Sermon
Cry Out (9am) - 6.1.2025 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)
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Transcript
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International
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Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the
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church, mobilize the equipped and serve all.
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We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever
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you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get
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your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe
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some tea and get ready to receive.
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It's go time. Let's get into it.
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Come on one more time and say I'll believe.
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Look at your neighbors. Say do you believe?
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Look at your other neighbors. Say you sit you sitting next to
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a believer, so watch out. I believe I'm sitting in a room
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full of people that believe God can do anything at any time.
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Come on, say anything at any time.
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Father, we just thank you that you are the God of the
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impossible and we say thank you for what you're doing in our
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hearts right now. Put up Luke 2432 Father, we just
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thank you today that you do something within.
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If you do something within, we can handle whatever without do
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something within our hearts today.
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Bible, Bible, kind of Bible says that out of the abundance of the
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heart, the mouth cries out. So everybody in here crying out
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for something. It just depends on what's in
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your heart abundantly. Just really quick.
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This is a scripture that is, it just gives a picture of what I'm
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believing God is doing right now and what I believe He wants to
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do for those that are willing to let him in.
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If you haven't already. Luke, didn't I say Luke 24?
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Amen. Pray for day.
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Yeah, the specific, not the pro presenter team day.
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Amen. Luke 2432.
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I'm believing for your, for for for for some of y'all.
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Today I stuttered because I was going to say I'm believing for
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all of y'all. But what I do find out is you
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don't really believe for people who don't want to change.
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They made their mind up like I'm not going to, I'm not going to
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direct my faith to I pray for you.
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But when someone knows better and chooses to do the opposite,
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what am I believing for? Only thing I can believe for is
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that you decide to turn and and what that simply means is unless
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you allow the word to bring you to repentance, you can't reap
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the promises from it. You can't get promised from the
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word before repentance. If the word doesn't grip your
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heart, don't look for it to fill your pockets, right?
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Stop using the word and trying to use God and religion to save
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you from stuff and bring stuff into your life.
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This is not that religion. You don't need religion to
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prosper. You don't need Jesus to fulfill
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monetary desires more than you need him to fill the voids in
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your life. And I believe 100% of you in
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here, all of us, all of us are carrying something that the Lord
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is right now. Just saying, drop it.
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It's too heavy for you, not too heavy for him.
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Every day we carry something. Every day.
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The test is, are you going to let it go?
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All right, Luke, OK, I'm I'm I'm really trying to waste spend
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some time. There we go.
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They said to one another, you know, Jesus returns, he
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resurrects he they're walking down they walking down King
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George and they. Said to one another.
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We're we're not, we're not. Our hearts greatly moved.
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Somebody say moved? Somebody shout moved and
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burning. Somebody shout burning within us
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while he was talking with us on the road and as he opened and
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explained to us the sense of the scriptures.
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Everyone is on a road today. Our roads met.
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Not everyone is on the road listening to Jesus.
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I do believe everyone talking. Everybody got something to say
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to God, but it says they were listening and they caught fire
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from listening. Now the posture of their heart
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lets me know that they were first of all #1 grateful to see
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him #2 They were attentive, They just.
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Didn't come to church to hear a inspirational word.
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Or they were. They had the posture of convict
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me. They had the posture.
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Of expose me. They had to posture us, speak
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right to my heart. They had the posture of Lord,
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break me, I will let you break me.
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It wasn't, it wasn't like, oh, if your word's strong enough, or
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oh, if PT say the right thing, or oh, if Elder John is
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anointed, or oh, if they sing the right song, I'll be broken.
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There is no song we sing. There is no sermon we preach
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that can break down your walls if God alone can't do it.
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Now anybody in here that has come to change, Everyone of you
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who want to change without the Lord change me.
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Change. Don't come like that, Lord
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change. Me.
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No, you got to. It's almost like he just feeding
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you. You saying change me with your
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mouth full? Are you sitting here ready to
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hear what God has to say to you without you tweaking and
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manipulating or reasoning what he's saying?
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Are you ready to be served? Because his desire is that.
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Can we go back? We.
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We past there. We, we eating right now?
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Yeah. Word up, plates down.
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We ready. Let's go.
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There we go. Go back.
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Thank you. No.
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Greatly moved? Can God move you?
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What do you need to be moved? I'm talking about moved, not
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inspired. Moved, right?
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Move you from where you walked in today and you going to leave
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with a different heart posture like you ever heard somebody say
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I was. Moved to tears.
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Like can you can can God move you to the hand clap?
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Can God move you to tears? Can God move you to a decision?
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Can God move you to a decision today not need to pray about it
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again. Here it is some of you.
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God's going to answer your prayer today might not come the
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way you wanted it to come, but he tell that thing.
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Don't don't. Is that you?
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Yes, I'm telling you now, that's him.
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And then he says, burning. It is his.
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Desire that He set your heart on fire.
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It is his desire that today your little dry Christianity be done
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with. Because some of y'all
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Christianity can update. Just keep it real some of y'all
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Christianity. I wouldn't follow Jesus if you.
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If you was, if you, if you, if you was the the example of what
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Jesus being in your life is. And I'm not talking about if you
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don't do nothing wrong or if you got money.
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I'm talking about just I don't want to follow a Jesus that
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don't excite me about life. The point is, is this world is
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dark and I follow Jesus because he is light and I can now exist
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in a Dark World with joy, right? I don't, I, I'm not a whatever
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these Christians with a dark cloud over them.
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How, how aren't you? How, how has it, how has it
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smile become your default face right now?
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I was worried. No, no, no, no.
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You're not an introvert. Stop.
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Well, the Holy Ghost, if the Holy Ghost enter you, he want an
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ultravert. Want an ultravert?
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Hey, this is what this is, OK? I knew.
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I knew it was. Going to happen.
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I knew it was going to happen. So we're playing a game the
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other day and we're we're we're building a team for this big
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tournament coming up in two weeks, OK.
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And there was a big man on our team.
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So if you were there at the game the other night, two of the guys
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that started with us, Brian and Mamba, they are Mumba's the one
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that hit the game winner on us the other night, but we still
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finished in first place. So yeah, yeah, Love Quest is in
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first place. Yeah.
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So so we'll go into the playoffs in first place.
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I think we get a first round bye.
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But anyway, stay tuned. But but I was talking so Mumba
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and Brian, Brandon. Sorry, Brandon, that was that
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was on the other team, but starting with us, they're going
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to be on our team. I'm like, man, I'm tired of
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trying to play with this person ever.
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I just need some dogs. I don't care if they make a
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bucket. What I can guarantee is those
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two dudes is going to be. Dogs.
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Right. And so but they also have
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Spencer that was going to join us.
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He's the big man that was on their team.
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And so when they showed up the other night, he was like, yeah,
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I just we roll them with you. You know, we could they said we
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could not wait to rejoin Love quest team, right?
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And then and then he said Spencer decided to go play for
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Afro the the team that yeah, Afro hair salon.
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He he decided to go over there with them.
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I was like, OK, I'll see him on the court tonight and talk to
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him about why he decided to go to the other team.
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And then at the end of the game, so I talked to him first.
