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God Will Walk You Through Every Impossible Season Bishop T D Jakes · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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Speaker 1: My subject. He is walk me through it. The wait
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Speaker 1: no no, no, no, no no no no, no, no, no no.
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Speaker 1: This is not for the people who take no risk.
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Speaker 1: This is not for the people who see their way clear.
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Speaker 1: This is for the people who dare to go into
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Speaker 1: adventurous spaces that they have never gone before, that you
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Speaker 1: have never been trained for before. It doesn't make sense
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Speaker 1: that you would have this opportunity that's been afforded to you,
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Speaker 1: and yet you got it today. I want you to
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Speaker 1: throw your hands up and say, walk me through it.
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Speaker 1: Father God, in the name of Jesus, let the word
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Speaker 1: be made flesh while it's being preached today. I thank
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Speaker 1: you for your power. I thank you for your grace.
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Speaker 1: I thank you for your knowingty. I thank you for
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Speaker 1: your consistency. I thank you for your patience. I thank
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Speaker 1: you for your love. I thank you for your grace.
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Speaker 1: I thank you for your hand of mercy over our lives.
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Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord for the things you're about to do.
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Speaker 1: I believe you from miracles. In the name of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: we pray somebody shot amen. You may be seated in
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Speaker 1: the presence of the Lord. There is a word. There
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Speaker 1: is a word. There a word. There is a word,
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Speaker 1: There is a word from the Lord. I'm wondering if
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Speaker 1: you've ever found yourself in this situation that you didn't
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Speaker 1: really belong in. This text is so opulent, it is
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Speaker 1: so exciting, it is so excessive, that it is easy
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Speaker 1: to get up caught up at what happened without examining
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Speaker 1: why it happened. That's the way much of life is today.
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Speaker 1: We deal with the what because of what is so
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Speaker 1: flamboyant and difficult and challenging and scary that very few
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Speaker 1: people have a tendency to ask why. We pray about
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Speaker 1: the what, we ignore the why. But part of the
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Speaker 1: ability to be able to navigate through something is to
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Speaker 1: understand not only what happened, but why. If you get
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Speaker 1: caught up in what happened without the why, you will
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Speaker 1: become emotional because you will think everything that happened is
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Speaker 1: your fault. I must have done. Who's saying the mother
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Speaker 1: or the father that the child should be going blind?
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Speaker 1: We're always looking for somebody to blame. The first thing
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Speaker 1: they start talking about in entirely calamity. Who are we
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Speaker 1: gonna blame? Did the fire department get there on time?
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Speaker 1: Did they send the mother did they Did they send
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Speaker 1: the signal? Did they do a hamber alert? Did they
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Speaker 1: do it? Because we always want somebody to blame for
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Speaker 1: what happened, But a lot of times, in order to
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Speaker 1: be able to think clearly and succinctly and intelligently so
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Speaker 1: that you can pray effectively, you have to get beyond
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Speaker 1: what is happening in your life to why is this
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Speaker 1: happening in my life? Why is this happening in my
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Speaker 1: life at this time, in this way, in this place,
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Speaker 1: so I know how to handle it. If I don't
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Speaker 1: know why it's happening, I don't even know how to pray.
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Speaker 1: I don't know whether to rebuke the devil, plead the blood,
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Speaker 1: bind the witches, come against Satan, or thanking God for
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Speaker 1: coming me worthy to go through a test or development.
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Speaker 1: I don't know whether to repent because I did something
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Speaker 1: wrong or accept it as a test that I have
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Speaker 1: to face, or is this a season in my life
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Speaker 1: I'm going through, going and myself sabotaging myself. And I
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Speaker 1: don't know whether whether I need a therapist or an exorcist.
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Speaker 1: I know I need a list, I don't know whether
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Speaker 1: it's a therapist or an Exorcist because I don't like
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Speaker 1: what is happening in my life. I don't like what's
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Speaker 1: going on in my life. I don't I don't like
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Speaker 1: being in trouble. I don't know anybody in the room
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Speaker 1: who likes being in trouble. When I was raising my kids,
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Speaker 1: I had a saying, I tell them, when we get home,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna dance. And I didn't mean the good money.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and they knew right then they was in trouble.
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Speaker 1: My mother didn't have to say none of that. She
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Speaker 1: did look at you. She would look at you like
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Speaker 1: you was crazy. Your blood would stop moving through your body,
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Speaker 1: your heart would stop beating. They could not get a
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Speaker 1: pulse on you anywhere, because, without partying her lips, the
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Speaker 1: look announced to you, I see you, and I got you,
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Speaker 1: And if you don't stop right now, I'm gonna get
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Speaker 1: you right now. If you're lucky, you're gonna wait till
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Speaker 1: you get back home. But if you don't stop, you
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Speaker 1: gonna get it right now, and all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: you find yourself. I don't like the feeling of being
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Speaker 1: in trouble. My pulse quickens, my stress levels go up,
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Speaker 1: my body goes crazy. I have all this mental imagination
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Speaker 1: of what's going to happen. She's going to kill me,
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Speaker 1: She's going to absolutely kill me. Well, I had good
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Speaker 1: reason to think she was going to kill me. My
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Speaker 1: mother told me she could kill me and have another
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Speaker 1: one that looked just like me. And she said, she said,
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Speaker 1: they won't even know you gone. And I was about
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Speaker 1: four years old. I thought, can you do that? Can
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Speaker 1: you really just like replace some brother like that? You know?
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Speaker 1: And you go from that kind of trouble. You go
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Speaker 1: from that kind of trouble to adult trouble. The more
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Speaker 1: you just do the rent is due. The wife and
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Speaker 1: I are not getting along. I have a daughter that's
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Speaker 1: not speaking to me. I have a son who's upset
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Speaker 1: with me. That kind of trouble, and though you are
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Speaker 1: experiencing adult trouble, you experience it like a child. I'm
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Speaker 1: in trouble. I'm in trouble. You lay down at night,
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Speaker 1: Oh God, I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble. I'm getting
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Speaker 1: ready retired, got nothing retire of for I'm in trouble.
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Speaker 1: The doctor says, my quiet running high. I'm in trouble.
