Sermon
Wonder: Day 17 - "The Turning Point" (Pastor Terrance Richmond)
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International
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It's cold time, let's get into it.
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God's doing some really, really cool things.
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Last night we dealt with turn the turning point and we are in
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a turning point. Everybody.
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I was talking to the team in the back and I'm like, we're, we're
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in a season where you have to make quick decisions to cut
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what's hindering the glory. Like, like some of the things
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that I, I'm grieving right in this season and I'm real.
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I'm, I'm grieving having to reposture and recontextualize
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some relationships. And so I'm grieving how I once
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was able to pastor or how I once was able to relate to people.
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And now God's calling me to a place where see what you got to
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understand. There's see there's there's
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there's seasons that you are grace to be certain things
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right. It's like a parent like I'm I
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can't at 18 years old when I see Malachi and be like Hey buddy,
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like I'm still dad, but I'm. I got to talk.
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To him, different, He talks to me different, we hang out
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different. And the scary part in this
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season is people are going to remain the same and have the
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same unhealthy relationships with God.
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When God always plants the seed. The problem is the condition of
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your soil. And that's what we got into last
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night. And I shared a little bit of my
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frustrations that God placed in my heart is really His
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grievance. And His bride is sick.
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We have idolized Sunday. We have idolized going to church
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more than being the church. And so I'll talk a little bit
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about it tonight. I will have a full picture on
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Sunday of how He has charged me to charge us to break some
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things because Sunday and serving has become an idol and
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serving and Sunday has been. One of the greatest areas the
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enemy has been able to use to divide and conquer in the local
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church. Many people would not.
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I, I've watched this. If you don't serve or if you
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start to serve and stop serving, you see many people who
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backtrack. They found a church home, they
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start serving. Whatever reason, they stop
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serving and shortly after they're gone.
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So much of our involvement in church has to be with having a
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position, a place, God using US, feeling important, having
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friends, being seen so much of that.
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And now church, how we've made it and what you heard last
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night. You can't package the anointing.
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And so a lot of our administrative frustrate.
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This is I I, I personally can hold the tension to understand
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that I can work better and being more professional, whatever that
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means, because to different people that means different
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things. But also the administrative mind
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also needs to stop idolizing what they think is order and
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understand that God does procure your things sometimes like this.
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How would it drive some of you crazy if God said you're going
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to help me feed 10,000 people? All we got is 2 fish, 5 loaves
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of bread. Would you take him at his word?
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How would you feel if God said, hey you see that little stick in
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your hand? Point it towards the sea?
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How many of you will look at God like OK right?
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How many of you would you look at God crazy if there was a man
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that was dead and you thought God was going to use dead bones
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to bring a man back to life? How many silly things do we see
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in the Bible that God does to blow your mind?
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And so the church has packaged. We've done a great job packaging
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the church because what we're trying to do is we're trying to
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relate to the world, we're trying to influence the world.
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And we think that it's the package that God needs to win
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souls. Here it is.
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I can stand in this kitchen. He needs certain things but not
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more than presents. So I can agree with you that he
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needs like Flyers can help or certain machines can help and
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certain systems can help. But over here, why we aren't as
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intense to make sure you are led by the Holy Ghost in your
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day-to-day life. One day a week has caused so
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much division. And realistically, it ain't even
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about that. We've made it about programs, we
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made it about community. We've made it about this is
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where you go to find your friends, you find clients, you
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find all the church. And this is what we read last
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night. Jesus turned over the tables,
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says you're not going to make my church my, my church, my temple
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out of a den of thieves. And then after he put the house
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in order, what happened? People got healed, right?
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Because we're not doing what it takes.
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How was he able to heal? Because he had a life of prayer
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and he came into a place that wasn't a House of prayer, but he
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put it back in in the order it was supposed to be.
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For us, we get a word all the way from the islands that the
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next wind of revival in this house will be a revival of
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prayer, Right? Look, the church, it's easy to
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find conferences, easy to easy to find books, easy to find
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seminars, easy to find packages, easy.
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You want to know how to grow your church?
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Easy. You, you, you got thousands of
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information, thousands of books. This is look, I can hold the
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attention that God loves excellence, but I could also
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look in the word where God has disrupted your excellence, my
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excellence, humans excellence here, here's excellence.
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The Red Sea was excellence. But he disrupted what the sea
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was supposed to do so he can do what he wanted to do, right?
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We're in a season where God, the fear of God, is coming to
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totally rearrange how you have. Even related to him and it's
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going to cause some people to grieve relationships because in
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as you are trying to find the new you will go against or come
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against people that want to stay in the old here it is they it's
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not like they intentionally are like no, I'm not I'm not going
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into the new, but by nature right.
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And so I guess I could start. There and just letting some
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people know is in February the the Lord says if you're willing,
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let's do it. But as I search for a way of
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frustration. I'm like, man, we can do this
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better. We we can do this, but what
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people don't understand is I follow the Lord from the time we
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planted the church. So when I'm seeing and this
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ain't the only church I've stepped in, but when I see this
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consistent disgruntledness in the body of Christ and it's not
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about what it should be about. Rather it's politics rather it
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is marketing rather, I find my here you go.
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Cannot let me just put it on me. I don't think we post enough
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where I get that from because we're in a day and age where
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there's these temptations to be like and the only way we going
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to get the news out is So then I got to check my heart because in
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how I see I want to move forward in certain things can impact how
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I lead people. And then I lose the fervor that
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once I had when I started before I had the pressure.
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I don't know the Bible I read God does some pretty ridiculous
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stuff. Thank God right now saying God
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saying yesterday again for everyone, we all this stuff.
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But then when it comes to us and I'm like, so in February, I'll
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have all the details on Sunday, OK?
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So don't press me for all the details right now, OK.
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But in February we are not having no Sunday services, no
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Saturday, nothing. There was something planned,
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Papa shop and and the Renaissance thing.
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On the 1st Sunday, which I think is next Sunday there will be no
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morning services. After that there will be no
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morning, no need, nothing. We are we are gathering Monday,
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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Come or don't come, doesn't even matter what.
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Are we going to gather Monday through Friday doing worship and
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prayer like we've been doing before the revival week?
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Why? Because that's what he wants.
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How dare us give the world 8 hours a week to work and to
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slave and to do us. But then then then then then
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Sunday we going to cram in all the community and cram in all
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pursuing God and one day and then got the nerve to be upset
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over spontaneous worship or church too long.
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We we like like like not save. People ain't complaining.
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It's us. What, where, where are we?
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Wait. And that doesn't grieve.
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No, not many people. So when God says that the, the,
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that, that, that, that the spirit of the fear of God comes
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up on you. This is the kind of stuff the
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spirit of the fear of God does. He causes you to really look at
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your heart. And it's why a lot of people
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don't want to walk with God, because it costs.
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And there's a lot of amazing churches in this city, in this
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nation. Oh, man, we have a call.
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But Sunday has been an idol for a lot of Christians.
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We dressed our best on Sundays. We prepare the best Christmas.
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Who knows, this year we might do Christmas service, we might
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celebrate Christmas. I don't know.
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We might do our Christmas production in November, right?
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You see, you see how you feel because you like, wait a minute,
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that's out of order. That ain't even Christmas, Jesus
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birthday. Like what are you talking about?
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But all the work we put into event we made, we made church
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about events. Like we don't present Jesus in
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presence. We present him.
