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Prep-Before-Promise-Bishop-T-D-Jakes · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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Speaker 1: What is happening in this place. It's the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: is bearing witness that we are in the right place
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Speaker 1: at the right time, on the precipice, on the precipice
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Speaker 1: of an absolute revolution. It's time out for doing events
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Speaker 1: just to do events.
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Speaker 2: If they're not purpose driven, is.
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Speaker 1: There not revelational, if they're not empowering, if they're not relevant.
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Speaker 1: We don't have time to waste our energy in things
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Speaker 1: that are not contruent with our destiny. Because the Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit has confirmed to us it's going to be big.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be big. Every firmer knows when he
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Speaker 1: plants a seed that he does not expect to reap
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Speaker 1: a seed from a seed. Whatever when in the ground
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Speaker 1: is going to come out bigger when it comes out
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Speaker 1: than it was when it went in. If it's in
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Speaker 1: good soil, it's going to flourish. Lay your hands on
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Speaker 1: yourself and say, I am good soil.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Anybody who invested me is going to be blessed. Anybody
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Speaker 1: who loves me is going to be blessed. Anybody who
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Speaker 1: befriends me is going to be blessed. I am good soil.
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Speaker 1: If you plan an idea in me, I'll create a
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Speaker 1: product around it. Come on, if you're playing a seed
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Speaker 1: in me, I'll produce a harvest behind it. Anybody who
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Speaker 1: invests in me, lay your hands on yourself. I am
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Speaker 1: good soil. That's why God made at him from the
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Speaker 1: dust of the earth, because he wanted to make sure
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Speaker 1: that he used good soil. It's gonna be big. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be big, y'all, it's gonna be big. Let me
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Speaker 1: go to work Joshua chapter one, verse nine through seventeen.
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Speaker 1: There you will find my assignment for this morning. I
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Speaker 1: asked God, what would you have me share with your people?
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Speaker 1: After forty six years of preaching? I am blind without
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Speaker 1: your leadership, and competent without your direction, insufficient without your instructions,
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Speaker 1: incapable without your anointing. Speak Lord, for thy servant here,
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Speaker 1: what would you have me say to this people at
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Speaker 1: this time in their lives? And he drove me to
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Speaker 1: Joshua chapter one, verse nine. I said, Joshua, Yeah, go
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Speaker 1: to Joshua chapter one, verse nine. I said, Lord, but
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Speaker 1: Joshua is a tempestuous book at a transitional time, with
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Speaker 1: transformative leadership, with the fears urgency of altercation, so that
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Speaker 1: there might be infiltration. Listen closely at me altercation, so
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Speaker 1: that there might be infiltration.
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Speaker 2: Should I use Joshua? Lord?
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Speaker 1: Joshua is not a book for whims. Joshua is not
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Speaker 1: a book for those who are faint of heart. Joshua
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Speaker 1: is a book that is designed for people who have
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Speaker 1: who have survived the desert, made it through the dry places,
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Speaker 1: and still have enough strength to embark on what is
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Speaker 1: about to happen in their life. Joshua is for the
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Speaker 1: remnants of people that the desert tried to take out
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Speaker 1: and it didn't work. Joshua it is the beginning of
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Speaker 1: a beginning again. It is a fresh start. It is
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Speaker 1: the recycling of a covenant people who have been recycled
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Speaker 1: in the midst of transition. It is the place of discomfort.
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Speaker 1: It is the place of disruption. You want me to
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Speaker 1: take them to Joshua, Lord, Yes, take them to Joshua.
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Speaker 1: Joshua is the place where all things are passed away.
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Speaker 1: The Book of Joshua is the repass after the funeral
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Speaker 1: of Moses. It is the closing of one door and
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Speaker 1: the opening of the next.
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Speaker 2: The Book of.
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Speaker 1: Joshua is synergistic with a total transformation of the way
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Speaker 1: the people think who have been trained in forty years
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Speaker 1: of survival training but have not been taught in success.
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Speaker 1: For the last forty years. They have developed the techniques
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Speaker 1: that the techniques that were necessary to sustain them in
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Speaker 1: dry places. But the drought is over.
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Speaker 2: The drought.
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Speaker 1: Is over, and now they are stepping into a new
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Speaker 1: transformative experience with a new leader requiring new skills, which
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Speaker 1: means that they must be shameless plug disruptive in their thinking,
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Speaker 1: because if they hold on to their old thinking, if
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Speaker 1: you go into new places with old thinking, the wine
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Speaker 1: skins burst because they don't have the flexibility to deal
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Speaker 1: with expanishion.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be big.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And if it's gonna be big, I've got to
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Speaker 1: be pliable. I'm in the Book of Joshua. Let me
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Speaker 1: read it to you. I'm excited. Here God speaks to Joshua,
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Speaker 1: having just eulogized Moses. He opens his mouth and clears
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Speaker 1: his throat and says, now, Moses, my servant is dead.
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Speaker 2: As I was with Moses.
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Speaker 1: So shall I be was and shall was? And shall
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Speaker 1: we are right in between was? And shall as I
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Speaker 1: was with Moses, so.
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Speaker 2: Shall I be with Joshua.
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Speaker 1: Now we eavesdrop on God commanding his general, teaching him
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Speaker 1: how to lead. Not so he has not led before.
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Speaker 1: He has led in a subordinate level up under a leader,
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Speaker 1: but he has never led where he is fully in
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Speaker 1: charge and the buck stops with them. And so even
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Speaker 1: though he has some experience and preparatory resolution that abides
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Speaker 1: in him based on that past experience, still he's not
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Speaker 1: ready for this. So God says to him, be strong.
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Speaker 1: And I want to say that to you.
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Speaker 2: Be strong.
