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July 16, 2024
The War Over Your Destiny: Part 2
Continuing our journey in The War Over Your Destiny, part 2 focuses on the war being waged against the church, both local and universal. As the body of Christ advances, the enemy seeks to disrupt and destroy. We’ll uncover why this battle is intensifying now and what it means for believers today. Discover how the enemy aims to abort God's plan, and how we, as part of the church, are called to be vigilant and proactive. Learn how to armor yourself spiritually and stand united with fellow believers to ensure that the church not only survives but thrives in these tumultuous times.
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you pray it and he can answer it.
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The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man
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avails much.
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God will put the prayer in your heart to pray
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so that he can answer it.
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Goes into the hearts of the people,
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doesn't return void, it produces results.
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Just saying it, you're thinking it, I'm saying it.
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You get to be my age and you just say it.
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And you get financially secure enough
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you can say whatever you want
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because you don't need their money.
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But in the days of Catherine Coleman,
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literally, if you've never read any of her books,
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incredible, and I just want to remind you,
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Jesus Christ is the same.
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Yesterday, today, and forever.
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She didn't even know it.
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She's preaching in these little churches.
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You know, God's into little churches.
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You know, your church is, how big is your church?
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I don't know, how many people do you have in your church?
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You're so full of pride I can hardly stand it.
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Shut up!
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True spiritual authority doesn't mean
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you have a church of 10,000.
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You show off.
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How many do you have in your church?
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Well, there's churches that are small churches
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that walk in more spiritual authority
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than churches, some of these churches of 10,000 people
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that go to these churches, some of them, not everybody,
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to just tickle my ear, tickle my ear, tickle my ear,
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tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle.
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You know, when I rub my dog's ear,
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he goes into ecstasy and he goes over on his side.
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He smiles.
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Walking with God and being a soldier in the army of God
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is not about getting your ear tickled.
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She was in a small little church and you know what?
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She's up here preaching after her divorce.
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And somebody in the back of the room,
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just give me a second.
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Jesus, lift your hands to Jesus.
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Jesus, are we covet that you manifest yourself again
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in this regard?
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There's so many that are thirsty and hungry,
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so many that are hurting in their bodies
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and are in need of healing.
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We're asking you to send the rain.
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We're asking you for mercy on the behalf of those
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that are sick and diseased and can't get any help
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from doctors, God, we're asking.
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Give us a, God, we're asking that you give us tears
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like Jeremiah did to weep for those that are in need
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of physical healing.
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We've been so off.
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She'd be sitting, she was preaching in a small church
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and somebody in the back of the room got healed.
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Nobody touched the person, nobody did anything,
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nobody did nothing except the Holy Ghost.
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The Holy Ghost is the agent of God in the earth.
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The Holy Ghost is here.
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Kennedy Hagan used to say, the Holy Ghost,
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you could walk into a room with a red hat on
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and a big sign and say, I'm the Holy Ghost,
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and most people would recognize him.
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And he is a him, he is a person.
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He's a third person of the Godhead.
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He has a personality.
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One of the things he really wants to do right now
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is demonstrate himself.
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It's part of his nature.
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In the back of the church,
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the person got healed by the power of God.
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Catherine didn't even know it.
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Go, God forbid.
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God didn't tell the minister what was gonna happen.
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I think it's better sometimes.
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I mean, I have 10 pages of notes, got it?
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You know, when the Holy Ghost wants to do
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what the Holy Ghost wants to do,
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we're just gonna let the Holy Ghost do what he wants to do.
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See, if I come to you with an uncertain sound,
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you're not gonna be equipped as a soldier
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in the army of God.
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The Holy Ghost came, manifested himself on this woman.
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Her faith wasn't involved.
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We understand faith.
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Thank God for Kennedy Hagan.
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Thank God.
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Right?
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She came up to Catherine and said,
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you know, while you were yet preaching,
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Acts 10, 44, the Holy Ghost fell on me
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and I felt power going into my body
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and I was healed of the plague that I had in my body.
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Catherine said, what?
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And you know what?
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Through that vessel, because of what she carried,
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she began to develop in her gift.
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Oh, I just know how to flow in my,
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you will be developed in your gift.
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She developed her gift and she would get up to preach
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and you know, you can't make the Holy Ghost
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do what you want the Holy Ghost to do.
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I mean, if you just look at that person
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and you look at, they have a black jacket on
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and checkered pants and you could get a word for them
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according to what they got on.
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Don't even ask me to say what I'm thinking
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because it's not appropriate in church.
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It's a crock of you know what.
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But when the Holy Ghost demonstrates himself,
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you can't make that up.
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You can't pretend.
