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Steady-in-The-Storm-Bishop-T-D-Jakes · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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Speaker 1: Were Luke eight two through twenty six. And when you
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Speaker 1: have it, say man.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: It happened on a certain day that he got into
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Speaker 1: a boat with his disciples, and he said to them
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Speaker 1: watch this, let us cross over to the other side
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Speaker 1: of the lake.
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Speaker 2: And they launched out.
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Speaker 1: But as they sailed, he fell asleep, and the windstorm
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Speaker 1: came down on the lake, and they were filling with
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Speaker 1: water and were in jeopardy. And they came to him
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Speaker 1: and awoke him, saying.
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Speaker 2: Master, Master, we perish.
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Speaker 1: Then he arose and rebut the wind and the raging
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Speaker 1: of the water, and they ceased, and there.
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Speaker 2: Was a calm, calm.
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Speaker 1: There's something good about a calm. You can't pay for
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Speaker 1: a calm. And he said under them, where is your faith?
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Speaker 1: And they, being afraid, wondered, saying one to another, what
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Speaker 1: manner a man is this? For he commanded even the
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Speaker 1: winds and water, and they obey him. And they arrived
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Speaker 1: at the country of the Gatherines, which is over against Galilee.
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Speaker 1: They got there, somebody say they got there. I want
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Speaker 1: to talk from the subject steady in the storm, steady
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Speaker 1: in the storm. Anybody can be steady when there is
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Speaker 1: no storm. But the Lord spoke to me to share
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Speaker 1: with you about being steady. Not hysterical, not frantic, not anxious,
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Speaker 1: not fretful, but steady in the storm. Looks bad, looks tough,
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Speaker 1: but remain steady in the storm. You are closer to
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Speaker 1: there than you have ever been before. And in order
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Speaker 1: to get there, you must be you. I'm not talking
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Speaker 1: about the boat. You must be steady. The true, the
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Speaker 1: true skill set of a leader is to be steady
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Speaker 1: in the storm. I used to tell my kids and
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Speaker 1: my wife and said, I tell them all the time.
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Speaker 1: Don't you get scared till I get scared. Don't you
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Speaker 1: get nervous till I get nervous. Don't you pany till
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Speaker 1: you see me, panny. If you see my eyes buked,
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Speaker 1: buck your eyes. But as long, spirit of the Living
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Speaker 1: God fall fresh on us right now, I feel you already.
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Speaker 1: I thank you for your presence and your glory. Let
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Speaker 1: something transformative happened today in this building, with this people,
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Speaker 1: with the people that are streaming online. There are some
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Speaker 1: people that are streaming online, Lord, who are in the
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Speaker 1: middle of a storm and a blessing. They got a
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Speaker 1: word from God and a storm. Everything's rocking and reeling,
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Speaker 1: and going crazy at the same time that they know
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Speaker 1: they got Jesus, and you are speaking to them to
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Speaker 1: be steady when everything around them is going crazy. Penetrate
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Speaker 1: every natural propensity to panic and anoint them with steadiness, tranquility,
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Speaker 1: even rest, even sleep. Let them be steady in the
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Speaker 1: storm in Jesus' name. Amen, I want to talk to you.
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Speaker 1: I was flying back. I was in Washington on Thursday.
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Speaker 1: I did a empowerment session for a business conference on
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Speaker 1: Saturday morning. I got on the plane Saturday afternoon to
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Speaker 1: fly home to get in Saturday night to preach Sunday morning.
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Speaker 1: And the pilot came out and he said, in order
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Speaker 1: to get you from Miami back to Dallas, we're going
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Speaker 1: to take you out across the water. So I want
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Speaker 1: to give you the instructions myself. He said, if we
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Speaker 1: go underwater, don't try to go out the big door.
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Speaker 1: Don't do that. He said, go out the small exits
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Speaker 1: in the back. There are life rafts under your seats,
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Speaker 1: and there we catch on fire. There's there's fire extinguishers here, here,
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Speaker 1: and here. Now, always give you that stuff. But he
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Speaker 1: went into a little bit too much detail. Yeah, he
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Speaker 1: went into a little extra detail, you know, But I
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Speaker 1: thought how amazing it was that they were prepared for
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Speaker 1: all types of calamities before they came. If the cabin
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Speaker 1: loses pressure, we're prepared for that. If it catches on fire,
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Speaker 1: we're prepared for that. If it goes underwater, we're prepared
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Speaker 1: for that. If we pass out and die, we're prepared
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Speaker 1: for that. With any inevitable situation, we've got guidance to
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Speaker 1: bring you in. We're gonna get you home. The problem is,
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Speaker 1: most things start out calm. The flight started out calm.
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Speaker 1: My flight started out calm. The disciples on the sea
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Speaker 1: was Jesus started out calm. Jesus gave them one command,
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Speaker 1: let us cross over to the other side. But God
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Speaker 1: is not big on details. He tells you we're going
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Speaker 1: to the other side, he does not tell you what's
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Speaker 1: going to happen on the way. And the reality of
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Speaker 1: the thing is this guy who did this video could
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Speaker 1: have took it, taken his own ticket, and gone home
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Speaker 1: and not had that experience. As horrific as that is.
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Speaker 1: And that sounds like really horrific to me for both
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Speaker 1: my pallets to pass out, and I'm want to say hello, hello,
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Speaker 1: that that's not a good hello that for me would
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Speaker 1: be a very smelly hello. When I got down, I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't want anybody to come get me out because this
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Speaker 1: would be personal. Okay, yeah, I would be in a
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Speaker 1: bad way. There are things that scare the living daylights
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Speaker 1: that you on the way. It's not the takeoff that
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Speaker 1: you have to be concerned about, because most things take
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Speaker 1: off good. Most marriages take off good, Most business ventures
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Speaker 1: take off good. Most little babies start out good. They
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Speaker 1: so cute, They just cute.
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Speaker 2: They don't try to be cute, they just cute.
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Speaker 1: They don't try to have dimples, they don't put on makeup,
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Speaker 1: they don't do nothing, They just late cute. The takeoff
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Speaker 1: is always great. It's the things that happen in the
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Speaker 1: middle that are the most disruptive. It's the things that
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Speaker 1: happen in the middle that challenge your ability to be steady. Now,
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Speaker 1: I know could have bypassed all of that and followed
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Speaker 1: his and my mother would saying, followed his first mind
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Speaker 1: and went on in a conventional way and avoided that.
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Speaker 1: But look at what he would have missed learning. He
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Speaker 1: learned some things about God, he learned some things about life,
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Speaker 1: He learned some things about discipline. He learned some things
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Speaker 1: about obedience that only the storm can teach you. Listening
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Speaker 1: that podcast can't really teach you how to handle the
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Speaker 1: storms that come in your life because you're listening. You're listening,
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Speaker 1: but you're not really listening till it's you. I continue
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Speaker 1: all day long about grief, and you can say, oh,
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Speaker 1: bless the Lord, I'm praying for you. But when it
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Speaker 1: happens to somebody you love, you say, oh my God,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, hold on, Jesus, Lord him. I said,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I I don't know if I
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Speaker 1: can make it through this. And most of the time,
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Speaker 1: most of the time, our trauma triggers other traumas, and
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Speaker 1: our reaction to the trauma is compounded by the other
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Speaker 1: things that happened along the way.