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Speaker 1: They found a knot over in the corner of my breast,
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Speaker 1: and the test hasn't come back yet. I may be fifty,
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Speaker 1: but I'm experiencing it as a five year old. I'm
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Speaker 1: in trouble. I can tell how everybody stops talking when
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Speaker 1: I come in the office. I'm in trouble. But a
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Speaker 1: lot of the things, most of the things that happened
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Speaker 1: in our lives, were actually just caught in the crossfire
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Speaker 1: of a bigger fight. Oh this is so good. You
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Speaker 1: might be the victim, you might be the pond, you
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Speaker 1: might be the recipient of the tragedy, but it is
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Speaker 1: generally about something bigger than you. It's bigger than you.
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Speaker 1: You hear people say, devil came in my room last
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Speaker 1: night and I had to wrestle with the devil all
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Speaker 1: night long. Come on, girl, you know the devil ain't
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Speaker 1: come into your room last night. You know, you not
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Speaker 1: that important that the devil would make house calls and
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Speaker 1: come to your house and spend the whole evening wrestling
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Speaker 1: with you in the room. The devil only showed up
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Speaker 1: a few times in all of the Bible. And you
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Speaker 1: mean the devil is over your house drinking a hot
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Speaker 1: latte and telling you what all you're gonna do? To you.
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Speaker 1: But come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
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Speaker 1: we gotta get down in. But we're experiencing truma as
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Speaker 1: a five year old, and we don't know. We don't
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Speaker 1: know the why. We just know the what. We don't
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Speaker 1: understand where it's coming from. All we know is that
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Speaker 1: we're in trouble. And generally, once you conclude that you're
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Speaker 1: in trouble, you start looking for somebody to blame. And
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Speaker 1: there there are. There are three different classes of thought.
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Speaker 1: One group of people blame spiritual elements. It's always the devil.
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Speaker 1: The devil made me do it. My daughter says, says,
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Speaker 1: she's not here. I'm gonna tell us this morning why
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Speaker 1: she's not here. Maybe she's watching online. She broke my
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Speaker 1: tiger in my living room when she was nine years old.
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Speaker 1: She broke the tiger completely into It was a beautiful
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Speaker 1: tiger that we had behind the sofa, beautiful tager broke
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Speaker 1: it into. I don't know what she did to break
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Speaker 1: the tiger. I don't know whether she was jumping up
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Speaker 1: and down on it. I don't know whether she hit
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Speaker 1: cores with it. I don't know what happened to it,
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Speaker 1: but she broke When I confronted her. She said, the
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Speaker 1: devil made me do it. I thought, now I can't
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Speaker 1: even punish you because I'm trying not to laugh. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: just totally disarmed me, just ruin all of my daddy
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Speaker 1: fire with the devil made me do it. A lot
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Speaker 1: of people think the devil is the root of everything
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Speaker 1: that happened to you. We blamed the devil for everything,
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Speaker 1: even if we broke the tiger. We blamed the devil
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Speaker 1: because we are taught in this spiritual environment that everything
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Speaker 1: is spiritual, and we blame the devil. Other people blame
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Speaker 1: other people. They don't blame the devil. They blame other people.
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Speaker 1: My first husband was crazy, my second husband was crazy.
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Speaker 1: My third husband like, he didn't have no sense. My
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Speaker 1: fourth husband didn't appreciate a good woman when he had it.
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Speaker 1: My fifth husband like, he never complimented me on my hair. Now,
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Speaker 1: after about five you ought to start thinking, maybe it
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Speaker 1: ain't the man. It might be no, but y'all don't
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Speaker 1: do that. You know what y'all say, ain't no good
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Speaker 1: man left in the world. It never comes up an
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Speaker 1: issue that it might be you. It's just ain't no
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Speaker 1: good man left in the world. You dated five men
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Speaker 1: out of eight billion people on the planet, and you
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Speaker 1: have concluded that the rest of us are all crazy
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Speaker 1: because you had a bad experience and you have never
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Speaker 1: considered yourself. It's got to be her. She's crazy. That's
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Speaker 1: what the brothers say. That's what we say about y'all
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Speaker 1: when we break up. Man, she crazy crazy to catch
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Speaker 1: all phrase, you don't know what kind of crazy she is.
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Speaker 1: We don't do a complete diagnosis. But when one guy
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Speaker 1: tells you another guy's crazy, all the other guys look
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Speaker 1: at it gold. Okay, So you go down that road
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Speaker 1: and we blame other people. We blame other people. We
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Speaker 1: blame other people for being late. We blame other people
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Speaker 1: for not paying our bills. We blame other people. I
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Speaker 1: don't understand. This is one I don't understand. I don't
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Speaker 1: understand how you can borrow money from me, not pay
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Speaker 1: me back, and then blame me. Now you're mad at me.
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I'm the one broke, I'm the one
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Speaker 1: out of the money. I'm the one you didn't pay back,
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Speaker 1: and you rolling your eyes at me. We blame other
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Speaker 1: people for stuff we broke. The third group is we
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Speaker 1: blame ourselves for everything. Stuff we had no control over
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Speaker 1: things we couldn't fix. We beat ourselves up about everything.
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Speaker 1: We defend ourselves in front of the attacker, but when
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Speaker 1: we get home alone, we blame ourselves. I'm not enough,
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Speaker 1: imposter syndrome, I'm inadequate, I can't do it. Look at me,
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Speaker 1: I mess up everything. We go all the way back
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Speaker 1: to the first grade. That's why I flunk the first grade.
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Speaker 1: That's why I went through a test. That's why I
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Speaker 1: made an FMI report card. We go all the way back,
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Speaker 1: all the way read the whole resume to validate why
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Speaker 1: we are no good, and we start attacking our selves
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Speaker 1: in our texts. It is clear it does not lead
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Speaker 1: it to our imagination to conclude what category this is in.
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Speaker 1: Peter is definitely in trouble. Yeah he's gonna die in
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Speaker 1: the morning. Yeah that's right, He's gonna die in the morning.
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Speaker 1: But it is not the devil, it is not the
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Speaker 1: other disciples. And the worst part is it's not even Peter.
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Speaker 1: Peter has done nothing wrong. Why do bad things happen
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Speaker 1: to good people? And you find yourself in this situation
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Speaker 1: where not only are you trying to endure the problem,
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Speaker 1: you're perplexed because you don't understand the problem. I don't
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Speaker 1: understand why you don't like me, and you my child
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Speaker 1: and everything I ever did, what's for you? I don't
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Speaker 1: understand why you don't like me? And I'm your son?
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Speaker 1: How could you not like your child? And you go
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Speaker 1: through all of these these questions in your mind and
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Speaker 1: when you come to church, all we do is tell
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Speaker 1: you is give him a praise. But let me tell
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Speaker 1: you what praise won't do. Praise won't answer your questions.
