Sermon
Talk That Talk
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Open your Bibles to Genesis chapter 1, the book of beginnings,
Genesis 1 chapter mention
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and the word of the Lord says, Then God said, Let us make man in our image according to our likeness.
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Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air and
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over the cattle and over the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth when i was.
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A little boy i used to live in alaska and i gave my life to the lord in at true
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victory baptist Church in North Pole, Alaska.
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And so my dad was military. We lived in Alaska for four years.
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My little sister was born in Alaska.
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And as I continued to grow, we stayed in the Baptist denomination.
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And I'm not against the Baptist, but there was one thing that I realized when
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we were missionary Baptists was there was a lot of what you can't do.
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It was like, you just can't do this and you can't do that.
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And don't touch the altar at the front. You can't touch that and you can't stand
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behind the altar and you can't snap your fingers. One time we came up with a
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song and we were snapping our fingers and we got rebuked.
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Can't snap your fingers and you can't play spades. I remember that too.
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Can't play board games. It was just a lot of can't, can't, can't.
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And I thought, man, when I grow up, I'm getting out of this Baptist thing,
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you know. I want to be able to do something, right?
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And when we stepped out of the Baptist denomination, nothing wrong with the
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Baptist, by the way, but when we stepped out, one of the first things I learned
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was something that I can do, something that I can do.
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And we see here in Genesis chapter one, God is creating humanity,
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man, male and female is creating humanity.
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The spirit of man is what he actually created.
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He put the spirit of man inside of a male and the spirit of man inside of a female.
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And he created the spirit of man in the image of himself.
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So in the likeness, in the resemblance, in the copy, in the form,
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in the replica of himself.
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He said, man is like me. And so God is a spirit and you and I are spirits. We're just in this body.
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We have a soul and we're in this body.
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And so he created man as a spirit, put the spirit of man in the male and female
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and said, the spirit of man is just like me.
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Now, how are we like God?
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Well, one of the ways we're like God, you know, I'm getting used to our new
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church. I might walk around a little bit, you know, but one of the ways that,
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that we're like God is God is a speaking spirit.
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And so nothing else talks, right? Other things parrot, but nothing else talks.
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You and I are speaking spirits.
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And so when God said, let us make man in our image and in our likeness,
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he said, let's allow man to speak.
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And then he says, let them have dominion. Somebody say dominion.
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Dominion is very important because dominion is authority. It's delegated power.
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It's the right to command, the right to dictate, the right to control.
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He said, let them have dominion.
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Now, I want you to notice something that he did not say, let us have dominion, including himself.
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He said, let them have dominion, intentionally not including himself.
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What does man have dominion over? Over the fish of the sea, the cattle,
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the birds, and over all the earth.
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So man, you and I have dominion, the right to command, control,
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determined over all of the earth.
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And so the earth is in the condition it's in now, not because God is making
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it that way, but because you and I are allowing it to be.
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You and I have the right to determine, to command, and control.
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There are people right now dying of starvation.
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It's not because God is lacking food on the earth.
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It's because you and I have control over the food of the earth,
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and we're distributing it in such a way that some people are not even getting it.
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That's not God's fault. That's our fault. and so God's given us dominion and
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the dominion he's given us is the ability to speak,
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the ability to say now this is our summer of miracles and I want to release and unleash unto you
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a power that you and I have are possessing but we don't know what we really
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are possessing with the ability to speak
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and that's how we're like God we can talk,
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and we can communicate and we can say things just like God says things,
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and we can expect things that we say come to pass. Say amen to that.
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Now, in Genesis chapter 1, verses 1 through 3, I want you to see this.
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Genesis chapter 1, verses 1 through 3, it says, In the beginning God created
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the heavens and the earth.
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And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the
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deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Look at verse three.
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Then God said, let there be light and there was light.
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So let me paint this picture for you. The earth, God created the earth,
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but the earth was without form. It was void and it was dark.
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However, the spirit of God was in the earth, hovering in the earth,
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moving around in the earth, it was without form, it was void,
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nothing, and it was dark.
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Now, the Spirit of God was on the earth, but nothing was happening.
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Until God said, let there be light.
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And the scripture says, and there was light.
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So what I want you to see is nothing happened until something was spoken.
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It was dark. God was there. It was void.
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It was empty. But nothing happened until God said something.
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Now, notice he didn't say, look how dark it is.
