Sermon
This Job Isn’t Working: What To Do When Purpose Isn’t Paying // Six Figures (Part 2) // Michael Todd
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Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
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the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
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glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
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God will transform your life. Do today's message.
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I want you to realize that prayer works, and a
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lot of you haven't seen it work in your life
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because it's easy to believe God by committee, like everybody
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can believe when everybody believed in But I want your
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faith to grow to where you can believe that nobody
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else is believing. And this is why I want you
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to come into this.
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Environment to learn.
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I want to tell you a testimony. It's testimony time.
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Look at you're not gonna say it's testimony time now.
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Some of y'all ain't never been in church where they
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had testimonies. And you know what I'm saying. And testimony
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time can go real wild. Do you understand what I'm saying?
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People can get up and tell too much business.
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But today I'm gonna give you a testimony time. There
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was a church that came here in crazy faith about
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a month and a half ago, and some of y'all
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were gone, but after service, the presence of God was
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moving and this church and this pastor were believing God
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for a miracle for a building in Kansas. And they
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came here on a Sunday morning with crazy faith shirts
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and they were believing God, and they sold a seed
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into this house and they were just believing for their
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own thing. And at the end, in a time of worship,
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we just prayed for this church. I just want you
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to go back to this moment real quick, and I
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want you to see because I got a testimony on
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the other side of our prayers working.
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Check this out real quick.
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Father, I pray for the church that came from Kansas
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that's believing.
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Everybody in the arena just point to them.
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Father, I declare, and I believe as they're believing for
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a crazy faith building.
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Pastor Orlando and his wife.
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I believe they came with seventeen people in faith. And today, Father,
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I declare, and I believe, Father God, that you are
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about to move mountains for this church and the name.
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I need y'all to pray.
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We're standing in a miracle right now. I pray, Father God,
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that you would move everything that needs to be moved
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for them to walk into that school. And Father, not
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just enough, but more than enough. In the name of Jesus,
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I thank you that it's only crazy until that happens.
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And Father, I thank you for an impartation of faith.
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We declare and we believe, Father God, that eyes have
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not seen, the ears have not heard, and neither has
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it entered into the hearts of man, the things you
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have planned, Father God, for faith Walker's Church.
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We declare it, we believe it, and we thank you.
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This moment happens in service.
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What most people don't know is the night before my
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wife sent me to the mall on a missions trip
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to get mad I don't go to the mall, un listen,
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I have a mission, and I went for a missions
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trip at eight thirty to get one of my kids
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a piece of technology. I had no reason to be
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in the mall on Saturday night, and I run into
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this group of people in the mall on Saturday night.
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You can see it in the middle of the mall.
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Right here, we begin to have a prayer service in
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the middle of Woodland Hills mall. People are stopping. He said, Pastor,
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we're coming to church tomorrow. You don't know me from anybody,
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but I just want to let you know we came
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to sit under the same grace that caused this miracle
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to happen here, and right there in the mall we prayed.
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And once we prayed in the mall, then they came
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to church and we prayed for them again.
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And then they went back to Kansas.
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As they were believing God for a certain building. It
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came up to the day where the building was about
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to be auctioned off by the city. And literally there
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were four people in the running and God brought this
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whole thing together for them to get here and them
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to award the building to an apartment complex. Kassa, Mike,
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why are you telling this story because I need you
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to know when it doesn't happen how you think it
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should happen, it doesn't mean that God has not stopped working.
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This building that they were gonna go into was going
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to cause them to have to have hundreds of thousands
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of dollars worth of renovation, but they had faith to
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believe God. Well, two weeks later, they got a call
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from the church that they had been partnering with to
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use their facility in the afternoon, and the pastor said,
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God is transitioning me to another place.
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So we've talked to the board of elders.
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And we just did a brand new renovation and we
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want to give you the building that you have been We.
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Want to give you and everything that's in it.
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Y'all don't know when a shop, but God did more
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than they could even believe.
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Hey, the story's not over.
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So the building that they've been partnering with somebody to
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be in, it's now their building. They left all the
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children's equipment, all the technology, redid the bathrooms.
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Y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
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So I facetimed Pastor Orlando, and I said, God is
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not just good, He's also kind because the blessing of
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the Lord maketh rich. But Addath knows if they would
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have got the other building they were believing for the
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pressure of trying to outfit it, they wouldn't have been
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able to be in there until some years later. But
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they have their first service in their new building May seventeenth.
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Can we shut in the shop.
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With the voice of trust? Prayer? Worse? Now?
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You know it just a little crazier than that.
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Because this church is transitioning. The pastor on the board
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of elders said, we want the investment of the people
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who have been in this church to stay in this city.
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So we're not just giving you the building. We're giving
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you the church account. Chaddy, We're giving you the church
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account and every bit of money that was in it. Y'all,
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don't hear me.
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Eyes have not seen, tears, have not heard the good.
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Things that God has planned for you. It's only crazy
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until it happens. Prayer works. So today we just wanted
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to celebrate with this amazing church.
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And since y'all are getting a.
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Brand new account, I would just like you to know
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we're in a series talking about financial stewardship, generosity, and abundance,
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and because of the faithfulness of the people here at
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Transformation churching around the world. I just wanted to let
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Pastor Orlando and Adriaan know you can tell your church
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on May seventeenth.
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The account's gonna be full.
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I need y'all to shout with me because on the
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behalf of God and the generosity faith Walkers outreach. There's
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a check for one hundred thousand dollars coming to your church.
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To God, how dare you to shout and rejoice?
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This is the Church, this is the Kingdom, this is
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the body of Christ, And it's only crazy until it happens.
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Y'all better not let this become normal. Y'all, better not
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let this become normal. This is a miracle of God's faithfulness.
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And look at your neighbor and say, it's just the beginning, y'all,
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and it's crazy right now.
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It's just the beginning. It's just the beginning. Some of
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you are going to be able to do that personally.
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I don't know where the faith is in the room,
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but some of y'all are about to be able to
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do that personally. Past some Mike, why are you even
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saying that? Because somebody can? Why not us abbe will?
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Why can't God let us see a need to meet
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an needing? Hows some Mike, why are you talking about this?
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Because brentam we are joint heirs with Christ, and until
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we individually can live our lives in abundance, we always
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live our lives in need. But I believe the tide
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is shifting. Somebody say, suddenly you missed it. Okay, the
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message has already started, y'all say suddenly toss Some mike,
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why are you saying this? Because I remember being a
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church y'all always thought transformation was like this, y'all don't
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realize when we were in in fifteen nineteen, in twenty fifteen,
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and literally we were sitting there believing God for a
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new camera system, Like we were believing God that we
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could pay the employees. We were believing God that we
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could clean the carpet. Y'all don't understand the miracle working
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power of God.
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Darren, you remember where we was at. Some of y'all was.
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There when we was like, this is impossible with man,
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but with God.
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And it was in a series just like this where
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I was teaching about.
