Overcoming Obstacles, Pt. 2

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Welcome to a Biblical Perspective Podcast where God's point of view matters.

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I'm your host, Prophet CT Johnson.

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This podcast is designed to expand you beyond the mind's cultural and theological limitations

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about the Bible and what it teaches.

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Prepare for the challenge of becoming a critical thinker, analyzing life from God's perspective.

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Boldly and unapologetically, I'll address the ills and issues of our day using scripture

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as the frame of reference.

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Get ready to empower your thinking and change your life.

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Now let's hear what God has to say.

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Greetings.

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Welcome to another episode of a Biblical Perspective Podcast.

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The podcast designed to expand you beyond the mind's cultural and theological limitations

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about the Bible and what it teaches.

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I'm your host, Prophet CT Johnson.

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What joy it is to have this opportunity to empower your thinking and change your life

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from God's perspective.

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Today we're concluding our teaching on overcoming obstacles.

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Obstacles, that which impedes progress or achievement.

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None of us can avoid facing obstacles.

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They are a part of life.

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You cannot exempt yourself from the experience.

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However, you can overcome them.

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And so we're concluding this teaching on today.

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Put on your critical thinking cap as we conclude our teaching overcoming obstacles.

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I want you to write down your two empowering points as we go through today's teaching.

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Holy Spirit is going to speak to you.

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He's going to illuminate, he's going to revelate, and you want to make sure that you capture

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whatever he says because it's going to benefit you and benefit others.

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So write down your two empowering points.

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Email me and share with me your empowering points.

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Our listeners from all over the world literally are in the group.

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And you can post your empowering points there in the group.

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And we all can engage and discuss how your experience with obstacles and how you dealt

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with it and your victory can be the testimony that strengthens the faith of those who are

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going through what you have overcome.

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All right?

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So do that, write down your two empowering points, and email it to me at adminctjohnson.org.

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Or you can post it in a biblical perspective podcast group.

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So let's conclude.

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Overcoming obstacles.

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An obstacle, something that impedes progress or achievement.

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It can be a person.

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I don't want you to limit an obstacle to a thing or to a circumstance or a situation.

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They can be people.

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People that we love, people that mean well, people that were to be a part of our lives,

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however, aren't able to go to the next level of our lives, aren't able to go to the next

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dimension, aren't able to go to the next experience with us.

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And so if we fail to identify obstacles, then of course we can't overcome them.

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Remember, we shared that last time.

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You can't overcome what you don't identify.

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And then secondly, you can't overcome what you don't confront.

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Once you identify something as an obstacle, once you have discerned that this here is

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impeding progress, this here is prohibiting me from fulfilling destiny and purpose.

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Once you identify it, then you have to confront it.

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And once you have confronted it, now you're on your way to overcoming it.

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And overcome is to what?

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Reach, to overtake, move or pass over.

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It is to conquer.

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It is to prevail over.

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It is to defeat in combat.

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And so we're not talking about just stepping over an obstruction, stepping over a habit,

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stepping over a proclivity.

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No, we're talking about conquering it.

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We're talking about defeating it.

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We're talking about becoming the victor over that thing, problem, proclivity, mindset,

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whatever the obstacle is.

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We're overcoming it in Jesus' name because we're more than conquerors through Christ

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Jesus, right?

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Right.

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So, we dealt with four obstacles last time and they were, one, the obstacle of getting

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started, two, the obstacle of procrastination, three, the obstacle of lack of support.

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That's a big one.

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And then number four was the obstacle of frustration.

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And so today we're going to pick up with the obstacle of wrong relationships.

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That's a SILA moment.

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The obstacle of wrong relationships.

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Now it's obvious that you're in a wrong relationship if the relationship is one-sided, if you're

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always giving and the other person or the other persons involved are always taking.

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Right relationships should be reciprocal.

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It's give and take, right?

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Give and take.

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So, it's obvious again that you're in a wrong relationship when it's one-sided.

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When one person is doing all the giving and the other person or persons are doing all

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the taking.

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It's obvious that you're in a wrong relationship if you're being manipulated, if you're being

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controlled, if you're engaged with one that is self-centered and again is never reciprocating

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what they're receiving.