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Notice he didn't say, man, I wish it wasn't so dark.
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No, he said something in order to rearrange and change things.
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He released his power through his words and he said, let there be light. And there was light.
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What he really said was light in me be.
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He lit up the earth. Glory to God. And then what day three, I believe that's when he created the sun.
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But he lit up the earth. Light in me be.
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He lit up the earth. And so when something was wrong, God said something to
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change what he wanted to see versus what he was currently seeing.
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This is the power of your words.
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This is something I learned when we stepped out of the Baptist church was I
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can say things and see it come to pass.
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Just like God can. Now, God's on another level, on a sphere of influence,
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what I mean, when he says something, it affects the entire universe.
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But you and I can say something and affect our family, affect our finances,
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affect our health, affect our strength.
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We can say things and things can change because we're created in the image of God.
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We found out in Proverbs chapter 18, if we look at verse 20 and 21,
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Proverbs chapter 18 verses 20 and 21.
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Solomon tells us, a man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth.
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From the produce of his lips, he shall be filled.
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
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What I want you to notice in this passage of Scripture, there are three synonymous
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words, mouth, tongue, and lips. They're all the same.
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And here he says, as fruit satisfies your stomach, so will your words satisfy your life.
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He says, from the produce of your lips, you shall be filled.
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Now, the word produce is also where we get the word production, right?
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How many know what a production company does?
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It produces. It makes something. It creates something. It increases something.
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It brings something into manifestation.
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And so the scripture tells us here is from the produce of your lips,
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your lips were created to produce.
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What if I told you that your words were more about creating than they were about communicating?
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What if I told you the purpose of words was more for creating things than communicating with each other?
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Your lips, your mouth, your tongue will produce.
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It will create, it will make, it will manifest what you want to see.
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Now, this is vitally important because the rest of that scripture he says there,
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and those that love to talk will reap the consequences.
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So you will receive what you're always saying.
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You are producing, you are creating, you are developing what you are already communicating.
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And so you are literally living the life that you communicated yesterday.
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You're living the life that you communicated two weeks ago.
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What are you creating? What are you saying? What is coming out of your mouth?
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What is coming out of your lips?
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What are you allowing your lips and your tongue and your mouth to produce in your life?
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If this is our summer of miracles, we're going to have to start talking about miracles.
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We're going to have to start saying today is my day for a miracle.
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Today is the day I wake up and something good is going to happen to me.
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Today is the day the goodness of God is going to pour out.
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Today is my receiving day. You're going to have to create your world with your word.
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Because the next verse in Proverbs 18, 21, he says, death and life is in the
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power of the devil. Is that what he said?
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You thought death and life was in the power of the devil. Death and life is
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in the power of God. Is that what it says?
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Actually, death and life is in the power of the devil. You have the ability
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to speak death to something.
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Your words can end friendships right now.
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Your words can end relationships. Your words could cut off family members right now.
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Or your words could increase relationships, strengthen relationships,
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create new relationships.
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Your words have the power of death and your words have the power of life.
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Your life is filled with the production of your lips.
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Your life is filled with the production of your lips.
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So let me ask you this question today. What are your lips producing?
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What are your lips producing? And if you don't like where you are,
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you have a weapon to change and rearrange right where you are. And that is your mouth.
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That is your tongue. If you don't like where you are, change it.
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Your victory is found in your tongue in your lips out of your mouth you can
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create an atmosphere an environment
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just by speaking positive god-given
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words words that god put in your heart if you begin to speak them you can change
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things i used to say this all the time i have i've had to really change my vocabulary.
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If you want to get serious about this, change your vocabulary.
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I used to say this all the time, that's killing me.
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Oh, that's killing me. I don't want that thing to kill me, so I can't say that.
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Well, I'm just, you know, you're taking this too serious.
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The devil is listening, and he knows that death and life is in the power of
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the tongue, So he wants to get you to continue to say stuff like that so that he can take you out.
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I'm preaching better than you're saying amen. I used to say things like,
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man, I'm going to laugh to death. Oh, I'm tickled to death.
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I'm laugh to death. Well, listen, I enjoy laughing, but I don't want to die laughing.
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Amen. I want to live long and strong. Amen.
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And so change. You're going to have to intentionally change your vocabulary.
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I went to an auto store. I've never said this before. And I went to this auto
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store because a battery of one of our cars went out.
