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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik.

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

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Hope 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: Let's give a warm welcome to our entire church family

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Speaker 2: and all of our campuses and online. Hey, welcome e fam.

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Speaker 2: I haven't done an EPAM roll call in a while.

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Speaker 2: Put your name and where you're watching from. Please in

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Speaker 2: the chat if you're watching online, and everybody in this

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Speaker 2: place today, be encouraged. The Lord has heard your prayers.

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Speaker 2: The Lord has heard your prayers.

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Speaker 1: Tell the person next to you he heard you. Tell him.

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Speaker 2: Just because he didn't do it like you wanted him to.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't mean he didn't hear you. We were singing a

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Speaker 1: song a moment.

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Speaker 2: Ago called call God, and we said I call God,

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Speaker 2: and he answered And some people were like, well you

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Speaker 2: hadn't yet. You know, I wish he would. But the

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Speaker 2: thing is he did so many times before, so many

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Speaker 2: times before.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna preach a little bit about this today.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes we adapt to our answered prayers and we

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Speaker 2: cease to appreciate them. But one thing I'm gonna be

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Speaker 2: very intentional about from this pulpit in this year is

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Speaker 2: to not let you just walk past stuff that God

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Speaker 2: did in your life without recognizing it, because that's how

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Speaker 2: the enemy weakens you. So you're gonna notice me a

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Speaker 2: lot more in my sermons and when I come up,

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Speaker 2: just turning your attention not only to the things that

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Speaker 2: God has done, but who He is, because that's what

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Speaker 2: you can count on. If your wife divorces you, He'll

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Speaker 2: never leave you or forsake you. If your kids go

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Speaker 2: absolutely prodigal crazy, God is still going to keep you

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Speaker 2: in your right mind. If everybody and your company gets

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Speaker 2: care of you. He will supply your needs. So I

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Speaker 2: want to connect you today through a scripture in Joshua

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Speaker 2: chapter seventeen. And let's do a shout out real quick.

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Speaker 2: I told the people online, Hello from Kenya, Hello from

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Speaker 2: West Virginia. Now, how'd you feel for me if you

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Speaker 2: had to preach a message that applied in Kenya and

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Speaker 2: West Virginia all in English?

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Speaker 1: Today? We're glad to have you. What a robust church

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Speaker 1: we are. I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 2: Welcome Dayton, Ohio. Welcome California, Welcome Cape Town, Welcome Cornelias,

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Speaker 2: North Carol. Well, you should be in church. You shouldn't

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Speaker 2: be watching. You just told on yourself. I'm glad you're

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Speaker 2: here today. Welcome settle in. God has a word for you.

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Speaker 2: You Joshua, what chapter seventeen? You ever notice you don't

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Speaker 2: hear many sermons passed around Joshua chapter three or four.

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Speaker 2: All the exciting stuff happens kind of in the beginning

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Speaker 1: They're taking the land.

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Speaker 2: And they're you know, they're going forward in the promise

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Speaker 2: of God and crossing the Jordan, and so we usually

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm going all the way to Joshua seventeen today.

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Speaker 1: See what happens after that.

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Speaker 2: Now, listen to this because this is where we live

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Speaker 2: in our everyday life. Everyday life is not always exciting

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Speaker 2: new adventures and explorations on the opportunities that all wait you.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's just three advil and a prayer and sorry,

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Speaker 2: I'm five minutes late, but I'm here anyway, And we're

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Speaker 2: trying to deal with that. This year because I preached

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Speaker 1: Your life with God. And I was trying to get

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Speaker 2: Wheat, not the weeds, Not just looking at the things

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Speaker 2: that what God planted in you is significant in every

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Speaker 2: and I'll read it and then we'll back into the context.

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Speaker 2: The people of Joseph said to Joshua, why have you

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Speaker 2: Remember, they possessed the land that God swore to Abraham

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Speaker 2: If you are so numerous, Joshua answered, since you're so

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Speaker 2: But Joshua said to the tribes of Joseph, to Ephraim

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Speaker 2: Though the Canaanites have chariots fitted with iron, and though

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Speaker 2: Lord for his word one time. Would you come on

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Speaker 2: right there? Thank him for his word. My message today

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Speaker 2: is called don't forget where you come from. Look at

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Speaker 2: three people say, don't forget where you come from.

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Speaker 1: And man, you may be seated.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget where you come from, Kenya or West Virginia,

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Speaker 2: or like me, maybe you came from Monk's Corner, South Carolina. Boy,

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Speaker 2: somebody said something to me the other day. I never

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Speaker 2: thought i'd hear. They said, the traffic is terrible in

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Speaker 2: Bad traffic in Monk's Corner when I was a boy

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Speaker 2: at rush hour. My guess is growing, you know, is

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Speaker 2: really expanding, And it is, it is, it is.

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Speaker 1: It's all the population that's pushed.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, I won't tell you the geography of Charleston in

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Speaker 2: the low country of South Carolina. By the way, welcome

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Speaker 2: our newest campus in Somerville, South Carolina. And y'all know

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Speaker 2: I love Jesus because Somerville was our rival in high school.

