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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: You God, how.

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Speaker 1: You praise the Lord.

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Speaker 2: God is good all the time. God is good all

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Speaker 2: the time. In the valley, he's good.

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Speaker 1: Say Amen. On the mountain, he's good. Say Amen.

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Speaker 2: In the morning, he's good. In the evening, he's good.

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Speaker 2: I will bless the Lord at and his praise shall

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Speaker 2: be in my mouth.

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Speaker 1: O magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his

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Speaker 1: name together.

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Speaker 2: Today I want to move right into our sermon. I

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Speaker 2: want to move right into the Word of God. Grab

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Speaker 2: your Bible, open your heart, stand up on your feet,

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Speaker 2: and get ready to re from the Lord. Tell your

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Speaker 2: neighbor I'm ready. Tell them you need to get ready too.

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Speaker 2: I can't sit next to a lazy neighbor today. Come on,

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Speaker 2: if your neighbor looks hateful, you still got a minute

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Speaker 2: to move before I start preaching.

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome our global EPHAM online all around the world.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: I know you only got one hand.

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Speaker 2: Because you're holding your Bible, but clap a little better

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Speaker 2: than that. Come on, welcome our Ethham. God is so

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Speaker 2: good and so faithful, got one for you today. The

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Speaker 2: Lord has been speaking to me. You mind if I

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Speaker 2: pray before I read the scripture?

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Speaker 1: And I don't really care if you mind or not.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray before I read the scripture. Lord.

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed so much as you showed me this message.

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Speaker 2: It helped me, administered to me and gave me that

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Speaker 2: it helped my mindset. It really gave me something to

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Speaker 2: hang on to in my own life this week, and

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Speaker 2: something to encourage those I love with. And now I'm

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Speaker 2: standing before thousands of people that I love with your love.

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Speaker 2: Now I don't know them personally, most of them, but

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Speaker 2: you know each of them intimately. And I pray that

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Speaker 2: you would help me in these moments that we have

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Speaker 2: together that are so precious and so rare, just undistracted,

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Speaker 2: unencumbered moments in your presence where hearts have been tilled

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Speaker 2: by the truths that we've sang through the praise that

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Speaker 2: we've lifted to your wonderful name. And now we're ready

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Speaker 2: to receive a word from you. Help me to show

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Speaker 2: them what you showed me. I believe if that happens,

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Speaker 2: they'll be helped. I believe if that happens, they'll be

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Speaker 2: set free. I believe that happens, stronghold will break in

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Speaker 2: this place, not just one stronghold, but stronghold after stronghold

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Speaker 2: after stronghold, be broken by your word. I thank you

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Speaker 2: in advance for testimonies that I will receive from this

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Speaker 2: word that you will release through me today in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: Psalm thirteen is our passage for today.

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Speaker 2: We're in part four of a series called That's What

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Speaker 2: I Thought. We're trying to take some of these patterns

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Speaker 2: that are in our lives that are paralyzing us, the

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Speaker 2: patterns that keep causing us needless pain, and to replace

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Speaker 2: those patterns with God's promises in God's processes for our thinking.

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Speaker 2: And so far we've looked at this from several different angles,

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Speaker 2: but today's will be the most practical one so far.

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Speaker 2: The Psalmist in Psalm thirteen has a prayer to lift

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Speaker 2: to God, and it starts like this, How long Lord

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Speaker 2: will you forget me forever? How long will you hide

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Speaker 2: your face from me. How long must I wrestle with

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Speaker 1: How long will my enemy triumph over me?

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Speaker 2: Look on me and answer, Lord, my God, give light

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Speaker 2: my enemy will say I have overcome him, and my

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Speaker 2: foes will rejoice when I fall. But I trust in

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Speaker 2: your unfailing love. You see how that just lifted. The

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Speaker 2: sum is a lament. It's a cry for help. It's

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Speaker 2: filled with anguish. That's in the tone of sorrow. But

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Speaker 2: there is a lift within the lament. There is a

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Speaker 2: lift within your lament today when you cry to.

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Speaker 1: God, he won't just leave you crying.

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Speaker 2: For weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes

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Speaker 2: with the mourning. Somebody say, good morning. But I trust

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Speaker 2: I will sing the Lord's praise, for he has been

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Speaker 2: good to me. Go ahead and clap your hands for

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Speaker 2: the word of God. I want to give you my

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Speaker 2: to turn to your neighbor one more time. You know

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Speaker 2: gonna set up my subject for today. Tell your neighbor

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Speaker 2: first things first, Just tell them I know you've been

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Speaker 1: Look at them and say I can tell now.

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Speaker 2: Now, look back at them and ask how long do

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Speaker 1: Are you ready?

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Speaker 2: Look back at them and answer that question. They just

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Speaker 2: That's what I want to preach you about today. Not

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Speaker 2: as long ask my song Father. Make it plain and

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Speaker 2: powerful and personal. In Jesus' name, I give you praise. Amen,

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Speaker 2: you may be seated, Give three hugs before you sit down, and.