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Speaker 1: Praise won't always resolve your issue. Praise won't take the
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Speaker 1: place of an apology. You dance all over the church,
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Speaker 1: but you still didn't apologize, and you don't have no peace.
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Speaker 1: And I don't care. How fancy you that You can
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Speaker 1: run around this church until you need a water bottle
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Speaker 1: that says butter House on it, and you still won't
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Speaker 1: solve the problem because praise won't fix what you need
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Speaker 1: to fix. I knew, wasn't nobody gonna shot give them
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Speaker 1: a be one shot. They need to shout. Let me
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Speaker 1: tell you something. You're trying to figure out what is
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Speaker 1: going on, and the church comes to you and just
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Speaker 1: tells you just praise the Lord. Hey, I got a
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Speaker 1: lump in my breast, and I'm going to give God
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Speaker 1: the praise. But when I got through dancing, I still
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Speaker 1: had a lump in my breast and it's growing. And
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Speaker 1: what do I do when I find myself in this
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Speaker 1: situation and I don't know who to blame, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know how to pray, and I don't know how
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Speaker 1: to respond to it, and I don't know how to
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Speaker 1: talk about it. I don't have language for it. I'm
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Speaker 1: going through it, and I'm going through something. Peter is
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Speaker 1: going through something that the other disciples could not relate to,
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Speaker 1: and he's going through it alone. Even if they could
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Speaker 1: relate to it, he can't talk to them. I want
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Speaker 1: to talk to some people who are going through some
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Speaker 1: stuff alone. You're going through some stuff alone, even though
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Speaker 1: other people are around. You're going through it alone, even
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Speaker 1: though other people have an opinion. You're going through it alone.
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Speaker 1: Even though other people may be talking about it, You're
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Speaker 1: going through it alone. Peter is going through this alone.
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Speaker 1: There's no James, there's no John in the room. There's
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Speaker 1: no people standing around him. Because misery kind of enjoys company.
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Speaker 1: If I got to go through it, let me go
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Speaker 1: through it with somebody, let me go through with somebody.
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Speaker 1: But most of the things that torment the soul we
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Speaker 1: go through alone. We go through alone. And single people
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Speaker 1: think they go through it alone because they're single. But
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Speaker 1: married people know that being married doesn't mean that you're
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Speaker 1: not going through it alone, that having somebody laying next
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Speaker 1: to you doesn't mean that they're going through it with you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for the ten people that aren't hypocrites, the
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Speaker 1: ten people that can admit that you can lay next
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Speaker 1: to somebody and you can even spoon alone, because this
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Speaker 1: is a keen test for men. Lady, when you ask
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Speaker 1: him what he's thinking and he says nothing, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean that we're not thinking nothing. It's just means that
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Speaker 1: we figure we're going through this alone. Peter is going
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Speaker 1: through this alone. What did he do to go to jail?
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Luke. When you wrote the Book of Acts,
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Speaker 1: you do not leave me to guess about how Peter
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Speaker 1: got in jail. He got in the crossfire of herod,
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Speaker 1: a grip of the first ego. He got in the
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Speaker 1: crossfire of a political decision where the king decides to
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Speaker 1: attack the church member for strategic advantage to go up
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Speaker 1: higher in rank. Amongst the Jews. Backstory is King Herod
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Speaker 1: of Grippin was partly Jewish. He had been sent to
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Speaker 1: this outpost. He wanted to be their king, but the
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Speaker 1: Jews did not legitimize him as being authentically Jewish. So
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Speaker 1: he's trying to get some Jewish points. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if people verir points. Black people air points, but Jewish people,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you don't got points. But he's
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Speaker 1: trying to get some points. And so he knows that
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Speaker 1: the Jews don't like the Christians, so he is hating
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Speaker 1: on who they are hating on to gain status so
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Speaker 1: that he'll have more power to get where he's trying
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Speaker 1: to go. He don't even know Peter. He doesn't even
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Speaker 1: care about Peter. He's not thinking about Peter. He don't
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Speaker 1: care about Christianity. He didn't care what they're trying to teach.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't really care about Orthodox student is. He cares
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Speaker 1: about his career. If you don't understand why you are
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Speaker 1: being attacked, you don't know how to respond to the attack.
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Speaker 1: If you don't understand that the bloggers get paid by
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Speaker 1: the hits they get, then you don't think they're talking
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Speaker 1: about you because you know they're talking about you, because
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Speaker 1: people know you, and people are going to argue about you.
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Speaker 1: And the more they click, the more you click, the
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Speaker 1: more they get paid. And you don't understand that talking
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Speaker 1: about people who has become a business. Some people don't
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Speaker 1: do nothing for a living except talk about people. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is your full time jot, what do you do
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Speaker 1: for a living? Sor I talk about people. That's what
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Speaker 1: I do and it pays really good because if I
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Speaker 1: talk about big people, I get a lot of hits.
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Speaker 1: And if I get a lot of hits, then I
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Speaker 1: get paid a lot of money. And if I get
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Speaker 1: paid a lot of money, I don't need to walk
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Speaker 1: any other kind of job. All I need to do
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Speaker 1: is say something tenillating and Solaci's enough to get you
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Speaker 1: to click on it. And the more clicks I get,
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Speaker 1: guess what, the more techs I may. Thank you for clicking,
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Speaker 1: Thank you for arguing both sides of the issue. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for responding, because you're driving my algorithms up and
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Speaker 1: I am getting paid. So they pick you out, not
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Speaker 1: because you are Luther Vandros or whoever you are, James,
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Speaker 1: to whoever you are, No, no, no, no, they pick
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Speaker 1: you out because everybody knows you, and everybody's going to
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Speaker 1: click on it, and you got caught in the crossfire.
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Speaker 1: Peter had preted their Pentecosts. He was an influential Christian.
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Speaker 1: He had ignited the switch that provoked the outpouring of
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit down on the people that cost three
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Speaker 1: thousand souls to be added to the church that day.
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Speaker 1: Peter had influence. Peter had such influence that Harrod figured,
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Speaker 1: if I killed the first disciple and they like that,
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Speaker 1: if I get the ring leader, I will really be
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Speaker 1: on top. I'm gonna really be on top. See that's
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Speaker 1: why every neck gotta pay for every pray for every head.