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Speaker 1: Don't confuse strong with angry. I've seen a lot of
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Speaker 1: people who were angry but not strong, who talk tough
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Speaker 1: but cracked easy. God says, for what I'm getting ready
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Speaker 1: to do, must be strong. Have not I commanded THEE.
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Speaker 1: I command you to be strong. I'm not asking you.
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Speaker 1: I command THEE to be strong and of good courage.
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Speaker 1: Be not a fred, Neither be thou this maid. For
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Speaker 1: the Lord thy God is with THEE.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. That settles it right there.
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Speaker 1: The Lord thy God is with THEE, whethersoever thou goest. Now,
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Speaker 1: when God commanded Joshua, then Joshua commanded the officers. See,
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Speaker 1: we have people commanding people who have not been commanded.
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Speaker 1: We have people leading people who have not been led.
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Speaker 1: Then Joshua commanded the officers. He didn't bring it to
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Speaker 1: the officers until God brought it to him the officers
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Speaker 1: of the people, saying, pass through the hosts, go through
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Speaker 1: the crowd and command the people. You cannot command people
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Speaker 1: until you can be commanded. You can't give orders if
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Speaker 1: you can't take them. Pass through the hosts and command
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Speaker 1: the people, saying, prepare your victuals.
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Speaker 2: Prepare your victuals.
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Speaker 1: Prepare your food, your sustenance, your necessities, your needs, the
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Speaker 1: equipment that is necessary for sustainability. I charge you, I no,
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Speaker 1: I command you to prepare your victuals. For within three days,
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Speaker 1: ye should pass over this Jordan, to go into a land,
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Speaker 1: to go in to possess the which the Lord your
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Speaker 1: God giveth you to possess it. He gave it to you,
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Speaker 1: but you got to possess it. And plus in addition
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Speaker 1: to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe
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Speaker 1: of Manessa, spake Joshua, saying, here's the challenge to you.
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Speaker 1: Remember the word which Moses, the servant of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: commanded you, saying, the Lord your God hath given you
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Speaker 1: rest and have given you this land, meaning this land
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Speaker 1: on this side of the Jordan. Your wives, your little ones,
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Speaker 1: and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses
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Speaker 1: gave you on this side of Jordan.
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Speaker 2: But you cannot sit comfortably and what has.
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Speaker 1: Already been allocated to you while your brothers remain in lack.
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Speaker 1: Ye shall pass before your brethren, armed all the mighty
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Speaker 1: men of Valor, and help them. Question who are you helping?
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Speaker 1: I know you've been blessed. I know you got knowledge,
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Speaker 1: I know you got degrees, I know you got opportunities.
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Speaker 1: I know you got influence. I know you got a
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Speaker 1: nice car. I know you got a Gucci bag, I
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Speaker 1: know you wear in Louis Vautan. Excuse me, who are
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Speaker 1: you helping? Until the Lord hath given your brethren rests
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Speaker 1: as he hath given you, and they also have possessed
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Speaker 1: the land with the Lord your god hath given them,
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Speaker 1: then ye shall return unto the land of your possessions
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Speaker 1: and enjoy it. You might be partying at the wrong time.
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Speaker 1: You can't celebrate while your brother suffered, which Moses, the
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Speaker 1: Lord's servant, gave you on this side of Jordan. Toward
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Speaker 1: the sunrising, and they answered Joshua, saying all that thou
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Speaker 1: commandest us, we will do. And whethersoever thou sendest us,
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Speaker 1: we will go. We will not sit out on the
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Speaker 1: land that we've already possessed and build our houses and
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Speaker 1: sit up under shade trees and drink tall glasses of
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Speaker 1: iced tea with mint leaves on the top, while our
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Speaker 1: brother's skin is throat is parched, and skin is burnt,
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Speaker 1: and they are wandering trying to figure out how to
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Speaker 1: figure out how to figure out how to get in.
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Speaker 1: According as we hearken unto Moses and all things, so
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Speaker 1: will we hearken unto thee only the Lord that God
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Speaker 1: be with thee.
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Speaker 2: As he was with Moses.
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Speaker 1: My subject this morning is prep before the promise, prep
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Speaker 1: before the problem. Why did you use that? Prepare your victuals?
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Speaker 1: For in three days we will cross this jod. You
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Speaker 1: may be see that. Thank you very much. Speed of
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Speaker 1: the Lord God falls fresh on us. Says we break
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Speaker 1: into the Word of God today. I thank you for
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Speaker 1: the Word of God being made flesh. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: what you're about to do. Thank you for all that
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Speaker 1: you've invested in us. I believe you for al in
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Speaker 1: Jesus' name. Amen, I just concluded on yesterday my annual
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Speaker 1: strategy meeting, where various influencers, companies, corporations, and our entire
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Speaker 1: staff surrounded the room just to ruminate in the possibilities
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Speaker 1: of what our combined strength could achieve. I have come
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Speaker 1: to learn that we are better together than we are
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Speaker 1: a part. I have come to learn that if you
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Speaker 1: can fulfill your dream on your own, it is too.
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Speaker 2: Small for you.
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Speaker 1: So we galvanize the best of the best from every
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Speaker 1: walk of life, from all types of business, from travel
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Speaker 1: and leisure to Wells Fargo to Bank of America. They
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Speaker 1: were all in the room to McDonald's. They were all
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Speaker 1: in the room to learn and glean and to contemplate
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Speaker 1: how we could increase our force and our impact. Not
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Speaker 1: on our church. Our church has received its promised land,
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Speaker 1: but our brethren and our community have not. And so
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Speaker 1: we deliberated on it with great contemplation, a strategic alliance
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Speaker 1: that was necessary in order to fulfill the closing of
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Speaker 1: the gap of equity, of home ownership, of job creation
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Speaker 1: of the kinds of things that are necessary to reduce
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Speaker 1: crime and frustration and murder and mental health.
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Speaker 2: Because the truth of the matter, some of us.