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And the man said, hey, what do you need? And I said, I need a new battery.
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He said, yeah, a lot of people have come in for new batteries.
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And I said, it's out of my mouth. I said, you know, when it rains, it pours.
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I have never said that before.
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And it just came up out of there when it rains. I said, why did I say that?
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I said, no, no. Then I had to correct myself. I said, you know,
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thank God I've got the money to buy a new battery.
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Amen. You know, the money cometh. Amen.
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To take care of all these things. You're going to have to say what you want
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to see and not what you currently see.
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This is the power of your words. The title of this message is Talk That Talk. Amen.
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Talk That Talk. Only say what you want to see.
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You're going to have to put a guard over your mouth. and only say what you want to see.
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Don't say what you currently see. We already see what you currently see.
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Say what you want to see.
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Now, we'll see here in Romans chapter 4. Let's take a look here.
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Romans chapter 4, verse 16 and 17.
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Romans 4, 16 and 17. Paul tells us, as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations.
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In the presence of him whom he believed, God, watch this, who gives life to
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the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did.
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Now, God gives life to the dead. Remember, you're created in the image of God,
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in the resemblance, in the likeness, in the replica, in the exact duplication of God.
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God gives life to the dead. How does he give life to the dead? He speaks to it.
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He uses his lips and he begins to speak to it and he gives life to the dead. Why?
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Because he wants to quicken things, make alive things, and impart resurrection life into things.
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He breathes life into things that look dead, delayed, or impossible.
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He gives life. And how does he give life? This is something I want you to go
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home with today. He begins to call.
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Now, the word call means to summon. To summon.
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To call forth, to bring into manifestation.
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He begins to call things that be not as though they were.
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He does not call things that are as though they're not.
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Listen to me now. He calls things that are not as though they are.
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He does not call things that are as though they're not.
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He calls things that are not as though they are. Why do you keep saying that?
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Because people say, well, you know, the doctors diagnosed me with cancer, but I don't have that.
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Well, if the doctors say you have it, you probably have it. They could be wrong, but you probably do.
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You don't call what is not.
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You call what's not is.
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And so the doctor says, you know, you've been diagnosed with cancer.
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You don't say, well, I don't have it.
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That's not what God does. I don't have it. No, you say, I call healing to come.
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I call manifestation of God's power to come.
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I call resurrection power to come on the inside of me.
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I call things that be not as though they are, because when you call things that
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are not as though they are, things that are begin to change the way you've called it.
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It is on feet and it's running towards you right now when you call for it.
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When we have a two-story home and I'm downstairs, Zavin is upstairs,
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all I got to do is say, Zavin...
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That's all I got to do. And what does he do? He hops up, whatever he's doing,
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and he begins to run down the stairs and say, yes, dad, what did I do?
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I called for him. I called for him.
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In the invisible realm, you can call for things in the invisible realm and bring
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it into the visible realm because things are more real in the invisible realm
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than in the visible realm.
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Things in the visible realm are temporary and subject to change,
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But things in the invisible realm are permanent and you can call for it.
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If I want Zayven, I don't call Zayge.
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And if Zayge is sitting next to me and I want Zayven, I call Zayven.
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And I'll say, Zayge, Zayge, and she'll look at me like, what?
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I'm right here. What, what, what?
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I don't want to call for her. I want to call for what I don't have.
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And I'm demanding it come into the visible realm. Say amen to this.
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A couple of years, well, no, 2025, February 2025, I go get an annual checkup.
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How many of you, don't raise your hand, but every one of you should go get an
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annual checkup. Say amen to that.
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Go get it. Some of you are fearing bad news, so you won't go to the doctor.
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That's the only reason you don't go, because you're scared of the bad news.
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But believers don't fear bad news.
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We confidently trust the Lord to take care of us. Amen?
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And so I go to get my annual physical.
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And there were certain numbers as an organ in my body that the numbers were pretty high.
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And every year, they just, you know, they stayed high.
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The doctor never really said anything to me about it. I said something to them.
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I was like, these numbers are pretty high. They said, yeah, at some point,
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we may have to address that. I'm talking about at some point.
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We need to address that right now, right? What are we waiting for, right?
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I said, well, what's going on with that? They said, you know,
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I don't know. We're keeping an eye on it. But the last five years,
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the numbers were pretty high.
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And I heard the Spirit of the Lord say this to me in my heart.