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We package him and put him in events.
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So Easter we're going to get together and we're going to meet
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and we're going to put on something really good because
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that's when a lot of people normally go to church.
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You know, a lot of people normally go to church when the
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church be to church, then Christmas, then Thanksgiving,
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all this stuff and we have fallen into and when we read
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last night, Jesus said you want to follow me?
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You ready to rough it? We read the scriptures that he
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said I don't have a place to lay my head as he was poor.
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No, he he actually was on the move and the church has lost its
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movement and his sentness. We're trying to find a church
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home that we can retire at, not a church home we can move with.
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Let let me, let me put, let me just be clear.
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A pastoral centered house is more likely to be focused on an
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Apostolic scent house, prophetic scent house.
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There's a sentness, a urgency, it's a move, and that's why you
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can't box every church into. Every church has a type of
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fivefold ministry gift that is the primary lead in anointing.
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This is why it's very dangerous at times to have multiple
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pastors, right? We don't mind hiring pastors.
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When the last church you seen somebody hire a prophet because
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they was a prophet, not a pastor.
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When's the last time you seen somebody hire an evangelist
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because they were an evangelist? So you see why a lot of gifts
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sit idle in churches because the primary gift does not have the
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anointing to activate them. So we don't listen to one person
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on the screen. This is, I'm not talking to any
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particularly. This is a popular thing across
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the world. But you can't tell me in them
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seats. You can't tell me Deborah can't
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preach. You can't tell me Wayne ain't
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got a word you can't tell me Danny can't ain't got a word you
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can't tell me you got to. You got this big old church and
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you're the only preacher or the only people that can preach his
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own staff. Where's the activation?
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But here it is, you're wondering.
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How they get, How do these churches get big guarantee you
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what I've seen, what I've seen, what I've seen, and this is not,
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this is not true for every, this is not everybody's stories, but
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a lot of leaders in churches know how to do business very
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well, systems, programs, which is something that I think is
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amazing. Administration is a gift from
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God. It's a spiritual gift in the
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Bible and it's very vital to maintaining revival.
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So administration is a must. Systems are must.
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You ready for this dip? Watch this.
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Here's what people forgot. OK, we worldly systems are
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policies, procedures, checks and balances.
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Pro presenter, planning center, team apps, all these things.
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These are these are systems. But what you didn't realize is
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that the Prof the fivefold ministry gifts are God's
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administrative gifts that you ready for this Elder John is a
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system. OK, let me help you out, Effie.
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Jesus says he's the chief cornerstone, which mean as a
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man, if Jesus is not set first, everything else, every system is
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not in alignment that lines up with him.
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So we have to understand what kind of anointing is on this
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house and build systems around the anointing of this house.
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So a pastoral kind of cornerstone type church needs
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certain type of anointings. That's why certain certain.
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You look at Craig Grosshell, powerful.
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I love Craig Grosshell and that brother and they do great
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business and the anointing on his life, the administrative
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gifts look like his gift. So, so, so help me out if we say
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that there was no blueprint for what God is building here, that
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also mean that there's no systems that are in the earth
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yet or in this city or in this nation.
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So before we get proper here, here, here, here, I, I feel the
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frustration, but I never look at what we're frustrated about.
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I got to look at the warfare behind what's causing the
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frustration. So when's this going to change?
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When's that going to change? Man, trust me, I want it to
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change. But we can't build systems that
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can't sustain the move of God in this house.
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So here you go. Ephesians 6 says that the.
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Enemy principality in high places.
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Rulers in high places. Deputisms.
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He has systems. And we have a lot of worldly
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business systems that are amazing that the church should
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have. And I wouldn't give them to the
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world. I would give them to the wisdom
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of God. But there's a whole nother
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system that we have not yet learned how to apply.
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That's why you only see one or two.
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Gifts in a church take me to a church where all 5 gifts are
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activated. Realized and mobilized, the FIFO
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ministry is a system. Now let's build systems around
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the anointing on this house. Guess what that takes?
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Trusting God takes the Holy Spirit.
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It takes patience. Because I don't know about you,
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but I see God building this church and I have just
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experienced God beginning piece by piece to release proper
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pieces, set them in place, and then we're going to see the.
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Systems support. We're going to see a big shift
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in our church. We're going to see church growth
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from it, but we're building something that can last a set of
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times. The the the test of times,
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right? So you got to kind of build care
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like next door. They're building for those to
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never be like how long that takes, like it takes time.
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But in the midst of it, there comes a time where God
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challenges his church and say, what price are you willing to
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pay? For the new I asked the Lord
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that and he says, son, what's on your heart?
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Oh man, I said, I think we need to just shut church down for a
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month and I'm like, Dang, we can't because we can't do that
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because the point is not about not gathering.
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The point is turning over the idol.
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So in February you get details. Sunday you do what you want to
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do. On Sunday you go to another
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church. But I want you to When Sunday
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comes around, I want you to examine your heart.
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Do you? Feel like you got to go to a
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church? Why?
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Like if the whole point is to just gather with the Saints as
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we are called to and serve the body of Christ and, and, and
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come to church, then it doesn't matter.
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It doesn't really matter. So, so there's no like we're not
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going to have production like except for sound.
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We're not going to have children's church.
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We're not going to have Cafe for what?
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Let's just come for what it's for and then I'm encouraging
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teams to meet with their team just once in that whole month
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and, and not to plan, but come together and be like, what are
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we going to do on the other? Side of this who are we going to
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be as a team are we going to return the same way I'm praying
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purging happens that mean people leave what I'm praying is
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people's hearts change and then come back ready to.
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Serve for the right reasons, come back with a a made-up mind
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and look you ready. Here's what God does he like
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Gideon. You don't need 25,000.
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You only need 300. You only need.
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Who God is called to rock with you.
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I don't know man. I'm just like reading the Bible
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and I'm just like. Could.
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Could we? Handle any other stories that we
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read about. If we were the main character,
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could could you be Moses? Would you be Abraham?
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And would you even get to the mountain to to sacrifice a lot
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your son? Would you have to press?
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Through the crowd, like the woman with the issue of.
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Blood would you have to been blind like blind Bartimaeus
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people are that are are wishing you away from Jesus?
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Would you have to cried out louder and would you have to ran
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to God? Would you have to untie the
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donkey like did like like do you really trust God like at the end
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of the day and as I told the team is like.
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You have to be honest and stop just declaring by faith and
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really examine your heart. What would it?
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Look like if I took him at his word.
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Like, like that's not a regular worship song because you're
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asking a question over and over and that song is actually, we're
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singing it to each other. That's a that's a song of
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accountability. You think it's because of how
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it? Sings you like we talking to
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God? He like don't look at me because
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I know what it look like. I know what you look like if you
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took me at my word. That's why I'm trying to get you
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to take me at my word, because I know what you look like.
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I gave you guys 5 things last night that I I, I really come
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when business stops as usual. Then the Kingdom of heaven can
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be the usual when business stops as usual.
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It's crazy Natalia. Like we, we get up every day and
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go to work and some of y'all in here work way more than 8 hours
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and then we have sweet man we and we have funneled God.
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Into. Beware of turning the movement
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of the Kingdom into a business model for revival.
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What I mean, a lot of us think that if we do these things
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right, then the harvest is coming.
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And it's kind of a mindset undergirding church growth when
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I don't see anywhere God telling us to try to grow the church.
