Sermon
Sunday 3/30 | Dr. Christopher Graham
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Transcript
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Magnify the Lord together today. Oh, there's no other name than
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another given among men under heaven whereby we must be saved.
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Hallelujah. What a beautiful name.
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The name of Jesus. Amen.
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Amen. Someone say Amen, Praise God
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today. So we are doubly honored this
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morning, my son. Every day I get to introduce 2
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speakers in one service. Amen.
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We are doubly honored today to have Doctor Graham.
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Doctor Christopher Graham pastors a man in Oklahoma.
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He's a doctor of social work. He has, he's a licensed clinical
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social worker. He's the owner and CEO of the
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Full Harvest Counseling there in Oklahoma Pastor is a great
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church. He has a lovely wife, which I
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know he wished was standing right by him right now and two
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two handsome young men Amen. We love doctor Graham he's a
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great individual. I couldn't even really I
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couldn't trace back like where we intersected.
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It's like it just kind of there's this seeping together of
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the lives and some sort but seeping yes again, prison
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ministry is probably has been the the concrete that has sealed
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the deal. He's a tremendous, great, great
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speaker. We whenever we're all together,
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we just have a lot of fun and laughs and family and so on and
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so forth. And we're honored to have him
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today. AKA he's like GQ of Pentecost.
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Brother McCrory told him he likes to look good rather than
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be comfortable, so he is GQ, Amen.
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So we're thankful today. We honor him.
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We do love you, Doctor Graham, please come share your heart.
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Minister to us today. Don't you want to hear what the
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Lord has to say? Again, Amen.
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God bless. Hallelujah.
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Can we give the Lord a handclap of praise today?
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Yes, Lord Jesus, I, I understand that.
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It's only about 11:00 and so typically we're just starting
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church. We start around 10:30.
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So y'all just buckle up buttercup.
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It's going to be all right. I promise.
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Mexican food will be waiting and that's always waiting.
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Gloria Rios, Hallelujah. Hey, man, I am so thrilled to be
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here with you. Can be seated for a moment.
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And I just want to give honor to the McGee family.
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And it does seem like seeping might not be the best word, but
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it is an accurate word because we've just it's been intertwined
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for a long time and just kind of knowing and passing and and
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y'all, he's your pastor. So you know this.
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But like this family is a big deal.
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I'm nervous. I mean, for real.
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They, I mean, they've been around for a little while and
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they're well known, they're well preached and and we were so
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thrilled to have them in in Oklahoma not too long ago for a
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midwinter conference. And everyone afterwards was
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like, man, this was like NYC brother.
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And I'm like, yes, challenge accepted.
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I mean, just fantastic ministry. And every time he preaches the
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word, it always comes with authority.
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And his lovely family. I mean, just beautiful,
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wonderful, kind people in the McDonald's.
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Can't say enough about them. Since the moment we met in
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Chillicothe, it's just been like, I don't know, just family.
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Like I always feel like an extension, which means yes, we
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poke fun at each other, call each other names.
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We're not going to do it this morning because y'all are
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sanctified, but I want to lose my license.
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We are real close to Indiana and that's like praise the Lord, but
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God is good. I miss my family.
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I love my family. I know they're having good
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church in Oklahoma to all the ministry that I've got to meet
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and and everyone from the church.
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They gave their testimonies. It was fantastic.
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It was fantastic, and I'm so honored and humbled to be here.
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Humbled. I said it with a hard H.
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You can criticize me later. Amen.
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If you have your Bible, if you would turn with me to Numbers
Numbers 14 chapter mention
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chapter 14, I would say I'm not going to try and be long, but
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then you're going to have this expectation of me.
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So I'm just going to try and be appropriate.
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All right, Numbers chapter 14, 20.
Numbers 14 chapter mention
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He's long winded. OK, all right, then we are
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definitely OK. Praise the Lord.
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This is going to be comfortable. Numbers 1421 through 24.
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I'm sorry, brother, don't kick me out.
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But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the
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glory of the Lord, because all those men which have seen my
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glory and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the
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wilderness and have tempted me. Now these 10 times, he's talking
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about the 10 spies -2 that had gone in and they've not
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hearkened to my voice. They weren't listening to my
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voice. They went into the land.
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They did all the right work. They look the right way.
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They were the mighty men of the tribes.
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But they weren't listening to my voice.
