
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  Speaker 1: burst into tears. Joseph's tears are amazing. They threw him
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  Speaker 1: in the pit and he didn't cry. They stripped him
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  Speaker 1: of his clothes and he didn't cry. They ripped his
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  Speaker 1: coat of many colors and he didn't cry. They separated
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  Speaker 1: him from the love of his father and he didn't cry.
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  Speaker 1: They sold him into captivity to the Midianites and he
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  Speaker 1: didn't cry. For Joseph to cry here, he didn't cry
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  Speaker 1: in the house of Potiphar when Potiphar's wife lied on him.
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  Speaker 1: And he had to leave there under a lie and
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  Speaker 1: was falsely arrested and he didn't cry. He went to
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  Speaker 1: jail and he didn't cry. He was forgotten by the
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  Speaker 1: butler and the baker and he didn't cry. Joseph is
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  Speaker 1: not a wimp. He's not easy to give way to
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  Speaker 1: his mother. What is it about this situation that has
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  Speaker 1: brought him to tears? This is the only time that
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  Speaker 1: we readily recall Joseph's tears. I would have cried when
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  Speaker 1: they threw me in the pit. I might have cried
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  Speaker 1: when they took my coat. I definitely would have cried
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  Speaker 1: when I lost my good job at Potiphar's house. And
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  Speaker 1: if they took me to jail, I would have been
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  Speaker 1: in tears. But he stood up to all of that
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  Speaker 1: and didn't shed a tear. And now when these haters
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  Speaker 1: out of one period in his life come back to
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  Speaker 1: him at another period in his life, he sees them
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  Speaker 1: and they are desperate and they're in trouble and a
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  Speaker 1: famine is coming into the land and they need him.
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  Speaker 1: And either the evil in him will rise up and
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  Speaker 1: get revenge or his better angels will rise up in
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  Speaker 1: him and he will respond correctly. Have you ever had
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  Speaker 1: to wrestle? You had two different ways you could react.
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  Speaker 1: You know the way you should react, but when you
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  Speaker 1: think about what they did and how you suffered, is
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  Speaker 1: there anybody in here that had trouble reacting the way
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  Speaker 1: you were supposed to act? We hope you have. He
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  Speaker 1: is torn in his thinking. It is human to remember.
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  Speaker 1: How can he forget what they did to him? He said,
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  Speaker 1: I know you did it, and you didn't do it
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  Speaker 1: by accident. You meant it for evil. Oh, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a child or a novice. I understand everybody's not going
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  Speaker 1: to wish me well. But it's not what they did.
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  Speaker 1: It's who. You betrayed me too? Do you have faith?
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  Speaker 1: The strength to allow good to come out of you
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  Speaker 1: when evil has been done to you. Anybody can be
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  Speaker 1: good to people that are good to them. But the
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  Speaker 1: challenge of life is to be good to somebody that
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  Speaker 1: you don't owe them no kind of good. I don't
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  Speaker 1: owe you nothing. I don't owe you nothing. I don't
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  Speaker 1: owe you. You didn't raise me. You didn't love me.
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  Speaker 1: You weren't there for me. Now you're in trouble. I
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  Speaker 1: don't owe you nothing. Somebody in here knows what I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about. Time has passed and now you need me.
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  Speaker 1: Time has passed and now you call on me. Time
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  Speaker 1: has passed and now your hearts have softened. You need
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  Speaker 1: me now. And the challenge becomes given the favor that
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  Speaker 1: he's been given, does he have the capacity in his
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  Speaker 1: person to allow the phrase better angels, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that in a minute, to rise up out
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  Speaker 1: of him and to guide him so that the best
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  Speaker 1: part of him is leading him and not the worst
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  Speaker 1: part of him. The plan of God depends on Joseph
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  Speaker 1: finding His better angels. Abraham Lincoln, who used the phrase
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  Speaker 1: better angels so beautifully in his first inaugural address on
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  Speaker 1: March the 4th of 1861 was a time when our
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  Speaker 1: country was on the eve of the Civil War. Initially,
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  Speaker 1: those lines were not in there. He added them. He says,
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  Speaker 1: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends.
