Living Life in a Shadow | Pastor Darlene McCarty

Welcome to the Legacy Churches Podcast. We are so glad that you get you

win us today. We pray that God speaks to you through his message and

through his work. Now let's tune into the message. Laban said to him,

just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me

for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be. Now, Laban had

two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of

the younger was Rachel. Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel had a lovely

figure and was beautiful. Jacob put in love with Rachel and said, I

worked seven years in return for your younger daughter. Rachel. Lavin said,

well, we know it's better that I give her to you than to some

other man, So stay here with me. So Jacob served seven years to

get Rachel, but they seem like only a few days to him because of

his love for her. Then Jacob said to Laban, give me my wife.

My time is completed. I want to marry her. So brought together

all the people of the place and gave a big, big feast. But

when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob.

Jacob mad loved her, and Laban gave gave the servant Zephyr to his daughter

as her attendant. When morning came, there was Leah. So Jacob said

to Laban, what is this you have done to me? I served you

for Rachel, didn't I Why have you deceived me? Lord? Bless your

word and Jesus name. Amen, you can be seated living life in a

shadow. That's what I want to talk about this morning, about the shadow

that Leah actually lived in of Rachel's. Because do you realize that when God

created us, he didn't create us to be like somebody else. God didn't

create us to look like somebody else, to walk like somebody else. That

when he create us, you have your own DNA, You have your own

fingerprints, your personality. The Word said he you were We were created in

His image. Very unique. Look at your neighbor and say you're so unique.

Oh you better look at your other neighbor. I don't know if they

believed you or not. Look at your other neighbors, say you're unique.

Let me ask you this question. Have you ever been confronted with there was

gonna be a promotion at work and you just knew you were gonna get that

promotion and it passed you by. Or maybe you were at school growing up,

in primary and elementary school in junior high and you wanted to be the

teacher's pet. Was there anybody here this morning that was the teacher's pet?

Come on, nobody in here was ever? How many would we had?

Okay, we got a couple of teachers pets. How many would wanted to

be the teacher's pet, wanted to be the favorite? Or maybe it was

time for recess time and it was time for that to play softball and they're

gonna pick the team, and you stood there tribling in your shoes, going

like Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, please don't let me be the last one

picked. Anybody was ever the last one pick? You know, you didn't

want to be embarrassed, you know you you just pray just kind of like

okay, come on, darling, you can be on our team. You're

like like, gee, thanks, thanks, thanks, you know, or

maybe anybody when you were growing up you had to wear the hand me down

clothes because you were not the first born, so you got the hand me

down clothes. See back then, when I grow up, if you had

holes in your clothes. It meant you were poor. You have your holes

in the clothes. Now it means you're rich because it costs to have holes

in your clothes. Makes absolutely no sense, does it, my goodness?

Or maybe you were were not the favorite child? Am I talking to anybody

this morning so far? If you get set down now and have a conversation

with Leah, you know what she would understand. She'd go, girl,

I know exactly what you're talking about. Bro, I got it. I

know I've been there because in this story about Leah, I said she was

caught in manipulation and deception between I call it two tricksters between her dad and

Jacob. And of course we know the story of Jacob. You know,

he stole his brother's birthright. He wanted the blessing of the first born.

He wanted to be highly favored, he wanted all the privileges. But it's

really unique, if you'll read on in Genesis twenty five twenty three, God

had already told Rebecca, and I already promised Rebecca. It said the older

shall serve the younger. That Jacob didn't have to do what he did,

because God had already promised that he would be blessed because Jacob was destined to

be a ruler. But here's what happened. Jacob became impatient. Oh can

I give somebody a word this morning? There's much danger in becoming impatient with

God's timing. I'm gonna put it like this. Anybody that kind of have

a hard time with patience, Well, I feel like I'm told thankful I'm

not in the room alone. It's kind of like I'm an organizer. I'm

very OCD and I like everything in order, and I like to know how

it's going to happen, when it's going to happen, who's going to happen

with And when I'm dealing with God, he don't clue me in. He

knows how to drive an OCD person bonkers. Anybody there with me, Well,

here's what happens. God says, you've been praying for a situation.

