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i’m in it to win it part 1
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Angels bowed before him. Yes, yes, Yes, Heaven and earth
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adore him.
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Yes, I said, angels, heaven and earth adore him.
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What a mighty God we serve. M mm hmm, thank you.
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I came in here.
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One way, and I thank God I'm leaving another Jesus,
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thank your God.
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I came in here one way, and I thank God
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I'm leaving another way. God's glory. And I know God
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that that was just the beginning.
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I know God wants to sup with me, and I
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gotta give him everything because some things are gonna break
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until you get before his presence. I know he wants
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to sup with me. I know he wants to pray
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with me, and I know that he wants my heart
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all of it. What is going on with my family?
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God said, I'm doing a reconstructure.
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I'm doing a work.
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When the earth came into form, God had to put
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land masses where it needed to be. Yes, yes, he said,
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I'm realigning the order. See I have to be the
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head of the order. Yes see, I've got to know
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this brother. But see he's not in order. God said,
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I'm in order. I'm the first.
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Yes, Lord, God said, God doesn't care about your age.
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Thank you Jesus.
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And there is a responsibility on me that I'm supposed
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to be the priest of my household. I'm not married yet,
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but I've got to cover my family in prayer. And
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there's a responsibility that everyone in this room has, whether
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you're like it or you don't. And I had to
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repent to God because I allowed doors that should have
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never got open. Well that's okay, you know, you know
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sometimes you forget, and well, we don't forget anything else.
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So why is he last?
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Nothing should be able to be comfortable in your presence. Nothing,
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no devil should be comfortable in your presence.
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And I said God, I had to repent. I had
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to apologize.
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I said, Lord, I know I'm not in the place
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that I should be spiritually.
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You know you're at a certain level of God's I
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know I want more from you.
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There's a position I need you to be in, and
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I need you to get there so that I can move.
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See when you move, I'll move, he said, when you
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help her, I'll help her.
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So the standing of where you are in the spirit
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needs to increase.
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Because some devils don't come out except through prayer and fasting.
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There are some principalities that are not going to move
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until you get into that secret place.
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Amen. Amen, Amen, But see.
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The person is already delivered. The first person he's trying
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to deliver is you. He's trying to bring you higher.
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So God was speaking to me when I was praying
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and really just supping with him. I know he wants
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more than that. I have to give him my all.
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When God does something like he said, Am I not God?
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And did I not do this before? But I'm trying
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to bring you higher? See, because once I take the
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enemy out, I'm going to take him out of you
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first Jesus. See, everything has to come in line when
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the priest comes in the house.
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Amen.
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Podcast, I want to welcome you to Eternal Fire Ministry
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is the Holy Spirit Ministry. I'm extinguished. I am the
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one and only Jonathan Hardwick. Come into you live from
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East Harford, Connecticut in a sobering mood, knowing that my
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God is with me despite of what's happening in my life,
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despite of all the hell that wants to come knocking
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at my door.
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I know that God is with me and I'm not looking.
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For him to do something that he's already done. I'm
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just needed him to reassure my faith. Ain't nothing wrong
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with that. I don't serve a God that doubts. I
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don't serve a God that lies today and does something tomorrow.
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His bird said, He's the same yesterday, today and forever.
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But I thank God that when he spoke to me
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while I was praying, he said, did I not give
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you a ministry of grace? Did I not give you
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a ministry of mercy? And I imparted that grace and
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mercy to my family, that God, you would have grace
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and mercy to deal with them accordingly. You know, I
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don't think people realize that we're in a battle, a
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constant battle. That when you're trying to get to the
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next level and you're trying to do the will and
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the plan of God, and you're striving to do the
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plan and the will.
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Of God, that you think the enemy is just gonna
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take a vacation.
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Now, he only takes a vacation with people that he
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knows aren't doing much. And I'm not talking about your giving.
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I don't care how much you give. That's not gonna
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make the enemy upset. It's when you start living the
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will and the plan.
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Of God that he has ordained for your life. He
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is going to come against you. But I hate to
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tell you.
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As God said, all principalities and powers are subject to
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my name, And so I know how to make a
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tool gets you in the place where you need to
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be out cause a scene or something that happens out
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cause tables to be turned in your life, that it
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would make you to seek me on the answer of
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how to turn.
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Those tables backside in its front.
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See, if you can't look at it like that, you
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can only see it as an enemy as it is,
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but not as a tool to promote you to go higher.
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That means that you're looking at it in the wrong way.
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Anything that comes in your radar, that includes your family,
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and that includes your very walk, we must take precaution.
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You know, as we're looking on the radar and we
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see an enemy ship, a ship that's unrecognizable, that's not
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a part of the fleet, we must act accordingly. We
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don't wait until some type of signal comes back at
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us that says that, oh, maybe we should engage.
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Now that we see it on radar.
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But we've got to wait before it's miles away and
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start to respond. But God knows the level of where
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he needs to intervene.
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In our life.
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And so tonight, before I do that, let me give
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you my telephone number. It's eight six zero five zero
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zero A eight three seven and the emails Eternal Fire
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Ministry at gmail dot com. Well, I wonder why he's
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not going about five hundred miles a minute.
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I said, well I can. But here's the thing.
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When we knew, you know, sometimes we like the praise
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God a lot. Now we'll praise him in here. This
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isn't a dead ministry. But the thing about it is,
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when you know you're fighting something in the atmosphere, does
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it always mean that there's a spirit that's trying to,
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you know, dampen environment or damp in your praise. Sometimes
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God just doesn't want it. And I had a feeling
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that we were going in a different direction because I said, God,
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all I want.
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To do is just worship you.
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Now, I'll just you know, be casual and turn the
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praise on and see but see nothing. We weren't feeling
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that I want to get in his presence. Any fool
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can praise God.
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As a matter of.
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Fact, next Sunday is Super Bowl and I'll be praising
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God somewhere. Some of them in their dialect language, you know,
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they're curseful language, and some of them be thanking God
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and standing on their cars and praising them. But nobody
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really understands what worship does. Worship is when you get
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before your Father in intimacy. See, nobody wants to go there,
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like you said to me when I was praying with him,
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nobody wants to go in the examining room, but you
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have to go. Yeah, And it's not nothing anything bad.
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There's just some things that God just is not going
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to impart to you with everybody that's being seen. And
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he said, maybe I'll work while you're in the operating room.
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Maybe that's why I'm not moving, because the move starts
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with you. And I'm so thankful that God speaks to
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me the way he does. I don't know how he speaks.
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Maybe he beats you up and maybe you needed it,
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but I thank God that he speaks to me the
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way that he does. Well, you don't always get things right.
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Maybe I'm not supposed to. Maybe I'm supposed to wait
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for his timing. You know, I say a lot of
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things that I'll be the first want to say. I
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run my mouth a lot, only because I get excited.
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But I'm coming into a season where I'm learning to
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just be.