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That's what I was talking to him about at half court and and, and
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I I I'll checked him, but at the end of the game being him said
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this, he said do. You know cats.
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Hesitate to play with us because they know we have an
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expectation. They know the expectation to
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play with us is we going to play hard.
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And most people want to coast, they want to play in the
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tournament, but they they want to coast.
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And that's kind of how I feel about some of us in here.
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You you want to be saved, but you just want to coast.
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You don't want no pressure applied.
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You don't want to hear, you just want to get away with this.
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You want to get away with your you ready your cultural excuses,
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your racial biases. You want to hide behind what you
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were taught culturally and talk to think about people who had
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the same color skin as you. You were taught to think that
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more so the color people are more the people with the
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charisma and Pentecostal and and their their charismatic and jump
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all over and their gospel music. And then CCM we know is more
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like you see how even in gospel music, it's a split, but we sit
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in our churches that way. That's why you can find most
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churches either or and then they say we're diverse because you
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have a few people sprinkled through the audience.
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But the to me a diverse. Church is your entire your your
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culture is impacted by the diversity, right?
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It's not OK, we got multi color. And we're multi ethnic, but to
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be multicultural means multicultures are celebrated and
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you can see it in the DNA of the community.
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So when you come into a multicultural church, you are
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going to feel the weight and the pressure of having to bend in
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multiple cultures ways. So musically, we can be, we can
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be CCM and we can be quiet or whatever that represents.
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But there's also going to be a pressure on the people who are
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used to just being in passive worship.
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There's going to be a pressure on you to step up a little bit
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because we're trying to experience heaven, not our race,
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OK. And dancing is not the black
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folks thing. It came from heaven.
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Before we were formed in anybody's womb there was dancing
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and singing. But how is gospel music, black
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people music when we all represent the gospel?
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How did we get here though? We always end up in right here.
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Amen. That's OK, but the burn, the
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burn, the burn, the burn. Somebody say the burn.
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There's a burn within us, and at the end of the day, God wants
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our worship. The one thing you find yourself
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doing as a transformed human being is worshipping.
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The more you get closer to God, you sing a new song.
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You don't have to be spurred on to lift your hands.
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Right. This is the only thing, one of
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the things I hate about just this one room is that when we
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get over there and we have a lobby is just like the
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sanctuary. When you walk in, it's going to
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be prayer in the all this, you know, coffee and fellowship and
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all that. And then we got to spend 20
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minutes to get you pumped up. No, like when you walk in on
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Sunday evening, if you want to fellowship, you're going to stay
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in the lobby. And if you want to come into
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church, you're going to walk into a place saturated.
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When you walk into the. House of God, it should be
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something. That you look forward to
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gathering with your brothers and sisters so we can encounter the
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Father. And that should be everybody's
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goal. Therefore, if that's your goal,
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you can't come in here holding anything back.
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You can't hold your voice back. You can't hold your clap back.
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You can't hold your love back. You can't because you don't
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understand that what's locked inside of you.
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It's like if everybody if if, if somebody came and robbed.
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The Room, OK, it said. Everybody empty their pockets.
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Put on the altar everything you got in your pockets and your
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purse. Everybody.
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If you were smart, you would empty your pockets and you would
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empty your purse. And that's what should happen
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when you come to church, is everybody empty themselves.
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And then there's an accumulation of faith and testimonies in the
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room that I, I'm telling you, heaven has to respond, cry out.
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Let your cry, breathe. Out before you bleed out.
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You cannot do this without God, your cry.
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It protects you, your cry. It preserves you.
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Your cry also purges you. It's not going to come up on the
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slides. This is not up there.
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OK, when we, when we started this a few weeks ago, a couple
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weeks ago. God doesn't have to get us to
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cry when something goes wrong. And this is how we often will
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when we sit here, cry out, we often think.
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Sad, we often think. Overwhelmed, we often think.
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Tragedy, catastrophe, divorce, death.
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Most of our crying comes from something bad, and a lot of
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times the bad doesn't break us, it calluses us.
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When you cry out before the Lord, it will break you and
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build you, not break you and callous you.
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Let your cry breathe out before you bleed out.
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Like a lot of mental illnesses in this world comes from people
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being calloused by life trauma. And instead of crying unto the
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Lord, we cry unto booze, we cry unto drugs, we cry unto sex, we
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cry unto sin. This is why now we are in that
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world that we are in, where we need everything to heal us but
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the one who made us. It is the cry on the lips of
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sons and daughters that release the hearts of the Father on
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earth as it is in heaven. It is the cry on the lips like
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it's on my lips. Yeah, You see, I got to do this
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because I just got to make it practical.
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You are you, You. You ever just want to say
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something to somebody? What you wanted to say was where
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on your lips. It wasn't something you have to
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think about, it was something you had to prepare for.
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You just was like soon as I see I can't wait to see you.
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And you knew exactly and sometime because it was on your
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lips. You had no self-control and it
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slipped off your lips faster than you intended because it was
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already where on your lips. This is this is what I'm saying.
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And what if a thank you was always on your lips?
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What if a God you are faithful was always on your lips?
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It is the cry on the lips of sons and daughters that release
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the heart of the Father on earth as it is in heaven.
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What is the heart of the Father is that you have peace,
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uninterrupted, undisturbed peace.
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What is the heart of the Father is that you have healing in your
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life, that you have comfort, that you have strength, that you
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have joy. That's the heart of the Father.
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And a lot of the stuff that you are believing for, you're just a
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cry away when the cries of heaven and the cries of earth
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join forces. The cries of heaven and the
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cries of earth join forces. The gates of hell shatter off
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the hinges and sons and daughters break free.
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This is very important, guys. This is very important.
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This is very important. When we come and gather, you got
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to see that there's an invisible not audience.
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There is a in there. There is an invisible host that
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is worshipping with us. The point of worship is to a lot
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in prayer is to align ourselves with what heaven is crying out
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for. Not what our emotions want.
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Hear me. If heaven say Amen, I don't
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necessarily need to know what heaven saying Amen about, but if
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a Amen hit my spirit, it came from heaven.
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I best give it my lips and agree with it because it's when my
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lips agree with the heavenly Hostess lips that we begin to
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see miracles. It's not when I cry out for my
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deepest knees and my deepest wants and my LAX and this burden
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to go away. It is when I align my desires
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and my heart and my mouth with the desires and the heart and
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the Word of God that I begin to see God's will manifest in my
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life. And we have made the church
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about a place that can help me get what I want.
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Hallelujah. And one cried to another, and
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one cried to another. This is a picture of what's
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happening in heaven. Isaiah's having a vision.
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And why do we leave so many visions in heaven?
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What do you mean, Pastor Terence?
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Well, let's read it. And one cry to another, that's a
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vision in heaven. When we worship, when we say,
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hey, man, sometimes you'll see them, right?
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They write up here and you'll see them.
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High 5 and you'll see them. Talking to each other, it's kind
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of like this picture in heaven that's happening.
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Is there's this this room full of people or angelic beings that
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are agreeing about the majesty of God?
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Like they're not just staring. It's not an Angel staring at
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another Angel. Get his worship on.
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It's another Angel like you right, he good.
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Yep, you right, he faithful. Yep, you right, Yep.