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You can't be all spiritual because it's not of us.
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It's the gift of God, lest any man should boast.
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So she'd get up to speak
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and the Holy Ghost will start demonstrating,
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demonstrating everywhere she went.
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You know, Jesus, everywhere he went,
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he went about doing what?
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Good.
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Doing what?
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Prophecying all the time?
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Healing all who are oppressed of the devil
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for God was with him.
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Church, the Holy Ghost is with us.
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He's not only with us, he's in us.
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So she gets up and now she began to learn.
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When I preach, you know, just demonstrate, what is this?
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She probably had to study it out.
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Just like we've, you know, we have a lot now,
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but she probably had to figure it out.
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This is the Holy Ghost.
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This is the power of God.
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This is the power of gifts and manifestation.
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And then eventually as she developed in her gift,
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God would give her a word of knowledge.
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A word of, not mostly word of knowledge.
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What's happening now is a word of knowledge.
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Word of wisdom always speaks future.
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And oh, there's somebody here being healed
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of an incurable blood disorder.
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There's somebody over here being healed of a heart valve
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and you're wanting your heart.
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I mean, she got specific, she got so developed.
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What is, is it the same Holy Ghost?
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How many of you want to see God do that?
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Well, I want.
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We've been contending for this.
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When you say the word contend, what do you mean by that?
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Well, the Bible says, crave it.
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Desire, crave, that word crave, desire spiritual gifts.
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It means to crave, desire, long.
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I pray that as God said, I will give you a heart to know me.
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I pray that God will give us a heart
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to crave the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit,
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specifically the power gifts to be in manifestation.
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Well, that was interesting.
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Ready?
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1 Corinthians 15, 57.
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But thanks be to God who gives us the victory
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through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Therefore, my beloved soldiers.
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Yo, you're in training.
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Hello.
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Do you see yourself as a soldier?
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I see myself this morning as a general.
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And you're just so full of pride.
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I didn't call myself to be this.
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You talk about a high level introvert, that's me.
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I get up to speak and my gifts manifest.
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I'm not the one that promotes me.
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I didn't want this in the first place.
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I don't think you understand.
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I didn't want this in the first place.
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It's cost me.
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I'd sit in the back of the church and mind my own business
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in my introverted self and be really quiet.
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But that wasn't my choice to make.
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Therefore, my beloved soldiers, be steadfast.
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Will you please?
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Immovable.
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Always bounding in the work of the Lord.
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Knowing, you gotta know that you know,
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that you know, that you know, that you know,
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that you know, that you know, that you know,
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that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
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I know beyond any shadow of a doubt
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that what I'm doing is making a difference.
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I don't care if I preach to one person
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or 500 people or online,
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which this whole online thing is God.
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And I don't know why I keep getting this,
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but Margaret from the UK,
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you need to hear the word of the Lord today
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because this word for you is, this word today is for you
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and your country and the people that you are an apostle over.
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So I wanna briefly, since we've already used up
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most of my time, the Holy Spirit did.
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Aren't you just bored with church?
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Thank God this church isn't boring.
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I sometimes go to church, I'm so bored.
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Just wanna roll my eyes.
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Because there's no Holy Ghost.
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There's no spontaneity.
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I wanna briefly talk about the grit factor
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and as it relates to your assignment,
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individually, collectively as a church body inside church
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and universally, those of you that are listening.
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I'm gonna give you the West Point illustration
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in the book by Angela Duckworth,
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The Grit Factor.
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How many of you ever read that book?
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She wrote the book, The Grit Factor
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and it's about the West Point illustration.
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All those who attended
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the United States Military Academy of West Point,
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listen to me, have earned it.
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The admissions process for West Point, here it is.
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One of my really good friends, her husband,
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actually went to West Point and was a soldier
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and came out of West Point as a soldier.
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And it's just so interesting when I went back
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and I read this about him.
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I was proud of him before, but I'm even prouder of him now.
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Because people don't get what it takes to be
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where they need to be as a soldier.
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And the same holds true in the army of God.
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You've got to have the grit factor.
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What's the admissions process for West Point?
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You ready?
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Top score on the SAT or ACT
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and outstanding high school grades.
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A nomination from a member of Congress,
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a Senator or the Vice President of the United States.
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Now God already told us, I've nominated you.
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A fitness assessment that includes running,
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push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups.
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In junior year of high school,
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more than 14,000 applicants begin the admissions process.
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But 4,000 will succeed in getting the required nomination.
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Now remember, they want to go to West Point.
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Slightly more than half of those applicants,
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about 2,500, meet West Point's rigorous,
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academic, and physical standards.