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Quiet and just do it.
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Because people aren't gonna remember you by what you say. Necessarily,
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it's gonna be about what you do. Jesus said, you
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don't have to believe.
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Me and what I say. But you see these works
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that have been done. That's enough already.
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When we're running a race, everyone starts at the beginning together. However,
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as we get the instructions to take off or the
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instructions to go, everyone doesn't run together.
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But we find that each participant in the race.
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Is running towards the same ending, but in different places.
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If you believe that you're a winner, stand up. Oh wait,
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I didn't have to tell them, my God.
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If you believe you're going to succeed while running in
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your race, stand up, now you can tell you.
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All right, now, you better get some confidence, because I'm
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gonna say some things that I didn't put in my notes.
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Some of you are getting ready to run races you
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did not plan on running. Oh you didn't when I
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said it. Some of you are getting ready to run
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some races that you did not plan to run. But
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are going to succeed in them because God desires to
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bring you higher. Tonight, you can sit down now, you've
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got too much endurance. Tonight, I'm going to talk about
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endurance and perseverance. Each of us have to win our race.
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I'm going to share the four postures while running in
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our race we should be engaged in before we run
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a successful race towards winning. I want to say this
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because well, I'll say the title of the message. It's
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going to be a part one. Jeez, you've been doing
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a lot of Part one is I say? Yeah, honey,
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because I know that I ain't gonna get through this one.
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But I have to prepare you for your race.
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I have to. Well, I've been running already yet, but
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you might be running, but you may not know where
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you're running too, and why you're running and who you're
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running for. That's the biggest key.
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She I'm not just running for me.
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Oh, don't get me sorry, I'm trying to I'm trying
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to teach and you're getting me started.
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Now. See, I'm not just running for me.
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There are people watching me, called the next generation, that
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are watching my standing and how I treat individuals and
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how I walk and how I talk, and the authority
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that I walk in in the patients and the lung suffering.
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I now have. How many nieces and nephews do have?
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I got a lot of you. I've got a lot
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of people here.
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I just welcome in a new niece name what was
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the name, Layla Noel Brown?
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And she's a sleepy old thing. She sleeps all the time.
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I don't get And then she woke up when when
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when I asked my sister for her, Oh, she just
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woke up. I said, yeah, because she heard me. She said, yeah, right,
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she didn't hear you. She heard the food coming.
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And so I wonder, as I've been really seeking God
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lately about my legacy and what I'm going to leave behind,
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which we don't like to talk about these things, even
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though I'm forty two. But as I'm here, what impact
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can I make with my family? How can I be upstanding?
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Because sometimes I'm not quite upstanding. I say things that
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you know, people the wrong way, and I just really
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I hate to tell you this. I really don't give
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a care because I don't want to take.
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A step to love.
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But I guess I will see. Sometimes you need to
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tell the truth. Lord, yes, Lord, and shame the devil Lord,
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And I'm sorry. If you don't like my Jim. You
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can get out of the Facebook where the family. Now,
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y'all got family chats. Now I can just excuse myself,
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which is what I had to do, because I said.
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Something some people didn't like.
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And of course, you know, when you can dish it out,
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you gotta be able to take it.
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But I can tell you something. I'm not gonna take negativity.
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I'm not gonna be somewhere where I'm gonna be mistreated.
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You're not say we are family. We are family. All
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my brothers and sisters with me. If you say we're family,
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didn't act like we are family. When somebody, oh god,
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I can feel it.
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God, when somebody needs a piece of bread and you
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live ten minutes away, and it's a shame that somebody's
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got to come one hour away from their house just
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to give their sister a piece of bread. But yet
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you live ten minutes away. And then you want to
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get on the group chat ack like you're all that
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and you're the oldest one and everybody's got to listen
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to you.
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Oh no, honey, that's not how it works.
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But I started talking to God about what I'm going
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to and how I'm going to impact those that are.
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In my family.
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And I'm not just talking about my natural family, but
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also my spiritual family. What can I do as a
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representation of God to be able to give them the
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best example there is in Christ.
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I started looking at my conversations.
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I started reevaluating maybe the way that I talk, because sometimes.
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You know, they can get on my last nerve, like
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one just did a few minutes ago.
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But as I'm running my race, I'm starting to get
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more focused on my surroundings more than me getting to
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my fulfillment. Because we start looking at and I'm going ahead,
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I'm jumping ahead.
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But I want you to look at this.
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Everybody is so focused on finishing that they don't look
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at the process of how they finish.
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You are so focused on getting to the deadline.
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You are so focused to getting to the end result.
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But we don't focus on the people that are running
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with us in the race.
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See, nobody talks about that.
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See everybody is going I can understand if we were
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all in competition with each other in a regular race,
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which some of us act like they are, but we
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have to remember that each and every one of us
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are part of the body of Christ, and each and
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every one of us a separate path. Even though even
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when you look on the track, come on, April, come
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teach me.
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You know you're in track and field, So you know
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when you're on that track and you see all.
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Those different separate lines, that's everybody's own lane.
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And I know the old city and that somebody you say, somebody, you.
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Need to stay in your own lane. But everybody's got
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their own lane, and everybody's got their own pace, and
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everybody's got their own.
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Stride, and everybody's got their own speed. But guess what,
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we are all in the race to that finish line.
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That's right.
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But nobody looks at who is in the race. Nobody
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looks for opportunity to bring endurance to their neighbor.
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That's next.
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Let me tell you something. I'm just gonna be real
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right now. And whoever you, I don't even know who
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this is. I haven't heard of it in before. I
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have never seeing such selfish Christians. Everybody has time for themselves,
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but nobody has the time to take a moment to
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invest in their brother or sisters. Everybody has the crab
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mentality I told you Christian Crabs. Maybe I should sun
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a restaurant Christian Crabs. Everybody's trying to make it to
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their blessing. Everybody's trying to make it to the end.
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Everybody's trying. I don't have time for you. I have
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this that I'm trying to do. But then you forget
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that we're all in it two winnings. The title of
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my message is I'm in it two winnings. See, nobody
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wants to take the time to bring somebody over the finished.
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Know, at some.
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Point in the race, oh y'all, don't y'all want me
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to ya, don't want me to get going here. See,
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sometimes in the race, I start off slow. Now they
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may have told me to go, and you may have
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took off before me. But at some point I'm gonna
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learn about the tenacity of how I'm to run.
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I'm gonna learn.
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To breathe a certain way. So the more than I
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breathe in and breathe out and learned the avenues of
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how my breathing techniques can help me to increase.
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My stride, I finally get up to where you are.
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But see, in that race, in the world, it's competitive,
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but we are running a different race. Everybody's not wearing
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the same thing, everybody's not running the same stride or
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even the same speed.
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But guess what.
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Everybody is trying to get to the finish line. And
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I have seen Christians over top Christians and knock them
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off of their course.
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Just to get it.