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I've seen them. Yep, you right.
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It's it's not an Angel staring at an Angel.
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I, I, I, I would like to believe all the angels look the same and
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if you understood you as a son and a daughter, you would
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understand we look the same. And they just like, Oh yeah, I
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agree. I agree.
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They're not just speaking about their experience, they're also
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aligning themselves with their neighbors experience.
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Here's why. Because all of our experience
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came from the same nature, God as provider, God as healer, Lord
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of the breakthrough, all came from the same person.
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So as you testify out your spirit, I don't it'll be too
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many state. Like I'm not going to say your
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testimony. But as you thinking God, have
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you ever have somebody has somebody tears or praise?
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Ever moved you right right. We we, we now we got some really
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dramatic people that like when, when like army commercials come
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on, you cry or certain type of movies you cry or a certain type
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of music you cry and something here it is moved you like
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somebody else making it through somebody else almost, almost
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killing themselves somebody. Almost losing their family,
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like, like that stuff should move you.
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And if you're not going to praise God over your own stuff,
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at least praise them for somebody else's stuff.
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Like like, do you? Can you imagine the energy in
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this room if you, you, you, you begin to thank Him for what He's
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doing in other people's lives, let alone yours?
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Like if I just look around the room, I'm just looking at his
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goodness that like, like, like I'm looking at his glory when I
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see you. So if I just give him 60 seconds
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to praise him for what he's doing in your life, and then
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I'll move on to the next person, and then I move on to the next
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person. Then I move on to the next
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person. Then I thank Him for Judah's
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life. Then I thank Him for what He's
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doing in your life. Then I thank Him for what he's
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doing in your life. You're not thank him for what
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he's doing in your life. Like, like it ain't no time.
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The reason why we got to get you in and get you out because you
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came for you. You came to church for for
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something you need to get in your time frame.
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But when you just get lost in his goodness, man, I can look
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around this room and praise Him before I even get to me.
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See, here's the power of praise. When I pray with corporate
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praise is when I praise Him for what He's just doing.
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I forget about me. What?
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What if? What if Jesus was able to endure
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the cross because he forgot about His?
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Pain. Your your pain was greater than
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his pain. You hear it is your eternal debt
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was greater than his physical pain.
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But we often mostly come in here like this towards the platform.
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Feed me, feed me. Instead of looking next to the
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person I'm sitting next to is a miracle, the person I'm sitting
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next to is a work. No matter where you are in your
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life, you are a work of God. They cried to one another and
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said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.
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The whole earth is full of his glory.
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Look at, look at what? Look at what they're saying.
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They wasn't like, look at us, look at us with our wings.
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Look at us. We so magic.
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We so majestic, right? We so majestic.
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Come on, somebody do this. We so majestic, right?
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We so majestic, right? Look, we so majestic.
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They did. They weren't even talking about
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themselves. They said look at the earth.
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It's full of his glory. And in Vancouver, Greater
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Vancouver, you should know about his glory.
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You boast about how beautiful the you can get from the
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mountains to the water in just under 30 minutes and all the
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lakes and the maybe and the whales pass through and the
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bears. British Columbia's full of his
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glory, and we steal this old Sediti, stale, dry Christianity,
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and we pick churches that don't apply pressure.
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The whole earth is full of its glory.
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And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice.
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Here it is of him who cried. There was a shaking from a cry,
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and then the house was filled. Here it is.
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The shaking could be also looked at this way.
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I don't know about you, but has God's word ever shook you?
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And it wasn't until His word. Shook.
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You that he was able to come in and feel you.
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If it listen. If he can't shake you, he can't
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feel you. Right, right.
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If you hear this word and you and you not shook at the sin in
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your life, stop walking around to my love God.
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Yeah, I. Will tell you now you're a liar.
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You're an absolute liar and that's that's pointing to
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somebody heart. If the word don't shake you
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enough here, here's what Job said here's here.
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He said, I make covenant with my eyes.
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Joseph said, Nah, Nah, Nah. You can have this robe I'm not
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sleeping with you shook and you wondered that Joseph didn't have
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favor. Joseph had honor.
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Joseph had holy dignity. He had holy and righteous
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integrity. Joseph wasn't living a secretive
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life. You sit here and worship with
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your voice audibly all you want to but your your heart until
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your heart and your actions cry out.
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Stop crying because God's not moved by your tears, He's moved
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by your repentance. Can he shake your mind?
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If he can't shake your mind, he cannot renew your mind.
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Then I said, whoa, it's me. Look at him.
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He just said he shook. He like whoa, brother, for I am
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undone, I am ruined. I can't live this way no more.
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I like. How dare us look before.
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How dare us go to the Father unshook by the way we live and
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present ourselves to him. How dare us look it when the
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Holy Ghost came in the room. He's like the The presence of
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God should expose you. 1st you ready?
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Are you ready for some of y'all? There's many of you in here want
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the Lord you you. One of your prayers is Lord use
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me. When's the last time you prayed?
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Lord exposed me. That's a different type of
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prayer right there. I promise you this.
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He'll expose you privately first, right?
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You see how I'm preaching right now, right?
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That word is meant to burn and move.
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Get what I'm saying? Privately?
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He's dealing with some of you in your heart.
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Now here's the catch, you're going to walk out of here and
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remember the prayer in the beginning is that He moves you
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to decision. He moves you to some lifestyle
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changes today. Today, this is the day the Lord
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has made. I'm going to make decisions and
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be glad in it. You know what I'm saying?
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There's some people will sit. In here and be like this good
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word. They'll write notes.
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Some people write notes out of conviction.
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What do I mean by that? Let me write it down so it look
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like I'm like I'm getting it. How how we know you getting it
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is you walk out of here and live different.
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Hallelujah. Hey, the words should make you
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squirm in the church. Anybody ever squirm in church?
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Right, them spirits get you squirming.
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Amen. But but man, I don't want to
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like squirm all the time. Like when I'm going to rest in
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his presence and I squirt, you can't squirm and rest.
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Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst
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of the people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the king.
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My eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
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I don't know about you, but I've seen the Lord of Hosts work in
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my life. I've seen them fights and
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battles. I can't hold me together no
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more. These fig leaves are ruined.
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In other words, some of us in here are choosing to do what
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Adam and Eve did in the beginning.
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You, you desire, you lived in the presence of God and then you
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put on this facade, fig leaves, you just cover yourself and
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instead of just being naked before the Lord, letting them
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deal with you, you want to hide and hopefully things change.
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God don't turn his head, you turn yours.
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God don't turn his because he's good enough and holy enough.
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He could still look at you in your filth.
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The worst thing is when your Mama come to the point where she
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stopped talking to you about your sin.
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I'm going to tell you one more time, when when God shuts the
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mouth of the voice He put in your life to warn you, you know
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you're in danger. At that point.
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The day you hear my voice, heart and not your heart.
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One of the greatest blessings ever in my life is that I had
-
people in my life who would tell me what I didn't want to hear.
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And I have family members that would check me.
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And I remember in my family, I've seen my grandma do it, seen
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my mom do it where it's just like warning and prayer and
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praise and warning and prayer and praise and warning and
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pleading and crying and arguments and wrestling and, and
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then you all, you see it spiritually when the person
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shuts their mouth, but have joy and peace about it.