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  Speaker 1: We must not be enemies. Though passions may have strained,
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  Speaker 1: it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic
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  Speaker 1: chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave
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  Speaker 1: to every living heart, and hearthstone all over the broad
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  Speaker 1: land will yet swell the chorus of the union when
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  Speaker 1: again touched as surely they will be by the better
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  Speaker 1: angels of our nature. The better angels of our nature.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln says this as he is leading the nation
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  Speaker 1: through the most turbulent, one of the most turbulent periods
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  Speaker 1: in the history of this country. He calls for the
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  Speaker 1: better angels and says that ultimately, when all is said
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  Speaker 1: and done, we will recognize that we are one people,
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  Speaker 1: that we are brethren, though our relationship has been strained. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: it had. It had been greatly strained. And his writer,
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  Speaker 1: one of his writers who served as Lincoln's secretary of state,
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  Speaker 1: wanted to change the line and wanted to write, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: did write Guardian Angels. But Guardian Angels implied something from
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  Speaker 1: the outside. What Lincoln was counting on is that in
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  Speaker 1: the worst of us, there is a better of us
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  Speaker 1: that is on the inside that if we will allow it,
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  Speaker 1: it will rise up and take us through the turbulence
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  Speaker 1: of the times we face. Are you hearing what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying to you? Not the pietistic term of the guardian
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  Speaker 1: of angels. No, but the better angels would arise and
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  Speaker 1: protect them. Now, give me a moment. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: get you where you're trying to go. Abraham Lincoln didn't
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  Speaker 1: come up with that by himself. He is quoting from
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  Speaker 1: William Shakespeare. When William Shakespeare writes in Othello in the
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  Speaker 1: 1600th century, he writes about a play called Othello. And
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  Speaker 1: in Othello, he writes about the better angels fighting down
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  Speaker 1: the evil that was done to him. Abraham reaches back.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln reaches back. to William Shakespeare's speech in 1603
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  Speaker 1: and adopts this language, better angels. Better angels. It is
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  Speaker 1: hard to live a life that exemplifies your better angels
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  Speaker 1: when you've had bad times. It's hard to have better
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  Speaker 1: angels when you've been around bad people. It's hard to
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  Speaker 1: have better angels when you've got bad memories. All of
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  Speaker 1: us have to fight every day to get our better
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  Speaker 1: angels to stand up inside of us. It's not enough
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  Speaker 1: for me to talk about Joseph or even talk about
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  Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln or William Shakespeare or the character in Othello.
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  Speaker 1: Let me bring this on down to Paul. Paul said,
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  Speaker 1: when I would do good, Evil is present with me.
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  Speaker 1: He said there's a war going on in my members.
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  Speaker 1: I could react a lot of different kinds of ways.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know how to respond to the moment.
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  Speaker 1: That which I would do, I do not. That which
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  Speaker 1: I would not do, I do. Oh, wretched man that
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  Speaker 1: I am. Who shall deliver me from the complexity of
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  Speaker 1: my life? There's not a person in this room who
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  Speaker 1: has a life that has no complexity. We smile for people,
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  Speaker 1: and we deal with the complexity by ourselves. We show
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  Speaker 1: up as if everything is seamless, but down on the inside,
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  Speaker 1: we know we got some complicated, it's some complicated folks
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  Speaker 1: up in here. It's some complicated people watching me online.
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  Speaker 1: You've been through some complicated situations. Complicated situations is when
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  Speaker 1: your mind and your emotions get into a fight, and
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  Speaker 1: both of them are right. I resent you and I
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  Speaker 1: love you. I love you and I'm mad at you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sick of you, but I'm going to stand by you. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some people that know what
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  Speaker 1: it is to have some complicated.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, God. Oh, God. And when I think about
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  Speaker 1: it in my own life, there's been times that I
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  Speaker 1: had to struggle to find my better angels. I remember
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  Speaker 1: years ago when I was driving on Capitol Street, we
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  Speaker 1: were back in West Virginia, and the man cut me
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  Speaker 1: off and I was in a hurry. And this was
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  Speaker 1: a simple thing, but he took my parking space. I
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  Speaker 1: had pulled up.
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  Speaker 1: To park and while I was pulling in to park
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  Speaker 1: he shot in in front of me and took my
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  Speaker 1: parking space and bumped my car and my two boys
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  Speaker 1: who are grown now 40 they were little boys I
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  Speaker 1: locked them in the car because I didn't want them
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  Speaker 1: to get in the fight I walked over to his
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  Speaker 1: window and I reached in the window and said what's
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  Speaker 1: it going to take for you to get off of
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  Speaker 1: my bumper Whatever it is, I got it. I was
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  Speaker 1: fully prepared to snatch. It was only that much crack
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  Speaker 1: in the window. I was fully prepared to snatch his
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  Speaker 1: body through that window and beat him like a runaway
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  Speaker 1: slave over a parking spot. I'm just talking about me.
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  Speaker 1: I know you never had no moments of conflict where
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  Speaker 1: your better angels went to bed and your bad angels said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going. The worst part about it, Ed, is I
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  Speaker 1: went in the dry cleaners. He backed up off my bumper.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want you to know that. I went into
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  Speaker 1: the dry cleaners to get my dry cleaning. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that was being dry cleaned was a robe,
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  Speaker 1: a preaching robe. And the man looked. at me, and
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  Speaker 1: I looked at him, I said, yeah, that's right. Threw
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  Speaker 1: my robe over my shoulder and walked out the door.
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  Speaker 1: I was embarrassed, but I tried to hide it. I
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  Speaker 1: was ashamed, but I tried to hide it. I got
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  Speaker 1: in the car, and God said, look at you. I
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  Speaker 1: can't turn my head a minute. There you are, a
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  Speaker 1: young preacher just getting started, and you're going to fight
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  Speaker 1: the man over a parking space while you rush to
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  Speaker 1: get your robe so you can preach. I'm the only
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  Speaker 1: one conflicted. I'm the only one complicated. I'm the only
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  Speaker 1: one that struggles with two different voices. I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: that it is natural to have this fight. The text
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  Speaker 1: that I read to you, it's kind of unfair because
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  Speaker 1: I bring you into the story at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the movie. It's a spoiler alert because at the time
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  Speaker 1: I bring you into the movie, you have to begin
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  Speaker 1: to recognize certain things about what is going on. Joseph's
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  Speaker 1: brothers tried to kill him. They tried to destroy him.