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And some people watch someone really expose somebody. Some of
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you take pleasure when your brother is toppled down and
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will not have enough sense to stop your race to
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pick your brother up and say, come on, we gotta
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get to.
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See you never heard it preach like, let me say this.
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Everyone is in a race, but remember to keep your
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pace and stay out of my race. All right, You
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cannot want this is what God gave me.
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You cannot whine and think you're a winner.
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If you're constantly in a winning position, you will never
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or a whining position, you will never win the race. See,
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we all got our positions, we've all got our ways
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of running. But in this Christian experience, there's gonna come
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a point where I am going to catch up to you,
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and what you do to me when I'm next to
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you is going to determine my position in my velocity
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and my speed towards getting me to that finish line,
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because everybody is going.
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To cross the saying finish line. I know you have
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heard of like this. I know you've heard. Well, you
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need to hurry up. Callelujah.
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Everybody, stay in your own lane, get out of my lane.
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I'm trying to get to the end result of my destiny.
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But what you don't realize is your destiny may not
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be my destiny.
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But guess what we serve the same.
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Five Yes, Lord, and see people have had the opportunity
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in their race to be able to run next to
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people that are in the same place. And don't realize
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that God has placed you in that position because you
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and that person potentially.
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Have the same stride. And get y'all both over that
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finish line. Jesus, Yes Lord, m see. You had to
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learn to catch up.
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You had to learn to run with your brother because
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you said, I ain't gonna let my brother outrank me.
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I'm gonna find a way to speed up my velocity
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and run alongside of him.
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Yes Father, Yes God. Now let's go to Hebrews chapter twelve.
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You didn't even know what you're talking about. I can't
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hear somebody want he don't even know he's talking about.
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I don't even think he knows what he's saying. Did
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God ever say it had to be clear? Did you
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say it had to be eloquently spoken?
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I wonder what school he went to. I went to
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many schools.
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As a matter of fact, I'm going to one right now,
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hard university you want to join. Too many people didn't
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want to go with me to that university because you know,
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whatever school you go to, each it should be designed
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for you. I hope. Yep, Hebrew's chapter twelve, verse one. Now,
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if we get stuck too bad, we'll make it part three.
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But see, I come back to the parts when I
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feel like it. See, I don't have a schedule here.
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I went in next week. What he's gonna talk about?
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He's probably gonna do that part too. Oh no, I didn't.
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I did something else. Can't pinpoint me that way. You
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ain't gonna hold me.
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Down like your pastor.
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Well, if you would get a church at a location,
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i'd be able to come to you. Well, I hate
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to tell you, I ain't getting neither action. I like
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it just the way it is. Well, see you're sitting
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up there running that cold I know how you're running
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your mouse. Well, apparently you don't like the colt anyway,
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because you don't like what's being said. So I can't
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be that much of a cold. If I were a cold,
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people would be worshiping me. They're not worshiping me, they're
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worshiping God.
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Where you got the same old people there. I know
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somebody's running their mouth. Well, i'll tell you you can
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come join.
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Just come call telephone number eight six zero five eight, Greece.
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You can find out just what it is. But it
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may not be your cup of tea. It might spill
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on you. It might oh, here it comes.
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Now.
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Usually it's shil that's slipping. We got April flipping to night.
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You had to dust off the dust, ancient dust. Wherefore,
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seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
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cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and
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the sin.
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I know that's foreign the sum of you, because you've
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heard a bunch of knockoff sermons lately.
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So I know they try to take sin out because
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they're the ones that are sinning while they're opening the boat.
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I'm sorry, I won't do it.
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They don't ask God to cover them and the sin
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which doth so easily beset us, and let us run
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with patience.
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Oh God, I lost some of you already. God, don't
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like that word patience. Process.
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And see, patience is what's going to bring refinement and patience,
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it's what's going to bring perseverance. Some of you can't
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last five minutes in the race. As soon as you sweat,
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you want to give up. Oh, let me keep reading.
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And the race that is set before us, we watch
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this looking on too, Jesus, the author and finisher of
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our faith. I'm gonna stop right there.
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It's a continuing sentence.
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But see, since we are surrounded, encompassed by so great
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a cloud of witnesses, we are constantly surrounded by them
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when we're running this race. In the beginning, you're not
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just running this race for yourselves.
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Here, but you are running.
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It for somebody else in the present and in the past,
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even the unredeemed people in your family.
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I notice is tight. So what you're trying to say,
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my dead mother in law her too, Yes, but she's dead.
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Oh she's dead for you, But she's more living than me.
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Spirits are not dead. They were, and they tell you
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how the spirit round works. The spirit round is happening
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right now while we're talking. I know there's about eighty
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people in this room tonight. See that's why numbers don't
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bother me, because I know somebody in the spirit is listening.
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They are watching.
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As a witness of how redemption works. But see those
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are watching our testimony play out, and these witnesses are
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watching us and how we walk. I'm not talking about
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just in the natural. I'm talking about in the spirit
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as well. I must say a strong statement that God
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just gave me and this is gonna really rock your world.
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When you give up, they give up.
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Jesus wow, Jesus hod y say something. Let's say something deep.
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When you give up, When you say I cannot do this,
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you are sending a word to your witnesses.
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That say I can't do it.
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So guess what It reverbates in their spirit and they
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don't move onto the places of perfection.
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What are you saying you need to tell me. I'm
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still tying to my mother. Yes, Spirit, No, Spirit.
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I ain't talking about some voodoo fortune teller that you
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paid twenty five cents to try to conjure up something
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by natural elements. I'm talking about something supernatural that comes
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in your room.
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And you know you're getting invited.
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Okay, but those are familiar spirits.
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Oh, I know you familiar spirits. Let me tell you something.
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The only way they would be familiar as if you've
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been playing around with familiar My mom has come to
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me several times in dream state. That's the only time.
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That's the only time God can get some of your attentions.
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When you're knocked out in a state of sleep. You
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can't get you any other time. So he waits till
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your knockout and your spirit and is a place of rest.
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A type of rest. And my mom has come to
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me and she has shared things.
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I have testimony of my nephew who said that he
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was in the spirit realm and he met my He
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said he called my mom Mimi, and Mimi took me
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to meet God and he said God is good and
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God is real. See, let me tell you something. Ain't no,
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we don't have time to play. It shocked the hell
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out of me, I'm tell you that. But these spirits
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are alive. They just operate in a different realm that
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is outside of our realm. We are in the realm
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of Chronos. We're in the realm of I'm sorry, yeah, chromos,
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And so the realm of cosmos, I'm sorry, Cosmos is
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the orderly arrangement of this world. We live in the
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flesh round right, and so the spirit realm is separate
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beyond the eyesight of our flesh.
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That in order for us to pierce through, there are
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only two ways to do that.
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One, this flesh has got to be put under, yes,
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and that means to lay it to rest through I
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would save, and through the channels of fasting or praying,
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because the Bible says, when your flesh decreases, I increase,
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your sensitivity of the spirit increases.