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Speaker 1: You can't get into a fight between the neck and
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Speaker 1: the head and argue about position. You need to understand
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Speaker 1: heavy is the crown that rests upon the head. The
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Speaker 1: higher you go. But before you pray about going up,
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Speaker 1: realize the higher you go, you're gonna get caught in
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Speaker 1: fights that you didn't start. You don't even know the person,
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Speaker 1: you don't know what's going on. I called him friend
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Speaker 1: of mine one day, and I was reading an article
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Speaker 1: in the Chicago Sun and the guy was just giving
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Speaker 1: me the blues. I mean, it was an entire op head,
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Speaker 1: of which I was at least a third of the
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Speaker 1: op head, and I didn't even know who he was.
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Speaker 1: And I called him friend of mine. I said, who
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Speaker 1: is this guy? And he told me who? Will I know?
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Speaker 1: Now y'all will know who it is that y'all got
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Speaker 1: a quiet like we have Starbucks and I'm going to
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Speaker 1: tell you who it is. Come on, please now, I said,
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Speaker 1: who is this guy? And he told me who it was?
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Speaker 1: You know, I said, I never even met the guy
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Speaker 1: who said it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you did
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Speaker 1: or didn't do when you're in the crossfires of somebody
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Speaker 1: else's ego. There's something about what I just said that
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Speaker 1: felt prophetic as it was coming out of me. It
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Speaker 1: felt prophetic, like somebody in this room is in a
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Speaker 1: situation right now, and you are bearing the brunt force
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Speaker 1: of other people's decisions that are affecting you, But they
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Speaker 1: are not because of you. They have their own agenda,
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Speaker 1: and you have to stop worrying about yourself and worrying
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Speaker 1: about your efficiency just because somebody is trying to get
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Speaker 1: in with the Jews so that he can set up
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Speaker 1: his kingdom. It has nothing to do with Peter's theology,
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Speaker 1: his preaching, his teaching, his gifting, his power, his favor,
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Speaker 1: his annoying thing. Yet Peter is in jail. It has
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with him, but he's in jail. It
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Speaker 1: was not even his fight, but he was in jail.
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Speaker 1: It was not even his problem, but he was in jail.
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Speaker 1: He has had no argument with Herod, but he is
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Speaker 1: in jail. He has not tacked off the city, but
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Speaker 1: he is in jail. Bad things do happen to good people.
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Speaker 1: God does not always order sunshine in the morning. God
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Speaker 1: does not always order blue skies, waves and sea go
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Speaker 1: flying over your window. That's not the way God works.
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Speaker 1: God will order trouble for your life and allow you
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Speaker 1: to get in trouble because God is a present help
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Speaker 1: in trouble. And if you want to be where God is,
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Speaker 1: God will let you get in trouble so He could
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Speaker 1: show himself strong in your situation. I don't know who
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Speaker 1: I'm preaching to. The God will put you in trouble
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Speaker 1: just so that he can show you how strong he is,
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Speaker 1: and that he is the King of kings and the
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Speaker 1: Lord of Lord. See Herod's the king, but Jesus is
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Speaker 1: the King of kings and the Lord of Lord. And
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Speaker 1: what you gotta understand is their countain doesn't have the
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Speaker 1: last say. The Lord doesn't have the last say. The
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Speaker 1: judge don't have the last say. The court don't have
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Speaker 1: the last say. God is going to have the last say.
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Speaker 1: It may take some time, it may take some task,
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Speaker 1: it may take some trial. But what God has for
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Speaker 1: you is for you. What I want you to see
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Speaker 1: in the first phrase of this text is that this
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Speaker 1: is a strategy of which he is being victimized by
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Speaker 1: systemic strategy that set him up. The Bible says that
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Speaker 1: we are not ignorant of the wilds of the devil.
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Speaker 1: The wounds of the devil is his strategy. That Satan
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Speaker 1: has a strategy that is tailor made for you. He
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Speaker 1: has a strategy he intended for him to be arrested.
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Speaker 1: And the Bible says that Herod thought in his mind,
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Speaker 1: if I kill him, it'll make me greater. Let me
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Speaker 1: tell you some Killing me don't make you keen. Killing
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Speaker 1: me doesn't make me keen, doesn't make you keen. But
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Speaker 1: this is a strategy that he has employed, and he
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Speaker 1: is bent and determined to make sure that Peter does
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Speaker 1: not get out. They might not know Peter, but he
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Speaker 1: must know something about Peter, because this is ear cutting Peter.
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Speaker 1: You know, you got your Thomas's and your John's and
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Speaker 1: your James, and then in every church you got a
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Speaker 1: few Peter's. They say they love the Lloyd, but if
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Speaker 1: you flip them out, it's a few of them in here.
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Speaker 1: I won't point them out to you, but it's it's
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Speaker 1: a few in here right now. They look real say
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Speaker 1: they nod and they clapping their hands. But down in
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Speaker 1: the bottom of that pocket book is a nine millimeter
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, y'all, this is Texas gods and guns. Okay, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of people in here right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, that that that that that that that that
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Speaker 1: that they're they're you know, they're they they You can't
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Speaker 1: tell it in church. Go into parking lot. That's when
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Speaker 1: you find out who's saved in church. The parking lot
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Speaker 1: will tell you the Christians, the saints from nangs, because
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Speaker 1: they all won't be saints in here. When they get
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Speaker 1: in that parking lot and you cut them off, you
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Speaker 1: won't find out how much Holy Gold say, really, God,
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Speaker 1: don't pay those tongues no attention. Just go into parking lot.
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Speaker 1: You won't find out who is who in the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of God. Thank you Lord for telling me what the
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Speaker 1: king was thinking, because my first question whenever people do
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Speaker 1: anything crazy, who work for me or I work for
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Speaker 1: or I work with? My first question is who are
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Speaker 1: you thinking? Whatever comes after what were you thinking is
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Speaker 1: not going to be good, but it is sincere, I
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Speaker 1: want to know what you were thinking. The Bible tells
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Speaker 1: us what Herod was thinking, and it had nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with Peter. But he was gonna die in the morning.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine dying over something that had nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with you. He's not dying for his witness for
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. He's not dying for the magnitude of his ministry.
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Speaker 1: He's not dying because he healed too many people and delivery.
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Speaker 1: He's dying because Herod is ambitious. Have you ever found
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Speaker 1: yourself on death row because of somebody else's ambition? I'm married, folks.
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Speaker 1: Let me talk to y'all. Have you ever found yourself
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Speaker 1: in trouble because somebody was after your spouse? I bet
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Speaker 1: you better holler back at me right now before I
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Speaker 1: point you out. And it is not that you burned
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Speaker 1: the toasts. Now that you don't come home at night.