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Speaker 1: Then be seated. God is good all the time. God

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Speaker 1: is good four times.

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Speaker 2: In the Psalm, the Psalmist asked the question that every

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Speaker 1: How long.

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Speaker 2: We had a pretty rainy week of weather in Charlotte,

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Speaker 2: North Carolina. Holly looked at me Friday and said, am

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Speaker 1: How long? Lord? Doesn't take long, does it?

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Speaker 2: It doesn't take long for us to get gloomy, doesn't

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Speaker 2: I have discovered that even the strongest faith only can

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Speaker 2: discovered that the human will has its limits even when

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Speaker 2: you're in the will of God. Now I know I'm

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Speaker 2: starting early, but that would have been worth writing down

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Speaker 2: had you had your notebook ready, had I given you

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Speaker 2: a moment to get situated. Every human will has its limits,

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Speaker 2: even when you're in the will of God. Even when

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Speaker 2: a place that you hit a wall. So today I

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about three l's that I think

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Speaker 2: you've heard of lions and tigers and bears, right, this

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Speaker 2: is modeled after that, But it's not exactly that. I

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Speaker 2: want to talk about limits and levels and loops. Limits

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Speaker 2: and levels and loops. Put those in the chat please,

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Speaker 2: if you're watching online or the comments, limits and levels

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Speaker 2: Amen, limits and levels and loops. Amen, you say, I

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Speaker 2: say amen. My mind went to a personal experience that

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Speaker 2: we had this summer, which I mentioned briefly, but my

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Speaker 2: oldest son, Elijah, spent the very first weeks after he

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Speaker 2: graduated college in the hospital, and the first part of

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Speaker 2: it was planned because he had an issue with his

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Speaker 2: spine that we've been monitoring with the neurosurgeon for five years,

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Speaker 2: and upon the neurosurgeon's advice, we decided that he needed

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Speaker 2: to have the surgery.

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Speaker 1: And the surgery was not going to be easy.

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Speaker 2: No surgery is minor, No surgery is minor, and this

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Speaker 2: surgery wasn't even billed as minor, and so we were expecting.

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Speaker 1: A pretty rough recovery.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm not saying Elijah is not tough, but after

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Speaker 1: Was amazing to me how good he kept his attitude.

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Speaker 2: Because part of the surgery where they operated on him,

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Speaker 2: it was at the and I'm about to say stuff,

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Speaker 2: I don't really know what it means, but I heard

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Speaker 2: a doctor say it, and I'm regurgitating it to you. It

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Speaker 2: somehow affected his nausea, and so for the first four

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Speaker 2: couldn't need anything, but he didn't complain much and it

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Speaker 2: was amazing that he didn't complain much, because I've lived

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Speaker 2: with this kid twenty years, and I'm like, who are

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Speaker 2: you from? Whence cometh this strength and power and self

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Speaker 2: control and positive mental attitude. You've been watching David Goggins

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Speaker 2: and reading the Bible or something like that.

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Speaker 1: You're not complaining, You're just ugging it out. And he

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Speaker 2: Several days, and I tried to keep him company in

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Speaker 2: spent time with him since he couldn't really eat, and

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Speaker 2: we watched entire seasons of Better Call, so I mean

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Speaker 2: the chosen and you know, right about the time when

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Speaker 2: it looked like his body was bouncing back, his fever

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Speaker 2: went up. And Holly is our family doctor, and so

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Speaker 2: she knew, I think that it's become infected, and she

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Speaker 2: And so while we thought we might be able to

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Speaker 2: get him on any biotics, when he developed how do

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Speaker 2: you say it, Holly brunt bacterial meningitis. They came to

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Speaker 2: get him and said, we're going to have to do

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Speaker 2: the whole surgery over again. That was the moment where

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Speaker 2: it because I thought, remember the series, that I was

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Speaker 2: And I set a clock for myself that I am

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Speaker 2: not going to complain on this clock.

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Speaker 1: But that clock has run out.

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Speaker 2: And even the strongest human will has a limit, even

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Speaker 2: was making him nauseous again. So now I can't eat again.

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Speaker 2: And when I can't eat, I am not very happy

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Speaker 2: about anything. And don't tell me to praise the Lord,

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Speaker 2: because I praised the Lord for the first week, but

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Speaker 2: I wasn't planning on the second week or to have

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Speaker 2: know there are people who are going through a lot

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Speaker 2: worse than that. And your condition is a lot more

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Speaker 2: serious than what I'm describing.

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Speaker 1: But perhaps we can agree together that.

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Speaker 2: Even the strongest human will has a limit, and it

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Speaker 2: seems like the person who wrote Psalm thirteen has hit

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Speaker 2: Not hallelujah, but how long Alujah.

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Speaker 1: It's a different kind of prayer.

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Speaker 2: And I'm choosing these psalms throughout our series to show

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Speaker 2: you that you can come to God honestly and sincerely

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Speaker 2: with your problems, but not focus on your problems and

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Speaker 2: not remain in the same place that you came when

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Speaker 2: you brought your problems to God. By the way, Elijah

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Speaker 2: I totally get that question, How long will I wrestle

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Speaker 2: Wrestle with something that isn't coming from the outside. I

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Speaker 1: I could deal with it.