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And then there are some by faith.
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That have the attribute of gifting through the Holy Spirit,
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that God allows that that flesh scale be removed, that
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they're able to see things spiritually through open demonstration in
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the flesh. But spirits are real. The Word of God
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would not declare that we wrestle not against flesh and blood.
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So if we're not wrestling against flesh and blood, we
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are wrestling against spirits or principalities that want to come
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in opposite position.
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Well, the will and the plan of God. But I
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got news.
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There's somebody on the throne, and his name is Jesus,
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and every knee shall buy and every tongue shall confess
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that Jesus is Lord, including the principalities, including the witnesses
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that we don't see. They are watching us come into
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the perfection of our I didn't say some perfection.
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I didn't say, well, when we get to the other.
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Side, we'll be on No, honey, I believe we can
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have perfection right here and right now, as we are
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obedient in faith with his word. We walk in perfection
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because Jesus said, be perfect, as my father in heaven
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is perfect.
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And I'm sorry.
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I know some of you don't believe in perfection, but
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I believe in perfection by the spirit. I believe that
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if we're obedient to the word of the Lord through faith,
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we are considered perfect in his eyesight.
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He said that your works are as filthy rags. That's
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why I'm not trying to.
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Do the works of the flesh. I'm trying to mortify
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the deeds of the flesh. But I'm trying to put
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on Christ and put on his workings so that I
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may be perfected like my father already is.
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They're watching us come into perfection.
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Of our faith through Jesus Christ, and are learning how
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to come into redemption. When we come into the fullness,
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they come into the fullness as well.
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Your process, your race to become fulfilled in Christ, is
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a daily thing, and they are watching you overcome all
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of God.
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They're watching you become or overcome the most of your
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own faith. That's why for some of us, as I
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said before, your course of overcoming is not my course
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of overcoming.
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And unfortunately, just.
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Because you walk your course of redemption doesn't mean that
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that same redemption is going to redeem my sister who's
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in the spirit.
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We are connected spirit to spirit.
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You are connected to those that are the fruit of
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your vine.
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See the Redeemer lives in you.
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Yes, So if the Redeemer lives in you, that means
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that not only are you going to become redeemed, but
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everything spiritually and naturally that is connected to you has
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the opportunity to see the Redeemer play out in you.
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I'm not talking about your flesh, because that nobody gonna
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get redeemed by your flesh, because you be the uncustomer.
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How in the world could you redeem them with that mouth?
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But they have to see the opposite of the thing
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that is manifested in this world. That's why we have
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something called the fruits of the spirit. They're trying to
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look for something that goals beyond the attributes of the flesh,
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that can help them get out of that place called death.
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They're spiritual death, and they're trying to find something that
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is spiritual that's gonna bring them to paths of life.
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But unfortunately they cannot see the life stream that is
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totally represented in you because they've been blinded by the
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things of this world.
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They have been blinded.
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They said, it's like scales over their eyes because they
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have to come into the acceptance of the.
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Redeeming power of Jesus Christ. And let me tell you something.
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The only way that the world is going to receive
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Jesus is.
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When they see Jesus. I'm not talking about him crack
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in the sky.
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I am talking about through the deeds and the works
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in which we work, which are through Jesus Christ. That's
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why the Bible says in Galatians five twenty two, the
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fruit of the.
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Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience.
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Let me tell you something, when I could have I
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could have very well easily treated certain family members a
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certain ways. I would have had the fleshly rights to
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treat my uncle a certain way.
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But guess what God is teaching me grace.
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There are people that I'm connected to right now that
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they don't deserve and winkling of time, even in text
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or in conversation that.
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At one point somebody in the natural would have said,
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I would have been cut them off. Why do you
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entertain that foolishness? And I said, well, the Bible says
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that my grace is sufficient, so I've got to I
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have to learn how to exhibit grace. I don't have
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to always be in their face. I don't always have
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to entertain their mess. But the Bible does say to
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pray for those that despitefully use it because, let me
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tell you, it's something that they too also need redemption.
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They two are still going through the race to get
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to the finish line. And sometimes we marginalize people. Sometimes
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we look at people funny when we see that they're
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in a certain place of construction and we don't always.
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Understand all the details.
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That's why we're supposed to see people based upon the spirit.
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We're supposed to see people based upon the completed end.
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We're supposed to see people as they are at the
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finish line, even though they are still running the race.
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It says, let us lay aside every weight. Now, some
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of you are just fat. But I'm not talking about
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physical weight. I'm talking about spiritual weights. Yes, I'm talking
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about things around you that.
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Should not be occupying your space.
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It says in the sin that easily besets us, meaning well,
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standing around that is a competition, dwarting a racer in
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every direction, so easily.
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Beset means See, that's why let me.
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Ta see you read the script you don't understand it,
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because you'd be able to understand and put into practice
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what you're reading. That's why I encourage people when they
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read about to Oh I read that already.
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It was sell boring. Okay, what's your reading of I
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don't know? What does it mean?
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I don't know.
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You read it.
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See, you can quote the scriptures so beautifully.
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You can come up with all the deep revelation of
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spiritual thing.
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Now, even though I can go deep honting, and there's
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nothing wrong with that. But what happened to a people
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who were running a race that understood the practicality and
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the mechanism of just running.
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In a straight line and running towards their purpose, without.
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Understanding all the technicalities of necessarily where they are going,
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but just getting their course and staying focused. I had
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to grab that because of thought. So easily be set
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to ce It is so easy. I'm living this right now.
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It is so easy to get off track with our course.
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The truth. God knows. Mamma used to tell me. She said,
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I don't know why you're worried about that thing. You
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worried about that.
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Little thing, or like the Bible says, if the footman
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has worried you, how are you going to be able
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to run with the horse? If that little thing gets
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you off course, that means.
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You've given it more power than at honor.
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You're giving it more space because that little fox shouldn't
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get you off course.
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Yes, Lord, God, so easily beset means Sins.
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Are obstacles that are consistently surrounding you, entangling you and
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tripping up a person in their.
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Life or spiritual life.
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Some of you are not ignorant of the people that
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are around you. You really are to the truth, the truth, man,
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Why is it out of all the things that you
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can possibly think of.
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I know I'm about to help somebody on the podcast.
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I hope you listening. How is it that since you've
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been in a place.
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That you say is spiritual, but the people around you
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are not moving you or bringing you into further tenacity
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to get in to the finished life. I'm not talking
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about in the natural. I'm talking about in the spirit.
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So many people are around us, but why aren't they
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bringing out the good?
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They're only bringing out the evil Jesus, Yes, Lord God,
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I'm gonna tell you something. I'm just gonna slow it
-
down because.
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We are surrounded by people every single day. But in
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my race, I'm starting to slow down while I'm running.
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She let me tell you something I said this last week.