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Stewardship, generosity, and a blessed life in abundance. And let
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me be clear to you, I had not fully embraced
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the truths that I needed to teach. Oh, can I
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be real? You know when you know something but you ain't.
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Lived it yet. And so I had the humility.
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To tell my church guys, I know this is what
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we need, but I don't.
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Got it yet fully.
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So I'm going to sit here with you every Sunday
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and we're gonna watch another man of God in another church.
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By video until we all get this. Mamma am.
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I telling the truth. And for two years I sat
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on the front row with my church, and I took
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notes and I said, God, one day, would you please
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allow me to live in the abundant life that you
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called me to live, not just financially, but in my relationships,
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in my health, in my spirits. And we learned as
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a church, and we gave a seed to the other
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churches in North Tulsa of eight three hundred dollars church.
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I want to let you know you were sitting in
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the benefit or the fruit of about three hundred people's
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faith who took the little that we did have and
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put seed in the ground.
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That one hundred thousand dollars we just gave away is
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a fruit of the seed.
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Tysaboke, what are you trying to teach me? It's not
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where you start, and it's not what you have now,
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it's what you will do with what God has placed
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in your hands. And today I am for the next
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six weeks going to chip away at all mindsets of
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greed and all mindsets of poverty that have literally bombarded
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people's mind And you may not call it greed, and
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you may not call it poverty. You can call it
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whatever you want. But whenever God gives you something, it
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stays with you. You are not a river, You're a reservoir.
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Everything that comes to you stays with you. And God says,
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I need something to pass through you. And until you
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get a heart and a mode of the generosity, until
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you get out of survivor mode, until you start thriving,
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you never get to embrace the principles of God.
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And so today, Church, I'm not just gonna shout with you.
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I'm gonna teach you.
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Is it okay if I teach you today, Church, Okay,
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get out your note past. I feel the presence of God, Charles.
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This thing about to go crazy. Okay, Oh, thank you Jesus.
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I get excited because I know somebody's mind is gonna
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shift today. Every time I get up here, I'm not
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getting up here to talk.
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I'm getting up here.
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To share what I believe God shared with me. So
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I'm just a messenger. So I'm just telling you what
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I'm about to say today. Don't get mad at me
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because I'm just a what messenger? Talk to him about
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what he told me to tell you. I don't know
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why he told me to tell you this, but you
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need it. And so today I believe, as we are
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in week two of a series we are calling six figures.
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And my daughter asked me earlier. She was like, Dad,
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what's six figures? And I said, well, six figures is
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the amount of money that has a one and five
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zeros behind it. And she was like, what does that mean.
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I was like, it just means you got a little
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bit of paper.
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And she was like, well, what do you mean by
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the series six figures?
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I said, a lot of people are trying to reach
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that one with five zeros behind it. But I believe money,
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if not put in the right frame, can corrupt people,
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no matter if it's six, seven, eight figures.
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You need to have the figures.
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That God wants to give you as principles to grow
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your faith, because the Bible tells us there is only
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one thing that can be compared.
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To God, and it's money.
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And you're saying, oh, no, no, no, no, no, only
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my God. But for many of us, all of us,
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at some point or another have said either I need
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God to come through or I need some more money. Okay,
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where's my church today? We're a humble, opening, transparent church.
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Has anybody ever thought said out loud or wrote down
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in your journey either I need God to come through,
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or I need some more money. The truth of the
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matter is if God does come through, or if you
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do have the money, you still need God to come through.
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And so this is why I want to teach these
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principles that are going to help us walk in to
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watch this balance grace and truth. I want everybody to
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understand what I'm teaching this whole series. This is going
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to be filled with grace, but it's also going to
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be filled with truth, because that's the only way that
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you transform. Okay, So as we move, I want to
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go to our anchor scripture John ten Ten. It says
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the thief does not come except to do what still
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kill and destory.
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But this is Jesus talking.
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He said, but I have come that you would have life,
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say it big life.
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And that you may have life more abundantly.
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Another translation says, I want you to have life to the.
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I don't know about you.
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But I like drinking cups of juice that are full. Now.
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I don't know about you, but when I pour my own.
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Juice, I like to have to sip off the top
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just a little bit to make sure it doesn't feel
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y'all know what I'm talking about. Y'all know what I'm
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talking about. Where you got ah, that's how you know?
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It's Does your life look like that?
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Do your relationships look like?
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Hold on? This thing is so full that I gotta
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take a little off the top before I move it.
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What if that was the picture of how God wants
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all the things in your life abundant? And when I
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say abundant, I need you to hear what I'm talking about.
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This is God's desire and design for you. Matter of fact,
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write that down. God desires for me to live an
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abundant life. Some of you don't believe it, and by
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the end of the series, I believe you will because
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it's going to be sown in God's word and it's
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going to be lived out in examples that you see.
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But God's desire for me and my family is to
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live in an abundant life. And when I talk about abundantly,
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let me give you definition. Abundantly means God's overflowing grace,
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spiritual fullness, material.
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Provision, and generosity.
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Sometimes I'm like, why are you talking about money? Because
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you care about it and it makes a lot of
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people watch this disobey God. Part of a lot of
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people's issue is not fornication. A lot of y'all issue
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is not lying. A lot of your issue is stealing.
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And I'm not talking about from the bank.
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They get theirs and I'm not talking for your car payment.
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They get theirs too.
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Matter of fact, y'all got it on automatic. Don't even
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Uncle Sam, He don't even ask you. Yep. But the
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reason God doesn't take anything from you is because he's
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a gentleman. He don't want it if you don't want
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to give it, even if it's connected to the promises
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of Him rebuking the devourer, the enemy and literally opening
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up the windows of heaven. But most people don't understand
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the principle. And let me say this very clear. You
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don't ever have to give an offering to this church.
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I want you to know that this principle is not
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about transformation church. This principle is about being a child
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of God. Whatever church you feel submitted to, whatever organization
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you feel is the place where you get fed. I'm
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telling you to work this principle there. This is not
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about me. This is about you, This is not about.
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TC, this is about your family.
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If you work the promises of God, God's.
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Promises work.
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Okay, this church is doing fine financially. We have people
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that have literally made it their job to honor God
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with their resources. So I'm not teaching this because the
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church needs money. I'm teaching this because you need an
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abundant life. And I wish somebody would have told me
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when I was frivolously spending resources on things that were
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feeding my insecurity and not eternity. I didn't even know it.
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I was buying things to make me feel better and
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vain ambitions around things because my confidence was low and
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I didn't know who I was in Christ and I
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was trying to wear chains.
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And I remember buying.
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The dumbest purchase of my life the first time I
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got paid for producing music from Wayman Tisdale. I got
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a sizable check at eighteen years old. And the first
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thing that I did is I went to CA's Jewelers.
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I'm telling on myself, and I bought a diamond. I'm
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so embarrassed about a I'm a necklace that literally the
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diamonds were so small in it or whatever those things were.