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Amen. They weren't hearing not just
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what I was saying, but they weren't hearing my heart for the
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land. Surely they shall not see the
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land which I swear unto their fathers talking about a
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generation. And it's not even a a generation
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that was disobedient. It was a generation that doubted
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what God could do. They will not see the land which
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I swear unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that
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provoked me see it. And here's the kicker.
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But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him,
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because he had something different on the inside, and he
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followed me not just a little bit, but he went to the hard
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places, He went to the rough part of town, and he followed me
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fully. Him will I bring into the land
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wherein to He went, and His seed shall possess it.
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I just want to preach for a few moments on a simple idea.
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Built different, built different.
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Can you lay your Bible down and pray with me and for me?
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Lord, I thank you for your anointing, and I thank you for
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your presence. God, I ask that Your mercy would
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be in this place. Lord, I thank you for your
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cleansing power. Jesus, for the authority that
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you carry in here. God, I pray that you would pour
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out your spirit, Lord, that Your word would be confirmed with
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signs and wonders in miracles, in Jesus mighty name.
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Can you give the Lord a handclap this morning?
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Hallelujah. You may be seated.
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Hallelujah. Jesus as Apostolic.
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There's just something about us. Y'all Pentecostal.
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We OK, All right, just go with me.
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I've been, I've been Pentecostal for a minute or two and as
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Pentecostals, when you go into, I don't want to offend nobody.
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So if I do just tug, tug brother, when you go into a
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Baptist Church, it feels different.
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I've got some good friends that are Catholic, God bless them all
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the things. It's different how many y'all
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invited somebody to church that one time and you're like,
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there's that Holy Ghost disclaimer.
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I just feel like I need to tell you.
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I know we met at work. It was a safe place.
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It's about to be strange. There's always that disclaimer
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because being Apostolic is just a little bit different and, and
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I try to wrap my mind, right. What makes us just a little bit
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different? And then, and then I was praying
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this morning and I was up early. I love waking up early and just
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getting in the word and praying, especially when we've done,
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we've done prison and I'm exhausted.
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I was glad to wake up in the morning.
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I was so tired last night, but I woke up this morning and I just
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began praying and listening to worship music and, and I'll be
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honest with you, I listen to Bethel.
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We all right, Everyone's OK. I've, I've, I've been known to
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listen to Hillsong a time or two.
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Upper room has come across my Spotify playlist and Brandon
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Lake a couple of times has just he's made his way into my
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worship service. Oh, forgive me, Lord, but
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there's something different. Because when they're worshipping
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on stage with all the lights and with all the smoke and with all
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the perfect sound, and everything is finessed and it
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all sounds just the way it's supposed to, and I'm in my hotel
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room, face down on the floor, weeping before the presence of
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God. I don't know what's different
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about us, but I got to tell you that it's the Holy Ghost on the
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inside. There's a fire on the inside
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that we're not getting around. Some people of the name, it
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don't matter what song we're singing.
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It doesn't matter where we're at.
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When the presence of God moves on an Apostolic, you're either
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in or you're out. It's just a little bit different
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to be Pentecostal, or at least that's what I hear.
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And God is calling us to be a little peculiar, a little
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strange, a little unique. It's all right, brother.
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Wear your Converse. It's OK.
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It's going to be all right. I know some people you know.
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If it's not baroque, don't fix it.
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Shoe wing tips. It's I'm going to get there.
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Lord Jesus, help us. Dad jokes for days.
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Just hang out with me. There has to be something
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different on the inside. And when we talk about the story
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of Caleb, he was he was simply one of 12 people.
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And when Moses and I talked a little bit about this during our
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Princess Within conference, but Moses did the politically
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correct thing and he invited The Chieftains from every Israeli
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tribe. He said, send me your best
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people. Send me all the ones that that
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look the part that are in leadership, that are licensed
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with the right organizations. Hallelujah.
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And it ain't that local license. Lord, he said send me all the
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best people and he finds doing the right thing and he finds 12
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men to go into the land. But there were only two that
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came out with the good report. Now everyone else had a good
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report. They said it looks nice, it
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smells nice, everything is beautiful.
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The problem is we ain't never going to win and we all going to
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die. Y'all have to.
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I've been. Look, I grew up in Michigan, OK?
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But then I spent some time down South, so you're just going to
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have to get with me when I get a little ghetto.