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That's a wrong relationship.

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However, I don't want you to limit that title or limit that heading wrong relationship to

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the obvious, the negative which is in most cases obvious.

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You're being manipulated or you might be the manipulator.

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So let's flip the coin.

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You might be an obstacle to someone else.

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And if that's the case, repent, turn and move in the right direction.

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So it's not always where being presented with obstacles, sometimes where the obstacle.

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And so this lesson is for the matured saint.

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This lesson is for the one that's desiring to reach that next level of growth and development

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in their relationship, not always pointing the finger outward but learning how to point

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the finger inward and take that introspective look and ask the question, am I an impediment?

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An impediment, that's what I'm trying to say.

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We need to mature to that place where we can ask ourselves the question, am I what's blocking

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someone from reaching their next level of success?

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Am I prohibiting them from achieving?

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Am I the hurdle that's tripping them up?

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Am I the impediment versus you always being the one to experience impediments and or that

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thing which is endeavoring to trip you, stop you.

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So wrong relationships again, it's obvious that it's a wrong relationship if it's manipulative,

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if it's one sided and all of what I've mentioned.

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However again, I want you to expand your thinking because again, a biblical perspective podcast

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is for those that are up for the challenge of becoming critical thinkers.

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And so wrong relationships don't always start out wrong, sometimes they start out right

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and they veer and or they enter into the area or category of wrong relationship.

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And it's not always because a person becomes self-centered, a person becomes narcissistic,

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a person becomes manipulative and evil and dirty and backbiting and all of that.

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But sometimes a relationship takes a turn in the direction of a wrong relationship because

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the season and or the timeframe for that relationship, for that interaction, for that connection

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has expired.

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And so we have to be cognizant of this reality that seasons change as it pertains to relationships.

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Now I'm not talking about marriage, okay, so I'm not giving you a loophole, I'm not

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giving you a way out of your marriage though.

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I'm talking about relationships, friendships, business-wise, things of that nature, all

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that.

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And so we need to mature to the place of discernment or mature in our discernment where we are

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able to determine when a relationship has reached its expiration.

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Because if you remain in a relationship that God no longer supports, even though the person

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is a great person, even though the relationship was beneficial and you have grown in affection

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one for the other and in concern one for the other and things of that nature and you want

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what's best for them and they want what's best for you, listen to the prophet.

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That relationship that had a specific purpose that has been met, if you remain there, now

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what was once a blessing, now what once was a catapult, now what once was something to

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boost you, to thrust you, to support you is now a hindrance.

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It's now a snare, it's now an obstruction.

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If we fail to discern when relationships have expired and we stay beyond the time allotted,

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now what was a blessing has become a curse.

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Now what was a catapult and or an instrument to push and to propel and thrust you forward

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into destiny has now transformed into a snare.

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It's now transformed into a mechanism that has impeded progress, that has immobilized

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you.

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Am I teaching good today?

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Yes, I am.

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And so wrong relationships, the obstacle of wrong relationships is not always the obvious,

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the bad person, the nasty person, the ungodly person, the person that has turned their back

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on God, that has backslidden.

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Sometimes that is obvious.

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Sometimes those instances are obvious.

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You can pick up on that.

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However, it's not as obvious to pick up on a right relationship that has transitioned

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into a wrong relationship because the person is not a bad person.

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The relationship in and of itself is not bad.

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The relationship in and of itself doesn't even fall in the category of ungodly being

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that what you are engaged in is against the will of God.

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It's simply the fact that what the purpose of the connection was has been met and really

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you all have no other reason to remain connected beyond that purpose.

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It's just as the boosters to a rocket.

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I like to use this analogy.

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When a space shuttle is being launched into space, it utilizes what's called, I believe,

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rocket boosters and those boosters serve the purpose of what?

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Boosting the rocket, boosting the spaceship off the ground into the atmosphere, into space.

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And once the rocket ship, once the space shuttle reaches a certain height, certain altitude

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and all of that, what happens to the boosters?

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They fall off.

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And catch this, this is powerful.

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They fall off not because they became bad boosters.

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They fall off not because they did something wrong.