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And from that select group,
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just 1,200 are admitted and enrolled.
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That would be me in the army of God.
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Lord, have mercy.
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Lord, I want to be disciplined.
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I want to be trained.
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I want to be faithful.
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Give me Holy Ghost muscles.
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I'll push for that extra push-up,
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whatever I got to do, Lord.
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I don't want to miss the mark.
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I don't want to miss my assignment.
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I don't want to be a
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assignment. I don't want to be like some of the people
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that Jesus said to go up into the upper room
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and wait for the promise of the Father.
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And they started out with 500,
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and they only ended up with how many?
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120. I'm not going to miss my encounter.
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Nearly all the men and women who come to West Point
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were varsity athletes.
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Most were team captains.
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And yet, one in five cadets,
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I feel that presence again.
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Oh God, Yeshua, my higher seer of my heart.
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Oh my Yeshua, a receiving and your heart.
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More may we receive your heart and your vision,
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your purpose, your plan, help us, Holy Ghost.
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And yet, one in five cadets will drop out before graduation.
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One in five, after all that.
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And historically, a substantial fraction of dropouts
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leave in their very first summer
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during an intensive seven-week training program
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called BEAST.
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Why would these young adults spend two years
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trying to get into a school
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and drop out in the first two months?
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BEAST is described, Angela Duckworth says,
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as the most physically and emotionally demanding part
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of the four years at West Point.
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How many of you feel like you've been
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really, really, really, really in a place
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where it's been very demanding in the realm of the Spirit?
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BEAST is described as the most physically
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and emotionally demanding part
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of the four years at West Point,
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designed to help you make, listen, listen,
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the transition from cadet to soldier.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You will no longer be called cadets.
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God is ready, and he's uttering his voice
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before his great army,
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and he's ready to enlist you as soldiers.
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I got goosebumps.
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What caused those to succeed BEAST
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had almost nothing to do with talent.
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Those who dropped out of training
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rarely did so for lack of ability.
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Rather, it was the never give up attitude.
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The study that Angela Duckworth did
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showed that those who were considered rising stars,
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who, to everyone's surprise,
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dropped out or lost entrance before,
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listen, they could reach their potential.
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Apparently, it was critically important, she says,
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and not at all easy,
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to keep going after failure.
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Some people are great, she said,
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when things are going well,
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but they fall apart when things aren't.
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I'm telling you, and I'm saying this under the anointing,
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and I don't really mean,
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I'm not prophesying this to myself, at all.
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Things have fallen apart in my life, to some degree,
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but I'm not giving up.
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Hard times either make you bitter or better.
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You choose what you want to call it,
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or think it, or have a mental attitude about it.
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Grace and grit, yes, remember,
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if something's lifted and you no longer,
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it's no longer meant for you to be,
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and you no longer, it's no longer meant for you to do it,
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then get out of it.
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You've got to discern the difference.
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Grid, as defined by one student at West Point,
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is to hang in their posture towards challenge.
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How many times did you want to quit the ministry?
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Have you ever had a bad meeting,
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and you get prepared for a week,
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and you get up and speak,
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it was the worst message you ever preached in your life,
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and you just want to crawl under a rock, right?
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And never give up attitude.
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Right, and we just keep going.
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People don't know.
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You know, T.D. Jakes, you know what he calls it?
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I like how he worded it.
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He said, public ministry, private struggles.
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And never give up attitude.
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Some people are great when things are going well,
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but fall apart when things aren't.
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People who have the grit keep going after failure.
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No, I'm just gonna do better the next time.
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No, I'm just gonna do better next time.
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Studies have shown that people who have gritty behaviors
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or the grit factor will actually succeed
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more than people who are intelligent,
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talented, more than people that are even rich.
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You know, they're just so privileged.
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No, they just have the grit factor.
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These individuals have this tenacious,
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I will not quit, I will not be distracted,
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I will not be deterred.
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But if you're going to have the grit factor
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that is not of this world's grit factor,
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but a spiritual grit factor,
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then you are going to have to operate by faith.
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You are going to have to know,
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we're not gonna be able to get into all of this,
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I'm gonna have to close soon,
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you're gonna literally have to know who you are.
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What authority you've been given
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while you are here on this earth
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and how God has and will continue to prepare you.
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You gotta know who you are.
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Let me just briefly say it.
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You look at the life of Jesus.
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He gets baptized in the River Jordan.
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God the Father spoke in an audible voice
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and said, this is my beloved Son
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in whom I am well pleased.
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And do you know like a next chapter,
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when he went up to be tempted of the devil,
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what was one of the temptations
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that the enemy struck with him?
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If you are the Son of God.