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They're not still talking through their, their, their sad
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posture when you come around, it's like, almost like they
-
leave you hanging. It's just like they hug you and
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don't mention it no more, right? Because some of you get
-
comfortable from the encouragement of warning, right?
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Some of us want to be carried and we get comfortable getting
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carried. And for some of you, on the flip
-
side, you have to do this in this season.
-
Stop talking to your kids about their mess.
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You got to actually let them wallow in it because it comes a
-
point where God sends you to be His voice.
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And then when God tells you he don't need his voice no more,
-
you need to shut up. Just love, just love and let
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them wallow. Whoever that's for crying out
-
requires spiritual engagement. Talk to me.
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It's not a passive act. Let me, let me, let me do this.
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So you get let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me
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explain to you. It's not a passive act.
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It requires a deep engagement. Meaning pass your brain.
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It's not like oh, how am I going to look when I cry out or I
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Can't Sing like them. Let me tell you, some of them
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sometimes Can't Sing either. They be off key.
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If you go listen to the stream right.
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We some of them. They sound good sometime to you
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and to themselves because we all in here screaming but when we go
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listen to the. Stream the stream.
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Exposes things. Hey, man, we're learning.
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It's OK. We work on this stuff.
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OK, But it's it's a deep engagement that requires you to
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not, I want to say this very carefully.
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I am not telling you not to think.
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So you won't go out there and tell nobody.
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Pastor G don't want us to think. He just want us to listen to
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him. No, I no listen to the word.
-
I need you to think. But the kind of thinking that
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I'm talking about, like I don't need to think about, do I
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praise? I might need to think about his
-
goodness to stir me up, but I don't need to think about do I
-
clap or do I lift my voice or do I dance or do I move my knees or
-
do I uncross my hands? In a time of praise.
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In a time of worship. No, it's it's not a passive act.
-
It requires deep engagement with one's emotions and faith
-
breaking through passivity and fear.
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Have you ever been? Just busy, busy, busy, busy,
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busy. And then you like you got in the
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car and you turned on that music, that worship pad.
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And immediately you start. Feeling away only a few of y'all
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OK? That's that's right.
-
That's why we're talking about this.
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But I know when I'm busy. Busy, busy.
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And I'm like, all right, it's time to lock in.
-
I'm going my office. I'll turn on this type of music
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and I'm going to focus on the Lord.
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Man, it don't take long. It don't take long that that's
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me setting my mind on him. And when I set my mind on his
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goodness, it stirs my emotions up.
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I need my emotions. You ready?
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My emotions are not my motivation.
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They're my offering. OK, my emotions is my offering.
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Here's what you say. Cash your cash, your cares upon
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me. My emotions is my offering, not
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my motivation. So in order for me to have a
-
rich worship experience, I have to stir my emotions up.
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And This is why you got to watch dead churches that tell you to
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watch alive churches because they think we manipulating you.
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No, he tells Timothy. Stir up stir up the flame like
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there's a fire in all of. US but my emotions is my
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offering. I might come in here sad, but
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I'm gonna lay sad down. But I'm going to stir up my sad.
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And today I'm just going to praise out of my sad.
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But I'm not praising because I'm sad.
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I'm going I'm going to praise. I'm going to praise out of sad.
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And he's going to take those emotions.
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I'm not going to let sad mute me.
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I'm not going to let a heavy spirit.
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Here's what he said. He said I am going to trade
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this, this spirit of heaviness for a garment of praise.
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He didn't say you were sinning because you was in a heaviness.
-
He's like, can you just trade? I'm trading my sorrows.
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We've been may endure for a night, but in the morning
-
there's going to be a trade joy and what the enemy and what
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people want you to do. No, no emotions are bad.
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No, they're offerings. What are you going to do with
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your emotions? Are you going to let your
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emotions put you in prison, or are you going to let them
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formulate one of the greatest praises you've ever had in your
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life? Yeah, I walked in here depressed
-
today. But the devil shouldn't have
-
never messed with me. Stir me up.
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You walked in here sad. You walked in here confused.
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You walked in here with a heavy spirit.
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You walked in here broken. Good.
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You have something to offer. Come on, you have something to
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offer. And then and then and then
-
there's some people that's like, Nah, I'm good.
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I ain't, I ain't sad. I ain't depressed.
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Look, if you ain't sad, depressed, broken, nothing, you
-
good, you should be praising, praising God way more than
-
somebody else. You should be leading the March,
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man. You got something to offer.
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And so many of you come in here on a Sunday with your emotions
-
and your mind filled with work all week and all that God's
-
saying, come with me. Come to me in spirit and in
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truth. You'll read not just the Word,
-
but your reality. Your reality is is an offering
-
doesn't mean I'm not struggling with anxiety, but boy, this,
-
this anxiety is about to be. He works everything together for
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good. Guess what?
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Your anxiety is not so great. He can't use this for the one of
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the one of the greatest breakthroughs you've ever
-
experienced. Come on man, you have something
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to offer. And if everybody walked in here
-
and dug deep and was honest before God, this the church
-
should be a place where you are undone and you are broken.
-
And you say I had enough. I finally came to a place where
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I can unravel, right? The thirsty man come to a well,
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he gonna drink. When you come to a place where
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the chain breaker is present, you come like this.
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Lord, take these chains off. It's a deep engagement with
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one's emotions and faith. Got way too many people in
-
church starting with leadership thinking you got to walk in here
-
and act like you got. No wonder burnout is the.
-
Thing no wonder we've fallen to adultery.
-
It's because you're trying to act like you got it all together
-
and you force yourself to live a secret life.
-
He's like, no, I need help, man. I can't figure this out.
-
I'm pastoring, but I don't know how to do this.
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We raising money ain't never did this.
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I can't can't even get my Mama a house.
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Now I'm building God a house. I can't do this.
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But I ain't had no man in the house to show me how to be a
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husband. I can't do this, so now I'm just
-
going to read a book and make up how to be a husband.
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I'm not a love like Christ did. My daddy walked away.
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My Mama was abused. Her father passed when I was
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one. What are you talking about?
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I grew up in the hood. I grew up where homicide was
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high. I grew up where Mamas was on
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crack, sold to them by their kids.
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I grew up in disadvantages. I don't know how to do this.
-
And you come and and with that boldness and that honesty, and
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then watch how God takes that man.
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I'm not proud of my family. I'm not proud of what my daddy
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did to my mom. I'm not proud.
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That hurts. How long are you going to callus
-
yourself and just keep on wrapping yourself up and with
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fig leaves and and keep on acting like you got it together
-
instead of crying out to God like God, I need thee and there
-
ain't no better place to do it. You can't do it at work.
-
You might get fired. You can't do it in the grocery
-
store. They might put you in the mental
-
institute. The one place you can live and
-
be broken is the House of God. That's what the father's house
-
supposed to be, where his children come home and they
-
drink from the fountain and they be healed and they be made
-
whole. It starts with your cry and
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sometimes they start with the men.
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We carry so much and you want to walk around and try to act like
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to your sons and to your wife you got it all together.