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Can you please show me a picture, a verse where God says
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please go grow my church? I'm going to just show you a
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picture where he says I'm the Lord of the harvest, which means
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growing the church is his responsibility.
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Yeah, I know you thought you found this church, but God found
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it and built it for you. He found the church he thought
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you needed, so he brought his harvest to the church he felt
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was best for him. I see the Holy Spirit, men and
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women that followed the Holy Spirit.
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Grew the church. Men and women apostles that that
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that discipled people crew to church.
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God said seek me first and my Kingdom and there's a lot of
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stuff we packaged and then put Jesus name on it.
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I don't know about you, but I'm searching my heart so deep to
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make sure, to make sure that the Lord has my heart, my children's
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heart. My wife's heart.
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It's serious right now. How many people know you can
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have fun and and and be serious? I'm going to have fun like this.
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Fun stuff, but it's urgent. Some gifts aren't meant to be
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packaged and I'm one of them, right?
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Like we go to the grocery store. My wife, my wife, she don't like
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getting bags no more. So I hate grocery shopping with
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her because we'd be going to the car carrying heck of stuff
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because she's like, I ain't paying for no bag.
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That's a waste. That's a waste, right?
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You ain't going to package these oranges.
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No, these oranges going to roll around the back seat until we
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get home. I'm just and I'm proud that God
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has made brought me to a place in my life where, you know,
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coming here to this country for a couple years just fighting
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being accepted, misunderstood rather skin color, rather height
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and let rather people find out you from America, you
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charismatic, You're you're a prosperity preacher.
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You you prioritize fashion like the crazy stuff, like we're in a
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garage. Dude.
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Why are you persecuting me in a garage?
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Like I'm not doing anything like I'm not doing anything great
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like. And then I had to get over that
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and it's just like you just. Can't please everybody,
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especially following Jesus. And I'm like, man, wow.
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I've had it said to me, I've had it prophesied over me, I've had
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all these things, and many of you have.
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But until you learn how to embrace your unique, you will
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not walk in the anointing the way you are called.
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To the anointing is on your unique, not on your popular.
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I said yesterday some people are too set to be moved.
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You, you ready, some of you. Here it is.
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I'm about to help a few people. You're like, man, if God told me
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to go, I'll go, but he hasn't really told me anything because
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he knows you wouldn't go. Here's how good I say it this
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way. God provides in two ways.
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He provides as a king and he provides as a father.
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A father provides the needs and what we find out, we think that
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it's the greatest sign and wonder or fruit when all our
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needs are met. That's the blessing.
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No, that's that's that's his minimum.
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Hey, how many parents in here do you know you respect like I got
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to feed my kids. You're not going to the movies.
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I'm not obligated to take you to the movies.
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I'm not, you can catch the bus in the rain.
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I'm not obligate. You can't go to the cops and be
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like my dad won't pick me up. You can go to the cops and say
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my family won't feed me and there will be some problems
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here. You got to understand.
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You got to understand God as Father meets his requirements
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every day. Let me help you.
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Stop settling for mana. Stop settling for daily bread.
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That's the father's duty minimum.
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So you can be an outright Sinner.
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But as a good, good father, I'm going to provide for my bad
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kids. You're not doing anything
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special because your bills are paid and your pantry's full and
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you got a car to get to your job.
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Atheists do that. Atheists don't walk in favor,
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though. Atheists don't walk in divine
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protection, though, Right, right, right.
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There is then the king when you're walking in the Kingdom,
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there's sons and there's daughters and that's a hole.
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And I shared last night, man, my son, you just, but I, I just
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want to do anything. Sometimes he tried to act like
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he'd a man in the house and he, he, he my daddy.
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I'm like, bro, like I know what my daddy looked like.
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He wasn't even there. So I know like I don't get up
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out of here with all that, get up off the couch, like move.
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I went out to Calgary. I'm on television.
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I went out to Calgary. That's his house apparently I'm
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going out. He just laid out.
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I just got from the airport. He laid out his little plates
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with salsa on it is there and I walk in, he watching.
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TV he's like, what's up? And then my wife had to ask, can
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you move so your dad can sit down?
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And I'm like, I could tell I'm like, I feel the energy like
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he's a dude, right? He my son, but he's.
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A dude, I feel his energy like man, what is he doing?
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Here like right he had school, he called his mom, I answered
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I'm like he like can mom pick me up?
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I'm like no. Or his stuff like.
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When he came here for Christmas and he's sitting there doing
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Calgary. Stuff.
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Hey Ma, can you give me some water?
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Hey ma, can you now? Now that's what Calgary that's
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him and mom. That's when mom moved there for,
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that's when she there for but then when dad home, mom priority
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is husband. Right.
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Can I help you right now? I'm like, wait a minute, you got
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my wife running all over the place.
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I ain't got my food yet. And it's not like that.
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I'm like, but but in that time, there's a time where she's
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called to do that. And then just as a son, as a
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young man and just maybe now you, you serve mom or you serve
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dad or you serve uncle, whatever, right?
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It's, it's just like, but but this, but this, this, this, this
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heart that's moldable. And, and when I'm, I'm just
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super proud, I'm bragging. And when he when he does
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something kind of like snappy. He'd be the first one to come
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back. Dad, that was my bad.
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As a young man that's OK with apologizing, that's a young man
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that's willing to ask the hard question.
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As a young man that's willing to come over and prophecy on his
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dad. Lay hands on his dad as a young
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man, right as a as a young man. Why am I bringing this up?
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Do you know what it does in the Father's heart when his sons and
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daughters are moldable and that is willing to say God really
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whatever you need me for at any time.
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So there comes seasons where God is going to truly prove.
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Your agility. And your agility is going to
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create separation because not everybody understands you're in
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a season where God, Moses was in a season.
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They didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing with
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Moses. So they made they own idols.
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But God, you guys don't understand.
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Sometimes what you got is there will be a man or woman of God
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that's willing to be separated for God's sake and be broken
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hearted because he's being persecuted or misunderstanded.
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But what God is challenging him on is, will you be free from
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people's opinions of you? I'm talking experience right
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now. You, you're not walking with me
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in the mountains where God's like, yeah, I'm the one
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separating. I know I'm the same person that
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told, told, told, told Moses ago.
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And I hardened Pharaoh's heart. What was I doing?
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I'm the same one telling you to look like a fool and and and be
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spontaneous sometimes and sometimes you got in your flesh
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and you did that. And I'm willing to admit that.
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But he didn't correct in the in the way where I was being
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rebellious. I was in a rhythm where I'm
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trying to find him and some of y'all so afraid of making a
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mess. You can't you.
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You like How do I hear God? You afraid to make a mess?
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You're going to always have trouble hearing God.
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That's why you always need signs.
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You want to hear them or you need a sign.
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Here, here, here you go. Something fail.
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That's hearing them. Here's a sign, right?
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Some of you didn't hear something fail until you saw
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something fail. And most of us have a
-
frustrating walk with God because you always need A and
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the more you don't walk with God, the more you need signs.
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Conversations is for the walkers.
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Signs is for the strayers. See I need a sign because I'm
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all I'm over here doing me. But when you out there walking
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with God and it's what happened with straying Adam and Eve,
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wandering Adam and Eve, God had to come where you?
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How'd you get over here? How'd you how'd you get how'd
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you get over here doing my own thing.