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Rabbi Shea Renista Lamondi,
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bow down and worship me if you are the Son of God.
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Hear me, hear me, church, hear me online.
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The devil wants you to take the easy road.
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The devil was tempting him, now this makes sense,
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with the easy road.
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What God spoke to us in the beginning of this message
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and I'm glad he's pulling it together,
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is he wants us to take the road
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that's the straight and narrow road
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that he has prepared for us.
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He wanted Jesus to take the easy road.
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You gotta know who you are.
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If you're the Son of God,
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if you've really been called to be an apostle,
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if you're really called to do this or to do that,
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if you're really a soldier in the army of God,
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if you don't know who you are, study the Bible.
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Study to show yourself approved unto God,
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a workman, a soldier that needs not to be ashamed,
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rightly dividing the word of truth.
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We as believers are enrolled in the army of God
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and I'm doing it, how about you?
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And through the years, we have been going through
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our own spiritual peace training.
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Ma kei havanasa.
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And this is a time, pastor, this is so critical online.
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This is a time of separating.
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This is a time of launching.
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This is a time where there's an increase
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of anointing and authority on those that have said yes
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to God all these years.
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And this is what God wants to say to us today.
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Joel 2, 11, he's uttering his voice before his great army.
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I saw him on the horse, I saw him.
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He's uttering his voice, he's got the crown on his head.
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He's saying, I promise you, if you will go all the way
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with me and can survive the beast training
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which many of you have, I will promote you.
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I will bless you.
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I will do for you exceedingly, abundantly,
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above all you could ask, hope to you, desire.
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Some of you, you leaders, you've sacrificed your money.
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You poured money into this ministry.
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You've given so much.
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God said, I'm not unrighteous to forget.
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Your work, your sacrifice, your labor of love,
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and I'm gonna say it right from the pulpit.
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And all the money you've sown in keeping the vision
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that God put in your heart alive.
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Oh my God, that ministry, da da da da da da da da.
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People have no idea the money it costs to keep things going.
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God's way.
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Oh, I think I'm just gonna sow $80,000 into my ministry
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so that I could get a tax write-off
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or so that I could just look real good.
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No, you could go buy a house in Florida
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and go hang by the beach.
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But God didn't tell you to do that.
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God said to keep the vision alive,
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you're gonna have to sow financially and give.
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And I'm telling you, I prophesy.
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Give and it will be given back onto you.
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Good measure, pressed down,
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shaken together and running over.
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Oh, but there's been so many seeds that I've sown.
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It's a time of seed time and there's a time of harvest.
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Your harvest is coming, your blessing is coming.
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I am not a man that I should lie,
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the son of man that I should repent.
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It's the time of seed time and harvest.
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Will you survive your beast training
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when it comes to your financials?
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You know, a farmer doesn't go out.
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I mean, listen.
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When I was a little girl, I used to make candles.
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And I was so excited to see the candle
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and how it came out with all the colors
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that I'd go ahead of time and open up the cardboard,
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milk carton, and the candle would plop.
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I'm not a farmer, but if I were gonna be planting seeds
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in the ground, I'd be one of them digging all around it.
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Is it coming up?
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There is a time of seed time and harvest.
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Your harvest is coming.
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He's uttering his voice before his great armor.
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What's he saying?
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I'm choosing.
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Are you guys good?
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It's just 1228.
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I'm almost done, two minutes.
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I'm choosing.
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Matthew 22, 14.
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Malekesalakata.
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You have not chosen me, but I've chosen you
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and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit
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and that your fruit should remain.
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I've chosen you, cadets.
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Many are called, few are chosen.
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You're called, but if you don't stay in the beast program,
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stay steadfast, stay immovable, don't give up.
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You're not gonna be one of the ones.
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I don't know about you, but I didn't come this far
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to lay down and choke myself in my living room.
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I'm not doing it.
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I'm gonna tell you straight up,
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we gotta live in the light of eternity.
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We're not doing what we're doing for us.
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That's why you gotta die.
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I don't see you like it.
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Really?
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Crucify your feelings.
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I don't feel like praying.
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Really?
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Crucify your feelings.
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Make yourself do it.
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You wanna be in shape?
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You gotta go to the gym.
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I don't feel like going to the gym.
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Well, look in the mirror.
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You need to go to the gym.
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And some of us need to go to the spiritual gym
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and put on our preaching shoes and the gospel of peace.
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Get on our armor and be the soldiers he's called us to be.
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We gotta live in the light of eternity.
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Really quick, I'm not gonna belabor the point.
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I'd for whatever reason, well, I know why.
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I left my body one time when my heart went
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into this tirade of racing.
