WEBVTT - Christ Is In Me. I Am Enough.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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<v Speaker 2>this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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<v Speaker 2>gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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<v Speaker 2>Enjoy the message in just a moment. If you're standing

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<v Speaker 2>at one of our campuses, stay standing for a moment,

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<v Speaker 2>because we got a very special message today. You may

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<v Speaker 2>be wondering, yes, is Holly gonna preach?

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<v Speaker 1>Kind of? And so am I? So today this message?

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<v Speaker 1>Did you ever used to watch not wrestling, but wrestling?

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<v Speaker 2>Did you ever used to see tag team wrestling like

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<v Speaker 2>the Legion of Doom, the Steiner Brothers, stuff like that,

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<v Speaker 2>And then when you would when you would be tired,

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<v Speaker 2>you tag your partner in the corner. Today, Holly and

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<v Speaker 2>I are going to tag team a message as we

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<v Speaker 2>continue our series called Do the New You would you

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<v Speaker 2>look at your neighbor and say, I.

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<v Speaker 1>Barely recognize you. You've been changing so much?

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<v Speaker 2>Is that now?

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<v Speaker 1>Put it in the comments, say is oh man?

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<v Speaker 2>God has been doing an amazing work through this book,

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<v Speaker 2>through this message series, through these mindsets, and today we're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna we're.

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<v Speaker 1>Gonna change it up.

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<v Speaker 2>You may be wondering, why is there furniture behind you?

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<v Speaker 2>Good question, Uh Holly, We're gonna have a little chat.

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<v Speaker 1>And we're gonna chat.

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<v Speaker 3>That's right.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna talk about some stuff. I've been wanting to

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<v Speaker 1>talk to you about some stuff.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, but you said you said we were gonna tag team,

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<v Speaker 4>and in my mind it was less wrestling and more

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<v Speaker 4>like volleyball, you know, like where I don't know my

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<v Speaker 4>you know, like the person and then you yeah, so

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<v Speaker 4>I'm spiking or your spiking, your spiking.

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<v Speaker 3>OK maybe I'm a setter, you know, you go like that,

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<v Speaker 3>that's what it is, and then you spike it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'll say, knew more about sports.

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<v Speaker 4>But I have been wanting to interview you for really.

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<v Speaker 4>I have been begging him, babe, please let me interview you.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's sit down on a Sunday morning.

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<v Speaker 4>And because there's nobody I would rather talk to than you,

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<v Speaker 4>thank you. And sometimes our conversations are so I mean,

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<v Speaker 4>they're so good and they go I just love the

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<v Speaker 4>way you think, and so I'm really excited.

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<v Speaker 3>I've got questions.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm ready, and y'all y'all pray for me, because she's prepared.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not.

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<v Speaker 2>I made a deal that I wouldn't look at her questions.

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<v Speaker 2>She left her notebook on the kitchen table, and I

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<v Speaker 2>was very tempted because I like to prepare. But in

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<v Speaker 2>this mindset we're going to share about Christ is in me.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody say Christ is in me.

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<v Speaker 3>Christ is in me?

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<v Speaker 1>I am enough. I am enough, And.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, what better way to put that to the

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<v Speaker 2>test than let her ask me whatever she wants in

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<v Speaker 2>front of We've got about a thousand E Group leaders

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<v Speaker 2>here helping us share this message. And these are the

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<v Speaker 2>real MVPs of Elevation Church, along with our volunteers, our givers,

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<v Speaker 2>our staff, and you know this is what they do

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<v Speaker 2>every week as they open their homes and opened their computers.

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<v Speaker 1>And whether it's in the room where.

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<v Speaker 2>It happens or the zoom where it happens, so many

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<v Speaker 2>great discussions happen. And one of my passions in this

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<v Speaker 2>year is to get God's word deeper and deeper and

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<v Speaker 2>deeper into your heart so the enemy can't snatch it.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you're ready for.

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<v Speaker 2>A conversation, but I could go anywhere and make some

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<v Speaker 2>noise all right, y'all be seated as we are seated.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's go Holly. When they were playing, it made me

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<v Speaker 2>remember how we used to sing. When I think of.

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<v Speaker 3>That, out the Lord, you can't make me sing.

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<v Speaker 2>How he saves me, how he raised me, how.

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<v Speaker 1>He filled me with the Holy Ghost, how he healed me.

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<v Speaker 5>Judie termost when I think about the Lord, how he

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<v Speaker 5>picked me up and turned me around, how he placed my.

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<v Speaker 2>Feet from side brown, it makes me na shout.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you, jeez, I know it.

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<v Speaker 5>Lord, You're worthy of all the glory and and.

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<v Speaker 6>Olua, thank you Jesus, Oh, thank you, thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>That was our song in college. I think I think

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<v Speaker 2>that's part of the reason you married me. Not because

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<v Speaker 2>of my singing, but she was scholarship. We met before college,

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<v Speaker 2>Hollie and I met before college. I promise this won't

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<v Speaker 2>just be story time. I'm gonna preach your minister to

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<v Speaker 2>work out. But I want to tell them this because

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<v Speaker 2>when people see you like later in your journey, it's

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<v Speaker 2>like walking into the middle of a movie and they

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<v Speaker 2>can be really confused. And one time somebody said to me,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't really like megachurch pastors. As if I came

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<v Speaker 2>out of the womb with a megachurch like push, there's

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<v Speaker 2>a there's a there's a mega church inside of you faith.

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<v Speaker 2>But as far as our relationship and our ministry, we've

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<v Speaker 2>been doing this together since we were kids, since the

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<v Speaker 2>church just turned eighteen.

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<v Speaker 1>We started doing ministry when we were eighteen, and.

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<v Speaker 2>Then the summer we were nineteen, we traveled together and

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<v Speaker 2>she was on scholarship to this singing group called Joyful Sound.

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<v Speaker 1>But she was the sound person. But I knew she

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<v Speaker 1>really wanted to sing.

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<v Speaker 4>You didn't know I was had a background in Yes,

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<v Speaker 4>she has a background in running JBL eons.

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<v Speaker 1>She can set up a tent revival anywhere if you

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<v Speaker 1>need her to. I'm good with the snake and you

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<v Speaker 1>should start it.

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<v Speaker 2>You should start a sound company for worship events called

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<v Speaker 2>holly Lujah.

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<v Speaker 1>That'd be good anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll turn it over to you in a minute because

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<v Speaker 2>I know your interview and we're gonna preach and teach today,

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<v Speaker 2>not just tell stories. But so I made a choir

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<v Speaker 2>and guess who I recruited to be my alto section

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<v Speaker 2>leader holle Lujah.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, wait, I have to interject, because you he was

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<v Speaker 4>casting this vision like he does we were nineteen years old,

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<v Speaker 4>and he.

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<v Speaker 3>Was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna start a choir. We're

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<v Speaker 3>gonna have a choir and a band.

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<v Speaker 4>There's be just we're just gonna sing gospel songs. And

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<v Speaker 4>I was like, I don't okay, and he was like,

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<v Speaker 4>and I want you to help, and I was like,

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know. And there was this other girl, I

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<v Speaker 4>tell the truth, there was this other girl and she

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<v Speaker 4>was like that sounds awesome. I mean, how can I help?

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<v Speaker 4>And I was like, I didn't say it wasn't gonna help.

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<v Speaker 1>That's true, that's true. Hold on a second, the healthy competition.

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<v Speaker 1>So what are we talking about? Ali? What are we doing?

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<v Speaker 1>You called this meeting?

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<v Speaker 3>I did? I called this meeting. First of all, I

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<v Speaker 3>am so.

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<v Speaker 4>I love this book so much and it's very special

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<v Speaker 4>to me. I matched my jacket to the book today.

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<v Speaker 3>It's so special to me because.

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<v Speaker 4>You haven't released a book in eight years. And what

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<v Speaker 4>a lot of people don't know is about a year

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<v Speaker 4>ago we had to fight. Well a conversation, yea, a

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<v Speaker 4>rather heated conversation, and I was saying, because we don't fight.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was, as the Baptist say, intense fellowship, intense fellowship.

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<v Speaker 4>So we have this intense conversation where I am saying

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<v Speaker 4>like there's I just feel like there's more inside of you.

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<v Speaker 4>I feel like there is a huge group of people

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<v Speaker 4>who need your words in written form. And he was

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<v Speaker 4>telling me how his sermons don't translate into books. He said,

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<v Speaker 4>my sermons, my idea is, Holly.

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<v Speaker 1>I've tried.

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<v Speaker 4>He actually, you actually wrote a book in twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 4>that we never released.

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<v Speaker 3>And he said, I tried to wrote a book in

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<v Speaker 3>twenty twenty. I'm done. I don't want to write. My

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<v Speaker 3>sermons don't translate.

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<v Speaker 4>And we went back and forth, and I felt like

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<v Speaker 4>I had pushed too hard, you know, like that wife pushing,

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<v Speaker 4>and I was like, okay, okay. So I decided I

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<v Speaker 4>was going to let it go and I was.

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<v Speaker 3>Going to push the Lord. It's so much more effective,

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<v Speaker 3>And this is the answer to my prayers.

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<v Speaker 2>Right here.

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<v Speaker 1>She finds starting. She finds y'all think she's sweet.

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<v Speaker 4>So we're talking about mindset too today.

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<v Speaker 3>But before we get to it, okay, I.

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<v Speaker 4>Have just like I just want to keep you loose

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<v Speaker 4>and keep you on your toes, and so I have

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<v Speaker 4>a little fun lightning round situation.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, So here's what I'm gonna do.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna play ten seconds of a song of an

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<v Speaker 4>artist that we.

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<v Speaker 1>Love, and it's gonna get copyrighted.

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<v Speaker 3>Ten seconds. We checked ten ten seconds. I think you

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<v Speaker 3>have up to twenty.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, So I'm gonna play a little clip of a

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<v Speaker 4>song and you're going to pretend like that song title

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<v Speaker 4>is your sermon title for this series, do the new you,

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<v Speaker 4>and I want you to tell people how you would

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<v Speaker 4>preach that title.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, got it, all right? Roll the first song. First song,

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<v Speaker 3>it's just again.

