Sermon
Speak the Blessing - Pastor Will Roos
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Transcript
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And so we're going to be starting today very simple, but
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powerful. And so the first one will be
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we'll be talking about speaking the blessing, OK, because words
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are not small. Words are powerful.
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OK? So words say direction, words
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carry authority. It's so seeds, OK, that words
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born seeds, OK? It unlocks destinies, all right.
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And so when you start speaking, the blessing, when you start
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speaking life, things begin to shift.
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Families begin to heal, OK. And so you'll see when you start
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speaking, the blessing favour starts flowing in your life.
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Hallelujah. So today we kick start this
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brand new series, which I'm so super excited about.
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We we start this and we are going to talk about the blessing
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in your mouth. My God, my God, so the blessing
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in your mouth. So we're going to be speaking
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about that speak the blessing. So let me just put this up here
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for us for a minute so we can see.
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So that's the series that we are starting for the next couple of
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weeks. We're going to be spending time
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on Numbers chapter 6, and we're going to go deep, OK?
Numbers 6 chapter mention
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And we're ready to go deep. Amen.
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The blessing, the blessing. I'm chasing the blessing of God
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in this place. And so the title of today's
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message, speak the blessing. Somebody say speak the blessing.
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OK, Touch your neighbor and say speak the blessing.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Speak the blessing.
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You know, speak the blessing. OK, Because here's what I want
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you to grab hold of today. Right at the outset, right here
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at the start, I'm going to say the placing is not a placing.
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And so it's spoken. OK Right.
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So we're going to go on this. And today we are not just
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talking about praying for a blessing, we're talking about
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releasing a blessing. I meant.
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So I want you to know that you can bless your home, you can
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bless your family, you can bless your career, you can bless your
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workplace, you can bless your children, you can bless your
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future, you can bless your street, your neighborhood.
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You know, I heard about this guy in Australia walking around his
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neighborhood. And so then there is a living
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this estate, and it just bless the properties, the land, the
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plots, the houses, and it just speaks a blessing.
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Place this house, place that plot in Jesus name, place
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favour, just start blessing. And then later churches started
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all of us. And then small groups started
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forming. People's open hearts are open.
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Why? Because he's releasing Heaven's
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language into the atmosphere in his neighborhood, walking
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around, releasing the placement. OK.
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And so that is why that song, that offering song we just sung
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earlier, the blessing. I mean, it went viral.
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That's why it hit the world that he did.
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Remember, they recovered that song, the blessing.
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I mean, I just made the favor of his favor.
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Be a part you and 1000 generations and your family and
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your children and their children.
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He is for you, He is for you. Wow, wow, wow.
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Remember Derek Covert? OK, even here in the UK the
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churches started singing that over the nation.
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OK, that was straight from Bible numbers, Chapter 6.
Numbers 6 chapter mention
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What an anointed, powerful Psalm.
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It went viral and the churches started singing the blessing
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over the airwaves, OK, on social media, everywhere.
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And it's just people texting around back and forth over the
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nation. And it brought hope to people
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who felt surrounded by fear. And so just you can do this
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every day. Put on that song, The Blessing
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in your car, wherever you are, and you just declare it.
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You just speak blessing over your neighborhood, where you
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walk, where you work, your workplace place, place, place.
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You can place your children, you can place your workplace, OK.
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Every day you just bless your home, your workplace.
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You say this home is blessed, this workplace fiber at peace
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ratio. Bless the struggling situation.
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Peace be still. And you can do this every day.
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And so this is these coming weeks now in this series called
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The Blessing, that's what we are going to be declaring this in
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our region where we live, where we work, blacklot, surrounding
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areas, blessing over homes, our regions, our city, our nation,
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UK. We're going to be speaking that
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because there is blessing in your mouth.
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And it's not just going to stay in our hearts, in our mouths,
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but it's going to be coming out because that's how we go.
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It's released. That's how the Kingdom of God is
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to lit through your voice. Can you say, I mean somebody,
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because this is not kissing, we're not sucking this out of
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our thumb. We're just thinking up this is
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Bible. This is the strategy that God
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gave his people. God gave his people a strategy.
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OK, he said, Moses, this is how OK, this is how you want to
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bless the people and God specifically strategy.
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He said, Moses, the way I want you to bless the people is say
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it to them. OK, let's think it's OK, right?
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But in other words, speak the blessing, Moses, that's how I
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want you to bless the people. I speak the blessing.
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Somebody says speak the blessing.
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OK, now let's go to the word. So let me read it out.
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This theme scripture that we're going to be talking about over
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the next couple of weeks here. Are you ready for the word?
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If you're ready, say I'm ready. OK, so this is number chapter
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66. And the Lord spoke to Moses
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saying speak to Aaron and his son saying this is the way.
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OK, so how? How is the way?
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Now what's the strategy? This is the way you shall bless
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the children of Israel and the like this watch this say to
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them, the Lord bless you and keep you.
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The Lord makes his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
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The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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So shall put so they shall put my name on the children of
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Israel and I will blessed and let's pray Father, we thank you
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for this moment together. We thank you for your word make
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it come alive and every heart to take Father, we thank you for
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open hearts. We thank you for an open name.
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But oh God, help us to speak life to speak destiny, to speak
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favor. Help us to speak blessing over
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the people we love and we thank you for this brand new series
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and for doing something you do it right here right now in the
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mighty name of Jesus Christ. We pray and somebody shout night
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right now. Let me just put numbers chapter
Numbers 6 chapter mention
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6 for you in context, right? So I want you to notice what God
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is doing, right? Israel is under pressure.
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They're in a precious season, right?
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They just come out of slavery. They just come out of slavery.