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Speaker 2: And there you.
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Speaker 1: Are in a crisis, in a storm, and you're trying
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Speaker 1: to get to.
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Speaker 2: The other side. I'm trying to get there.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I'm trying to get
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Speaker 1: there wherever there is, wherever God has predestined for me
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Speaker 1: to go. I want you to notice that He determined
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Speaker 1: the end from the beginning. He said, let us cross
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Speaker 1: over to the other side before they ever even started.
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Speaker 1: He knew where he wanted to go before they pushed
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Speaker 1: off into the water. He knew where he wanted you
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Speaker 1: to go before you and your mama's belly. He knew
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Speaker 1: what he had predestined for you to do before you
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Speaker 1: ever took your first day at school and your mama
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Speaker 1: walked you down to the bus station trying to make
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Speaker 1: sure you had your pants on straight and your lunch
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Speaker 1: money in your pocket or your lunch snatchel. Before all
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Speaker 1: of that stuff I started, he had predestined for you
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Speaker 1: to go to a place, but in the process of
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Speaker 1: getting there, storm surriders. We're talking to a friend of
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Speaker 1: mine the other day about he was writing a book
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Speaker 1: about marriage and he been married about three years and
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Speaker 1: it kind of like, I know, I'm getting old and
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Speaker 1: getting a little fogy and stuff like that, but it
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Speaker 1: kind of got on my nerves. It's not that he's
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Speaker 1: not smart enough to write a good book, but you
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Speaker 1: ain't got there yet. You have and hit the storms,
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Speaker 1: the inevitable storms. I'm not saying you picked a bad choice.
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Speaker 1: Has yet to be determined. I'm not saying she picked
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Speaker 1: a bad choice. Has yet to be determined. You'll find
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Speaker 1: out who you got in the storm. You hire people
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Speaker 1: to be in a position, and the resume is amazing,
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Speaker 1: and the interview is great, and the first few weeks
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Speaker 1: on the job they're impeccable.
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Speaker 2: But you don't know who you got.
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Speaker 1: Till you get in a storm, till the pressure applied,
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Speaker 1: until they have to do something after work, until they
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Speaker 1: are inconvenienced, until they're in crisis mode and they're stressed
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Speaker 1: out and they're talking about hello, hello, hello, Hello, Hello,
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Speaker 1: hello hello. The one thing that we all have in common,
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Speaker 1: black or white, rich or poor, Democrat or Republican, short
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Speaker 1: or tall, vegan or.
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Speaker 2: A foodie.
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Speaker 1: I don't care what philosophy you choose to fly up under.
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Speaker 1: The one thing I can guarantee you that all of
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Speaker 1: us will face. Male or female is a storm. Single
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Speaker 1: or married is a storm. Divorced or not is a storm.
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Speaker 1: There is nobody you're going to meet or greet, or
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Speaker 1: fall in love with or fall out of love with
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Speaker 1: that will avoid the fact that storms are built into
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Speaker 1: God's plan for getting you to the other side.
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Speaker 2: You have to know that he.
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Speaker 1: With a fire extinguisher and a life raft and an
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Speaker 1: emergency exit and a door that moves and an automated
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Speaker 1: system and a microphone, and that even when you can't
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Speaker 1: see him, you can hear him. And if you will
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Speaker 1: follow his voice, you will get to the other side.
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Speaker 1: The problem he is. Storms are noisy and they're loud,
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Speaker 1: and they're disruptive, and there's so many people screaming and
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Speaker 1: a hollering it, and people are saying a whole back,
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Speaker 1: and people are saying push through, and people are saying
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Speaker 1: turn the wheel, and somebody else is saying grab the rudder,
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Speaker 1: and somebody else is saying, throw the weights of off,
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Speaker 1: and somebody else is saying, cass anchor, and somebody else
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Speaker 1: is saying put up the sail. And you're standing there.
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Speaker 1: You don't know whether to put up the sails, throw
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Speaker 1: the anchor cans. It's out the dinner and the real
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Speaker 1: art I have learned and so far in the storm
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Speaker 1: is not fixing the storm. The first thing we do
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Speaker 1: when we get in the storm is to try to
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Speaker 1: fix the storm. The storm is not yours to fix.
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Speaker 1: The storm is yours to survive. You cannot fix the storm.
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Speaker 1: That's number one. You cannot fix the storm. You cannot
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Speaker 1: fix the storm. And this drives you crazy. And I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna make a generalization. It's not always true, but I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna make it anyway. But it's particularly difficult for men
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Speaker 1: because we are raised to fix stuff.
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Speaker 2: We grew up fixing stuff. Women grew up.
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Speaker 1: A lot of women grew up with relationships with dogs,
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Speaker 1: with doll babies, playing the house, all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: You grew up with that kind of stuff. We grew
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Speaker 1: up fixing stuff. Most of us didn't give us the
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Speaker 1: all babies they probably should have. Maybe we'd have been
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Speaker 1: better fathers if we had have practiced with babies. We
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Speaker 1: practiced making them better than we did have it, so
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Speaker 1: maybe we would have been better. But they gave us tools,
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Speaker 1: and they gave us stuff to build, and they gave
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Speaker 1: us stuff to fix. And so whenever you give us
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Speaker 1: a problem, we want to fix it because we feel
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Speaker 1: like we're a failure if we don't fix it. And
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Speaker 1: there are some women who feel that way too. You
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Speaker 1: feel like you failed if you don't fix it. If
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Speaker 1: your daughter doesn't turn out the way you wanted her
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Speaker 1: to turn out, if your son doesn't turn out the
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Speaker 1: way you want it, if your marriage doesn't turn out
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Speaker 1: the way you wanted to turn out, you lose self
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Speaker 1: esteem because you feel like it's your fault because you
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Speaker 1: can't fix it. And you're embarrassed to admit to other
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Speaker 1: people that you're on your third marriage and that you
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Speaker 1: can't fix it. And you're embarrassed to admit to other
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Speaker 1: people that you have been here a year and gone
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Speaker 1: through three jobs and you.
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Speaker 2: Can't fix it.
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Speaker 1: And I came to tell you every storm that comes
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Speaker 1: your way is not your job to fix. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: let that sink in a little bit, because a lot
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Speaker 1: of you pride yourself on being able to fix people,
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Speaker 1: and that's why you pick out fixer uppers, because you
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Speaker 1: think you're so good at fixing stuff that you are
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Speaker 1: drawn to people who are fixer uppers so that you
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Speaker 1: feel needed and you can fix them up. You are
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Speaker 1: not on this boat to fix this storm. When they
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Speaker 1: set sell everything was cool, Jesus is taking a nap
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Speaker 1: because this is an important trip. This is an important
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Speaker 1: trip because to cross over the Sea of Galilee and
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Speaker 1: go to the other side was to go to Galeries.