You've been seeking his will, You've been quoting the word, you've been singing

his praises. God takes you, and he prepositions you for favor. So

he prepositions you in this position for favor because what he's going to do is

he's going to reposition you for favor but for favor to come in your life,

he's got to get the right people in the right place at the right

time. He's got to have a job opening created in that business for you

to get that job. He's got to bring a man in your life that's

going to be your mate. But he hasn't got saved yet, so he's

got to get to that revival and get saved first. That right car has

got to come along, because the thing is a person hadn't traded it in

yet to get them a new car. So he puts you over here in

this preposition, posician. It tells you to stay here, keep praising me,

keep seeking my will, keep giving me thanks while he's putting everything in

place. But you get impatient with God. And then you get impatient God

because things is. You've been praying for your kids to get saved and they're

getting meaner. Okay, You've been praying for your marriage to get better and

it's getting worse. You've been praying for favor to come at your job and

you get laid off and you thank God. You need some help. You

know, it's kind of stupid to say, but hey, many of us

think God needs our help Sometimes So what happens is we begin to take things

in our own hands and we remove ourself out of that prepositioned position that God

has put us in, and we begin to help God with the job,

with the marriage, with the children, with a dating situation. And when

God gets the right things in position, now he's got the job for you.

He's got the mate for you. He's got someone that's going to come

in your life that's gonna have bless your kids and they're gonna get saved.

So he's got the right people in the right place at the right time.

So now he comes where he left you in toime told you to stay on

your face before me saying the word stay praising me, have a positive attitude.

And because you've removed yourself, you've just missed your blessing. You just

missed that promotion, you just permissed that marriage getting better. You just you

just miss your kid getting saved through someone because you've done become impatient with God

and moved yourself out of that position and you miss favor and then you blame

it on God. It's like I prayed to nothing changed, I praised and

it got worse. Well, Lord, it is because you became impatient with

God. Here's what the scripture says in Galatian sixty nine. And let us

not be weary, And you write your name in there, because I wrote,

and let Darlene not be weary and well doing. See, he knew

that we was gonna get weary. He knew we were gonna get worn out.

He knew we were gonna get tired of praying and believing and praying and

believing. So he says, so let Darlene not be weary well doing so.

He said far in due season. He didn't say tomorrow. He didn't

say next Friday. He didn't say by this afternoon. Is in baking what

I'm talking about? He just said in due season. Due season could be

years from now. I had a friend she paid for her husband to say

for thirty years, on his dying bed at the hospital, he gave his

heart to the Lord, she said, But God told me not to stop

praying. But it says in due season, he says, Darlene shall reap.

Okay, that means I'm gonna reap what I've sown. I'm gonna get

the favor that I've been praying for. But what is say if I want.

So Therefore, he knew you were gonna get faint, He knew you

were gonna get weary. He knew that you was gonna get stressed out.

He knew that you were gonna get tired. So he says, in due

season, you will reap what you've been prayed for. But you can't it

weary. You can't look at your circumstance and base your outcome of what surrounds

you. First Corinth this one nine and says God is faithful to fulfill his

promises. Now, I wish you had just put an exclamation point right there,

but he had to go put a calmer there. He's faithful to fill

his promises. Now, is what my timing? What do you say?

Okay, it's all about him again. Okay, his time and by whose

methods? Like God, give me a break? Can it be something my

timing like I need it by Friday? Can't it be high? I want

this person to come and say this and bring me this. No, no,

no, that's not what he said. But he said he is faithful.

Someone's faithful means they're going to do what they say they're going to do.

He's faithful with his timing and this method. God does have ministry for

you. He does have a house for you that you might be praying for,

or a car, or even a child. But it's gonna be in

his timing. Don't rush God or change his plans that he has for you.

Now back to Jacob. Can we find Jacob. He's fearing for his

life now he has to leave home, so he runs to his uncle's house

by the name of Laban, and he arrives there. As soon as he

arrives there, his eyes falls on this most gorgeous, beautiful woman he's ever

seen. Now, the word says that she was beautiful and form an appearance.

Now, when I think a beautiful, I'm thinking a perfect look at

your neighbor and said, there's one of those inside of me. You just

can't see it right now. That's what he says. She was beautiful.

But then we had Rachel, Rachel's sister Leah. The Bible says she was

not pretty. He talks about her eyes. Said she had cowies, she

had ugly eyes. You wouldn't want to meet this in a dark alley one

night. I think you get the point. She was not attractive. So

now we're about to have a wedding because you know, back in those days,

you know, on the front of your handout notes, you know,

they wore all that garb, so all you saw was the eyes. So

that's all he saw of Leah. So now it's a wedding feast. Laban

makes this big party. Now I'm sure there was lots of drinking going on.