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I'm sorry, OK? And so he said, you got 10
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people that are coming back saying everything is exactly how
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God promised it, except for we are not strong enough to conquer
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the land. We will never survive the
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onslaught of trying to get where God called us to be.
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We can't expand our territory because the enemy on the other
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side of my fight is too great. But Caleb comes along and Caleb
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is just built different. There's something different on
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the inside of Caleb because Caleb comes along and he says,
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y'all don't understand that God, who did all of the stuff that we
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saw in Egypt just a few weeks ago, is able to do exceeding and
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abundantly above anything that we could even imagine to the foe
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that's in front of us. I wish sometimes that we as
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Pentecostals would get out of our high horses and get off our
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way because God is calling us to expand our territory.
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He's calling us to just reach a little bit.
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He's calling us to reach our neighbor.
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He's calling us to knock our neighbors door, to talk to our
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coworkers, to talk to the students at school.
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He's calling us to do something a little different.
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And we're on the other side saying I can't do that.
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Are you one of the 12? Are you one of the two?
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And if we're real honest, can I talk about Pentecostals here?
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Is that OK? Y'all are great, Y'all are holy.
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But some people, some people in Pentecost are too sanctified to
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reach the prisoners. Some people in Pentecost, unless
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you looking just right and you are wearing the right shoes and
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you're wearing the right suit and everything is put together,
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you're not going to have a place.
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I'm not even talking about Platform Ministries.
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I grew up in Northern Michigan and my family, we worked in a
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church. We, we were poor as dirt.
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We didn't have anything. We had nothing.
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All of our food came from the food banks, Oregon WIC, that was
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all we ever had. We didn't get really gifts on
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birthdays or Christmas or any of that.
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We didn't have anything. My dad didn't work and so we
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traveled all over Michigan. We lived in Wisconsin and New
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Hampshire. I went to 27 different schools
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before I dropped out in 9th grade, 27 different schools.
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So we didn't understand the comforts of of being the best
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looking, the best dressed Pentecostals because everything
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we had was hand me down and then hand me around and then it
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finally made it to our house. That's all we had.
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We had five kids. I was the oldest boy of five
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kids and and being the oldest boy and having three brothers, I
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never got really anything new. And they definitely didn't
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because whatever I got, if I didn't wear it out as a punk
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skateboarder, they eventually got.
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So I didn't grow up having the the posterity of, you know, that
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Pentecostal heritage. We, we, we grew up in church,
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mind you, but but you didn't know my family.
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You didn't know where we were. You didn't come by our house
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because it was a mess. You didn't come by and have food
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with us because we didn't hardly have any food for ourselves.
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You didn't really want to spend time with our family.
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And so why on earth would God call me?
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How could God ever use me in my lifetime?
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And I had this idea in my mind. And again, y'all are good
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wholesome people. You reach everybody, God bless
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you. But I went to some churches
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where we were constantly the outcasts.
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And I'm telling you that everything that I had to get in
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this world, I've had to fight for.
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Nothing ever comes easy. But there is a generation that
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is being raised right now that has no idea how to stand their
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ground. The moment that it ain't easy,
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you're not in it. I wish, I wish there was a
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generation like Caleb that was built just a little different.
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You can be seated. You can be seated.
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Caleb was no young buck. He wasn't a spring chicken when
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he went out to spy the land. He was already 40 years old.
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Some of y'all older than 40 are like he was still a spring
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chicken brother. And I would say yes ma'am, you
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are right. He was drafted when he was 40.
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He was the odd man out. He was a little bit older, he
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was a little bit seasoned, and and yet he was strong enough and
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had the tenacity enough to go into the enemy's land and to spy
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it out. And that man that the fire and
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zeal inside of Caleb was that he wasn't just going to go to the
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best areas. The Bible says that Caleb
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received the land that he went into, but Caleb went into Horeb
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and Horeb was the worst of the worst.
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I tend to think that the other 10 spies only went to the land
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because the Bible says that they came back with grapes on stage.
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So they went to the places very likely that it was beautiful,
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that it was a lush. It was the right side of the
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tracks. It looked good.
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I dare say that they went to someone else's church to do
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outreach. They're just, I'm going to, I'm
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going to hang out right here. Just bear with me.
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But Caleb, Caleb wasn't trying to look for the easy way.