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And I paid this amount of money and I looked
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at that years later and I said, Michael, you were
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walking in ignorance. You just didn't have understanding of the
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promises of God. And what I want to provide for
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you today is another pillar in the abundant life that
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God has designed for you. Okay, so this is what
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I want to tell everybody. I brought this for you today,
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and I want you to go online and fill it out.
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This right here is called a permission slip, and some
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of y'all haven't had to use one of these for
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yourselves in many years. But today I'm giving you permission
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to prosper. I want you to know that this is
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God's promise for you. I wrote my name on it,
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I wrote all the things in and I want you
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to know that you have permission. Somebody say I have
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permission to prosper. We learned it last week and if
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you haven't watched the message, you need to go back.
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But I want to give you a scripture.
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In third John, it says, I beloved, I pray that
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you may prosper in all things and be in health,
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just as your soul prospers.
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You have permission to prosper.
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But do you know what I found in Deuteronomy chapter eight,
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verse eighteen. I found something else. You have permission to do.
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Look at the scripture. But remember the Lord your God,
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for it is he who gives.
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You the ability to.
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Produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant which he swore
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to your ancestors as it is today, Hasabich, what are.
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You trying to tell me?
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You don't just have permission to prosper, You have permission
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to produce. I'm telling you right now that there are
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things that God is requiring of you that you have
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not thought were a part of the call He's placed
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on your life.
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And today I'm telling.
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You we're not waiting on anybody else to do what
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God plays on the inside of us. You have permission
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to produce. Let's break this scripture down because a lot
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of people don't understand that God gives us the ability
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to produce wealth. So this, if we extract the truth
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out of it, a couple of things come out. God
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gives ability.
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God never gives wealth.
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Did y'all hear what I just said? You can pray
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for wealth.
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He never gives you wealth. He only gives you ability.
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Y'all saw it in the scripture, right, God and It's
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generous nature gives us the ability to produce Well, Okay,
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I want to put it on the screen. Let me
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put it in a matrix for you.
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It's ability.
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It's wealth on the other side ability, and then there's
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wealth on the other side.
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There's something that has to be in the middle.
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What is the missing ingredient between ability and wealth? What'd
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you say? Work? I think somebody has got it that
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between the ability and the wealth, you must it's spiritual,
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it's godly, it's his design you.
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Have to work. And most people think that this.
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Is a punishment. Oh, come on, since you were young.
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Oh my god, I'm gonna do this work. When am
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I going to be able to not work? Some of
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y'all have bought into the American dream that at some
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point you're supposed to retire from your work, and and
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I understand because you might have got the definition wrong.
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But today I'm going to explain to you how work
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is holy and if you're gonna live an abundant life,
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you might need to change your perspective on work because
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it's something that has been with humanity since the garden.
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Work came before prayer. Work in the Bible came before
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healing work. Y'all don't wanna, y'all, don't wanna y'all don't
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want to talk about it.
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Work came before worship.
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Nobody was singing songs, but work was a form of worship.
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So I want to help.
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You today frame your mind because ability, I need you
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to hear this is actually the power.
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That God gives you.
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So the gifting that you have, the thing that God's
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placed in you, that's power.
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And then after he gives.
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You power over here at the end, he gives you
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the ability to produce.
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But what we gotta fix is the perspective.
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If work is a punishment, if work is something you
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have to endure, if work is something that you can't stand,
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you will cut off the promise of God of living
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an abundant life. And I know this is going to
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frustrate some people because you wanted to come and hear
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something about your blessing and your greatness and how God's
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gonna heal you. And this might be the word you
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need because if you want to live a life that's full,
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you have to understand that God never gives the end
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result without you, you participating. All right, I'm gonna have
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to tread lightly. I need you to understand. Perspective is
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so important. I remember the story, y'all remember that story
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in the Bible whereas the woman at the well and
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God met her and he told her all the things
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that she was doing, and she said, even the man
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you we're right now, ain't even your husband.
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She was like, oh my God, how did you know?
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And then he said, if you drink from me, I'm
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gonna give you water that never run's dry. And people
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was mad because there was like, she's a different ethnicity
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than you. And God was healing, racial reconciliation, healing her mind.
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He was doing a lot right there. And if people
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don't get.
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One of the strongest parts of the story was she
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went back into the town to tell everybody as an evangelist, Yo,
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I met a man, come see a man named Jesus
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who changed my life. And guess who was mad about
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the whole thing? The disciples, the church people, the people
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who prayed and knew God. They first was like, why
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were we even talking to her? She votes differently than us, Okay,
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why are we talking to her?
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She listens to music we don't listen to.
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She goes, she eats others like, and Jesus is like,
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y'all being petty, But look what Jesus said in Matthew
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chapter nine, he said, when Jesus saw the crowds that
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were now coming because of the testimony of this one woman,
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they all knew her past, and now these people are
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coming to Jesus. It says he had compassion on them
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because the people who were coming were confused and helpless,
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like she without a shepherd watched the perspective. He said
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to the disciples who had the wrong idea of work,
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the harvest is great, but the workers are few. He
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didn't say the prayer warriors, he didn't say, the worshippers.
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He did not say.
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He said, I'm about to bring a harvest, and y'all
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seeing it wrong.
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You see all those people.
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I'm about to bring the greatest harvest this place has
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ever seen. And what I can't find is nobody to work.
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I don't need praise dancers, I don't need interourbagers. I
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need workers. Okay. And the disciples who had walked with
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him had the wrong idea of work. He was trying
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to change their perspective around work. He said, So pray
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to the Lord. He said, if you want to pray,
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pray this. Pray to the Lord who's in charge of
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the harvest and ask him not to send more money,
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send more What if the key to our city being
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saved is not more airtime, not more followers, not more plans.
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What if it was just more workers. I'll go where
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you want me to go. I'll say what you want
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me to say. I'll be embarrassed for the cause of Christ.
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I'll be the.
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One in this place to do the excellent thing and
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be able to get noticed, not because I abo showed
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because I did good work. Okay, y'all. The reason you're
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supposed to be the best at the place that you
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are employed right now is because your work could be
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assigned to people of worship.
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Yet you come in ten.
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Minutes late and leaving fifteen minutes early. If the only
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thing God can judge you by is your work, how
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would you grade? Okay, Okay, I need everybody to stay
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with me. I'll see some people getting mad and get
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flipping me off, so watch this state.
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Stay with me.
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The reason why some of you have been lost up
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until this point in the message is because your definition
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of work is conflicted with your definition of job. Today,
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I need to clarify for you that your work and
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your job are separate. They're two different things. And I'm
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telling you the revelation that I'm about to share. I
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need you to go over it several times until this
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sinks down in your soul because what we find out
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is what most people are experienced right now. The title
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of my message is, this job isn't working. How many
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people I have ever said that? How many people I've
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ever had a job and you went to that job
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and say, you.
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Know what, this job.
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Is not working. The subtitle is so special what to
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do when purpose isn't paying? Oh, I'm about to teach
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you today. Some of y'all are at a job right
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now that's not working, and some of y'all are working
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a job that ain't jobbing.
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Y'all hear what I'm saying.