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He said, what are you going to do about it? Well, I knew what he meant.
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I said, well, there's some natural things that I could do, right?
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Drink more water, exercise a little more, this, that, and a third.
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I said, but there's also some spiritual things that I can do.
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And so this particular organ in my body, there were three words I heard in my heart.
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Every day, I would call this organ. I said, organ, I'll call you normal size organ.
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Healthy function, green numbers.
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I did it every day. Oregon, you be normal size, healthy function,
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green numbers. Because it was in the yellow, you know?
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Normal size, healthy function, green numbers. And I would just call for it.
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Oregon, I call you normal size, healthy function, green numbers.
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If you got high blood pressure, call your blood pressure 120 over 80.
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Your body will listen to you. James chapter 3, verse 2. Your body will listen to you.
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You call things that be not as though they are. I said, Oregon, I call you.
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Normal size, healthy function, green numbers. And I began to call.
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And I went back to the doctor the following year.
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And then the doctor, you know, put the graph out. The doctor didn't say anything
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about the graph, but I saw the graph.
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And guys, if you don't mind, put it on the screen. This was the graph that I saw.
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I was excited about this because this is going to come on the screen at any moment now,
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And I'm super thrilled by it praise God well It doesn't look like it's coming
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on the screen But they'll put it on the screen when they put it because I put
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it in Dropbox So it should be in there.
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Amen. Amen. And so, I begin to call what I wanted to see and not what I currently saw.
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I begin to call for it. I begin to call for it.
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You know, the scripture says here that when you call for it,
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don't wait for it to appear before you speak.
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Speak it first, and then manifestation will follow.
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Don't wait for it to appear before you speak. Speak it first and the manifestation will follow.
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And when you're calling, you're calling things which do not exist.
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What does that mean? Things not yet visible, things not yet present,
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things not yet manifested, things which do not exist.
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You're calling for these things, things that are not yet in your hands,
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but are already in God's perfect plan for you. You're calling for it.
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If it's financial, just call for it. There's some lack in my life.
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I call for abundance to come in the name of Jesus.
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I call for it to come to take care of this need. Bill, I call you paid in Jesus' name.
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You got to begin to talk to things. You know, we talk, there's the graph.
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Hallelujah. Now look at this.
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Now, you see how my numbers were going up, up, up, up, and then I started talking
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to it. Can you tell when I started talking to it?
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It dropped back down in the green. Say amen to that.
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I began to talk to it, and it came down. I am not just making stuff up up here
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preaching to you. I've got evidence and proof that if you'll talk to it,
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it'll change in a real range.
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It'll make visible in your life. Put the graph back on the screen one more time,
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guys. Put it back on the screen one more time.
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I want you all to see evidence.
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Evidence. I started talking to it, and it dropped down.
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Glory to God. That was just in one year. Just in one year talking to it,
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talking to it, talking to it, and it came down.
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You can begin to call for things. Thank you, guys.
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You can begin to call for things. I call that organ in my body healthy function,
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normal size, green numbers.
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And you see that the numbers was in the green. Say amen to that.
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And so as you begin to call things, it's not yet in you yet,
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but it's part of God's perfect plan for you. And you begin to call it.
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When we were preparing to get
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in this facility, we began to call for this thing. Y'all remember that?
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We called for it to come in. We call for it to manifest. We call for it and
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you're sitting in it right now. Say amen to that.
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You've got to call for these. Nothing just happens.
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Nothing just happens. Nothing happens until something is spoken.
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You've got to call for it, and you've got to put a demand on it.
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And when you put a demand on it, it'll come in Jesus' name.
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And you call for it as though they did. What does that mean?
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As existing, as present, as already established.
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God speaks of the end, not of the current situation.
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God is always talking about the end, the end of a thing.
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And you need to begin to think and talk the end of a thing.
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Whatever it is that you're going through, if you've got a wayward child and
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they're acting crazy, you just, I call them back into the house of God.
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I call them back in, come home. I call you, come, thank God that they're home.
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But you think, well, in the natural, they're not home yet. No,
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I called for it, and it's coming, and it will manifest in due time.
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I thank God it's home. When we were believing God for Zai, she wanted to get
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a full ride scholarship to college.
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Y'all remember that? We called it in.
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Full ride, come to us in Jesus' name. We thank God that Zai has a full ride scholarship.
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Come to us in the name of Jesus, full ride. Well, guess what happened?