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Speaker 1: Have worried ourselves to death over survival.
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Speaker 2: We have not.
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Speaker 1: Possessed the land. God commanded us to possess land. The
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Speaker 1: command of God is to possess land, not money. Possess land.
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Speaker 1: They are printing money while I'm talking to you, but
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Speaker 1: they ain't making no more land. So when you start
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Speaker 1: talking about the risk of the market, you must understand
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Speaker 1: that the market has its risk. But if the land
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Speaker 1: is well bought, it is absolute, distinct and completely irreplaceable.
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Speaker 1: Artificial intelligence will not create it, it will not replace it.
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Speaker 1: It is in a category all by itself. And so
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Speaker 1: as we prepared for our leadership conference and for our
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Speaker 1: good soul initiatives, for our foundation, for our future, hours
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Speaker 1: and hours and hours with bright minds in preparation. And
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Speaker 1: the preparation didn't just start two days ago. The preparation
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Speaker 1: has been going on for years. So we prepped for
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Speaker 1: the prep to prep for what's next. Preparation is underrated.
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Speaker 1: In a world raised by the click of a button
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Speaker 1: and touching on an icon and a whole world opens up.
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Speaker 1: We expect life to work like Apple. Just touch it
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Speaker 1: and it opens face recognition, it's me, and it opens
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Speaker 1: for you. But there are certain doors that in order
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Speaker 1: to be ready for them, you have to be prepared
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Speaker 1: for them. I cook, and many of you know that
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Speaker 1: I like to cook, and I have been cooking for
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Speaker 1: since I was about thirteen years old. But I cook
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Speaker 1: the old fashioned way often where you prep and cook
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Speaker 1: on the same day. My son has a tendency to
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Speaker 1: prep ahead. Okay, he talks about brining and soaking and saturating,
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Speaker 1: and so I have adapted a new methodology to old
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Speaker 1: school cooking because I found out that when you prep it.
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Speaker 1: When you don't prep in advance, you flavor the food. Now,
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Speaker 1: my goal is to flavor the bone. So when I
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Speaker 1: cook my ribs, I'm not interested in flavoring the meat.
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Speaker 1: I think ribs are best when the bone tastes as
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Speaker 1: good as the meat. And if you're going to get
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Speaker 1: the flavoring to escape the exterior facade and the elusiveness
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Speaker 1: of sauce, then you must permeate it with seasoning early
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Speaker 1: enough that the seasoning can saturate down past the exterior
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Speaker 1: skin through the meat down to the bone, and you
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Speaker 1: won't really know that you've done it right until you're
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Speaker 1: eating it and the bone is as flavored as a meat.
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Speaker 1: This text that I want. After all that I read
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Speaker 1: is really summed up in a few words, prepare your victuals.
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Speaker 1: And to a novice reader, this is a footnote and incidental, irrelevant,
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Speaker 1: not specific, not important. All they have survived the desert,
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Speaker 1: and the walls of Jericho are in front of them,
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Speaker 1: walls so high that they could not scale them, and
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Speaker 1: so wide the chariots rode across the top of them.
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Speaker 1: And why would we not talk about the magnitude of
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Speaker 1: the walls, the fierceness of the obstacle in front of them,
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Speaker 1: or maybe perhaps talk about the grief of the dying Moses,
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Speaker 1: who went up in the mountain like he had off
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Speaker 1: gone before, only this time he did not return, and
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Speaker 1: there was no closure. They had to reckon him to
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Speaker 1: be dead. No wonder, the apostle Paula in the New
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Speaker 1: Testament says, reckon your flesh to be dead. It will
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Speaker 1: not confirm it for you. You just have to reckon
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Speaker 1: it to be dead. They had to reckon Moses to
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Speaker 1: be dead, having only God's word as an absolution. Moses,
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Speaker 1: my servant is dead. All they knew is that he
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Speaker 1: didn't come down. He had often gone up on the mountain,
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Speaker 1: but this time. He did not come down now to
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Speaker 1: lose people. They had been losing millions of people as
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Speaker 1: they traveled and adjourned through the wilderness. They were used
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Speaker 1: to the wilderness being littered with bodies along the way,
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Speaker 1: but this time was different, because you could lose people.
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Speaker 2: But when you.
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Speaker 1: Lose Moses, you don't mean a Moses. Every day. Moses
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Speaker 1: was God sent and God breathed, and God equipped, and
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Speaker 1: every single solitary miracle they had witnessed since slavery had
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Speaker 1: been achieved through his hands, and his hands.
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Speaker 3: They would see no more. And the wailing sounded like
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Speaker 3: thunder at the bottom of the mouth.
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Speaker 1: Because to lose Moses is to lose direction. Moses was
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Speaker 1: the guide who guided them through the wilderness. And it
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Speaker 1: wasn't just that they lost leaders. They lost their compass.
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Speaker 1: One that had been tried and true and absolute, that
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Speaker 1: had proven himself to be effective at leading them forward.
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Speaker 1: Is now bad, just when they were almost there, just
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Speaker 1: when they were on the precipice of a new beginning,
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Speaker 1: just when they were about to step into the promised land.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, lost Moses.
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Speaker 1: And it seems appropriate that if we were going to
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Speaker 1: talk about something, we would talk about the loss of Moses,
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Speaker 1: or maybe the gaining of Jericho, that a four hundred
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Speaker 1: plus promise was about to come to pass. That God
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Speaker 1: had promised to a dead man nay made them, And
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Speaker 1: many times along the way God had made up his
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Speaker 1: mind I would destroy them, But then he remembered.
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Speaker 2: His promise to a corpse.
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Speaker 1: And stop justice from executing judgment, though they were deserving
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Speaker 1: of judgment because God kept his word.
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Speaker 2: To a corpse. Hence Canaan is called the Promised Land.