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<v Speaker 7>Got stuck again.

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<v Speaker 2>I see the Israelites standing on the shore of the

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<v Speaker 2>Red Sea. I see Moses telling the Israelites, why are

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<v Speaker 2>you crying? God's about to deliver us. Stand still, you'll

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<v Speaker 2>see the salvation of the Lord. And I hear God

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<v Speaker 2>saying back to Moses in Exodus fourteen, why are you

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<v Speaker 2>crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

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<v Speaker 2>And since the song is called stuck in a moment,

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<v Speaker 2>I hear God saying to Moses and to you, you're

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<v Speaker 2>not stuck because that stick in your hand, if you

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<v Speaker 2>stretch it over the red sea that you're so afraid of,

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<v Speaker 2>and get your eyes off of the water and begin

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<v Speaker 2>to walk in faith.

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<v Speaker 3>I promise you.

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<v Speaker 4>I did not give him a heads up about this.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, all right, you righty for the next one.

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<v Speaker 2>The last time a game like this was played on

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<v Speaker 2>this stage, Bishop td Jakes was doing the answering, this

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<v Speaker 2>is really really wrong of you to do this to me.

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<v Speaker 3>No, it's not, no, it's not all right.

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<v Speaker 7>Here we go.

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<v Speaker 1>You're the next one. Okay, you can't think so.

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<v Speaker 8>In a world keep side pushing me around, got up,

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<v Speaker 8>spam back down.

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<v Speaker 2>There was a king who made a treaty with an

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<v Speaker 2>enemy king in the Old Testament, And after he made

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<v Speaker 2>the treaty, the enemy said, well, I actually want your

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<v Speaker 2>children too. He said, all right, and then he said

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<v Speaker 2>actually I want all your livestock too. And at some

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<v Speaker 2>point the king had to say, that's it. I'm drawing

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<v Speaker 2>a line the deal off. I know I said you

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<v Speaker 2>could have my children, and I know I said you

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<v Speaker 2>could have our treasury, and I know I said you

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<v Speaker 2>could have the lamb. But I met with God and

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<v Speaker 2>I realized that if I give you an inch, you'll

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<v Speaker 2>take a mile. And if I give you a corner

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<v Speaker 2>of my life, you want to take the whole room.

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<v Speaker 2>And if I give you my thoughts, you want to

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<v Speaker 2>take my behaviors.

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<v Speaker 1>And if I give you my behaviors, you're going to

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<v Speaker 1>want to take my patterns.

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<v Speaker 2>And if you take my patterns, you can have my life.

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<v Speaker 2>So I see somebody like that Old Testament king going

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<v Speaker 2>back to the enemy and saying that deal's off.

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<v Speaker 1>I changed my mind.

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<v Speaker 2>I remember what King David said to a giant, the

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<v Speaker 2>Philistine that stood nine feet tall.

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<v Speaker 1>And all of the other Israelites.

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<v Speaker 2>Said he's too big to fight, but David said he's

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<v Speaker 2>too big to miss.

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<v Speaker 1>Who is this uncircumcised for listening? Send him a message?

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<v Speaker 2>Tell them I won't Somebody shout, I won't want back down,

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<v Speaker 2>back down, high five three.

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<v Speaker 1>People say, don't back down now. You come too far

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<v Speaker 1>to back down now.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I hear Tom Petty say, don't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't be petty, don't come around here. No more?

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<v Speaker 2>Can we do another one, Holly, We gotta get to

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<v Speaker 2>the book.

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<v Speaker 4>When the book all right, one more, one more, one more.

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<v Speaker 7>So I can see you.

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<v Speaker 1>New life so viby.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like we need a vibe Bible character for

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<v Speaker 2>New life love the Angel the Lord showing up the

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<v Speaker 2>glory of the Lord shown around about them, and they

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<v Speaker 2>were terrified. And Angel said, and them fear not, for

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<v Speaker 2>be old. I'll bring you good news of great joye

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<v Speaker 2>beat all people from the youth born in stan City.

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<v Speaker 1>David say, which is Christ the Lord?

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<v Speaker 2>So the new light appear in the valley of the shadow.

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<v Speaker 2>And sometimes we want God to remove us from valley

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<v Speaker 2>situations where the shadow has made us unable to see

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<v Speaker 2>the provision that He's given us. We look around and

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<v Speaker 2>always see his shadow, always see his darkness, always see

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<v Speaker 2>his uncertainty, always see his fear. But God sometimes doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>take you out of the place. Sometimes he gives you

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<v Speaker 2>his presence in the place in.

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<v Speaker 1>A new way. So maybe God's got you right where

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<v Speaker 1>he wants you. Maybe the greenest grass is in the valley.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe the growth opportunities happen in the low places, in

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<v Speaker 2>the uncertain places, in the strange places. And maybe sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>when we're asking God to give us a new life,

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<v Speaker 2>instead he wants to shine a new light come.

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<v Speaker 1>And the life that He's already given us. Do you

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<v Speaker 1>want to bring a podium out?

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<v Speaker 2>In the beginning, God said, let there be light, and

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<v Speaker 2>light was And when the light shines, you begin to

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<v Speaker 2>see what was there all along. And I'm praying that

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<v Speaker 2>today God would shine his light on your life to

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<v Speaker 2>show you everything He's given you, and that you may

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<v Speaker 2>have a fuller understanding of every good thing that we

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<v Speaker 2>have in Christ Jesus, and you would see your inheritance

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<v Speaker 2>and Jesus in a new light.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes you think that there's something wrong with you. There's

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<v Speaker 1>nothing wrong with you, there's just something wrong with your

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<v Speaker 1>view of you.

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<v Speaker 2>So today, as we discussed this mindset, Christ is in me,

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<v Speaker 2>I am enough. I hope that you see yourself who

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<v Speaker 2>you are in the light of who He is.

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<v Speaker 3>I think we should bring the podium out instead. Okay,

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<v Speaker 3>I love you so much.

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<v Speaker 1>Please don't send that to Bishop Jakes.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh I am okay.

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<v Speaker 4>So we're talking about out this mindset Christ is in me.

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<v Speaker 3>I am enough.

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<v Speaker 4>We opened up by talking about how you said I'm

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<v Speaker 4>not a writer, basically, I'm not enough. I don't have enough.

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<v Speaker 4>So how did you Where did this come from? How

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<v Speaker 4>did you get from I'm not enough to I have

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<v Speaker 4>enough to give.

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<v Speaker 2>One word at a time, followed by some commas periods.

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<v Speaker 1>Other words, somebody told me you never have to write

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<v Speaker 1>a book.

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<v Speaker 2>You just have to write a word, then a word,

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<v Speaker 2>then a word, then a word, and then when you

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<v Speaker 2>said enough of those, you put a.

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<v Speaker 1>Period exclamation point.

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<v Speaker 2>If the point is weak, put an exclamation point to

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<v Speaker 2>compensate for the weakness of the point, and then move on.

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<v Speaker 2>In all seriousness, though, you know how we say that

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<v Speaker 2>God's word is a lamp into our our feet, a

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<v Speaker 2>light into our path. I guess I'm still thinking about

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<v Speaker 2>light because everything that God used me to do up

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<v Speaker 2>to this point in my life, he never gave me.

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<v Speaker 1>A floodlight that I could see one hundred yards away.

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<v Speaker 2>He never even gave me headlights where I could see farther.

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<v Speaker 1>Down the road. In Bible times, they had.

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<v Speaker 2>A light that you would wear that would just light

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<v Speaker 2>your feet. And so when the Bible says your word

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<v Speaker 2>is a limpun to my feet, a light into my path,

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<v Speaker 2>it means that God will give me enough light to

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<v Speaker 2>take the next step by.

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<v Speaker 1>And to see that there's a hole and I should

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<v Speaker 1>step around it.

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<v Speaker 2>But he won't show me everything that's down the road,

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<v Speaker 2>because then I would trust the path, not the person.

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<v Speaker 1>And this book was like that. You know, this church

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<v Speaker 1>is like that.

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<v Speaker 2>Every sermon that I preach every time I write a

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<v Speaker 2>song and everything that that you're doing, because I don't

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<v Speaker 2>really want this conversation today to be about how I

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<v Speaker 2>wrote a book or how I'm enough. I really want

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<v Speaker 2>to get inside of your soul if we're able to

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<v Speaker 2>do that through a conversation and just begin to think

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<v Speaker 2>about what are the ways that not enoughness keeps you

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<v Speaker 2>from showing up? What are the ways that not enoughness

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<v Speaker 2>keeps you from even finding out? One thing about not

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<v Speaker 2>enough is it's partially true. It's partially true. If you

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<v Speaker 2>were just starting to work out and you said, I

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<v Speaker 2>want big quads like Sam Sulik, and I said, all right,

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<v Speaker 2>let's put four five on the squad rack. You would

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<v Speaker 2>not have enough muscle for four h five on the

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<v Speaker 2>squat rack if you haven't been in the gym this year.

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<v Speaker 2>But however, if I put you under the bar, which

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<v Speaker 2>is forty five pounds, and we got you to ten reps,

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<v Speaker 2>twenty reps, got you comfortable with the motions, and we

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<v Speaker 2>built and built and built and built and built and built, and.

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<v Speaker 1>Got you some steroids, got your little gear.

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<v Speaker 2>Kidding about the steroids, but not kidding about the growth process,

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<v Speaker 2>is that you have to start with the bar in

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<v Speaker 2>your spiritual life. You know, I really want to be

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<v Speaker 2>a person of prayer. Don't book a three week prayer

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<v Speaker 2>retreat in Ireland and say I'm going to do that

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<v Speaker 2>in ten years when the kids are out of the house.

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<v Speaker 1>I found some of my best prayers.

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<v Speaker 2>I have a little chair right next to where I

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<v Speaker 2>get dressed, and just plopping down in that chair for

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<v Speaker 2>thirty seconds sometimes and saying Ooh God, Ooh God, yep,

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<v Speaker 2>Ooh God, Jesus, Holy Ghost, Mother, Mary, Tom Petty. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>because every prayer doesn't start pretty. Yeah, and this project

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<v Speaker 2>didn't start pretty. I mean it was me with voice,

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<v Speaker 2>memos and kind of not having much confidence in myself.