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  Speaker 1: They conspired to murder him. They ultimately left him in
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  Speaker 1: the pit. He was traumatized. God knows how long. And
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  Speaker 1: naked and hungry and alone. And a thread, trauma. Bishop
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  Speaker 1: Vashti McKenzie said something that I love, trouble don't last always,
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  Speaker 1: but trauma will stay a while. The trouble will end,
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  Speaker 1: but the trauma is still there. They said one to another,
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  Speaker 1: let's stand to the side and see what will come
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  Speaker 1: of this dreamer. Behold, the dreamer cometh, and let's see
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  Speaker 1: what will become of the dreamer. What happens to your
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  Speaker 1: dream when trouble comes? What happens to your dream when
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  Speaker 1: delays come? What happens to your dreams when betrayers come?
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  Speaker 1: What happens to your dreams when the money doesn't come?
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  Speaker 1: When the support isn't there? When people sabotage you? What happens? See,
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  Speaker 1: the enemy wants to kill your dream. None of it
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  Speaker 1: would have happened if it wasn't for these brothers who
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  Speaker 1: were his brothers and his killers. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: Every person in this room has situations in their family
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  Speaker 1: that's hard to explain. I love you, but you get
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  Speaker 1: on my nerves. Come on over for dinner, but I
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  Speaker 1: can't forget what you said about me. And Joseph has
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  Speaker 1: this ability to be able to deal with with this
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  Speaker 1: huge situation, with the grace that is difficult to explain.
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  Speaker 1: And it is here that we come to understand that
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  Speaker 1: with the bombarding of emotions coming at him from all levels,
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  Speaker 1: his love is stronger than his memory. You see, when
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  Speaker 1: I look at this text, I realize that they are
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  Speaker 1: both in a famine. That his brethren have been in
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  Speaker 1: a famine for food. But Joseph has been in a
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  Speaker 1: famine for family. They were starving for stuff. But he
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  Speaker 1: was starving for them. And suddenly when I realized what
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  Speaker 1: made him cry, I realized I had never really done
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  Speaker 1: a good job of preaching him because I am distracted
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  Speaker 1: by what he went through. But what he went through
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  Speaker 1: in the pit, in Potiphar's house, in the prison doesn't
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  Speaker 1: compare with why he went through it. It is not
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  Speaker 1: the what that kills us. It ain't the what. I'm
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  Speaker 1: strong enough to make it through the what. It is
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  Speaker 1: the why. Suddenly I realized that it was not his
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  Speaker 1: body plummeting head first down through the rocks to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the well that was the most painful thing.
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  Speaker 1: It was not the lacerations on his skin or the
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  Speaker 1: beatings on his back or being sold for 20 pieces
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  Speaker 1: of silver that hurt him. It was not that Potiphar's
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  Speaker 1: wife lied on him that gave him the most grief.
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  Speaker 1: It was that his dream was tied to his family.
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  Speaker 1: And how can the dream come to pass when the
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  Speaker 1: people I love I can't reap love back. I sow
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  Speaker 1: love to you. I can't get love back from you.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some people who are partially successful.
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  Speaker 1: You got it going on in this part of your life.
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  Speaker 1: But in this part of your life, all hell is
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  Speaker 1: breaking loose. You got it going on over here and
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  Speaker 1: you're the envy of everybody. But over here, you go
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  Speaker 1: home and you deal with something completely different. Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: ain't in here today. You didn't come to church today.
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  Speaker 1: It must be somebody online. Well, come out, come out
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  Speaker 1: wherever you are. Come out, come out wherever you are.
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  Speaker 1: On one hand, it is the best of times. And
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, it is the worst of times.
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  Speaker 1: On one hand, you're at the top of your game.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, There is this nagging, haunting, aching
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  Speaker 1: feeling that will not leave your heart. It will not
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  Speaker 1: go away. What do you do when your love won't
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  Speaker 1: go away and your common sense says, leave him alone.
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  Speaker 1: Leave them alone. Is there anybody in here that's got
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  Speaker 1: stubborn love? Tenacious love? Relentless love? Is there anybody in
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  Speaker 1: here that has ever told yourself, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: do nothing. I'm not going to say nothing. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to help. I'm not going to open my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: And all the while you're saying it, you're fixing dinner,
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  Speaker 1: talking about, come on in, get something to eat. Is
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  Speaker 1: there anybody in here that's ever been mad at yourself
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  Speaker 1: for being too nice? Come on, talk to me, somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I can't be the only one in here that got
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  Speaker 1: mad at myself and told myself, you're stupid. You're just stupid.
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  Speaker 1: You let people run all over you. Never really realizing
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  Speaker 1: that what I hate about myself is what God loved.
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  Speaker 1: Never really realizing that the whole basis of God's favor
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  Speaker 1: on my life is because I have stubborn love. You
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  Speaker 1: see it hurts to have stubborn love. It hurts to
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  Speaker 1: keep on caring even when you're not treated fairly but
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  Speaker 1: there's something down inside of you that cannot render evil
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  Speaker 1: for evil. It hurts. It hurts to say I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: when you know you wasn't wrong.