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Now they are facing a wilderness, OK?
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So they're like uncertain. We don't have a clear path where
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we go, OK, And so the Israel is under pressure and they don't
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even feel fully equipped. And no weapons, no supplies, no
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map, the uncertainty. And so when people are under
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pressure, they start complaining.
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When people are under pressure, they start assuming the worst
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case. And so, Moses, why did you bring
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us here to die? And so in other words, this
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doesn't feel like God is with us, OK?
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It feels like a wilderness, like a desert in sand and heat.
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It doesn't feel like God is with us.
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This doesn't look like favor, OK, Right.
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And so this doesn't, right, you know, match up what he has
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promised. And so right there in the
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wilderness, in the difficulty, in the pressure season, God does
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not respond with shame. God responds with a strategy.
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Oh, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, somebody for a strategy from
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God, for a word from God, Hallelujah.
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And God is saying, listen, I am giving you a strategy.
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Listen, this is what you do when you start, when you pressure,
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when you start. Speak the blessing, Oh my God,
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Jesus. I'm just giving you the word on
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the Lord today. Are you ready for this?
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Can you handle the blessing somebody OK, Because it might be
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it might be strong for somebody today.
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Speak in a blessing. OK, so God says something in
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numbers chapter 6 that shifts everything.
Numbers 6 chapter mention
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It's like, listen man, he tells me I said say to them, don't
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think it, don't assume it. The Queen, the claret, say it.
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So then, OK, McLaren, because here's the thing about blessing.
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Here's the thing about now, it's fine.
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Well, let's just flow, OK? Let's just flow because I want
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you. I want you to grab all of this.
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The thing about the blessing is it moves through words.
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That's how the IT moves through words, OK?
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So it is heaven's language that comes and flows through us.
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So we put the word of God and we speak it.
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And so when he says, listen, the Lord bless you and keep you,
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that's power, that's protection we should listen to.
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Lord makes his fight shine upon you.
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That's Christ, that's favour. When he says, the Lord lift up
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his countenance upon you, that's peace we surpass us.
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We want to study peace that you cannot even explain shall own
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peace, wholeness. That's the favour, that's a
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piece of God. And so I want you to see this
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because the wilderness, the difficulty, the shall, it cannot
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remove what God has spoken. OK, I made somebody.
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So the pressure, the difficulty, the challenge, it cannot cancel
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what heaven has declared. I made somebody.
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So if you are in a difficult, if you are the world in this
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season, if you're in a desert season, OK, sand, heat,
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hardship, difficult, trouble on every side, pressure,
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challenges, uncertainty. Listen, this is a word for you
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today. This is the word of the Lord for
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you today. Are you ready for this word
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today? The word of the Lord for you,
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the strategy that God has given you for your situation, this is
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to speak the blessing. Because maybe you are thinking,
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well, how can I make it through this illness?
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OK? How can I reach my dream?
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I don't have the resources, I don't have the connections.
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How can I keep my family together?
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I feel like I'm standing alone. But listen, can I give you the
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good news today? You are not alone.
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The blessing of God is on your life.
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Oh Hallelujah, placing is on you.
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The placing of God empowers you. It enables your life.
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It is a supernatural power of God that is working in your
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life. It's that God's advantage on
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your life that you cannot explain on paper or worth
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qualifications. They just like Boston, Michelle
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said. I've seen it over and over my
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life. They just pick you.
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They choose you. They give you the contract, they
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give you the deal because of the blessing of God.
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It's not because I'm so good. It's not because of how cute we
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are. No, it's because he's good.
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It's because the blessing of God is on your life.
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Yeah, the blessing of God. They cannot resist the blessing
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because it's all over your forehead.
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It's all over you. The blessing of God is over you.
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That's what is the attraction. My God.
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He is the attraction. Come on, let me just.
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Everybody wants a king like Jesus.
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He may have been represented throughout the generations
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through different religious, certain doctrines,
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misrepresented. God said that's not who I am.
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That's great religion and that's things.
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I'm not that. The moment you see Jesus in his
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full glory, the whole world, everybody wants Jesus.
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Oh this the most beautiful, most attractive thing of his.
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Everybody wants the lights, runs to the lights.
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That's the attraction. Oh, nothing compares with his
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glory. How beautiful, how glorious.
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I'm telling you, many people that's been in the prisons, they
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passed away, they go to cable and I said please don't let me
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even go back to it. I just want to stay in there.
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But it's glory, no pressure, no stress, no worries, no pain in
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his presence is the Bible says fullness of joy.
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There is no drug that you can pop OK, that's going to give you
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that high when you encounter Jesus.
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He's the highest high once you tasting, I'm telling you right
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now, once you taste Jesus, you're addicted for life.
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You're addicted for life yourself.
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And I've I've I've been on that some of that drugs and all that
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with Pretorius reside outside the club lying there drugs.
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Nothing compares to when I count to with Jesus.
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Oh my God, my God, my friend, he was smoking with He's like,
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listen, both of us are on the floor counting Jesus right
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there. He said this is the highest high
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I've ever had in my life. The highest high loving
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compares. So that opposition, that
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difficulty, it cannot stop your purpose, that illness, that
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sickness that set back, it cannot cancel.
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It doesn't cancel your calling because people will look at your
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life and they will wonder how are you still standing?
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And you know the answer, the blessing, the blessing.
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Now, when somebody say the blessing, the blessing, the
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blessing, Yeah, it's the blessing.
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Come on, somebody, preach your eyes together for you, for the
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blessing. Yeah, Thank God for the
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blessing. The blessing.
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And I also said, oh, you know, we're in this wilderness.