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Speaker 1: Now God is saying to them, as they are wrestling
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Speaker 1: with the intermediate place of not quite being in the
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Speaker 1: desert and not quite being in the promised Land, he
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Speaker 1: disrupts their pattern. As they had survived the desert off
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Speaker 1: of the food that fell from heaven called manner. Let's
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Speaker 1: talk about food. In Egypt, they had eaten from the
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Speaker 1: hands of Pharaoh for four hundred years. They had eaten
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Speaker 1: out of the hand of a slave master. Once liberated
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Speaker 1: from the slave master, they were freed from the whip,
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Speaker 1: but they were also void of the food, and they
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Speaker 1: missed the leeks and onions of Egypt. They didn't miss
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Speaker 1: the whip, but they missed the food. So God catered
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Speaker 1: for them in the wilderness manna that fell from heaven
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Speaker 1: every morning. Not wheat they beat, but manna prepared for
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Speaker 1: them that all they had to do was reach out
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Speaker 1: and get it, and it was easy fail every day,
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Speaker 1: like clockwork, early in the morning with the dew, the
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Speaker 1: manner appeared. Also, each man according to his house. God
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Speaker 1: does not give equally, but God responds to appetite. Where
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Speaker 1: there is little appetite, there were small loaves where there
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Speaker 1: were huge appetite, there were large loaves. Don't compare yourself
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Speaker 1: with one another, because God only supplies according to your appetite.
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Speaker 1: If you don't want much, he won't drop much. But
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Speaker 1: if you've got a great need and a great void,
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Speaker 1: he will drop according to your need. So don't look
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Speaker 1: over at your neighbors ten and worry about what God
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Speaker 1: has given them, because they may.
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Speaker 2: Have the capacity to absolve more.
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Speaker 1: Provision than you do, and God doesn't want his provision
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Speaker 1: to be wasted. God gives seed to the sore and
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Speaker 1: bread to the eater. God does not give blessings to
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Speaker 1: people that will not consume it. Whereas you want blessings
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Speaker 1: just so you can brag about that you've got them,
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Speaker 1: God gives blessings to people who will take action. And
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Speaker 1: if you're not going to use it, why would God
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Speaker 1: give it to you? And so he designed it that
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Speaker 1: if you didn't use it by a certain time, the
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Speaker 1: worms would eat it up, because you were forbidden from
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Speaker 1: hoarding yesterday's bread for today's battle. And as they were
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Speaker 1: joining through the wilderness, the closer they got to the
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Speaker 1: promised land, there is a small minute phrase in the
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Speaker 1: text that I start to pull up. But you can
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Speaker 1: look it up whenever you want to. It's a simple
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Speaker 1: little sentence, but it has great impact. It has the
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Speaker 1: force of a sledge hammer, it says. And then the
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Speaker 1: manner ceased.
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Speaker 2: What do you do when what used to work doesn't
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Speaker 2: work anymore?
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Speaker 1: What do you do when you have gotten used to
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Speaker 1: a system that God has abruptly halted? There was no warning,
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Speaker 1: there was no prophecy, there was no preparation, without any
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Speaker 1: warning at all, it just stopped. And some of us
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Speaker 1: that we have lost the favor of a God because
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Speaker 1: what used to work isn't working anymore. And the manner ceased,
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Speaker 1: and Moses died, and they cried at the bottom of
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Speaker 1: the mountain because everything that they had become accustomed to
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Speaker 1: had been disrupted. I want to rich to somebody in
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Speaker 1: this room that everything that you were accustomed to has
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Speaker 1: been disrupted, and now you have to move forward without
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Speaker 1: any playbook, without any rules, without any guarantees, without any suddainties.
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Speaker 1: If you take another step, you gotta take it by faith,
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Speaker 1: because the manner has ceased and the Moses is dead,
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Speaker 1: but the movement continues.
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Speaker 2: What it now?
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Speaker 1: When you got to keep movement, You got to keep movement,
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Speaker 1: but Moses is dead. You got to keep movement, but
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Speaker 1: the manner has ceased. And Joshua almost says if it
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Speaker 1: were a footnote at the bottom of an elaborate literary work, says.
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Speaker 2: Prepare your victuals.
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Speaker 1: This is a revolutionary idea to people who only had
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Speaker 1: to gather their food. Now, God says, I won't make
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Speaker 1: it happen anymore without you. I will require your investment
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Speaker 1: in your provision. You have gone as far as you
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Speaker 1: can go off of my charity. Your next meal is
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Speaker 1: going to require your involvement. Oh, I don't know if
32:24
Speaker 1: you're ready for this. I don't know if you're ready
32:26
Speaker 1: for this. I don't know if you're ready for this.
32:30
Speaker 1: I am taking you from being dependent to being interdependent.
32:38
Speaker 1: I'm wealing you from easy. I know you wrote books
32:50
Speaker 1: on hyde works. I know you wrote twelve Steps to
32:52
Speaker 1: a Blessed in a drop place. I know you've grown
32:55
Speaker 1: all kinds of books about water coming out of rocks.
32:58
Speaker 1: I know you wrote books about met enoup serpents in
33:00
Speaker 1: the wind that. I know you wrote a lot of
33:02
Speaker 1: books about a lot of stuff. But I'm changing the playbook.
33:08
Speaker 1: And I don't know who I'm preaching to today, But
33:11
Speaker 1: the Lord sent me here to tell you he has
33:14
Speaker 1: changed the playbook. What used to work will not work
33:19
Speaker 1: right now. He told me to tell you what brought
33:22
Speaker 1: you here or will not take you there. The system's substructures.
33:28
Speaker 1: There's going to be a massive paradigm shift. And if
33:32
Speaker 1: you don't have liquidity, and if you don't have dexterity,
33:36
Speaker 1: and if you don't have pliability, and if you don't
33:39
Speaker 1: have intellectuality, you will not be able to evolve into
33:42
Speaker 1: the next dimension. Because the manner has ceased and the
33:48
Speaker 1: Moses is dead, and the movement continues. And right nestled
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Speaker 1: create in this beautiful text is the command.