-
Nothing more powerful than a son watching his father broken
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before the Lord. My son, my, I was getting ready
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this morning and I was putting my stuff on and I was squirting
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my Cologne and, and, and, and I walked past Mike and, and Pastor
-
Dylan was downstairs and Mike was just lingering in the bath
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in, in, in the, in the, in my bedroom.
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And I and I was about to say, and I think the Lord shut my
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mouth, but I was about to say, man, can you give me some room?
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And soon as I walked past me, the Lord said He's watching you
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and. Then like 2 minutes later he's
-
like dad can I get some Cologne? You best believe if he paying
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attention to me put on Cologne, paying attention to paying
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attention to the music I'm listening to and to the praise
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that I'm listening to and he's seeing me FaceTime his mom
-
seeing us distant was seeing us figure this out and my my mic is
-
feeling. It too, and just a little over a
-
year. Sister goes, then his brother
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goes. It's a lot.
-
For him, he wrote a song about it.
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I'm like, boy, he's talking about man.
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All this stress I'm under, I'm like, boy, what you stressed out
-
about? It was a really good song.
-
He had backup singers in the SSK.
-
He was like, he recorded it, he made a beat.
-
Everything. Where you get that from?
-
He watching, He in the studio, he watching, he's seeing us make
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music. He watching these hours.
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They're seeing us sacrifice and give at the same time.
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I could discipline them and they love them.
-
He's watching and quite frankly, it is the discipline and it is
-
the correction that that that that builds the bridge for him
-
to pay attention to the love that I have for God.
-
If I was his buddy and if I was just letting him get away with
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whatever and I was in there. No, no, no, no.
-
There's this straight line that's very clear what it looks
-
like to be a man in this Dark World.
-
He's been, he's been he's walked in and heated conversation
-
wisdom sessions. He's he's, he's what he we share
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the life. I'm not so much his dad that I
-
don't set him up to be his person that God created him to
-
be. But it starts with my praise.
-
It starts with my praise, right? And it's OK to be broken and say
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I I was just I was just raised by tough dad.
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But that's what I thought of man.
-
That's my default. The ladies that didn't have a
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father in the house or you had a dad, but they didn't represent
-
the heart of God, they represented the heart of mammon.
-
They provided for you. They gave you a safe home.
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You never starved. You had clothes for school.
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But what every kid needs, man, is they need an example of what
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it looks like to be a son and a daughter before a mother and a
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father. In what what's happening is we
-
don't have parent. They're so busy parenting their
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kids don't see them sunning and daughtering.
-
Ain't it funny how how you got a son and a daughter but you so
-
parent? What if we raised our sons and
-
daughters to be sons and daughters, not raise them to be
-
responsible adults? What pressure on our kids?
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But boy, my little son see his daddy having fun dancing around.
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He's like, oh, when I'm grown, I don't lose kid because I always
-
got a father. When when I'm grown, I don't
-
lose. Right, right.
-
Like, like, like we're scary to want to be an adult because it
-
looks like life gets really serious and really boring and
-
just work and vacations. But it doesn't.
-
You don't see too many parents. That's just in the joy of the
-
Lord, like David, just in the field, just like, and everybody
-
in here has danced before. Everybody has clapped.
-
But then you come around better dancers.
-
Now you can pair in your praise. No, we need you to be off beat.
-
Come on, we need you. We need all that up in here, all
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of that. We need all that for the Kingdom
-
to come. I bless God every chance I get.
-
Every somebody say every, every chance I get like, you know, my
-
lungs expand and we read this is a scripture in this house.
-
My lungs expand. Like like, like, like sometimes
-
you know, when you're working out or something, you ever it's,
-
it's funny how you can not breathe right and still live.
-
You you sometimes somebody got to tap you on the shoulder and
-
be like breathe and you didn't realize you was.
-
Like breathe man. Do you understand the detoxing
-
that takes place literally see praise detoxes all three parts
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like like right now I'm sweating a little bit.
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What that mean I'm losing calories.
-
I don't know what that what it mean, but I think that's what it
-
mean. I'm losing calories right now,
-
right? Physically I'm benefiting from
-
praising God, spiritually I'm benefiting from praising God
-
and, and soulishly or emotionally I am benefiting.
-
All three parts are impacted when you praise God.
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I breathe better when I praise God.
-
Look, look, I'd much rather sit in the valley with, with, with
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healthy breathing patterns then walking through the valley with
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a with asthma and no asthma pump.
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Now I'm here to tell you, not going to get out of this Dark
-
World except one way. So at least while you're in it,
-
learn how to breathe. Only way you can do that.
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I live and breathe. God, if things aren't going
-
well, hear this and be happy. Join me in spreading the news.
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Now go back. I don't want to run past that
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if. Things aren't going well.
-
Hear this and be happy. I don't want you to hear hear
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this and be happy. Next slide.
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No hear this and be happy. Start at verse. 1.
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If things aren't going well, remember I told you I bless God
-
every chance I get. If things aren't going well,
-
when I bless God, I expand my lungs with this prey.
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When things aren't going well, I live and breathe God.
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If things aren't going well, hear this and be happy.
-
Next verse, join me in spreading the news together.
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Let's get the word out. God met me more than halfway.
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He freed me. He freed me from any anxious
-
fears. Look at him, look at him, give
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him your warmest smile. Never see all that smiling,
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dancing, All the good stuff is in the Bible.
-
That's not Pentecostal. Give him your warmest smile.
-
Never hide your feelings from him is.
-
That what he just said. Why don't you hide your
-
feelings? Because then if you hide your
-
feelings, you're hiding your offering.
-
This is a guy like, oh, you said today, yes, bring it to me.
-
Some of y'all stay depressed too long because you won't let it
-
be, won't leave it at the altar. When I was desperate I called.
-
When I was desperate I cried out.
-
When I was this coming, when I was desperate, I called out and
-
God got me out of tight spot. See, this is the this is the
-
thing. How many people?
-
God got out the tight spot. Like like, but how do we do you
-
see that thing on Instagram where to get the the gold or the
-
sheep out the tight spot and he jumped right back in the tight
-
spot. I'm.
-
Just I don't even need to say nothing else about that.
-
God's Angel sets up a circle of protection around us while we
-
pray. Open your mouth and taste.
-
Open your eyes and see how good God is.
-
Blessed are you who run to him. Worship God.
-
If you want the best, worship God, cry out.
-
Engage deeply. If you want the best, worship
-
opens doors to all His goodness. Praise who I am, not merely what
-
I do. If we had more praise breaks,
-
we'd have less heartaches. Praise releases me from the
-
toxins of my soul and terrorizes the enemies of my purpose.
-
Said that a few weeks ago. Just want to remind you.
-
A groaning too deep, a cry out is a groaning too deep to
-
explain and too passionate to ignore.
-
I can't explain what's coming out of me, right?
-
You see it when players are playing in packed stadiums and
-
they're the home team and they're the 16,020 thousand,
-
80,000 people cheering. It's not just someone's that
-
excited the player. They feel the energy of the
-
emotions in the stadium. What do you know, the healing
-
power that takes place. If everybody in here got to a
-
place to have deep encounter with the Lord, there is no
-
revival. Without deep engagement, see
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y'all want to see revival. Some of y'all want to see
-
revival and just be passive like Lord come.