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Speaker 1: Not just that the man was possessed with demons, but
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Speaker 1: the man who was possessed with demons was a gentile
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Speaker 1: and getting the Gospel over to the Gentiles was a
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Speaker 1: very important trip. It was a prophetic trip Jesus experiencing
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Speaker 1: the Jews on one side and the Gentiles on the
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Speaker 1: other was a prophetic picture of what was going to
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Speaker 1: happen to the early Church. The early Church were going
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Speaker 1: to start being offered to the Jews and consequently end
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Speaker 1: up going to the Gentiles. It was going to start
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Speaker 1: out being based in Jerusalem and end up based in Rome.
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Speaker 1: The church was going to take the same journey that
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Speaker 1: the boat did. The Church is the boat, the sea
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Speaker 1: is the world. And here we are trying to navigate
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Speaker 1: the Church through the tempests of the world. And the
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Speaker 1: boat has one culture and the sea has another culture.
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Speaker 1: And we are in it though we're not of it,
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Speaker 1: and we have to survive it being in the middle
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Speaker 1: of it, because even though we're not of it, we
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Speaker 1: are still in it. And we get tossed and beat
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Speaker 1: to and fro because we can't get the boat to
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Speaker 1: work without putting it in the water. And the church
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Speaker 1: doesn't work without the world. The Church doesn't work without
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Speaker 1: the world. Every time the Church has tried to escape
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Speaker 1: the world, we've made fools of ourselves. If you know,
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Speaker 1: church history. There are many times we've gone up on
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Speaker 1: the mountain to wait for Jesus. We've colonized and moved
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Speaker 1: out and become cultish to wait on Jesus. Any time
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Speaker 1: the boat tries to escape the sea, it ends up
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Speaker 1: embarrassed because the boat only works in the sea, and
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Speaker 1: the church only in the world, and the world is unpredictable.
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Speaker 1: One text can change the next ten years of your life.
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Speaker 1: One phone call can change how the rest of your
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Speaker 1: day goes. One text and you're trying to book a
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Speaker 1: flight to get out of here on the next flight possible,
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Speaker 1: to get to someplace that you never expected to get
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Speaker 1: to as quickly as you could, because all of.
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Speaker 2: A sudden, a storm hits you.
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Speaker 1: Storms don't always warn you that they're coming. It's not
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Speaker 1: like they send out a notice and say you're getting
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Speaker 1: ready to get on a boat and all hell's gonna
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Speaker 1: break loose. Oh, about fifty fathoms out into the water,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna run into the worst time of your life.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna think you're gonna die. Oh. Once you get
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Speaker 1: so high in the air, the pilot is gonna pass out,
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Speaker 1: and you're gonna be scared out of your wits and
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Speaker 1: you're gonna almost lose your mind.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you're gonna.
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Speaker 1: Have a baby, and the baby's gonna die in your arms,
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Speaker 1: and you're gonna be sadder than you ever been in
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Speaker 1: your life. You're gonna lose all three of your first pregnancies.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna your husband is gonna leave you for your girlfriend,
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Speaker 1: and your sister, your auntie, your cousin, run off with
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Speaker 1: your mama. Nobody. You don't get to pick. Oh, you
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Speaker 1: think that's funny. You think that's funny, don't you. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you think that's funny. But that's happening. That's happening. That's happening.
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Speaker 1: That's happening, that's happening all around you. Nobody gets to
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Speaker 1: tell you that your beautiful bride is gonna fall in
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Speaker 1: love with a beautiful bride and leave you home alone.
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Speaker 1: He ha ha ha ha, But it's happening. And how
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Speaker 1: do you sit down at the sports bar and tell
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Speaker 1: your boys you lost your girl to a.
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Speaker 2: Girl, But it's happening.
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Speaker 1: You don't get to pick the storm you face. Peter
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Speaker 1: didn't ask for this storm, He didn't vote for the storm.
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Speaker 1: He didn't have a meeting with God and say, oh, God,
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Speaker 1: I want to deal with leukemia. I pick leukemia. What
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Speaker 1: do you want? Do you want to go blind or
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Speaker 1: would you prefer leukemia? How about losing a couple of toes.
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Speaker 1: Would you rather lose your family or lose your toes?
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Speaker 1: Would you rather lose your leg or lose your sight?
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Speaker 1: Would you rather lose your mind or just lose your memory?
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Speaker 1: Which you don't get to pick what life is going
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Speaker 1: to hand you. You cannot control the storm. And to
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Speaker 1: all those control freaks which come in both genders, you
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Speaker 1: have a special degree of trauma because the only time
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Speaker 1: you feel safe is when you're in control. And what
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Speaker 1: binds together the story between the airplane and the boat
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Speaker 1: is both of them face the season of being totally
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Speaker 1: out of control. And I confess to you, I hate it,
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Speaker 1: absolutely hate it. I don't want to be in something
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Speaker 1: I can't control. I don't want to be in a
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Speaker 1: plane because I can't fly it. And if you can't
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Speaker 1: fly and I can't fly.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to go. I don't want to.
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Speaker 1: Operate on myself because I'm not trained to do it.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be picked for a job I
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Speaker 1: can't perform. I want to know clearly what the expectations
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Speaker 1: are for me before I get the job, because I'd
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Speaker 1: rather give you the check back than to take the
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Speaker 1: money and disappoint you because I can't deliver what you're
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Speaker 1: asking for. And when you're in a storm, the big
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Speaker 1: question in your mind is do I have it takes
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Speaker 1: to stand against this storm? Do I am I equip?
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Speaker 1: Am I fully equipped? Can I get my hand on
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Speaker 1: my life? Fest? Can I swim out of here? Can
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Speaker 1: I withstand how cold this water's going to be? Can
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Speaker 1: I make it through at my age? Can I make
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Speaker 1: it through at my stage? Can I make it through
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Speaker 1: at this moment in my life? Can I make it
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Speaker 1: through after all the other stuff we've been through? After all,
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Speaker 1: we were busy before we got on the boat. We
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Speaker 1: were journeying before we got on the boat. Oh hell,
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Speaker 1: it broke loose before we got on the boat. And
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Speaker 1: now I'm on the boat and I'm so tired that
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Speaker 1: Jesus has gone to bed. This is not a good
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Speaker 1: time to have a storm.
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Speaker 2: I want to.
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Speaker 1: Talk to some real people who were tired before it
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Speaker 1: ever even started.
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Speaker 2: All hell was.