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<v Speaker 2>I remember one day in particular where my conversation with

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<v Speaker 2>Holly was like ringing in my ears and I had

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<v Speaker 2>the whole afternoon free, I'd finished everything for the morning,

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<v Speaker 2>and it was like her voice and God's voice were

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<v Speaker 2>singing in harmony. When we call her the Holly Spirit,

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<v Speaker 2>we're obviously just kidding around. She doesn't think that she's

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<v Speaker 2>God's voice, but God's really used her as an instrument

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<v Speaker 2>in my life.

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<v Speaker 1>And by the way, sometimes.

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<v Speaker 2>God will speak to you through the people who are

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<v Speaker 2>right in front of you. So all of us who

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<v Speaker 2>want to know, well, how do I hear from God?

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes is through something that sounds annoying to you, from

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<v Speaker 2>somebody who loves you. Oh and so I'm not saying

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<v Speaker 2>I was annoyed with you. Wait a minute, Well, anointed

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<v Speaker 2>and annoying can sometimes feel the same. So sometimes the

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<v Speaker 2>most annoying things that you've said to me I have

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<v Speaker 2>been the most annoying on the surface because it challenges

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<v Speaker 2>this thing.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, she doesn't get it, and she doesn't know.

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<v Speaker 2>But one day in particular, I had this feeling like,

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<v Speaker 2>if you're going to start this book, you need to start,

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<v Speaker 2>and you feel that it's time for you to give

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<v Speaker 2>another book, And these are a lot of the things

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<v Speaker 2>when when you get this book, and if you're in

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<v Speaker 2>this book, I wrote it.

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<v Speaker 3>To myself, Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I wrote it to myself to challenge myself from

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<v Speaker 2>the old mindset, and then I wrote it for you.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>But before I wrote it for you, I wrote it

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<v Speaker 1>to myself. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>You just I want to verify that all of the

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<v Speaker 4>mindsets are things that I saw scribbled on legal pads

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<v Speaker 4>next to your bedside table next to your desk. These

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<v Speaker 4>are all things that you wrote for yourself to coach yourself.

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<v Speaker 2>This mindset, Christ is in me, I Am Enough was

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<v Speaker 2>like a breathing exercise I started doing ten years ago.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Christ is in me.

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<v Speaker 2>Will feel like the breathing in remind me that I'm

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<v Speaker 2>filled with His spirit. Yeah, And that Jesus isn't just

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<v Speaker 2>a historical figure who died a long time ago. He

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<v Speaker 2>is a historical figure who died a long time ago,

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<v Speaker 2>but he's a very present help in the time of trouble.

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<v Speaker 2>And the power of Him that raised Jesus from the

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<v Speaker 2>dead lives in me.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So when I say Christ is in me, I'm saying

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<v Speaker 2>resurrection power is in me. When I'm saying Christ is

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<v Speaker 2>in me, I'm saying healing is in me. When I'm

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<v Speaker 2>saying Christ is in me, anybody on this side realize

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<v Speaker 2>that when you say Christ is in me, somebody shall

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<v Speaker 2>Christ is in me.

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<v Speaker 1>Christ is in me. I am enough.

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<v Speaker 3>I am enough.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a truth and a consequence because He's in me.

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<v Speaker 1>I am enough. And so one.

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<v Speaker 2>Day I'm sitting there going like, you can't write this book.

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<v Speaker 2>You tried in twenty twenty you wasted time, you wasted money,

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<v Speaker 2>you hold yourself up doing it, and I just got

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<v Speaker 2>overwhelmed by this idea. You need to do something now

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<v Speaker 2>the first mindset, do the new us. I'm not stuck

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<v Speaker 2>unless I stop. And sometimes God will give you something

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<v Speaker 2>stupid to do seems stupid to you to get you unstuck.

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<v Speaker 2>Raising a staff over the Red Sea looks stupid.

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<v Speaker 1>But I saw a.

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<v Speaker 2>Commercial one time that says it's only weird until it works.

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<v Speaker 2>I know a lot of people think we're weird as

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<v Speaker 2>Christians because we praise God, we lift our hands, and well,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not one of those hand lifting, out loud singing Christians.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know what, I found It works for me.

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<v Speaker 2>Worship works for me when nothing else can help me.

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<v Speaker 2>So on this particular day, I did something that felt

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<v Speaker 2>so stupid. I set up an appointment with my literary agent,

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<v Speaker 2>who hadn't heard from me in quite a while because

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<v Speaker 2>I was duck in her because I want to write

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<v Speaker 2>a book. I put on a suit, went to the

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<v Speaker 2>office in a suit, y'all. I don't even suits on

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<v Speaker 2>Easter most times in church. And I went to the

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<v Speaker 2>office to let the devil know I meant business now

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<v Speaker 2>I know what you're thinking. You just wanted to impress

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<v Speaker 2>your agent. No, she wasn't on a zoom call. It

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<v Speaker 2>was a phone call. She didn't even see me. She

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<v Speaker 2>didn't even see me. I wasn't dressing so she would

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<v Speaker 2>see me in a suit. I wanted the devil to

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<v Speaker 2>see me in a suit, to let him know. Just

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<v Speaker 2>look at the person next to you and say, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>doing it this time, doing it this time.

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<v Speaker 1>Put it in the chat, I'm doing it this time.

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<v Speaker 2>And that was a day that I sat down and

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<v Speaker 2>wrote the whole book in that day.

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<v Speaker 1>No, that's the story we want.

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<v Speaker 2>And God healed my marriage that day, and my kid

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<v Speaker 2>got off drugs that day, and the business was out

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<v Speaker 2>of the red that day, and the breakthrough.

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<v Speaker 1>Concept went to and we had an IPO that day.

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<v Speaker 2>And I never struggled with wanting to drink alcohol again

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<v Speaker 2>that day.

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<v Speaker 1>But it was my one day when for that day.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm gonna give you my favorite phrase that I

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<v Speaker 2>learned in therapy. Okay, yes, I go to therapy because

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<v Speaker 2>I'm crazy. No you're not, and I want to help

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<v Speaker 2>you with your crazy in case you don't get to

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<v Speaker 2>the therapist. All right, all right, So I'm not going

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<v Speaker 2>to charge you for this, but we worked through a

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<v Speaker 2>phrase in therapy.

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<v Speaker 1>This was a game changer for me.

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<v Speaker 2>When you talk about enough, everybody shout enough enough, put

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<v Speaker 2>it in the comments, enough enough, sit again, enough enough

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<v Speaker 2>for now, for now who. That was big to me, babe,

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<v Speaker 2>because you know how I am. I'm projecting so much

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<v Speaker 2>into the future, and and I operate sometimes from a

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<v Speaker 2>fear of running out. But then I remember Jesus taught

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<v Speaker 2>his disciples to pray this, give us this day our

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<v Speaker 2>daily bread. Don't you wish he would have said, this

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<v Speaker 2>day our monthly bread, so you could have the whole

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<v Speaker 2>closet full of paper towels that you need. But God's

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<v Speaker 2>not like Costco like that and not giving it to

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<v Speaker 2>you in a pack of forty eight.

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<v Speaker 1>He's going to give you the strength when you.

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<v Speaker 2>Need it, one word at a time, one apology at

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<v Speaker 2>a time, one day of sobriety at a time, one

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<v Speaker 2>day of coming to church at a time, one day

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<v Speaker 2>of going to E group at a time. And so

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want you to think that now that I've

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<v Speaker 2>written a book, I live in a place of perpetual enoughness.

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<v Speaker 2>We're in the abundance of God never leaves the forefront

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<v Speaker 2>of my imagination, causing me to triumph over every doubt

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<v Speaker 2>an obstacle. I just trust that He's going to give

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<v Speaker 2>me enough for now and when I need the next step.

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<v Speaker 2>This is for somebody who's making a decision and you

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<v Speaker 2>feel like you're not intelligent enough to make it, or

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<v Speaker 2>you don't have enough facts to make it. You have

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<v Speaker 2>enough for now, Suit up and see it. Okay, did

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<v Speaker 2>I talk too long?

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<v Speaker 3>No, I'm talking. I do. I have plenty of questions,

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<v Speaker 3>But you say it comes out.

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<v Speaker 2>If we run out of time, we'll put a bonus session.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm running back, walk it out.

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<v Speaker 3>I love it all right. This is.

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<v Speaker 4>My top one of my top two quotes in the

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<v Speaker 4>entire book, and I'm going to just read it for you.

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<v Speaker 4>You say this, what's been a lot harder for me

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<v Speaker 4>than accepting Jesus is accepting Even accepting Jesus took a moment.

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<v Speaker 4>Accepting me is taking a lifetime to accept.

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<v Speaker 3>Then you go on to say to accept.

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<v Speaker 4>Jesus but not accept Stephen is to miss the gift

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<v Speaker 4>of salvation where it matters most.

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<v Speaker 3>You can't just accept Jesus by faith. You have to

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<v Speaker 3>accept yourself by faith too. This quote like.

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<v Speaker 4>Let off the page for me because I grew up

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<v Speaker 4>Southern Baptist and Baptists, we love the phrase accept Jesus

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<v Speaker 4>into your heart. I mean that is like a core

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<v Speaker 4>belief of mine. Yeah, you have to accept Jesus into

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<v Speaker 4>your heart.

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<v Speaker 9>It's a it's a moment, it's a it's a it's

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<v Speaker 9>a it's a it's a monumental decision in your life.

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<v Speaker 9>But when I read this, I was like, oh, I

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<v Speaker 9>think I missed half of it.

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<v Speaker 3>Where did this? How do you do this?

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<v Speaker 4>How do you practically grow in accepting Stephen?

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<v Speaker 3>Give us some how.

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<v Speaker 1>You help you do?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I don't know if you remember saying this,

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<v Speaker 2>but you've heard me say that. You said it a lot,

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<v Speaker 2>and so trust me you said this. We're sitting at

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<v Speaker 2>Firebirds on a date night. This is maybe twelve years ago,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe even longer than that. But the church was growing.