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Caleb went into Horeb. And I tend to think that it was
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Caleb and Joshua that came back and gave the report that there
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are giants in the land. But Caleb's mentality wasn't
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such that he said there are giants in the land and so we
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ought not go in. I think Caleb presented the
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report to the other spies to say y'all better watch out.
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Look what God is about to do. I think Caleb had enough zeal
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and fire inside of him that he said.
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I saw God destroy all of Egypt. Their economy was plundered.
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I watched God himself with his divine hand destroy every single
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deity of Egypt by their own voice.
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I've saw God keep us for 40 days and 40 years.
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I've watched his God time after time intervened.
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I think Caleb presented the report to the others just to say
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y'all better watch what God is going to do for the children of
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Israel. He understood that God was going
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to do and was able to do anything that they could imagine
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because there was a promise. There was a promise.
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And so Caleb, when everyone else is doubting, Caleb is the one
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that is standing strong and he is standing stalwart and
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steadfast, and he is the one that is fighting that we go in.
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But some time passes, about 40 years, give or take, because
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their doubt overcame them. They didn't know and didn't
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believe what God was able to do, what he could do.
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And so their doubt overtook them and they wander in the
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wilderness for 40 years. Are we all right, everyone?
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OK. And finally they make it back to
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the land of Canaan, and here they are standing on the banks
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of the Jordan River, and the most powerful thing happens.
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And I'm going to say it's the most powerful thing because in
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all of this story, the most incredible thing to me is that
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Caleb didn't get the senior pastor role.
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He didn't get the top leadership role.
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No one appoints Caleb to anything.
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Actually, all we understood was that Caleb is promised because
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God. God said because his heart was
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wholly towards me, because he did and heard my voice and then
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followed through with everything that I was speaking to his
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heart. He said I'm going to leave him
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alive and he's going to have an inheritance, not his family like
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every everyone else from his generation.
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It was their families going to inherit.
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But Caleb was unique because Caleb himself was going to
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inherit and then Caleb's family was going to inherit after
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Caleb. But Caleb is old and dusty, open
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and offend an 85 year old. I'll leave my license when I
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Caleb, by the time he reaches the banks of Jordan, is 85 years
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old, 85 years old. He's not the man in charge and
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you would think he has seniority.
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Everybody else would. Then you would think that they
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would be looking to him as like the main dude.
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Caleb, though, sits back and he waits for all these young bucks
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to come up and do their thing. And they did like, like my baby
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brothers tried to do because I was the oldest boy, had three
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baby brothers, And so I got to choose my room first.
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I'm sorry, Brother Mack. He is not the oldest boy.
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And they just got the leftover rooms.
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You know, Caleb. Caleb didn't do that.
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Caleb waited for every other piece of land to be parsed out,
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and he understood that no one was going to choose Horeb.
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Nobody was like, oh, please, I hope, I hope I get the land with
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the biggest, meanest giants. Please, Lord, Caleb knew no one
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was going to take the land that he was promised.
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And so Caleb goes up to to Joshua and he says to Joshua, he
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says, you Remember Me, right? He said, I know I'm a little old
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right now, but you look at me, dude.
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I still have all of the strength that I had when I was 40 years
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old. He said.
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God hasn't let a bit of strength leave me.
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Now I don't know if that was true.
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It sure sounded good. I don't know if he actually had
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because just the laws of entropy say that as a thing ages, it
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will degrade and deteriorate, right?
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You that new car smell only last for about 3 weeks, right?
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And then it never comes back because as things age, they
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degrade. And that's just a normal part of
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living. But something inside of Caleb
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never degraded. There was a fire inside of Caleb
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that never went out. And so when Caleb approaches
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Joshua, he doesn't just say, look how strong I am.
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He said, no bro, you don't understand.
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Look how strong the God is. That was inside of me.
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There's something different inside of me.
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And the promises of a generation ago.
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I'm choosing to accept them right now.
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The revival that was promised a generation ago, I'm choosing to
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take it right now. The property that was chosen and
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then generation ago, I'm taking it now.
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Here's the craziest part of this whole story.
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I'm going to wrap it up because I know Mexican food, glory,
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Jesus name Caleb comes up to Joshua and says God promised me
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the land, Moses promised me the land and I'm going to take that
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land. Will you give me permission to
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go in? Come on church.