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And I lost track of God's voice when I was made to always know
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his voice. Some people are too set to be
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moved. Let me help some people.
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God exercises will get you fit, but they also will frustrate
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you. I was so I'm in the midst of
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writing this book, right? And I'm going to take, what do
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you call it? An excerpt, right?
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An excerpt because he released some stuff last night.
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And then Effie was reading through my book and she sent me
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an excerpt. She was like, this excerpt that
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you wrote months ago speaks into what you released last night.
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It was good. It'll be in the book.
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This simple yet profound truth is often forgotten.
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And part of the reason for this is there is a very real attack
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on believers to not see themselves as sons and
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daughters. We have been so focused on
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teaching people to turn from and identify individuals by their
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sins that we rob God's children of the revelation of their
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return to sonship through salvation.
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We have created a context that is so focused on building the
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organization of the church, we have missed the reality of what
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we are actually building, a family of sons and daughters who
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are rooted in love, who are rooted in the love of their
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father, and anointed to bring other sons and daughters home.
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There are too many church and religious organizations run by
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programs that focus on building inward facing communities.
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The results of the Church growth method separates us from seeing
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the people outside of the church building, people who truly need
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to experience the same love that we have received and found.
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The Church is the reconciliation of family, not a rescue mission.
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Something's got to change and I told God this is his church.
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So if he like all right now, why?
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Why no Sunday People? That's their biggest giving
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days. Would you give on a Wednesday?
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You look at Sunday attendance, look at a midweek sentence
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experience. Why?
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Why it's so packed out on Sunday?
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Oh, because you don't got nothing to do.
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So now you only can come and serve God when you have
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availability. I'm just saying let's check our
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heart. I'm not calling nobody.
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It's on you. Why is midweek so hard?
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Oh, I got to work. OK, so say pastor, I got to
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work. I get off at 6:00.
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I'm going to be late to church. Can we have midweek service at
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7:30? Are we trying to figure out how
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we can get to the House of God or we only going we going to
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make church a priority when it's convenient?
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I'm talking, I'm talking, I'm talking, right?
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Why? Why is Monday, Tuesday,
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Wednesday, Thursday, Friday? What?
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Why when it's prayer? Why we don't have Sunday
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attendance for prayer even when it's on Zoom?
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I mean, can I holla at you see, there's this kind of long
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because I'm in I'm I'm in your same seat.
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Like, I feel you. Like I get it.
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But I get you. Know what I'm saying?
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I got to sleep tonight. Why so hard are you going to
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give if the not-for-profit if you don't get a giving receipt
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or you give, what are you what, what if God said and, and I
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don't know, I'm just walking with the Lord.
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OK, The plan is no, no Sundays in February.
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We're going to do Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
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Friday. What if God, well, I'm I'm in
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that place in my life. What if God be like we ain't
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going back to Sundays for the rest of the year.
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We're going to be gathering Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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Thursday. Friday.
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No, I'm just letting you know I'm in the place.
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Are you going to change churches or are you going to be like, oh
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man, I'm only still going on Tuesday.
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That's going to be my Sunday. I'm just saying that changes now
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you start seeing who's whose. Church home it really is because
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when it's your church home, then if home shifts, you shift with
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home. Yeah, God's going to apply the
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pressure this year. I'm not look, my plan.
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We we look that's too much. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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Thursday, Friday. But.
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But at Davidic house, he trained.
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He trained thousands of musicians and prayer warriors
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for 24/7 prayer. OK.
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This is why, This is why Jesus said my house is going to be a
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House of prayer way and a House of prayer.
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When you come on Sunday and you come late, you don't, you don't
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reverence God. You just roll up in here
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whenever you want to roll up here.
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Prayer, prayer. You don't even realize how
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important it is for you to help start service.
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You think we start service for you?
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Here's some folks, they show up late, maybe the first ones out
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the tent. What'd you get right?
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You need some extra money around Christmas.
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You're trying to figure out how could I cut this so I could work
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some more hours? When's the last time you sat
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down and said, God, give me wisdom of what I can cut so I
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can be here more? Right, Everything.
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And and then here's the excuse. Here are the excuse.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. The church is not the building.
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Well, why you come? It's very clear the church ain't
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the building. But the stuff that we will
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maneuver things around for, and then if God is calling you to go
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higher in him or he got a call for you or whatever the case may
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be, we're that same energy at not asking.
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You to be the. Pastor the church serve as much
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as but but I'm talking about the the soul of your heart.
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I mean, we kind of arrogant right now.
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I'm not doing it. Can't really be too much
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spontaneous. Spontaneous every now and then,
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like quarterly spontaneous. But the more spontaneous you
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are, the less participation you get.
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But I'm just saying, I'm just saying how many people read
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their Bible? Right.
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Do we see Jesus? We see Paul, we see like you
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name it, this is what Jesus meant.
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Like I I have nowhere to rest my head.
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My bags are packed right now. Some of you are going to hear
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me. Way wrong.
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Like way wrong. But I don't have time to back up
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everything with the other side of the coin for you.
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Check the resistance in your heart.
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Let me let me give you a little scripture and let me let me
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please run real quick. I'm y'all got me scared.
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Isaiah 4318 TPT was up there. Can you give me the five, the
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five slides that's at the end. The things that we have to fight
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for, we have to contend for Hallelujah.
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We have to contend for the sentness of the bride.
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The sentness. How many people do know that
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Jesus was sent? The Holy Spirit was sent by
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Jesus. The church is sent, the bride,
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the Eklesia is sent. We're sent people.
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We we have to keep the movement of the church, right?
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Not every church is John the Baptist.
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Not every church carries the spirit of Elijah.
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Not every church is Apostolic. Not every church is that so?
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So please hear me you've you have to identify the different
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gifts within churches, leadership, different people who
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come up here and preach like like when Effie come up here and
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preach, you're going to hear a bona fide teacher, teacher gift,
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not teacher. Let me tell everybody that is a
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professor in school don't mean you have the gift to teach the
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word. That mean you don't know the
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word. It's just when you have a gift
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to teach, you have you have an anointing to teach the word.
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OK, So if Elder John's free, if I'm coming, you got to learn how
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to. Put the, the, the have you ever
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bought headphones with different type of earbud sizes that that
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fit your ears right? You got to learn how.
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OK, we'll preach in a day. OK, I can receive based on the
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gift that I know is on their life.
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Are you ready? But you also got to know those
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people who have multiple gifts because within 45 minutes, hour,
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whatever, they can go, Holy Spirit can lead them to work
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through multiple gifts. So you got to know, you got to
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be sometimes you got to be switching them ears in and out.
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And here it is. I mean, some of you guys, I've
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heard this before, man, the word was good today, but it seemed
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like you were all over the place.
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No, I've, I've heard that before and I totally agree.
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I was all over the place. Yeah.
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Absolutely, like when Jesus told people like 4 parables.
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In a row. No, you just don't know how to
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listen all over the place. You just got one setting on your
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earbuds and you don't know how to move.
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You don't. You don't notify when God is
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moving and you think you're the only person in the church.
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So keep the sickness of the bride.
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Next, keep the movement of the bride.
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We're about to end our 7th year. David.
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What? David was the 8th Sammy.
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Went through 123-4567 and finally the anointing of king
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was presented and then David went back to tending sheep he
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went back to his garage it's. The year of Jubilee, literally,
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right? It's a it's a very specific time
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in the earth, and I thank God that we have people in this
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house that understand the signs of the times, like the sons of
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Issachar. Let me tell.