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It ain't enough money coming from that job to even
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be a cunconsidered a job.
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This is a hobby. But this job isn't working.
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And the reason I have to talk to you about
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this because God his will for your life is for
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you to work what He places in you. But you
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got to understand the difference between work and a job.
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So I'm about to give it to you. Write every
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single thing that I'm about to say down, please. Your
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work and your job are separate. Your work and your
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job are what.
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They're different. This is separate things.
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This is not This is not a all in one package.
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When you live in this life, most of us are
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going to have to work, our work and our job
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postor Mike, Can you help me a little bit? Yes,
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I can help you just a little bit more. Let
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me give you a definition. Your job is what you
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do for pay. Your work is what you do for purpose.
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I'm gonna say it again, and I'm gonna say it's slow.
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Your job is what you do for pay. It's best by.
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It's you being a lawyer, it's you actually selling things
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on Amazon. It's you going and doing the lawn service.
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It's you making music and selling that music. It's what
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you do for pay. Your work is what you do
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for purpose.
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Does everybody hear me?
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Because this is important for you to understand. Every time
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I say work, from now on, I'm talking about your purpose.
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Every time I say your job, I'm talking about your paycheck.
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Does everybody got me? Okay, let's go a little further.
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Your work can be your job.
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And if your work is your job, let me tell
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you something that's special, that is not usual, that is
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not required, that is not a sign that God is
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with you. Okay, you're not better if your work and
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your job are the same. I am blessed that my
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work to minister the Gospel and to share it with
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people is intertwined with my job.
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I get a paycheck from this church.
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But when I stop being the pastor of Transformation Church,
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my job will change, but my work won't. I will
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still be responsible for representing God to the lost and
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found for transformation in Christ while I deliver your Amazon packages.
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Y'all. Don't hear me, y'all, don't hear me. I will
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be the most jolly dan sin.
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You'll see me on your ring camera. Today's gonna be
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a good day.
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Here's your new brawls like.
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I'm that's gonna be me.
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Hey, Susan, good to.
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See you the lawless right.
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That's gonna be me.
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Y'all. Hear what I'm saying, though, because my job may change,
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but my work will be the same. And some of
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you right now are frustrated because God has not made
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your job and your work's synonymous. You're mad at God
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and you don't want to do your work, and you
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don't want to do that job because it's not doing
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the same thing for you right now, Okay, so the
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principle here is if you're working, your job are the same.
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If you get paid to do what your purpose to do,
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that is just special.
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Thank God for it. Enjoy the season while it lasts.
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But do not think that somehow you are better or
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more called that you have somehow entered the special favorite
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club of God if you.
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Get paid to do what your purpose to do.
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So let's go. Your work and your job are different.
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Job is what you do for pay. Work is what
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you do for purpose.
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Your work can.
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Be a job, but watch this one. Your job can
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pay so you can do your work. Some of you
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have to have a job that pays so you can
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have the space to do the work God's called you
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to do. Some of you need to stop despising God's
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provision for you that job where you get paid more
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than you're qualified for. You know you shouldn't have a job,
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but Chad GBT really helped your resume, and somehow you
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got in that position and God provided for you that
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amounts you've never made before. But somehow you're still ungrateful
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to get up and do that every day, and you're
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so drained and so frustrated and so mad.
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And God said, you better stop counting my.
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Provision as something that you have to endure, because we
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can switch this thing all the way up. Okay, I'm trying.
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To give you the right perspective.
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Your job, the thing you get paid for many times,
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is the thing that God gives you so you can
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do your work. If you're called to the homeless ministry,
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how are you gonna pay for the sandwiches and so
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many people I'm winning on somebody to give me a donation.
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You could pay for it if you work your job. Well,
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I feel called.
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At risk you.
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How are you going to help them unless you become
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the best at this provision source that God gave me.
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This doesn't define me. That's why I can work any job.
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That's why a title doesn't define me, because I know
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this job is just helping serve my purpose.
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This job is helping me do the thing. You can
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say whatever you want that I.
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Work a second job at McDonald's, but the money I
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receive here is going to help somebody that is in need.
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Call me what you won't say what you want about me,
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But this job is a blessing so that I can
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do my work. And there are too many believers that
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are not doing the work that God has called them
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to do, that they've purpose to do, because they're waiting
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for somebody else to provide for them. But the Bible
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says that God gives us the ability to produce wealth, and.
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The missing link is work.
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Okay, here we go. Your job can pay you so
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that you can do your work.
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But watch this.
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If you do your work well, somebody will pay you
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to do your work.
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Did y'all hear what I just said?
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So the thing that your purpose to do if you
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get watch this the principle skilled, somebody will pay you
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to do what your purpose to Can I say something
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to you very truthfully, most believers aren't good enough in
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their actual work to be paid to do it. The
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Spirit is not helping you do a better job. He's
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helping you actually sit down and study. He's leading you
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to the truth. But you gotta read steal on purpose
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to be a singer, But you don't know how to
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sing on key. So the reason we're not paying you
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to be on the praise and worship team, it's because
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you can't sing and you're mad that you're still working
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at Costco and you're singing there and there's a few
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customers that tell.
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You you have a great voice. They haven't heard you
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at full volume. Come on, y'all.
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The truth is somebody should tell you in love you're
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not good, and maybe you're good for your family's talent.
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Show every all Auntie Jean, Oh my god, girl, you
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need to record that. She can listen to that. But
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until you get more skilled, stop believing that somebody's going
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to pay you to do your work. When your work's
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not good, you're not And I just wish we would
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be honest. There are people walking around that think they're
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good at things that they're not good at.
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And it's watch this.
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Not that you can't get good, but if you want
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to get good, guess what you're gonna have to do.
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And you're allergic to it. Ooh ooh, that's too much.
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We shouldn't have We shouldn't have to do all of that.
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That's a lot of time. If any of those things
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are phrases that you go to, especially.
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When you see somebody else working. Mmm, that's a lot really.
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Because anybody that works knows what work produces. Work produces
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everything everybody wants, but it requires what barely anybody will do. Kay,
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all right, right, Okay, here we go. Even if you
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don't need a job, you still need work. I pray
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as your pastor that one day you do not need
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to go to a job to pay your bills. Somebody
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should say a man, somebody, Okay, I don't know. I'm
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praying as your pastor that one day you have resources
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coming in residually, you make an invention, that somebody buys,
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that somebody leaves you an inheritance. Somebody needs to be
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like I'm praying that you get in a carcident with
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the right person. I know I'm not in mind listen,
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discresch happen. But what I'm.
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Saying is y'all knowing, ah mynn, I just.
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Ain't nothing like getting a carts desert with the person.
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I ain't got no insurance that it's horrible, get off
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the road. I know that was me anyway, only he
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can do that.
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He redeemed me.
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Oh, what I'm saying is, I'm praying. Listen to this
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very closely. I'm praying that sometime in your life, sooner
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than later, you don't need a job. But what many
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of you heard me saying is that you're not gonna
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have to work. And what I'm telling you to do,
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even if you don't need to go to that place
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for pay, you will still need to wake up every
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day and seek the Father of what you're supposed to
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do for your purpose. This is revelation, y'all. Okay, So
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this is the last thing that I need you to
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understand that principle. If you don't need a job, you
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still need work.