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We would have we would have been so in in some churches, not this
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church. Y'all are fantastic.
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But in some churches if if if you're not the one in charge,
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you don't have a voice. I've talked to pastors that have
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a board. It's not really a board.
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I've talked to pastors that you can want to be in ministry, but
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unless you have the right pedigree, you're never going to
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see that fulfilled. I know that doesn't happen here,
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but I've seen it happen in other churches.
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Joshua had a different heart. He had a different approach.
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And he gives the land of of Hebron too.
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Caleb the Kennesite from the tribe of Judah.
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Caleb his Mama was Chefina. Caleb was not necessarily from
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Jacob's line. Caleb was different.
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Caleb was literally built different because Caleb, his
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whole tribe, though it rested in Judah, was actually from Esau
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and was grafted in. He he wasn't actually of Israel,
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but he was of promise. And so not having the right
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pedigree, not having the right experience or not having the
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right family history yet Joshua, the man of God said you can have
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everything that you're asking for because the God that goes
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before you is going to work it all out.
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Joshua understood. He had an experience with an
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Angel that said you're going to take the land.
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And Caleb is the only one. Story after story.
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Let me just let me bring it home here.
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Story after story of the Philistines, of the Amalekites,
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of the Hittites, of the Amorites, of the Parasites.
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I had to read this name 47 different times.
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You never hear stories of the Anakims even in history.
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I, I, I tried to find what, what, who were these people?
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Who were these sons of Anok that lived in the place that Caleb
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was trying to take? And there's no recorded history
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of them besides the encounter that they had with the people of
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God. Caleb had it inside of himself,
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built just a little bit different that if God has called
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me to take the land, then I'm going to take it all the way.
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And if God has called me to destroy all of the idols and to
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cut down all of the things that might oppose his will, if he's
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called me to a greater holiness, if he's called me to a greater
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standard, then I'm not going to stand in His way.
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And Caleb, Caleb is the only one of all of the Israelites that
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destroyed them, completely eradicated them from history.
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No record of the people that Caleb fought.
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Musicians, if you want to come on up, Caleb was built
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different. Caleb was built in a unique way
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preceded just another moment. Just bear with me.
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Caleb had a different encounter with the presence of God.
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Caleb had an understanding that if I ever get back to the shores
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of Jordan, if I ever get access to my children, if I ever get
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access to my grandchildren, if I ever get to speak to this
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generation, then I'm going to make sure that everything that
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would have blocked us from our promise is torn out completely.
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There has to be a SO inside of the Apostolic Church that says
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I'm going to tear down every idol.
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Caleb was there on the battlefields, on the frontline,
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by choice. He was taking his territory by
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choice. Caleb had something different
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inside of him. I don't want to have just an
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accidental encounter with an angel's wing.
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I want to have the spirit of a living God inside of me.
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Amen. I want to have the presence of
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God inside of me. But I'm gonna need you to give
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me something high because I'm feeling real good right now.
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Can we stand today? I want to tell you that the
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presence of God living in you, it's not just something that we
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talk about. It's not just I don't want you
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to think that I'm just preaching Holy Ghost cliches.
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The spirit of a living God. They called him Elohim is inside
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of you. They called him Jehovah Rapha,
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He's inside of you. They called him Jehovah Shalom.
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He's inside of you. They called him Jehovah Nisi.
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He's inside of you. This one true living God is
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dwelling on the inside of man. You become a temple Jesus,
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Jesus, Jesus. He's waiting for somebody to act
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just a little bit different. He's waiting for somebody to
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step out and be different in your community, to be different
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in your school, to be different at your job.
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When other people are, when other people are going out
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drinking, you're the one that say no, I don't even need that.
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When other people are going for smoke breaks.
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It's you that's standing there saying, you know what?
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I don't need that right now because my God has made me a
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temple and it's spirit dwells inside of me.
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Don't you know that? I've been bloodborne again.
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I've been washed and sanctified. I've been delivered.
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I wish somebody, I wish somebody understood that you're a one God
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Apostolic. Don't talk it.
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Holy, rolling, born again, heaven, not believer.
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Zephaniah 317 says, The Lord,
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thy God in the midst of thee is mighty.
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He will save, and he will rejoice over thee with joy.