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Just because you're getting things quick doesn't mean that you're efficient.
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You can build the house really quickly, but you could
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be so quick that you miss a screw that should
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have went into the corner of the house.
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But you said I.
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Could just keep rushing and get this thing finished. I'm
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starting to take my time. Oh you know what, I'll
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tell you a good example. Last week.
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Last week. Now, y'all know.
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I'm selling this rental car Kick and you know he's
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showed me a lot of revelation about that. And so
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we had our big snowstorm, and one of the pistons,
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I guess you call it a piston engine piston decided
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it was going to go. Now that never happens in
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the car that I have, I've had a lot of
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things happen, and it was so embarrassing. I could only
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go twenty five miles an hour, and everybody was so gracious.
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They were so kind to me that they decided to
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go around me. See we're all running a race. They
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went around me, and as I was getting ready to
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return the car, because they already that the whole story
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in itself, God is so good. I was referring back
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to something a man of God had said a couple
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of weeks ago. He said, this is going to be
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a season where people you're used to going quickly, but
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you're gonna have to take your time. You can still
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be going quick in your spirit, but your stride could
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be slow, cautious, deserning, so you're picking all that up
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while you're slowing down. And so he said, when I'm
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in these places, when I'm in these hours of space,
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I look for opportunity to talk to God, and so
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you know the flush started.
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Well, I'm better hold on.
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I gotta get my action playing together because you know,
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I'm a survivor of the fittest. I mean, that's how
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my life has been for the past two years, in
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a survivor's mode. But it ain't gonna be some you know,
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it won't be in that way for long. But God
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is just trying to do something with me. And so.
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I started to talk to God and I said, God,
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I thank you. Fle I said, huh, I mean thank you.
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I said, God, I thank you.
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Because You've given me an opportunity to slow me down
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so I can talk to you. And he spoke back.
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He said, even though everybody's going one hundred miles a minute,
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even though it seems like people are passing you, you
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are right at the speed that was designed for you. See,
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everything in your life doesn't cause you to have to
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go so quickly and things because God may be trying
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to plant something in your spirit that's going to get
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you ahead in the next place. Who in the world
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doesn't think that they don't need a little bit of
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perseverance as I'm running this race. But see, you can't
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learn perseverance unless you get in the place that seems
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in the natural like it's slow because patience doesn't.
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Oh God, here we go.
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Lord, I regret what I said when I was seventeen
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and asked for patience.
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Oh, trust to me. I'm learning now.
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But see I'm persistent because I don't easily give up
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on something. I didn't say that I don't give up,
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but I don't easily give up on something. But you
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don't learn patience until you go through long suffering. And
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notice the first word that it says long because one
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day to God is as a thousand years to him.
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But see, long suffering means you might have to take
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some seasons where it seems like nothing's happening.
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See, in order for.
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You to get something, you have to have the experience
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to go with what you're getting. I had to help
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somebody my podcast. You're not gonna learn patients until you
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slow down. But it doesn't mean that you're not running
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your race. You're just staying with the pace. Oh, I
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just had to help somebody, because everybody's got a different pace.
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And see, like you said in the car, but see, everybody's.
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Running to get to this place, but nobody is seeing.
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The homeless man that's crossing the street.
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Nobody's seeing the new building that's being built right there.
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Nobody's taking in the time to smell the roses that
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are beginning to blossom.
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Nobody's looking at the fact that there.
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Could be some big aircraft that's getting ready to because
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you're going one hundred miles a minute and you think
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you have to rush to get somewhere Jesus. But like
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my grandma always used to say, with all you're getting,
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get understanding. But understanding doesn't always come when you're going
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one hundred miles a minute. Sometimes I had to sit
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in that library till two three o'clock in the morning
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to do research papers because my understanding of a subject
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was not satisfied in.
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Order for me to be able to produce an essay
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or research paper that was an efficient for my grade. Right,
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I know somebody here in that Lord. It says easily
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besets us.
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It implies a persistent, easily triggered weakness, like a besetting
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sin that hinders progress, often translated as clinging closely, hindering
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and encircling.
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I want you to take a little recap. See I
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can take a little recap because I don't have that
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problem in my life, but for some of your packcasts.
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I want you to think about this. How many people
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are in your spiritual circle and when you look at
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your circumstance, are they helping you with your stride?
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Are they helping you get to the finish line? Now,
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let me equate something. Okay, let me teach you something.
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Just because you don't have it all together in the natural,
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you don't mean your spirits not in the right See,
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your spirit in the right place has nothing to do
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with your bank account. It has nothing to do with
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your degree, It has nothing to do with where you live,
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It has nothing to do with who you associate yourself
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with necessarily, but it has to do with the race
-
that you're running and the pace that you're at. That
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you're running in your pace, Keep you in your place.
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Jesus, what are you trying to say?
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Your process goes along with how quickly God wants you
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to run.
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Or stay in your pace.
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See, because whether you're in both positions, you won't get something.
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But see, the process has to go in alignment with
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the position that you're in.
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Shee.
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That's why for the past three years I kind of
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been in the same place.
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But it's not because I've done anything wrong.
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It's because I is trying to impart something to me.
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Call it persistence, so that when God calls me to
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be able to operate. Like he told me today, he said, listen,
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I'm trying to teach you how to manage some things.
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Everybody wants a business. Everybody wants to be able to preach.
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Everybody wants a big fat ministry until the responsibility comes.
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Let me take a commercial break, I'm going to I'll
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stay right here. Everybody wants a business. Everybody wants to
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They want the glamour of, you know, being in a pulpit.
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I didn't want any of it. You know what I wanted.
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I wanted to go move out of connect.
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And build my life, get married at twenty five, graduate
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from Boston University.
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That was my plan. Become a teacher, teaching some classrooms somewhere, and.
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Live anywhere but here. That's not what happened. I am
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forty two, still not married and trying to figure this
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whatever he's doing.
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Out here, and just being submissive and trying to do
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the will of God.
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I didn't always say you were gonna know it all,
-
but knowing and knowing I'm in the right places two
-
different things. But our process goes with our stride and
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what He's building in us. You see, it's not always
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good to go so quickly, That's right, because your process
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may not be able to catch up with how fast
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you're going. Causes you sometimes to have to go backwards.
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Honey.
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I've had to go backwards a lot of times, even
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though I was.
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Going forward in my process, and it.
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Felt like I was going backwards in my spirit because
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he said, I want you to get.
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The fullness of what this is. Yeah, you you.
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Failed to test this time. Like I can tell you
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what happened, very simple. I took a real estate course
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and please forgive me.
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I know none of you're going to be real in
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here more on podcast.
-
You hear every word that God says and praise God,
-
and you you eloquently run the race perfectedly.
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And like I said, sometimes God's not looking for perfection either.
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He's looking for your obedience.
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Yes, Father, I'm not saying how well you run the race.