I'm sure he had to get Jacob really drunk to get him to do

what he is about to have him do. So they have a big party.

So now Laban takes Jacob to the bridle chamber and guess who's waiting for

him, Leah. Well here's what happens. The next morning. Leah wakes

up thinking, I'm finally gonna have somebody that loves me. I'm finally gonna

have somebody that can hold me, somebody that can brag on me or tell

me that I'm pretty, that's gonna respect me. And she rolls over.

And when she rolls over, she rolls over to an empty bed. Don't

you know she must have immediately felt nothing's changed. I'm never gonna be loved,

I'm never gonna be respected, I'm never gonna be thought well of.

She must immediately begin to feel abandoned, rejected. You's unwanted, undesirable.

And what's the what sad about this story is she didn't ask for any of

this, She didn't deserve any of this. She was the victim. Get

that, some of you are sitting in your seat this morning, and you

become the victim of a situation that you had no control over. You had

nothing to do about it. You were accused, you were lied about.

You were a victim of that situation. And all she wanted was to be

loved, to be respected, to be appreciated. Because of living in the

shadow of Rachel her whole life, she must have already had low self esteem,

probably been timid, had no confidence. But Leah said, but I'm

married. I'm going to win his heart over one way or another. She

was determined. So don't you imagine when he went to work and he came

home, she probably had his favorite meal prepared and would come in. She'd

done all the laundry and it was all hanging up. Then she should go

out and she'd get the water. She would worship his chariot. Then she'd

get that stuff and spray on the spokes to make him really shiny. So

when he went to work the next day, he had the best looking chariot

on the lot because he was a car salesman of chariots. But nothing changed.

So she said, Okay, what can I give him that Rachel can't

or hazard? She said, I know, I'll have a baby. That's

what I'll do. I'll have a baby. So she gives birth to her

first son, and the thing is back then they named children, what was

going on in their life the meaning of that, so they named him Ruben.

Ruben means look at me, see my afflictions, Jacob. Can you

not see my afflictions? Can you? Can you not see how you're acting

towards me? How much it grieves and hurts my heart? But nothing changed.

So she thought, I'll give birth to a second child. Surely he

will love me if I give him two children. She gives birth to Simeon

that says to hear to listen to me, Jacob, can you not listen?

Can you not hear my heart crying for you just to love me?

But nothing changed. She goes, I know I'll give him three children.

Surely he will love me and desire me if I give him three children.

He gives she gives birth to LEVI I means to be joined to, to

be connected to. Surely, if I've given you three children, will be

connected at the heart forever. Nothing changed. I don't know what happened between

child number three and child number four, but I can only say say she

had an encounter with the Lord. And can I tell you when you have

an encounter. I'm talking about a holy ghost encounter with the Lord. Things

will change in your life. Your attitude will change. The way you go

to work will change, the way you talk to people will change, the

way you worship will change when you have that true holy ghost experience in your

life. I say she had a holy ghost experience in her life between child

number three and child number four, because when she gave birth to number four,

she named him Judah, which means I will be appraise her. I

will praise you now, I will praise the Lord and all of judas is

sinenus became known as praisers. Suddenly she became a woman of an agony and

sorryful and God, just want somebody to love me, give me attention to

something of going like, I don't care what they say about me, I

don't care what they do toward me or against me, But I will praise

you anyhow. I don't care how the stock market is, I don't care

how my finances are, I don't care what's going on at work. I

will praise you anyhow, because us God, you are my sorece, not

man. I don't care what man says against me. Has actuallyation told me,

I will choose to praise you anyhow. That's the experience that she had

when she gave birth to Judah. Some things that I read about the tribe

of Judah that I think is very interesting is the tribe of Judah is often

mentioned separately from other tribes. Can I tell you something, When you start

praising Jesus, you'll be separated from your problems. Also, when you start

praising him, you're gonna be separated from negative people, because negative people ain't

gonna hang around a praiser. One of the few tribes to return to God

after captivity, and most of Israel's kings came from the line of Judah.

Leah had learned to praise him anyhow. Can you say that with me?