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They fell off because they actually did something right.

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They fulfilled their purpose.

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And so once they did what they were intended to do, once they have completed the assignment

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in which was the reason, the purpose for being connected to the spaceship in the first place,

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once that assignment has been completed, the relationship between the booster and the space

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shuttle has expired.

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And so the boosters fall off.

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If the other parts of the space shuttle, for that matter, as it continues to move into

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orbit, into space, other parts of it fall off.

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Why?

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Because where the space shuttle is now going, if it continues to connect, if it remains

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connected to all of the other parts, it will eventually hinder it, slow it down and cause

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great damage and or harm because all that was a part of it in the beginning is not adequate

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for where the space shuttle now is.

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Did y'all catch that?

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Do we need to rewind that?

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See, some of you are trying to take people, places and things that once benefited, that

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had purpose, that had significance for where you were.

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But because you have moved, you have progressed, you have transitioned, you have transcended

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from where you were to where you are, if you remain connected to all of those places, persons

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and things, they will now hinder you.

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They will now harm you.

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They will now become catastrophic because they're not adequate for where you are.

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They were adequate for where you were.

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And so hence, many are dealing with the obstacle of wrong relationships.

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Not all because the persons or the people have taken, have switched as it pertains to.

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Now they've transitioned from Mr. Jekyll or from Mr. Hyde to Jekyll.

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You remember that story, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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Jekyll was the nice man, I believe, or was it Mr. Hyde?

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I'm getting it confused.

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However, my point is one of those characters was the calm, serene individual and then he

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would transform into this monster.

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And so not all relationships fall in the category of wrong relationship because someone switched

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personalities.

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Sometimes they become wrong relationships simply because the expiration date for that

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relationship has expired and you're still endeavoring to partake of a relationship that's

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spoiled.

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That's good stuff right there.

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Let's look at Judges 16 to help us to litify this point and or this fifth obstacle of wrong

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relationship.

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Judges 16 and 6.

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And it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him so that his soul

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was vexed unto death that he told her all his heart and said unto her, there hath not

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come a razor upon my head for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb.

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If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me and I shall become weak and be like any

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other man.

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Verse 21, but the Philistines took him and put out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza

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and bound him with fetters of brass and he did grind in the prison mill.

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Now this is the account of Samson and Delilah.

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Judges 16 verses 16 to 17 and then verse 21.

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Now what I want you to extract from this account here is the outcome, the result of Samson

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being in a wrong relationship.

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Because Samson didn't learn how to overcome the obstacle of wrong relationships, it cost

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his life.

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Are y'all listening to me?

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See if we don't gather the tools and gain the information required to not just engage

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with the obstacle, engage with the enemy, engage with the threat, engage with the sickness,

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engage with the illness, whatever the obstacle is because the obstacle varies for all of

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us.

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For some it's the obstacle of sickness.

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Now I'm just dealing with seven that God gave me that is specific to this lesson.

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However there are various types of obstacles.

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They come in all form, shapes and sizes.

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It could be the obstacle of wrong relationship.

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It could be the obstacle of illness.

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It could be the obstacle of whatever.

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However you must understand that if we don't defeat the obstacle, the obstacle will defeat

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you, us.

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If we don't defeat the obstacle and or we remain in fear and intimidated and we procrastinate

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in engagement, we procrastinate in confronting it or we dodge it, listen whatever your excuse,

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if you don't defeat it, it will defeat you.

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There's one thing about our adversary Satan is he is relentless.

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He's going to keep coming after you unless you deal with him.

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We have to gain the tools necessary so that we can be properly armed and equipped to identify

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as I have been teaching from the beginning, identify because sometimes obstacles come

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incognito.

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They're not obvious.

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Just like the wrong relationship scenario.

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Not all wrong relationships are obvious.

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You can't identify immediately or with the natural eye what's wrong with the relationship

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because in some instances nothing is actually wrong other than the time frame for it has

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expired.

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The purpose for it has been met and there's no need to remain in fellowship as it were.

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So being or rather not being able to identify and confront the obstacle of wrong relationships

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can cost your life and really obstacles in general.

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Let's just go ahead and say that.