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Speaker 1: Breaking loose before it ever evening started. And you know,
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Speaker 1: if Jesus went to bed, Peter was sleepy, cause everywhere
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Speaker 1: Jesus had been, Peter had been the worst time to
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Speaker 1: have a storm is when you're already tired. That's why
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Speaker 1: the enemy waits till you're tired. He wastes till you
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Speaker 1: burned out. He wastes till you're frustrated. He wastes till
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Speaker 1: you out AGAs. He don't jump on you when you're fresh.
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Speaker 1: He don't jump on you when you're feeling strong. He
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Speaker 1: don't jump on you when you got it all together.
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Speaker 1: He wastes till you are exhausted and you feel like
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Speaker 1: if one more thing hits me, I am going to
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Speaker 1: lose it up in here. And that's when the storm comes.
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Speaker 1: Over and over and over and over and over and
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Speaker 1: over here over from Old Testament to New Testament. There's
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Speaker 1: one consistent phrase you see over and over again. And
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Speaker 1: it came to pass, and it came to pass, and
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Speaker 1: it came to pass after many days. Jesus was in
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Speaker 1: that's ary, and he came to pass that Ezekiel found
26:03
Speaker 1: himself in the valley, and it came to pass. And
26:06
Speaker 1: what you don't realize is that phrase is not just
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Speaker 1: a lead into the story. Every storm that ever hit
26:18
Speaker 1: the planet came. Let me try to side over here,
26:28
Speaker 1: maybe I can find a little bit more afraid. Every
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Speaker 1: storm that ever hit the planet, no matter how fierce,
26:34
Speaker 1: no matter how devastated, no matter how many homes were destroyed,
26:38
Speaker 1: no matter how many people died in it, they always come.
26:44
Speaker 1: They give them new names, they give them different names.
26:47
Speaker 1: They run out of alphabet for Hurricane Ira, Hurricanozo, Hurricane Mabel,
26:53
Speaker 1: Hurricane I don't care what you call it. It's still
26:56
Speaker 1: a hurricane. And no matter how severe, no matter how terrible,
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Speaker 1: no matter how many lives were lost, dogs were lost,
27:04
Speaker 1: horses were lost, people were lost, families were lost, it
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Speaker 1: still comes to pass. One of the saddest stories I
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Speaker 1: heard in Katrina. I was down there with the men
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Speaker 1: that were pulling people out of the houses. One of
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Speaker 1: the saddest stories was so much water had filled up
27:23
Speaker 1: the apartment that the dresser had pinned the father up
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Speaker 1: against the wall, and he had a little baby, and
27:30
Speaker 1: he was holding the baby up in the air. And
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Speaker 1: they found him him and the baby dead. And he
27:38
Speaker 1: was trying to keep his child alive in the storm,
27:49
Speaker 1: dining with his arm extended, trying to minimize the loss
27:56
Speaker 1: of the storm. Storms as fierce as that.
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Speaker 2: Are over.
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Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands of people dead, But the storm is.
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Speaker 2: Over.
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Speaker 1: How many times in your life have you gone through
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Speaker 1: some of you thought you wasn't gonna make it. Where
28:29
Speaker 1: are my real people at this morning? Where are my
28:32
Speaker 1: real people at this morning? You remember Fred Sanford when
28:39
Speaker 1: he grab and says, he say, oh, this is the
28:41
Speaker 1: big one. I had grabbed my chest so many times.
28:44
Speaker 1: I should have a handprint on my chest because I sware,
28:48
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is a big one. I'm never
28:50
Speaker 1: gonna make it out of this. Oh God, this is
28:53
Speaker 1: to me. I can't handle it. I can't take it.
28:56
Speaker 1: I can And half of the stuff that broke my
28:59
Speaker 1: heart and brought me to tears and almost drove me crazy,
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Speaker 1: I can't even remember. I can't even remember. I can't
29:08
Speaker 1: even remember what I was so frantic about. I can't
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Speaker 1: remember why I was so frank.
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Speaker 2: I can't. It's in my rear view mirror.
29:15
Speaker 1: But in that moment, in that second, when that storm
29:19
Speaker 1: hits and your feet get wet, and the boat starts
29:22
Speaker 1: filling filling up with water, and Peter, who is an
29:26
Speaker 1: experienced sailor, doubts can I be steady in the storm.
29:37
Speaker 1: I've had some tough storms. I'm not without storms. I've
29:44
Speaker 1: had storms. I've had storms on camera. I've had storms
29:49
Speaker 1: in people's face. And I learned that what I have
29:53
Speaker 1: to do is be steady in the storms. Can I
29:58
Speaker 1: talk to you this morning. I never will forget when
30:02
Speaker 1: we were doing our first Megafest, and you have to understand,
30:05
Speaker 1: I'd never done it before. My pastor hadn't done it before,
30:08
Speaker 1: none of my pastor friends had ever done it before.
30:11
Speaker 2: Everybody thought I was crazy to do it.
30:13
Speaker 1: I was upstairs in the conference room when we came
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Speaker 1: up with the name Megafest. We really wanted manifest, but
30:19
Speaker 1: somebody else had that name, so we ended up calling
30:21
Speaker 1: it Megafest. I had a vision for which I had
30:24
Speaker 1: no name, So you remember when the event occurred. I
30:31
Speaker 1: remember when the name came. I named my vision, and
30:38
Speaker 1: then I got in the vision and it was working,
30:43
Speaker 1: and nobody knew for sure whether it was going to
30:45
Speaker 1: work or not. It was working, but it didn't feel
30:48
Speaker 1: good working because I could not get away from the fact,
30:53
Speaker 1: do you really have what it takes to pull this off?
30:58
Speaker 1: Eighty six thousand men had registered not to mention the men.
31:04
Speaker 1: We were over one hundred some thousand people the Georgia Dome,
31:07
Speaker 1: the World Congress Center of the Phillips Arena.
31:09
Speaker 2: We're all jammed and packed. I should have been happy.
31:11
Speaker 2: I wasn't.
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Speaker 1: I was sick, I was nauseated, I was worried. I
31:16
Speaker 1: was afraid. Did we forget anything? I remember we had
31:19
Speaker 1: to pay three hundred thousand dollars just for insurance because
31:23
Speaker 1: we had ten thousand children. Yes, because you gotta have
31:31
Speaker 1: your life, yes, and you gotta have your fire hydrant.
31:34
Speaker 1: You can't jump into this and be faint of heart.
31:36
Speaker 1: Stop wishing for other people's stuff because you don't understand
31:40
Speaker 1: all the things they have to put into it to
31:42
Speaker 1: be ready to handle it. So it's the night before
31:53
Speaker 1: the press conference that leads up to it, and Jordan,
31:56
Speaker 1: we had three hundred different press outlets from as far
32:01
Speaker 1: away as the London Times to the New York Times
32:05
Speaker 1: to all over the world. And I'd never done a
32:08
Speaker 1: big press conference like that. And the Devil said, they
32:13
Speaker 1: gonna eat you up in the morning. They gonna have
32:17
Speaker 1: you for breakfast in the morning. You might as well
32:20
Speaker 1: come over there with a coffee pot, because you are
32:23
Speaker 1: going to be the muffin so frantically. About two thirty
32:30
Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning, I called my PR person
32:33
Speaker 1: and I just went nuts. I just went nuts. I
32:37
Speaker 1: just said, this is crazy, this is stupid. Wasn't the
32:40
Speaker 1: well a we're doing? What were we thinking about? We
32:41
Speaker 1: should have never got into this. We don't have to
32:43
Speaker 1: add no press comments, we don't need no press coming.