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He will rest in his love, and he will joy over thee with singing,
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with singing. Understand some of us as
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Christians, some Christians, the song that Jesus sings over them
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is Jesus loves me. This I know for the Bible tells
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me so. Some people it's Father Abraham
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and many sons because you have all the right history, you have
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the right pedigree, and that's fantastic.
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And some people are singing, I'm sold out and the presence of God
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is right there and you got a little church bump in you.
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But here's what I want. I want God to sing Wild Thing.
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I want to be just a little bit different.
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I don't want to fit in the status quo.
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I don't want to have church as usual.
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I want the Spirit of God inside of me and throwing out of me.
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Can I tell a story? Am I right?
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Can I tell a story? Princess within conference.
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Awesome, fantastic. But I'm going to be real honest,
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it was tight. Everything was amazing.
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The preaching was incredible, the music was amazing, the
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testimonies were top notch, but it was tight and I just I felt
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it even from the first day. I'm like God, break something in
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here, break something in here. And, and it was the last person,
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the last person that was getting prayer.
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Sister Wendy brought her up to a couple of us and I, I just
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happened to be annoyingly and uncomfortably right in the front
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and she brought this lady, this older lady up and said the
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chaplains asked us if we'll pray for her.
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She has liver cancer. They've used all of their
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resources inside that facility and there's nothing that they
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can do for her. There's nothing else that they
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can do. They're trying to get other
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things, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
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And so the chaplain asked if we would pray for her and Sister
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Wendy. And I know it was all of her
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face. She said, can you pray that God
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heals her liver? And in my heart, I wanted to do,
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I'm just going to be real honest.
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Every part of me, Brother McGee was like, boy, you better spit
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in tongues. You know I'm talking about that
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shake, that old liver right out of her.
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That was the very first thought that I had, was be obedient to
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the chaplain and do what Sister Wendy just asked you to do and
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speak life over this lady. And then something else just
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triggered inside of me. I was driving down or up here
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from McAlester, OK. I passed through Saint Louis.
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And there was a family that I've never met before.
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And their baby was in the hospital.
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He was dying. He didn't have kidneys and his
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he had no bladder. He was born with that.
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And he lived for a month and a half.
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And they were like, this is his last days.
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We didn't even expect to have him.
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And so they're like, Brother Graham, can you please go pray?
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And I said, absolutely, I'm going to make my way through
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Saint Louis. It's an awful city.
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It is what it is. And I'm going to go pray with
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this family that I have no idea who they are.
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And so I, I go into the hospital and I walk in and I'm, you know,
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Holy Ghost sanctified, anointed from the Lord.
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And I walk in and I said, my name is Pastor Graham and I, I
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just, I'm here to pray with you. And would you mind if I
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interrupt? And of course, all the family is
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there and there and, and I said, can I just pray?
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And, and there was like, there was a sense of urgency inside of
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me, but there was also a discomfort that overspoke the
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voice of urgency. I'm just being real honest with
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you. And so I did the Apostolic
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thing. Oh, and I prayed and I grabbed
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that mama's hands and I spoke in tongues.
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And I wept over that baby that died just six hours later.
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And when I got into my truck, I felt the presence of the Lord
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say, yeah, what did she want you to pray for?
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And then, of course, well, Lord, I'm such a failure.
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Look what I did wrong. God, give me another chance to
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just ask somebody what you want them to do.
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So Sister Wendy brings this lady in front of me, the end of the
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Princess Within conference. It says, pray for a liver.
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And my first reaction was thwarted but by the presence of
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God. And in that moment, I just
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looked at her and I said, what do you want God to do for you?
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I know, I knew. They want to see a miracle.
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They want to report that her liver is completely whole.
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And she just looked at me with just such old sweet eyes.
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And she said, I just want to wake up in the morning and
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smile. And my heart broke.
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We talked a little bit longer and I said it sounds like what
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you're really wanting God to do is just give you peace.
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Then I asked her. I said, do you believe that God
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can heal your liver? She said no, I don't think he
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can. So the prayer that I prayed over
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her with all Apostolic authority was according to your faith, be
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it unto you. And after we prayed the presence
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of God was there. I said, you use the word for
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yourself, for your body. That is nothing but waste.
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I said, you know God doesn't see you like that.
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Then I began to tell her story after story of people I know
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personally that were healed of cancer.
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I know them personally. I've seen it.
