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The Manifold Wisdom of God!
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You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week,
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we hope you enjoy this message from Justin Carpenter. All right,
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what do y' all think? Are y'all tired from worship?
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So I want to talk to you about the manifold
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wisdom of God. I actually haven't talked about the wisdom
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of God for quite a while. And I was in
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James chapter three this week, and specifically the latter half
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on wisdom. See first service when I said that, there
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was like five people in the back like getting super
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excited because I guess they were on the side object
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anybody on the studying wisdom right now? Second service? No, okay,
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less excitement, you're studying wisdom, okay, okay. So anyways, Proverbs
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thirteen twenty says whoever walks with the whyse becomes wise,
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but the companion of fools will suffer harm. I think
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it was Bill Johnson that said, if you want to
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kill giants, you got to hang around giant killers. You know,
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when you're coming out of a lifestyle of cycles of defeat, darkness, addiction,
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whatever it is, if you don't change the company that
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you're hanging around, the odds of you actually staying away
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from those strongholds is very limited. It says, bad company
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corrupts good habits. And I have watched people over the
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decades where they will initially repent, they will look like
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they're doing well, and then the enemy brings an old,
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familiar spirit, an old companion back into their life. And
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I don't remember if I said this last week, but
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I've watched this. For those of you that are in recovery,
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and you're not in your in your sober the very
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next thing the enemy will try to do is bring
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a relationship into your life every time, like clockwork, and
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he's hoping through familiar spirits to trip you back up.
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It's weird. I have Paul's the only one upstairs. I'm
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gonna I'm gonna remember you're up there. It's weird not
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having anybody up there. I'm like, but wisdom, I we
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better have wisdom in this hour. Time is short and
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if you haven't noticed, the political spirit is rearing its
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ugly head right now. And I want to encourage you
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not to fall into the trap of a political spirit.
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What do I mean by that? The moment you start
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looking at another human being as inferior and without the
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love of Jesus. Because of their political stance. You're under
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the influence of a political spirit. Are y'all with me?
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Some of you are, okay? Exodus thirty one, three to five.
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This is the first time we actually see someone being
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filled with the Holy Spirit. It says filled. Right, it
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wasn't sealed, But this is Bazazel, not Bezazel. I cut
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the scripture off. No not, but no, that is not it.
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I'm not even gonna act like I heard that, dude, Bezilel,
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thank you, oh my word. Anyways, Bezileel is here, and
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the Lord says, I'm going to fill him with the
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spirit of God in wisdom and understanding and knowledge, and
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in all manner of workmanship, to design artistic works, to
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work in gold and silver and bronze, and cutting jewels
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for settings and carving wood, and to work in all
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manner of workmanship. So he's filled with wisdom and there's
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an explosion of creativity. You understand that the moment you
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were born, you were born creative because God is a creator.
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And then you don't have to teach children how to
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be creative. We actually have to train them not to
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be creative. And we have a public school system that
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is literally put everyone in a box and said this
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is how you will learn and and this is creative,
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and this isn't creative. And that's a huge problem because
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every single one of you are creative. Imagine for a
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moment if God filled you with wisdom in your sphere
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of influence. Whatever he's called you, whether you're a plumber
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or a school teacher or a business owner, a programmer,
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doesn't matter, whatever God's called you to with an explosion
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of creativity. Do you understand this is how things are changed?
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This is how your calling actually becomes supernatural where you're
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not just doing stuff for the heck of it, You're
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not just trying to get a paycheck. You're actually recognizing
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that God has placed you in that in that particular
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place to have influence and He actually wants to fill
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you with his wisdom and creativity so that there is
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a supernaw natural expression of who God is in your life,
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in your career. But how many of us get in
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a rut and we just go to work, We just uh,
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it's another day, you know tgif you know, thank God
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it's Friday, and you're in this rut where you're just
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hoping to get to the end of the week. Anybody
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been there? I want you right now. I want to
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encourage you this morning to invite God's wisdom. It says,
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if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God,
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who will give it unbridled. Have you ever seen a
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wild horse running in the wild like full throttle, just
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blazing a trail. Picture that as wisdom unbridled coming at
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you when you ask for it unbridled. He's just begging
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you to stop having a spirit of stupid Like if
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you lack wisdom, ask and he will give it to
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you unbridled. What would it look like this if literally
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Monday morning you wake up and you go God, I
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want to build with you. Lord. You put me in
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this job, whether I like it every day or not.