-
You want revival where the Lords show up?
-
You won't like Thomas revival. You won't God to show up and
-
prove something. No, no, no.
-
That's that's not what he's. Responding to is to prove
-
something to you, right? This is, this is, this is, this
-
is revival that's coming because you have engaged the depth in
-
your soul so much that it's an offering that you are giving.
-
You are undone. And in North America and in
-
Vancouver, Greater Vancouver, This is why the dryness.
-
This is why we don't see revival, but we see it in other
-
parts of the world. And we would call it revival
-
because we're like, revival is wherever excitement is.
-
OK, well, how, how, how, how is your city being impacted?
-
They just got approved. They announced the 10,000 seed
-
stadium right right like right Kitty corner 10,000 seed stadium
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with with a with a a. Conference Center and.
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Some crazy amount of restaurants in night spot this.
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Whole little. This little.
-
Right here. Revival.
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So you think revival is a bunch of people coming to church and
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staying 24 hours and seven days a week?
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That's not really revival. Like revival spills into the
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streets. I'll give you Psalm.
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Where'd you go? Psalm 34 and Isaiah 54.
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We'll close it out. Open your mouth and taste and
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see. I gave that to you, didn't I?
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Yeah. Somebody need to hear it again.
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Amen. Praise who I am.
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That's what I mean. Psalm 30 for his anger is but
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for a moment. But his favor is for a lifetime.
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Or in his favor is life. Here it is.
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Weeping. May endure.
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Here's. Yeah.
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I saw this before older John. I just decided this morning to
-
stop at Endure and not read it as the victim.
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Not read it as how long God am I going to weep versus him saying
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if you can endure in your weeping, not like in the
-
morning, he going, he going. To take it from me, but because
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if I read it with Second Corinthians 9, I don't know 12
-
where he's like, no, keep that thorn in.
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I've learned how to keep that thorn in or.
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In due season, if you faint not what What if weeping is
-
something that you are called to engage in and endure in No, like
-
you like the reason I need to I I need to go from when weeping
-
shackled me to when I can now soar while weeping, right.
-
It's this picture of a baby eagle coming out or a baby,
-
whatever kind of bird and they can't fly.
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But eventually there's the strength.
-
Eventually they're thrown out and they're able to fly.
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There's this feebleness in the conception of weeping.
-
But then that weeping should grow you to By the time the
-
weeping lifts, you never knew you would still weeping.
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Not that you tolerated what made you weep, but weeping did not
-
become your testimony or your identity.
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Endure for a night, endure for a season.
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On the other side of that is joy.
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And I know a lot of people who have weeped for a night morning
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Cain didn't have no joy. Season was over, didn't have no
-
joy. So you weeped in vain, and
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you've been weeping for years, complaining about the same thing
-
for years. Ain't no good men out there cuz
-
you ain't good. Ain't no good women out there
-
cuz you ain't good. Oh, how did I get in this
-
situation? You've been getting in all kind
-
of situations all your life because the weeping shackled
-
you. You didn't let the weeping grow.
-
You the weeping. Is meant to mature you.
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Can I just rhyme for a minute? Not manure you.
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Amen. I knew somebody elementary, we
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we'd get that. All right, I got.
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I got to thank you, Caleb, for the encouragement.
-
Amen. Here it is.
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If your cry can endure, your joy will ascend.
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If your cry can endure, your joy will ascend.
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Your sustained cry is the push your promise needs.
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See, I'm not going to wait till something.
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Happened to start crying. I'm just going to cry because
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he's so good and. I don't care what you think,
-
because the moment you start crying, you often think people
-
often think what's wrong. That's the first thing that you
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OK. I don't know, I I love sometime
-
the the little off time where I kept somebody crying and there's
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a few of you. I'm not going to call you out
-
here that no, not even a few of y'all, a couple of y'all and
-
I'll walk up on you crying and and and and I don't even got to
-
say what's wrong and that you just you just look at me and be
-
like he just. So good, right?
-
It's just like he's just so good.
-
Come here. I love you, Pastor, right?
-
Is this, is this pure joy, right?
-
If pastors had more of those encounters versus like, Oh my
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God, can you? Help me in this relationship.
-
My God, can you help me? I just lost my Oh my God, my
-
money Oh my God my all the tears is all from stuff.
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You rarely find somebody crying because they got a revelation of
-
his goodness. Lastly, Isaiah 54 rejoice with
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singing cry out cry out CD you got to understand the cry out is
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not asking for you to be sad. The cry out is is oftentimes
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this this this awe this wonder this word.
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If you understood this topic cry out you understand was steering.
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We're still in the fear of God conversation.
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Right. Rejoice with singing, you
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barren. 1 You who have never given birth, burst into a song
-
of joy and shout, right? This is about God's children who
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had been in bondage. There's some judgment here, but
-
more than anything how it translates to the New Testament
-
believer on the other side of Christ is that man.
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All you who have endured some hardships, get ready barren like
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you've been pregnant with dreams.
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Listen, you've, you've, you've, you've, I'm here to tell you get
-
unsettled with manna because some of you are like, God's not
-
asking you to settle for manna. He's asked you to be thankful
-
for manna. But you don't got to set.
-
You know that ain't what he promised you.
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You know, there's more, but the mature believer is not bombarded
-
in heaven. There's more where this ain't
-
it. No, no, no, no, no.
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I understand God has promised to sustain me, but the breakage,
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the breakthrough, the overflow, the bumper crop.
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I know the but I ain't got bumper crop yet, Kay, You've
-
been pushing, you've been trying, you've tasted, you've
-
seen, you've been faithful. Man, I wrote something for you,
-
right? You said burst into a song of
-
joy. Barren one, not delivered one
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while I'm barren. Push what?
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See, if you're barren, you think it's unnecessary to push because
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you think ain't nothing in there.
-
So you like what? Push for what?
-
Cry for what? Shout for but what?
-
I just got a sense we've got too many settlers in here.
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You who have never been in labor for the deserted wife will have
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more children than the married one, says Yahweh.
-
He said increase is coming, but he starts off by saying but
-
before you see the increase you need to cry out and it's a
-
sustained crying out. So enlarge your tents and add
-
extensions to your dwelling. Hold nothing back, don't settle.
-
Make the tent ropes longer and the pegs stronger because God's
-
getting ready for a generational increase.
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You ever see a tent when you go on hiking and camping by
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yourself? The little small one, It's just
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for you and folks don't look at you crazy.
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Like why are you bringing this 3 bedroom tent out here?
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Why you get that apartment before the baby is born?
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Like it's guaranteed to be born? How you paint that room, How you
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got clothes already in the drawer for a baby that ain't
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here? How aren't we doing this for the
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Lord? Where's that expectation?
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Let me let me help you. Anytime you're around the word,
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you get impregnated with seed and every word God speaks has
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the potential to birth a fruit in your life that can go
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generational. You will increase and spread out
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in every direction. Territorial blessing, Regional
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increase. Come on.
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Right, this what he's saying is increase is coming.
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The increase that's coming is for beyond your household, every
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direction friends are coming family.
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There are people that need you to get in position.