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Speaker 1: It's not that you're not a good wife, is not
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Speaker 1: that you're not a good husband. But somebody's plotting on you,
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Speaker 1: and they got a strategy at work, and they're out
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Speaker 1: to discredit you. And you find yourself in a situation
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Speaker 1: where you know they've been talking to somebody. You don't
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Speaker 1: know who they've been talking to. But I've been married
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Speaker 1: to you twenty years and you ain't talking like this,
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Speaker 1: and here you come out to twenty years and now
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Speaker 1: you're talking strange. You've been talking to somebody. Come on,
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Speaker 1: come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
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Speaker 1: come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
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Speaker 1: And Peter is thrust in jail and listen, he gets
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Speaker 1: sixteen soldiers divides him into four quadrants. This is respect,
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Speaker 1: This is respect. The level of attack determines the level
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Speaker 1: of respect. If King Harrod didn't know that Peter was
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Speaker 1: somebody to deal with, he would have put one man
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Speaker 1: on him to guard him, and that would have been adequate.
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Speaker 1: But he quadrupled the necessity of putting enough guards on him,
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Speaker 1: because Harrod knows that if he gives Peter half a
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Speaker 1: chance to get up Peter will pull out his sword
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Speaker 1: and go to cutting off ears and setting people free
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Speaker 1: and breaking your And that same devil knows that about you,
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Speaker 1: that if he gives you half a chance to get
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Speaker 1: up on your feet, that all hell is gonna break
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Speaker 1: loose in that place. Holleynujah. And if y'all know hear
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, he knows that you got power. He
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Speaker 1: knows that you got power, and he's attacking you because
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Speaker 1: you got power. How five somebodyself got power. I know
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Speaker 1: I got power because I got problems. If you got power,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have problems. The problems are a sign that
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Speaker 1: you got power. Nobody sends that level of problems. If
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Speaker 1: you don't have any power. You don't get sixteen soldiers
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Speaker 1: to guard a three year old. You get sixteen soldiers
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Speaker 1: to guard one man. When that one man is bad
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Speaker 1: and he's got power, Somebody in here shout because you
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Speaker 1: got power. You're under attack because you got power. You're
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Speaker 1: being besieged by the enemy. Because you got power. He's
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Speaker 1: put unnecessary guards. But if it ain't this is that.
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Speaker 1: If it ain't that is the other. Soon as you
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Speaker 1: get through that, here comes something else, and it's all
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Speaker 1: because Hell is nervous about you. Hell is nervous about
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Speaker 1: what you're going to be. Hell is nervous about what
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Speaker 1: you're going to do. And he's increased the guards to
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Speaker 1: block you from getting where you're trying to go. Do
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Speaker 1: you hear what I'm saying, but throw your hands up
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Speaker 1: and say, walk me through it. Walk me through it,
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Speaker 1: Walk me through it, Walk me through it, because I
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Speaker 1: will not die today. Cool points to Peter. He's got
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Speaker 1: sixteen soldiers. He's handcuffed to two of them. He's handcuffed
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Speaker 1: to two Roman soldiers. This is the greatest expression of
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Speaker 1: faith I've ever heard. Silent faith screams. Silent faith screams,
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Speaker 1: faith that will not become discombobulated just because you're under attack.
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Speaker 1: Is faith that it's best Running all over the office,
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Speaker 1: annoying the elevator with oil might not be faith that
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Speaker 1: is best. Faith at is best is peace in the
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Speaker 1: midst of the storm. Faith that is best is peace
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the storm. And I thought to myself, Peter,
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Speaker 1: how did you sleep in prison on the night before
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Speaker 1: You're going to be killed? And Simon has just been beheaded. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna kill me, you know give me talk
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Speaker 1: about CBS and pick up something. You know, I'm not
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Speaker 1: for this dramatic stuff. I like my head. You might
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Speaker 1: not like my head. I know it ain't fine, but
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Speaker 1: it's my head. I want my head. Don't cut my
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Speaker 1: head off. Cutting my head off would probably mess up
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Speaker 1: my neck. If I thought you was gonna cut my
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Speaker 1: head off in the morning, I probably wouldn't sleep that night, Peter.
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Speaker 1: And so I asked Pete.
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Speaker 2: I said, Peter, how in the world did you go
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Speaker 2: to sleep chain to two guards in the inner sanctum
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Speaker 2: of the prison that even if you whip them, you
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Speaker 2: got fourteen.
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Speaker 1: More to go before you get out, and you sleep? Dude,
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Speaker 1: where did you learn how to sleep like this? And
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Speaker 1: then I remember how Jesus will sleep on the boat. Y'all,
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Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying to you. And the thing
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Speaker 1: that Peter has learned from his mentor is to sleep
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Speaker 1: in the middle of a storm. If you can keep
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Speaker 1: your peace when all hell is breaking loose, if you
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Speaker 1: can refuse to react in a predictable way when all
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Speaker 1: hell is breaking loose, God will find a way to
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Speaker 1: bless you. And sometimes the best response to the attack
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Speaker 1: is the sleep. Says, I don't know what he's gonna do,
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Speaker 1: but he's gonna do something. The Sleep says, I don't
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Speaker 1: know how he's gonna move, but he's gonna move something.
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Speaker 1: The Sleep says, I don't have the answer to the problem,
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Speaker 1: but I know who does have the answer to the problem.
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Speaker 1: The Sleep says, the battle is not mine. It belongs
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Speaker 1: to the Lord. The Sleep says, stand still and see
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Speaker 1: the salvation of the Lord. The Sleep says, the enemies
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Speaker 1: that you see today, you shall see them no more.
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Speaker 1: The Sleep says, when the battle is over, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: shout the victory, and I'm gonna need some rest to
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Speaker 1: get my dance on.
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Speaker 3: SUTs.
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Speaker 1: Three people say, sleep through it. Yeah, sleep to it.
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Speaker 1: Sleep through it. Don't argue about it, don't fuss about it,
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Speaker 1: don't fight about it, don't get mad about it, don't
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Speaker 1: get upset, don't cuss nobody out about it. Just sleep
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Speaker 1: through it. He that hath begun a good work, and
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Speaker 1: you shall perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm preaching to in this building,
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Speaker 1: but God says, sleep through it. Don't get even, don't
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Speaker 1: get revenge, don't retaliate. Just go to bed, because God
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Speaker 1: has determined your end from your beginning, and when it's
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Speaker 1: all over, He's gonna give you a breakthrough. I need
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Speaker 1: a thirty second phase break. I'm getting my peace facts.