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You put me here for a purpose. Lord, Would you
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use me today? Would you cause me to have eyes
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to see and ears to hear so that I actually
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don't miss your invitation for me today to be able
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to have a lasting imprint on somebody's life, for the Kingdom,
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for eternity. See, we get stuck in this rut where
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we start thinking in earthly terms and we get earthly
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results when we're supposed to be thinking with the mind
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of Christ, and we're supposed to be thinking in heavenly terms.
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So it says He put eternity into our heart. So
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we should be focused on what is eternal versus what
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is temporal, and not fall into the trap of working
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for a wage, of working for earthly goods, of working
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for earthly rewards, and actually have an eternal focus about
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the way we think. Where you go to your coworker,
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you know what I probably ought to say, probably ought
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to say what the Lord nudged me to say, because
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they may not be here on planet Earth tomorrow. It
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says you only have today. We only have today, we're
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not promised tomorrow. And it says our life is like
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a vapor. It appears for a moment and vanishes. And
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I can promise you I've been to an enough bedside
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over the years to know this that people aren't thinking
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about all the stuff they spent their life stressing out
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about when they're about to die. What they care about
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in that moment is their relationship with the Lord and
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their family. They care about people, and they're extremely focused
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on eternity. Proverbs nine tenths says the fear of the
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Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of
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the Holy One is insight. So I don't care what
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you look like, what you say. If you're in sin,
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you don't fear God. And if you don't fear God,
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then that means you're actually not walking in the wisdom
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of God. Because the fear of the Lord is the
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beginning of wisdom, because it says it means you depart
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from evil. Are y'all with me? I mean I could
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hit you with an IV of caffeine if I need to.
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Some of y' all be lining up. One of the
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Hebrew words for wisdom is uh choc ma, and it
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means skill, wisdom, wisely, or wits, and the other one
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is sophia and it means skill or wisdom. The word
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wisdom is actually used two hundred and twenty seven times
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in the New King James Bible. Wisdom will keep us
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out of trouble. Wisdom will keep us walking with the
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wise and not with the foolish. Psalms one twenty seven
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to one says, unless the Lord builds the house, those
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that build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches
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over the city, the watchman stay awake in Vain. You know,
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we started a watch every Sunday night for those of you,
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which is a prayer watch, and it's every Sunday. It's
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Pete at six pm. And so I would encourage if
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my mic cutting out, to come to the watch. But
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it literally says that the watchman, the literal watchman, and
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the old Covenant that we're watching for safety over the city.
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They stay awake in Vain unless the Lord watches over
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the city. Ephesians two twenty to twenty two says that
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built on the foundations of the apostles and prophets, Christ
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Jesus himself being the cornerstone, and whom the whole structure
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being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the
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Lord and him, you also are being built together into
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a dwelling place for God by his spirit. James one five.
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If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God,
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who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will
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be given. In Proverbs, it talks about the seven pillars
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of wisdom. And I don't know about y'all, but I've
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had a hard enough time trying to figure out the
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seven spirits of God. Anybody been there. Anybody had done
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a deep dive on the Seven Spirits of God? No,
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uh uh, paquito. I was in Houston, Texas in twenty
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ten or twenty eleven. We were living in Beller, Texas.
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I was in my living room. Micah was just a
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little lad about that big Actually he was tiny. He
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was taking a three hour glorious nap. And I was
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a stay at home dad at the time. And I'll
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never forget it. I was. I was sitting there praying,
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and all of a sudden, the candlestick appeared in front
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of me. And I don't mean charismatic hype where you know,
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I had this impression of the candlestick, you know, in
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my minds, I know it was literally appeared in front
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of me and be kent and as you can imagine,
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it got my attention, and the fear of the Lord
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rose maybe fear, And all of a sudden it's in
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front of me and it starts moving towards me. Now
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the intensity is building because I'm like, what in the
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world is going on? And that candlestick literally kept coming,
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kept coming, and I felt it go into my chest.