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She graduated high school.
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She got accepted. Twelve different colleges accepted her. Praise God.
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But one of them offered her, guess what?
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A full ride. Well, why did they offer her that? Well, she had hard work that
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went into it. But mom and dad was calling for it.
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Say amen to that. If you got some sickness, call for the healing to come in your body.
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If you're lacking, call for the abundance to come in your body.
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If you need to know what to do, call for the wisdom to come in Jesus' name.
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We've been sitting around just waiting for stuff to happen, and it ain't been
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happening because we haven't been calling for it.
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The Lord told me one particular time there was something in the church that
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I was believing him for, and it didn't seem to be happening.
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And I said, Lord, I said, man, it just don't seem to be happening.
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He said, because you're not in faith.
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I said, well, wait a minute. I am believing you for it. I'm in faith.
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He said, you're not in faith.
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I said, well, I am. I think I am. He said, you're not. I said,
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finally had to agree with God. Okay, I'm not.
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Teach me. What am I doing? And he said, you've stopped calling for it.
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I said, wow, you stopped calling for it. When I was younger,
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we had a cat. Cat name was Smokey.
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Smokey was a cool cat, you know. And Smokey was an outdoor cat. And he went outside.
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And if we wanted Smokey to come home, we would get out on the porch and we would say, Smokey.
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And we would wait.
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And we would say, Smokey. And we would wait. Sometimes we would go back in the
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house. We would come back maybe five, ten minutes later.
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Smokey, right? We would wait, go back in the house, come back five,
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ten minutes. Smokey, and out of the woods, here comes Smokey.
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He was an Alaskan cat, you know.
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He would come out of the woods, come running home out of the woods and run to
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the door and come on inside. Well, why did he come?
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Because we called him. And we kept calling him. And we kept calling him.
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And we kept calling him. And he would come because we called him.
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Why would you stop calling it?
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Well, I don't see it yet. That means you need to keep calling.
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And the Lord said to me, he said, you are not in faith in this because you stopped calling for it.
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I said, you're right. I began to call for it. How do you think I got Stacy here? I called for her.
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I said, today's the day I'm going to meet my wife. Today's the day I'm going to meet her, right?
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I called her in and one day she came in and I almost lost it because we were
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friends first, you know, and I almost lost it. You know, and I'm going to say
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this, marry your best friend.
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You agree with that, don't you? Yeah, your best friend.
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Amen. Fine. I talk to people sometimes. Well, that's just my friend.
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How old are you? I'm 50 and I'm still single, but that's my friend.
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That might be your mate. Right.
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I mean, if y'all can be really good friends, y'all can probably be really good
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husband and wife, too. Don't shout me down when I'm preaching good.
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Now, if your best friend got some character issues, I question if they should
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be your best friend. But that's a whole other conversation.
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But call. Whatever it is that you need, call for it. Call for it.
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This has been a miracle that we've been walking in in order to get this facility that we're in.
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We begin to call for it, the money to come in, call for the building to come
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in, call for a bank to favor us.
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We begin to just call for it. We begin to call for it, and it started coming,
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because we were calling for it.
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And that's a power that you and I have lacked is we've stopped calling for it,
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And we have said, well, whatever happens, happens.
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And we get tired and we get fatigued and we give up and we quit.
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But you got to continue to call for it and know in the spirit realm, it is coming.
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It's coming. It's on feet running towards you.
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It's coming in Jesus' name. Romans 4, 17 in the living Bible,
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watch this, says it this way.
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And this promise is from God himself, who makes the dead live again and speaks,
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watch this, of future events with as much certainty as though they were already past.
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Notice, God is talking about future events with as much certainty as it's already done.
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That's how you and I are supposed to talk.
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We're supposed to talk like as if it's already done.
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We wanted to go on a cruise, a family cruise. And we began to just believe God.
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First thing we did is we sowed a seed. If you have a need, what do you do?
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Sow a seed. We got some money and we sowed it and said, Lord,
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we sow a seed for this cruise. And, you know, there's a family of five.
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Well, this time we took everybody, right? Six. Yeah, we took everybody on this particular cruise.
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And family six. And we began to say, okay, how many of you know that?
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Costs a lot of money. Amen?
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And I don't believe in going on vacation in debt. Right? I believe in vacations are paid for with cash.
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I only got a few amens on that, but I know I'm telling the truth on that. And so.