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You know, I'm certain. This doesn't look like the
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promise. It doesn't look like God is with
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us. This is a decent.
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This is wilderness, Moses, Why did you bring it here to die?
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It doesn't look like God is. What does It doesn't feel like
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they're doing. Doesn't feel like fiber.
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OK, we are struggling here. This is the wilderness.
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But God said, listen, my blessing is on you.
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My favor is on you. My peace and my grace.
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My face is shining on you. All that you have got to do is
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just speak it. Oh, just speak the blessing.
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That's the strategy. It's so simple, yet it's so
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powerful and so profound because blessing is right there in your
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mouth. All the miracle is right there
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in your mouth so close that favour is on you.
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So that's what God said Moses say to them, OK, just say it,
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OK? Just speak the blessing.
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A blessing isn't a blessing until it's spoken.
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Placing is not a blessing until it's spoken.
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Nothing happens until you speak it.
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OK, right. So we sitting at the restaurant
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holding food. OK, what do you want to eat?
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I'm just whispering. OK, so would you like to order
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some food? What do you like to eat?
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No, I'm not saying anything. My my mouth is shut.
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OK, listen, if you sit at the restaurant, I'm going to ask you
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what to eat, and you're going to keep your mouth shut.
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You're not getting nothing to eat.
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You're getting nothing because your mouth is shut.
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You're not saying anything. OK?
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Are you going to order food? Yes or no?
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Or you're going to keep your lips sealed?
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Nothing happens until you're stinking.
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A placing is not a placing until it's spoken.
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So why is it that when it comes to church around these, it's
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like, oh, we have to now really take it one level and not start.
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No, that's when we decree and declare and we open our mouths
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even louder. We come into these meetings and
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we praise our God. That's why we are.
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That's why when we sat at the restaurant, we open our mouth.
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Sir, can I please order a burger with fresh rice?
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Thank you. Done the same with that.
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It comes to the Bible. Use the Korean in the tray.
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Son, family, wife, daughter, spouse, you are blessed.
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You walk into your house, House you are blessed.
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Car you are blessed. Neighborhood you blessed he said
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the world wants to put the mask wants to silence the church put
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the mask on but you know on the way to Das Maskus Paul he was
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sorely persecuted. Oh on the way to Dimascus God
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deemed mask he rubbed that mask off his face.
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He's like listen, you're not going to be a sore persecuting
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the Christians. You're going to be an Apostle
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Paul. You're going to open your mouth
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and you're going to speak it. Lydia.
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Yeah, My God. Yeah.
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I mean, you can sit at the restaurant and you can think the
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food and the person comes and asks, OK, what would you like to
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order? I'm just going to think.
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I'm not going to say. I just think.
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So. I mean, you can think you
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blessed, but until you speak it, fight gets released.
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God's blessing is on me. And so I'm not saying listen,
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because this world is not a trouble free world, right?
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There's there won't be troubles. We live in a fallen world.
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We live in a real world, OK, there'll be troubles.
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So I'm not saying you want to have troubles, troubles.
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It comes to all of us. We all do.
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But you get to decide who has got the final words because the
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trouble or the situation or the circumstance or the word
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pressure might say something, but the Word of God says
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something else. OK, So you get to decide which
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one you're going to speak, which one you're going to declare, OK,
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are you going to be speaking the problem or the difficulty or the
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challenges or are you going to be speaking the word because
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there's one report on one diagnosis, medical diagnosis,
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whatever, and then there is another.
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And then you find the promise in the Word of God.
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And so this week you are going to be announcing, instead of
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thinking about the worst case scenario, you're going to be
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announcing the promise. You're going to be announcing
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the word of God. You're going to be speaking
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God's promise over the situation.
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So the doctor, the medical report, oh, the sickness,
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There's the the word of the Lord says by he stripes, I am healed.
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Hallelujah, somebody. Yeah.
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And so you're going to be speaking it.
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You're going to be declaring it because there's healing in your
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mouth. There's a miracle in your mouth.
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There's peace in your mouth. There's victory in your mouth.
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There is deliverance and freedom in your mouth.
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There is blessing in your mouth. Come on.
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Somebody to say that there's blessing in my mouth?
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Tell you and I'm gonna say there's a blessing in your
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mouth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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There's a blessing in your mouth.
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There's a blessing in your mouth.
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Yeah. There's a blessing in your
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mouth. There's a blessing in your
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mouth, and that's what we do with our mouth.
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We place the Lord. Bless the Lord.
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Oh my soul, Oh my soul, Worship peace, holy name.
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Sing like never before. Oh my soul I'll worship peace,
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holy name, bless the Lord of my soul, of my soul shall peace,
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holy name sing like never before.
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Oh, my soul will shall peace, holy name.
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Amen. Wow, wow, wow.
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Shall we speak the blessing? We bless a lot.
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We bless one another. We bless, we speak blessings.
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Now generally, we talk a lot about praying.
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Now we pray. But I want you to see that
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because there's a difference. There's something we pray, yes,
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but there's something powerful, also very powerful about
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nuclearization. OK.
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And so, yes, we're not just talking about praying.
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But, yeah, today the emphasis is not just praying for people, but
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speaking and declaring, placing over people.
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So I want you to so put prayer. Yes, we probably need to see
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that there. But then there comes a moment
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where we shift over and you bless you, bless that person.
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OK, You speak a blessing. So yeah, because the the
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blessing must be spoken. You know, I heard a story about
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this remote village in Welsh. This man, he, he released the
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blessing. So he spoke blessing.
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And so when he said I bless you. And she said I'm favored.
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A lady who lived with chronic back pain her whole life.