32:45
Speaker 1: This is city of today. And then I don't know.
32:49
Speaker 1: And she said to me, I hope she's watching right
32:51
Speaker 1: there to see she was just going on. She said
32:53
Speaker 1: this to me, Bishop James. She said, the whole world
33:01
Speaker 1: has turned its head to hear what you have to say.
33:06
Speaker 1: Do you have to say anything or not? And I
33:14
Speaker 1: hung up the phone and I thought, is that what
33:17
Speaker 1: this is? All I saw was what could go wrong,
33:23
Speaker 1: and all she saw was what could go right. I
33:33
Speaker 1: called her about my agony. She told me my agony
33:37
Speaker 1: was my opportunity, and all of a sudden, my perspective
33:44
Speaker 1: about the storm changed, because it is your perspective that
33:50
Speaker 1: has to change. If your perspective doesn't change, you will
33:56
Speaker 1: misunderstand that God allowed the storm to give you an
34:00
Speaker 1: experience that nobody else ever got to have In all
34:05
Speaker 1: of their lives, so that you would know him in
34:07
Speaker 1: a way that other people never knew him because you
34:11
Speaker 1: went through something that other people didn't know. You want
34:13
Speaker 1: an uncanny annoyinging, Go through an uncanny storm. You want
34:18
Speaker 1: an uncanny influence, Go through an uncanny storm. You want
34:22
Speaker 1: to uncanny influence and do an uncanny storm. You don't
34:26
Speaker 1: get this by wishing for it. You don't get it
34:29
Speaker 1: by getting on your knees for it. You don't get
34:31
Speaker 1: it by me putting the oil on your head for it.
34:34
Speaker 1: You get it after you suffered a while. The Bible said,
34:37
Speaker 1: I'll establish you and make you perfect. There are no
34:41
Speaker 1: shortcuts to the storm. Hallenujah. That girl paid a price
34:45
Speaker 1: to sing that song. She paid a long price. The
34:48
Speaker 1: song was not nearly as long as the sickness. But
34:55
Speaker 1: if she hadn't have been sick, she wouldn't have gotten
34:57
Speaker 1: the song. So you couldn't bless millions of people if
35:03
Speaker 1: you didn't go through months and months and months and
35:05
Speaker 1: perhaps years of utter agony to sing a three minute song.
35:10
Speaker 1: But it was a storm that put an annoying in
35:13
Speaker 1: your voice to minister a healing that you couldn't have
35:17
Speaker 1: gotten any other way. Whether you hear what I'm talking
35:21
Speaker 1: to you about. And I'm talking to you because some
35:24
Speaker 1: of you are right smack dab in the middle of
35:28
Speaker 1: your storm.
35:30
Speaker 2: And this is not a.
35:31
Speaker 1: Time to fate, and this is not a time to
35:34
Speaker 1: give up, and this.
35:35
Speaker 2: Is not a time to die.
35:38
Speaker 1: The man said, I can't fly, but I can talk.
35:41
Speaker 2: Hello.
35:42
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello. I don't know etiquette. I don't know what
35:47
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to say.
35:48
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. Hello.
35:56
Speaker 1: Sometimes God takes you through something that you don't hit
36:00
Speaker 1: of a point of reference for that it looks like
36:05
Speaker 1: you got it together, and nobody helps you because it
36:10
Speaker 1: looks like you got it together, and you are scared
36:13
Speaker 1: out of you mud, You are nervous as all get out.
36:18
Speaker 1: You got the worst case of diarrhea that you have
36:21
Speaker 1: ever had since you were two months old, and nobody
36:25
Speaker 1: knows that. I'm just keeping it real. I'm not talking
36:34
Speaker 1: about that little bit of stress where your hands are shaken.
36:37
Speaker 1: I'm talking about that kind of stress where your bowels
36:39
Speaker 1: are disrupted and you can't sleep at night, and you're
36:42
Speaker 1: walking looking out talking to yourself, and you're looking out
36:46
Speaker 1: into the night and you're wondering if this is Oh,
36:48
Speaker 1: this is a big one. Agna, I'm coming home. I'm
36:51
Speaker 1: gonna die, and God sent me to tell you to
36:55
Speaker 1: be steady in the storm. Third thing, you didn't cause
37:05
Speaker 1: the storm. The storm is not your fault. It's not
37:09
Speaker 1: like Peter went in the wrong direction. It's not like
37:13
Speaker 1: this guy knew that this guy was gonna pass out
37:15
Speaker 1: on the plane.
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Speaker 2: You did not cause the storm.
37:18
Speaker 1: So stop allowing that voice to accuse you, because Satan
37:23
Speaker 1: is an accuser of the brother, and he will say
37:25
Speaker 1: you brought this on yourself. You're a fool. You shouldn't
37:28
Speaker 1: have never done it. You must have lost your mind.
37:31
Speaker 1: What is it about you that made you think you
37:32
Speaker 1: could do something that big? You must be crazy. You
37:35
Speaker 1: must have known. Storms come to everybody, annoyed people, save people,
37:41
Speaker 1: unsaved people, backslitting people, horrish people, straight people, gay people,
37:47
Speaker 1: cute people, ugly people, fat, bowl legged people. Everybody has storm.
37:53
Speaker 1: What made you think that you would be exempted from
37:57
Speaker 1: going through storms? Everything that I know about God that matters,
38:12
Speaker 1: I learned it not in a concordance, not even in
38:16
Speaker 1: a scripture. I learned it all in a storm. I
38:23
Speaker 1: learned it all on the cliff, on the edge of
38:29
Speaker 1: the cliff about to die, so sick I could throw up,
38:34
Speaker 1: and wondering if I would live to see another day.
38:37
Speaker 1: Everything I learned about God that mattered came through a crisis,
38:43
Speaker 1: not a promotion, not an advancement, not a check in
38:47
Speaker 1: the mail, not the accolades. A man that don't teach
38:50
Speaker 1: you Jack going through sickness and pain and chaos and
38:55
Speaker 1: trouble and heartbreak and disgrace, had embarrassment, had frustrate and
39:00
Speaker 1: humiliation and depression and grief unbearable. Everything I ever learned
39:06
Speaker 1: about the Lord is my shepherd. I learned it in
39:10
Speaker 1: a storm. I learned it in a fight. I learned
39:14
Speaker 1: it in a crisis. I learned it when the odds
39:17
Speaker 1: were against me. I learned it while they were talking
39:19
Speaker 1: about me like a dog. I learned that while they
39:21
Speaker 1: were rolling their eyes. I learned it while they were
39:24
Speaker 1: blogging about me. I learned that while they were lying
39:27
Speaker 1: on me. Who am I preaching to? And the word
39:35
Speaker 1: of the Lord is to stay steady in the storm,
39:40
Speaker 1: don't back up, don't give in, don't give up, don't retreat,
39:44
Speaker 1: don't run from people. Don't worry about what they think.