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He's looking for your obedience to let you know that
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if I let you run this race, you might sometimes
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have to go back to the coach and make sure
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that I'm running in the right position while going in
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my race. Because sometimes you got the coach that's running
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with you. Sometimes you've got experienced runners that are running
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with you and say, hey, we're supposed to be going straighter.
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I know we were supposed to.
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I know, nobody questions the captain before the race starts.
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You sure, this is how long we're supposed to do it.
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But see, I started a really state course. I had
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been prophesied that I was gonna own property and own
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like mentoring businesses.
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With you know, and all that wonderful stuff. But I
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started to take the course.
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And sometimes you think God is saying something, and sometimes
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you think he's not.
-
Sometimes you think you're a nut. Sometimes you don't.
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Sometimes God is speaking, and sometimes it's our God that's speaking.
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But let me tell you something that all goes with
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the process. And so I'm sitting on the couch. I
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had so much stuff going on, so many of other
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people's problems, and something said, right in the middle.
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Of getting ready to go take the test, you should
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tell him to quit. Write the letter and say quit.
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Now I thought it was God.
-
I said, well, hallelujah, I believe God's having me to
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do something else. Now, when I did that, something in
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my spirit grieved and I felt like I said, oh man,
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I made a mistake it.
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But see here's the thing.
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God allowed you to make that mistake because it wasn't
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about the mistake.
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It was about the progress. It was about to get
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it not the mistake. But it was teaching you his voice.
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So now you know it's not his voice because God
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is not a queer.
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No, God is persistent. But guess what.
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God allowed you to do that, because when you meet
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somebody on the.
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Road to the finished Selina, it ain't nothing by mistake.
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He lets you go through little things.
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He lets you slip up because I want you to
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slip up, because when somebody gets to this place and
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they're about when a certain person comes to you that
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I'm gonna send to you and they say I feel
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like I slip up, You're gonna be able to say, no,
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you didn't slip up.
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But I'm gonna tell you.
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How you get over that slip up because I've been there.
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That's caused your testimony, that's caused you helping out the witnesses. Honey,
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if you're not in a place where sometimes you witness
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the process you're not going to be able to be
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a witness to somebody else.
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That means that your life may have to go on
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pause for a minute, or y'all not ready for that.
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You ain't ready for that. But then I got another opportunity.
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As I prayed to God and said, Lord, is this
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your will?
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I said, if you allow.
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Me, God to go through this store again, if you
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opened up this store, God, I promise you I will
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not get out of it.
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I will see it through.
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I don't know where it's gonna take me, but God,
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I know that you're with me wherever I go.
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And let me tell you.
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I was sitting in the car and something said register
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for the class again. I said, but Lord, they already
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gave me a scholarship and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna
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probably have to pay it. He said, what is the
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worst that they could say is no? And let me
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tell you something I put in the email.
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Didn't hear anything back.
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I said, well, I guess God, it's not your will,
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so I'll just keep on moving. And then a month later,
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out of the blue, sitting in the car in my process,
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the woman emailed me back and said, I'm so sorry.
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For the delay. Yes, we'll give you the scholarship. Yes,
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this is only what you have to pay, which I
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only had to pay a fraction.
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Yes, you can start in April again and you don't
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get them.
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Thank God, I don't gotta pay for the books. Look
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at God. But see God wants you to make that.
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Voice was set there because remember God is in charge. Yes,
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he's in charge of the enemy.
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He's in charge of.
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The circumstances happening in your sister. So he's in charge
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of all of that. Maybe she had to get a
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black eye, because that's part of the testimony I'm building.
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He never said that he wasn't gonna get physical.
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Maybe he's gonna be used to humble her, so the
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next time she makes a miss, she'll be a little
-
more cautious about honey.
-
Sometimes, do I like people getting physical? No?
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But I couldn't touch him for some reason. I couldn't
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touch the instrument that God was using.
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You're crazy. You mean to tell me your sister's getting
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amusing You couldn't touch him. I couldn't touch him.
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Because I'm not the one that brought him. Are you
-
telling me that God will use the enemy to get
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people straight?
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Yes?
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So are you telling me that the devil is his tool. Yes,
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look at the devil in the White House political Get
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that now. I told you he's in charge of every principology.
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He is.
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Every power is subject to that name. When Satan came
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before the sons of God in Joke chapter one, he
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didn't sit there and be big and bad and tell
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God what he was gonna do. No, God said, where
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have you come from?
-
All y'all sitting there talking about the devil and God fight? No, No,
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that's not how it works, honey. God got God got.
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Charge over the devil a long time ago, before the
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devil got the title the devil.
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Okay, thank you Jesus.
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So what he's saying to lay aside the weight of sin.
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When you lay aside the sin, it means to cast
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it off and lay it down. You know why, because
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sin was never meant to be carried. It was meant
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to be put to death. We were not meant to
-
carry sin because it becomes a weight.
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And I hate to tell you, I know no point in.
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Let me get my stomach together.
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I'm sorry, but there ain't a lot of fat people
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running races. They make you work out, they make you
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exercise and prepare for the race. Now listen, if you've
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got offended because I said you're fat, but you ain't running,
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ask the military if you want to come in there fat, Honey,
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they ain't taking you. Believe me that the one we
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got in charge now, Honey, he gotta bias on fat people.
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But it makes it harder for you to breathe and
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to run when you've got all this stuff weighing you down.
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God said, I.
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Need people that are gonna be like in the spirit
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to run my race down. It doesn't mean that you're
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not gonna have some problems, but honey, and let me
-
tell you something. Problems go with process, and process is
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what builds patients, and patience is what brings perseverance because
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you can't.
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Know the type of God that you serve. If you
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ain't going through no process.
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You run from the process because you don't like it,
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because it hurts you a little bit, it rubbed you around.
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I didn't like what he said to me.
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He prophesied something to me, and I know it wasn't God, No,
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it was God because your flesh God. And didn't like
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it because you don't like going through the process of perseverance.
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You don't like to see something to its unexpected, and
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and some of you really don't like to invest in
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your process because some of you are not used to
-
having to wed a little patient until.
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A little sea grows up.
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But you don't realize in the growing of the sea,
-
God is giving you a revelation on how to operate
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while in the process, because when you take that on
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and go to the next level, you'll be able to
-
have perseverance to bring you through that process.
-
But see you run from the.
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Process, oh go, when you run from the place that
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God has sent you, she God says, that's okay.
-
I'll just get you in the place that you're at. Yeah.
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See, the process follows you even when you try to
-
run out of state. All right, So you say your backslid,
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Let me tell you have the church slider you and
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say your backslid. You can't slide in and slide up.
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Let me tell you what you're gonna do.
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I'm gonna wait for you right here when we left off,
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and when you're finished partying and spitting and crying, and
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you throw and you and you find yourself your face
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and throat because.
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I know you're gonna come back to me because, like
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I said, a dog knows where its food is. Uh,
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So I'm gonna sit here and wait. There ain't no backslide.