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<v Speaker 2>I remember the day that the church got bigger than

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<v Speaker 2>Monk's corner of the town I grew up in.

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<v Speaker 1>That was kind of a scary thought for.

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<v Speaker 2>Me, like, wait a minute, talk about I'm not enough

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<v Speaker 2>the town I grew up in. It was wonderful, but

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<v Speaker 2>there were less people that lived in that town when

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<v Speaker 2>I grew up in it than are coming to church now.

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<v Speaker 1>So not only have I never seen anything.

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<v Speaker 2>This big and let it, but I lived in a

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<v Speaker 2>town that was smaller than what I'm responsible to lead.

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<v Speaker 2>And one day I wanted to fire everybody, and most

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<v Speaker 2>of all, wanted to fire myself, because I'm like, wait

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<v Speaker 2>a minute, if the whole team is messing up, they

0:31:11.520 --> 0:31:16.080
<v Speaker 2>fire the coach, right, So you don't just trade players.

0:31:16.160 --> 0:31:19.000
<v Speaker 1>If every player is bad, you get a new coach.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm telling her this, I'm like, if the oh,

0:31:21.240 --> 0:31:23.560
<v Speaker 2>the team is bad, then you thaw the new coach.

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<v Speaker 2>I just don't feel like I'm the leader that our

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<v Speaker 2>church needs. Without hesitation, she leans across the bread at Firebirds.

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<v Speaker 2>You'll know that bread at Firebirds. She leans across the bread.

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<v Speaker 2>She's got the butter knife in her hand. It's a

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<v Speaker 2>big old knife. So maybe what she said more powerful

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<v Speaker 2>she said.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't feel like I'm the leader we need. She said, well,

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<v Speaker 2>you're the one we've got.

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<v Speaker 10>With a knife. The firebirds knives are big. That helps.

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<v Speaker 1>You tell me.

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<v Speaker 2>When I was walking out the door when the kids

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<v Speaker 2>were little, you've got what it takes, and again, almost

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<v Speaker 2>hearing that would make me angry, I didn't go but

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<v Speaker 2>her there buckeroo.

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<v Speaker 1>I would be like, hey, yeah, you don't know how

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<v Speaker 1>heavy it is.

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<v Speaker 2>And then you were carrying your own pressures of trying

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<v Speaker 2>to figure out who am I And I think we've

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<v Speaker 2>worked through this together, yeah, because we started in ministry

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<v Speaker 2>as kids together. And the part of the story that

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't tell earlier is that before we went to college,

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<v Speaker 2>Holly was traveling with a ministry team through Monk's Corner

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<v Speaker 2>and I grew up in a Methodist church with a

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<v Speaker 2>heritage from that church because my grandfather was a Methodist pastor,

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<v Speaker 2>and so we went every week. But then when I

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<v Speaker 2>was in high school, the Baptist church revival, when I

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<v Speaker 2>went over there, I met this guy named Jody, who

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<v Speaker 2>ended up being my.

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<v Speaker 1>Brother in law. So it's a whole story.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, like God is always working everything together in.

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<v Speaker 1>Our lives for his glory.

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<v Speaker 2>But at that revival, I went down to the altar

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<v Speaker 2>and I was like, yeah, I'm ready.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm ready to accept Jesus into my life.

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<v Speaker 2>And it was transformative, Like what an amazing deal that is?

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<v Speaker 2>I give him my sin, I get his grace. I

0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:21.320
<v Speaker 2>give him my shame, I get his justification. I give

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<v Speaker 2>him my broken pieces. He begins to build my life

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<v Speaker 2>into a bigger picture story that he's telling.

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<v Speaker 1>For his glory. Who wouldn't want to accept that?

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<v Speaker 2>It'd be like giving away the Apple Goggles thing today,

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<v Speaker 2>the thing that's going to make us all robots and

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<v Speaker 2>send us all to the mark of the beast, the

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<v Speaker 2>new thing that just came out, the End Times Goggles.

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<v Speaker 1>I get, Apple's going to take this sermon down if

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<v Speaker 1>I keep going.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, it'd be like giving something away Like here

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<v Speaker 2>you go, and and God is a giver and so

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<v Speaker 2>there's no strings attached. You leave your sin, you leave

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<v Speaker 2>your shame, but you don't leave yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>I need to get this.

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<v Speaker 2>I need to get this through because one of the

0:34:11.239 --> 0:34:15.799
<v Speaker 2>ways that we are taught salvation is actually destructive to

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<v Speaker 2>our sense of self worth.

0:34:18.040 --> 0:34:21.279
<v Speaker 1>And it's this God doesn't like you.

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<v Speaker 2>God, in fact, is so angry with you that the

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<v Speaker 2>only way he could deal with it was sending his

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<v Speaker 2>son to die for you. Now, did God send Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>to die for us.

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<v Speaker 1>Because we couldn't pay the penalty?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, because sin demands a price, and the price is perfection,

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<v Speaker 2>and you couldn't pay it. So Jesus did. How many

0:34:45.520 --> 0:34:46.520
<v Speaker 2>are grateful that he did.

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<v Speaker 1>Come on, all of my.

0:34:49.960 --> 0:34:54.040
<v Speaker 2>Fellow perfectionists, that you don't have to get it right

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<v Speaker 2>all the time. That he got it right. He lived

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<v Speaker 2>as if he had sinned, so I can live as

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<v Speaker 2>if I never did, so I can hold my head

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<v Speaker 2>up so I can belong to Jesus.

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<v Speaker 1>But here's the part that got me.

0:35:12.640 --> 0:35:15.799
<v Speaker 2>I started hearing it described in certain classes that I

0:35:15.840 --> 0:35:18.920
<v Speaker 2>took for Bible College, and all of that almost like

0:35:18.960 --> 0:35:20.520
<v Speaker 2>a group insurance policy.

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<v Speaker 1>Jesus died for you. God really doesn't like you. He

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<v Speaker 1>really can't stand you.

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<v Speaker 2>Because he knows all about you, and he sees you

0:35:31.800 --> 0:35:34.760
<v Speaker 2>at three in the morning, and he knows where.

0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:36.920
<v Speaker 1>You were last night, and he knows what you did

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<v Speaker 1>last summer and last fall.

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<v Speaker 2>You're so funny, thank you. And because he can't stand you,

0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:51.200
<v Speaker 2>he sinned his son. And now when he sees you,

0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:55.160
<v Speaker 2>he doesn't see you. He sees his son. And because

0:35:55.160 --> 0:35:57.879
<v Speaker 2>he doesn't have to look at your terrible, worthless self,

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<v Speaker 2>he loves you.

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<v Speaker 1>Cool.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like I have a pre existing condition called sucking.

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<v Speaker 1>But I pray to prayer accepted Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>I got in on the policy and I'm good and

0:36:12.719 --> 0:36:14.520
<v Speaker 2>God has to forgive me. But he really doesn't want

0:36:14.520 --> 0:36:19.680
<v Speaker 2>to remember this whenever you are tempted to think that way. Yes,

0:36:19.760 --> 0:36:23.040
<v Speaker 2>we're all sinners in need of a savior. No, there's

0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:25.799
<v Speaker 2>nothing in me that can save myself. And yes, I

0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:27.879
<v Speaker 2>need Jesus in order to be right with God.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah no, but just that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Now from that? Did the Bible start in Genesis three?

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<v Speaker 3>No?

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<v Speaker 1>Come on, when we sinned and became separated from God?

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<v Speaker 3>No?

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<v Speaker 2>Or did the Bible start with let us make man

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<v Speaker 2>in our image? And when God made snakes, he said

0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:59.480
<v Speaker 2>it's good. Everything he made he said it's good.

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<v Speaker 1>When he made you, he said very good.

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<v Speaker 2>So I know you got some very bad things you

0:37:08.960 --> 0:37:13.160
<v Speaker 2>struggle with and some y ugly parts of you that

0:37:13.200 --> 0:37:16.400
<v Speaker 2>you're working on, and I know you have some very

0:37:16.520 --> 0:37:21.840
<v Speaker 2>deep issues that go really deep, but remember that it

0:37:21.960 --> 0:37:25.399
<v Speaker 2>started out with a God who made you.

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<v Speaker 1>Very good, very good.

0:37:34.719 --> 0:37:37.440
<v Speaker 2>And God is trying to get me back as Steven

0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:40.240
<v Speaker 2>Larry Stevens Fredick Jr.

0:37:41.480 --> 0:37:46.480
<v Speaker 1>He's trying to get me back to very good.

0:37:47.160 --> 0:37:50.319
<v Speaker 2>He's trying to give me a vision of his very

0:37:50.320 --> 0:37:53.600
<v Speaker 2>good for my life. He's trying to get me back

0:37:54.600 --> 0:38:00.600
<v Speaker 2>to the seed of Stephen. He's trying to shine light,

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<v Speaker 2>give water and yes, even fertilizer to your life to

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<v Speaker 2>bring you back to what you put inside of you.

0:38:06.520 --> 0:38:08.080
<v Speaker 1>So holly for me.

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<v Speaker 2>The whole way that this message do the New Youth

0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:14.160
<v Speaker 2>starts and I won't review it long because we've already

0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:19.600
<v Speaker 2>covered it, but it talks about do you do you

0:38:20.600 --> 0:38:23.239
<v Speaker 2>as possibly being the worst advice that anyone could ever

0:38:23.280 --> 0:38:25.480
<v Speaker 2>give you, because.

0:38:25.200 --> 0:38:31.000
<v Speaker 1>If I just do me, but I don't develop me, I'm.

0:38:30.880 --> 0:38:35.160
<v Speaker 2>Going to be a perpetual, emotional two year old if

0:38:35.160 --> 0:38:36.160
<v Speaker 2>I just do me, if I.

0:38:36.120 --> 0:38:38.160
<v Speaker 1>Don't grow into who God made me.