39:46
Speaker 1: Their opinion is not your victory. Changing their mind is
39:54
Speaker 1: not the crown that you're going to wear. People gonna
39:58
Speaker 1: think whatever they're gonna think. People are gonna say whatever
40:01
Speaker 1: they're going to say. Don't be distracted into trying to
40:06
Speaker 1: manage a storm that wasn't yours in the first place.
40:13
Speaker 1: What you have to do, this is a little bit
40:16
Speaker 1: I've learned, is to be steady in the storm. And
40:23
Speaker 1: I asked myself when I read the text, I say,
40:25
Speaker 1: when Jesus, when they woke up Jesus, Jesus didn't just
40:30
Speaker 1: rebuke the winds and ways.
40:32
Speaker 2: He rebuked Peter.
40:36
Speaker 1: I said, well, now, Lord, wait a minute, what did
40:39
Speaker 1: Peter do wrong? You told us to pray with our Caesar.
40:46
Speaker 1: You were sleep. All Peter did was wake you up.
40:53
Speaker 1: What did Peter do wrong that made Jesus rebuke Peter?
41:01
Speaker 1: Number One, Peter forgot the power of his presence. Peter
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Speaker 1: was addicted to Christ's performance and not his presence. Had
41:19
Speaker 1: Peter recognized the power of his presence, he would have
41:23
Speaker 1: known that the storm was lying because there was no
41:27
Speaker 1: way that Jesus could be drowned. Not the one who
41:31
Speaker 1: said I come that you might have life and have
41:33
Speaker 1: it more abundantly the very fact that Jesus is still
41:37
Speaker 1: with you is a sign that the storm.
41:39
Speaker 2: Is a lie.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you're gonna make it out. I
41:43
Speaker 1: don't know whether you're gonna float out on pieces. I
41:45
Speaker 1: don't know if you're gonna float out on a raft.
41:47
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're coming out on a boat.
41:50
Speaker 1: But as long as you got your annoy any baby,
41:52
Speaker 1: when all is said and done, the presence of God
41:56
Speaker 1: is enough to take you through anything. Hallelujah. Can't your
42:06
Speaker 1: neighbor and say Jesus is on the boat. The other
42:11
Speaker 1: thing that Peter did wrong. Peter is in charge, and
42:15
Speaker 1: Peter became hysterical and he started acting like he wasn't
42:19
Speaker 1: in charge of what he was in charge of. And
42:23
Speaker 1: what God wanted Peter to learn was how to be
42:28
Speaker 1: steady in the store. You gotta be steady in the store.
42:34
Speaker 1: You can't be a leader if you're not steady in
42:36
Speaker 1: the store. You can't run in a hide and be
42:38
Speaker 1: a leader. You gotta be steady in the store. Tears
42:42
Speaker 1: may be running down your face, but you got a
42:44
Speaker 1: hold onto that wheel.
42:46
Speaker 2: You'll never glee.
42:47
Speaker 1: You'll never get out if you let go on the
42:48
Speaker 1: wheel and by the way, the storm ain't that bad.
42:53
Speaker 1: There was water in the boat, but it wasn't enough
42:55
Speaker 1: water to wake come Jesus. And Jesus was asleep at
42:58
Speaker 1: the bottom of the boat. So if the storm had
43:03
Speaker 1: been that bad, how come the water didn't wake up Jesus.
43:06
Speaker 1: But the enemy has a way of amplifying trouble in
43:10
Speaker 1: your mind to make you think that it's worse than
43:13
Speaker 1: it really is. And you panny because the devil knows
43:17
Speaker 1: his storm can't take you out. It's your fear that's
43:21
Speaker 1: gonna take you out. And what God is trying to
43:24
Speaker 1: teach you to do. I'm talking to somebody. I don't
43:27
Speaker 1: know who it is, but God is saying, be steady.
43:31
Speaker 1: All hell is breaking loose, Be steady. Your emotions all
43:35
Speaker 1: over the place. Be steady. Your enemies are everywhere. Be steady.
43:48
Speaker 1: You gotta be steady in the storm. You gotta be
43:52
Speaker 1: steady when.
43:53
Speaker 2: They like you.
43:54
Speaker 1: You gotta be steady when they don't like you. You
43:57
Speaker 1: gotta be steady when it's in Hosannah. You gotta be
44:00
Speaker 1: steady when they say crucified. You gotta be steady at
44:03
Speaker 1: the wedding. You gotta be steady at the funeral. You
44:06
Speaker 1: gotta be steady when things are up. You gotta be
44:09
Speaker 1: steady when things are Now, don't take your hand off
44:13
Speaker 1: that wheel, Calm, hell.
44:15
Speaker 2: Of high water. Hold on to.
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Speaker 1: The wheel and keep on aiming for the other side.
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Speaker 1: Keep aiming for the other side. Keep your eyes on
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Speaker 1: where you're trying to go, and aim for the other side.
44:37
Speaker 1: The third thing Peter did wrong is he failed to
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Speaker 1: believe that he had what it takes to get through
44:43
Speaker 1: what he was facing. The fact that Jesus rebuked him
44:49
Speaker 1: for waking him up means I equipped you with enough
44:54
Speaker 1: stuff to make it through this storm. This was not
45:00
Speaker 1: a storm for me to rebuke. This was a storm
45:06
Speaker 1: for you to rebuke. And you are asking me to
45:12
Speaker 1: do what I have called you to do. Behold, I
45:17
Speaker 1: give you power. I give you power.
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Speaker 2: Over the enemy.
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Speaker 1: I give you power over what's happening in your life.
45:24
Speaker 1: I give you power over what they said about I
45:26
Speaker 1: give you power. I give you power, And you're giving
45:29
Speaker 1: up the power when you're frantic and frustrated and you
45:34
Speaker 1: allow your emotions to control your decisions. I cannot afford
45:41
Speaker 1: to call an emotional leader because you're gonna have to
45:44
Speaker 1: preach for me on the day of Pentecost, because you're
45:47
Speaker 1: gonna have to spread the word into cities that don't
45:50
Speaker 1: believe in you, because ultimately you will be crucified upside down.
45:55
Speaker 1: And I need to know when I commission you to
45:57
Speaker 1: go that come a hell of high water, you will
46:00
Speaker 1: hold fast to your profession of faith and don't pany
46:05
Speaker 1: The storm was just a test in a controlled environment
46:09
Speaker 1: to prepare you for what I'm about to do in
46:12
Speaker 1: your life. Who am I talking to? I'm preaching to somebody,
46:17
Speaker 1: the Holy Girl said. Be steadying the store. Don't back up,
46:21
Speaker 1: don't give me in, don't faint, don't collapse. You may
46:25
Speaker 1: have to get on the walkie talkie. You might not
46:28
Speaker 1: know the right language, you might not use the right word,
46:31
Speaker 1: but survival is the ultimate goal. Be steadying the storm.