Praise him anyhow? Say it again? So when people start ignoring you,

what are you gonna do? What promotion passes you by. Your children never

call you anymore. You don't have anyone to help you out with the bills.

You accused of something that you had nothing to do with. You don't

have that hour glass figure, and your body's racked with pain. You have

no money for food. You worked your whole life for a company. Now

they're downsize you and you get the pink slip. Your friends and family don't

understand or have anything to do with you because your relationship with God. Because

to see when you pray, and it's important to pray, because God listens

to you. But can I tell you something, when you start praising him,

he seeks after you. He comes, findes with your He cannot stay

away from a praiser. He has to come with you where you are.

If you want to walk in favor, if you want to be blessed by

God, let me tell you what you become a praiser. Don't just pray,

but I'm talking praiser, or you just brag on God. You tell

him who he is to you or what he's done for you. You give

thanks to him. Because you've got to understand that favor cannot stay away from

a praiser, and you got to understand, well, who exactly who am

I praising? You understand he's Jehovah God. Can I tell you some things

about him? That it's a god. He is the god of the universe.

He is the CEO of this earth. Do you realize that wind cannot

even blow without his permission? Lightning cannot flash unless he blinks his eyes.

Thunder will not roar until he opens his mouth. Floodwaters will not come until

he nods his head. That's a Jehovah God that you're praising. Thunder can

only roar when he opens his mouth. He releases the rain from the sky.

Now when he creates a snowflake, he creates a snowflake. Individual.

He said, you did not vote me in, so therefore you cannot vote

me out because I am God. He says, you didn't appoint me,

so therefore you cannot disappoint me because I am Jehovah God. He says,

I am the boss, and says, I am the boss. You cannot

fire me. That's the God. I'm saying that you need to just start

praising him and bragging on him about My mind goes back to a story that

I heard that happened. Back in the nineteen forties, there was a lady

by the name of Amy Simple macpherson. Some of you may have heard of

her and some may not. She was the founder of the Fourth Square denomination,

like the Simons of God, it was four Square. It was founded

out in California, in Los Angeles, California. In fact, the Dream

Centers out there is now have taken over what was her Bible school and her

church out there. But back in the forties, fifties and sixties, they

were evangelists that travel around and they set up these big revival tints and there

was people like or Roberts and AA Allen, and of course there was Amy

Si McPherson. She said that she had set a tent up and it was

packed out with several thousand people. She said she stood on the platform.

When she stood on the platform, she said, I opened my eyes and

when I did, I look looked out at the tent and there were black,

hooded demons that had surrounded the tent. She said. My first response

was fear griped my heart. But then I said, you have no power

over me, Satan, and God spoke to me and said, just start

praising me. She said, I closed my eyes and I lifted my hands

and I said, God, you are Jehovah. You are the CEO of

the universe. And she said I looked up, and when I did,

the demons took a step back. She said, I said, you are

my Alpha and my Omega. That demons took another step back. She said,

you are the beginning and the end. You are my salvation, said,

the demons took another step back. She said, I said, God,

there's none other God above you. You are the only one. And

she said, suddenly I begin to see around the tent white hooded angels that

began to take a step forward. And she said, the more I bragged

on him, the more I called out his name, She said, the

angels took a step forward, until suddenly I looked around and surrounded around all

the people were white angelic beings. Can I tell you that's all you need

to do. When the devil's come into your mind, he's trying to torment

your mind. He's trying to tell you things that's not true about yourself,

that it will never happen. You're gonna be defeated, You're never going to

get where you want to go. Can I tell you you just begin to

brag on God and the Satan has to leave because say, you've got to

understand. The reason the enemy wants to get to your mind is because Satan

was created as a worshiper in heaven. When he was kicked out, so

was worship created that was created was kicked out. But God said, that's

okay, I'm gonna find a group of people. I'm gonna find some people

in Houston, Texas. I'm gonna find a group of people at Legacy that

when they come to church and on Monday and on Tuesday and Wednesday, they're

gonna open their mouth and they're gonna praise Me all week long. And said,

that's going to replace the worship in heaven that was kicked out with Satan.

That's the reason Satan wants to get to your mind. That's the reason

Satan wants to steal your praise because he said, if I can steal your

praise, then I can remove praise out of heaven. Because Satan understands the

power of the words that's in your mouth when you open and praise him.