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First thing I said was Jesus, I sure, hope that
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was you, because if not, I'm gonna need some serious deliverance.
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And uh in this and the it was the focus
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was the candlestick itself with you know, with the all points. Yeah,
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and it and it went in. And I thought to
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myself after I got my composure, I was like, Lord,
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what was that about? I know the candlestick in the temple,
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I know face value, you know that it that it represents, uh,
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the spirits of God. But I was like, but what
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is like? What is this? Why did this just happen?
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See a typical charismatic experience, we have an encounter and
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then all of a sudden we're running around telling everybody
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about how crazy this encounter was, how amazing it was.
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I had goose bumps, I felt heat, I did all
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this stuff. And then if somebody says, well, why'd you
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have it? Well, I don't know what was the purpose
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of it. Oh, I don't know, but it was amazing.
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You should have may have felt so crazy. And you
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have to understand that we have to be able to
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peer beyond just the supernatural manifestation and say, Lord, why
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did this just happen? What is the invitation from you?
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Because we will never leave the milk of the Word
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until we grow up in him and start asking more
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wise questions and not get stuck and be like, oh, look,
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how cool I am? Because I had an encounter, are
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y' all with me? And so I was pondering, Lord,
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why did this happen? For two weeks, I was pondering
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this and praying it's almost over, I promise, And I
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was praying over it. And I go to a Texas
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Ablaze conference Keith Miller. Anybody heard of those conferences. He's
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been around for a long time. He says something about
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the seven spirits of God. And there's a break between
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sessions and I go to the table and there's a
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book with the candlestick on the front of it that
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he wrote on the seven spirits of God, and the
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Holy Spirit says, this is what this is about. It
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was an invitation to go deep and to actually begin
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to understand what the seven spirits of God are. Do
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you understand that if the seventh spirits of God rested
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upon Jesus, those seven spirits are supposed to be resting
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upon you, because it is the Holy Spirit with a
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sevenfold expression. Did you catch that? So you should be
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seeing all of this in your life, because remember Proverbs
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nine to one, Wisdom has built her house, She's hewn
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her seven pillars. But the seventh spirits are this because
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this is Isaiah eleven one and two is literally speaking
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of Jesus and the Spirit of God, the sevenfold expression
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of his Spirit resting upon Jesus. It says, there shall
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come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and
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a branch from his root shall bear fruit, and the
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spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit
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of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel in might,
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the spirit of knowledge, and the fear of the Lord.
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That is the seven spirits of God. Do you understand
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that we need that full expression in our life. We literally,
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as sons and daughters of God, should be living a
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life that manifests all the names of God, not just
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some of them. We should be living a life that
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we literally see the full expression of the sevenfold expression
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of His Spirit on our life, because we have literally
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been sealed with that spirit inside of us, and that
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spirit came upon us for the empowerment of ministry. So
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I like to say it this way, so you know,
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words of knowledge right on s Corinthians twelve. What is
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a word of knowledge? It's a divine piece of information
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about a person, placer thing, past, present, or future. That's
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a word of knowledge. But when you go from just
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getting a piece of knowledge to actually flowing in knowledge,
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that changes everything. And I can give you an example
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of how that looks like. I can be up here
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on the stage. I can get a word of knowledge
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about somebody's life for healing. Release that word, they get healed.
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But when I'm flowing in the spirit of knowledge, all
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of a sudden, now, for instance, like in a ministry session,
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when I flow in the spirit of knowledge, I've actually
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gone into their memory with them and begin to describe
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the room they were in in detail. That is the
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difference between a word of knowledge and the spirit of knowledge.
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Are you with me James three thirteen to eighteen? Who
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is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct?
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Let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
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So is wisdom angry? No, it's meek, says If you
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have authority over your spirit, it's better than having authority
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over a city. Give me some leeway with that. That
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was a proverb. With Justin's interpretation or translation, I should say.