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Speaker 2: To prepare your victuals, so.
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Speaker 1: Dex to when he cooks he cuts up all his
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Speaker 1: young onions and grapes, all his cheeses and flesh, boils
34:23
Speaker 1: all his food, and brins all this meat, and does
34:26
Speaker 1: all of that a couple of days ahead of time,
34:32
Speaker 1: because the prep time is more important than the cook time. Now,
34:42
Speaker 1: I know this is a hard message to preach, because
34:44
Speaker 1: I'm preaching about prep time to a microwave. It's difficult
34:53
Speaker 1: to talk to you about really good dining because what
34:57
Speaker 1: you eat is not really food. It's just it's a
35:02
Speaker 1: biological experiment. It's it's it's it's something that if you
35:06
Speaker 1: looked at it with a microscope, it would be crawling.
35:09
Speaker 1: Because you took it out of the freezer, you popped
35:11
Speaker 1: it into the microwave, and you heated it up for
35:14
Speaker 1: five minutes, and you lifted the lid and it almost
35:16
Speaker 1: called it your hand, and you eat it and you
35:18
Speaker 1: call it food. But that's not food. That's not food,
35:24
Speaker 1: that's bacteria. Real food requires prep time. Look at your
35:38
Speaker 1: neighbor and say, I'm in prep time. I'm not acting funny.
35:43
Speaker 1: I'm in prep time. I'm not ignoring your phone calls.
35:47
Speaker 1: I'm in prep time. I'm not disregarding our relationship. I'm
35:51
Speaker 1: in prep time. I haven't gotten the big head. I'm
35:55
Speaker 1: in prep time. I'm not arrogant. I'm in prep time.
35:59
Speaker 1: I I seem distracted and I don't seem like the
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Speaker 1: person I used to be. But I'm the same person,
36:05
Speaker 1: but I'm in a different place. I'm in prep time.
36:08
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready for something, and more is required of
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Speaker 1: me in this season than what was required me in
36:15
Speaker 1: my last season. In my last season, we could play around,
36:19
Speaker 1: we could fool around, we could mess around, we could
36:22
Speaker 1: date around. But I got to break up with you
36:24
Speaker 1: in this season because I'm in prep time. In my
36:28
Speaker 1: last season, we could breathe on the phone for an
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Speaker 1: hour and a half.
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Speaker 2: But in this.
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Speaker 1: Season, in order to get where I gotta go, I'm
36:35
Speaker 1: in prep time. And yes, I still appreciate everything that
36:39
Speaker 1: you used to be, but I recognize your manner has ceased.
36:45
Speaker 1: In other words, you are not the source of my sustenance.
36:49
Speaker 1: You are no longer the place where I eat. And
36:52
Speaker 1: I love you and I appreciate you, but I can't
36:55
Speaker 1: be on the phone for hours and hours talking about
36:57
Speaker 1: people because I'm in prep time. People who can spend
37:01
Speaker 1: hours on the phone talking about people aren't going anywhere,
37:05
Speaker 1: and I can't afford to spend another year talking about
37:08
Speaker 1: what other people are doing while I'm not doing anything
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Speaker 1: at all.
37:12
Speaker 2: I'm in prepping.
37:13
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there's anybody in this room, in this place,
37:17
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there's anybody streaming online who's on In
37:21
Speaker 1: prep time, you're chopping up stuff and dic and stuff
37:25
Speaker 1: and preparing stuff and rapping it. It ain't happened yet,
37:28
Speaker 1: but you're in prep tide. The door hasn't opened yet,
37:31
Speaker 1: but you're in prep time. The way it hasn't been
37:34
Speaker 1: made yet, but you're in prep time. If I am
37:36
Speaker 1: preaching to the right people set it off in here,
37:48
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
37:52
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. I proved my faith because
37:56
Speaker 1: I'm prepping for something that hadn't even happened yet. I
38:00
Speaker 1: haven't mixed it together, it hadn't come together. I haven't
38:03
Speaker 1: placed it in the oven. I had didn't put it
38:05
Speaker 1: in the cronk pot. I haven't put it on the
38:07
Speaker 1: smoker yet. But I'm in prep time. I'm laying it out,
38:11
Speaker 1: I'm getting it ready. I'm bringing structure to what I believe.
38:16
Speaker 1: I'm not just believing it. I'm bringing structure to it,
38:19
Speaker 1: because without structure and strategy, I won't be prepared to
38:24
Speaker 1: succeed in the area of my destination. I'm in prep time.
38:29
Speaker 1: Nuts three people and say, I'm in prep time. I'm
38:32
Speaker 1: in prep time. I'm in prep time. I'm in prep time.
38:35
Speaker 1: I'm in prep time. I'm in prep time. I'm in
38:38
Speaker 1: prep time. I'm in preptime. I gotta get it in preptime.
38:42
Speaker 1: I gotta get it in the right shape. I gotta
38:44
Speaker 1: get it in the right form. I gotta get it
38:46
Speaker 1: in the right size. I gotta get it at the
38:48
Speaker 1: right temperature. I gotta get it in the right order.
38:51
Speaker 1: Because I'm in preptile. I can't put cold butter into
38:55
Speaker 1: a pound cake because it won't cream. I gotta get
38:58
Speaker 1: it room temperature. Every thing's gotta be right because I'm
39:01
Speaker 1: in prep time. And when I'm in prep time, I
39:04
Speaker 1: have to do stuff that don't make sense to you.