Reminds me of the story that I heard about this little lady. She'd gone

to a Bible study. She was so excited about going to Bible study and

praying with her friends. She returns home, and when she returns home,

she notices that her door is a jar, and she goes, I know

I locked this door, but it's open. She walks in, and when

she walks in, there's this big, old burly guy, probably three hundred

pounds, robbing her. Here's this little ninety pound lady made her so mad.

She says, devil, I tell you what this makes me mad.

I've been at church, I've been praying, I've been interceding, and while

I've been doing that, you sent the devil in to steal my stuff.

She looked at that guy. He said, She said to him, acts

two thirty eight your sins. Suddenly, that big old burly guy just frozen

his tracks and began to shiver all over. She says, buddy, you

stay right there. I'm going to call the place. She walks over,

gets her phone, calls nine one one, and the plice arrived. He

had moved, He's frozen his tracks. The policemen walk in. They look

at this little ninety pounds old lady. They looked this big, old,

burly guy, and they're thinking this makes absolutely no sense. He could take

her out with one hand. Said ma'am, what did you say to this

guy? She said, I told him acts two thirty eight repent of your

sins. The policeman kind of looked puzzled and walked over and said, uh,

sir, all this lady said to you, was she quoted you a

scripture? Said no, sir, she didn't. She looked at me and

told me she had an axe in two thirty eights. Said if I wasn't

about to move, well, can I tell you something? When you get

full of the Holy Ghost, he gives you an axe, and two thirty

eight is to lose on use on the devil. The devil cannot get to

your mind. He can't get to your family because you have a Holy Ghost

axe two thirty eighths, and some of you need to start using it and

quit using a BB gun or a water pistol and realize you've got an axe

and you got through thirty eight to use against the devil. My mind goes

back to back where I live, just the town over before I live,

the lady that travels with me when I speak there was a tornady that was

headed to their city, and her and her children had gone to take them

home to their kid's house. They started back and her husband calls her and

says, get back to the house because there's a tarnad heading straight to that

subdivision. They get back in that house and they can hear it roaring.

They all hover in the bathroom. They're all getting in the bathtub, and

in the bathroom, said her son begin to say, we're gonna die.

We're gonna die. We're God like Mama. I love you, and Honey,

I love you, and SISI, I love you. Okay, We're

just gonna die together. Everything, And she said, her daughter said,

this makes me mad. She said that tornado has no authority over me because

I'm full of the holy ghosts and when I speak to that mountain, it

has to obey and it has to move. Says. I got up,

and she said, I got up. I went to the front door and

I swung it open. She said, I saw that that tornado is coming

toward me. And I said, you listen to me. You have no

power over me. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. The word says

for me to speak to my mountain. You have to move now. I

command you to move right now. Do you hear me? Move right now?

She said, Jehovah, God, I give you praise for the authority

you're taking over that tornado. Can I tell you what happened that tornado?

It went around their house. Seventy five people were killed in that neighborhood.

Not one thing was happened to their house. You gotta realize the power you

have inside of you. The devil tries to belittle you and make you think

that reminds you of the things that you've done or should have done, to

make you feel so little of yourself, Like how could God love me?

Because I've disappointed him so many times? But you got to realize the blood

worshs it away, and when you get the holy ghosts inside of you,

you have a power that's inside of you that there's not a weapon that any

devil can throw against you that can prosper. Just like he's talking about the

Hebrew children. I don't care what fire the devil tries to throw you in.

There's always that third person that's in there with you. Now here's what's

interesting about this story. Fact to Jacob, he's on his dying bed,

and on his dying bed, here's what he tells his family. Don't bury

me in Egypt. He said, I want you to take me back to

Canaan, and here's where I want you to bury me. He tells him

exactly the tomb in the place he wants to be buried in. Can I

tell you who was buried there and who was not buried there? Rachel was

not buried there. Leah was buried there. And that's something. All the

way up to his death bed, he realized Leah was a God send to

me. There was something different about her. And when I die, take

me back and buried be where she is. Don't become impatient with God,

his timing and his methods. One night, when I went to bed,

i'd worked on this message, and I was laying there, it was called,

like God, what did Leah say? What did she pray to you?