46:36
Speaker 1: I don't know what you call it, but hello, Hello, Hello,
46:40
Speaker 1: Can you hear me? If I'm preaching to you? Shout
46:48
Speaker 1: in this house. Almost every day in my life I
47:00
Speaker 1: got people telling me what all went wrong. Very very
47:04
Speaker 1: seldom do they call me determine what we're right. They
47:07
Speaker 1: always called me, determine what went wrong, And so a
47:11
Speaker 1: constant bombarding. If we got a problem we don't have
47:15
Speaker 1: this result, we don't have that result, we don't have
47:17
Speaker 1: the other result. After a while, it feels like a
47:19
Speaker 1: tsunami coming from every direction. And when they get a
47:25
Speaker 1: moment with you, they quickly get to what's wrong because
47:30
Speaker 1: I don't get to talk to you often, so let
47:32
Speaker 1: me get right to it, like you're not even human.
47:37
Speaker 2: They don't even ask me how am I?
47:40
Speaker 1: Are you having a good day to day? Is this
47:42
Speaker 1: a good time to have a conversation. Let me tell
47:45
Speaker 1: you what I need. Let me tell you what I need.
47:52
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what it takes. Let me tell
47:53
Speaker 1: you what's going on. Let me tell you that. And
47:55
Speaker 1: what I learned is that I cannot react to the stimuli.
48:05
Speaker 1: I have to keep a steady head so that I
48:08
Speaker 1: can make a calm, calculated, accurate decision. And I can't
48:16
Speaker 1: make an accurate decision off of one person's opinion, because
48:22
Speaker 1: every time I made a decision off of one person's opinion,
48:26
Speaker 1: I had to go back and fix it because I
48:28
Speaker 1: found out they didn't tell me everything. So my word
48:37
Speaker 1: as a leader is to be sober and be vigilant
48:43
Speaker 1: for your enemy. Goeth about as a roaring line watches.
48:47
Speaker 2: Seeking whom he made. If he's seeking whom.
48:52
Speaker 1: He made devour, that means there's somebody he can't devour.
48:56
Speaker 1: I want to be the guy he can't devour. I
48:59
Speaker 1: want to be the guy who makes it to the
49:02
Speaker 1: other side. I want to be the guy who crosses
49:04
Speaker 1: over because I got an assignment waiting on me. Let
49:08
Speaker 1: me show you one more thing. In front of every
49:11
Speaker 1: major move of God, there will always be some sort
49:14
Speaker 1: of storm, some sort of challenge, some sort of tests.
49:20
Speaker 1: When you run into your Goliath, you have come into
49:23
Speaker 1: your kingdom. David needed Goliath. Goliath announced you have arrived.
49:33
Speaker 1: Goliath is not there to kill you. Goliath is there
49:37
Speaker 1: to introduce you until Goliath comes. Oh, I feel like
49:43
Speaker 1: preaching now until Goliath comes. David is just a shepherd boy.
49:49
Speaker 1: But Goliath put David's talents on full display. Goliath separated
49:55
Speaker 1: David from the other shepherd boy. Goliath put him in
49:58
Speaker 1: a class all by Hi. If anything at all, David
50:02
Speaker 1: should have paid Goliath, because the king wouldn't have paid
50:05
Speaker 1: David no attention if it wasn't for the Goliath he fought.
50:09
Speaker 1: The reason you're fighting what you're fighting right now is
50:12
Speaker 1: at God's creating a stage for His anointing to restore.
50:17
Speaker 1: Do you hear what I'm saying to you. The only
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Speaker 1: reason this storm is out here in the first place
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Speaker 1: is that Jesus is bringing the Gospel to the gentiles.
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Speaker 1: This is huge, and the storm is trying to stop it.
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Speaker 1: And the greater the storm, the greater the assignment. If
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Speaker 1: God trusts you with that level of trouble, you gotta
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Speaker 1: be somebody. You gotta be somebody. You gotta be somebody.
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Speaker 1: The storm didn't fall on nobody except somebody. The storm
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Speaker 1: didn't fall on nobody. It only fell on somebody. And
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Speaker 1: if the storm is in your life right now, just
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Speaker 1: what you somebody? Do you hear the words that are
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Speaker 1: coming out of my mouth? Somebody shout I am somebody.
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Speaker 1: I know I'm somebody, not because of my degrees, not
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Speaker 1: because of my accomplishment, not because of my money, but
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Speaker 1: because of the storm that has come in my life.
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Speaker 1: The devil wouldn't attack me if I weren't somebody. Shout yes,
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Speaker 1: Shout yes again, Shout yes. Whoever I'm preaching to you,
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Speaker 1: about to step into somebody. You're about to come into
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Speaker 1: another dimension. You're about to come into another realm of
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Speaker 1: the spirit and the reason all hell has broken loose.
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Speaker 1: This is Satan's last attempt to stop you from landing
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Speaker 1: on dry ground. But the devil is a lie. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna be steady. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. This young lady saying,
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Speaker 1: everybody loves to hear you when you come out, but
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Speaker 1: when you're in Don't nobody want to hear you when
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Speaker 1: you're in pain. Don't nobody want to hear you when
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Speaker 1: you're struggling in your faith? Don't nobody want to hear you?
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Speaker 1: But you're just paying your dues. This is a toll bridge.
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Speaker 1: You have to pay to make it to the other side.
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Speaker 1: Y'all don't understand what a toll bridge is. It means
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Speaker 1: it costs you something to get to the other side,
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Speaker 1: and once you paid the price, you ain't gonna lett
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Speaker 1: Nobody take your prize away from you. I need thirty
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Speaker 1: seconds of crazy, spontaneous holy ghost supernatural praising his house, praising, praising, praising, praising.
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Speaker 1: Praise him like you a king, Praise him like you
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Speaker 1: a demon chaser. Praise him like you're a water walker.
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Speaker 1: Praise him like you're the head and not the tail.
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Speaker 1: Praising like you're a person of increase. Praise him with
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Speaker 1: a significant praise. A significant praise. You are putting a
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Speaker 1: significant attack. Give him a significant praise. Stands to your feet.
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Speaker 1: I'm the South. I feel glory in this place. I
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Speaker 1: feel another boat shot. I feel annoying in this place.
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Speaker 1: I feel power in this place. I'm raising up another
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Speaker 1: generation of leaders. I'm raising up another generation of leaders.
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Speaker 1: That's why I keep talking about leaders. I'm raising up
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Speaker 1: another generation of leaders. And I want you to understand.