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God said, I'm gonna wait for you right.
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Here, and when you come back from your mess, when
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you get yourself together, I'm gonna be waiting right here
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because I ain't going right because I'm in you. Let's
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we gonna go hang out with the sinners and try
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to get them saved. Because before you get to the
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destination you're at. God's already there.
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He ain't walked to Tona. You think Tonah wasn't there
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when he got there. He's the one.
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Even though he thought he was leading himself like I
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talked about on Sunday, even though he paid the fair.
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God was already there.
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Because the process continues.
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No matter where you are, even.
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If you're out of place, the process still continues.
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Yes, yes, God, I thought I was gonna pack here.
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And because the process is you, you think by going
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out of state that's gonna do something. We're still looking
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at the same person in the mirror when we get there.
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So let me tell you something.
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All your problems is coming with you because guess what
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you didn't learn while God had you in a place
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of refinement against there's certain regions that got certain processes far.
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Sometimes it'll send you to this state because I want
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to teach you how to have some discernment.
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I can't have it over here over here right.
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Now, because this environment's not going to prompt you to
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get discernment. But if I put you around a certain folk,
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by the time you get around them, you should have
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a prayer life. But guess what now, I don't want
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to deal with you over here. I want to deal
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with you over here. So now I'm gonna bring you
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to Kansas. I want you to deal with you in
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that certain See. See, the state.
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Isn't the issue. You're the issue, Yes God.
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God said that wherever your feet would be planted, Yes, Father,
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it should bring a heartness, Yes God. So why is
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it that when you stepped somewhere there ain't no harness.
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People can get saved wherever you're at. So why are
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we trying to escape to get somewhere else? You know why?
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Because you think.
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The process has to do with the environment. No, the
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process has to do with you.
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God knows how to make Connecticut become Virginia.
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Try to go somewhere else and no doors open ahead?
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Why I mess somebody?
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I know because I lived in When you try to
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go out of state and you don't wonder why people don't.
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Let you come in because you don't have the right idea.
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But I said, this is a shelter. You mean to
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tell me I gotta have an idea to come in here. Yeah,
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you gotta have idea to come in here. Sounds like
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Connecticut to me. Yes, God, he said, don't worry.
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I'm just I'll just bring Connecticut Virginia, no problem.
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And then you get to Virginia and you find out.
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That I'm going through the same thing I was going
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through when I was up there.
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I'm not talking about it. Natural got a fine place
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to live. But in your spirit, stock your stock, yes God.
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Because you got out of the race before it's time.
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You cannot run this race with weights that you're carrying
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from somebody else. Who is that someone else? The old person?
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Because that old person has become weighed down. When we
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came to Christ, that old person died.
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Let me break this down for your honey. The person
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you are right.
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Now is not the fullness of who got said that
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you are your hang ups, your disappointments that.
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Came from the old person.
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Yes, when my father died, I had to forgive.
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Hi, I'm not talking about this beauty language that you
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got in my eye. Forgive whatever.
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Oh, but then every time I bring up, oh, you
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know what he did to me? Oh, you know you
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didn't forgive. See, people that haven't forgiven, they can't be
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a witness. They can't because you've got a part of
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your testimony.
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Locked up that you have not given over to God Jesus.
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When you forgive, you have put up a pardon. Yes,
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I didn't say you had to agree with it. I
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didn't say you had to agree with the whippings. But
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what I'm saying is, just as you are under construction,
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just as they have passed from death onto life in
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their own process. Now they are gone, and one am
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I left with. I'm left with the fragments of.
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What he did to me.
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But guess what, as I said before, when I said
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in the process, when I talked about the person that
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had slipped.
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Up, that in itself is a testament.
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That when somebody allows God to go through that slipping process,
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allows it, it becomes testament because God.
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Took me through that process, and let me overcome that
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process so that I may be able to speak on
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Some of.
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You cannot speak on things because you are not over yourself.
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Oh and when were talking about a new creation in
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Christ all things that, Oh yeah, you're lying. Old things
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ain't passed away because you keep regurgitating it through your process.
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You ain't forgave.
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Oh no, I'm gonna stay ready, I'm gonna let it simmer.
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I'm gonna let the I'm gonna let the soup get
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all simmery and the meat get all tender eyes. Some
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of you haven't pardoned. And see, pardoning is a part
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of your race. Forgiveness is a part of your race
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because you hold these people hostage in the spirit because
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they can't go on into perfection because you're still.
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Mad at them. Mm hmmm. See, I ain't got that problem.
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I wrote letters, went to the grave site.
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God made me go to the grave site.
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Yes, and everything I felt in my heart, I spoke
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it there, and he said, now leave it there and
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move on, because somebody needs that customony.
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And you're keeping it hostage.
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Because of some art that you didn't even fully understand.
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All of I didn't understand why my mother left, why
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my father left my mother?
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Until I read a journal and it gave me clarity. See,
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that's the part that we forget when we talk about forgiving.
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No forgiveness comes with.
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Clarity of why I was a victim to them, because
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everybody is a victim.
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Everybody's on the same plane. The reason why you don't
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want to talk about is because you have not given.
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That old person over and allowed God to bring the
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newness of his spirits into you. Because, let me tell
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you something, when God gives you his spirits, you ain't
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trying to remember no oh, because they passed away.
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All conversations had passed away. I don't care if you
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were you. I don't care if you were hit with
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a frying pad.
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Sarah was hit with a frying panan and let me
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tell you something, she had every right to be mad.
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But guess what, that did not set the tone for
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the nature of.
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Jesus Christ, that's on the inside.
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She can still love people who are still abusive. She
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can still win them over to Christ through the testament
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of her overcoming. Somebody hitting her with a frying pan,
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and she really got hit with a frying pan.
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She could have got bitter about it.
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She could have held the bitterness until the point that
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when somebody.
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Really needed to hear about overcoming it.
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I need't messing with it because you're still mad and
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you think you can continue to go on.
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In Christ and run the rest.
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Sometimes he slows your life down just to see that's
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your mess. M m m hm.
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Truth. Yes, God, Jesus, why are things moving from me?
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Why am I still in the same spot?
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Because the process wants to reveal to you that you
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are still stuck in the place where you were last victimized.
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You have taken on a victim's mentality that it's everybody
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else's fault. But mind, and guess what you apply that
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to every area in business and finance, even in the
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way that we conduct and carry out relationships.
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But see, we don't want to be real. We don't
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want to be real with us.
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And Christ that has died, the victimization mind has died.
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I have given that all over to him. And see,
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when you're able to give it all over to him,
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you're able to pardon other people because you're able to
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take what is being parted to mend and you're able
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to give it over to God.
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But see, when you.
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Ain't pardon nobody, you can't give it over. That's why
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you can't pardon nobody. And so you're supposed to sit
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here and tell me that's your a witness, that's your testimony,
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that witnesses that God.