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Speaker 2: You know what I was saying to the Lord the

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Speaker 2: And you.

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Speaker 2: I thought I was through with this because you already

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Speaker 2: is preaching truth. This is Holy goes truth.

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Speaker 1: Right now. I am on your case right now, how

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Speaker 2: If you just give me a dumbbell, I can curl

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Speaker 2: last week we talked about Paul saying I put.

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Speaker 1: The ways of childhood behind me.

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Speaker 2: That's wonderful. You can put certain ways of childhood behind you.

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Speaker 2: I sold all my wrestling figures, all my lex Luger

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Speaker 2: and Sting and Ultimate Worrying Halkog, and I sold them all.

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Speaker 2: Wish I hadn't. They're worth a lot more money now.

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Speaker 2: But I put all that behind me.

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Speaker 1: But I still wrestle with the ways of childhood. And

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Speaker 1: so it begs the question, what do you do when

449
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Speaker 1: you hit your limit?

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Speaker 2: I'm speaking to somebody today and you feel like I have.

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Speaker 1: Hit my limit.

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Speaker 2: I'm a pretty strong person, but I've hit my limit.

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Speaker 2: I can carry a lot, but I have hit my limit.

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Speaker 2: I have dealt with this, and I have coped with this,

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Speaker 2: and I have managed this, and I have managed not

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Speaker 2: to make everybody else crazy around me. But I'm going crazy.

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00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 2: I have hit my limit. How long will you forget me?

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Speaker 2: How long will you hide?

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Speaker 1: God?

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Speaker 2: I can go a little while without feeling your presence,

461
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Speaker 2: but I haven't felt you in months. God, I can

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Speaker 2: go a little while without confirmation and just stay obedient

463
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Speaker 2: to the last thing that I heard.

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Speaker 1: But I need a side.

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Speaker 2: How long I can't believe I'm going through this again?

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Speaker 2: I thought I was through with this. I thought I

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Speaker 2: was done with this. Why am I more tempted than ever?

468
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Speaker 2: Why am I more angry than ever? Why am I

469
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Speaker 2: having bitterness flashbacks?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: I thought I forgave them. I thought they cut it

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Speaker 2: out of me. I thought they fixed it, and I

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Speaker 2: went back and they put me back into ICU. How

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Speaker 2: long am I gonna be here? I can only pretend

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Speaker 2: to be strong. So long I can't wear this uniform

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Speaker 2: home and wear it to work and pretend to be strong.

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Speaker 2: So David opens up to the Lord, and he realizes

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Speaker 2: that when you have hit your limit, and you can't

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Speaker 2: kill this with your hands, and you can't kill this

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Speaker 2: with your biceps, and you can't kill this with your

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Speaker 2: rational thinking, and you can't kill this with your college degree,

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Speaker 2: and you can't kill this with your willpower, and you

483
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: can't kill this with your focus determination, and you can't

484
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Speaker 2: kill this with your vitamins, and you can't kill this

485
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Speaker 2: with your collagen and your health routine and your cold plunge,

486
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Speaker 2: and I'll keep doing the stuff I'm supposed to do,

487
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Speaker 2: but it's not fixing the real problem I have. And

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Speaker 2: David realized that when you hit your limit, it's a

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Speaker 2: sign that you need to change your level. So whoever

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Speaker 2: I'm preaching to, when you hit your limit, change your level.

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Speaker 2: When you hit your limit, when you feel that in

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Speaker 2: the course of a twenty four hour period, in the

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Speaker 2: course of your college career, in the course of you

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Speaker 2: trying to raise your own family, in the course of

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Speaker 2: you feeling your way through the forest of your emotions

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Speaker 2: and your feelings of forsakenness.

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Speaker 1: When you hit your limit, change your level.

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Speaker 2: Limits and levels and loops, Oh my lions and tigers

499
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Speaker 2: and bears, Oh my. Wrestling with my thoughts of depression,

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Speaker 2: Wrestling with my thoughts of insecurity, Wrestling with my old

501
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Speaker 2: ways of handling situations, Wrestling with things that were passed

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Speaker 2: down to me or exemplified, Wrestling with my sin nature,

503
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Speaker 2: which is crucified with Christ but keeps trying to have

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Speaker 2: a resurrection. Wrestling with the things that I thought drowned

505
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Speaker 2: in the red sea. But why are they swimming after

506
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Speaker 2: me when I am wrestling with something that I can

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Speaker 2: tear apart with my hands.

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Speaker 1: That's one thing.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes the Bible says in Ephesians chapter six, verses

510
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Speaker 2: eleven and twelve, You've got to put on the whole

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Speaker 2: armor of God for the king. James says in verse twelve,

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Speaker 2: for we wrestle not against flesh and blood. This is

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Speaker 2: not a lion you're wrestling with. For we wrestle not

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Speaker 2: against flesh and blood. This is not a bear this time.