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And I told my kids the next day,
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but my spirit literally lifted like this.
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I didn't die because I was all hooked up
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and it didn't show on the monitor.
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But I'm gonna tell you what happened.
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My spirit went like this, about six inches.
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I looked at myself and I thought I saw the real me.
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Your spirit is the real you.
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Thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast.
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It has been such a joy sharing this time with you.
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For more inspiration and resources on today's topic,
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please visit our website at margiefleuron.org.
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you pray it and he can answer it.
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The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man
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avails much.
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God will put the prayer in your heart to pray
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so that he can answer it.
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Goes into the hearts of the people,
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doesn't return void, it produces results.
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Just saying it, you're thinking it, I'm saying it.
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You get to be my age and you just say it.
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And you get financially secure enough
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you can say whatever you want
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because you don't need their money.
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But in the days of Catherine Coleman,
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literally, if you've never read any of her books,
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incredible, and I just want to remind you,
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Jesus Christ is the same.
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Yesterday, today, and forever.
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She didn't even know it.
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She's preaching in these little churches.
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You know, God's into little churches.
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You know, your church is, how big is your church?
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I don't know, how many people do you have in your church?
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You're so full of pride I can hardly stand it.
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Shut up!
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True spiritual authority doesn't mean
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you have a church of 10,000.
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You show off.
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How many do you have in your church?
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Well, there's churches that are small churches
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that walk in more spiritual authority
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than churches, some of these churches of 10,000 people
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that go to these churches, some of them, not everybody,
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to just tickle my ear, tickle my ear, tickle my ear,
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tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle.
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You know, when I rub my dog's ear,
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he goes into ecstasy and he goes over on his side.
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He smiles.
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Walking with God and being a soldier in the army of God
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is not about getting your ear tickled.
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She was in a small little church and you know what?
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She's up here preaching after her divorce.
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And somebody in the back of the room,
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just give me a second.
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Jesus, lift your hands to Jesus.
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Jesus, are we covet that you manifest yourself again
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in this regard?
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There's so many that are thirsty and hungry,
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so many that are hurting in their bodies
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and are in need of healing.
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We're asking you to send the rain.
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We're asking you for mercy on the behalf of those
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that are sick and diseased and can't get any help
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from doctors, God, we're asking.
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Give us a, God, we're asking that you give us tears
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like Jeremiah did to weep for those that are in need
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of physical healing.
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We've been so off.
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She'd be sitting, she was preaching in a small church
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and somebody in the back of the room got healed.
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Nobody touched the person, nobody did anything,
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nobody did nothing except the Holy Ghost.
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The Holy Ghost is the agent of God in the earth.
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The Holy Ghost is here.
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Kennedy Hagan used to say, the Holy Ghost,
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you could walk into a room with a red hat on
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and a big sign and say, I'm the Holy Ghost,
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and most people would recognize him.
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He's a third person of the Godhead.
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He has a personality.
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One of the things he really wants to do right now
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is demonstrate himself.
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It's part of his nature.
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In the back of the church,
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the person got healed by the power of God.
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Catherine didn't even know it.
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Go, God forbid.
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God didn't tell the minister what was gonna happen.
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I think it's better sometimes.
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I mean, I have 10 pages of notes, got it?
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what the Holy Ghost wants to do,
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we're just gonna let the Holy Ghost do what he wants to do.
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See, if I come to you with an uncertain sound,
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you're not gonna be equipped as a soldier
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in the army of God.
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The Holy Ghost came, manifested himself on this woman.
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Her faith wasn't involved.
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We understand faith.
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Thank God for Kennedy Hagan.
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Thank God.
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She came up to Catherine and said,
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you know, while you were yet preaching,
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Acts 10, 44, the Holy Ghost fell on me
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and I felt power going into my body
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and I was healed of the plague that I had in my body.
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Catherine said, what?
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she began to develop in her gift.
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Oh, I just know how to flow in my,
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you will be developed in your gift.
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She developed her gift and she would get up to preach
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and you know, you can't make the Holy Ghost
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do what you want the Holy Ghost to do.
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and you look at, they have a black jacket on
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and checkered pants and you could get a word for them
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according to what they got on.
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because it's not appropriate in church.
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It's a crock of you know what.
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you can't make that up.
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You can't pretend.
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You can't be all spiritual because it's not of us.
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It's the gift of God, lest any man should boast.
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So she'd get up to speak
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and the Holy Ghost will start demonstrating,
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demonstrating everywhere she went.
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You know, Jesus, everywhere he went,
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he went about doing what?
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Good.
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Doing what?
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Prophecying all the time?