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Obstacles in general, if you don't overcome them, they will overcome you.

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If you don't defeat them, they will defeat you.

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So back to judges, back to Samson and Delilah.

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Because Samson failed to categorize this relationship with Delilah as an obstacle, eventually, catch

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this, she wore him down.

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Eventually he gave in and when he gave in, he gave up.

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Oh that was powerful.

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When he gave in, he gave up.

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What did he give up?

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He gave up vital information.

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When you allow your circumstance, when you allow pressure to win and you get to that

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point of weakness and we all have been there and you aren't around the right people to

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strengthen you, to encourage you, to pull you out of the fight, to tend to you, to minister

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to you when you don't have those type of relationships and things of that nature, what happens is

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the pressure of the confrontation with that obstruction will eventually wear you down.

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It will eventually weaken you and then you will give up and not give up only in the sense

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of surrender but give up as it pertains to releasing secrets to your or releasing information

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as it pertains to your weakness.

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And that's what happened to Samson.

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Samson, because he was in love and whatever drew him and or attracted him to Delilah because

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he failed to bring his flesh under subjection and all of that and really he was engaged

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in relationship with types of women that God forbade him as a Nazarite to even be involved

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with and that's a whole other subject.

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So if he was obedient to God in that regard, this particular obstacle could have been avoided

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and that's a lesson for us.

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That's a lesson for us.

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What obstacle are you dealing with that really is due to your disobedience, your rebellion?

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Oh come on.

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We're on a Biblical Perspective podcast.

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This podcast is for those that are up for the challenge of becoming critical thinkers.

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This podcast is for those that want their thinking empowered so their life can change

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for the better.

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Come on.

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We're growing up in God.

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We're graduating from elementary to middle school, then graduating from middle school

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to high school and then graduating from high school on to college.

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Come on.

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And then going for our graduate.

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We want to ascend to the highest levels possible in our relationship with God where growth

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and development are concerned.

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And so there are some obstacles that we're dealing with that popped up not because of

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the strategic plan that the devil had but because of our disobedience, because of our

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rebellion, because of our refusal to succumb to the instruction, the guidance of the Holy

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Spirit.

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And so, this was Samson's case.

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He was involved in relationships with women that he was forbade, forbidden as a Nazirite.

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Hence, he gave, hence rather, he succumbed to the pressure of Delilah's consistent nagging

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about the source of his strength.

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So he gave in, then he gave up and it cost his life.

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It was not God's will for Samson to die in the manner and or the way that he did.

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And so, the obstacle of wrong relationships sometimes can be the obstacle, if not overcome,

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can be the one that destroys our lives.

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Obstacle number six, the obstacle of distraction.

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The obstacle of distraction.

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We have to discipline ourselves to the place where we are not distracted by every external

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occurrence.

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And this is easier said than done, however, it is achievable.

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If you recall what I just said, you have to develop this level of discipline whereby,

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regardless of how chaotic things are outside of you or around you rather, regardless of

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how chaotic things are around you and or externally, we have to develop this level of discipline

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that we remain focused on our purpose, on our assignment, remain focused on what God

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said and not what people are saying.

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We have to remain focused on what he showed and not what circumstances are displaying.

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We have to remain focused on what he specifically spoke to us, released in our heart, in our

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spirit as it pertains to his will, his intent, regardless of those that disagree with it,

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that doubt it, does not matter.

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We have to develop this discipline because distractions, as all of the other types of

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obstacles that we have named, they will come.

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It's inevitable.

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It's inevitable.

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You cannot exempt yourself from experiencing things that come to impede your progress and

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to shut you down and even shut you up, even in your family, among those that are close

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to you, things of that nature.

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You can't avoid it, but you can overcome it.

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And overcoming, defeating it, prevailing over it, conquering it doesn't come solely by speaking

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in tongues and you greasing yourself down with 50 bottles of olive oil.

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No, it comes with you and I being intentional about reaching the end goal, the end result.

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You have to be intentional.

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If you want victory, you have to be intentional about it.

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And so distractions are going to come, but they can be overcome.

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In Matthew 14 verse 30, but when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid and beginning

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to sink, he cried saying, Lord, save me.