39:07
Speaker 1: Why you got the buttermilk sitting on the store. Why
39:09
Speaker 1: you got the butter just laying out, Why don't you
39:12
Speaker 1: go ahead and use it. No, it's not the right
39:14
Speaker 1: temperature yet. But I'm in prep time. I'm calling things
39:17
Speaker 1: that are not as though they were because I'm in
39:20
Speaker 1: prep time. I'm getting my outfit ready. I'm getting my
39:23
Speaker 1: wardrobe ready, I'm getting my language ready. I'm getting my
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Speaker 1: speech ready. I'm learning the right terminologies not for the
39:30
Speaker 1: room I'm in, but for the room I'm about to
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Speaker 1: walk in. I'm learning the language of my future. I'm
39:37
Speaker 1: preparing myself for what God is about to do in
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Speaker 1: my life.
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Speaker 2: I'm in prep time. You don't understand it because.
39:46
Speaker 1: You don't have enough faith. You say, when I get there,
39:49
Speaker 1: I'm gonna prepare the vitual. It's gonna be too late
39:52
Speaker 1: when you get there. You got to prepare for it
39:55
Speaker 1: before you get there. You got to prepare three days
39:58
Speaker 1: in advance. In the next three days, things are about
40:02
Speaker 1: to change in your life in a radical way. This
40:06
Speaker 1: is preptid. This word is a prophetic word going out
40:10
Speaker 1: to somebody. You're in preptide. There's about to be a
40:13
Speaker 1: release in your life. If God is talking to you
40:16
Speaker 1: right here, right now, make some noise in this place,
40:20
Speaker 1: any kind of noise, any kind of noise, any kind
40:22
Speaker 1: of noise. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Your friends are laughing
40:38
Speaker 1: at you, saying, what are you doing going to a
40:41
Speaker 1: leadership conference. You ain't even a leader. Shut your mouth.
40:44
Speaker 1: I'm in preptime. I'm calling those things that are not
40:47
Speaker 1: as though they were. I'm getting ready for what's next.
40:50
Speaker 1: I want to learn the language of the role. I
40:53
Speaker 1: want to be in the place where people are thinking forward.
40:55
Speaker 1: I can't keep hanging out with desert babies. I got
40:58
Speaker 1: to get with somebody that ready to go into the
41:01
Speaker 1: Promised Land. And I got to get into the room
41:03
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna be in one day. No, they don't
41:06
Speaker 1: know me right now, but I'm prepping for the future.
41:08
Speaker 1: You can't understand that if you're not a product of faith.
41:12
Speaker 1: But faith will make you get ready for something that
41:15
Speaker 1: hadn't happened yet. Faith will make you borrow vessels when
41:18
Speaker 1: you're broke. Faith will make you take a lunch and
41:21
Speaker 1: tell everybody to sit down. Some kind of way. God
41:24
Speaker 1: is going to turn it into a Smorgan's bar. Faith
41:26
Speaker 1: will make you get ready for a child when the
41:28
Speaker 1: doctor said you can't have no baby. Faith will make
41:32
Speaker 1: you call those things that are not as though they were.
41:35
Speaker 1: Faith gets into your attitude and your disposition. Faith will
41:38
Speaker 1: make you build a room on a house for a
41:41
Speaker 1: profit that hadn't come by yet. Faith will make you
41:44
Speaker 1: get ready for something that hadn't even there yet. Faith
41:46
Speaker 1: will make you start laying our plans and diagrams and
41:50
Speaker 1: getting ready and setting up situation for some of you
41:52
Speaker 1: can't even pay for. Faith will make you move out
41:55
Speaker 1: on something that makes you look like a full Faith
41:58
Speaker 1: will make you build an arm been a drop of rain.
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Speaker 1: Faith We'll get you ready for something that I hadn't
42:03
Speaker 1: even started to break loose in your life. I want
42:06
Speaker 1: to talk to some radical people in this room that
42:09
Speaker 1: are willing to build a boat in your backyard and
42:12
Speaker 1: it hadn't even rained yet, and all your neighbors are
42:14
Speaker 1: laughing at you. But you are in prep time. If
42:18
Speaker 1: you're in prep time, how at your bore? Prepare sit
42:35
Speaker 1: I said, I'm just talking. Prepare, Prepare your victuals. Prepare
42:49
Speaker 1: your victuals. Look at somebody say, prepare your victuals. This basically,
42:56
Speaker 1: it's not just a change of how you cook. This
43:04
Speaker 1: is a change of how you think. You were raised
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Speaker 1: by people who didn't have to prepare. So you cannot
43:15
Speaker 1: take your parents' mindset into your moment. Because your father's
43:25
Speaker 1: did eat manna in the wilderness. But the manner has ceased,
43:31
Speaker 1: so that means you have to have a different mindset.
43:36
Speaker 1: You might have the moral equival equival Clesey has said,
43:41
Speaker 1: but you cannot have the same mindset because if you
43:48
Speaker 1: have the mindset of your father's, you will be looking
43:52
Speaker 1: up every morning waiting on something to fall down that
43:55
Speaker 1: is never going to fall down again, and you will
44:00
Speaker 1: be waiting on something to happen so you can move.
44:04
Speaker 1: Nothing else is going to happen. Prep Time means mindsets
44:12
Speaker 1: determine assets. If I cannot get it in your mind,
44:23
Speaker 1: I cannot get it in your life. If your mindset
44:28
Speaker 1: is still looking up for manner, then your hands won't
44:33
Speaker 1: prepare your victuals.
44:38
Speaker 2: And prep time.
44:40
Speaker 1: Is a dangerous, dubious task of challenging how you think.
44:52
Speaker 1: It's not that the preparation for the food is not
44:55
Speaker 1: available to you, but if you don't have the mindset,
45:02
Speaker 1: you won't have that set. If you have a mindset
45:06
Speaker 1: of waiting on something to fall in the morning, you
45:10
Speaker 1: won't prepare your victuals in the day. Every time there's
45:18
Speaker 1: a major change in your life or move in your life,
45:23
Speaker 1: or you move into a new region or a new
45:25
Speaker 1: occupation or a new situation, or you become a single parent,
45:30
Speaker 1: or you get married. It's not enough to get a
45:34
Speaker 1: new ring if you have an old mindset. Come on
45:41
Speaker 1: with me, Come on with me, Come on with me.