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Speaker 2: I'm wrestling with my thoughts. I'm wrestling with some secrets.

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Speaker 2: I'm wrestling with some shame. I'm wrestling with some strong temptation.

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Speaker 2: I'm wrestling with some not me. I'm wrestling with some

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Speaker 2: why me. I'm wrestling with some what about me? Well,

519
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Speaker 2: I am not wrestling anymore with flesh and blood, but

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Speaker 2: I am wrestling against principalities, against powers, against the rulers

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Speaker 2: of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness.

522
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Speaker 1: In high places.

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Speaker 3: See.

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Speaker 2: I understand something about wrestling, not because I watched Taul Hogan,

525
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Speaker 2: but because I have a son who is a wrestler.

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Speaker 2: Not WWF, but the kind of wrestling where they put

527
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Speaker 2: you on a mat for six minutes and.

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Speaker 1: You've got to outscore or pin the other person.

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Speaker 2: Now, in wrestling, I have a little experience because I

530
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Speaker 2: was a state champion in the eighth grade in a

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Speaker 2: freestyle tournament where there were no other entries in my

532
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Speaker 2: weight class category.

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Speaker 1: But Graham is pretty good.

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Speaker 2: And I took him to see the National Championship where

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Speaker 2: all the greatest college wrestlers were wrestling, and Carl Perry

536
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Speaker 2: was sitting next to me, who was a former national champion,

537
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Speaker 2: and I said, tell me what to watch when they wrestle.

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Speaker 2: I don't really know what to watch. I understand wrestling,

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Speaker 2: but not at your level. I said, what do you

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Speaker 2: look for at your level? He said, at this level,

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Speaker 2: all of the guys were out there know how to

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Speaker 2: change levels. I said, I know what that means, but

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Speaker 2: pretend like I didn't. Then explain it to me so

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Speaker 2: I could explain it to somebody.

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Speaker 1: Else who doesn't know what it means.

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Speaker 2: He said, Well, when you stay too still too long,

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Speaker 2: you become predictable. But what you got to do at

548
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Speaker 2: this level, you got to change levels so quick that

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Speaker 2: I can't tell if you're about to pop me on

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Speaker 2: my head or pop me on my head to set

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Speaker 2: me up to grab my ankle, and the devil will

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Speaker 2: come at you so many different ways.

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Speaker 1: And have you standing still.

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Speaker 2: So long talking about how long am I gonna feel

555
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Speaker 2: like this? And how long is it gonna be like this?

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Speaker 2: And how long are they gonna forget about me?

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Speaker 1: And how long till they recognize me?

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Speaker 2: But if you have hit a wall called how long today,

559
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Speaker 2: and you have hit your limit and you don't see

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Speaker 2: a way to win this fight, the spirit of God said,

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Speaker 2: change levels. If you've been down too long, stand up

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Speaker 2: and praise the Lord.

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Speaker 3: Wake up the.

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Speaker 1: Lion inside your lungs.

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Speaker 5: You've been sitting there thirty four minutes thinking about my sermon,

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Speaker 5: But change levels for ten seconds. Jump up on your feet,

567
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Speaker 5: stick your chest out, and tell the devils I'm saved.

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Speaker 3: Say it, I'm saved. Change levels.

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Speaker 6: Before we wrestle none against low things.

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Speaker 3: We wrestle against high things. And if I'm.

571
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Speaker 5: Wrestling against the high thing, I know a higher thing

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Speaker 5: that can't bring it down.

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Speaker 2: I cast down strongholds, I cast down depression, I guess

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Speaker 2: out fear, I cast out padding, I guess out say,

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Speaker 2: I cast out suicide, hot castings.

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Speaker 1: Sit today that is above.

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Speaker 3: Every day help me live this day high five fourteen.

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Speaker 3: People say I'm changing levels. I'm changing levels.

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Speaker 6: I'm saying, Oh, there he goes, Oh there he goes,

580
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Speaker 6: there he goes, there she goes.

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Speaker 3: I can't predict her.

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Speaker 6: When I think I got her down, said gets back up.

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Speaker 6: When I think just getting browned, she starts to pray.

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Speaker 3: I'm facing.

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Speaker 1: David, said, I don't know how long this is going

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Speaker 1: to last. I don't know how long I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be hurting like this. I'll know how long I'm going

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Speaker 1: to have to push through this without any evidence that

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Speaker 1: God is working. I'll know how long. But I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you one thing, not as long.

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Speaker 2: As my.

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Speaker 1: Song.

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Speaker 2: And I talked about lions, and I talked about bears,

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Speaker 2: and I talked about limits, and I talked about levels,

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Speaker 2: But I want to talk about loops. Because when you

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Speaker 2: get to verse five, David has disrupted his own despair.

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Speaker 1: And prayer for deliverance. Y'all are sitting down like you're

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Speaker 1: not in a.

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Speaker 2: Hurry to get out of here and go back to

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Speaker 2: whatever hell you've been fighting.

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Speaker 1: I ain't not waiting at home, but a lion and

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Speaker 1: a bear for you.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 1: You might as well go ahead and get this Bible lesson.