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  Speaker 2: It hurts.
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  Speaker 1: It hurts. To hold your peace when you know you're
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  Speaker 1: right about it. Somebody talk to me somewhere. If I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to you, make some noise. Say something to me.
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  Speaker 1: If you understand me, I don't hope to get everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I know this ain't for everybody, because some of y'all
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  Speaker 1: too evil to even understand what I'm talking about. But
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  Speaker 1: there's somebody watching me right now that knows what it
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  Speaker 1: is to argue with yourself all night long and say
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  Speaker 1: what you ain't gonna do and get up in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and do it anyway because you got stubborn love
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  Speaker 1: and now I see why God chose him God chose
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  Speaker 1: him because God couldn't trust any of the other brothers
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  Speaker 1: to have the radical kind of love that could look
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  Speaker 1: beyond what was done to them. God needed a lover,
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  Speaker 1: somebody who would love anyhow so that he could work
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  Speaker 1: out his purpose and his will. He could not work
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  Speaker 1: out his purpose through somebody who was vindictive. and spiteful
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  Speaker 1: and hateful and could not find their better angels. God
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  Speaker 1: said this is a moment that will require your better angels.
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  Speaker 1: In order to get what God has for you right now,
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  Speaker 1: it will require that you summons your better angels and
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  Speaker 1: that you stop calling it weak. Who am I talking to?
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple of things that I want you
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  Speaker 1: to get out of this. I want you to get
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  Speaker 1: out of this. How do you handle advantage? Because how
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  Speaker 1: you handle advantage determines whether God will trust you with power.
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  Speaker 1: Some people can't handle power because they're so vengeful that
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  Speaker 1: if they ever get their upper hand, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: go for revenge rather than reconciliation. And you've been praying
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  Speaker 1: for power and you've been praying for promotion, but God
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  Speaker 1: can't trust you with promotion because your heart is not
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  Speaker 1: big enough. To have the power that you're asking for.
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  Speaker 1: And the kind of favor that God wants to give
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  Speaker 1: you is going to come to somebody whose heart is
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  Speaker 1: bigger than their head. Oh, I'm losing them on this, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be tough. Number two, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand that love never fails. It may take
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  Speaker 1: a long time. It may look like it's been knocked out.
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  Speaker 1: It may get blooded. It may get bruised. It may
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  Speaker 1: even require stitches. But when the fight is over, love
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  Speaker 1: will always prevail. Can your love survive or fall? Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: had taken a fall in a pit, but his love
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  Speaker 1: survived the fall. You can't raise children if your love
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  Speaker 1: can't take a fall. You can't have a relationship if
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  Speaker 1: your love can't take a fall. You can't run a
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  Speaker 1: business if your love can't take a fall. You can't
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  Speaker 1: have a dream if your love cannot withstand a fall.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever dreamed you were fallen? You remember that
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  Speaker 1: powerless feeling of falling and how frightening it is when
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  Speaker 1: you wake up because you're falling and it feels like
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  Speaker 1: things are out of control. There are going to be
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  Speaker 1: some moments in your life that it feels like everything
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  Speaker 1: is out of control. Joseph has gone through a long
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  Speaker 1: period of bad getting worse. And the only thing consistent
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  Speaker 1: is that he was still in love with his brothers
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  Speaker 1: and his father. Now there are some people you have
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  Speaker 1: to love at a distance. There are some people who
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  Speaker 1: are so unsafe to love. That you have to love
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  Speaker 1: them at a distance because who they are at this
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  Speaker 1: stage is not who they're going to become at that stage.
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  Speaker 1: But for right now, I have to love you. Give
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  Speaker 1: me 50 feet. I love you, but give me 50 feet.
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  Speaker 1: You crazy? Give me 50 feet. You going through some changes?
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  Speaker 1: Give me 50. Oh, come on. Is there anybody in
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  Speaker 1: here got somebody you love, but you got to give
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  Speaker 1: them some... The third thing I want to ask is,
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  Speaker 1: do you have the grace to accommodate people changing? Or
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  Speaker 1: are you still angry over something that's 20 years old?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have the kind of grace to accommodate that
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  Speaker 1: I might look like the same person, but I'm not
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  Speaker 1: the same person at this stage in my life that
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  Speaker 1: I was at that stage in my life? So much
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  Speaker 1: time had passed that they didn't even recognize Joseph. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you have been holding a grudge so long that
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  Speaker 1: you can't even remember the details. You just remember the
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  Speaker 1: anger and you're still mad. God wants your better angels
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  Speaker 1: so that you can walk in the favor that he
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: has for you. It's going to require that your better
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  Speaker 1: angels arise and you stop trying to be your own defense.
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  Speaker 1: Because anger often is the camouflage that love wears to
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  Speaker 1: keep from being exposed. Oh God. And in order for
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  Speaker 1: God to deal with you, number four, you gotta have
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  Speaker 1: emotional honesty. Even if it makes you feel vulnerable. To
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  Speaker 1: be emotionally honest, Joseph is emotionally honest. He cannot help
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he loves them. He cannot control their behavior.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: He can only control his. Number five, it brings him,
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  Speaker 1: because of that, he can bless them that cursed him.