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Your sons and your daughters will conquer nations and
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revitalize desolate cities. Sons and daughters will conquer
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nations, and my son and daughter can't conquer the nations until
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we conquer this city. Do not fear, for your shame is
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no more. Do not be embarrassed, for you
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will not be disgraced. You will forget the inadequacies
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you felt in your youth. I'm I want you.
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Here it is. Spirit and Truth.
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Here it is. Dig in that deep place some of
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you walk through, family stuff that embarrassed your family,
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shamed your family name. Come.
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On From adultery to bankruptcy. To.
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Abuse. See sometime in the Spirit.
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You try to look away from it. No, God didn't say claim it, but
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you got to be able to look. At it and understand the shame
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because if you if you can't connect to the pain, you cannot
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connect to the promise. A part of someone that is super
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grateful is because they know. They've been through it.
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Now God is saying, connect right now to when you had shame in
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your bloodline and connect to how you felt when you experience
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the abuse, when you experience the betrayal, when you
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experience the abandonment, when you experience the alcoholism,
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the drugs, the addiction, the mental illness.
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How did that make you feel? And here's the promise.
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Your shame will be. No more.
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See shame. Is not about.
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Who? Sees your fall.
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Shame is personal. There's some.
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There's some stuff some of y'all that went through.
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And some thoughts and some private stuff.
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Don't nobody know you've carried the shame.
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Don't think you free from shame because nobody found out, he
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said. Do not be embarrassed.
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Don't. Ain't it funny how you can be
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embarrassed? And don't nobody know what you
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went through? He's telling you there's some
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inner demons inside. That's still got a little
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remnant of shame, some of you. Here's how your shame is.
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Showing up, you afraid? To answer the call.
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Because what and who shamed you? Carried some of the same call
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you have and that's how. You're carrying shame is
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because. At that moment, there was a
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deposit in your. Mind you made-up in your mind
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you were so hurt, so angry. I'm never going to be a pastor.
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Why? Because a pastor.
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Hurt you? I'm never going to get married
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because you saw divorce. You still carrying shame.
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I'm never going to be like my Mama.
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I'm never going to be like and and while you never going to be
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like, you never starting to be like.
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You so focused on not being like that you're delaying.
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Being like who you supposed to be because your identity somehow
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has been entangled. In the mistakes of your family,
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this is the promise. I like it.
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You'll forget it. You're like, how's that
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possible? It comes a.
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Point where the reality of your. Pain is not so real.
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You still feel the pain from it, but you have the thoughts and
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you actually. Have to go down this trail to
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stir up any type of feeling from that.
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Time. Say you know you, you, you.
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You will forget. It felt in your youth.
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And will no longer remember the. Shame of your widowhood.
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You know that time when you didn't have?
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Lord, Lord of your. Life.
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No relationship with the father. No, no relationship.
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With Jesus Christ, God's like man.
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If you really. Understood, my grace, your past
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has. Nothing but good use for you.
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Your past has nothing but. Good use for you.
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For just a brief moment, I deserted you.
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But with tender feelings of love, I will gather you back to
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me. This is where we'll pick up next
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experience my. Cry is the water the Potter
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needs to shape the clay. Lift your hands right where you
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are. Your path.
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Can be. Used for nothing but good.
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In the hands of the Potter. You trying to run from your
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past? No, God said.
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Don't need that. He said I need it.
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You don't need to be stuck there.
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Just to lay it at the altar. That trauma stir up those
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emotions, Don't be afraid of it, and let that be the fuel for
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your praise, not your complaint. Your emotions is an offering.
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It's one of. The richest offerings.
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That's why it frustrates. You when you're in relationship
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with someone, they. Don't give you no emotion.
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They seem dead, that's why. I frustrate you when you mad and
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you all. Excited about something they
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just sitting there. Uh huh.
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Emotions are from the Lord, and the enemy has perverted them.
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Aside from Revelation, your. Emotions is one of the.
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Greatest assets in your praise. It's crazy.
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You can go to a Beyoncé. You can go to you name your.
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Artist to their concert you don't need no revelation all
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emotions the whole city excited you know how many depressed is
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that a. Depressed people at a Travis.
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Scott Concert How many depressed people is that?
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A. And they take those.
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Emotions and it's a night that they.
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Look at that gave them relief. Ain't that crazy but we don't
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walk in here understanding that we and they give their emotions
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mean you can hear the stadium rocking from from miles away
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because all those emotions in that room.
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Here's why they connect with the artist.
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Man, you know how important. It is for you to connect with
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your maker. Lift your hands right where you
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are. Yes.
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Come on, right where you? Are just lift your voice and.
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And just tell God thank you, the Father, thank you.
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Just take a moment. Whatever the Spirit is.
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Planted in your heart be. Determined that it will grow
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you, it will mature you, it will move you, it will set you
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ablaze. Thank you.
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Lord, thank you, Lord, thank you, Lord.
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Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
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Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
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Thank you, Lord. Yes, use it for good.
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Use it. For good.
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Use it for good. Use it for good.
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Use it for good. Use it for good.
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Use it for good. Use it for good.
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Use it for good. Come on in just for. 60 seconds
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just begin to. Praise God, Lift your voice.
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Come on 60 seconds. Begin to give him praise.
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Come on. We praise you, Lord God.
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We praise you, Lord God. You are faithful.
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You are worthy. Hallelujah, we bless your name.
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We bless your name. We bless your name.
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We bless your name. Break forth.
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Break forth, Break forth. Break forth, Break forth.
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Break forth. Brave force.
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Brave force. Brave force.
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Brave force, bless the Lord all my.
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Soul all that is within. Bless your holy day.
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The. You.
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See. You want lovely dream?
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He rains on high. On the hill he is on.
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You want the main tree? He rains on high.
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The. The.
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You have no.
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What a powerful day. What a powerful day.
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The. There's
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no. No, you won't lighter.
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Not till you won't lighter coming out.
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So I won't keep down. I won't set it out coming out.
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No shadow, no shadow. You won't light up.
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I see. You won't light up coming out,
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snowball. You won't get down die.
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You won't turn it out Coming out of me, snow shadow.
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You won't let it up, down till you won't find love coming out
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of me snowball. You won't Take Me Out, Die.
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You won't turn it out. Don't shadow.
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You won't light up now till you won't light up.
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Coming down to me, there's no all you won't take down.
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Oh, oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
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oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
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oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh.
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Certainly still you can yourself wait, you'll leave, you'll move
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and be there already. Where this is love?
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But now I see when I opened my eyes, I couldn't believe that I
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could sing you. I could sing my love again We
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now I can see when I hope. In my eyes.
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I couldn't believe I can see your love.
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I can see your love again We now I can see when I hope.
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I can see your love again. I can see your Yeah.
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I can see your love again. I can see your love again.
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Lord, we sell the deal. You will not walk away today
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with fears that hurt in vain. We're going to do so about it.
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You're going to obey your word. You're going to make decisions.
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You're going to allow you to move us, however you're going to
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move us. No more delaying obedience when
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you speak, Lord. We don't just say yes.
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We vote from yes. To if I do.
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And we take it serious that once we were alive.
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But Your Grace has allowed. Us to see.