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Speaker 2: But what happens so many times and an experience like

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Speaker 2: this that we won't admit is we get the lesson

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Speaker 2: and we leave.

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Speaker 1: And we don't get in the loop. Because David said

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Speaker 1: something so powerful in verse four.

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Speaker 2: He says, if you don't do something soon, God, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to fail, and my foes will rejoice when I fall. Now,

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00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 2: I told the Lord that I would share this with

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Speaker 2: you if the atmosphere fell open to it, and so

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Speaker 2: I will. There was a season of my ministry where

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Speaker 2: Holly and I were so paralyzed by the nature of

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Speaker 2: public ministry, public criticism in the age of AI, when

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Speaker 2: people can make up things that you said and make

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Speaker 2: it sound like you say it, and make it look

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Speaker 2: like you were standing there with Oscar the Grouch if

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Speaker 2: they want to. It's no longer to photoshop you into anything.

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Speaker 2: There was a time where I was so consumed with

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Speaker 2: the fear that something in ministry would cause me to fail,

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Speaker 2: or that my best had been behind me and it

624
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 2: was only going to get worse from here. So if

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00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 2: you're struggling with that in your own way, the fear

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00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: of failure or the fear of looking like a fool.

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Speaker 1: Listen to what the Lord gave me. And it really

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Speaker 1: parallels the thought process of David.

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Speaker 2: Not to compare myself to David, but I do relate

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Speaker 2: to the resistance and the wrestling that he felt. And

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Speaker 2: I thought for many years that the wrestling meant that

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Speaker 2: something was wrong with me. I thought that the fact

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Speaker 2: that I wrestle with this means that I am this.

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Speaker 2: I thought the wrestling meant that something was wrong with me.

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Speaker 2: I need to slow down before I show you what

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Speaker 2: I want to show you. In verse four, he says,

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Speaker 2: my foes will rejoice when I fall.

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00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: You see that. And there was a loop in my

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Speaker 1: mind that.

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Speaker 2: Went on for months and months and months. It's going

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Speaker 2: to end in failure. It's going to end in failure.

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00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 2: It's going to end in failure. I couldn't pinpoint why.

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Speaker 2: I did see other things that were happening to other

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00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 2: people all around me, and I thought, oh, man, you know,

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Speaker 2: I I'll know how long can I keep preaching and

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00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 2: you know, writing songs and doing ministry.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to do it in the flesh. I

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Speaker 1: want to do it in the spirit. But sometimes you

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Speaker 1: get tired.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you get tired too, and you wonder is this

651
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Speaker 2: going to end in failure?

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Speaker 1: So one day the Lord gave me a thought and

653
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Speaker 1: it busted me out of the prison.

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Speaker 2: That I was in that came from the loop of

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Speaker 2: thinking that I had entertained what if it is in failures?

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Speaker 2: Can infaiures can in failures, can in failure? And the

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Speaker 2: way he gave it to me was something that I

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Speaker 2: could latch onto. And I give it to you exactly

659
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Speaker 2: as he gave it to me, and I wrote it down.

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00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 2: He said, I want you to start confessing this over

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Speaker 2: your life, and I did it out loud every day

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Speaker 2: for a year. It may end in failure, but I

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Speaker 2: will not live in fear. And I've struggled to hold

664
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Speaker 2: to that and I've struggled to live it out.

665
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Speaker 1: But he gave it to me. It was one line.

666
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Speaker 1: He gave me, one line to deal with the lie.

667
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Speaker 2: Because see, the lie I was in the loop was

668
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Speaker 2: that if something fails, I'm a failure. But when I

669
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Speaker 2: realized that he loved me before I started a church.

670
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Speaker 2: He loved me when y'all got here. He'll love me

671
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Speaker 2: if you leave, He'll love me if I preach good.

672
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Speaker 1: He'll love me if I stand up here in stammer

673
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Speaker 1: and stutter and ud.

674
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Speaker 2: He knows what I'm trying to say, and he'll even

675
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Speaker 2: take his spirit and interpret and you'll tell me, Pastor,

676
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Speaker 2: that was awesome when you said this, And I won't

677
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Speaker 2: even have said that, and you'll have heard that because

678
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 2: God wanted to get it to you. So even if

679
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Speaker 2: it fails, watch this. It may end in failure, but

680
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Speaker 2: I will not live in fear. And that has done

681
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Speaker 2: more for me than all of my resistancy. Because you

682
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Speaker 2: try to wrestle at a certain level, You're like, oh, no, well,

683
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna study you and I'm gonna do take my

684
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Speaker 2: creatine and I'm gonna do you know. But but even

685
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Speaker 2: that has his limits, So I change the level, change

686
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Speaker 2: the level. And David can't figure out how to battle

687
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Speaker 2: his thoughts because this is not something he is fighting

688
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Speaker 2: that is turning on him on the outside. His own

689
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 2: mind is turning on him. We are do when your

690
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Speaker 2: mind turns on you? And why did David's mind attack

691
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Speaker 2: him so viciously? Is it possible that the minds that

692
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Speaker 2: are under the most vicious attack are also carrying the

693
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Speaker 2: most brilliant potential.