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She said when he when that leader, when I spoke the
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blessing, she said she felt the pain leave her body.
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Not a long prayer, not intercession prayer.
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OK, blessing the power of a spoken blessing.
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That's the power of numbers. Chapter 6.
Numbers 6 chapter mention
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But all please and keep you simple words.
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But it blesses the person with protection and peace.
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So I want you to grab hold of his revelation because sometimes
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it's not like, oh Lord, if it's your world, please heal that
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person. No, no, listen, there's a moment
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where you shift into a higher power of spoken pleasing
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numbers. Chapter 6 And you said be
Numbers 6 chapter mention
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healed, be prosperous, be blessed, be still at peace.
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You see that over and over. Jesus over and over, storm is
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still. He did not go into prayer mode
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on the boat when there was a storm.
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He did not know, Father, we need to pray about the storm.
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This is not difficult. No, no, no, no.
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Listen, there's a level of authority that God is taking us
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into. Jesus stood on that boat and he
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commanded pistol. OK, somebody's getting this.
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The Power of numbers, Chapter 6. OK, the difference between, you
Numbers 6 chapter mention
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know, the difference between a fan and a windmill.
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Some people are like electric fans plugged in to the power and
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they release a refreshing breeze wherever they go.
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Oh, they compliment people, they encourage people, they
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strengthen people. They lift the room wherever they
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go. It's like electric fan.
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It's just like breeze. It's like that person that or
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wherever they go and they speak life at work, wherever they go,
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they speak life. You actually want to be around
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that person all the time because wherever they go, they lift the
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room, they speak. It's like wow, the people around
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that person because every time they speak, they speak life.
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But then some people, they're like a windmill only moves when
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the conditions are perfect. A windmill.
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That's the thing with the windmill.
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A windmill, it only moves when something pushes it.
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OK, Church, this is not the season to be a windmill, OK, To
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wait for better days, wait for better conditions.
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When everything is perfect, we got to wait.
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No, this is the season to be like electric fat plugged in so
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you stay connected and you bring out a fresh freeze wherever you
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go. You complement people.
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And we are coaching our kids now.
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My first. I'm teaching now.
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I'm like my sister, my son. When When Paul has something
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nice and he kicks the ball nicely.
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Well done, Paul. Complement one another.
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Instead of fighting, Argue. Listen.
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Let's complement each other. When they kick the ball.
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I want to listen. We just want to pick up.
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OK. But all of a sudden, all you
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know, listen. Be happy for him.
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Compliment Him to complement each other.
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OK, this is a season that we are going to step into where we're
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blessing because it's not just, I'm not just talking about
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positive speaking. This is Bible.
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Can I go deeper? Isaiah 61, the Bible says the
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Spirit of the Lord is on him to proclaim, to announce the good
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news. That's declaration, that's
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proclamation, that's and so to proclaim the good news, freedom,
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breakthrough. And so Hosea, you went about
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going around declaring, speaking blessing.
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Now watch this In the New Testament, Jesus repeats the
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same declaration in the book of Luke chapter 4.
Luke 4 chapter mention
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He stands up in the synagogue, and of all the passages, he
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chooses the very same passage of declaration that Heziah 61 did.
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And Jesus did not keep it private to himself.
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Jesus did not put a mask and whisper it to himself and keep
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it private. Jesus declared Jesus proclaimed
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that he announced the the scroll of the Lord is upon me to Prince
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to proclaim to announce good news.
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And then Jesus as he says this, he goes on, he says this is for
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fault. He announces this is for, for
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that tells me something. Declaration activates destiny.
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Declaration. When you put God's words, what
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God says in your mouth and you declare it, you activate your
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destiny. Surely you activate destiny.
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You put your faith in motion when you say what God says and
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you speak the word of God. Can you say I mean, somebody OK.
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Because when you speak what God says, faith kicks in and you
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activate it and you speak it. That's the seed and that's the
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fruit you eat tomorrow. So what do you want to see
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tomorrow in your life? What do you want to see in your
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future? Speak it.
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Plant that seed and you'll eat the fruit.
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Words are powerful. Words have the ability to save
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the direction of our lives. And then, and you know, the
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reason some people are not reaching their full potential is
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because they never declare. They never reach a full
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potential because they never declare and say what God says
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about it. Oh, God says, oh, OK.
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And no one has ever declared over them what they can become
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very important. Because years ago I did not want
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to be a pastor. I was studying sports sciences.
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I was a top athlete, 1A size. That's my career.
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Training professionals #1 karate guy, world champion.
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I trained Olympic athletes well in her bed.
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Buddy spray. OK, I know all that, all of
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that. I did not.
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I said to the show, but now watch this.
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She was the first one she called, she declared it.
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She declared the man of God, you are a pastor.
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I nearly fell off my wolves. I was so shocked.
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I'm like, please don't say that ever again.
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Just I don't want to be a pastor.
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I never want to be behind the pulpit.
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Be a pastor. I'm a sports number one in South
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Africa. Hurdlers, I can run fast, I can
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do sports, you can take me any sports.
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I can tell you anything about sports, interest and the whole
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lot, all of it. You call me pastor.
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She spoke a blessing. And what should we do with our
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children? And you speak that over a
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person's life, what they can become, not what's wrong, what
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we're doing wrong. No, we don't speak.
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We seek what they can become the future leaders of tomorrow.
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We speak over our kids. And so today is a new day.
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It's a brand new day. God's doing something brand new.
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God sent me here today to tell you, get ready for a fresh
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blessing. Oh, first blessing, fresh
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blessing, fresh words. Somebody's about to get a fresh
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blessing. Fresh words from heaven today,
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Hallelujah. We're about to get a reset.