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This is Peter.

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The account here in Matthew 14 deals with Peter walking on water.

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And so Peter, he focused on the word, the word incarnate, Christ, Jesus himself walking

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on the water in conjunction with the spoken word come.

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Peter released faith in what was said by Jesus as well as what was being demonstrated by

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Jesus.

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And in doing that, Peter catch this overcame the obstacle of water.

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Water is not designed for us to walk on.

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It's designed for us to move through swim in.

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However, because Peter's focus was on the words of the creator, he was able to master

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and or to control what was designed to control him.

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The word of God is powerful.

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The word of God gives us the ability to conquer any and every circumstance.

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When you obey the word of God, when you apply the word of God, you are able to defy the

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odds.

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You are able to defy natural laws because the laws of God, the commandments of God,

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the word of God created natural law.

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Hence, it can control it.

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I'm getting happy off my own teaching.

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I'm telling you.

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But listen to the verse.

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He saw the wind boisterous.

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Well first of all, you can't see the wind.

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The wind is invisible to the natural eye.

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We can't see the wind.

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What we see are the effects of the wind.

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You understand?

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What we see are the results of the wind manifesting itself somewhere.

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And so he saw the billowing seas.

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He saw the trees violently shaking.

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He saw a shrubbery and greenery violently reacting to the boisterous wind.

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Hence, he transferred his focus from what was stabilizing him to the distraction.

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He transferred his focus from the word which was stabilizing him to what was happening

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and occurring around him which now causes him to become unstable.

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The obstacle of distraction defeated him because this obstacle, I'm telling you, believe it

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or not, is going to pop up many times.

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Distractions are going to come.

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And the purpose of the distraction by the enemy is to impede your progress because that's

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what an obstacle is.

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The enemy, that is, he brings into existence the obstacle through other means.

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In this case, Peter's case, he brought it through the storm, this obstacle of distraction.

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And so if you, when you, not if, when you give in to this obstacle of distraction, if

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you fail to develop the tools and execute the principles that govern victory and overcoming,

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then those things that you have power and control over as the elective God, as one made

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in his image and in his likeness, will control you if you and I fail to fortify our faith

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so that we can, what, tackle, engage, and defeat any and every obstacle that is coming

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after us.

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So the last obstacle that we're going to deal with on today's podcast is the obstacle of

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failure.

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We have come down to the seventh obstacle, the obstacle of failure.

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Now I want you to write this down.

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Failure is not in you, how can I say it?

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Failing is not messing up.

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Failing is not when what you plan didn't go as planned.

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It didn't happen the way you wanted and you did due diligence as it pertains to your homework

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and you counted up the cost and all of that, but the business failed.

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You did everything possible, everything that you were responsible for doing as far as you

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know in the marriage failed or whatever failed, failed.

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But failure is not necessarily in the fact that something didn't go as planned or it

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went awry.

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Failure is in quitting.

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Failure is in giving up.

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And so even using some of those examples, if your marriage failed, you sulking and you

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allowing the enemy to manifest condemnation and guilt and you enter into a victim's posture

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talking about nobody wants me and I'm worthless and I'm not wife material and all that.

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Now there might be some valid points as it pertains to you need to work on character

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and work on this and that.

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But in general, just because the marriage failed does not categorize or label you as

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a failure.

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Now again, if you just sit in that posture or remain in that posture and you stick your

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thumb in your mouth and you find yourself getting comfortable in the proverbial fetal

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position then you failed because you are quitting on relationships period, not just marriage

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but relationships.

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There are some people that have been tripped by the obstacle of failure and because that

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marriage failed they feel as though they are a failure in regards to relationship.

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No relationship is going to work whether it's marital, whether it's business, it doesn't

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matter.

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The obstacle has locked your mind into that particular circumstance, instance, occurrence

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and every time you get up and you lift up one leg over that obstacle and endeavor to

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pull the other leg behind you, you trip because your mind is on repeat.

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But I come against that spirit of guilt and condemnation today in Jesus' name.

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Proverbs 24 and 16, for a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again, but the wicked

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shall fall into mischief.

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Fail there is to fall short.