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<v Speaker 2>On the other hand, if you're one of these people

0:38:41.880 --> 0:38:44.640
<v Speaker 2>who's very driven in you're like, I'm not going to

0:38:44.760 --> 0:38:50.000
<v Speaker 2>just do me, I'm going to do future me. Future me, Well,

0:38:51.440 --> 0:38:55.080
<v Speaker 2>that's a treadmill that will leave you exhausted and you'll

0:38:55.080 --> 0:38:58.520
<v Speaker 2>collapse trying to chase something that you think you're supposed

0:38:58.560 --> 0:38:58.799
<v Speaker 2>to be.

0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:01.840
<v Speaker 1>Usually what we're chasing when we say.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, my future self that's patient and ripped and rich,

0:39:06.360 --> 0:39:09.960
<v Speaker 2>and patient and ripped and rich but can still enjoy

0:39:10.000 --> 0:39:13.080
<v Speaker 2>a nice dessert. But I'm ripped and I'm not uptight,

0:39:13.360 --> 0:39:16.799
<v Speaker 2>but I am driven and focused. Stop that, because you

0:39:16.880 --> 0:39:21.200
<v Speaker 2>are comparing your behind the scenes to everybody else's highlight reel.

0:39:22.160 --> 0:39:24.839
<v Speaker 1>Come on, and what you're chasing is.

0:39:24.800 --> 0:39:27.880
<v Speaker 2>A compilation of what other people have shown you of

0:39:27.920 --> 0:39:31.560
<v Speaker 2>their life that you've cobbled together and think you need

0:39:31.600 --> 0:39:33.279
<v Speaker 2>to be that for God to bless you.

0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:35.360
<v Speaker 1>And you don't wow.

0:39:36.200 --> 0:39:36.719
<v Speaker 3>Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>So accepting Stephen means that when I show up to

0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:45.400
<v Speaker 2>preach to you, or when I show up in a

0:39:45.400 --> 0:39:48.080
<v Speaker 2>tough moment with one of our kids, or when I

0:39:48.080 --> 0:39:50.200
<v Speaker 2>show up to try to be the husband that she needs,

0:39:50.719 --> 0:39:53.560
<v Speaker 2>and I know that I'm still under development, that I

0:39:53.680 --> 0:39:57.000
<v Speaker 2>believe that if God would have needed somebody else to

0:39:57.080 --> 0:40:01.000
<v Speaker 2>do it, he would choose someone else to do it.

0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:04.759
<v Speaker 1>And the fundamental component of my belief.

0:40:04.480 --> 0:40:07.760
<v Speaker 2>System about this is that if there are eight billion

0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:14.120
<v Speaker 2>people in the world, God had options. Yeah, and He

0:40:14.200 --> 0:40:18.040
<v Speaker 2>put you in that house, He put you in that business,

0:40:18.440 --> 0:40:21.680
<v Speaker 2>he put you in that ministry, he put you with

0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:28.400
<v Speaker 2>that woman, he put you with those kids. God chows

0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:31.240
<v Speaker 2>you say it to your neighbor.

0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:34.000
<v Speaker 1>God shows you.

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<v Speaker 2>Now look right back at him and ask him a question,

0:40:36.640 --> 0:40:42.279
<v Speaker 2>Will you come on, come on? Will you choose you,

0:40:43.960 --> 0:40:47.120
<v Speaker 2>that's the decision you're making every day, yep. Or are

0:40:47.120 --> 0:40:50.320
<v Speaker 2>you going to feel the need so much to measure

0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:54.160
<v Speaker 2>up to something called perfection that God knew you were

0:40:54.160 --> 0:40:57.440
<v Speaker 2>never going to be? Or can you be cool in

0:40:57.480 --> 0:41:02.720
<v Speaker 2>the process when you say to yourself, well, I did cuss,

0:41:02.760 --> 0:41:06.160
<v Speaker 2>but I didn't say the real bad words this day,

0:41:07.360 --> 0:41:09.040
<v Speaker 2>next week, I'm a dial it all the way down

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<v Speaker 2>to heck. And every step you make towards heck, you

0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:16.279
<v Speaker 2>got to be like, that's pretty good.

0:41:17.320 --> 0:41:19.520
<v Speaker 1>You saw where I came from. It wasn't heck.

0:41:23.000 --> 0:41:26.040
<v Speaker 2>And I'm passionate about this because I am a perfectionist.

0:41:27.480 --> 0:41:29.520
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what version I think God is looking

0:41:29.560 --> 0:41:32.759
<v Speaker 2>for when I come through the door. But sometimes I

0:41:32.880 --> 0:41:36.600
<v Speaker 2>just have to sit myself down and be like, dude,

0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:39.919
<v Speaker 2>you grew up in a small town, you stepped out,

0:41:40.560 --> 0:41:41.239
<v Speaker 2>you met this woman.

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<v Speaker 1>God's me good to you. You're doing all right.

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<v Speaker 2>I always wondered, though, Holly, I want to read you

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<v Speaker 2>think about this. Where's the line between being content and

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<v Speaker 2>being complacent?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah? It's tough because.

0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:05.799
<v Speaker 2>I want to be content, yeah, in every circumstance, but

0:42:05.920 --> 0:42:10.160
<v Speaker 2>I don't want contentment to turn into an excuse.

0:42:10.680 --> 0:42:11.600
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:42:11.640 --> 0:42:13.959
<v Speaker 1>Whereby I can just accept immaturity in my life.

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<v Speaker 8>Yep.

0:42:16.080 --> 0:42:20.719
<v Speaker 2>The first step of growing into who God knows you

0:42:20.800 --> 0:42:29.880
<v Speaker 2>are is to accept who you are. Accept it, accept it, accept.

0:42:29.480 --> 0:42:31.239
<v Speaker 1>It, and step into it.

0:42:31.480 --> 0:42:35.080
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and we'll get you from this bar, and we'll

0:42:35.120 --> 0:42:37.879
<v Speaker 2>put some plates on it, and some more plates on it,

0:42:38.400 --> 0:42:42.120
<v Speaker 2>and some more plates on it, and you'll barely recognize yourself.

0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:44.560
<v Speaker 2>This is the process of transformation.

0:42:44.719 --> 0:42:44.919
<v Speaker 1>Yep.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, you open up this section, this mindset crisis in me.

0:42:58.280 --> 0:43:02.760
<v Speaker 4>I'm enough with this story that you tell about dropping

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<v Speaker 4>a class in college and the professors say to you

0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:11.000
<v Speaker 4>it's something they imply that they knew you weren't a

0:43:11.080 --> 0:43:14.920
<v Speaker 4>serious enough student. And then you say this later in

0:43:14.960 --> 0:43:18.600
<v Speaker 4>that chapter, you say, I'm constantly fighting a voice that

0:43:18.719 --> 0:43:21.840
<v Speaker 4>tells me I'm not deep enough as a preacher, or

0:43:21.840 --> 0:43:24.640
<v Speaker 4>that I'm not serious enough, or I'm not a hard worker.

0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:28.360
<v Speaker 4>And then all that defensiveness is going to come out

0:43:28.520 --> 0:43:32.160
<v Speaker 4>in how I preach and teach. I'll subconsciously think, oh,

0:43:32.200 --> 0:43:33.240
<v Speaker 4>this needs to be deep.

0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:35.200
<v Speaker 3>I need to be deep. I can't get on that

0:43:35.239 --> 0:43:36.400
<v Speaker 3>platform and be shallow.

0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:41.240
<v Speaker 4>I've got to prove to the people wrong who said

0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:45.239
<v Speaker 4>I'm not deep. And then you talk about you go

0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:49.200
<v Speaker 4>on to talk about performing.

0:43:48.640 --> 0:43:51.160
<v Speaker 3>For the wrong voices in our lives.

0:43:52.160 --> 0:43:57.040
<v Speaker 4>So how do you catch yourself when you find yourself

0:43:58.120 --> 0:43:59.959
<v Speaker 4>living for the wrong voice?

0:44:00.120 --> 0:44:02.760
<v Speaker 3>Says? And how do you get yourself back?

0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:04.520
<v Speaker 1>Can we do it in stages?

0:44:04.600 --> 0:44:07.960
<v Speaker 2>The answer to that, yeah, if it's a sermon, I'll

0:44:07.960 --> 0:44:10.320
<v Speaker 2>put Eric on the front row while I'm studying.

0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:12.440
<v Speaker 1>Eric's been my best friends since we were fourteen.

0:44:14.040 --> 0:44:16.800
<v Speaker 2>We did Green Day shows together, Pearl Jim shows together,

0:44:16.840 --> 0:44:21.319
<v Speaker 2>and now we spread the gospel together. And then when

0:44:21.360 --> 0:44:23.160
<v Speaker 2>I put him on the front row, I realized, wait

0:44:23.200 --> 0:44:27.240
<v Speaker 2>a minute, ericting thinking about me like a seminary professor

0:44:27.360 --> 0:44:31.640
<v Speaker 2>judging if I said I'm aphibischev right. And then I say,

0:44:31.880 --> 0:44:33.880
<v Speaker 2>and nobody's going to know in your church if you

0:44:33.920 --> 0:44:36.160
<v Speaker 2>mispronounced my aphibichev either, because they can't say.

0:44:36.000 --> 0:44:36.480
<v Speaker 1>It right either.

0:44:39.520 --> 0:44:42.320
<v Speaker 2>And once I lock in through a lens of love

0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:46.239
<v Speaker 2>somebody that I love and somebody that loves me, it

0:44:46.280 --> 0:44:46.960
<v Speaker 2>frees me up.

0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:49.400
<v Speaker 3>That's good. Lock into the lens of love.

0:44:49.600 --> 0:44:52.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, lock into the lens of love. Even in your

0:44:52.880 --> 0:44:58.200
<v Speaker 2>Bible reading. When you're reading the Bible, start explaining it

0:44:58.239 --> 0:45:00.480
<v Speaker 2>after you read it to somebody you love.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, Try any group.

0:45:06.760 --> 0:45:07.640
<v Speaker 3>It's not too late.

0:45:08.719 --> 0:45:09.640
<v Speaker 1>It's not too late.