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You ain't nothing worse than going to a church and can't know
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where what God doing in the earth.
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You got a lot of education though, like you learned about
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Jesus in Bethlehem in the Mediterranean Sea and, and, and
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Golgotha and, and you learned about that today.
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You got a lot of information, but you did not hear what God's
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doing today. Right now, that's a dangerous
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place to be in The Dark World. Keep the movement of the bride.
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Next keep the vulnerability of the bride.
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We must stay vulnerable. Next, keep the urgency of the
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bride. Next, keep the agility of the
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bride. Like, like, like when it come to
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leading the church. I want to be like LeBron James.
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OK, Let me help you. I want to be like Jesus.
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For all that, Dean. I look, I've been traumatized.
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You guys, you got to got to pray for me.
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I've, I've been, you know, you some people.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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The church has hurt me as well. I'm hurt, OK?
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But what I mean like. You can't be the greatest or a
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Hall of Famer or a multi champion without taking every
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possession serious. It's not taken every year
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serious. It's taken every possession.
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Sunday's a possession, right? Set up in the morning is a
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possession. Shutting down is a possession.
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Yeah, lovers meetings is a possession.
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Some people take possessions off right?
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It's all a present. How do you handle each
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possession? A true champion is careful with
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every possession. So you got to keep the urgency
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and then you got to keep the agility of the bride.
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Those seasons work. You know how many people ever
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been stretched by God? You've been going through a
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stretching season. See, the stretching is to do
-
nothing but make you more. Agile.
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This is why it's very dangerous to ask God to put you back to
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form, right? Anybody remember Gumby is a
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Gumby is a Gumby. Look.
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Gumby. Gumby.
-
What is Gumby? The green guy, right?
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You ever play with the like slinky toys that you can like
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stretch and you put the legs behind the huh anybody?
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OK, it's like you can't have a toy made to be stretched and not
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play with. It, stretching it.
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See, see, in God's hands we're like these toys that he like.
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He stretches. And because he he made us agile,
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you were made to be flexible. You were made to do the splits.
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Hey, man, I'm sorry. Anybody know how to do the
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splits? No, just guys.
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I want to see the guys who know how to do the splits.
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All right, let's, let's, let's. I want to get you.
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I want to, I want to, I want to get you something really quickly
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to just kind of back up God's doing a new thing.
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OK, I'm not going to go to that Scripture, but God's doing a
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new. Thing you got that.
-
Come on, somebody say new thing. OK, somebody say new thing.
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Go to Luke 537. Wow.
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This say it's in the Bible. Come on one more time, say it's
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in the Bible here. Here's what I.
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So we often say God's doing a new thing.
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How many people have heard us say that in this church, right?
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Whenever God, and how many, how many people believe he's doing a
-
new thing? OK, So if you believe he's doing
-
a new thing, you must understand that there's a new
-
administration, OK? Like, like, like, like, like
-
Trump or I don't know, you know what I'm saying?
-
I'm not being political right now, OK?
-
I'm just saying like, come on, guys.
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OK, let me free, OK. But.
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But what I'm. Saying they call it an
-
administration. It's a whole new administration,
-
right? It's a whole new administration.
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So you can't be declaring no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no and not understand that there's going to be a new
-
operating system. Man, I'm trying to.
-
Help some people in here tonight.
-
So when? So what you have is, Are you
-
ready? You ready?
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All of us have been here. How many people came here from
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another church or another Christian experience?
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OK, the tendency is to bring how things were ran to where you are
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at at least the expectation. This is what comparison does.
-
So you are used to seeing things a certain way, and there's a
-
season that may be frustration divinely to help you divorce an
-
old administration. Because this is what I believe
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God brought you here to activate some stuff in you that you
-
couldn't do there. Yeah, I want to help some people
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here. There are some places that you
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abide, that there are gifts in you that God can't even reveal
-
to you there. So you didn't just find a new.
-
Church Home. This is why you got to lay on
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the table and 1st surrender to what God's doing in the new
-
place because then He is going to activate new things in you
-
that will cause you to adjust but also add to where you are.
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So one of the most dangerous things to do is step in the new,
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but constantly looking back to where you were, you ready or how
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you're used to doing. Things.
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I'm talking about even for myself, I couldn't come to
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America, to Canada. And be an American pastor.
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I have to learn. The people had to learn the
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laws. I couldn't be like in America we
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can make AU turn. I was stuck.
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I didn't even know what that blinking red light meant.
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I'm like, what is I was I was just pumped gas break there.
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Gab, what are you doing? The blight broke like red light
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at home is just a red light. And then when it turned green
-
and mean go. So I I I have to get used to
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that. It's just certain things.
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You got to get used to the end and then you got to be an end
-
for two years. In the end the L Or is it the L
-
in the end? Well, back home, it's just AL.
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It's a license why we got to do all it is.
-
But it's a new administration we came to so, so, So what what
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what God's going to do in February?
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He's going to He's going to force some of us and then some
-
of us are already ready, but to reset the soil of our hearts and
-
give us an opportunity to return ready for the new.
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That's good news for me. That's good news for me.
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Luke 537 and the go back 36. Oh, you're just going to.
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Fade it in real smooth. Like yeah I see 36 but I can't
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read it yet because it's caught in the middle.
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Are they trying to shit? Did we get some new software or
-
something? They trying to show it off just
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like. Hey man, don't ever do that
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again, please, OK? Hey, he gave them this
-
illustration. He gave them this illustration.
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No one rips up a new garment to make patches for an old.
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We do in these days, we make all kind of cool clothes, right?
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But, but, but feel me OK, worn out ones.
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If you tear up the new to make a patch for the old, it will not
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match the old garment. And who pours a new wine into an
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old wine skin? The old wine skin is a system.
-
It's the administration that holds the gift of the wine.
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And you can't you, you can't think that God, there's new
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anointing and fresh this and fresh fire.
-
Fred, give me a fresh wind. Like all this stuff we'd be
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singing. We stupid, we like, we, we, we
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just a really confused bride. We are really.
-
He said, he said. You can't.
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You can't step in the new and not get new wine skin.
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Here's the mistake. We think it means throw out the
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old. No, you can't put the new.
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You can't allow the old to administer the new.
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But like, like the old. Like the Help me out.
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The Italian pizza dough. Talk to me.
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Help me. I'm I'm you in my ears.
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Tell me. Starter dough.
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Come on. I'm not going to say exactly.
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You got to be in my ears, Elder John.
-
Tell me. So, so look, it's the starter
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dough, OK. And so for a year, Deborah
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knows. Yeah, yes, but there's this
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starter dough that that that they keep it around for like he
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Elder John told me before hundreds of years, like, and
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they just talk to me, talk to me.
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OK, And she said the same thing you said.
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Can you tell me the process? Like, what is it?
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What is it? So cuz folks, folks don't know
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they they over there talking about sour dough.
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Come on right, right, but from year to year there's there's
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there's some of it that is still used see she pre y'all y'all
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here it is she is really preaching see you got to feed it
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and if it goes dormant, you can bring it back alive.
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And you got to feed it, huh? And it only takes a little bit
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to bring it back to life. Right.