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In your spirit. You have come to the right place
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today. You've come to the right place,
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Hallelujah. Because there's a fresh
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blessing. There's a fresh.
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Somebody say fresh blessing. Oh, Hallelujah.
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I'm super excited. Phrase blessing is coming on my
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life. Come on, say it.
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Phrase blessing is coming on my life.
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Starting at phrase blessing is coming on my life.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Because life happens, Disappointment happens, hurt
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happens. We got through life.
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It gets busy and we need a fresh blessing.
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OK. I hope you can live on on last
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year's blessing. I will need fresh blessing.
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Oh, my God, why don't we do? I'm like, listen, we're here for
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something fresh, OK? Yeah, We're ready for a fresh
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blessing. Oh, it's fresh.
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It's fresh. I'm telling you fresh.
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And that's because you ended. Not because you did everything
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right, but because he's good. Because he knows how to open the
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door that you couldn't open. How to heal you that you
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couldn't heal OK. How to restore what you thought
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was God. OK.
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And so let's bring it closer to home, because the 1st place your
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word should build is not just your workplace, but each other,
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OK? And so most of our biggest
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battles are not on stage. It's at the dinner table, in the
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car, in the hallway. Everyday moments when you are
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tired, stretched, feeling overborn, down pressure, and you
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are tempted to speak quickly instead of speaking kindly.
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OK, now we're going somewhere because that's exactly where God
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wants the blessing to live. OK, we bring it back home and
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family situations that that's where God wants, not just church
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language, home language because you're a final spot at home.
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OK, so your family, right, your loved ones, the people that God
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has placed in your life, OK, They are not there by accident,
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OK? Your spouse, your kids, your
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children, the loved ones family, right?
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They're not there by accident. Your spouse is not an accident.
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Your kids, they're not an accident, OK?
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They are gift from God. Now, Yes, baby, some spouses or
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family members that may have some faults, some mistakes,
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failures, OK, yeah. But don't take them for granted
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because value them because you don't place what you take for
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granted. You place what you honor.
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You place what you value, right? That's what you place.
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OK, Now a lot of us think, well, you know, they know that I love
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them. They know I love them because I
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I provide. Are they they know I love it.
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I'm there, I provide for them. I'm faithful.
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Now that is good, OK. And that's wonderful that you
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know that you think that they love you.
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OK, But here's the thing. Because people cannot live only
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on what you think. People cannot only live on what
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you meant or what you assume. OK, if it's heaven, so kind, it
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can still feel messy. And that's why encouragement is
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so important that we keep on encouraging each other, that we
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compliments, compliments. That's very because compliments
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they it's like glue compliments. It keeps the matters together.
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It's like it. It keeps a relationship
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together, complements it, sticks it.
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It keeps and holds it together. Complementing one another holds
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it together. And it's not that your home has
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no love, it's just that the love needs a voice.
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It needs to be expressed. It needs to be spoken out.
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So let's just talk about relationships for a little.
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But if that's OK, we'll just share on the talk about marriage
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for a moment, OK? Because this is one of the
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biggest places where your words, they matter.
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And it is in marriage and express love daily, every day,
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OK, Because yesterday's love doesn't feed today.
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That's yesterday. Look at how I got married ever
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20 years ago in Joburg, in Dingford on the golfers.
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They're beautiful. Yeah.
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I told my wife I love. But that was that was a while.
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That was 2 decades ago. OK.
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So keep it fresh. Express it daily, right.
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Every day we compliment. We speak to each other.
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OK, not because your spouse is weak, but your spouse is human.
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And listen, your spouse don't need a sermon, they need a
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sentence. I love you.
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I am proud of you. I believe.
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I mean somebody. So, man, let me just talk to the
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man. Is that OK?
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If I could talk to the man. Your wife should feel safer
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after talking to you, not smaller.
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OK because sharp words when it's too sharp it leaves a scar.
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Even if they say oh I'm sorry I did not mean it like that, it
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still leaves a scar. Like jokes, sarcasm, sarcasm.
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It cuts even if you say it was just each other sarcasm.
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OK, so basically place your wife, pull your wife, don't
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break your wife. Because here's the thing, when
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you speak life to her, you are speaking life in the atmosphere
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you live in because you live there in the house.
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So if you speak life to her, I'm like, listen, tree, the way you
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speak to her, you live in that atmosphere.
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So you speak life because you want life in the house.
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In that atmosphere, you speak life, you speak blessing, you
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strengthen your house. Now let me speak to the wives
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for a moment. Wives, your words carry power.
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Now the men, a lot of men that look very strong, very strong
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men, very strong on the outside. But listen, deep down inside,
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there is a longing. Please notice me.
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Please see me. Notice me.
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Anybody you know, just be proud of me.
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You know, I'm doing all of this. Just notice me.
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Be proud of me. Love me.
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OK. He's got that longing inside.
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Disbelieve in me. And so when you honor, because
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honor doesn't weaken a man, honor strengthens a man.
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He stands taller. He shows up stronger.
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So when a wife does words, the words that you speak to your
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husband, he will bring the priest out of him or you'll have
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a Superman. This guy will fly.
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You can make this guy fly. I am flying because of possible.
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I would not have been here standing blinding a choice as a
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pastor if it was not for my wife.
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I would have been in sports somewhere in South Africa, doing
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my own thing, living like a bachelor, doing one thing.
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My wife spoke these things. This power in your words.
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When you speak to a husband, lift him up.
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You speak to your husband, you're like you're going to make
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it. You're going to do great things.
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You speak those things into your husband.
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Oh my God, you don't have a Superman.
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Whoa, Hallelujah, strong. So this week just very simple,
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find 3 things. That's right.