0:45:12.120 --> 0:45:15.399
<v Speaker 2>And I wish it were that easy in our lives,

0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:20.919
<v Speaker 2>because when you're performing for somebody else's approval. There's one

0:45:20.960 --> 0:45:23.279
<v Speaker 2>story about Jesus that I want you to go back to.

0:45:24.880 --> 0:45:27.600
<v Speaker 2>I want you to go down to the Jordan and

0:45:27.800 --> 0:45:31.160
<v Speaker 2>almost like picture if you can put yourself there. Jesus

0:45:31.239 --> 0:45:36.920
<v Speaker 2>is being baptized. Why to be cleansed from his sin? No,

0:45:38.640 --> 0:45:42.240
<v Speaker 2>he had no sin, to be obedient to his father.

0:45:43.840 --> 0:45:46.600
<v Speaker 2>And as he's coming up from the water, I'm about

0:45:46.600 --> 0:45:48.360
<v Speaker 2>to blow your mind. If you've never heard this before,

0:45:48.920 --> 0:45:51.200
<v Speaker 2>this changed my life. As he's coming up out of

0:45:51.200 --> 0:45:53.920
<v Speaker 2>the water, a voice, everybody say, a voice, A voice,

0:45:54.080 --> 0:45:57.920
<v Speaker 2>a voice from heaven said, this is my son, whom

0:45:57.920 --> 0:45:58.319
<v Speaker 2>I love.

0:46:00.640 --> 0:46:05.000
<v Speaker 1>Well, he was proud of his son. Okay, now I

0:46:05.000 --> 0:46:06.440
<v Speaker 1>haven't blown your mind yet.

0:46:07.040 --> 0:46:12.280
<v Speaker 2>I you're like, that's nice, it's nice, and it's cool

0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:14.640
<v Speaker 2>until you put it in context, and then it becomes

0:46:14.640 --> 0:46:18.440
<v Speaker 2>a game changer. What if I told you that, at

0:46:18.480 --> 0:46:21.600
<v Speaker 2>the moment that the voice from heaven said, this is

0:46:21.600 --> 0:46:24.719
<v Speaker 2>my son whom I love, I am well pleased with him.

0:46:25.160 --> 0:46:28.880
<v Speaker 2>What if I told you that at that moment Jesus

0:46:28.920 --> 0:46:35.480
<v Speaker 2>had not yet performed a single public miracle, right wow,

0:46:36.280 --> 0:46:41.719
<v Speaker 2>And God said, already love him. Had not opened a

0:46:41.760 --> 0:46:46.520
<v Speaker 2>single blind eye. God said, I'm proud of him. That's

0:46:46.560 --> 0:46:51.920
<v Speaker 2>my boy, that's my girl. He had not fed the

0:46:52.160 --> 0:46:55.160
<v Speaker 2>crowds a golden corral buffet from a happy meal.

0:46:57.000 --> 0:47:02.040
<v Speaker 1>And God said he's enough. Right. So, when Jesus went.

0:47:01.920 --> 0:47:06.279
<v Speaker 2>To do all of those things, Lazarus come forth. When

0:47:06.320 --> 0:47:09.640
<v Speaker 2>he went to do all of those things, Pharisees shut up.

0:47:10.719 --> 0:47:14.799
<v Speaker 2>He wasn't trying to prove anything to the Pharisees. He

0:47:14.880 --> 0:47:19.600
<v Speaker 2>wasn't trying to prove anything to Lazarus because his starting

0:47:19.680 --> 0:47:20.960
<v Speaker 2>place was the.

0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:24.160
<v Speaker 1>Love of his father.

0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:30.400
<v Speaker 2>Now, every day, I need you to find a way

0:47:30.600 --> 0:47:35.080
<v Speaker 2>to be baptized in that lovey. I don't mean you

0:47:35.160 --> 0:47:38.719
<v Speaker 2>have to go get into jacuzzi, get slipped, get over

0:47:38.760 --> 0:47:40.120
<v Speaker 2>the fence and your neighbor's jacuzi.

0:47:40.600 --> 0:47:41.720
<v Speaker 1>I'm not talking about physically.

0:47:42.000 --> 0:47:48.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about spiritually, letting God baptize you in the

0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:54.680
<v Speaker 2>enoughness that is Him incredible, so you can come from abundance. Yeah,

0:47:55.600 --> 0:47:59.319
<v Speaker 2>I don't mean just material abundance. There will be times

0:47:59.360 --> 0:48:02.399
<v Speaker 2>where you'll say, Paul, I've learned to be content in

0:48:02.440 --> 0:48:06.000
<v Speaker 2>every circumstance, whether with plenty or with little, but one

0:48:06.000 --> 0:48:08.160
<v Speaker 2>thing you will never lack a day in your life

0:48:08.920 --> 0:48:12.080
<v Speaker 2>is his love and his guidance. How many of you

0:48:12.320 --> 0:48:17.560
<v Speaker 2>struggle with a scarcity mindset? I tell one little embarrassing

0:48:17.600 --> 0:48:18.719
<v Speaker 2>story in the book. I wan to share it with

0:48:18.760 --> 0:48:22.719
<v Speaker 2>you right now. Elijah, when he was about nine or ten,

0:48:23.440 --> 0:48:25.720
<v Speaker 2>was grabbing napkins at dinner one day, and he grabbed

0:48:25.719 --> 0:48:27.280
<v Speaker 2>like twenty napkins.

0:48:27.400 --> 0:48:29.120
<v Speaker 1>It's probably five, but let's call it twenty.

0:48:30.120 --> 0:48:32.840
<v Speaker 2>It makes it a little more justified what I did,

0:48:32.920 --> 0:48:35.920
<v Speaker 2>because when he grabbed the napkins, I start freaking.

0:48:35.640 --> 0:48:39.080
<v Speaker 1>Out, like, you don't need that many napkins.

0:48:40.200 --> 0:48:45.319
<v Speaker 2>And I gave him the greatest lesson on napkin conservation

0:48:46.520 --> 0:48:49.040
<v Speaker 2>in the history of parenting. And I don't think he

0:48:49.080 --> 0:48:51.200
<v Speaker 2>should have wasted the napkins. And I think it's good.

0:48:51.520 --> 0:48:55.280
<v Speaker 2>But I remembered, Mom. Do you remember how how Dad

0:48:55.440 --> 0:48:58.440
<v Speaker 2>when he was growing up, he was very poor, and

0:48:58.480 --> 0:49:00.160
<v Speaker 2>so when he had his own house and his on

0:49:00.760 --> 0:49:04.800
<v Speaker 2>napkins and paper towels. Sometimes he'd walk around and he

0:49:04.840 --> 0:49:07.839
<v Speaker 2>would tear the paper towels in half, and.

0:49:07.800 --> 0:49:12.680
<v Speaker 1>He'd go, you don't need a whole paper towel. You

0:49:12.760 --> 0:49:14.439
<v Speaker 1>think you' some kind of prints.

0:49:14.200 --> 0:49:17.000
<v Speaker 2>Coming in here taking a full paper towel.

0:49:21.320 --> 0:49:22.640
<v Speaker 1>Now I'm bringing this up.

0:49:22.680 --> 0:49:26.800
<v Speaker 2>It sounds so small because when we make it too big,

0:49:27.680 --> 0:49:28.680
<v Speaker 2>and we think like when.

0:49:28.600 --> 0:49:32.600
<v Speaker 1>You stand before the Red Sea, stretch out your staff.

0:49:32.840 --> 0:49:33.959
<v Speaker 1>You're probably not going.

0:49:33.880 --> 0:49:37.919
<v Speaker 2>To lead a nation of millions Monday, but you will

0:49:37.960 --> 0:49:42.600
<v Speaker 2>walk around your house and ask the question is it enough?

0:49:43.680 --> 0:49:46.680
<v Speaker 2>And the way you answer that question is not just

0:49:46.760 --> 0:49:51.040
<v Speaker 2>tied to is God enough? But it's how you answer

0:49:51.120 --> 0:49:55.719
<v Speaker 2>the question did He make me enough? And here's where

0:49:55.760 --> 0:49:57.319
<v Speaker 2>I think the gap is. I'm fired off.

0:49:57.400 --> 0:50:02.399
<v Speaker 1>Now I'm glad they got a bounc chair. You can

0:50:02.440 --> 0:50:06.360
<v Speaker 1>swivel while I preached this. Get a little kinetic motion.

0:50:06.239 --> 0:50:10.920
<v Speaker 2>As I preached this, because what you're talking about, in

0:50:10.960 --> 0:50:16.399
<v Speaker 2>the process of those professors telling me we knew you

0:50:17.040 --> 0:50:22.160
<v Speaker 2>weren't a serious student, That's how I saw myself. What

0:50:22.400 --> 0:50:28.000
<v Speaker 2>they say about you only has the power you give

0:50:28.000 --> 0:50:34.640
<v Speaker 2>it by the way you see yourself. I want to

0:50:34.680 --> 0:50:38.640
<v Speaker 2>break this victim mentality off of Christians, like that if

0:50:38.640 --> 0:50:40.120
<v Speaker 2>somebody spoke something.

0:50:39.840 --> 0:50:42.520
<v Speaker 1>Over you, you just have to believe it like it's your birthright.

0:50:43.080 --> 0:50:48.480
<v Speaker 2>No, your father spoke over you, and whoever spoke over you.

0:50:48.560 --> 0:50:53.600
<v Speaker 1>What wasn't true. Your father is over them. So watch this.

0:50:54.040 --> 0:50:56.320
<v Speaker 1>I have a better word over my life.

0:50:57.080 --> 0:51:00.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't have a second opinion for God.

0:51:00.920 --> 0:51:03.759
<v Speaker 2>I have a truth from him. I have a revelation

0:51:03.960 --> 0:51:07.080
<v Speaker 2>from him. I know the truth of the Gospel. Come on,

0:51:07.239 --> 0:51:09.920
<v Speaker 2>He's not against me. I am enough.

0:51:10.480 --> 0:51:15.000
<v Speaker 1>He is with me. I can't do all things through Christ.