-
She really helping me, Elder John, Like I don't know what she
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was doing over there. No, no, you got to understand
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this. So the old, This is why we sing
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hymn sometimes. Like y'all think I'd be like, I
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don't be remembering these hymns, but they'll come in my
-
spirit because I haven't thrown the old away.
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You you can't you can't keep legacy without honoring the
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starter doll, right. And This is why you go to Italy
-
and you go to these places and they have stuff standing from
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generation to generation because they honor the old and as the
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church here we got to honor the old.
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But when he steps us into something new guys it the new
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requires in a new administration.
-
It requires new systems. How we pastored and did church
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first few years. We can't do it the.
-
Same. We're growing out of systems,
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we're growing out of ways of doing things.
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We're growing out of old ways of communicating.
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It's not going to be sustainable.
-
We have to evolve. And I think sometimes, Deborah,
-
the church has never thought about this.
-
What we'll do is we'll take off a Sunday at the end of the year
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and get a church arrest because we didn't work so hard.
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We'll take a sabbatical for vacation or whatever, but can
-
God just interrupt and be like, like, this is not the plan?
-
Who's stopping church from Sundays for a month?
-
God's trying to preserve something.
-
God's trying to revitalize his church and he's trying to get us
-
unfamiliar with the privilege of a Sunday gathering and also
-
letting us know that Sunday cannot be your, your punch
-
thing, your your, your punch clock.
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That that can God say come Tuesday, come Wednesday, come
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Thursday, I'll adjust my life because I may be in a season
-
where he is trying to make me agile.
-
It's supposed to stretch. You.
-
I don't go to church just because I'm off work.
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I don't go to church because I get off early.
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I I'll show up at church at 8:00 PM because I got off at 7 and I
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was stuck in traffic, but I'm getting to the House of God.
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I know this is crazy. This is this is crazy.
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I'm popular. I'm popular.
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Old wine skin would burst and the new wine would be lost.
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It's too much oil and it's too much new.
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It's too much skill. It's too much talent.
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It's too much. God has sent too much juice
-
here. And that's how I know, you know,
-
when you see a Deborah and a Wayne and a Mac and a family
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like that, when you see a day, you see Revere's, you see, you
-
see Noel's, you see all this like quality juice if we don't
-
change. All this good juice rots because
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how we did it two years ago cannot manage new growth.
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And what I'm seeing in the midst is that the Sunday church is
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sick. And we don't know it.
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And I thank God, he says, Son, if you're willing, shut it down.
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We're going to divorce Sunday. For a month.
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We're going to lay on that Gurney and let God expose our
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hearts. I'll give you 2 scriptures, Mark
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222 and First Samuel 17. Say out with the old and with
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the new and right, if you're not careful, your family as you're
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changing and things. Have you ever went back home?
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Well, you let you at home. OK, so you can go back home and
-
there are people still want to relate to me how they knew me.
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And it's it's heartbreaking because I'm like, dude, don't
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talk to me. Like I don't care.
-
Even if they watching. Look, somebody they not
-
watching. We not streaming.
-
Yeah. Look, look, you, you ready?
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You ready? I had somebody reach out to me
-
and they doing this, this women's conference that they
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always do. They knew me as a youth pastor.
-
They said, hey doctor, such and such is having a conference and
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she want to do this a little different.
-
She want to start off the conference with the youth and
-
she wants you to come out. Now don't get me wrong, I really
-
don't mind doing youth, but what I do understand is they have not
-
caught up to who I am today. They want to keep me and you
-
ready. Some of you are allowing people
-
to keep you in your old self because you are too afraid to
-
say no. You're too afraid to say don't
-
talk to me like that no more. I don't really.
-
That's that. I don't cuss like that no more.
-
Don't offer me no drink. Don't like, don't relate to me
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like that no more. You have to guard your new even
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amongst families. I it's OK to tell your Mama I've
-
changed. We can't talk.
-
It's OK to tell your kids. Don't talk to me that way.
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You are too familiar. Mark 222.
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And who would pour fresh new wine into an old wineskin?
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Eventually the wine will ferment and make the wine skin burst.
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Losing everything. The wine will be spilled.
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And the wine skin ruined. Instead, new wine is always
-
poured. This, this is telling you what
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it's supposed to be. New wine is always poured into
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new wineskins. Now take it to your personal
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life. One of the most dangerous things
-
you cannot recognize is God's doing something new in your
-
heart. Some of your.
-
Frustration in the last year has been because you haven't
-
realized you changed. There's change within you that
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you are not. You don't realize.
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I just realized just a few days ago that an old Grace gift
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lifted. I've been experiencing over the
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last year or so. Every time I do it, there's
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agitation, not anger, not mad, but there's a holy agitation and
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there's a weariness in it and a tiredness in it.
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Something I actually used to actually really be anointed
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juice to do. See some of y'all think because
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you tired, some of you get tired because you, you and your flesh.
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I'm talking something that I love the people or I love doing
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this, but when I do it. The.
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Grace isn't there to do it. The backlash of the sewing hits,
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so I have to realize the. Season I'm in and then I have to
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place people in certain positions so that I can be free
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to move in. My new grace hit you ready.
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If I don't move in my new grace. That auto orderedness will flow
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down and there's a certain level of your gifting that will not be
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activated and there's a certain harvest that's on the way that I
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will not be able to leave. We will not be able to leave.
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So as he moves me over here, he moves somebody over here and
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then the line just keep going. However, that works right?
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So you have. To realize when you are in a new
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season and yeah, just for somebody, new seasons come with
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new language. I close the First Samuel 17 32
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week of revival. If you wanted to see some demons
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get casted out, you should. Have came the other night, we
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missed it. You missed it.
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It was it was it was Monday, Tuesday.
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Yeah, yeah. You want to see deliverance and
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all that, but Deliverance happens in different ways,
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right? The greatest way for
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deliverance? Is the truth sets you free
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because you can get free. And if you don't put the truth
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in, guess what, 7 times stronger.
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Don't play with your freedom. All right?
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David said, Saul let no man's heart fail because of this
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Philistine, your servant will go out and fight with him.
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And Saul said to David, I want you to notice a new day for
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David. He, he, he, he was taking
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sandwiches down there to his Bros this day.
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He didn't realize that he, he was about to, he, he was
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anointed, not he, he was anointed to take down the giant
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you are not able to fight against, Saul said to David.
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You ain't able to fight. Oh, here it is, Saul.
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Like little homie, you can't do this.
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I mean. You got some people around you,
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Saul, now ready for David. You're not.
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You're not able to go to fight. You are only an adolescent.
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Wow. You too young to fight, and he
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has been a warrior from his youth, And David said to Saul,
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Your servant kept his father's. Sheep.
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Wow, what Saudi realizes God was training him for the moment you
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was looking at accolades, God looked at faithfulness.
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And when there came a lion or again a bear, and took a lamb
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out of the flock, I went out after it and smote it and
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delivered the lamb out of its mouth.
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And when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard.
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And smote it and killed it. This is what?
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This is so powerful, his response to what someone says he
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can't do. He tells them what God did do.
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Your servant killed both the lion and the bear.
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And this uncircumcised Philistine, how do you see?
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Your enemies shall be like one of them, for he has defied the
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armies of the living God, Davis said.
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The Lord who delivered me out of the pod of lion and out of the
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pod of bear, he will deliver me out of the land.