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May we not take our new sight in vain, May we not take our new
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life in vain. And may our love for you be
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marked by our obedience to you. We thank you, Father, that you
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are a God that do not throw away our past.
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You heal us from our past. But you use.
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The remnants of our past to create this beautiful story that
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points back to you and your love so that man, they say they can
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make it out of that. Lord, we just thank you for the
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stories that you have written. Lord God thank you for the lies
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that you have reserved for lies you have transformed and making
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our lives be a living testimony. Father, may we be living the
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pistols may. Our light shines so bright,
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Father, may our salt be that which preserves Lord, that
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someone may look at our lives and say, What must I do to be
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saved? May we?
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Not be contradictory, may we not?
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Be double minded, May we not be hypocrites Lord, but may we be
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the real thing, because your blood, your blood, your blood,
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your blood has saved us and have washed us and we are forever
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grateful and there's nothing worth keeping us from the
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intimacy that you. Desire to have.
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With us, nothing. So may today, something inside
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burn us, move us towards change. May change, not just be a part
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of our imagination. But may it be a part of our.
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Reality. That we taste and.
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See the salvation of the Lord in our lifetime.
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May we no longer put off our transformation as we wallow in
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our sin. But today we get up.
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May our testimony today be. I've come to.
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Myself and I'm heading back. Home and I'm here to.
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Tell you if that is your. Testimony.
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Today the Father is waiting for you with arms open wide, not to
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condemn you, but to celebrate your return.
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And just know, in the Father's house, your seat was never given
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away. We thank.
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You for now, Jesus. Name Amen and give God a hand of
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praise. All right, really.
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Quickly. There there was some
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announcements. Done in the beginning.
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I won't bore you with more announcements.
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I will let you know you need to find out what's going on because
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there's a lot going on. We start off with our church in
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the wild tonight. And I'm trying to let you guys
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know I was going to read scripture.
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I don't have no time for it. But in the in the book of Acts,
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they did not abandon gathering. They gathered at the temple, but
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they also gathered at homes. When you're not somewhere, we're
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gathering. There's a part of the body
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that's not there. You're you can't be replaced.
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OK, so tonight we're gathering at Monzo's.
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Now, Monzo's is a phenomenal burger spot, OK?
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And they got chicken wings and they got milkshakes and they got
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soft serve and they they like they they they're good and they
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got vegan options too. So you ain't got no excuses and
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nothing like and they fry their French fries in beef tallow is
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so is smacking OK? Now listen, you are not going
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get over yourself. You not going to be in the
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video, OK? We're not asking you to come and
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be in a video shoot. We're asking you to hit the
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marketplace with us, OK? Why is because for this next
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month, in everything we do, we want to be intentional about
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getting out when you come. Home.
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You come home to get refreshed. You take a shower, you sleep so
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you can do what go to work the next day when you come to church
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you do the same thing. You get refreshed, you drink,
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you get strength, you get encouraged so you can do what
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you can go out there today. So tonight we're going to have
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an opportunity to go impact some people's lives.
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They almost cancelled on us because we told them 100 people
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come in now some of y'all going to make me out to.
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Be a liar, but that's OK. OK, but they were.
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Like I don't know if. We can do it.
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The lady is overwhelmed. They don't know if they're
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staffed enough, but what about if we showed up and they were
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like, this is the. Easiest. 100 people that we've
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ever had. In our place, it's something
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about us, whenever we go somewhere in the marketplace,
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people love us. They love the energy.
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Always some haters. That's OK and they want us to
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come back. OK, let's go be a blessing to
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their business. Let's go leave a mark on their
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lives and understand we got this whole left wing and there's
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going to be people coming in and out all night and guess what
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we're going to do? We're going to hand them Flyers
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because all roads is leading to mocktails and then we're going
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to shoot a little video on the side and we.
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Do. We we're not going to film you,
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OK? We're going to film some people,
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but not you, OK? OK, now if you need to carpool,
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whatever. That says.
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That it's tonight that says 7, another place says 6.
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We won't start shooting until later like the main.
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Purpose is to go out, laugh and eat together.
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We got a DJ from our church DJ. And tonight, like we're going
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into the marketplace and we're about to have some fun.
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OK, So I want to see you there tonight.
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And then the other thing is next week we have 100 Huntley and
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remember I told them 100 people coming to eat burgers tonight.
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OK, so if they charge me for yo burger and you not there, I'm
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bringing receipts next week. OK, Next Saturday we are having
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all. Zone and there will be prayer.
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It'll be a little word that we baptism.
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If you want to get baptized, please sign up.
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We have 100 the historic 100 Huntley coming to get some
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testimonies as well film what's happening in our garage.
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I love that 100 Huntley is filming us while we're in our
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garage. And so I need.
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You to please show up next Saturday so they can get a love
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fix experience. But starting tonight you know
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because next week is free tonight can cost me for some
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cheeseburgers. OK so y'all need to come now I
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will put this out. I I'm not buying food tonight.
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Got that because I know some of y'all.
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Wondering in your spirit? Is he treating?
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No. OK.
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Your own gas money is your own. Burgers, but it's worth it.
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Amen. Invest.
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In your belly, OK. And then lastly, lastly the
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building next door. So I told you a couple weeks
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ago, work has stopped. Then within a week, I think it
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was like 75 grand came in. Within a week and a half work,
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they started back work and we're. 75.
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Away and I'm not. Listen, I'm not.
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We we cannot let the. Work, stop.
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This is on us. This first building is on us.
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OK and there's been people faithful I'm not begging you,
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I'm compelling you to partner with the Lord whatever you can
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do everywhere where that now look, this is 75 grand to be
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done with the second phase. What does that second phase
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include? You will walk over there and you
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will see the whole building lit up.
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It's everything electrical and everything they did before
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electrical, plumbing, all of that.
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But we're the electrical is the last thing before drywall and
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all that stuff. Once this part is done, then
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you're looking at several weeks before that work is done.
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Like we're right at the finish. Line, we're right at the finish
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line and, and, and, and there's people in here that can dig deep
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and invest in something that is going to eternally.
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Be on your. Account souls equipping the
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church. I'm really not begging you, I am
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presenting. You.
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One of the greatest opportunities of your life to be
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a part of OK. And so there's ways to give
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right here. And I'm believing this week at
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bare minimum. I'm always believing for.
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It all. But at bare minimum, half will
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come in over the next few days. Amen.
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Do not count yourself out, OK? Maybe you can't give 70. 5
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grand. Maybe you can give $0.75.
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I guess what $0.75 is. It's a seed.
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Amen. Put your hand on your neighbor's
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shoulder. Tell your neighbor.
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I believe in you. Tell your neighbor.
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That's all I got to say to you. I hope I love tell somebody
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else. I see you tonight and if and I
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will share my food with you. Have a good evening, God bless.
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Until next time, get your love fixed man.
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Spirit of light, Spirit of God, we need the fear of the Lord.
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We want the thank you so much for tuning into this week's.
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Sermon we pray. You were challenged, equipped
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and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all
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platforms. That's lovequest intl church.
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We out here for real. We're really doing it.
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That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
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You can find us anywhere you need to find us.
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But until next time, you know the drill, you know the motto.
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Get your love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.