0:51:17.440 --> 0:51:20.000
<v Speaker 1>High five. Your neighbors say you got what it takes.

0:51:20.520 --> 0:51:26.120
<v Speaker 3>What it takes, so.

0:51:26.280 --> 0:51:28.680
<v Speaker 1>We gotta listen to that voice.

0:51:28.840 --> 0:51:30.600
<v Speaker 2>I know a lot of people speak a lot of

0:51:30.640 --> 0:51:31.319
<v Speaker 2>things over us.

0:51:31.360 --> 0:51:34.000
<v Speaker 1>It happens to all of us. They say stuff about

0:51:34.040 --> 0:51:34.840
<v Speaker 1>me all the time.

0:51:36.600 --> 0:51:38.879
<v Speaker 2>But I got somebody else I can go to and say, Father,

0:51:38.960 --> 0:51:43.480
<v Speaker 2>is what they said true? And if it's not, and

0:51:43.520 --> 0:51:47.720
<v Speaker 2>if what they spoke contradicts what he is saying, go with.

0:51:47.680 --> 0:51:49.760
<v Speaker 1>What your father spoke.

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<v Speaker 5>God.

0:51:51.840 --> 0:51:53.240
<v Speaker 1>I love this stuff.

0:51:54.680 --> 0:51:57.759
<v Speaker 2>Because I see you breaking free from this idea of

0:51:57.800 --> 0:51:59.279
<v Speaker 2>what they told you you couldn't be.

0:51:59.640 --> 0:52:00.719
<v Speaker 1>They didn't make you.

0:52:01.520 --> 0:52:04.480
<v Speaker 2>If they didn't make you, and they don't own you,

0:52:05.080 --> 0:52:06.399
<v Speaker 2>they don't get to label you.

0:52:08.040 --> 0:52:12.359
<v Speaker 1>God is my label maker. I'm mating his image.

0:52:12.920 --> 0:52:18.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm redeemed by the blood of his son, and it's precious,

0:52:18.440 --> 0:52:29.080
<v Speaker 2>and so am I.

0:52:24.120 --> 0:52:28.239
<v Speaker 3>Got time for one morning just talking. No, you're not,

0:52:28.320 --> 0:52:33.120
<v Speaker 3>you're preaching, Okay.

0:52:37.080 --> 0:52:39.120
<v Speaker 1>I hope y'all are getting this at Riverwalk.

0:52:39.520 --> 0:52:42.239
<v Speaker 2>I hope y'all are getting this at University City. I

0:52:42.280 --> 0:52:45.000
<v Speaker 2>hope y'all are getting this at Ballad Hide. I hope

0:52:45.000 --> 0:52:47.880
<v Speaker 2>you're getting this in Greenville. I hope you're getting this

0:52:48.000 --> 0:52:51.200
<v Speaker 2>in Raleigh. I hope you're getting this Epham.

0:52:50.680 --> 0:52:54.160
<v Speaker 1>All over the world. I hope you're receiving this word in.

0:52:54.120 --> 0:52:59.080
<v Speaker 2>Your college norm me receiving the calling I've been almighty God.

0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:08.200
<v Speaker 10>Yeah, people can't cancel what God calls.

0:53:08.280 --> 0:53:08.840
<v Speaker 3>That's right.

0:53:09.160 --> 0:53:19.680
<v Speaker 1>Come on, Christ is in me. I am enough. Now,

0:53:19.719 --> 0:53:24.520
<v Speaker 1>don't leave that first part out. You just run around.

0:53:24.560 --> 0:53:28.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm enough. I'm enough. It's kind, I'm as smart, I

0:53:28.160 --> 0:53:28.880
<v Speaker 1>as important.

0:53:28.920 --> 0:53:32.879
<v Speaker 2>Like that's great for a movie, but you get into

0:53:32.920 --> 0:53:36.360
<v Speaker 2>real life on Monday, you're gonna need something hire to

0:53:36.400 --> 0:53:41.160
<v Speaker 2>point too. And so that's where it comes from from me, babe,

0:53:41.200 --> 0:53:43.920
<v Speaker 2>because if I did the self acceptance thing without.

0:53:43.719 --> 0:53:47.920
<v Speaker 1>Jesus, I'll hit it dead end. I've got to know

0:53:47.960 --> 0:53:49.320
<v Speaker 1>that he's with me, and I got.

0:53:49.200 --> 0:53:51.839
<v Speaker 2>To know that he didn't make mistakes when he made

0:53:51.840 --> 0:53:53.799
<v Speaker 2>me and I'm gonna tell you one more thing before

0:53:53.800 --> 0:53:56.160
<v Speaker 2>we get to your final question, and we got to

0:53:56.200 --> 0:53:56.760
<v Speaker 2>do a part.

0:53:56.560 --> 0:54:03.239
<v Speaker 3>Two of this, Yes, two, three, four or five.

0:54:04.680 --> 0:54:05.840
<v Speaker 1>I like to tell you the's a little behind the

0:54:05.840 --> 0:54:06.360
<v Speaker 1>scenes stories.

0:54:06.480 --> 0:54:09.640
<v Speaker 2>By the way, I don't holler when we talk about

0:54:10.080 --> 0:54:11.720
<v Speaker 2>these things when it's just me and her.

0:54:12.160 --> 0:54:14.400
<v Speaker 1>Wouldn't that be weird? Holly touch your neighbor.

0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:20.200
<v Speaker 2>It's like high five in bo.

0:54:23.120 --> 0:54:24.839
<v Speaker 1>But we do this. This is what we do.

0:54:25.320 --> 0:54:29.440
<v Speaker 2>Some of the best sermons I ever preached were our

0:54:29.520 --> 0:54:32.359
<v Speaker 2>three point two mile walk after Sunday when we start

0:54:32.400 --> 0:54:35.360
<v Speaker 2>talking and then you start sharing, and I think you

0:54:35.440 --> 0:54:38.120
<v Speaker 2>really need somebody that you love in your life, whether

0:54:38.160 --> 0:54:39.799
<v Speaker 2>in the E group or whether it's somebody that you

0:54:39.880 --> 0:54:42.480
<v Speaker 2>love where you can unpack the word of God. Because

0:54:42.600 --> 0:54:44.440
<v Speaker 2>if God speaks a word over you, but then you

0:54:44.480 --> 0:54:48.080
<v Speaker 2>don't water it, yep, it'll die and you'll think it

0:54:48.120 --> 0:54:48.879
<v Speaker 2>didn't work.

0:54:49.680 --> 0:54:50.640
<v Speaker 1>But it just needs water.

0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:53.920
<v Speaker 2>And I think what we're trying to model today, and

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<v Speaker 2>I know it's a little different way to do it,

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<v Speaker 2>but that God is a conversationalist. And when I say

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<v Speaker 2>do the new you, sometimes the only way for you

0:55:06.080 --> 0:55:10.160
<v Speaker 2>to do the new you singular is to do the

0:55:10.200 --> 0:55:14.879
<v Speaker 2>new you plural in the South. We don't say you all,

0:55:14.920 --> 0:55:19.360
<v Speaker 2>We say yeah yeah. So one day I'm gonna do

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<v Speaker 2>a group study called do the New y'all y'all. And

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<v Speaker 2>the reason I'm gonna do it is because I want

0:55:27.120 --> 0:55:31.520
<v Speaker 2>you to see that if you keep hearing at the

0:55:31.600 --> 0:55:35.960
<v Speaker 2>level of what God says, but you keep relating to

0:55:36.040 --> 0:55:38.720
<v Speaker 2>people who are at the level of what they feel,

0:55:40.400 --> 0:55:45.640
<v Speaker 2>you will come down to them time after time. And

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<v Speaker 2>so this this core belief for me. We were in

0:55:50.080 --> 0:55:53.360
<v Speaker 2>a songwriting session a few years ago. You know a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of people will ask me sometimes, what's the best

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<v Speaker 2>song you ever wrote that was underrated in your mind?

0:55:59.760 --> 0:56:02.399
<v Speaker 2>I think one that I really like and I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know if it's underrated, but nobody ever talks about it.

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<v Speaker 1>Makes me mad.

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<v Speaker 2>It's called the one you Love. When we were writing

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<v Speaker 2>that song, well, why aren't y'all streaming it? There's no

0:56:15.120 --> 0:56:17.719
<v Speaker 2>streams on Spotify for that song? Y'all clap them and

0:56:17.719 --> 0:56:22.160
<v Speaker 2>stuff of it. The song was a journey with some

0:56:22.239 --> 0:56:24.480
<v Speaker 2>other great writers, and I don't say this to insult

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<v Speaker 2>any of them, but at one point during the writing

0:56:27.120 --> 0:56:29.799
<v Speaker 2>session there were several writers and we're working on the

0:56:29.840 --> 0:56:32.480
<v Speaker 2>song and the second verse began to come out in

0:56:32.520 --> 0:56:35.600
<v Speaker 2>a way where it said, I know you're proud of me,

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<v Speaker 2>even though I don't deserve it.

0:56:38.320 --> 0:56:38.880
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I'm not a perfect child, but I still make

0:56:43.480 --> 0:56:45.799
<v Speaker 2>my father smile. I know you're proud of me. And

0:56:45.840 --> 0:56:48.399
<v Speaker 2>then the chorus said, you take me just as I am.

0:56:49.280 --> 0:56:52.680
<v Speaker 2>You would choose me all over again. I am the

0:56:52.680 --> 0:56:57.000
<v Speaker 2>one you love. You know that's what John called himself

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<v Speaker 2>in the Bible.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he loves the one he loves.

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<v Speaker 2>And somebody in the room said, I don't know if

0:57:09.280 --> 0:57:11.839
<v Speaker 2>theologically I can really vibe with the fact that God

0:57:11.880 --> 0:57:17.120
<v Speaker 2>is proud of me. And I said, then you don't

0:57:17.120 --> 0:57:21.160
<v Speaker 2>have to sing it, but I've got to because I

0:57:21.280 --> 0:57:25.640
<v Speaker 2>deal with so much self critical internal dialogue. And maybe

0:57:25.680 --> 0:57:28.640
<v Speaker 2>you don't. And if you don't, I'm happy for you,

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<v Speaker 2>and I hope you never do. But God sent me

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<v Speaker 2>to reach a few people that you don't know how

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<v Speaker 2>to hear that voice saying, this is my child. I

0:57:39.600 --> 0:57:41.280
<v Speaker 2>saw you go out of your way for that person,

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<v Speaker 2>even though they didn't thank you.