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Speaker 1: I'm getting my peace facts. I'm getting my confidence by it,
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Speaker 1: I'm getting my trust back. I'm learning how to just
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Speaker 1: go to bed and leave it in God's hands. I'm
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Speaker 1: leaving my children in God's hands. I'm leaving my wife
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Speaker 1: in God's hands. I'm leaving my marriage in God's hands.
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Speaker 1: I'm leaving my future in God's hand. For the Lord
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Speaker 1: knows the way that I take, and when he has
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Speaker 1: tried me, I shall come forth as to a goal.
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Speaker 1: Somebody give me an old fashion. How they Nujah.
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Speaker 3: Pentecostals and why.
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Speaker 1: He was sleeping? You know, God does his best stuff
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Speaker 1: while you sleep. When God got ready to bring Eve
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Speaker 1: into the world, he put out him to sleep, because
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Speaker 1: God doesn't need your participation in order to bless you.
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Speaker 1: When God gets ready to give you what you need,
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Speaker 1: you can be sleep, and he can still pull out
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Speaker 1: of you what he placed inside of you and costs
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Speaker 1: you to prosper. And Abraham, he said, Abraham through thy
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Speaker 1: seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed. Go
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Speaker 1: to sleep, and I'm gonna make a covenant for you
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Speaker 1: without you. And Jesus hung his head in the locks
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Speaker 1: of his shoulders and died till the sun refused to shine,
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Speaker 1: and the ground began to tremble, and God was working
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Speaker 1: the night shifts. Can't somebody say he's pulling stuff out
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Speaker 1: of me in my sleep. He's working it out for
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Speaker 1: me in my sleep. He's moving obstacles in my sleep.
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Speaker 1: He's turning it around in my sleep. He's making away
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Speaker 1: in my sleep. He's providing in my sleep. I don't
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Speaker 1: have to do nothing. I don't have to say nothing.
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Speaker 1: I don't have to plant no gossip. I don't have
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Speaker 1: to retaliate. I don't have to steam and plot. You
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Speaker 1: stay up, I'm going to bed. I'm covered, I'm protected,
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Speaker 1: I'm loved, I'm cradled, I'm taking care of I've got
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Speaker 1: the blood of Jesus over my life. Hollylujah. I'm blessed
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Speaker 1: in the city. I'm blessed in the field. I'm blessed
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Speaker 1: in my uprising. I'm blessed in my down setting. I
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Speaker 1: don't know who I'm talking to, but God said, you've
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Speaker 1: been up too many nights and it's time for you
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Speaker 1: to just go to bed and rest in the Lord
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Speaker 1: that he that had began of good work. Then you
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Speaker 1: shall perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Who
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Speaker 1: am I talking to in here? Sit down, I'm just
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Speaker 1: talking to you. He slept like a baby, draw a
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Speaker 1: line between sleep and suddenly sleep and suddenly sleep, and
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Speaker 1: suddenly suddenly there appeared and the angel in the room.
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Speaker 1: Peter didn't do anything to call him. In fact, I
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Speaker 1: was trying to find the hero in this text, and
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of confused because I wanted to preach it
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Speaker 1: was Peter's faith, but Peter didn't even believe it was real.
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Speaker 1: And then I wanted to give the intercessors all the credit,
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Speaker 1: but they was praying for an answer. When the answer came,
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Speaker 1: they wouldn't even open up the door. And when Rhoda
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Speaker 1: told him that God had answered to prayer to people
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Speaker 1: who was praying, didn't believe it. So where is my Yeah,
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Speaker 1: now that's way back. Where is my hero of faith?
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Speaker 1: In the text? Where's my hero of faith? Peter doesn't
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Speaker 1: believe it, the inner sisters don't believe it, and still
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Speaker 1: there was a suddenly, Wait a minute, Maybe if Peter
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Speaker 1: didn't do anything to get himself in, maybe he doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to do anything to get himself out. Maybe if
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Speaker 1: God sees fit to get you in trouble, God will
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Speaker 1: get you out of trouble. And maybe you ought to
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Speaker 1: stop sitting up at night thinking what should I do?
43:55
Speaker 1: What should I do? What should I do about it?
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Speaker 1: Who should I call? Where should I go? What should
43:58
Speaker 1: I do? What's to do? Maybe you shouldn't do nothing
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Speaker 1: because you didn't get yourself in it, and maybe you
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Speaker 1: don't have to do anything to get yourself out. And
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Speaker 1: maybe the best response is Jesus. Sleep. Suddenly, sleep is
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Speaker 1: the method of Jesus. Only Jesus sleeps through tornadoes, hurricane,
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Speaker 1: stuff flying all through the air, boat about to go
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Speaker 1: under water, ship being filled with water, feet wet Jesus.
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Speaker 1: It matters who mentored you, Yeah, I ain't gonna finish.
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Speaker 1: I ain't gonna finish. If your mama was hysterical or
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Speaker 1: your daddy was hysterical. When you get in trouble, you
44:55
Speaker 1: become hysterical because they taught you how to respond to stress.
45:00
Speaker 1: As a little kid, you watch them react to trouble,
45:03
Speaker 1: and you learn this is how you react to trouble.
45:06
Speaker 1: If Mama cussed everybody out when she got in trouble,
45:08
Speaker 1: then when you get mad, you cuss everybody out. If
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Speaker 1: she never said anything, you don't say anything. Depending on
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Speaker 1: whoever your mentor was, may not even be your mother,
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Speaker 1: may be your father, may be your auntie, whoever had
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Speaker 1: the deepest impression in your life, they taught you how
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Speaker 1: to react. Jesus taught Peter how to sleep. Jesus taught
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Speaker 1: Peter how to sleep. Lord, teach me how to sleep.
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Speaker 1: Teach me how to just stop my wheels from turning
45:43
Speaker 1: and my brain from spinning, and me trying to figure
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Speaker 1: my way out, and me worshiping the idol of my
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Speaker 1: own intellect, as if I had to be smart to
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Speaker 1: be delivered. So then my intellect becomes my idolatry because
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Speaker 1: I think I gotta figure my way out of everything.
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Speaker 1: Teach me how to sleep, because if I can get
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Speaker 1: to sleep right, then you can get the suddenly right sleep,
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Speaker 1: suddenly sleep. Suddenly you're watching online. You've been all worried,
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Speaker 1: all upset and walking the floor, can't sleep, can't figure
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Speaker 1: out what's wrong with you, trying to figure everything. Can't
46:33
Speaker 1: cut your brain off. Go to bed. Go to bed.