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Speaker 1: Think about what David went on to do David went on.

695
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Speaker 2: To become not only a king, but he became the

696
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Speaker 2: designer of the temple that was the house of God,

697
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Speaker 2: for which he gave the plans to his son Solomon.

698
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Speaker 2: And when he gave him the plans for the temple,

699
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Speaker 2: he said something very interesting in First Chronicles twenty eight.

700
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Speaker 2: He said, well, that says he gave him the plans portico, building, storems,

701
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Speaker 2: upper parts, enterans, place of Atomas. So he had all

702
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Speaker 2: that mapped out verse twelve. And he gave him the

703
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 2: plans of all that the spirit had put in his

704
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 2: mind for the courts of the Temple of the Lord,

705
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Speaker 2: and all the surrounding rooms, treasuries, Temple of God, treasures

706
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 2: of the dedicated things. It goes onto lists in the

707
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Speaker 2: most specific detail, everything that God put into David's mind.

708
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 2: Now we understand why in Psalm thirteen he was wrestling

709
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 2: with his thoughts, because that mind was under attack by

710
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Speaker 2: the enemy, because it was the place that would conceive

711
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Speaker 2: something awesome for God, that mind from which the temple

712
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 2: would come, where the people would worship. That mind, that beautiful,

713
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 2: brilliant mind. It wasn't a broken mind. It was a

714
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 2: brilliant mind. The level of your battle tells you something

715
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Speaker 2: about the level that God is calling you to build.

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Speaker 1: The level of your battle.

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Speaker 2: See, when you have an overactive imagine nation, you can

718
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 2: build a temple. But if you have an overactive imagination,

719
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Speaker 2: you can also call Bathsheba to come and sleep with you,

720
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Speaker 2: even though she's not your wife, and make a plan

721
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Speaker 2: for her husband to get killed on the front lines

722
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Speaker 2: of battle.

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Speaker 1: And that is why it's important.

724
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Speaker 2: In this season of your life that you win the

725
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Speaker 2: battle for your mind, because there is something that God

726
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Speaker 2: wants to bring forth from your mind. I'm trying to

727
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Speaker 2: say that the place of the blueprint is always the

728
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Speaker 2: place of the battle. I'll say it again when God

729
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 2: is going to give you a blueprint. Some of you

730
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Speaker 2: are creating generational change. Some of you are doing it

731
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Speaker 2: different than your family ever did. Some of you are

732
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Speaker 2: setting a new direction, a new course for everybody with

733
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Speaker 2: your last name or maiden name in the future. And

734
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Speaker 2: the reason the battle has been so fierce in your mind.

735
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 2: There is so much material in your mind. There is

736
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 2: so much potential in your mind. David's mind would go

737
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Speaker 2: on to lead armies. His mind was capable of navigating

738
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Speaker 2: through the most arid terrain he can find water in

739
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,320
Speaker 2: places that the troops that were chasing him would not

740
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Speaker 2: even dare to follow him into that mind. Of course

741
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 2: it was under attack. Of course it was a battle

742
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 2: that was the place of a blueprint. Of course you're struggling.

743
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 2: Of course you're dealing with issues. There's nothing wrong with you.

744
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,720
Speaker 2: You're just a real one. You are resisting the enemy.

745
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 2: You are wrestling not against flesh and blood, but against

746
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 2: spiritual wickedness.

747
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Speaker 1: And isn't it amazing that the mind that created.

748
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Speaker 2: Something so magnificent as the Temple experienced so much misery?

749
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 2: And doesn't it give you hope to know that the

750
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 2: misery that you've been going through is just a clue

751
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Speaker 2: to the magnificence.

752
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Speaker 1: Let me say it like the Bible says it.

753
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Speaker 2: For our light and momentary afflictions are achieving for us

754
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 2: a far exceeding weight of glory. It will way everything

755
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 2: you've been through when you see what God builds. And

756
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 2: I'll prove it to you right now. Psalm thirteen is

757
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 2: written by David about a situation that we don't even

758
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Speaker 2: know what it was, and whatever situation he was going

759
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 2: through when he wrote it.

760
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Speaker 1: The situation is over, but we're still preaching about what

761
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 1: he wrote.

762
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 2: I said, the situation only lasted so long, but the

763
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 2: song was longer than the situation.

764
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Speaker 1: Because I'm standing.

765
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Speaker 2: Up in front of you thousands of years after he wrestled,

766
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 2: and I'm reading what he wrote, because he went through

767
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 2: what he went through. I came to tell you that

768
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Speaker 2: what you are going to see on the other side

769
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 2: of this will make what you're going through feel like

770
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Speaker 2: a short.

771
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Speaker 3: Time, a little while, just a little while, just a

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Speaker 3: little while.

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Speaker 1: And it all starts with verse five. I'm wrestling.

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Speaker 2: How long I'm forgotten, how long I'm forsaken, how long

775
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: you're hiding, how long I'm losing?