45:44
Speaker 1: Don't jump off now, don't jump off with me. You
45:49
Speaker 1: can't be a married woman with a single woman's mindset
45:58
Speaker 1: because all of your single girl friends will mess up
46:01
Speaker 1: your marriage with their advice about what they would do
46:04
Speaker 1: if they was you and they don't have nobody, and
46:07
Speaker 1: you listening at them and carrying that spirit home and
46:10
Speaker 1: is tearing up your house. Brother, you can't be a
46:15
Speaker 1: husband with a single man's mindset because you will be
46:22
Speaker 1: physically present but emotionally unavailable. Because you are physically and
46:27
Speaker 1: legally married but not emotionally present or connected, and because
46:32
Speaker 1: you have not developed language for anything beyond anger, your
46:36
Speaker 1: wife becomes a sparring partner because you are better at
46:50
Speaker 1: expressing anger than you are anything else. And God is
46:55
Speaker 1: prepping you with a change of mindset. Can I God
47:02
Speaker 1: just a little bit deeper? I know I'm taking up
47:03
Speaker 1: some time, but I want to show you how powerful
47:06
Speaker 1: mindset is. The prodigal sign is down in the hog pen.
47:09
Speaker 1: He has estranged himself from his father and his brother.
47:13
Speaker 1: He has gradually lost the dissipation of friendship, the erosion
47:19
Speaker 1: of connectivity. He is in a place of total isolation,
47:23
Speaker 1: surrounded by swine. He is out of money, he is
47:27
Speaker 1: out of friends, he is out of family, He is
47:30
Speaker 1: out of identity. He has no name in the text.
47:34
Speaker 1: He is a nameless person in a deplorable situation. And
47:38
Speaker 1: the only thing that changed. No angels came, no visitations
47:43
Speaker 1: from God came, no Bible dropped down out the sky.
47:47
Speaker 1: The only thing that changed. The hawks were still the hogs.
47:50
Speaker 1: The slop was still the slop. The gentiles were still
47:53
Speaker 1: the gentiles. His family was still a strange His friends
47:57
Speaker 1: has all ran away. The only thing changed mind his
48:01
Speaker 1: mind chain. The Bible said that with mud in between
48:05
Speaker 1: his toes and NAT's around his head, he came to himself,
48:12
Speaker 1: the only thing you have to do to get out
48:14
Speaker 1: of the situation you're in right now is change your mind.
48:18
Speaker 1: You don't need her to come back, you don't need
48:21
Speaker 1: him to come back. You don't need them to pay
48:23
Speaker 1: your way. You don't need anything else but to change
48:26
Speaker 1: your mind. As a mind thinketh in his heart, so
48:30
Speaker 1: is he. And the moment you change your mind. Can't
48:33
Speaker 1: nobody hold you down. This is a change of mindset.
48:38
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna keep standing out here in the morning
48:40
Speaker 1: waiting on something to fall. It ain't falling no more.
48:42
Speaker 1: What used to work is not working anymore. I'm changing
48:45
Speaker 1: my mindset. If I gotta get my hands mess it,
48:48
Speaker 1: if I gotta get up early in the morning, if
48:51
Speaker 1: I gotta beat the wheat till it turns to flower,
48:54
Speaker 1: I will beat whatever I've got the wheat until i'm
48:58
Speaker 1: making turn into what is got to turn to. Because
49:01
Speaker 1: my hands are a reflection of my mindset. If you
49:05
Speaker 1: want to know what I'm thinking, what's what I'm doing.
49:08
Speaker 1: If you see me out here doing it, it means
49:12
Speaker 1: I'm not waiting anymore. I came here to tell you
49:15
Speaker 1: tonight that God said, stop waiting on somebody to come
49:19
Speaker 1: rescue you from your situation. They're not coming. You need
49:23
Speaker 1: to change your mindset and start beating that wheat up
49:27
Speaker 1: until you see bread. There will be no more bread
49:30
Speaker 1: falling from heaven. You're in a prep season for a
49:33
Speaker 1: promise that's about to take your life. If I'm preaching
49:37
Speaker 1: right at you, if I'm preaching right to you, if
49:39
Speaker 1: I'm preaching about where you're at right now. If you
49:42
Speaker 1: know you got to change the game, if you know
49:44
Speaker 1: you got to shift the strategy, if you know you
49:47
Speaker 1: got to get a new playbook, if you know you
49:49
Speaker 1: got to break out of the box, if you know
49:52
Speaker 1: you got to disrupt something, if you know God is
49:54
Speaker 1: challenging you that if you've always done what you've always done,
49:58
Speaker 1: you will always be where you've a always been. If
50:01
Speaker 1: you're ready to be radical, reckless and break loose and
50:04
Speaker 1: break out, if you're ready to break some rules and
50:06
Speaker 1: do something you've never done before. If you're ready to
50:09
Speaker 1: beat wheat till it comes out as loaves of bread,
50:12
Speaker 1: make some noise in this place, just anoy tell somebody
50:24
Speaker 1: saying it's yours, but you gotta take it. I'm gonna
50:27
Speaker 1: move from preparation to possession. It's yours, but you gotta
50:30
Speaker 1: take it. It's not gonna come up on your front porch.
50:33
Speaker 1: It's not gonna ring the doorbell. It's not gonna respond
50:36
Speaker 1: to you the way you expected it to respond to you.
50:38
Speaker 1: Ain't no more manner coming down to your door. Ain't
50:41
Speaker 1: nobody coming to your house begging you for a position.