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That's scripture, kay.
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I want you to know this is not something I'm
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just making up, and you.
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Can be called to work and still need a job.
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I just want you to realize that it's okay that
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you have to end this world right now that was
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actually perfect at one moment and then Sin entered them
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and then we all had.
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To get jobs.
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I'll show you in a scripture in just a second,
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because y'all don't think it's there, and it's so there.
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I want you to know it's okay to have to
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do both to be able to make sure that you
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do what God has purposed in your heart to do.
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What if nobody's gonna pay for the book that you
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have to write, will you die with that on the
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inside of you and seventy pair of heels. Your book
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is literally sitting in your closet with shoes and purses
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and leggings you don't wear.
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But y'all, oh my.
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Gosh, and you're saying, God, I can't do what you
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asked me to do.
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And he said, yes, you can if you understand.
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This is your work, and this is your job.
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All right.
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I got to give a more scripture. You need proof
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Genesis two, verse fifteen. I love the word of God.
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This is in the beginning. This is just adam. It said,
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the Lord God took the man and put him in
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the garden. Who put him in the garden? The Lord
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put him in the garden, he said, He put him
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in eating too.
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He didn't put him.
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In the garden to pray.
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He didn't put him in the garden to worship. He
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didn't put he said, he put him in the garden to.
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Not rest, not take a break, not have a mental
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health day. We're weaponizing things that are supposed to help
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us in a season to be the thing that we
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can't do.
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The work he called it.
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He put mankind in the garden to say work. He said,
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work it and that means, I think you could do
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it a little dance. Hey, he said, work it and
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take care of it. Now that the Lord God had formed
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out of the ground the wild animals and all the
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birds in the sky, he brought them to the man
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to see what.
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The man would name them. And whatever the.
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Man called each living creature, that was its name.
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So the man gave names to all the livestock.
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This was his work, the birds in the sky and
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all the wild animals. But for Adam there was no
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suitable helper that was found. Everybody goes to the relationship part,
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they're like, oh, that's what it is. Because he needed
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a helper before a relationship.
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God gave work.
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Fellas, I want a battie.
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You need to.
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I was about to go crazy.
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You need to work.
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Before everything else that you're doing. I'm fining at your
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hobbyist video games. I'm fine that your hobbyist pickaball. I'm
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fine at your but you should not be doing that more. Well,
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you don't know what I'll do. You don't know. You
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know every stat of lebron in the last sixteen seasons,
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and you arguing down somebody else's purpose and have no
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idea what God says about you, you dying on the
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heel of Lebron or Michael Jordan, And ladies, don't think
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I forgot about you. You got every shade of lip gloss,
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you know how to.
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Put in hair extensions.
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You know what eyebrow person will get your eyebrows perfectly right,
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and then take I'm not saying any of those things
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are bad. What I am saying is is it making
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your work be sacrificed. Okay, So let me give you
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three truths about work that we see right here in
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Genesis chapter two. Oh God, I feel your presence right now.
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Revelation is happening to people right now. The truth about work, Okay,
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God work.
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In this.
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Scripture, Adam was not searching for what to do. It
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literally said, God produced the animals, the life, starck, the
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bird out of the ground. Watch this. And Adam was
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placed in Eden, which lets me know when God purpose
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is something for you, there will be evidence by just
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your environment of what you're supposed to be doing.
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I'm purpose to create music. So there was evidence.
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From prophetic words to natural giftings to the way I hear.
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There was evidence in my environment.
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That it was like, man, I'm gifted to this is
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part of my purpose. I didn't get paid to do
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that for twenty five years, So did it make it
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less purpose?
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No, it just meant I needed to know what to
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do to be able to pay a car payment.
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Until my purpose started paying me. Okay, God, So God
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purposes work.
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It was part of the plan the whole time.
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Watch this. Let me just say it like this number two,
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and God provides work. Y'all didn't see it.
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It said God brought all.
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The animals to Adam. Adam wasn't out there trying to
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wrangle zebras. God brought the zebras to him, which means
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it's not your purpose if you have to chase it.
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Some of y'all are chasing stuff that is not a
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part of your purpose. Well, I want to be a
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pastor and I want to do this, and I want
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to be a billionaire and I want to.
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Be an entrepreneur. And God said, I ain't ask you
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to do all that.
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If you would stay in my face and know that
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I'll put you in the right environment even if it's
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not time yet, and I'll bring the work to you.
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Why did they ask me to oversee this little project?
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God's trying to reveal purpose to you. He's trying to
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bring you in, said, I don't even like people. He's
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trying to get you. Do y'all know how many things
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that are not natural that you're still purpose to do.
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It Being natural doesn't mean that it's the thing God
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requires you to learn and develop even to become what
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He's called you to be. I need you to listen
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to me, y'all.
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I'm telling you right now that part of.
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The problem with the Body of Christ is if it's
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not natural, we don't think it's God. But do you
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know how many skills I had to develop to lead
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this church? God called me to be the pastor, but
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he knew I was dumb?
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Okay, I was dumb. Wat's this and willing? I was
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dumb and humble. Let me say it better, because y'all can.
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I was ignorant in a lot of things, but I
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knew that if God gave me an opportunity, I would
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be enlightened. But I am not who I was, and
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I cannot be who I am to go to where
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He wants.
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Me to go. I still have to become.
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And what if I told you that everything that God
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promised you is on the other side of a different
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version of you. But the only way you get it
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is through so God purposes work. God provides work, you
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know what. I even see this in a lot of
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other people's lives, Like David never gets called to the
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palace if he was not working the field as a shepherd,
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never meets Goliath if he's not working when nobody looking. Okay,
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I just want to drop it for you. I'm gonna
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just keep moving.
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No, I can't.
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God's tendency is to pick people who have jobs and
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he calls them to work.
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Can I prove with you?
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You remember the first Disciples when he meets them there
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out on a bird they fished all night.
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The professional fish they had jop.
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This makes you know that there's something that God see
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when somebody is disciplined enough to do the job. He says,
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they've learned disciplined there, they've learned consistency there, they've actually.
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Learned to be submitted to authority.
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They've they've learned teamwork and and and and actual unity.
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They've learned following a plan. I'm looking for somebody that
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has a job and he calls them boys offered their
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job into their Okay, all I'm saying is Judas was
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a treasurer.
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He had a job before he stole from Jesus.
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Peter and Andrew, and James and John were fishermen professional.
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Matthew was a tax collector.
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Paul was a tent maker. God has a tendency to
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choose people who've been faithful on there.
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Because many times your development starts on your job and
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it overflows to your work.
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Oh God, okay, last thing I want to tell you
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about work. Three truths about work.
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I told you, okay. Last one is God personalizes work.