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  Speaker 1: I had a pastor call me the other day. He
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  Speaker 1: said this. Young man leaving my church and he said
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  Speaker 1: he's taking some of my members and he's going away.
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  Speaker 1: And I gave him a stage. I gave him a platform.
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  Speaker 1: He betrayed me. And he took some of my members
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  Speaker 1: and he left and said, what should I do? I said,
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  Speaker 1: give him a love offering. I said, give him a
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  Speaker 1: love offering. He said, a love offering? Why would I
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  Speaker 1: give him a love offering? I said, because you are
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  Speaker 1: too big to have unnecessary enemies. He gonna have enough
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  Speaker 1: to fight without you. You don't have to fight him.
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  Speaker 1: Life is gonna fight him. Life is gonna change him.
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  Speaker 1: Don't add your name to the list. You take the
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  Speaker 1: high road. As Michelle said, when they go low, we go. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all ain't talking to me. Talk to me, somebody. Talk
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  Speaker 1: to me, somebody. This family has been ripped apart and
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  Speaker 1: they are a part of God's divine purpose. This family
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  Speaker 1: is important because God is going to use this family
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  Speaker 1: to start the nation of Israel. And they have been
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  Speaker 1: ripped apart for years. And the thing about a rip,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: whenever something is torn, both sides get damaged. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who I'm talking to. Whenever something is ripped, both
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  Speaker 1: sides get damaged. You go home bleeding, but you think
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  Speaker 1: you're the only one bleeding. You go home and cry.
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  Speaker 1: You think you're the only one crying. But if it's
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: a rip, both sides are going to cry. Both sides
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  Speaker 1: are going to suffer. They may not show you, but
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  Speaker 1: there's no clean way to have a rip. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have a straight side and a ripped side. When something rips,
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  Speaker 1: it rips on both sides. Joseph Colt was ripped from him.
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  Speaker 1: And his family was ripped from him. And both sides
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  Speaker 1: were filled with pain. God was getting ready to do
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  Speaker 1: something so amazing that he was looking for somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: who was big enough to do it through. Joseph understood something.
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  Speaker 1: That God had brought him into favor to be a
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  Speaker 1: channel to bless them. That the only reason God put
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  Speaker 1: him into power is so that his power would be
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  Speaker 1: used for the posterity and the continuation of the legacy
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: of God. If God can get it through you, he
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: can give it to you. If God can trust you
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  Speaker 1: that your flesh won't get in the way. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: to somebody who's been talking to God about what he's
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: about to do in your life. If God can trust
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  Speaker 1: you that the higher he takes you, you'll still reach
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  Speaker 1: low and pull up somebody else. If God can trust
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  Speaker 1: you that as he opens up doors, you'll reach back
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  Speaker 1: and open up a door for somebody else. If God
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  Speaker 1: can trust you. Look at somebody, type on the line,
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  Speaker 1: something is about to happen. God wouldn't be talking to
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  Speaker 1: me like this if something wasn't about to happen, if
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: something wasn't about to shift, if God wasn't about to
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  Speaker 1: raise me up in some kind of Egypt, if some
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: kind of promotion wasn't coming in my life, and God
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: has given me this test so that I'll be ready
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  Speaker 1: to handle what He's about to do next in my life.
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason I'm listening at this message today. God
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  Speaker 1: is about to raise me up from the prison to
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  Speaker 1: the palace. Who am I preaching to? Get ready for
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: a switch. Get ready for a turn. Get ready for
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  Speaker 1: a change. Get ready for a move. Get ready for
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: a switch right now. Holler at somebody. Something is about
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Something is about to happen. Something is about
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Something is about to happen. Something is about
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Something is about to happen. Something is about
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Something is about to happen. Something is about
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Something is about to happen. Something is about
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  Speaker 1: to happen. God wouldn't be counseling me about power if
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I was going to stay weak. There's something that's about
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  Speaker 1: to switch in my life that I've got to be
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: ready to receive. Give him 60 seconds of crazy Holy
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  Speaker 1: Ghost power. What I want you to see is that
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden the wealth of Egypt was transferred
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  Speaker 1: to the house of Jacob and the Bible said that
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh told Joseph give him the best of the land
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  Speaker 1: Load up the asses and the camels. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: send him so much blessing that before he ever even
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: gets to me. And the Lord said to me to
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: tell you, if you can get the right attitude, God
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  Speaker 1: is about to do a switch in your life. Until
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  Speaker 1: the wealth of the unjust is going to be laid
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  Speaker 1: up for the just. If I'm preaching to you, give
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: God a praise right now. I don't care where you are.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: sitting on the couch, sitting at the dining room table
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  Speaker 1: or in this building. I want you to just turn
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  Speaker 1: around in a circle and say, God is about to
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: turn it around. God is about to turn it around.
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  Speaker 1: He's about to turn it. He's about to turn it.
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  Speaker 1: He's about to turn it. He's about to turn it.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord is about to The Lord is about to
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  Speaker 1: turn it. The Lord is about to turn it. The
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Lord is about to turn it. The Lord is about
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  Speaker 1: to turn it. Somebody shout it will change. It will change.