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I said, you know, we sowed the seed, and we began to believe God,
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and we began to call it in.
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We said, you know, money come from the north, south, east, and west for this
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cruise, and you know, any extra money that came in, we began to save for it,
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and we began to just to call the money in.
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Money come in for the cruise. We call you in from the north, south, east, and west.
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We had a little confession that we would say together that God's going to pay
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for this cruise for us, and the money's going to come in. We just begin to call
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it in. Yes, we saved money for it.
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Yes, we budgeted a little bit money for it. But how many know it was thousands,
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amen, that had to come in in order for us to go on this cruise?
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It wasn't hundreds, it was thousands, right?
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And so we begin to call for it. Well, out of the blue, extra money started coming in.
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Glory to God. And little by little, it started coming in until one day one guy
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reached out to me. He says, what do you need?
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And I said, well, I think I'm fine, right? I know we fine, we fine.
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I said, I think we're good. And I said, no, I'm going to tell him we believe
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in to go on a cruise, take the whole family on the cruise.
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He said, the Lord told me to meet your need. He said, how much is the cruise?
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Well, I told him how much it was going to be.
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He said, the Lord told me to take care of that for you. Amen.
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Well, praise God, the money came in.
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Why did it come in? We began to call for it.
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And God laid it on somebody's heart to take care of it. Somebody say amen to that.
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You just, what you're lacking is calling.
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You got to call for it. Call for it. Command it to come. Demand it to come.
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Call for it to come in Jesus' name.
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Now watch this in Romans chapter 4, 17 in the Amplified Classic.
Romans 4 chapter mention
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Who gives life to the dead and speaks of non-existent things that he has foretold
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and promised as if they have already existed.
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We're to speak as if these things are already existed. that they're already
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done. That's what faith is.
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Believing that you have it before you even see it.
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Believing that you've received it before it manifests.
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This is what faith does. We have to call things that be not as though they were.
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I've been calling this summer for you and me, a summer of miracles.
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I just call in and this will be a summer of miracles for you and me.
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This summer shall be a summer of miracles for you and me.
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This is what I'm just calling miracles. Divine appointments,
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divine connections, open doors, unexplainable events, wonders taking place.
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Just calling it in. Why? Because the Word says that we're created in the image of God.
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And if God calls things that be not as though they were, you and I can call
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things that be not as though they were. Say amen to that. 1 Peter 3,
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10 and 11 in the Passion Translation. 1 Peter 3, 10 and 11 in the Passion.
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It says, For the Scriptures tell us, Whoever wants to embrace true life and
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find beauty in each day must stop speaking evil, hurtful words. I want to pause there.
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If you want to embrace true life.
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And find beauty each day. What do you have to do?
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You're going to have to stop speaking evil, hurtful words over yourself.
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Stop saying I'm stupid.
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Because then you'll start believing that. Start saying I'm wise.
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I'm kind. When you're tired, stop saying I'm so tired.
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Start saying let the weak say what? I'm strong.
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We're to be counter-cultural in our communication.
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When I'm tired, I'll tell them, hey, man, it's been a tired day.
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And then I'll switch over and I'll tell, my wife will tell you,
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I'll walk around the house saying, I am strong.
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I am strong. Well, she knows I'm probably tired, but I'm calling for strength.
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Amen. I'm strong. I'm strong. I am strong.
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And when I'm not feeling well, I don't say I'm so sick, that flu bug bit me and got me.
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Oh, that's hurtful words against you, and I'm going to be down for the rest of the year.
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That flu is going to take me out. I'll tell you what. I get it every,
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every flu season. I get both strands, every season. Don't say that.
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Start saying health and healing and divine protection is over our family.
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I'm strong. Say that. I'm strong.
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I begin to call these things. I'm strong. I'm strong. I'm strong.
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Let the weak say I'm strong. When I'm lacking financially, let the poor say what?
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I'm rich. I'm rich. I have more than enough.
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I've got excess. I've got more to give to somebody else. Well,
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you crazy. You don't look like you're rich.
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I don't care what you think. I am rich.
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And I'm not just talking about money.
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Amen. I got more energy, more wisdom. I've got more knowledge.
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I know what to do when I don't know what to do.
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Why? Because I'm calling for it.
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I'm calling for it. Scripture says that we can call things that be not as though they were. Amen.
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This is how you experience true life.