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But it goes on to say, but if you have
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bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not
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boast and be false to the truth. This is not
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the wisdom that comes comes down from above, but is earthly,
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spiritual and demonic. So for all of you that think
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everything's just natural and there are no spirits, you got
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a problem. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there
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will be disorder in every vile practice. Do you hear
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that anybody ever had jealousy before? Every hand better be
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up in this room. I'll just want the lion's spirit
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started right here. But we've all had jealousy at times.
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Do you understand that literally Saul was jealous over David,
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and his jealousy led him to want to murder David.
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So the next time you want to play with jealousy
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and put it on a leash and call it your pet,
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remember that it can literally open you to murder. He
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looks at Jonathan, he goes, you, son of a perverse woman.
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He goes, do you not know, however, he's thinking, I'm
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about to drop a bad word or something. He goes,
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He goes, do you not know that as long as
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he's alive, you'll never be king. But the one thing
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that's always interesting to me was Samuel was still grieving
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for Saul. You see the heart of the father in
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the prophet literally was still grieving that the kingdom had
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been taken from Saul, and and and grieving for so
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long that the Lord comes to Samuel says Samuel, how
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long are you gonna mourn for Saul? Now grab your oil,
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and I'm gonna show you who you're supposed to anoint.
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Interestingly in that, because I am going to rabbit trail
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for a moment. The so hang on. When Saul anointed, Sorry,
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when Samuel anointed Saul, he had all the details of
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his life. He told him about the donkeys, that your
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father's that the donkeys have been found your your your
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father is now worried about where you're at. He's not sure.
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And he gives all these details about his life, and
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he says, and when you turn around, you're gonna be
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turned into a new man. And he tells him everything
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that's gonna happen as he goes down the mountain. Fast
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forward when he goes to anoint the to the House
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of Jesse to anoint the next king. Samuel actually doesn't
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know who it is. He literally goes through every one
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of his sons and says, hey, do you have another son?
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The Lord didn't tell him, but when he first got there,
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he saw the oldest son, tall, handsome, real tall, kind
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of my height, and just just real, real, rugged, and
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and he goes, surely the king is among us, and
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the Lord goes, no, Samuel, I don't look on the outside.
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I look at the heart. And some theologians suspect that
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David was actually the result of a extra relationship and
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that's why he actually was not brought in with the
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rest of the brothers. And he goes through all the
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other ones. Yeah, he's out there. Shepherding didn't even think
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about him. Listen, you don't need to be jealous of
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other people. You don't need self promotion, you don't need
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selfish ambition to put yourself into a place that you
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think you're supposed to be, because the worst thing that
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could happen to you is you actually step into a
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lane that God never called you to, and you don't
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have the grace for nor the ability to be protected
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spiritual warfare wise, and you get your butt handed to you. Now,
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if he puts you there, he's gonna protect you. I'll
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never forget. I've shared this a couple of times. My
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oldest son had a dream and in that dream, I
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was in a boxing ring and I was knocking these
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demons out with one punch. I was like, I like this.
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I like the way this is starting. Keep it coming.
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And Cole says in the dream, he says, Lord, how
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is he doing this? And he said, he only goes
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after the ones. I tell him to see, it's rules
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of engagement, just because something's there. How many times did
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Jesus go past people with infirmities? How many times did
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he go past the one laying at the pool of Bethesda,
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the lame man? And he's like, oh, every time I
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try to get in, somebody else beats me. When the
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healing angel, he didn't say healing angels, but when the
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waters are stirring, the first one ends healed. Jesus did
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not heal every single person, you understand that. But he
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healed every single person he he went to, and every
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single person that came to him he healed. Again, there's
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the paradox of the kingdom. How many times did he
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go by that place and that guy was there waiting
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for that moment. So the next time there's an invitation
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from the Lord for your life, don't pass it because
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you're not in charge. You're not the king. And when
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the waters are stirring, you better respond because you can
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miss your visitation. That was good, wasn't it. She's like,
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that's what I'm talking about. We'll keep you around. That
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was good. So this is not the wisdom that comes
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down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual demonic for where
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jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder in
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every vile practice. I'll never forget it. I was, I
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was going through Derrick Prince's stuff, you know, Derreck Prince,
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That dude would do corporate deliverance sessions and the recordings
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you would just hear people manifesting. It was so amazing.