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So when you look at it, you find 3 things that's right, they're
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good. And then you don't just think
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it, you speak it. You say, wow, I really
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appreciate the way that you work so hard.
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You work so hard. I really appreciate how you are.
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I appreciate how you are with the kids.
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I appreciate you're amazing how you always study and strong.
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How do you speak it? Speak those three things.
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So that's what you do. You say I'm so proud of you and
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then you express it daily. You express the love every day
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and you speak those words. I love you, I appreciate you.
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Because listen, you cannot microwave yesterday's love,
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yesterday's compliment and think that that is still going to
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taste fine. It tastes good.
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It's yesterday's compliment. It's microwave yesterday.
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It doesn't taste good today. And so, you know, Michelle knows
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that I love her. Now.
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It's easy for me to think, well, you know, I've, I've already
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told her like 1000 times I love her.
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And so it's very easy for me to think, well, I don't have to
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tell her again. But what I've learned is that
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people don't get tired of hearing the right words.
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So I tell her often. Oh, my darling, Michelle, you
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are so beautiful. OK.
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Yesterday, Valentine's Day. Wow, my Valentine, you are
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amazing. You're beautiful.
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Now, I didn't just stop there. At Valentine's Day again today,
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I told her, I love you, my darling, you are beautiful.
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You are the one. I'll marry you again in a
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second. OK, so she never once said oh,
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stop. Well, she never.
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She never said that. I've never heard her ever say
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and stop. Well, you know, I already know
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that you love me. I really doubt that.
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You've told me that I'm beautiful.
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She never said stop. No, she receives it.
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And again I said, hey, if I, I told you just you know, I love
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you yesterday, Valentine's, but can I to die?
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I just want to say I love you again and again.
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So what am I doing? I am speaking a blessing over my
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heart. I'm speaking a blessing over
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her. And you can do the same.
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You can speak a blessing over your loved ones, speak a
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blessing over your family, other people speak a blessing over
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somebody. OK.
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You know, even with Michelle, when she uploads the sermon on
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social media and she says to me, hey, well, hey, that was a great
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message that encourages me and inspires me.
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It strengthens me. I'm like, keep the compliments
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coming. I'm like, yeah, bring it on.
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Because encouragement strengthens people, OK, And
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people can't read your thoughts. So Michelle could thought all
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day long that was a good sermon unfolded.
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But her thoughts doesn't bless me.
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It's until she speaks it. A blessing is not a blessing
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until it's spoken. And so they need to yearn on a
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regular basis every day, not just on Valentine's Day, not
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just on the birthday, not just on the wedding day or the
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anniversary day, on a regular basis.
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Be generous with compliments. I'm telling you, wherever you
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go, people at work, wherever, complimenting one another every
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day, you tell them, listen, I love you.
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Just be generous every day. And so listen, let me just help
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some couples here, OK? Don't magnify the 20% that's
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wrong and ignore the 80% that's faithful.
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Come on, somebody, I'm just telling you this is I've been
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married for 20 years and I'm just giving you some practical
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stuff here because a lot of people, they just focus on the
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sword. That's wrong, OK.
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But when we got married, that wasn't an issue.
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But now years later, that becomes like a big issue now.
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So a lot of people, they just focus on the little bit that's
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wrong and they forget about all the good that's right.
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So focus on the 80% that is right and speak that, OK.
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Because sometimes the love isn't gone.
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It's just a love language that's gone cold.
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So let's say it out loud. Say my home will be full of
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placing words, starting at my home will be full of placing
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words. And parents, this matters so
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much because kids and children store words.
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They replay words, they keep those words, OK?
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So what you speak over them becomes part of them and how
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they see themselves, those words, OK.
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And so that's why speak blessing, speak identity, speak
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destiny, speak the future. You are a leader, you are kind,
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you are smart, you are called 'cause hand is on.
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I love you, I'm proud of you, I believe in you because there's
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that unique authority that God has placed in the home,
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especially on parents these days, mentors and leaders and
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coaches at schools, teachers carry a level of authority
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through words. But especially at home parents
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and especially the father who imparts this.
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Because when a dad, a father says something, I'm proud of
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you, it lags different, it carries weight, it releases
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security when a dad speaks over his kids.
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And so that's why some people today are still striving, still
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performing, still trying to prove they are enough, because
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they have never received one sentence than one sentence.
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They've never heard that one sentence from their parents.
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I'm proud of you, my son. And they miss.
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And that's when you look at David was overlooked by his own
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dad, by Jesus. Remember First Samuel chapter
1 Samuel 16 chapter mention
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16, when the prophet Samuel comes to this house looking for
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the next king. And yes, JC lines up all his
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sons, but Miss David overlook David.
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And the sandals are listen, no, not this one.
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OK, so he the dad's day, he's got royalty in his house, but he
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he did not recognize it. OK.
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And so I wonder how many Davids are sitting at our tables,
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living under our roofs, and what they need to hear most.
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This is what they need most. Is somebody to speak a blessing
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under that? So don't miss the King or the
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Queen in your house, OK? Speak the blessing.
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Now, maybe you didn't get this from your parents.
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Maybe your parents weren't around.
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Maybe your father, earthly father were not around and you
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didn't get it. Maybe all that you got in your
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life was telling you what was wrong and you just got
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direction. And so here's the good news.
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That doesn't have to pass down, OK?
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You can be the difference maker. You can set the new standard in
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your home, OK, because real leaders, they speak blessing, OK
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Real leaders, coaches, mentors, teachers, OK, they speak, they
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speak life, OK. And so if you're carrying any of
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the great from the pastors and it's never too late, you can
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still speak a blessing to a family member, to somebody.