0:57:42.320 --> 0:57:42.840
<v Speaker 1>I saw that.

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<v Speaker 2>I see you giving what you have even though you

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<v Speaker 2>feel like you blew it. And you yelled at the

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<v Speaker 2>kids six times today. The reason you're yelling with them

0:57:52.800 --> 0:58:00.680
<v Speaker 2>is because you're with them.

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<v Speaker 3>To say that again.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Sometimes the Lord will say I'm proud of you

0:58:05.480 --> 0:58:07.680
<v Speaker 2>that you were so caring to your kids today.

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<v Speaker 1>And sometimes it'll say I'm so proud of you that

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<v Speaker 1>you didn't kill your kids today.

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<v Speaker 2>Now I realize that people will take this to the

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<v Speaker 2>extremes sometimes and just justify behavior that frankly, God wants

0:58:22.960 --> 0:58:26.040
<v Speaker 2>to rescue you from. But even if you're going to

0:58:26.120 --> 0:58:28.960
<v Speaker 2>grow out of that, you're going to do it by

0:58:29.080 --> 0:58:35.280
<v Speaker 2>accepting that you make your father smile even though you're

0:58:35.320 --> 0:58:39.040
<v Speaker 2>not a perfect child, and you've accepted Jesus.

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<v Speaker 1>If you haven't, you ought to do it today. But

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<v Speaker 1>you also ought to accept you. Yeah, because he did.

0:58:48.960 --> 0:58:52.480
<v Speaker 2>Wait a minute, Wait a minute, he accepted you, and

0:58:52.560 --> 0:58:56.680
<v Speaker 2>you don't you have a higher standard than God.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, WHOA.

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<v Speaker 2>So I just want you breathing in this thought. Christ

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<v Speaker 2>is in me. I am enough. Say it again, Christ

0:59:15.680 --> 0:59:18.520
<v Speaker 2>is in me. Christ in me, I am enough.

0:59:18.800 --> 0:59:19.480
<v Speaker 3>I am enough.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the most powerful revelation I think in the whole book.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep, not, I'm going to be enough?

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<v Speaker 2>Ye boy, God's really going to want to hang out

0:59:29.480 --> 0:59:33.600
<v Speaker 2>with me when I'm no longer dealing with this man.

0:59:33.640 --> 0:59:36.440
<v Speaker 2>He's really gonna use me when I get smart. No, no, no,

0:59:37.160 --> 0:59:38.520
<v Speaker 2>he's going to use you, stupid.

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<v Speaker 1>Ask Peter all these Bible characters we read about.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know how you wanted to close, Holly, but

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<v Speaker 2>I have one more thing I wanted to share in

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<v Speaker 2>order to solidify this. Is there any question that if

0:59:57.720 --> 0:59:59.840
<v Speaker 2>you didn't get to ask it, you're gonna fuss at me,

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<v Speaker 2>like because I didn't let you ask the question? Okay, Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll talk about one more song line and we're going

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<v Speaker 2>to sing and worship and just close this time by

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<v Speaker 2>reflecting and responding on what God has spoken.

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<v Speaker 1>How many feel that God has spoken something to you today?

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<v Speaker 6>No?

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<v Speaker 2>I think yeah, I think this is one of those

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<v Speaker 2>messages that you do need to get in with your

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<v Speaker 2>E group or sit down with your notebook and your coffee.

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<v Speaker 1>And watch it back and listen to it again.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because we talked about so many things, but there

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<v Speaker 2>was something specific that God wanted to speak to you.

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<v Speaker 2>So let me just bring it back to the entire

1:00:39.800 --> 1:00:42.120
<v Speaker 2>revelation that Christ is in me. I am enough in

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<v Speaker 2>a way that you can hold it in your heart

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<v Speaker 2>because I don't want you going well, there was a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of good stuff. Now I want you to remember

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<v Speaker 2>one thing today. The song Gyra, which literally Jira means

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<v Speaker 2>will see see.

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<v Speaker 1>It means that God will see to it.

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<v Speaker 2>So when he called the place Jehovah Jira, he was

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<v Speaker 2>calling the place Jehovah Jirah where God provided. This is

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<v Speaker 2>from the Abraham and Isaac story. Anyway, that's not important.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even know why I said that, probably just

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<v Speaker 2>to show that seminary professor, I know what I'm talking about.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's the point again, in a songwriting room, is that

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<v Speaker 2>song began to take shape. It was very beautiful song

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<v Speaker 2>with our friends Chandler and Naomi and Chris and we

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<v Speaker 2>sat there and we'd never all written together. And I

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<v Speaker 2>threw out a line that said, I'll never be more

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<v Speaker 2>loved than I am right now. And as Chandler began

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<v Speaker 2>to sing that, and then we begin to sing, I

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't holding you up, So there's nothing I could do

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<v Speaker 2>to let you down. It doesn't take a trophy to

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<v Speaker 2>make you proud, because I'll never be more loved than

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<v Speaker 2>I am right now. Jira, you are enough. And as

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<v Speaker 2>the song begin to flow with different verses. It came

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<v Speaker 2>to a point that crescendoed in saying, I'm already loved,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm already chosen, I know who I am, I know

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<v Speaker 2>what you've spoken, I'm already loved more than I could imagine,

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<v Speaker 2>and that is enough. We sang it over and over.

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<v Speaker 1>Again, that is enough, that is enough.

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<v Speaker 2>But as we sat in that writing room that day,

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<v Speaker 2>it went to a different place. We begin to say,

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<v Speaker 2>you are enough, You are enough, because my sufficiency is

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<v Speaker 2>in Him.

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<v Speaker 1>Not in myself. You are enough, You are enough.

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<v Speaker 2>But what happened next is a life message that I

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<v Speaker 2>want to give to you, because immediately after we sang

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<v Speaker 2>that is enough, the truth and you are enough, the

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<v Speaker 2>God that speaks truth and is truth, we begin to sang,

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<v Speaker 2>you are enough, So I am enough.

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<v Speaker 3>Come on, so good.

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<v Speaker 2>When we recorded the song, it was eighteen minutes long

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<v Speaker 2>right in this empty room, back when we couldn't have

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<v Speaker 2>everybody together for church.

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<v Speaker 1>And in that collaboration, some of the songs.

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<v Speaker 2>Had to be edited way down because the Holy Spirit

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<v Speaker 2>bro out in such a powerful way. We had to

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<v Speaker 2>get Gyra to under ten minutes because we couldn't put

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<v Speaker 2>it out on the digital streaming platforms if it was

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<v Speaker 2>one second more than nine point fifty nine. They sent

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<v Speaker 2>me back several options. We could edit this, we could

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<v Speaker 2>edit that. But one option they sent was unacceptable because

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<v Speaker 2>it said that is enough, the truth, and it said

1:03:23.560 --> 1:03:26.880
<v Speaker 2>you are enough to God. But in order to save time,

1:03:27.160 --> 1:03:29.480
<v Speaker 2>they had cut out so I am enough.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, whatever we have to cut out to put

1:03:34.240 --> 1:03:37.000
<v Speaker 1>that back in. I need that back.

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<v Speaker 2>In because if you just say that is enough, the

1:03:40.760 --> 1:03:43.640
<v Speaker 2>truth is enough, you are enough. God is enough, it

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<v Speaker 2>hasn't become personal to you yet.

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<v Speaker 1>I want it to be personal for you that He

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<v Speaker 1>is enough.

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<v Speaker 2>So I am enough, and you'll never be more loved

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<v Speaker 2>than you are right now, right now, clap your hands about.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll do that just right here where you are.

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<v Speaker 2>So beatison, i can't hear what key we're in. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>waiting to hear a piano so we can sing together.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you God that you are enough. So I am enough.

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<v Speaker 7>Thank you, Lord, you are enough. Thank you Si.

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<v Speaker 6>You are.

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<v Speaker 1>Shy, thank you you are.

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<v Speaker 2>S.

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<v Speaker 11>You know so he.

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<v Speaker 2>Now sing Gira, think about how He's provided for you.

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<v Speaker 1>You Yes, Lord h.

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<v Speaker 7>C S will be consent, Sun said.

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<v Speaker 8>Jia.

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<v Speaker 1>Cure, No, clap those hands like you love it. Let

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<v Speaker 1>you know he loves you.

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<v Speaker 12>Well, Jo.

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<v Speaker 1>You singing out church.

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<v Speaker 8>So.

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<v Speaker 12>Every son said, shop you right choice, say.

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<v Speaker 6>I love that.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm don't want you to say thank you. I'm lay.

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<v Speaker 7>Hold if that.

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<v Speaker 2>Jo said, I.

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<v Speaker 12>I know you walk.

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<v Speaker 2>You a you know, take you that you.

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<v Speaker 6>It's you.

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<v Speaker 1>Quee yan. Now we're singing that to the father. You

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<v Speaker 1>are enough.

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<v Speaker 2>What if he's singing it right back over us? Thank

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<v Speaker 2>you Jesus, who you are, how you were made.

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<v Speaker 1>Father.

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<v Speaker 2>I pray for each person who will hear this message.

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<v Speaker 2>May they receive it in the place where they doubt

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<v Speaker 2>the most deeply, where they need it the most. May

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<v Speaker 2>every insecurity meet the presence of Jehovah Jirah. Every past trauma,

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<v Speaker 2>every failure, every mistake be overwhelmed.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, by the presence of El Shadai.

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<v Speaker 2>I thank you for your presence with us today, Lord,

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<v Speaker 2>and thank you for how this ministry will go forth

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<v Speaker 2>and touch those all over the world who need.

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<v Speaker 1>To hear it at just the right time.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, in Jesus' name, would you hug eight people and

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<v Speaker 2>tell them you've got what it takes.

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