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The hand of the Philistine. It's all said to David, go, and
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the Lord will be with you. Here we go, here we go, here we
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go, here we go. And Saul clothed David with his
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armor. He put a bronze helmet on his
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head and clothed him with a coat of mail.
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And David girded his sword over his armor.
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Then he tried to go, but David could not go, for he was not
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used to Saul's armor. And David said to Saul, I cannot
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go with these, I am not used to them.
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And David took the old off. I don't really got to preach it
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down. You read it.
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What's your revelation? David got called to a fight,
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Saul tried to put his armor on and David said this don't fit.
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David would not have defeated Goliath if he wore Saul's armor,
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although Saul's armor was enough to protect him naturally.
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But it was a. Spiritual battle going into the
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season, guys, you will not make it without being who God says
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you are. When you believe what he said,
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you can endure you. You ready.
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You want to know how you can make it through some of the hard
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stuff? Be who he said you are.
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What are you wearing? Let me help you.
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It's not Love Quest and it's not God that's weighing you down
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all. Right.
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And I look back, there was a season where God was trying to
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get me to move and it was California weighing me down.
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It was old relationships that was weighing me down.
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I couldn't even walk in my anointing because they saw you.
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They they saw a little T So God brought me to Canada so I could
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be who he said I was because I couldn't put on what my old
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church told me to put on. You will not make it in this
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season until you identify and boldly put on who God says you
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are. The.
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Artificial. You will not make it.
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It will produce artificial fruit.
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PT how you be doing all that how you be, how you be how you be.
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Because I'm doing what he made me to do.
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Are you doing exactly what he made you to do?
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Not what you like to do, not what he he gave you talent to
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do. I'm talking about what he made
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you to do. Because you have talent to do
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something doesn't mean that's what he's calling you to do
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right now. Whatevers God called you to do
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it should fuel you. It doesn't mean like it doesn't.
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It doesn't. It doesn't mean it's going to
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feel like it's fueling you. I'm done.
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I really hope you hear. You hear?
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The spirit of the fear of God is the.
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Word for love quest. Do not think this will be a
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normal year. He's going to be really fun.
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He's going to be amazing. I love, I remember, I think I
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first. Was it Adam?
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Beth? It was.
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Somebody I was like, walking in the life of faith is really fun.
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Now, I know it's fun, but it doesn't mean that you don't have
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hard moments. But to actually just like be in
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the palm of God's hands and he could do whatever and just be
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like, hey, wake up, go over there.
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Like that's super cool. I guess not everybody.
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Is going to going to agree whatever.
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Many are called, few are chosen here.
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It is not everybody desires to walk with God.
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Lot of people desire to hear from God for their personal
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needs. When's the last time you wanted
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to walk with God to hear what he's concerned about all?
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Right. What I do know is God is burden
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for this city and he is looking for some people that will carry
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the burden and pay the price. When you walk in the spirit of
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the fear of God, you will be exactly where he's called you to
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be. And so please pray for me as I
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seek the Lord's face to make sure I give efficient details
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about February because I, I, I want this to be a.
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Fruitful time and I don't want our time in February to be in
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vain. And Sunday.
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There's going to be a lot more people here because Sunday is
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when everybody goes to church and so I'm going to release that
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for so the Sunday like you guys are cool.
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I know you guys would be here every day.
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In February. Not sure if I'm on Sam.
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But there's going to be a lot of people here on Sunday that just
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do Sunday, so when they hear this news, they're going to be
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disappointed because we took their church day away.
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And we're going to see how them orange seats look in February.
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 3rd I'm so excited.
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I'm I'm not believing for anything bad.
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I'm actually believing that this church will be packed Monday,
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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Is there a few? People that can believe that
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with me was that was that was that bring that bring that down
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a little bit? Was that Aiden praying?
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Today, yeah, just watching that young man's change.
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When he first came in his church on a Wednesday night or
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something, I prophesied over him and.
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And a few weeks ago he told me he wasn't filling that prophecy
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and. And then, but then he told me
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the other day he was like, I hope you don't mind.
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That's OK. I'm not going to tell our
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business at all. But he came to me.
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He said I love meetings like that.
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His meeting was like 15 minutes. Like he was just like this
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meeting. I'm not wasting your time.
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I'm coming. This is a response to what you
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spoke over my life a few years ago.
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He said I'm ready to answer the call.
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Yeah, that's what it's about. And he's serious though, and he
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I think the reason he like me because I'm like a coach, he's
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like an athlete. So he like when a coach came.
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Come on, Aiden, get out. And so people, there are people
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responding to what God's doing in their hearts and there are
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people that's willing to pay the price and there are people who
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willing to go higher. And I am looking forward to
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hearing from some of you say it's time.
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I'm tired of running. I don't know what it's going to
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look like. But that's why I'm telling you
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because I need help disciple me because I'm saying yes.
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And I am believing that in our church because I will tell you
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that we need you to say yes. What God has for this church.
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God can do anything, but he is not going to do it with, with,
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with without people that say yes.
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So I look forward to hearing from some of you.
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It's time. I don't know who this is.
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For now I have these simple. Words for you it's.
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Time. I'm going to say it.
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I'm going to say it 10 times. Say it 10 times.
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That's what I have in my spirit 10 times.
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I don't know what that means, but I'm going to be obedient.
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There are some people here that needs to hear this.
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In this statement is the answer you've been looking for, but not
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the words you've been looking for.
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So you've been looking for this promise and you've been looking
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to hear from God. He's answering you this way.
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You've been looking for a career you've been looking for.
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It's coming through this OK, number one, it's time #2 it's
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time #3 it's time number. 4. It's time #5 it's time, and
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number six, it's time #7 it is time and #8 it's time.
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Oh yeah, one more #9 it's time. I forgot one.
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It's time. This is the moment in your.
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Life that will change every generation after you.
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It's a simple yes in your heart, and then it is the corresponding
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response or actions to say Lord whatever, to stretch me,
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whatever. It is your time, and this isn't
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about your time for for for monetary promise.
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It's your time to step in the sonship.
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It is your time to obey God, and it's your time to be unveiled.
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It is your time to walk in your strength, walk in your hope.
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It's your time to get your joy back.
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It's your time and people will not understand it.
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Listen, you will not have all the money.
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You will not have all the answers.
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You will not even be able to see your way.
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But you will know your way it is.
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Time. Get into whatever God is calling
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you to just take a step towards it.
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If it's getting back in the worst team, if it's getting
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getting on the prayer team, if it's, if it's, if it's personal
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and it's just a prayer life, if it's getting back to 5:00 AM, if
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it's getting back, whatever it is, it's time.
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It's time to apologize. It's time to go back.
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It's time, it's time, it is time.
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It's time time to sober up. It is time.
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It is time that God gets his daughter and His son back.
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It's really time. Here it is.
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You got to hear me. I've been down this road.
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God says if you do not turn, you will reap the harvest of your
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lifestyle. That can be sickness, that can
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be death, that can be hospital, that can be many things.
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But God is saying I have been tender, I have been kind, I have
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graced you. I've allowed you to be afraid,
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I've allowed you to blame family, I've allowed you to make
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excuses. I've allowed you to blame busy.
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I've allowed you, I've allowed you, I've allowed you.
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God says in this season, it's my time for you.
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I want to be with you. I want my daughter back.
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I want my son. Back.
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I want you back where I found you confident, fearfully, and
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wonderfully made unoffended, healthy sound mind.