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People just be manifesting all over the room getting free.
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See that may scare some of you, but I think
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that's awesome because things that hold people back and they're
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not even aware that it's actually a spirit, a familiar spirit,
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not them, and then all of a sudden it becomes unfamiliar.
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They get delivered from it, and that cycle stops and like,
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Holy Kyle, it wasn't even me. See, it's kind of
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hard to take authority over something that you think is you,
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because as long as you think it's you, you're gonna
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love it, you're gonna comfort it, you're gonna take care
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of it. And some of you have actually been trying
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to take care of a familiar spirit. But the wisdom
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from above is first peer then peaceable, gentle, open to reason,
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full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere, and
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a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those
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who make peace. I want to prophesy something that came
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to me first service, and it just came to me
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again right now. There's principalities fighting over this country and
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were I can't tell you exactly what it is, but
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we're about to see something very significant that is actually
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because principalities are fighting. So there's an event. There's an
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event that's about to take place in this country. And understand,
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and I'm not trying to be vague. I don't like
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being vague at all, but I just know this. What
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I saw was there's about to be a clash of
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the kingdoms, and it's specifically between principalities and there's going
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to be this massive explosion for a moment. And the
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other the other impression was that we really, really really
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got to be praying because the enemy wants to use
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that political spirit and that anti christ spirit that's partnering
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together to really start to create issues. We're seeing all
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sorts of things uncovered right now, and yet you have
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people with utter hatred just fully vomiting their hatred and
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murder all over the place. And it's so shocking to
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me all because put put your politics to the side.
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God's exposing corruption in our country and we're going to
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be better for it because it's getting fixed. Like do
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you really want to live in deception? Do you want?
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Do you do you all want to live with all
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the corruption that we've had? Seriously, like, we're supposed to
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be living in the light and God's drawing close and
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he's exposing things. But it says that they will be
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lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. It says
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they will call all good evil and evil good. Y'all.
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We are literally seeing this in our nation right now.
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So if we're gonna walk in wisdom, if we're gonna
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have the wisdom of God. We have to understand that
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it's pure. So if we're not living pure, we're not
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having wisdom. It's peaceable. If we're not abiding in peace,
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we're not abiding in wisdom. Wisdom is peaceful, it's gentle.
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So if you're not gentle, you're lacking wisdom. It's open
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to reason. So if you're a hard head and nobody
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can talk with you, and you know it all, that's
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not wisdom. That's pride. That's actually the pride of life.
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It's full of mercy and good fruits. Why is it
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full of mercy because mercy triumphs of judgment. Only judge
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what you want to be judged for. And that's in
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the context of unrighteous judgment, because Jesus told us to judge.
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He said, judge righteously. But he says, hey, you over
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there running your mouth, why don't you pull the beam
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out of your own eye first before you go to
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try to deal with a speck in your brother's eye.
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And wisdom is impartial and sincere, and a harvest of
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righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
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I said this earlier. If you're a peacemaker, unhealthy peacemakers,
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what do they do, No, they sacrifice themselves. They don't
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make peace. They choose to sacrifice themselves. They become the
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scapegoat so they can try to bring peace into a
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home or peace into a relationship. They take on false responsibility.
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They make other people's messes their own. But healthy peacemakers
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make peace. And how do you make peace? You got
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to be abiding in it. First. You understand the word
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for piece of shalom. The pictograph meaning of shalom means
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to remove the chaos that causes anxiety. So when you're
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making peace, you walk into a situation full of chaos
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and you release your peace that you're abiding in, and
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then guess what that causes that chaos to go. Peace
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Makers make peace. It's active. They don't take on false responsibility.