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But the wicked shall, or rather, for a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again,

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but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

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So fail is the root word of failure and to fail is to fall short.

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And so just because you fail short does not mean that your life is over.

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It may seem as though it is, but it's not.

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How do you know, prophet?

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How come you're so confident because you're still alive?

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If your life was over, you would be dead.

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You would be six feet under or cremated and ashes spread somewhere.

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But the very fact that you're still breathing, the very fact that the enemy can taut, haught

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and plague you with the failures of your past is proof that you're not dead.

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You can overcome the obstacle of failure.

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You fell short.

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You fail.

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You fell short.

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You didn't complete it.

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It didn't go as planned.

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You messed it up.

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Come on again.

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This podcast is for the matured saint.

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You were the reason why you failed.

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However, God is merciful.

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Aren't you glad about that?

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Again, by his grace, you can repent, learn from what you need, learn from the circumstance,

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gather what you need to gather to help you in the next go around, defeat it and be successful.

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So you can, I can, we can overcome the obstacles.

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Those things that come to impede our progress, our achievement, we can overcome them.

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We have to engage.

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We have to reach them, meaning engage.

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We have to confront them.

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Remember, you cannot overcome what you will not confront.

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You have to develop the strength, the courage, the boldness to confront it.

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First identify it.

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You have to identify that the snake is a snake.

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Call a spade a spade.

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Identify it as an obstacle.

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Then engage, confront it.

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And once you do those two things, you are on your way to overcoming it, overtaking it,

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conquering it, prevailing over it.

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The obstacle of getting started, the obstacle of procrastination, the obstacle of lack of

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support, the obstacle of frustration, the obstacle of wrong relationships, the obstacle

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of distractions, the obstacle of failure.

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You can overcome and you will overcome as long as you determine to do so.

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Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray for my listeners.

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I pray, Father, that this word, this teaching will take root, that the seed of this word

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will die and germinate.

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For if the seed does not die, then it abides alone.

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And I thank you that the seed will take root, deep root into the soil of their heart.

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It will germinate.

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It will bring forth fruit to their lives and to the lives that they are destined to touch

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and will bring glory to you.

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We come against the spirit of distraction, the spirit of failure.

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We come against the enemy and all of his antics and everything that he desires and would

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design for the purpose of distracting us.

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We thank you for victory because we have knowledge, we have wisdom, and we're going to implement

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it and apply it.

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And so victory is ours in Jesus' name.

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Well, were you empowered?

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Were you challenged to think critically?

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Are you seeing and understanding this subject matter of overcoming obstacles from God's

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perspective?

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Well, I want to hear your answers to those questions.

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That's right.

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I want to hear your answer to those questions.

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So email me at admin at ctjohnson.org.

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That's admin, A-D-M-I-N, at ctjohnson.org.

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Or join the Facebook group.

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Make sure you join the Facebook group, the biblical perspective podcast group, and post

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your responses there.

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The conversation continues in the podcast group.

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Let's engage and discuss your thoughts concerning today's podcast.

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Also, remember to send me your two empowering points that you were supposed to write down

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while listening today.

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Visiting the show notes in the podcast description will provide you with the email address and

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all other pertinent information to contact me so that I can be encouraged myself and

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you encourage others as it pertains to the obstacles you have overcome.

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Thank you so much for listening.

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Know that I greatly appreciate every listener.

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Would you consider partnering with CT Johnson Ministries International and the biblical

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perspective podcast?

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Tell us to continue empowering lives.

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Go to ctjohnson.org slash partnership and sow your best seed today.

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Tune in next time as I continue to empower your thinking from God's perspective.

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Be empowered.

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Thank you so much for joining me today on a biblical perspective podcast.

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Did today's episode empower you?

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If so, rate and subscribe to the podcast at cpnshows.com, Apple Podcast, or wherever you

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listen.

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To learn more about me and CT Johnson Ministries International, visit the website at ctjohnson.org

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or text the letters CTJM to 855-686-1201.

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Also, connect with me on Instagram and Twitter at ctjmintl and Facebook at CT Johnson Ministries.

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Tune in next time as I continue to empower your thinking from God's perspective.

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Be empowered.