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Healing all who are oppressed of the devil
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for God was with him.
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Church, the Holy Ghost is with us.
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He's not only with us, he's in us.
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So she gets up and now she began to learn.
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When I preach, you know, just demonstrate, what is this?
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Just like we've, you know, we have a lot now,
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but she probably had to figure it out.
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This is the Holy Ghost.
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This is the power of God.
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This is the power of gifts and manifestation.
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God would give her a word of knowledge.
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A word of, not mostly word of knowledge.
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What's happening now is a word of knowledge.
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Word of wisdom always speaks future.
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And oh, there's somebody here being healed
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of an incurable blood disorder.
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There's somebody over here being healed of a heart valve
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and you're wanting your heart.
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I mean, she got specific, she got so developed.
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What is, is it the same Holy Ghost?
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How many of you want to see God do that?
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Well, I want.
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We've been contending for this.
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When you say the word contend, what do you mean by that?
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Well, the Bible says, crave it.
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Desire, crave, that word crave, desire spiritual gifts.
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It means to crave, desire, long.
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I pray that as God said, I will give you a heart to know me.
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I pray that God will give us a heart
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to crave the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit,
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specifically the power gifts to be in manifestation.
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Well, that was interesting.
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Ready?
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1 Corinthians 15, 57.
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But thanks be to God who gives us the victory
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through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Therefore, my beloved soldiers.
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Yo, you're in training.
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Hello.
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Do you see yourself as a soldier?
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I see myself this morning as a general.
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And you're just so full of pride.
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I didn't call myself to be this.
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You talk about a high level introvert, that's me.
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I get up to speak and my gifts manifest.
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I'm not the one that promotes me.
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I didn't want this in the first place.
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I don't think you understand.
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I didn't want this in the first place.
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It's cost me.
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I'd sit in the back of the church and mind my own business
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in my introverted self and be really quiet.
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Therefore, my beloved soldiers, be steadfast.
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Will you please?
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Immovable.
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Always bounding in the work of the Lord.
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Knowing, you gotta know that you know,
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that you know, that you know, that you know,
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that you know, that you know, that you know,
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that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
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I know beyond any shadow of a doubt
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that what I'm doing is making a difference.
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I don't care if I preach to one person
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or 500 people or online,
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which this whole online thing is God.
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And I don't know why I keep getting this,
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but Margaret from the UK,
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you need to hear the word of the Lord today
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because this word for you is, this word today is for you
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and your country and the people that you are an apostle over.
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So I wanna briefly, since we've already used up
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most of my time, the Holy Spirit did.
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Aren't you just bored with church?
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Thank God this church isn't boring.
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I sometimes go to church, I'm so bored.
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Just wanna roll my eyes.
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Because there's no Holy Ghost.
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There's no spontaneity.
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I wanna briefly talk about the grit factor
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and as it relates to your assignment,
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individually, collectively as a church body inside church
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and universally, those of you that are listening.
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I'm gonna give you the West Point illustration
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in the book by Angela Duckworth,
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The Grit Factor.
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How many of you ever read that book?
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She wrote the book, The Grit Factor
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and it's about the West Point illustration.
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All those who attended
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the United States Military Academy of West Point,
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listen to me, have earned it.
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The admissions process for West Point, here it is.
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One of my really good friends, her husband,
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actually went to West Point and was a soldier
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and came out of West Point as a soldier.
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And it's just so interesting when I went back
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and I read this about him.
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I was proud of him before, but I'm even prouder of him now.
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Because people don't get what it takes to be
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where they need to be as a soldier.
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And the same holds true in the army of God.
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You've got to have the grit factor.
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What's the admissions process for West Point?
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You ready?
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Top score on the SAT or ACT
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and outstanding high school grades.
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A nomination from a member of Congress,
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a Senator or the Vice President of the United States.
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Now God already told us, I've nominated you.
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A fitness assessment that includes running,
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push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups.
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In junior year of high school,
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more than 14,000 applicants begin the admissions process.
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But 4,000 will succeed in getting the required nomination.
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Now remember, they want to go to West Point.
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Slightly more than half of those applicants,
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about 2,500, meet West Point's rigorous,
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academic, and physical standards.
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And from that select group,
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just 1,200 are admitted and enrolled.
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That would be me in the army of God.
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Lord, have mercy.
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Lord, I want to be disciplined.
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I want to be trained.
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I want to be faithful.
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Give me Holy Ghost muscles.
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I'll push for that extra push-up,
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whatever I got to do, Lord.
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I don't want to miss the mark.
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I don't want to miss my assignment.