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They don't carry the burdens of other people's lives. They
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take them to the cross. You understand Galatians six when
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it says bear one another's burdens. The healthy way of
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burden bearing is this. When I discern someone something, they're
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carrying a burden. They're carrying the even literally even as
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I'm talking with them, I go, Lord, I just lift
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up this anger to you, Father. I asked that you
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would lift this frustration from them, because deep down inside,
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they're actually scared to death. They feel out of control,
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that this situation's not going to change, and they feel
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helpless to change it. Lord, would you just bless them
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and heal them right now? Rather than let me put
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that my backpack, I'll carry you. Here's another one about
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the sevens spirits of God Revelation five six. And between
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the throne and the four living creatures, and among the elders,
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I saw Lamb standing as though it had been slain,
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with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the
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seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
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Gets complicated, doesn't it. We're over here back trying to
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go on Isaiah eleven two. Wait a minute, now, there's
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seven eyes and they're sent out all over the earth.
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I love it. So. The fear of the Lord is
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the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy
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One is in sight Proverbs nine ten. And the fear
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of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children
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will have a refuge. Job twelve thirteen says, with God
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all wisdom and might, he has counsel and understanding. With
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God our wisdom and might, and he has counsel and understanding.
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Do you realize job is literally tapping into the seven
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spirits of God right there, describing the Holy Spirit. Let
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me go to I want to go to Proverbs eight,
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because we're wisdom and motion. I walk in the way
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of righteousness and the paths of justice, granting an inheritance
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to those who love me and filling their treasuries. Anybody
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want wisdom? The Lord possessed me at the beginning of
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his work, the first of his acts of old ages Ago.
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I was set up at the first, before the beginning
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of the earth, when there was no depth. I was
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brought forth when there was no springs abounding with water,
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before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills. I
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was brought forth before he had made the earth and
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its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.
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One translation says, primal dust. When he established the heavens,
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I was there when he drew a circle on the
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face of the deep flat earth, when he made I
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just wanted to mess with you all right there. He
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drew a circle on the face of the deep. When
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he made firm the skies above, when he established the
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fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea
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its limits so that the waters might not transgress his command.
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When he marked out the foundations of the earth, and
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I was beside him like a master workman. And I
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was daily his delight, rejoicing before him, always rejoicing in
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his habited world, and delighting in the children of men.
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Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not neglect it.
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Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily
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at my gates, waiting beside my doors. For whoever finds
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me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord. So
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you want to grow in favor of the Lord, you
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better grow in the wisdom of God. But he who
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fails to find me injures himself. All who hate me
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love death. That's wisdom. All who hate me love death.
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Wisdom says Solomon was the wisest man on the earth.
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The Queen of Sheba literally went across I don't know
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how many miles it was, And she said after she
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saw his kingdom, and it goes into detail with her,
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even the way the tables were set and decorated, and
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the way his servants were clothed. All of that pointed
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to the wisdom of God. Why because it directly also
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tied into the excellence and creativity of God. And she
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was breathless. She was left without breath because of the
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wisdom of Solomon. Y'all, what if you showed up to
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work Monday with wisdom like that? What if you actually
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viewed your problem as an opportunity for God to manifest
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his glory instead of you getting focused on self and
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thinking the world against you, two totally different perspectives, Instead
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of viewing the problem like, Oh, I knew this would happen.
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Here we go again. Tired of this garbage. I want
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a different job. He'd call that intercessory wining if you want.
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But what if you go, Oh, Lord, thank you so
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much for this problem. Lord? Right now, this is totally
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impossible for us to figure it out. Lord. All I
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need is a little wisdom from you right now? Can
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I have some wisdom to fix this? Can I have
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some wisdom? Lord? And all of a sudden, this creative
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idea pops into your head. I should have asked for
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wisdom when I was messing with the livestream for eight hours.
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This week, Carrie shows up after men's breakfast and then
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a couple of minutes realizes, oh, hey, the IMAX not
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running through the live stream feed, and I was like
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eight hours later that's what that was. And then we
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figure out it was one button bink. I feel so smart.
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The proverb says, don't be stupid, right, but literally, I mean,
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how often do we stop and say, Lord, would you
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please help me with this? Versus striving leaning on our
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own understanding? And here's the last question, who are you
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walking with? That's actually whise. I didn't say wise guy
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wise because it says, remember way back here, a couple
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pages of notes ago, whoever walks with the wise becomes wise.