50:44
Speaker 1: You got to possess it. It's yours, but you gotta
50:47
Speaker 1: take it. You gotta take it. You gotta take it
50:49
Speaker 1: because it's yours. It's yours, but you gotta take it.
50:52
Speaker 1: You gotta take it while somebody else is living in it.
50:54
Speaker 1: You gotta take it while somebody else thinks it's there.
50:57
Speaker 1: There's gonna be an altercation, but you gotta take it
50:59
Speaker 1: by four. So that Idol said that the kingdom suffering
51:03
Speaker 1: violence and the violence taking by force.
51:06
Speaker 2: I want to raise up some radical people. I'm sick
51:09
Speaker 2: of church people. I need some radical people.
51:12
Speaker 1: The Bible said that the kingdom suffering violence and the
51:15
Speaker 1: violent take it by force. Is ebody anybody in here
51:19
Speaker 1: that's ready to take it by force. God told Shasuwah,
51:23
Speaker 1: I have given you the land, but you still gotta
51:27
Speaker 1: fight for it. Slap three people and say fight for it.
51:31
Speaker 1: Don't just pray for it, but fight for it. Don't
51:34
Speaker 1: just ask for it, but fight for it. You gotta
51:37
Speaker 1: fight for it. I'm giving you the land. To possess it.
51:41
Speaker 1: You gotta drive out the Canaanites and the Ammonites, Sir,
51:45
Speaker 1: and the jebus Heights and the Garashites, because that's yours
51:49
Speaker 1: somebody is living in your house, Somebody is driving your car,
51:54
Speaker 1: somebody is sitting at your decks. I heard the Bible
51:58
Speaker 1: say I'll give you houses that it didn't deal, and
52:01
Speaker 1: Vinya said, you didn't grow.
52:03
Speaker 2: But you gotta take it by force.
52:05
Speaker 1: You gotta come out of your passive, little quiet shit
52:08
Speaker 1: back waiting Johnny, come lately, Smid, and you gotta take
52:12
Speaker 1: what God gave you. Take back what the enemy stole
52:15
Speaker 1: from you. Take back what they said, what's yours. Take
52:18
Speaker 1: back what they said wouldn't have happened in your life.
52:21
Speaker 1: You gotta possess it. Is there anybody in here that's
52:24
Speaker 1: getting rid of them? Orsess something. I'm ready to move people.
52:28
Speaker 2: I'll call you haul. I want my staff to call
52:31
Speaker 2: you haul so.
52:32
Speaker 1: I can move out all of these vagrant people that
52:35
Speaker 1: are living on my territory. Give me a U haul
52:39
Speaker 1: truck because I'm gonna move you out of my job,
52:42
Speaker 1: out of my position, and out of my place. Because
52:45
Speaker 1: I'm gonna possess what God promise me. Walk up to somebody,
52:58
Speaker 1: slap them and say, possess it. Stop praying for it
53:02
Speaker 1: and possessing her, Stop crying about it and possessing her
53:05
Speaker 1: stop worrying about it and possessing it. Stop fretting about
53:09
Speaker 1: it and possessing. Stop asking for it and possessing. Stop
53:13
Speaker 1: waiting on it but possessing her. If you don't hire me,
53:16
Speaker 1: I'll hire myself. If you don't give me a job,
53:19
Speaker 1: I'll make a job. If you won't give me a seat,
53:22
Speaker 1: I'll create a table. I'm ready to possess the promising lod.
53:27
Speaker 1: This ain't for everybody. This is for radical people. This
53:32
Speaker 1: is for people who've suffered enough. I've been through enough
53:35
Speaker 1: hell in the willingness that if you don't make away
53:38
Speaker 1: from me, I'll make away for myself. God said, I've
53:42
Speaker 1: given you the land to possess it. Shake your name
53:47
Speaker 1: and say take it back. Take it, take it, take it,
54:04
Speaker 1: take it. I don't care if you gotta take night classes.
54:08
Speaker 1: I don't care if you've gotta fix your credit scred
54:11
Speaker 1: I don't care if you've got to turn around and
54:14
Speaker 1: do double time to get where you're trying to go.
54:17
Speaker 1: Take it before you lose respect for yourself. Take it
54:22
Speaker 1: while you got enough stript to go after your dream.
54:25
Speaker 1: Take it while your talent is in pase. You gotta
54:29
Speaker 1: take it by fore so how can I take it?
54:32
Speaker 1: Somebody else is in a god sett.
54:34
Speaker 2: It's your.
55:03
Speaker 1: I want all you people that don't normally say nothing
55:05
Speaker 1: in church run over and look at somebody and say,
55:08
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to take it. I know you don't
55:11
Speaker 1: expect me to be one of the kind of people
55:13
Speaker 1: that are taken. I know I'm normally quiet and i
55:15
Speaker 1: haven't said nothing to you all service. But I'm getting
55:18
Speaker 1: ready to take it by force. I'm getting ready to
55:20
Speaker 1: bust or move. I'm getting ready to go into another dimension.
55:24
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to make twenty twenty three counter. Since
55:28
Speaker 1: COVID didn't kill me, since the flu didn't kill me,
55:32
Speaker 1: since the cancer.
55:33
Speaker 2: Didn't take me out, since the car wreck didn't.
55:36
Speaker 1: Destroy me, since I made it out of the hospital,
55:39
Speaker 1: I'm gonna redeem the time. I'm getting ready to take
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Speaker 1: it back. If I had died, I couldn't take it.
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Speaker 1: But I'm still here. I'm gonna let hell no that
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Speaker 1: I'm still here because I'm taking.
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Speaker 2: Give me my stuff back, Give me my stuff back,
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Speaker 2: Give me my stuff. Don't under advent findings and a
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Speaker 2: different funding demotivate under a deft finding.
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Speaker 1: Some of the fighting NICOD