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I've seen broken joints come back into place, bones restored,
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paralyzed woman came into my office and within 4 sessions was
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walking. I've seen God do incredible
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things. And I just told her at the end
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of our conversation, we will pray for you, but I will pray
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that God increases your faith. So my question for this church,
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if you can bow your heads, really, what do you want God to
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do for you? What territory did he put in
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front of you that only you can walk through with your eyes?
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What field is in front of you that doesn't look like a
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peaceful place, but looks like it might be inhabited by giants?
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For everyone in this building, the question is what are you
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going to fight for? Because it might just be that
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your experience with the giants in front of you becomes your
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origin story. It might be that the most
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difficult season in front of you is actually where your ministry
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comes from. It might be that He's called you
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to deeper levels and deeper places, but you're afraid of the
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enemy on the other side. These altars are open.
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He was in the world. The world was made by him, and
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the world knew him not, and he came unto his own.
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His own didn't receive him, but as many as received him.
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Those are the people that receive power.
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But what are you and I going to do with the power that God gave
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us? If the living God is inside of
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you, if you are full of the Holy Spirit, if God is working in you
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and through you, what are you willing to be used for?
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I guarantee it's going to be uncomfortable.
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I guarantee it's going to be a stretch of the imagination.
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I guarantee it's going to push you in the lands that you were
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not expecting. But I can also guarantee that
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your children and your grandchildren are going to have
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an inheritance tense. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
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Jesus, have your way, God, Jesus, have your way.
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God help us to be built different.
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Lord God help us to be built different.
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Jesus, God, I pray that you would put a fire in his heel
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inside of me, Lord God, that presses out into every corner of
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my field. Lord God, help me to reach my
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community. Jesus, Jesus name, come on
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church, if you're full of the Holy Ghost, I want you to pray
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in tongues. I want you to weep in the
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presence of a living God. I want you to claim some
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territory today that the enemy has told you you don't have
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access to anymore. Jesus, Jesus name Jesus name.
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Jesus name Jesus name Jesus, I thank you for the anointing,
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God. Jesus, pour out your spirit.
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God, Lord, pour out your presence.
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God, pour out your anointing. Lord Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah, Jesus. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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Come on church. Press in just a little bit.
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Press in just a little bit further.
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Jesus draws closer to your spirit, God.
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Lord, I pray for your anointing, God.
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I pray for your presence, God. Lord, I thank you, Jesus for
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your spirit and authority. God, I thank you, Lord, for the
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calling on their lives. Lord, I thank you God for your
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holiness. God, Hallelujah.
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Jesus, I thank you God for what you're doing right now.
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Lord Jesus name pour not your spirit, God your way right now.
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Lord Jesus name in Jesus name, Jesus name.
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Come on church, let's pray for a little while.
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Begin to speak the name of your children.
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Now begin to speak the name of your grandchildren.
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Now it's time to take back the land.
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I'm taking back the land.
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I'm taking back the property. God, I'm taking back my
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inheritance. God, I'm taking back the
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generation. Jesus, break up generational
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curses right now. Lord Jesus name, pour out your
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spirit God. Lord God, I'm an empty best to
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before you. God, I pour myself out before
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you. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
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Jesus. Jesus.
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Jesus. Jesus.
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Jesus. Jesus.
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Jesus. Jesus.
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Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. I just feel the Spirit of the
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Lord saying right now you will live and you will not die.
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I've sent angels before you to go before you to tear through
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the land that's in front of you. Every obstacle will be torn down
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and laid waste. Every burden will be set aside.
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I will carry you through the land.
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I will carry you too. A resting place.
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Jesus. Jesus.
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Oh, I give myself to you, Lord. I empty myself to you, Lord
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Jesus. God.
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Yes, God. Jesus.
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My city, Jesus, I give you, all of me, I surrend Jesus.
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Jesus, I recall on your name, Lord.
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Recall on your name, Lord. I recall on your name, Jesus.
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Jesus. I won't hold anything back,
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Lord. I don't won't hold anything
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back, Lord. I don't won't hold anything
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back, Lord. God.
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Take my past and use it for your glory, God.
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Take my history and use it for ministry, Lord.
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God. Take everything that I have,
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Lord, and use it for your glory, God.
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I give myself to you, Lord Jesus.
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I give myself to you, Lord. Yes, God.
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I thank you, Lord. Yeah.