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I didn't make you to be a anxious mess.
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I made you to be someone who houses peace.
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So forget your Google diagnosis. Let the word diagnose you
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tonight. You are the healed and not the
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sick. You are the head and not the
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tail. You do have wisdom.
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You are intelligent. You do have patience.
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You are kind. You're not an angry mess.
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You are kind. I'm speaking life over you.
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You might say I haven't been that way, Who am I?
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But the father says daughter come home, son, come home.
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And home is not a building. Home is where I found you.
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Home is where peace is. Home is where faith is.
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Home is where hope is. Home is where love is.
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Home is where power is. Home is where confidence is.
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Home is where courage is. Home is where steadfastness is
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home. It's your time, son.
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It's your time, daughter, To not let fear dictate your life.
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To not let fear. Dictate your choices.
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To arise, shine, live, you shall not die.
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I'll say that under the sound of Jesus name.
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You shall live. And not die.
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Addictions be broken, dry up, loosen the grip.
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Be free. Allow the Lord to break your
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heart for what breaks. His be undone so he can do you
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back up the way he made you to be.
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There's freedom in this room and there's healing in this room.
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You can do it. You can do it.
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You can do it, you can do it. You do have the strength.
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And if you don't have the. Willpower take his will take his
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will. Just take a moment, say lot.
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I'ma say it in advance. I'm proud of you.
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In the last six months, I know for a fact that God has done
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some significant, significant work in some of your hearts, and
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I'm just speaking on His behalf. He is proud of you.
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Get ready for greater. I see it.
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I see it Deborah. I see in the spirit.
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I see the Father arm stretch towards you and I see your arm
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stretch towards him. I don't know what is going on,
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but I do know that is everything is turning around.
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I see your. Heart.
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Vanelli, I see the work that God has done in your heart.
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I feel like encouraging you and telling you to take a leap
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because even the change that has taken place scares you.
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What you deserve is God's daughter to experience the
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fullness of God. And that baby that is in your
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belly is God saying, daughter, I love you.
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I see it.
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Mac is turning. It's turning day.
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It's it's really turning. I'm I don't know your private
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life. I don't know none of that, but I
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can tell you, I see it. God has done a work in your
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heart. I'm just saying just like, keep
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going guys, Lily. Like I see it and I tell you
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what I see, Lily. I really think this time around
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you're never going to turn back to that old way of seeing
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yourself. I, I see a confidence rising in
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you. I see a woman rising in you.
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I see a fire for the Lord rising in you.
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And I'm just saying you may not feel it.
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You may not see it right now. I'm just telling you what God is
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telling me to tell y'all. Nicole, Nicole.
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Nicole Preacher great healing has taken place.
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We've been talking about we going to meet for a long like
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couple years now, a year. So now, but without meeting and
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sitting down and listening to the depths of what's going on in
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your heart. Father says it's well, it's all
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turning. You will not reproduce the old
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and there's many of you in here. God has done a great work in
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your heart. You can see clearer, you can see
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color again, feel the Lord is just saying you can do it.
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It's just getting started. Total heart transplant.
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It's time to tell you, whatever that means for you.
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It's time. Oh, I'm just going to be
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obedient. Don't be met, Yvonne.
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It's time. That's just what your father
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said. That's just what your father
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said. It's time.
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Whatever that means for you, it's time.
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It's time before this year is over for whoever receives
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whoever you will see the greatest version of yourself
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you've ever seen. God is about to re reintroduce
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you to you. Out with the old and with the
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new. Thank you, Jesus.
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We just thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah.
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Let's stand to our feet. Wow.
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Come on. Somebody say I believe God about
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me. Yeah.
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Well, Amen. We got one more night.
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Tomorrow night's going to be a little shorter because we're
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going to take Revival to the ball game and we're in the
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semifinals and we're going to go and man, if everybody in this
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room showed up to the game tomorrow, we'll pack out the gym
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and and bless some people. I had AI had a tournament reach
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out to me a few weeks ago. And ask me, we want to do a
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tournament for $4000. Which date is Love Quest
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available? And that lets you know there's
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been major impact in the city. And it's it's not, it's not
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about the players like they know our brand, the basketball.
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We going to compete, but what these people want is fans at the
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game, you got to hear me. They want us to be a part of
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their league because they want the experience and they know if
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we play, y'all going to come and they're going to be able to say
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our tournament was lit for one hour because when we leave the
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gym is empty. So come out tomorrow night.
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We play at 9:00 and we'll we'll be leaving here.
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We'll be done here to go at 8:00 and just come out.
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Elder John will be sharing and I'm excited to hear.
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PJ, can you come pray us out? My wife came in and hung out
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with me. We found out our son was.
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Out of school, he told us at the last minute.
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Like, I'm like, bro, you didn't know you had a whole week out of
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school. And so then we were just like,
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y'all come home. I'm telling a story about my
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family. EJ Starter Doe.
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Come on, man. And so we had a little window.
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I'm like, well, if you know I ain't doing nothing, then come
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home because I'm I miss you so. I'm glad she came this week
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because it was a challenging week for me in a very good way,
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but I needed her prayers. I needed her comfort.
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I needed her wisdom. I needed her by my side because
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to deliver some of the words that I'm delivering, you
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wouldn't I'm I'm courageous enough and bold by the power,
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the Holy Ghost, but it's difficult.
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So to be able to look over and hear my wife say Amen.
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If ain't nobody ever said like to see her support and feel her
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support, it means the world to me.
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So thank you. Absolutely.
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So if you can wear all black tomorrow, nice.
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Like we're not having a funeral or anything like that.
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We're just going to show up to the game in all black and and
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we're going to go mob over there and have some fun.
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All right. Amen.
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So, Father, we thank you. We thank you for what you've
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done tonight. We thank you for what you're
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doing in our hearts. We thank you that we have
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received it. We thank you that we are good
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ground. We thank you that we are tilling
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the soil of our hearts. We thank you, Lord God, that we
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are doing the work individually so we can corporately build the
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Kingdom for you. We thank you, Lord God, that you
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are opening our minds and that we are readily renewing our
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minds daily to what you're calling us to in this new
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season. That you are giving us new
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wineskins to put this new anointing in.
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That we will never, ever, ever forget the legacy that has been
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generations past. But it we are standing in real
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time creating new wine for the next generation to carry our
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legacy forward. So we thank you that we are
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aware that every possession counts, that we are aware that
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every relationship is important. We are aware that everything
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that we sacrifice, Lord God, you multiply.
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We thank you for what you've put in our hands.
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We thank you for what you've put in this house.
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We thank you that we are pursuing you collectively
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unified. We are pursuing you that we fear
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you, that we love you, that we carry your glory everywhere we
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go. And as we leave tonight, we take
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you with us everywhere we go. We are touching people with your
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love and your presence. And we thank you for our Father,
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we thank you for tomorrow, We thank you that we will come
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ready to receive that this entire week.
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Lord God, that you are shifting and changing and purging.
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And we are willing participants, not just individually but
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collectively because we are stronger when we are unified.
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And we thank you for it. In Jesus name, Amen man.
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Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.
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We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.
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Make sure to follow us on all platforms.
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We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram,
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YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you
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need to find us. But until next time, you know
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the drill. You know the motto, get your
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love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.
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There is a river, a flight flowing down from the Grove.
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Can you see it? There is a sound off the shore,
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far from heaven.