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Speaker 1: If you didn't do anything to get yourself in and
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Speaker 1: you don't have anything to repent about, and you don't
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Speaker 1: have anything to apologize about, and you were just doing
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Speaker 1: what God created you to do, and somebody threw you
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Speaker 1: in jail. Get into jail and fluff up under your
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Speaker 1: shoulder and go to bed. Because he's Alpha, had amiga
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Speaker 1: at the beginning and the end, the first and the last,
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Speaker 1: and if he got you in it, he will get
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Speaker 1: you out of it. And because all things work together
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Speaker 1: for the good of them that love the Lord, who
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Speaker 1: are the call according to his purpose. There's somebody say
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Speaker 1: I'm going to bed tonight. That's what I'm gonna do.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I might not even wait tonight. I might
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Speaker 1: take a three o'clock now, I might just go home
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Speaker 1: and get me a piece of chicken and climb into
47:23
Speaker 1: bed and go to sleep and sleep till about five
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Speaker 1: or six o'clock, and then get up and practice it again.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna rest in the Lord. I'm gonna rest in
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Speaker 1: the Lord. I'm gonna rest in the Lord in spite
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Speaker 1: of my handcuffs, in spite of my budget, in spite
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Speaker 1: of my limitations, in spite of my finances, in spite
47:43
Speaker 1: of my dilimma, in spite of my child who's cussing
47:46
Speaker 1: me out, in spite of my husband who left me.
47:49
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rest. These ain't nothing but handcuffs. These ain't
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Speaker 1: nothing but handcuffs. They don't stop me from sleeping. They
47:55
Speaker 1: tied up my hands, whether they didn't tie up my peach.
47:58
Speaker 1: I'm going to bed. Hand cuffs it all. I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna stay up all night twisting my wrists, trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out the combination, trying to steal a key. I'm
48:08
Speaker 1: going to bed. Angel appeared suddenly. God is a suddenly God.
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Speaker 1: He will show up suddenly and see this contradict's faith
48:28
Speaker 1: because you want to see him coming. You want him
48:30
Speaker 1: to tell you what he's gonna do and how he's
48:32
Speaker 1: gonna do it. And I'm gonna send an angel, and
48:35
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send it at ten thirty five, and I
48:37
Speaker 1: want you to be dressed and ready, and at ten
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Speaker 1: thirty five, we're gonna blow this joint and we're gonna
48:42
Speaker 1: get out of here, and we're gonna have to step
48:44
Speaker 1: over all these sleepy people. But if you wear your
48:46
Speaker 1: tennis shoes, you're gonna be ready for it. So don't
48:49
Speaker 1: wear your church shoes. Wear your tennis shoes so you
48:51
Speaker 1: can be comfortable. And then we're gonna crawl out. We're
48:53
Speaker 1: gonna go through the window because the door is closed.
48:55
Speaker 1: And when we go through the window, I want to
48:57
Speaker 1: measure you to make sure you don't get stuck in
48:59
Speaker 1: the window. And once you get through the window, I'm
49:01
Speaker 1: gonna pull you out of it. You want God to
49:04
Speaker 1: explain God's stuff to human ears. God never explains how
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Speaker 1: he's gonna do it. He just does it. He just
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Speaker 1: shows up. He just appears. He just loves, He just
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Speaker 1: works it out.
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Speaker 4: Suddenly, somebody south suddenly let the devil hear you say, suddenly,
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Speaker 4: my god. Suddenly an angel appeared. The angel didn't come in,
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Speaker 4: It just appeared. It just showed up.
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Speaker 1: The angel didn't walk in and disturb all the guards
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Speaker 1: and tell all the guards I'm coming. You think you
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Speaker 1: got Peter, but I'm gonna show you something today. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna wear you behind out today. You think you bad,
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Speaker 1: pull your sword, bring your shit with No. The did
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Speaker 1: not create unnecessary disturbance. He disappeared.
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Speaker 5: He just shrunk, It just moved suddenly, and then angel appeared.
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Speaker 1: For every prison you're in, there's an angel for every
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Speaker 1: prison emotionally, mentally, physically, attitudeally, intellectually, for every prison you're in,
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Speaker 1: there's an angel. Just one. That's all you need. One.
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Speaker 1: The whole sitting camp against me. My heart's all off fear.
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Speaker 1: The war ship rides against me, and this will I
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Speaker 1: be confident? One thing? I just need one. Angel appeared
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Speaker 1: in the room, shook Peter, woke him up and told
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Speaker 1: Peter hurry up. Now. He wouldn't have had to tell
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Speaker 1: me that. I don't have no revelation for that. If
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Speaker 1: you're waiting on me to give a profound point, I
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Speaker 1: don't have a profound point for that. Because if I
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Speaker 1: was about to be beheaded in the morning, God would
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Speaker 1: not have to tell me to hurry up. I would
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Speaker 1: have been the angel getting out of there. I would
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Speaker 1: have been talking about come on, food, we got to go,
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Speaker 1: We got we ain't got time for this fool and
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Speaker 1: we got to go. We got to go. The angel
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Speaker 1: tells Peter is so calm that the angel has to
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Speaker 1: tell Peter to hurry up about his problem, about his
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Speaker 1: problem hurry up, put your clothes on, put your shoes on.
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Speaker 1: What's this? I'm going to walk you through it. This
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Speaker 1: is the word of the Lord to you. Hurry up,
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Speaker 1: put your clothes on. Yeah, put your shoes on. Follow me. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to walk you through it. I swear I
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Speaker 1: don't have your address. I haven't been living in your
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Speaker 1: house now. I'm not laying up under your bed. But
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Speaker 1: somebody's been praying I don't know how to get out
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Speaker 1: of this, and God is saying, I'm going to walk you.
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Speaker 1: I know you don't have wings, so I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to operate on a level and a dimension that you
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Speaker 1: can't operate in. I could fly I appeared in, but
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Speaker 1: since you're a walker, I'm gonna walk. Wait. Lord, we
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Speaker 1: got to go through four quadrons of soldiers. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: walk you through every one of them. And I would
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Speaker 1: have thought that they were all sleep except the text
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Speaker 1: says that at least one of them's eyes was wide open.