776
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 3: How long?

777
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 2: Verse five comes out of nowhere? But I trust, I trust,

778
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,240
Speaker 2: But I trust you know how we love the shout

779
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 2: in church about but God. Yeah, sometimes it's not but

780
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 2: God that you're waiting on is but I Because sometimes

781
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 2: when you're asking God how long, he's asking you the

782
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 2: same question I see on that Sunday. But the Lord

783
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 2: wants you to know I've been wondering the same thing.

784
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 2: I've been wondering, how long you.

785
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 3: Gonna let the devil just tell you anything he wants

786
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 3: to tell you.

787
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 2: Unchallenged before you rebuke him and plead the.

788
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Speaker 6: Blood of Jesus for everything concerning your life.

789
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 3: How long, Oh I love it. I'm happy. Don't think

790
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 3: I'm mad. I'm not mad at you. I'm happy for you.

791
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 3: Because God said he's about to butt in. God said, you're.

792
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 2: Wrestling with some stuff that's unclean, unfamiliar, unmanageable, overwhelming. But

793
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 2: I trust in your unfailing love. My heart rejoices in

794
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 2: your salvation. Put me in f sharp verse six. I

795
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:38,879
Speaker 2: will sing the Lord's praise, for he has been good

796
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 2: to me.

797
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:46,280
Speaker 1: So watching.

798
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 2: When you have hit your limit, Blessed to the porn spirit,

799
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Speaker 2: for there's kingdom of heim.

800
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: Blessed those who home and thirst that for ushless they feel.

801
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: When you have hit your limit, Come to the waters,

802
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 1: all you who are.

803
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 2: Thirsty and by, come by bread and milk without why

804
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 2: without price? You can get it for free if you

805
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 2: come on your knees. He said, you need a new loop.

806
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 2: You've been in the How long till it gets better?

807
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: Loop?

808
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,840
Speaker 2: How long till it changes loop? How long am I

809
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 2: going to be like this loop? How long are they

810
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 2: going to ignore me?

811
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: Loop? And I want to get you in a new

812
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: loop of how good God has already been to you.

813
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 2: Something just shifted in David in verse five. I can

814
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 2: tell it he realized, I can't fight this like a lion.

815
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 2: I can't fight this like a bear. I can't fight

816
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 2: this like my previous fights. I gotta fight this by

817
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 2: getting in a new loop, like when I killed the

818
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,240
Speaker 2: lion and when I killed the bear, and I started

819
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, how great my God was, not how

820
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 2: big my giant was, but I trust.

821
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Speaker 1: And when he said but when God butted in, he

822
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: ends his song.

823
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 2: Not singing about the struggle, but singing about the goodness

824
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:24,280
Speaker 2: of God, for he has.

825
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: Been good to me.

826
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 2: And sometimes you get this message, and sometimes you watch

827
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 2: these videos, and sometimes you listen to this podcast and

828
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:36,720
Speaker 2: you get the lesson.

829
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: But you don't get in the loop. You don't get

830
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: in the loop. You think worship is over because.

831
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 2: You've got to get out to your car, and you

832
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 2: think you got to get to your car, because you

833
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 2: got to get to your lunch, and you got to

834
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 2: get to your lunch, because you've got to get back

835
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:50,919
Speaker 2: home and take your nap.

836
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: And you got to take your.

837
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 2: Nap so you can still wake up tired and go

838
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 2: into another week talking about God.

839
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Speaker 1: How long? How long?

840
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 2: David said, I don't know, but not as long as

841
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 2: my song, because I'm gonna outsing my struggle.

842
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: Hear me, if you can, I am gonna out praise

843
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: this problem. Let me go deeper.

844
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:35,879
Speaker 2: I'm gonna out trust this trouble. And it's a sign

845
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 2: that I can't fight it in my own flesh. I

846
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:41,439
Speaker 2: wrestle not against flesh and blood. I'm wrestling against.

847
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Speaker 1: A high thing.

848
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Speaker 2: But I have a higher thing, So I will sing

849
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Speaker 2: and praise for he has everybody say he has been

850
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 2: good to me, and then then you might even get convinced.

851
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 2: You might, you might say he's been so good to me.

852
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: January of twenty twenty.

853
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,320
Speaker 2: Three, we were having a recording and we got together

854
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 2: to write some songs before the recording, and me and

855
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 2: Brandon and Chandler wrote a song one night called Ben

856
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:19,720
Speaker 2: so Good and the chorus just said, you have been.

857
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Speaker 4: So good to me, God, I can't believe how you.

858
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: Love me, What a friend you have been.

859
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 3: Wow.

860
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Speaker 2: And you see what happened, how you just started singing

861
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 2: it again and you almost can't stop singing it.

862
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: That's because we wrote it be a loop and here's

863
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 1: what that means.

864
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 2: The first line of that chorus, which we ripped off

865
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Speaker 2: from Song thirteen, verse six, which we got from David,

866
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 2: who felt like God had left him, but he sang

867
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Speaker 2: a song that lasted longer than his trouble.