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You can it's not so never too late.
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You can bless your children, even if they're grown up, grown
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up kids, you still, it's never too late, right?
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So pick up the phone, send the text, set up lunch, say those
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words. OK, so let this be your decision
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today. I will not withhold the
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blessing. Come on, let's say it together.
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I will not withhold the blessing.
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Say it again. I will not withhold the blessing
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because I know not everyone receives blessed words in life.
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Now God does not leave you empty because the Bible says that he's
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a father to the fatherless. In the book of Psalm, chapter
Psalms 68 chapter mention
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68, verse five, he's a father to the fatherless.
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Now let me tell you about him, man.
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His name is Ben Hooper, and he grew up with a single mom.
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And so he carried this pain in this womb of not knowing his
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father. And so one day he slipped into
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the back of the church. Hopefully no one for nobody to
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notice him sitting at the back of the church.
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And so after the service the past asked and he said who's
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childhood? And so the room went quiet and
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the pastor smiles and he says, I see the resemblance.
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You are a child of Almighty God. 01 moment, shame is broken off
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his life, rejection, isolation broken off his life and destiny,
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restore destiny, identity coming alive in a moment, one sentence.
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And that's what the Father is doing today.
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He's not naming you by your past, He's naming you by your
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belonging. God is your father.
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You might not have gotten this from your earthly dad, but you
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are getting from your heavenly Father.
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So God is our Father and what our Father to do.
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He is speaking blessing over you right now.
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Your father is saying over you now.
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I am proud of you, my son and my daughter.
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You are valuable. I love you my children.
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God is saying over you. You are going to do great
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things. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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God is my father. Somebody say God, he's my father
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and his blessing, he's on me. Give God surprise somebody.
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Is this OK? Is this help?
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Somebody OK? Can I throw one more in just
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because of time? Let me just, I'll close with one
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more. Taste the buddy.
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OK, one more, right. So let me close with this one.
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Robert. He grew up with his father and
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so his dad struggled and fought with alcoholism and so Robert
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did everything that he could to be the opposite of his dad.
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And so he became successful. Success, achievement, football,
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he became a star. But deep down Robert carried A
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wound. He carried pay because as far as
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he knew, his dad never came to one of his games.
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Not one game, not one sports. He never came to watch him play,
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not one game. He never had heard one single
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compliment from his dad. Never heard one.
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I am proud of you, my son. Never heard I love you.
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Never. And so years later, Robert found
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out about the truth that his dad had come to any of his games,
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but he just stood off for off hiding because she was feeling
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ashamed of his drinking. But his dad had come to the
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games, he was just hiding away. And so Robert thought that his
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dad doesn't care, but really, in reality, he does care.
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It's just his dad because of his drinking, struggling with his
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drinking. He just didn't know how to
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express his love to his son. He just didn't know how to speak
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it and say to his son the right way.
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And then one day the phone rang. Your dad had a heart attack
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might not make it. Robert rushed to the hospital
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very quickly got into the hospital, writing machines,
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beeping quiet room, heavy moment.
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And his father is in drifting in and out, confused consciousness
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drifting in and out. And in that days, my God, his
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dad thinks that his son Robert is the doctor.
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And all of a sudden, out of no way, the blessing comes out.
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His father says, oh, doctor, have I ever told you about my
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son Robert? Oh, my son Robert, how proud I
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am of him. And he starts talking about and
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bragging about really son's life.
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He's a wonderful son. Doctor, I told you how much I
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love my son. I love watching play sports.
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And he says that he thinks this is the doctor and the place he
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comes out. Nice doctor.
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And now he's even a pastor and he's doing great things.
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My son Robert. I'm so proud of him, doctor.
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And right there, Robert has a grown man, right?
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Tears streaming down. He's weeping, tears streaming
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down his face because right there in the hospital room, he
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heard the words that he waited 30 years to.
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Yeah. And he heard those words.
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That's hated. He didn't need another trophy.
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He didn't need another medal. He didn't need another title.
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He didn't need more success. He needed a sentence from his
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dad. A church.
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They someone in Gore world that needs a sentence from you.
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There's someone in your family, in your world around you.
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They need to hear a sentence from you.
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They are waiting on you for a sentence to speak the blessing
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over them. They are waiting for you to
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speak life. Just one sentence, not a long
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speech, just a blessing. I'm proud of you, I love you.
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I believe in you. Because a blessing is not a
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blessing until it spoke. And so there's Robert's dad.
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It came out in a hospital room. The blessing.
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Finally, it cannot. Finally Robert heard those
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words. Finally that he waited for 30
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years and the blessing cannot. And his dad waited for all those
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till hospital. You don't have to wait.
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Speak life while there is still time.
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Speak life while house can still heal.
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Don't wait for a critical moment.
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Don't wait for a funeral. Don't wait for regret.
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Don't wait for a crisis. These family members, they are
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waiting on you. If it's maybe somebody, I'm
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like, Lord, is there anybody in South Africa I could fuck
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quickly if it's an auntie or somebody and I could just speak
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those words over there, just a quick word.
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And I try and do it as much as I can.
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I'm like, Mama, I just want to tell you thanks.
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Thank you, Lord, for my mom. Mama, I just want to tell you,
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Dad, I just want to tell you in the magazine, you've done your
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best. Thank you.
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Just pick up the phone and find that family member.
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They're waiting. So speak the blessing.
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Come, let's all stand to our feet now.
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I want you to feel the kindness of God in this room.
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Now. Some of you have been strong on
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the outside, but on the inside you carry insecurity, rejection
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Shank, maybe a feeling of insecurity, you're not good
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enough, OK, I'm not good enough. And some of you, it's not even
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what was said, but it's what was not or never said.