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Speaker 1: But do you know people can be looking at you
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Speaker 1: and not see you. You can be moving up and
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Speaker 1: the people in your office don't know it. You can
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Speaker 1: be getting looser and the people in your house don't
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Speaker 1: know it. God can move in such a way that
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Speaker 1: he could make you invisible to people who think they're
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Speaker 1: watching you. They got surveillance of you, but they can't
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Speaker 1: trap you because God is bringing you out. Who am
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Speaker 1: I preaching to? This is going to be so slick
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Speaker 1: that they walk through the guards and God walked them
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Speaker 1: through it. I don't know who this is for. I
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Speaker 1: don't know why I'm preaching this today. I really don't know.
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Speaker 1: I'm just as dumb as a male man who cannot
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Speaker 1: read the letter. I'm just delivering the letter. The letter
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Speaker 1: says God is going to walk you through it. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what it is. You have to determine what
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Speaker 1: it is. But whatever it is, God says, I am
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Speaker 1: going to walk you through it. You don't have to
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Speaker 1: see your way clear, you don't have to know how
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Speaker 1: to get out of this. You don't have to figure
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Speaker 1: out anything. God says, If you just follow me, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to walk you through it. I don't know who that.
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Speaker 1: Who is that for? Who is that for? Who is
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Speaker 1: that for? Then? I want you to make it yours.
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Speaker 1: I want you to touch somebody and tell them God's
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Speaker 1: gonna walk me through it. God's gonna walk me through
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Speaker 1: this season of my life. God's gonna walk me through
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Speaker 1: this season of my life. God's gonna walk me through
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Speaker 1: this season of my life. God's gonna walk me through
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Speaker 1: the pain of this present danger. God's gonna walk me
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Speaker 1: through this political toxic environment I'm in. God's gonna walk
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Speaker 1: me through my enemies and my judases, and my betrayers
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Speaker 1: and my naysayers. God said, He's gonna walk me through it.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a process. But little by little, every
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Speaker 1: step I take, He's gonna take me a little bit further.
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Speaker 1: God is going to walk me through it. Listen as
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Speaker 1: I prepare to close, not because I'm finished, because the
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Speaker 1: text ain't finished. But I'm gonna stop right here. If
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Speaker 1: God walks you through it, no weapons formed against you,
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Speaker 1: She'll be able to prosper. Now, sit with me and
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Speaker 1: stand with me a minute and think on this. How
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Speaker 1: many times in your life did God walk you through
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Speaker 1: stuff that you thought you couldn't get through. He didn't
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Speaker 1: he do it before? Didn't he walk you through things
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Speaker 1: that you thought were going to kill you. Didn't he
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Speaker 1: walk you through some dangerous moments that could have destroyed
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Speaker 1: you physically, emotionally, financially, mentally, didn't he walk you through it?
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Speaker 1: You lost your house, he walked you through it. You
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Speaker 1: lost your spouse, he walked you through it. You lost
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Speaker 1: your parents, he walked you through it. You went through
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Speaker 1: pain you didn't think you could take, but God walked
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Speaker 1: you through it. The word of the lad to you
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Speaker 1: today is I'm going to walk you through it. The
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Speaker 1: weirdest thing about the text, as I hastened to close,
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Speaker 1: is that the angel didn't leave him till he was safe.
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Speaker 1: When they were free as a bird, the angel went
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Speaker 1: on his way. One other thing I'll point out. I
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Speaker 1: got twenty, but I'll point out one more. Every obstacle
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Speaker 1: on the way out open automatically. The chains fell automatically,
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Speaker 1: They walked through the guards automatically. They got to the gate,
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Speaker 1: and the gate just opened. Everything opened until they got
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Speaker 1: to the believers. When they got to the believers, Peter
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Speaker 1: is knocking at the door. Why in God's name would
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Speaker 1: you be knocking now when every other door opened in
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Speaker 1: front of you? Because faith without works is dead being alone.
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Speaker 1: So God says, I'm going to open every other door,
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Speaker 1: but the last door is on you. Now hear this good?
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Speaker 1: The last door is on you. The last door is
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Speaker 1: on you because many, many people will not open the
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Speaker 1: door to better. They have been raised in trauma and
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Speaker 1: pain and sin and degradation, and they'll knock at it,
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Speaker 1: but they won't open the door to better. They know
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Speaker 1: what to do. I was talking to a girl about
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Speaker 1: eating healthy. I said, I know all that stuff, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but it don't work because you know it, sry, you
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Speaker 1: have to do it. Don't eat process foods, and I
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Speaker 1: don't want you to eat every three ounces of meeting
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Speaker 1: day and lean meeting all the time. I said, I
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Speaker 1: know all of that, you know all of that extra helping,
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Speaker 1: the vegetables and fruit and all that. I know, I
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Speaker 1: know it, But until I do it, it doesn't work. So
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Speaker 1: God says, I'm not gonna open every door. Because here's
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Speaker 1: the test of your faith today. Will you open the
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Speaker 1: door to the best version of yourself? Will? Will? Will
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Speaker 1: you open this is a simple thing. It doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: like it ought to be hurt? But would you open
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Speaker 1: the door to happy? After a lot of losses and
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Speaker 1: a lot of pain, has sorrow become your address and
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Speaker 1: you knocking on it because you like the idea of
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Speaker 1: happiness and peace and joy and contentment. But the last
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Speaker 1: challenge the Holy Spirit gave me is you have the
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Speaker 1: last door is on you, and you have people in
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Speaker 1: their praying for Peter to come. Rota goes to the door,
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Speaker 1: recognizes Peter's voice won't open the door on what they
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Speaker 1: prayed for. How many times do we pray for things
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Speaker 1: and then when it comes, we're scared of what we
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Speaker 1: prayed for. Let me break this down, let me no, no,
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Speaker 1: don't clip, don't clop, let me break this out. I'm
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Speaker 1: believing God for a companion. I'm praying. I fasted. I
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Speaker 1: fasted three times, three weeks, from three cigarettes. You know,
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Speaker 1: y'all got some fast we never heard of in our day.
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Speaker 1: I'm fasten from bubble gum. I'm fastom from Instagram. When
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Speaker 1: I came up in church, we didn't fast from Instagram.
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Speaker 1: We fasted from foods. You've been on a forty day fast,
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Speaker 1: you look like it. I was in Africa and they
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Speaker 1: said this man's been faster for forty days. I thought, oh,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe it. I saw him. I say, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, he's been faster for forty days. Brother came
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Speaker 1: in there. He looked like a skeleton in a doctor's office.
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Speaker 1: And then when somebody comes, you all been the door,
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Speaker 1: You prayed for a job, and then when it comes