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  Speaker 1: It will change. The pandemic couldn't take it. The race
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: riots couldn't take it. What God has for you is
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: for you. I repute every devil, every foul spirit that
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: tried to cancel out your blessing. God said it will change.
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  Speaker 1: It will come to pass. If I'm preaching to you,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: shout about it. If I'm preaching to you, shout about it.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: If I'm preaching to you, shout about it. If you've
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  Speaker 1: been in a battle, shout about it. If you had
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: a hard time, shout about it. If you thought the
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: enemy was going to kill you, shout about it. God
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: didn't keep you alive without a purpose. The reason you're
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: still here, God's about to fill your camel with blessings
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: your eyes have not seen. type on the line my
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: story's about to change you saw me in the pits
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: You saw me in Potiphar's house. You saw me in
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: the prison. But you're about to see me in the palace.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: My entire life is going to end better than it started.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: If you had a bad start, give God a good praise.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Y'all are playing with me. I said, if you had
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: a bad start, give God a good praise.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Jesus!
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus!
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  Speaker 3: Whoo! Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
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  Speaker 1: These are not tears of sorrow. These tears Joseph had
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: are happy tears. How can you say they're happy tears?
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Because the Bible said he kissed them. See, once you
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  Speaker 1: know that what they did didn't stop you, Once you
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  Speaker 1: know that what they said didn't kill you, once you
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: find out that God can get you there anyway. You see,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Joseph was the love child of Jacob and Rachel. Family
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  Speaker 1: meant everything. And God said, I am going to restore.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to this Jacob thought. Joseph was dead. He was
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  Speaker 1: sure he was dead. He said Joseph is dead and
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Simeon is gone. And now they want Benjamin. He had
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: accepted that Joseph was dead. When his sons came back
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: with their camels loaded down with blessings, Joseph couldn't hardly
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  Speaker 1: believe that what he had given up on could still happen.
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  Speaker 1: So Joseph, he got his old legs up and he
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  Speaker 1: stood straight up and he said, I got to go
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  Speaker 1: to my son Joseph and connect with him before I die.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: God said, I'm not going to let you leave this
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: world Until you see what I promise you come to
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  Speaker 1: pass in your life. I don't care what the doctor said.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: God said I will keep you alive until I show you.
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  Speaker 1: Until I show you that what you dream was not
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  Speaker 1: a joke. It shall come to pass. It shall come
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  Speaker 1: to pass. It shall come to pass. Say it again.
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  Speaker 4: It shall come to pass.
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  Speaker 1: Say it again.
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  Speaker 3: It shall.
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  Speaker 4: Come to pass.
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  Speaker 1: Say it again.
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  Speaker 4: It shall come to pass.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Joseph was crying. Because the scene
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I read was the scene he saw when he was
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  Speaker 1: a boy. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. What started the whole
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  Speaker 1: fight was he had had a dream where his brothers
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  Speaker 1: would bow and worship him. And when he walked in
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  Speaker 1: the room as the Prince of Egypt and they bowed
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  Speaker 1: before him. God said, they laughed at your dream. But
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: it happened. They laughed at what you believed. But it happened.
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  Speaker 1: And I kept your father alive. Because he's part of
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: the dream. And he brought peace. Joseph's father and his
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  Speaker 1: brothers into the fulfillment of what God has predestined. Hear
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  Speaker 1: me right now. You're watching me right now. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to focus on me right now. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to focus on me right now. There have been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of setbacks. There has been a lot of betrayals.
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  Speaker 1: There have been lies told. There has been pain inflicted.
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  Speaker 1: There's been times you've been handcuffed There's been times you've
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  Speaker 1: been tried. There's been times you've been in situations where
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  Speaker 1: you were locked up and you couldn't get out. In
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  Speaker 1: spite of all of that, what God spoke to you
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  Speaker 1: shall surely come to pass.
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  Speaker 3: It will come.
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  Speaker 1: It will come. It will come. It will come. It
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: will come. It will come. You weren't ready for it
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  Speaker 1: when you saw it. You weren't ready for it when
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: you saw it. You had to go through more things
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  Speaker 1: to grow into it. But you're coming into a season
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  Speaker 1: now that things you saw a long time ago are
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: going to come to pass. And it's going to be
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: the kind of joy that brings you to tears. Because
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: there were times you thought you were crazy. And there
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: were times you thought you lost your mind. And there
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: were times you thought you were a fool. And there
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: were times you couldn't hardly believe in your own dream.
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  Speaker 1: But every bit of it, every jot, every tittle, every word,
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  Speaker 1: every sentence, every paragraph every promise, everything God told you
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  Speaker 1: when you were a child, when you were a little girl,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: everything God showed you when you were a little boy
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  Speaker 1: playing in a sandbar, everything that God gave you. God
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: said he gave you glimpses, glimpses. You didn't have details.
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  Speaker 1: You had glimpses. Whoever I'm talking to, you had glimpses.
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  Speaker 1: You had glimpses. You had glimpses. And you've been looking
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  Speaker 1: at your life and saying, my life doesn't look like
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  Speaker 1: what I saw. God said that's because it's not over yet.