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He doesn't make you do it how everybody else would
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do it. He literally says that He calls all the
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animals to Adam and says to him, call it what
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you want. Adam was like, uh okay, h a rye rhinocerosts. Yeah,
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you're right now, said okay, what's this one? No a platypus, Adam,
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what about this one? Make that a hammer head shark,
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hammer head shock? And what about this one? An otdor.
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I need you to understand that God was proud of
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Adam's personality. He did not call him to do it
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in a certain way. He said, if you work, you
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can work it with your flair on it, with your
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DNA on it, with your ideas on it, with your
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creativity on it.
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Work it the way I called you to work it.
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I think in heaven, Missy Elliott was playing flip.
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It at my first set.
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Let me work it. Do you hear what I'm saying?
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I just need somebody to understand. He said, you can
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do it you way, but you still gotta do my work.
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Do my work your way. Oh my god, that's why
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I don't preach like other people, because this is the
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work I've been told to and I gotta do his
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work my way. Y'all. Gotta hear me. You want something else,
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go today work, but this right here is my swag, y'all. Okay,
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let me.
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I'm feeling my health coming home, all.
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Right, don't feel Bloxtand because the work has a different tone,
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a different dynamic, there's somebody that needs the work the
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way God.
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Gave it to you.
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And just because everybody doesn't accept it yet.
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Doesn't mean it's not the work he gave you. How
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I gotta get out of here? Is this helping anybody
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right now?
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Your work is what you are purposed for. Your job
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is what you get paid for. Okay, so write this down.
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I'm about to do a scripture mashup. It is impossible
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to please God without what faith?
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Somebody said work? Read your Bible.
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Ah, it is impossible to please God without faith.
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Okay. Then there's another scripture.
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That says faith without works is dead. I'm about to
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put this thing together before you, so that means your
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faith takes work. There's another scripture says that it is
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impossible to please God without faith. So watch this.
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Pleasing God takes faith.
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So the end statement I want you to know is
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your work pleases God. It's impossible to please God without faith.
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Faith without works is dead. Your faith takes work. Pleasing
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God takes faith, So your work pleases God. What if
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your greatest worship song was how you worked? What if
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God hears how you produce what he called you to
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as the greatest Hallelujah you've ever sung. What if he
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doesn't hear us just screaming my miracles on the way.
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What if he sees your work is excellent?
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Has some Mike? I need some more SCRIPTU for this
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because this is very hard for me to understand, because
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I don't really know if I'm supposed to be working
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or if I'm supposed to be you know what I'm saying,
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waiting on the Lord Colossians three twenty three. Whatever you do,
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work heartily with your whole heart, as unto the Lord,
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and not for men. You no longer work for your boss,
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You work for God. Oh gosh, so many of us
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are giving poor performance to the thing God's called us
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to do, the thing He's purposed us to do, because.
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Of who else is attached to it.
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And God says, they just there because I'm working on them.
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It's above them. You do everything you do as unto
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me Proverb sixteen to three.
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Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will
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be established. Your plan is not working because your work
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is not submitted. Well, I just got this plan that
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by this time I'll be out of debt. And God's
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I said, you have not committed and submitted your work
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to me First Corinthians ten thirty one. So whatever you
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eat or drink, that means whatever you do, do it.
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All for the glory of God.
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Whatever you do includes your work. Proverbs eighteen nine. I
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like this, when you've listened to me, whoever is slack
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in his work.
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Gets destroyed.
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Like I need everybody to hear me say this. Your
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work will lead you to the enemy's playground of idle time.
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The times where I was most distracted, I was unaware
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or I was avoiding work. The thing that I knew
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God was telling me to do, I was not doing it.
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That's how I found pornography.
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The reason I found those friends is because there was
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work to be done, but I didn't feel like it
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took all of that to do to work or I
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had to come to another level and things found me
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that I had to fight off because I will not
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in the place that I needed to be to do work.
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Some of you are scrolling so much, are watching so
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many episodes of TV, are watching so many series that
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you are avoiding the work that God has called you.
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If he could just get the hours watch this that
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you stay entertained. God could do a work on this
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earth that he wouldn't need anybody else to actually come
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help with. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
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I'm glad you know how paradise ends. But what will
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the books record in paradise when you stand before him?
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Oh you need scripture for that.
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Revelations twenty twelve.
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You I came locked in load. Today.
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I give you everything all God, And this is the
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revelation John saw, and I saw the dead small and
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great standing before God. And books were opened, and another
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book was opened.
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Which is the book of life. And this is why
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he came in John ten ten.
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That we might have life and life to the full.
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And there's a book of life in heaven. And the
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dead were judged according to their works, by the things
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which were written in the book. When God places a
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purpose in you and he tells you to work it,
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he's recording every time in heaven in a book. When
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you do the work and when you get to heaven,
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he is not going to judge you on intention. He's
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not going to judge you on ideas. He's not going
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to judge you on what you was a b out
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to do when you got a little more money. Did
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you work what I gave you? Well, I only had
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two friends. Did you convince them two friends to roll
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with you to what God I talked? What did you
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do with what I gave you? I don't care what
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they have, what do you have? This is not about comparison. Well,
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if we were a church that had millions of dollars
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we would give to you, got four dollars, give four.
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He's not judging you compared to anybody, but he is saying, will.
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You work what's in your hand.
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You can find this in the story of Talent to one,
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he gave one, to one, he gave two, so another,
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he gave five. All he was looking for was for
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them to all work it. And the one with one said,
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I knew you were a hard master. He said, you
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don't even know me like that. Well, I dug it,
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and I hid it, and I hid my gifts, and
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I hid my ability, and I hid my faith, and
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I hid the courage, and I hid the thing that
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I could have done, and it could have failed, but
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it could.
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Have hit, and it could have expand it.
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I hid that thing, and God said, ah, give it here. No,
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I'm telling y'all the piper. He didn't say, oh, can
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you get enough chance? He said, give it to me.
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I'm gonna give it to somebody who'll.
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Work it all right.
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Tewod Thessalonians three ten. It says those who are unwilling
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to work, don't eat. Some of y'all are eating too
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much with no work. We'll just leave it right there.
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So Adam.
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Everybody, so Adam in the garden. He gets work before
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he gets a wife. Okay, but then once he gets
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a wife, he gets a job. And everybody know, once
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you get a wife, you better have a job. I'm
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gonna I'm making fun of it, but I want you
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to see it. Genesis three seventeen. A serpent comes to
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trick them. They eat the fruit. Sin enters into the equation.
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Work was not a part of the fall. Work was
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before the fall. A job was after the fall. Do
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y'all hear what I'm saying. Nobody told me this. Nobody
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told me this. If you want to live an abundant life,
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there is going to be in a component where I
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got a work and I may need a job. And
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it's because of this sin filled world that we live
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in that a job is actually not a curse. It's
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actually a position of God's provision for us.
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Okay, let me just go.
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To the scripture Genesis, chapter three, verse seventeen. In chapter two,
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he had work. In chapter three, he gets a job
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watching and the man he said, and he said to
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the man, since you listen to your wife and ate
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from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat.