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But the campan, you know, fools will suffer harm, y'all.
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It would actually be wise to go hang out with
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somebody that really screwed their life up really bad and
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then listen to how they did it. Jim Rone said
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that Jim Ron was a Christian businessman who was good
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friends with zig Ziggler, and he goes just go meet him, say,
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how'd you mess your life up so bad? Tell me
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about it. But the truth is when you learn from
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other people's mistakes, If you learn from their mistakes, that
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means you actually don't do what they did. Spirit of
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stupid says, well, I can go do that, but it'll
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work out, right. How many of us have been literally
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been set free from a stronghold from a sin, and
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then we willfully go back to it a couple of
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years later, somehow getting amnesia like this is gonna work
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out good this time. All right, let's stand see, I
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went over fifteen minutes last week, and I'm done three
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minutes early this week. I didn't hear the baby bo.
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I thought. I thought your baby would be like, yeah, hey, Anthony,
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would you hop on the keys for me please? I
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want to do a corporate prayer for wisdom. Do you
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understand that we didn't I mean, we didn't even touch
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Daniel and and it says that they were found ten
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times wiser, ten times better than everybody else around them
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after they were tested. So next time you have a test,
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go Lord, is this a test so that you'll promote
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me the squeezing. We want to get to the place
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where when we're squeezed, Jesus comes out well. Four or
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five years ago, Santana was sitting in here with his kids,
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and I kid you not. His son must have been
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two years old. Two and a half and I go
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and when you get squeezed, what comes out and the
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little boy goes coca. On the live stream, everybody lost it.
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I was like I say out on the mouth of
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Babe and are like, you know, sometimes that's true. That's
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what comes out, y'all. Okay, as the prayer teams come
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up for the rest of y'all, just put your hands
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out like it's Christmas. We're gonna do an air drop. Okay,
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So everybody, not just contacts, only open up to the room, everyone,
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even if it's only five minutes. We're gonna increase our
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spiritual intelligence. Right. So, Father, you said, if we lack wisdom,
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let us ask from you and you will give it
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to us unbridled. Lord, we want to co labor with you.
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We want to build what you're building. And we don't
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want to build what you're not building. And we don't
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want to rebuild what you tore down unless you say
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rebuild it. Lord. We don't want to lack wisdom or
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we don't want to walk foolishly. So Father, I pray
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Lord that as your word was released today, or that
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it'd go deep, or that your word would cause transformation
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inside of us. Lord. So, Father, right now, by the
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power of your holy Spirit and the mighty name of Jesus,
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would you cause wisdom to come? Would you in part wisdom? Lord,
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So that means some of us needs an upgrade in
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the fear of the Lord. So, Lord, that we would
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fear you, that we would depart from evil, because this
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is the beginning of wisdom. Lord, by just the power
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of your spirit, would you cause an impartation of will
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to happen right now? And Lord, would you teach us
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to truly abide in your spirit? And would you make
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us aware? Lord, make us conscious of what it looks
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like when we're flowing in the seven spirits of God. Lord,
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whether we need might, wisdom or understanding, or counsel, the
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fear of the Lord, that we would truly truly walk
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in humility. And Lord, please put wise people around us
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so that we can grow wiser. You said in the
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multitude of counselors there is wisdom. So Lord, let us
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let us get wise counsel And lastly, Lord, we lift
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up our country, we lift up our leaders. We pray
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for peace, we pray for safety. And Lord, we ask
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that you would pull down the anti Christ spirit that
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you would pull down the politic spirit, that you would
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pull down these principalities, Lord, that would seek to try
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to keep us in bondage. Lord Lord, it's getting very
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clearer in this hour who knows you and who doesn't.
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I pray that no matter what, we would continue to
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grow brighter as we walk with the wise, as we
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are children of light. So Lord, fill us with wisdom,
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let us walk with you, and I ask this week
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Lord for an impartation of creativity. Lord, I ask for
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