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  Speaker 1: God's going to bring you into a place where everything
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  Speaker 1: that you glimpsed is going to materialize in your life,
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  Speaker 1: and the praise that's going to be in your mouth
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: is unspeakable. I want somebody that feels a witness to
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying to open your mouth and flood this place,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: flood your house, flood your kitchen, flood your car, flood
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: your place with.
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  Speaker 3: Here it comes, your season.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Here it comes, your season. If it wasn't gonna be
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: your season, the virus wouldn't have come. The plagues wouldn't
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: have been loose. The jobs wouldn't have shaken. The trials
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have come. The storms wouldn't have attacked you. The
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: divorce wouldn't attack you. The sickness wouldn't attack you. The
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: only reason the enemy is attacking you is because you're
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  Speaker 1: on the verge of coming into a pressed down, shaken together,
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  Speaker 1: running over house. supernatural miracle in the Lord. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need nobody to praise him that I'm not talking to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need nobody to praise him who don't understand it.
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  Speaker 1: I only want people to praise him that God... They
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: got something leaving in your body. That's got something shouting
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  Speaker 1: in your soul. I don't care if it's 10 people.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: If this is a witness that the word of God
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: is true in your life, in your ministry, in your preaching,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: in your family, in your body, in your finances, open
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: your mouth and.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm talking about.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about right there. Yeah, that's what
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: God wants. Somebody who believes it. Somebody who believes it.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Somebody who's been praying about something and praying about something
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: and you can't shake the way you feel and you
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: feel like you're trapped and the thing is complicated and
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: it's complex and it's difficult and it's been tough and
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: it hasn't been a straight line and there's been dark
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: days and there's been lonely nights and there's been times
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: who wanted to quit and there's been times who wanted
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: to collapse but God kept speaking to you. So Joseph,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Joseph runs up. He runs up. And he kisses his brothers.
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  Speaker 1: Because their coming is a sign that the time is now.
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  Speaker 1: And he starts weeping. And he loved him. And he
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  Speaker 1: missed him. But the thing that tipped him over is
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  Speaker 1: that the dream was not a lie. Though the vision tarry,
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  Speaker 1: wait for it. In the end, it shall speak. And
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  Speaker 1: not like, who am I talking to? It's been a
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  Speaker 1: long time coming. But a change has got to come.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a long time coming.
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  Speaker 4: But the change.
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  Speaker 1: The change. The change. The change, the change. You felt
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  Speaker 1: like a fool sometime, but the change was coming. You
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  Speaker 1: love even when you was mistreated, but the change was coming.
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  Speaker 1: God said stop despising the way you care. It is
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  Speaker 1: the way you care that made him bless you in
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  Speaker 1: the first place. He blessed you because he could trust
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  Speaker 1: you He blessed you because of the way he designed
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  Speaker 1: your heart. Don't you start being nobody else. Lord have
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  Speaker 1: mercy I feel the Holy Ghost. Don't you start walking
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  Speaker 1: in nobody else's shoes. Because your gift is It's the
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  Speaker 1: crazy way that you can take a liquor and keep
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  Speaker 1: on ticking. It's the crazy way that you can love
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  Speaker 1: people that other people don't even like. That you cannot
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  Speaker 1: like what they do and still find a way to
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  Speaker 1: love them. It's the crazy way that God has put
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  Speaker 1: you in a position of power to bring about change
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  Speaker 1: with people who your mind says don't even deserve it,
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  Speaker 1: but God is going to use. Lift your hands up
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  Speaker 1: in total surrender, like you're under arrest. Lord, I surrender
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  Speaker 1: to your providential will, to your purpose for my life.
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  Speaker 1: You have created me like you created me for a reason.
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  Speaker 1: And I know my girlfriend says, if I was you,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't take you, you're not me. I'm me. I
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  Speaker 1: can't be you, I gotta be me. Because if I
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  Speaker 1: stay me, God is gonna bless me. Lift your hands
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  Speaker 1: and open your mouth. And thank God for working it
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  Speaker 1: out in your life. Everything is going to work together
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  Speaker 1: for the good of them that love the Lord. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: He's talking to you.
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  Speaker 4: He's talking to you right now.
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  Speaker 1: He's talking to you. He's talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: He will do just what he says.
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  Speaker 3: It is so.
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  Speaker 4: Just what He says.
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  Speaker 1: He will, He will, He will, He will.
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  Speaker 4: Oh God.
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  Speaker 1: It is so. It's still so. Yes, it is so.
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  Speaker 2: He will do.
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  Speaker 4: He will do just what He says.
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  Speaker 3: God's going to do it. It is so.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it is so.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is so. I receive it. I believe it.
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  Speaker 3: He will do just.
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  Speaker 1: What he says.
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  Speaker 4: I want it and I believe it.
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  Speaker 1: It is so.
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  Speaker 3: It is so. Yes, it is so.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is so. I'm going to see with.
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  Speaker 3: My own eyes.
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  Speaker 4: He will do just what he says.
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  Speaker 1: Oh!
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  Speaker 4: It is so.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is so.
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  Speaker 4: God's going to turn it around for you. God's going
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  Speaker 4: to change it.
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  Speaker 1: God's going to fix it.
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  Speaker 3: Hey!
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  Speaker 1: If it's spoken, that's.