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The ground is cursed because of you. Let me just
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say this for all of the men that are watching this.
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It was not Eve's fault. Is Adam's fault. I'm gonna
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just say it real quick. Is this woman you gave me?
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That was a sorry excuse that men are still making
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to this day.
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You didn't have to eat that.
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That's why the man is supposed to lead his household.
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And if your wife gives you something, you say, baby, no,
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this is not what we do, and then we go
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to God. God, she ate it, and I'm asking to
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be the sacrifice for us.
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You missed it.
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That's what Jesus had to do. He went to the
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cross for his bride when we messed up. Do you
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understand if Adam would have winner?
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Said? God, who messed up? And give me the punishment?
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Y'all not ready for this, So I just want everybody.
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Else se he is you?
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No, it's you.
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Okay, let me stop, he said, now, because y'all both
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messed up.
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The ground is cursed all your life.
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You will struggle to scratch a living from it. Isn't
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it funny that we even still use the term make
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a living? He said? It will be a struggle to
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make a living because you let sin in. It says
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it will grow thorns and thistles, which means your work
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can hurt you, though you will eat of its.
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Grain, so it still will produce.
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By the sweat of your brow, you will have food
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to eat until you return to the ground from which
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you were made. For you were made from dust, and
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to dust you will return. Let me give you three
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truths about a job. It includes sweat. I'm just telling
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you right now. You might as well be willing to
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sweat out your edges. You might as well be willing
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to use deodorant. You might as well be willing because
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because to have a job, it's going to require something.
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Let me say it a different way. Let me say
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a churchy a sacrifice. I gotta get up at five
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am to get the kids ready, to actually be able
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to get to the job on time, to actually be
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prepared to know what to do when it's when sin
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entered in, sweat entered in the second thing, it's going
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to be the truth about a job. It's going to
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be a struggle. There will be times when you have
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a job that it will include a struggle. That does
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not mean it's demonic. The struggle actual job is not
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a spiritual attack. I'm on the attack, y'all. Pray y'all
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on the prayer line. There's warfare going on. No, you
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have to answer your emails. I've been called in three times.
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I'm telling you there's under demonics are being shot at me.
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I need you to pray that the shield of faith. No,
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it's just part of the struggle of having a job.
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I gotta talk to difficult people. They're difficult, and some
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of the breast think and some people will raise differently
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than me, and they don't understand. This is not a
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demonic attack. This is a result of the decision of sin.
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So if your job is a struggle, don't think that
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it's the point for you to run away from it, Okay,
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because do you know there's many things that you ask
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for prayer for that a job would solve. I'm not
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gonna stay on it long.
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But we're financially struggling because.
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You don't have a job. You don't have a job,
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and I'm not well. I have a felony passed. There's
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lawnmowers and rakes.
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There's there. You don't have to I mean, wheel's a pastor.
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At the church. No, I just no, I just you
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can get a job.
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Neil is still the campus. Now, I'm just it's just processing.
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As I'm saying, he has.
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A felony pals. But if you let watch this, if
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you let the perspective, well, everybody sees me.
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No, you see you. Well, everybody's judging me. No, you're
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judging you. If Paul can go from killing Christians.
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To having a Damascus Road experience and then being the
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biggest evangelist, God is saying I'll choose anybody who's willing
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to do the work. Yeah, Now watch this last thing.
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Truth about a job. It includes sweat, it includes struggle.
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Watch this, but watch the grace of God. It also
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includes supply. He said, you're gonna eat from this grain,
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You're gonna get bread from this. But it doesn't take
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away the sweat or the struggle. So even in our sin,
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God still supplies our needs. The job that you hate
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is actually a form of provision for you. And maybe
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you should change your perspective on how you're looking at
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what God has given you in this season. Maybe before
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work on Monday, you pray God change my perspective to
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go in here and actually do the work you've told
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me to be as a believer, and be light and
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salt and actually help people and encourage people even as
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I do this job. God, like, let me be honest
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that I don't like matter of fact, Can I be
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real honest?
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God, I hate it.
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But until you move me from this place, until you
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provide something else, I will not move off of a
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revelation watch this of uncomfortability. I'm gonna move off of
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the revelation of being consistent. And Father, God, I thank
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you that you make my work so prosperous and I
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don't need a job one day. But Father, I'm making
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a commitment to you, I'll never stop my work. I
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never stopped the work. I've never stopped doing what you
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called me to do. And some of you, even I'm
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talking to my senior saints. God has provided a way
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where you do not need a job, and he hasn't
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seen work for you in a decade. He has now
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given you days to do what you are purpose to do.
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And you're sleeping the days away, and you're going to
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every grandparents thing, or you're going to every pickleball thing.
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And God said, at the end of the day, if
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you're not doing work. While I'm fine with you relax,
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I'm fine with you.
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Being on the boat.
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I'm fine with you golfing.
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But at the end of the day, I'm gonna have
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to judge them works. And I put that book in
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you ten.
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Years ago, and I told you to go up to
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that elementary school and mentor those kids. I have a
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David in there, I have an Abraham in there, I
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have a Daniel in there. Need somebody to speak life
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over them consistently. And I asked you to do the work.
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I need you to go feed those homeless people. I
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need you to go find the orphan in the widow.
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I need you to go ask to administrate that church
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or that ministry and tell them you're taking no money
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because I gave you still to produce administration. It's a
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spiritual gift. But you want to get paid for that.
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And I already provided for you. And they've been praying, God,
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would you just send somebody to help me. I'm drowning, God,
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I don't know. God.
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If you don't send somebody in three weeks, we're gonna
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have to shut this thing down.
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And you are at the house sipping coffee and.
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Not doing the work that God's called you to do today.
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I just want our church to understand that a job
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is not bad and a work is required. So passing
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like what do I do? Last two points? Do your job?
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If I could tell the church something, one of your
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biggest witnessing tools is if you did your job well, y'all.
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Remember Daniel what we call the Daniels Fast.
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The reason why this is remembered is because they were
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taken into captivity and God saw the skill level of
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Daniel and his partners. And Daniel and his partners were
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so favored that they came to the king's table and
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the king said, eat whatever you want, because back then
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food was the way that you actually exhibited status.
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So the king was like, eat whatever you want.
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But God had spoken to Daniel and said, Daniel, I
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only want you to eat grains and fruit, what we
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call the Daniel Fast.
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And they were like, no, you can't do that, and
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he said, test me.
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If you let me do it God's way, I'll be
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greater than every one of the people that eat at
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this table.
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And because watch this, not Daniel did the fast good that.
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People recognized as God. It's because because his work was
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good even when he did it God's way. It's why
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they said, whoever the God is that he served, that's
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what we're about to serve. His work was a testimony
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of God's glory. Look at your neighbor and say, do
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to work. Can I say it like this?
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Worship God with your work Colossians three twenty three. Whatever
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you do, work at it with all your heart as.
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Working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you
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know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord
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as a reward.