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Speaker 1: The trouble is normal. The trouble is a part of
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Speaker 1: the job. The attack identifies you as being significant. The
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Speaker 1: more significant you are, the more hellish the attack is.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to fight the storm. You have to
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Speaker 1: fight the temptation to become hysterical in the storm. You
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Speaker 1: gotta remain ain't steady. Steady means whatever you were doing
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Speaker 1: before the storm started, keep on doing it. The double
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Speaker 1: shut cold shadda he dobo, she can't tell you shata
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Speaker 1: heybo shatah her double shaya. When COVID came, I said,
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Speaker 1: I was preaching before it hit. I'm gonna keep on preaching.
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Speaker 1: They said, you ain't got nobody to preach too. I said,
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Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm gonna be steady in the storm.
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Speaker 1: So every Sunday morning I got dressed. Wasn't nobody there
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Speaker 1: to see me get dressed. I preach. Wasn't nobody to
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Speaker 1: shout Holly New York. Nobody said, it's me, Missheva, you
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Speaker 1: talking to me? But I kept on preaching, because you'll
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Speaker 1: never win if you stop being steady.
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Speaker 2: You gotta be steadfast.
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Speaker 1: So every he talks about Jesus rebuked the winds and
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Speaker 1: the waves, and let me show you some another thing
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Speaker 1: that the storm did. It made them reassess who Jesus was,
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Speaker 1: because when Jesus rebuked the winds and waves, they said,
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Speaker 1: what manner of man is this? That even the winds
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Speaker 1: and waves obey his will? And I thought, y'all still
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Speaker 1: think he a man? You mean, you a disciple, and
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Speaker 1: you still think he's a man.
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Speaker 2: You're talking about? What manner of man is this?
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Speaker 1: You?
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Speaker 2: The disciples?
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Speaker 1: These ain't pharisees, These are not sadd diessees. These are
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Speaker 1: the church leaders who still have not recognized that Jesus
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Speaker 1: is God. But you're gonna learn today. You're gonna learn today.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna learn today. You're gonna learn today. You gonna
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Speaker 1: learn today, Baby, you gonna learn today. You gonna learn
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Speaker 1: his voice. You gonna learn how to obey his voice.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna learn how to hear his voice. You're gonna
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Speaker 1: learn that he can walk you.
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Speaker 2: Through the worst moments.
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Speaker 1: Of your life, the worst moments of your life, the
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Speaker 1: worst moments of your life. I was sitting right over
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Speaker 1: there with my mother's casket laying in front of the
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Speaker 1: church in the old building. I was sitting right in
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Speaker 1: front of it, and I told her all my life.
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Speaker 1: She said, I want you to preach my funeral. I said,
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Speaker 1: I ain't preaching your funeral. I'm telling you now so
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Speaker 1: I don't have to feel guilty when you die.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: But I was sitting over there, and I thought, this
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Speaker 1: is your last chance to do something she wanted you
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Speaker 1: to do. So I told God, with grief like some
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Speaker 1: of you ain't never seen until that happened to you,
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Speaker 1: pushing you down in the floor, I said, if you
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Speaker 1: give me enough grace for the grief, I'll stumble up
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Speaker 1: there and do it and be steady in the storm.
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Speaker 1: I might fall apart when I get home. I might
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Speaker 1: fall apart in the car, but in the storm. In
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Speaker 1: the storm, you know how we was reading in the storm.
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Speaker 1: You know Mama didn't put up with that stuff in
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Speaker 1: the storm. Get yourself together, steady in the storm. If
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Speaker 1: you're steady, you outlasted. If you steady, you gonna outlive it.
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Speaker 1: If you're not steady, it's only because you don't have
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Speaker 1: the faith to believe that there's something on the other
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Speaker 1: side of it. And the reason I read the part
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Speaker 1: about them landing is I wanted you to know they
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Speaker 1: made it. Now watch this. You ain't gonna shout about this.
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Speaker 1: They made it through the storm to face the demons.
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Speaker 1: The reward for passing the tests is earning the next tests.
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Speaker 2: Can I give you truth?
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Speaker 1: So eventually you face so many of them, you learn
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Speaker 1: not to delay your happiness for the test to be over.
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Speaker 1: For you to feel good, you've got to learn how
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Speaker 1: to go ahead and find happiness in the midst of it,
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Speaker 1: because it ain't gonna stop. It's not ever going to stop.
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Speaker 1: There's always gonna be something, There's always gonna be somebody,
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Speaker 1: there's always gonna be something you're scared of. There's always
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Speaker 1: gonna be stuff that goes wrong. It's called life. Baby,
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Speaker 1: It's called life. It's not Satan, it's not demons, it's
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Speaker 1: not witches, is not hex's. It's life. People are gonna
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Speaker 1: be born, people are gonna die. Accidents, shocking accidents, burning, killed, shot,
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Speaker 1: set on fire, blue committed suicide. That happens in life?
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Speaker 1: Does it hurt aipsidetely? Do you quit?
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Speaker 2: Hell? No, no, Ain't.
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Speaker 1: No way, ain't no way. You have to kill me?
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Speaker 1: Dog you have to give you? Are you like to
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Speaker 1: take me out? It ain't even based on what I
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Speaker 1: win or lose. I'm just telling you got me to
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Speaker 1: fight every morning. You want to fight me on Monday,
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Speaker 1: and fight me on Tuesday, Fight me on Wednesday, and
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Speaker 1: fight me on Thursday, Fight me on Friday. Waitmen, let
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Speaker 1: me get some breakfast. Fight you on Saturday, fight you
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Speaker 1: on Sunday morning. Because I'm just as determined to get
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Speaker 1: to the other side as you are to stop me
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Speaker 1: from getting to the other side. I want to see
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Speaker 1: what he has on the other side of this test
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Speaker 1: for me. I want to see what he has on
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Speaker 1: the other side of this test for me, I want
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Speaker 1: to see what he has on the other side. Am
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Speaker 1: I in it by myself? Is anybody in it with
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Speaker 1: for me. Are you ready to fight the good fight
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Speaker 1: of faith? Are you ready to be steadying the store.
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Speaker 1: I'm not calling you up for prayer. I'm not calling
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Speaker 1: you up from prayer. I'm not calling you up for
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Speaker 1: prayer because if I call you up for prayer, it
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Speaker 1: annahligates the integrity of this message. I ain't waking up
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Speaker 1: for what you're going through because I know you got
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Speaker 1: the stuff inside of you to fight back whatever is
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Speaker 1: coming against you. Right now, and as long as I
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Speaker 1: babysit you, you will. You'll know who I am, but
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Speaker 1: you won't know who you are. I command you now,
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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. Dram put that stalk room,
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Speaker 1: Put that devilv buke that fear, revute that fact, that fulkid.
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Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. I don't know who's watching
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Speaker 1: me a lie, but the Holy cost said you got
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Speaker 1: the power with then yourself to be stepped fast and
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Speaker 1: unmovable in the star.
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Speaker 2: You'll build that
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