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  Speaker 3: Out of it. It is so. Yes, it is so.
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  Speaker 4: He will do just what he says.
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  Speaker 3: It is so. It is so.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it is so.
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  Speaker 1: Now bow your heads with me. Don't let a trace
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  Speaker 1: of bitterness. Don't let a trace of bitterness destroy the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord that's been spoken over you. not
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  Speaker 1: a trace of hatred or anger get rid of your
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  Speaker 1: victim mentality it's going to take all of this to
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  Speaker 1: get to that everything is going to fall into place
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  Speaker 1: He's moving pieces around. He's moving you from place to
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: place to place for such a time as this. So
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  Speaker 1: that what he said a long time ago, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to come to pass. The word of God is true.
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  Speaker 1: And your joy is going to be so full that
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  Speaker 1: your face is going to flood with tears. Thank you, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't let me live and die without getting what
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  Speaker 1: I needed. You had to move some pieces around, but
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  Speaker 1: you placed me in a place for me to receive.
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  Speaker 1: And I will not let any devil trick me into
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  Speaker 1: anything less than my better self. Hold it just a second. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: while other people are saying make me bigger, our prayer
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  Speaker 1: is make me better. While others are seeking status and stage,
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  Speaker 1: we are just asking you to make us better people.
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  Speaker 1: Because now we realize that if you trust us, you
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  Speaker 1: can bless us. I pray for divine favor. Favor so
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  Speaker 1: strong that it's generational. I pray for the kind of
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  Speaker 1: favor that reproduces on our offspring. and their offspring and
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  Speaker 1: their offspring. The changes we make now will change the
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  Speaker 1: trajectory for generations to come. For generations to come will
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  Speaker 1: be changed because of the adjustments that we are making
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  Speaker 1: right now. The adjustments that we're making right now are
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  Speaker 1: going to affect our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Because something just
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  Speaker 1: shifted in my soul. I will never be the same again. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: while we're praying, if there's somebody watching me, viewing me,
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  Speaker 1: streaming me in this room who doesn't know Jesus, I
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: pray that they would come to know him in the
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  Speaker 1: free pardon of their sins. That they would stop wrestling
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  Speaker 1: with God over the hateful things that happen in their
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  Speaker 1: life and trust in the fact that God has a
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  Speaker 1: plan And that everything's going to fall into place. Even
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  Speaker 1: the things that bruised them and hurt them and lacerated
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  Speaker 1: their heart. And that right now they would give their
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  Speaker 1: life to you in this moment. The prayer number is
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  Speaker 1: up on the screen for you to give your life
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  Speaker 1: to Christ. If you're in this room and the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit touched you and you've decided to give your life
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  Speaker 1: to Christ, hold your hand up. I'm giving my life
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  Speaker 1: to Christ. Hold it up. Hold it up. Hold it up.
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  Speaker 1: Bless you. Hold it up high. Bless you. Hold it
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  Speaker 1: up high. If you're in this room and you're backslidden,
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  Speaker 1: And this year and this storm has made you act out.
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  Speaker 1: If you've been going through a period like I was
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  Speaker 1: and you ready to snatch people through windows and you
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  Speaker 1: have not been the person that you really are supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be. And you know you needed to get back
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  Speaker 1: to church because you're turning into somebody else. And you
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  Speaker 1: need to renew your covenant with Christ right now. Hold
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  Speaker 1: your hand up high. I want to pray for you.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody who didn't raise your hand, be seated. Nobody standing
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  Speaker 1: but those who raised your hand in either category. And
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  Speaker 1: I want to pray with you. Father, right now, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for this harvest. This is the harvest that matters.
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  Speaker 1: This is the harvest that counts. the harvest of souls
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  Speaker 1: and hearts and lives that are changed by the power
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  Speaker 1: of God. We stand in your house, Lord, and we
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  Speaker 1: confess our failures, our flaws, our humanities, our weaknesses, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: our sins. We repent. Get us together. Get us right
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  Speaker 1: in the center of your will. so you can finish
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  Speaker 1: what you started in our lives. We've been delayed, but
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  Speaker 1: we have not been denied. And right now, in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus, restore the joy of our salvation. I
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  Speaker 1: plead the blood over every sinner that your life would
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  Speaker 1: be changed by the power of the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: To those of you that are online, the same anointing
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  Speaker 1: that's in this room, is reaching out to you right now,
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  Speaker 1: you will never be the same again. And we thank
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  Speaker 1: you for the change. It's not a feeling. It's not
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  Speaker 1: an emotion. It doesn't mean that I'm quaking or shaking,
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  Speaker 1: but I receive the change in my spirit and in
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  Speaker 1: my life that today forward, I'm back. I'm back. I'm back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm back. The Bible said when the Lord turned again
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  Speaker 1: our captivity, we were like them that dream. Then was
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  Speaker 1: our mouth filled with laughter and our hearts with singing.
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  Speaker 1: Turn again our captivity, O God. It ends by saying,
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  Speaker 1: they that sow in tears shall reap in joy. God
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  Speaker 1: said to love radically. To love radically. To love even
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  Speaker 1: when you look like a fool. That when it's all over,
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  Speaker 1: your dream, even now, will come to pass.