What happened that had that turnaround? That she went from a murmuring,

griping, complaining woman to a praiser, a Jehovah God worshiper. And suddenly

these thoughts begin to come in my mind. And I got it from got

a pencil on paper, and I wrote it down, and I think it's

in your notes now. I call it Leah's prayer, says Lord, I

thought you gave me Jacob to be my lover, my husband, the father

of my children. Little did I know I was designed to bring forth Judah,

the lintage of Jesus, the Messiah, the son of God. Lord,

forgive me for being selfish and living for myself. For I know now

that I was created to worship you. Just think this. She became the

great great great grandmother. That's the Messiah. You know, there's gonna be

things in your life that happened that's gonna seem unfair. People are gonna treat

you unjustly, but understand, get this one word in your spirit. First

of all, they will stand before God for their action. I remember when

the Lord spoke that to me. My response to him was, God,

you go get them, because they're gonna deserve everything you did for them.

Y'all probably don't have that attitude I did. I even said, you know

that bowl of fire and brimstone on Judgment Day? Can I hold it?

Can I dump it on every one of their heads? Because I'm talking about

you know, Pastory Church, we have people that love us, and all

of sudden, one day they get offended and they're gone, you know,

and it hurts you and it breaks your heart and everything. He said,

you know what, those people are long gone. They're not even thinking about

you. You're still letting them affect you. He said, Are they worth

losing your joy over? Nope? Are they worth losing your crown over?

Were they? Are they worth losing your soul over? I said no?

He said, just remember, they will stand before me for their action,

the more important you will stand before me for your reaction to their action.

I said, oh God, they are not worth me being judged over.

They're not worth me losing my crown over. They're not worth me losing my

salvation over. I release them to you. I begin to pray over them

for God to bless them, because I realized if they were not walking in

His will the prayers I prayed over them, they just gonna come back to

me. I want to conclude with this statement. You have been beautiful,

rooted, rooted in Him, the CEO of the universe. You were not

created to live in the shadow of anyone or anything. Hold your head up

high. You are blessed and you are highly favored because you are the child

of the most High God. Now I think this is the last thing on

your notes that says no longer are you going to allow your past to dictate

to your future. You have a paper that's in your insert in your notes

once you get it out, it's a picture of a burning bridge. Not

conclude with this. Well, you take me a couple of minutes. I've

heard the saying about burn the bridges, burn the bridges, and I thought,

what does exactly mean? Because somebody I said to you, you just

need to burn the bridges, Like, exactly what does burn the bridges mean?

Now? I looked it up and it said burning a bridge goes back

to the old battle days in earlier times, if an army crossed the bridge

and then burned it, anyone following them would be stuck on the other side

of the river or the ravine or whatever they crossed. And I thought that

is fantastic, and I wrote this down. It's no turning back, says

I am moving on, never to come this way again. This is what

I'm challenging with you today, that we're going to burn some bridges and there's

gonna be no turning back. You're not going back to where you once were.

The burn the bridges forces one to plow ahead without any hope of returning

this way again. When you burn a bridge, you cannot cross back over

it because it's no longer there. I want you to get your paper that

has the bridge on it, and if you don't have one, just wave

your hands and maybe the ushers can help you, because I want everybody.

Here's one on the front row. Just wave your hand. I want you

to get your pencil out. You may have to borrow one, you may

have to share one. But here's what we're going to do on this bridge.

I want you to write. As I was preaching, the Lord began

to show you certain shadows in your life. It may go back to childhood

that you've never let go. It may be something that happened at work,

or it could be with a family member, or it could be just with

yourself. You deal with fear, or you deal with anxiety or stress,

or maybe you have sickness in your body. I don't know what it is,

but the Holy Ghost does, and he's speaking to you right now.

I want you to write on this paper the bridge bridge bridges that are you

gonna burn today. And here's what I want you to do, my prayer

partners. I want to after you've written, if you didn't do it for

a service, if you've written yours on there, I want you to come

and stand up to the front and here's what we're gonna do. Because not

everybody will finish at the same time. That's okay, take as long as

you mean. We have the rest of the afternoon. Okay, here's what

I want you to do. I want you to take that paper and you've

written the bridges that you're gonna burn, and you're gonna bring it up to

your prayer partner that's up here. We're not gonna pray long prayers. We're

not going to annoy it. All we're gonna do together. You place it

in their hands, and together, I want you to say, burn the

bridge. Say that with me. Say it again. Okay. I want

you to say it like you mean it.