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I don't want to be a
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assignment. I don't want to be like some of the people
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that Jesus said to go up into the upper room
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and wait for the promise of the Father.
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And they started out with 500,
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and they only ended up with how many?
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120. I'm not going to miss my encounter.
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Nearly all the men and women who come to West Point
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were varsity athletes.
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Most were team captains.
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And yet, one in five cadets,
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I feel that presence again.
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Oh God, Yeshua, my higher seer of my heart.
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Oh my Yeshua, a receiving and your heart.
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More may we receive your heart and your vision,
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your purpose, your plan, help us, Holy Ghost.
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And yet, one in five cadets will drop out before graduation.
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One in five, after all that.
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And historically, a substantial fraction of dropouts
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leave in their very first summer
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during an intensive seven-week training program
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called BEAST.
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Why would these young adults spend two years
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trying to get into a school
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and drop out in the first two months?
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BEAST is described, Angela Duckworth says,
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as the most physically and emotionally demanding part
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of the four years at West Point.
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How many of you feel like you've been
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really, really, really, really in a place
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where it's been very demanding in the realm of the Spirit?
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BEAST is described as the most physically
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and emotionally demanding part
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of the four years at West Point,
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designed to help you make, listen, listen,
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the transition from cadet to soldier.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You are in training, army of God.
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You will no longer be called cadets.
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God is ready, and he's uttering his voice
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before his great army,
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and he's ready to enlist you as soldiers.
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I got goosebumps.
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What caused those to succeed BEAST
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had almost nothing to do with talent.
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Those who dropped out of training
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rarely did so for lack of ability.
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Rather, it was the never give up attitude.
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The study that Angela Duckworth did
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showed that those who were considered rising stars,
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who, to everyone's surprise,
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dropped out or lost entrance before,
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listen, they could reach their potential.
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Apparently, it was critically important, she says,
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and not at all easy,
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to keep going after failure.
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Some people are great, she said,
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when things are going well,
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but they fall apart when things aren't.
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I'm telling you, and I'm saying this under the anointing,
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and I don't really mean,
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I'm not prophesying this to myself, at all.
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Things have fallen apart in my life, to some degree,
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but I'm not giving up.
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Hard times either make you bitter or better.
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You choose what you want to call it,
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or think it, or have a mental attitude about it.
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Grace and grit, yes, remember,
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if something's lifted and you no longer,
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it's no longer meant for you to be,
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and you no longer, it's no longer meant for you to do it,
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then get out of it.
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You've got to discern the difference.
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Grid, as defined by one student at West Point,
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is to hang in their posture towards challenge.
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How many times did you want to quit the ministry?
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Have you ever had a bad meeting,
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and you get prepared for a week,
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and you get up and speak,
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it was the worst message you ever preached in your life,
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and you just want to crawl under a rock, right?
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And never give up attitude.
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Right, and we just keep going.
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People don't know.
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You know, T.D. Jakes, you know what he calls it?
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I like how he worded it.
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He said, public ministry, private struggles.
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And never give up attitude.
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Some people are great when things are going well,
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but fall apart when things aren't.
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People who have the grit keep going after failure.
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No, I'm just gonna do better the next time.
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No, I'm just gonna do better next time.
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Studies have shown that people who have gritty behaviors
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or the grit factor will actually succeed
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more than people who are intelligent,
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talented, more than people that are even rich.
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You know, they're just so privileged.
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No, they just have the grit factor.
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These individuals have this tenacious,
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I will not quit, I will not be distracted,
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I will not be deterred.
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But if you're going to have the grit factor
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that is not of this world's grit factor,
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but a spiritual grit factor,
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then you are going to have to operate by faith.
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You are going to have to know,
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we're not gonna be able to get into all of this,
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I'm gonna have to close soon,
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you're gonna literally have to know who you are.
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What authority you've been given
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while you are here on this earth
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and how God has and will continue to prepare you.
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You gotta know who you are.
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Let me just briefly say it.
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You look at the life of Jesus.
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He gets baptized in the River Jordan.
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God the Father spoke in an audible voice
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and said, this is my beloved Son
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in whom I am well pleased.
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And do you know like a next chapter,
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when he went up to be tempted of the devil,
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what was one of the temptations
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that the enemy struck with him?
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If you are the Son of God.
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Rabbi Shea Renista Lamondi,
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bow down and worship me if you are the Son of God.
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Hear me, hear me, church, hear me online.
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The devil wants you to take the easy road.
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The devil was tempting him, now this makes sense,
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with the easy road.
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What God spoke to us in the beginning of this message
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and I'm glad he's pulling it together,
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is he wants us to take the road
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that's the straight and narrow road
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that he has prepared for us.