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Can redeem and God can forgive.
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But yet you can't forgive yourself or the victim. That
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what went somewhere, that old man is carried with the
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weights of the abuse. It's carried with the weights of
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the disappointments.
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Let me down.
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He wasn't there for me. He didn't validate me the
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way he was supposed. I could write a book hunting,
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I would have every right to be mad at my father,
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but I choose to pardon him. And guess what, Because
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I pardoned everybody that I had an art with before
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they passed, I have free liberty to be trying to hear.
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I don't have no qualms your Lord God. That's why
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God was able to put grace on me for people.
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God, they have done me wrong, because I was able
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to forget those that have passed, all the things that
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were sent to me, all.
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The things somebody took. My grandmother said, you'll never do nothing.
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You hear me.
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You hear me, this is my grandmother. Somebody that says
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they're spiritual. Wow, And I had to realize she was
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a victim. She lived in a household where her father
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did not validate her.
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I had to find this information. Listen. I don't care
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how long you gotta dig. Go ahead, go ahead, Lord
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find out I ain't doing it.
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Well, guess what they ain't getting redeemed because that part
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of you ain't redeemed.
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I'm sorry, I don't care what new creation you trying
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to pour.
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Honey, I hear the Lord say you cannot put old
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wineskins on new wine.
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You can't.
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Because when you try to put old wineskins in new wine,
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the wine spills out. Some of you don't realize you're
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spilling out.
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You're trying to contain God. But she can't because there are.
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Areas on the inside that you had not fully redeemed
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back to God.
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And that means, you see, when God says.
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He redeems he paid for you, you cannot.
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Run this race.
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If you're carrying from something else, that old person, because
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it's wayed down with sin.
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Do you know that unforgiveness is a sin? Yes, yes
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it is. I don't care what you say.
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I ain't now my goodness, I'm sorry, but that attitude's
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a sin.
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Because we're supposed.
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To exhibit righteousness, and then of course we come up
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with theseus.
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Oh, we all fall short of the glory of God,
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all these other exes.
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Oh, you know, he hit me first, and I'm not
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gonna apologize. Listen, here's the thing.
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I know. People have offended me, and I have.
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Every right to say Nope, I ain't saying it. But
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guess what, You're the one that's gonna have to bear
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that seed, not me. I'm clear. If I do something,
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I gotta own it. Well, my father should have owned it.
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Well, he's not here.
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So we're gonna keep repeating the same mindset of what
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somebody had done to you. Like I said, it becomes
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a victim's mindset. It's always everybody else's fault. And that's
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why when that mindset's not dealt with, it spills into
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every area, and not only spills into everybody else's.
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Area, even all the witnesses.
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You in part that same seed of victimization, and that
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victimization spirit spreads through.
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The line of your generation. Seed.
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Honey, instead of you're supposed to be in a witness
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and redeeming folks. All you're doing and when you talk
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about old generational curses, I gotta break that generational cur honey,
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your prayer life and the only thing that's gonna break
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that generational curse, it's the attributes of how you operate
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within your process to be allowed God to redeem you and.
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Fully forgive you while you're walking.
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That process of being perfected, through the process of you
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becoming like Jesus Christ.
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Is that's when.
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You'll be able to break that generational curse. It is
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the actions of your life. Yes, the things that you
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Impart two are important to.
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How you go through.
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Do you know the more you run, the more you
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lose calories, which allows you to lose weight.
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Do you get it?
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Yes, the more you run the race, the more I
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decrease in my weight. Hm, the weight of sins begins
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to fall off because I am running to see what
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my expected end is going to be.
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I am no longer running the course of that old man.
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I am no longer carrying the weights of sin that
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were from the old man, because at that time when
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I made a sin, I sure as hell didn't forgive
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and say I was sorry. I kept it to myself,
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and the seed said, I'm about to go back and
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do some more. Until your sin became a weight that
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you could not carry anymore.
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He got tired of.
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Throwing up at the club, seeing your face in that,
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and I just said, because some of you had it
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in that throw up, still hanging around that abusive man.
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You got tired of being swapped up.
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Because you were in a relationship that was unmarried and
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I call him unholy marriage alliance.
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You ain't taking somebody's scripts.
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You're taking somebody the Bible says, don't be unequally believers.
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That's not a marriage. And you got tired of living
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that life, and.
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You said, I need somebody to come in my life
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and rescue me because I.
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Can't carry I can't take this anymore.
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And you, when Christ came into your life, you began
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to release all of the hurts, all the hang ups,
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all of the issues, had.
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Gave it over to God. And for days, Yes, spotify
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our radio, it has been a pleasure. We're gonna stop.
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Right there, Thank you Father God. We're gonna stop right there.
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You cannot run your race with weights. I do not
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expect to run my race with waits, and I ain't running.
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Them with you either.
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Okay, don't put your conversations on me.
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Don't put your old wine skins.
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On me about what somebody did to you and why
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I should have the right to be angry.
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That is not of God.
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God has a right to be angry with us, because, Honey,
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I can tell you something. If it had not been
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for grace, we all, Yeah, would I be here your
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family if you don't walk in the space of redemption
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and forgiveness as it is mandated through Christ in which
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we're to walk. H We're not supposed to hold grudges
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true disobedience. I'm just saying they take too much time.
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My sister got on my nerves today. I said some things. Well,
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I said a couple of words that were curseful. I
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wasn't happy about it, but she pissed me off. But
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I had said to her face.
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I just said while I was walking, and I know
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it ain't right. So then she called me back and said,
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I want to apologize because it was really stressful.
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I said, you want to apologize, Well, she had to
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learn it from somewhere, but she was.
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Never like that. But you're watching the growth and it
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changes that are happening. So when you come around, why
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ain't nothing changing? Jesus, Jesus, thank you Lord God.
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Maybe it's some of your serpent seeds that you're saying,
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ain't bringing no growth. Ain't nothing's moving? Because maybe the
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scene that you're trying to speak to, I'm gonna give
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you revelation. The seed and the scene that you're trying
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to speak against.
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Maybe reflective of who you are.
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Jesus, the sister you can't stand, Jesus, the brother you
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can't stand.
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Maybe they're you.
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Maybe God reflecting the light of you through these people
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and their.
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Situations that we don't like. Because Lord knows if I
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had to.
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Look in a mirror what would I find.
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I had to eat some things through my family. My
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family said some things. I had eat it.
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M M what Spotify, Heart Radio. Thank you for this
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opportunity that I have been given. I will finish this
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when God is leading me to finish it. We will
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at some point go into the positions along with the
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commands that are given in our race and where some
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of us are and unfortunately some people are still at go.
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But I want to thank you for listening tonight, taking
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the time, the opportunity I've availed yourself with my contact information,
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should you need.
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Me or need me to pray for you, or need
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anything from this ministry.
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And until I hear from you again, I pray that
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you have a wonderful weekend and God bless you