868
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Speaker 1: This trouble is not gonna last as long as my song.

869
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 2: If the devil thinks he's gonna outlast me, he's got

870
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 2: another thing called Me and the devil are having a

871
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 2: staring contest right now, And I'm looking unto Jesus, and

872
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 2: I'm looking I'm taking.

873
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 1: My eyes off the wind in the waves. So I

874
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 1: don't know how long this storm is gonna last. For

875
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 1: somebody shout, not as long as my song. So is

876
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: it possible that God doesn't always deliver us from it?

877
00:52:55,880 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 2: But he calls us to decide in it? David said,

878
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 2: But I trust in your unfailing love, and I'll sing.

879
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Speaker 2: If the trouble lasts seven days, I'm gonna sing eight.

880
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Speaker 1: I will sing.

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Speaker 2: If this illness lasts three months, I'll sing three months

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Speaker 2: and fourteen hours. Because I'm gonna outsing this struggle. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to outsing this doubt. I'm gonna outsing this issue

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Speaker 2: with my prodigal child. I'm going to outphrase that you

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Speaker 2: understand because I'm changing levels.

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Speaker 1: And the way it works is this. The first line

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Speaker 1: of the chorus leads into the last line of the chorus.

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Speaker 1: I'll show you how you love what a friend you

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Speaker 1: have been? First line?

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Speaker 4: So to me, God, I can't believe how you love me.

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Speaker 1: What you have been.

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Speaker 2: You can't stop singing, can you? You can't stop praising,

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Speaker 2: can you? Because you got in the loop. See see

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Speaker 2: that's the loop.

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Speaker 1: I want you living in this week, not how hard

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Speaker 1: it's been, but you have been so good to me.

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Speaker 4: God, I can't.

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Speaker 1: Stop singing just a second. I got to tell you something.

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Speaker 2: When we sang the song at the recording, it literally

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Speaker 2: went eighteen minutes in the room and the church had

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Speaker 2: never heard it before.

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Speaker 1: You don't believe me.

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Speaker 2: I took a screenshot of the voice memo of the

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Speaker 2: front of house mixed from the night we recorded.

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Speaker 1: Look at the timestamp on this. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you can see it.

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Speaker 2: Eighteen minutes and forty seven second guests of a song

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Speaker 2: that the church had never sang. Why because it took

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Speaker 2: a line and made it a loop. Ye, And that's

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Speaker 2: what needs to happen in your heart. You understand, So

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Speaker 2: you just start thanking him. Now, be careful. The devil

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Speaker 2: will attack your thankfulness. He will attack your gratitude, because

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Speaker 2: if he can keep you down here fighting, he can

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Speaker 2: keep you down here losing and gasping for breath and

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Speaker 2: feeling sorry for yourself.

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Speaker 1: Because if I start.

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Speaker 2: Thanking him for the new day, I might start thinking

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Speaker 2: that I'm gonna make it till tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: And if I start thanking.

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Speaker 2: Him that I'm gonna make it till tomorrow, I might

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Speaker 2: start thinking that he has a hope in a future

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Speaker 2: for me.

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Speaker 1: And if I start thanking.

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Speaker 2: Him that he has a hope in a future for me,

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Speaker 2: I might get some friends and make a plan to

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Speaker 2: move my life for her. And if I start thanking

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Speaker 2: him for the new people he brought in my life,

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Speaker 2: I might start thinking that.

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Speaker 3: I don't have to do this by myself. And if

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Speaker 3: I start thinking him that.

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Speaker 6: I'm not in this by myself, I might start praising him.

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Speaker 6: At the midnight hour, Hey Paul, Hey.

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Speaker 3: Silas, how long you're gonna be in this prison? How

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Speaker 3: long is your sentence?

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Speaker 6: Silace said, I don't know, but not as long as

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Speaker 6: my song I got a song in midnight.

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Speaker 3: I gott a song through the age. How why? And singing.

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Speaker 2: So good?

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Speaker 3: Oh God? Again? Lift your head here.

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Speaker 2: You hell.

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Speaker 1: Job you sing?

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Speaker 2: Uh huh.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how long it's gonna last, but sing

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Speaker 1: it again. Not as long. H get that stuck in

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Speaker 1: your head for a minute. See what happens. Say it again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And when the doctor's report doesn't look good. And

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Speaker 2: when you don't think you have what it takes to

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Speaker 2: move on, keep singing. If the storm keeps raging, keep singing.

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Speaker 1: And when you start.

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Speaker 2: Thinking, and you start thinking, don't be surprised.

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Speaker 1: If the enemies you see today you will see.

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Speaker 3: Them no more.

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Speaker 7: Because when I praise, when I praise, when I praise,

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Speaker 7: come on bad. I need to sing it one more time.

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Speaker 7: When peace like a river attended my way, When.

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Speaker 3: Sorry slight sea billows roll, I gotta song, I gotta praise.

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Speaker 5: Keep singing, can't singing, can't singing.

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Speaker 6: Fire through the stupe.

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