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He wanted Jesus to take the easy road.
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You gotta know who you are.
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If you're the Son of God,
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if you've really been called to be an apostle,
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if you're really called to do this or to do that,
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if you're really a soldier in the army of God,
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if you don't know who you are, study the Bible.
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Study to show yourself approved unto God,
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a workman, a soldier that needs not to be ashamed,
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rightly dividing the word of truth.
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We as believers are enrolled in the army of God
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and I'm doing it, how about you?
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And through the years, we have been going through
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our own spiritual peace training.
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Ma kei havanasa.
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And this is a time, pastor, this is so critical online.
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This is a time of separating.
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This is a time of launching.
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This is a time where there's an increase
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of anointing and authority on those that have said yes
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to God all these years.
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And this is what God wants to say to us today.
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Joel 2, 11, he's uttering his voice before his great army.
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I saw him on the horse, I saw him.
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He's uttering his voice, he's got the crown on his head.
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He's saying, I promise you, if you will go all the way
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with me and can survive the beast training
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which many of you have, I will promote you.
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I will bless you.
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I will do for you exceedingly, abundantly,
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above all you could ask, hope to you, desire.
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Some of you, you leaders, you've sacrificed your money.
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You poured money into this ministry.
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You've given so much.
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God said, I'm not unrighteous to forget.
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Your work, your sacrifice, your labor of love,
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and I'm gonna say it right from the pulpit.
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And all the money you've sown in keeping the vision
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that God put in your heart alive.
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Oh my God, that ministry, da da da da da da da da.
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People have no idea the money it costs to keep things going.
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God's way.
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Oh, I think I'm just gonna sow $80,000 into my ministry
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so that I could get a tax write-off
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or so that I could just look real good.
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No, you could go buy a house in Florida
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and go hang by the beach.
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But God didn't tell you to do that.
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God said to keep the vision alive,
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you're gonna have to sow financially and give.
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And I'm telling you, I prophesy.
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Give and it will be given back onto you.
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Good measure, pressed down,
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shaken together and running over.
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Oh, but there's been so many seeds that I've sown.
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It's a time of seed time and there's a time of harvest.
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Your harvest is coming, your blessing is coming.
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I am not a man that I should lie,
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the son of man that I should repent.
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It's the time of seed time and harvest.
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Will you survive your beast training
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when it comes to your financials?
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You know, a farmer doesn't go out.
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I mean, listen.
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When I was a little girl, I used to make candles.
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And I was so excited to see the candle
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and how it came out with all the colors
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that I'd go ahead of time and open up the cardboard,
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milk carton, and the candle would plop.
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I'm not a farmer, but if I were gonna be planting seeds
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in the ground, I'd be one of them digging all around it.
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Is it coming up?
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There is a time of seed time and harvest.
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Your harvest is coming.
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He's uttering his voice before his great armor.
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What's he saying?
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I'm choosing.
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Are you guys good?
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It's just 1228.
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I'm almost done, two minutes.
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I'm choosing.
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Matthew 22, 14.
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Malekesalakata.
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You have not chosen me, but I've chosen you
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and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit
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and that your fruit should remain.
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I've chosen you, cadets.
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Many are called, few are chosen.
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You're called, but if you don't stay in the beast program,
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stay steadfast, stay immovable, don't give up.
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You're not gonna be one of the ones.
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I don't know about you, but I didn't come this far
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to lay down and choke myself in my living room.
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I'm not doing it.
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I'm gonna tell you straight up,
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we gotta live in the light of eternity.
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We're not doing what we're doing for us.
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That's why you gotta die.
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I don't see you like it.
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Really?
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Crucify your feelings.
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I don't feel like praying.
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Really?
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Crucify your feelings.
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Make yourself do it.
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You wanna be in shape?
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You gotta go to the gym.
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I don't feel like going to the gym.
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Well, look in the mirror.
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You need to go to the gym.
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And some of us need to go to the spiritual gym
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and put on our preaching shoes and the gospel of peace.
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Get on our armor and be the soldiers he's called us to be.
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We gotta live in the light of eternity.
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Really quick, I'm not gonna belabor the point.
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I'd for whatever reason, well, I know why.
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I left my body one time when my heart went
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into this tirade of racing.
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And I told my kids the next day,
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but my spirit literally lifted like this.
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I didn't die because I was all hooked up
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and it didn't show on the monitor.
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But I'm gonna tell you what happened.
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My spirit went like this, about six inches.
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I looked at myself and I thought I saw the real me.
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Your spirit is the real you.
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Thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast.
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It has been such a joy sharing this time with you.
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For more inspiration and resources on today's topic,
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