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It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
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Now. If you got through this whole message and you
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don't understand the value of job work, I'm gonna leave
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you with one picture. Our savior, Jesus Christ had a
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job and had work. What was Jesus's job? Why do
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you think it was important? Why do you think it
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was important that it let us know that Jesus had
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a job, because he's our rabbi, he's our example, he's
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the one we follow. We know he only did work
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for three years, but he lived for thirty three years,
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which we can safely assume he did his work more.
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He did his job more years than he did his work.
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He was known for his job, he would be remembered
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for his work. Y'all, y'all, I can't. I gotta stop.
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What if you're known for your job but remembered for
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your work? Standing all over this building, don't leave yet,
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because I want to pray a prayer of impartation. I
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believe something is going to shift on the inside of you.
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Thank you Lord.
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I want to put these clarifying things on the back
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led just for you to hear me say it one
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more time, and I may do it every week, just
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so that the spirit of deception can't enter in as
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you hear these truths. Because the enemy would love to
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steal this from you. But I want you to understand
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that this is what God has designed and desires for you.
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Is having money prove you are blessed by God? No?
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Can having money be.
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Used to be a blessing?
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Yes?
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I need y'all to help me. Does faith always lead
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to financial blessing?
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No?
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Do you need faith to live financially free, fulfilled and
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be a blessing?
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Yes?
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Does God promise you riches if you follow him? No?
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Does God promise to meet your needs?
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Yes? If you give, are you guaranteed multiplied personal wealth? No?
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Does God say that being generous has a direct impact
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on our lives. Yes, should you spend your life focused
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on material things? No? Are material things a tool to
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bless others and glorify God? Yes? Does God guarantee perfect
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health and wealth? No? Does God care about your health
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and wealth? Yes?
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Does the Bible teach the prosperity gospel?
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No, is the story of the gospel God dying so
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you can prosper in this life and the next. Yes.
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It's that clear.
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And you don't just have permission to prosper, You now
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have permission to produce. God wants you to live an
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abundant life. And if you're saying to.
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Me passing mic, I want to sign up for that life.
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I want to live this.
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I want to work the things that God has placed
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me on this life for purpose.
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I want to do the work. I want to be.
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Judged, and I want my works to last through the fire.
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And even if I have to do a job until
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I die, to do the work God, I'll do it.
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Today.
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If you want a new perspective on work and on
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a job, I want to pray for you. I want
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to pray that God would expand your.
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Capacity to endure.
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The seasons that feel frustrating, and I'm praying that God
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will give you the willingness to do the work.
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Even watch this if nobody affirms it.
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Today.
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If you want that, I want to give you an impartation.
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Would you just lift your hands all over this place
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if you're watching online. Father, in the name of Jesus,
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I pray for my brothers and sisters who are right
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now walking in a new level of revelation. Today, I'm
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asking you that you would expand their minds to believe
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that you don't just want them to prosper, but you
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also give us the ability to produce. Today, I'm praying
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that you bless their ideas, Bless their banks, Bless Father God,
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their wisdom.
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And their stewardship.
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Bless Father God everything that concerns them. God, I'm asking
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you that you would give them dreams with the inventions
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and ideas. I thank you that you would give them
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the ability to stick to the plan. God, I thank
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you that you would give them the ability to trust
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you even when they can't see what You're doing.
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Today, expand our faith to not just prosper, but to produce.
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I declare even in the next year, there will be
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things that will come from your people that at this
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moment seem impossible. But I thank you with man it
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is impossible. With you God, there is nothing that cannot
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be done. Today Expand our heart, our mind, watch this,
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and our capacity to believe you. No matter what the
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generational pattern has been. We're interrupting the bloodline right now
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in the name of chees and we curse the spirit
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of generational poverty, and we curse the spirit of generational greed.
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How thank you Father, that we will live in abundance
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through generosity, in stewardship, have your way in your people
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in Jesus' name. Even as we're in this moment, there
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are some people right now that don't understand the abundant
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life because you're like the young rich ruler. He had everything,
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but he had one thing missing, the ability to know
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that all the things weren't as important as his soul
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being in right relationship with God. And some of you
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may be fine financially. You know how to work and
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have a job. Some of you may be struggling in
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that area. But the thing that the scripture said that
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I want you to prosper and be in health at
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the level that your soul prospers, and your soul cannot
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prosper without the spirit of Jesus living on the inside
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of you. So today, if you want to accept Jesus
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as your personal Lord and savior, whether you're in this building,
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you're watching in a jail cell, you're watching on rebroadcast,
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somebody sent this in the family group text. I want
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to let you know today is the day of salvation
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in church. I need you to begin to pray. If
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you have been far from God and you've never accepted him,
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or you've been wandering, today is the day that the
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prodigal comes home. God is not mad at you, He
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is not gonna keep you in shame. He wants to
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put a robe on you, put a ring on your finger,
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he wants to put sandals on your feet, and he
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wants to throw a party for you. But it's your decision.
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And if you come back to the Father and today
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I'm telling you this is the greatest decision I ever made.
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It took me from being a liar, a manipulator, someone
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who was addicted to pornography, had very dark and bad
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things in my heart. And it didn't make me perfect,
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but it made me progressing and Jesus is the only one.
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If you give him your heart, he'll help you change
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your habits. Don't clean up and come to him. Come
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to him raggedy, jacked up, messed up.
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Steal with the stuff in.
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Your car, steal with the alcohol in the comforard, steal
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with the plan on your phone. And God says I
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can help you change all of that. What a mighty
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God reserved. Today. I want to offer you Jesus, you
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can be wealthy. At the end of this prayer, your
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soul will be prospering. And today I want to offer
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you Jesus. If that's you and your saying, Pastor, would
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you include me in that prayer on the counter of Three,
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if you're in the room or watching online, whether you're
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in the balcony or you're in the back, I want
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you to live your hands and lifted bold and high,
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and I want you to say.
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Include me in that prayer. Pastor.
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One, you're making the greatest decision of your life.
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Two, I'm proud of you.
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But more than that, your name is about to be
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written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
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Three.
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If you want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord
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and savior, today.
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Lift your hands. I see you, I see you.
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I see you in the back right there, Glory Transformation Church, Loujah,
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I see you, my brother. You can put your hand
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down at Transformation Church. We're a family. Nobody prays alone,
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so for the benefit of those who are coming to Christ, well,
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we all pray this prayer together.
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Everybody, Just say God, thank you for sending Jesus just
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for me.
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Today.
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I repent and I turn to you. I believe you lived,
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you died, and you rose again with all power.
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Just for me. Here's my life. Change me, renew me,
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transform me. I'm yours forever in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Can we celebrate with all of the people.
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Oh, come on, Transformation Church. Can we celebrate with all
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Surgery for a second. You need to let God wash
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This place without prayer.
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Let me pray for you as many of you leaving,
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we prosper. We declare and we believe that your will
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will be done and your word will be established in
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our life. Give us wisdom to walk in your truth,
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and we will give you all the glory, all the honor,
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We expect amen. Go out and live a transformed life.
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