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And you grew up without hearing the blessing.
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Maybe it's from earthly parrots. Without hearing I love you, I'm
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proud of you without hearing that.
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And you have been trying to earn and perform and strive just to
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feel secure. Now others in the room, your
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home needs healing. Your marriage is under strain,
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your relationships and you need restoration.
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Others, you are parenting your very best, but you are worried
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about the kids. You need God to strengthen your
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home. So if that's you right now, just
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lift up your hand. If that's you, I just want to
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see you thankful. Yes, yes, raise those hands for
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the Lord. Thank you.
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God sees every hand raised. Now put your hand on your heart.
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This is a moment of healing because God is a restorer, God
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is a healer, and God is a Father who speaks blessing over your
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life. He speaks blessing over his
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children. So I'm just going to pray for
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you right now. And Father, I thank you for your
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goodness in this room. I thank you for your kindness.
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Yeah, Lord, I thank you, Lord, that you bring healing in
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hearts. Every heart Lord, every person
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touch you see everyone, Lord, that you brought here today,
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thank you that you restore. And right now I speak healing
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and restoration to heart. Lord, I thank you that right now
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silence every voice of rejection, fear, silence every
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voice of shame, comparison, break the pressure to prove and
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to perform. Our Lord, I break every negative
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word ever spoken over any person in this place and their families
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represented. I break negative words.
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And Lord, I thank you that you speak blessing words over your
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children right now. Release the Father's voice over
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your sons and your daughters. Father, I speak a blessing over
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homes, over marriages, Restore love, give parents wisdom and
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grace. Lord, bless the children,
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protect the children, bring peace in households.
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And Lord, we decide today we will not withhold the blessing,
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but we will speak life in Jesus mighty name, Amen.
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So church, we're going to speak it.
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Say this out loud. God's blessing is on my life.
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I am loved and chosen, accepted by my father.
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Every negative word is broken. Identity is restored.
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I have strength and courage, a sound mind.
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My home will be strong. My home will be healthy.
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My home will be faithful. My marriage will be covered with
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peace and honor. My children will be protected
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and blessed. This is a year of God's
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blessing. I will not withhold the
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blessing. I will speak the blessing.
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So open up your mouth and speak blessing.
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Every one of us speak blessing. Like I said, there's people
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waiting on the other side to yeah, the blessing, OK, to yeah,
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the blessing. In the mornings when I wake up,
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the first person, I bless the Lord, We have a conversation
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with the Lord. Very awkward driving in the car.
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Somebody says next year there's no communication, convers,
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silence. OK, so let's have some
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conversations with the Lord, OK? If you believe it, give God some
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praise somebody. And this is I, we're going to go
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deeper next Sunday. It's going to be amazing this
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whole series how God puts his name on.
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And I right now I believe God is placing his name on families and
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households. Atmospheres are shifting.
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Yes, it's shifting right now. God's blessing is on your Life,
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OK? Where there has been pressure,
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God is releasing peace. Where there has been striving,
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God is releasing security. I meant and right now negative
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cycles are breaking negative words, hearing not wrong,
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negative words from family members or so forth.
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That's broken off your life in the name of Jesus.
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But shame is lifting in homes is shifting the power of God.
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It is shifting by the power of the spoken blessing.
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OK, so this week the Lord is giving you words to bolt, words
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to heal that heal, and words that unlock doors.
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Now before we go any further, I want to give the greatest
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invitation that I can give you, and that is the greatest place.
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It is a restored relationship with God.
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So if you say past the world, I need to come home to Jesus,
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maybe I've drifted. Maybe it's your first time you
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ever give your life to Jesus or you're drifted and you want to
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come home. If that is you right now, I just
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want to give you an opportunity to very quickly just raise your
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hands to anybody at this place. Yeah, I see that hand.
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God bless you. Anybody just hates power.
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Just close your eyes for a moment.
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Just anybody that says I want to rededicate.
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I want to come back home to Jesus.
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Yes, if today my heart stops beating as my last nice day
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before God, I know I'm going to heaven and I know I'm right with
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God. So right now church, just pray
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this out loud with thank Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins.
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I believe you died and rose again.
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I receive your forgiveness and your love come into my heart.
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Make me new. I receive you as my Lord and my
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Saviour in Jesus name, Amen. OK, so yes, praise not welcome
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to God's family. You're a part of God's family
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now. Yes, we're going to pray in a
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minute. I just want to release one.
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Yes, yes, we'll do that in a minute.
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So we're going to do that in a moment because I'm going to do
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what the Lord showed me how to do, release the blessing.
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And so we're going to do what God told his people how to bless
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his people. And that's straight from
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structure from the Bible is Numbers chapter 6.
Numbers 6 chapter mention
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OK, Speak the blessing. So now I'm going to speak the
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blessing over you and receive it like it's coming from your
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Father, from your heavenly fathers, because it comes
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straight from Scripture, from your Father.
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OK. And then God will do.
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The Father will do what only he can do Amen.
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So if you are ready to receive the blessing, raise your hands
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to heaven, open your heart. And I want you to receive this
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blessing straight from heaven. The Lord bless you and keep you.
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The Lord lift up his face upon you and be gracious to you.
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The Lord lift up his countless upon you and give you peace.
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Shalom, Amen. It's done.
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So if you go this week, remember a blessing isn't a blessing
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until it's spoken. OK, So bless your children,
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bless your spouse, bless your family members, bless your
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future, your job, bless big blessing in your neighborhood.
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Everywhere you go, Hallelujah, you are blessed.
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Somebody give God surprise.