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Speaker 2: We were the Berkeley Stags and we hated the Somerville

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Speaker 2: the presence of my enemies in Somerville, South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: But we love you, no.

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Speaker 2: No. The reason I bring up where you come from

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Speaker 2: for what you think is successful in your life.

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Speaker 1: You have a point of reference.

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Speaker 2: If you never had five hundred dollars in your bank

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Speaker 2: account before, the first five hundred feels amazing. It's a

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Speaker 2: point of reference if you're seventy three years old and

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Speaker 2: hoping to retire next year five hundred dollars. There's not

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Speaker 2: a prayer warrior in the world that can turn five

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Speaker 2: of reference. I remember the first bonus that I got

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Speaker 2: and Rick Bowling told me, by the way, we're giving

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Speaker 2: a five hundred dollars bonus to all of our employees

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Speaker 2: this Christmas.

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Speaker 1: And I literally cried.

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Speaker 1: Five hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I wish I could still cry that easy, because

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Speaker 2: there was something about that stage in my life where

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Speaker 2: He was like, this is how much we're going to

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Speaker 2: pay you this year, and of course that doesn't include

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Speaker 2: the benefits.

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Speaker 1: And I said, the what he said, the benefits. And

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that that's something that you could negotiate

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Speaker 2: into a I wasn't negotiating. I was just thankful. I

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Speaker 2: was like benefits. He's like, yeah, that's going to be

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Speaker 2: since I praise God for my health insurance.

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Speaker 1: Because I had it too long. I had it too long.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I let three days go by and don't tell

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Speaker 2: Holly how pretty she is. But that's wrong, because she's

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Speaker 2: And when you forget the gifts that God has given you,

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Speaker 2: Don't forget that there was a time that a five

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Speaker 2: Don't forget that there was a time when you prayed

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Speaker 2: that God would give you these children that you're praying

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Speaker 2: for Him to help you not to eliminate from the

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Speaker 1: Don't forget where you come from.

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Speaker 2: We see an interesting dynamic in Joshua chapter seventeen in

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Speaker 2: that these tribes the people of Joseph, it's actually two tribes.

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Speaker 1: One is called Manassa and one is called Ephraim. Those

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Speaker 2: Manassa was his first born, Ephram was his second, and

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Speaker 2: both of them were born in Egypt, in the place

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Speaker 2: He had two boys, Manassa and Ephraim, and those boys

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Speaker 2: have now several generations later turned into tribes, and these

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Speaker 1: I have to talk with you later.

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Speaker 2: It's just that they're blessed so much that they are

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Speaker 2: only speak to the desperation of failure, but there is

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Speaker 2: a need to preach to the pressure of blessings because

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Speaker 2: blessings are heavy in your life. Sometimes when you're going

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Speaker 3: And you just want to slap them real quick, just

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Speaker 2: He did not pray that God would give you an inheritance,

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Speaker 2: see clearly what God has already given you freely.

441
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: So this is the shift. Inheritance says God gave me this.

442
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 2: God gave me this responsibility to preach today.

443
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 1: I get to do it.

444
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 2: Entitlement says I've got to do it. Inheritance says, God

445
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 2: has given me the privilege to minister to these precious people.

446
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 2: Y'all don't even know how much I love doing this.

447
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 2: Y'all don't even know how much it matters to me.

448
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 2: Y'all don't even know how much. I wake up at

449
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 2: two thirty on Sundays and say, go back to sleep,

450
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 2: You're gonna.

451
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:34,120
Speaker 1: Need your energy.

452
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 2: And then it's two forty five, and it's three, and

453
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 2: it's three point fifteen, and it's three thirty and finally

454
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 2: say I can't sleep. I might as well get up

455
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 2: and start thinking about it. And then by about three

456
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 2: forty five, I'm appreciating it out loud. So I know

457
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 2: the kids think that's going crazy downstairs again, but I

458
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 2: don't care, because God gave me this mantle.

459
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you something else.

460
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 2: I prayed hard for this, and I sacrificed for this,

461
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 2: but it was my sacrifice. It was his sovereignty that

462
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 2: gave it to me, because I could.

463
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: Not earn this.

464
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 2: And some of us know that it was not by Mike,

465
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 2: and not by power, and not by intelligence, and not

466
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 2: by connections and not by networking, and not by pedigree,

467
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 2: and not by GPA, and not by your skill, but

468
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 2: by his grace that I am what I am. Thank you, Lord,

469
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 2: thank you God, thank you. I've got kids to worry about,

470
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 2: thank you. I've got a spouse to fight with, Thank you.

471
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 2: I've got clothes to get dirty.

472
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 1: And have to wash them again.

473
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 2: Thank you. I've got dishes to yell at somebody for

474
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,679
Speaker 2: leaving in the sink. Thank you, thank you, thank you,

475
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 2: thank you. I've got a toilet to get clogged up.

476
00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 2: I remember where I came from. Slap yourself and say, really,

477
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 2: you're fussing about this. You forgot where you came from.

478
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 2: You were in a wilderness, you were in your sin,

479
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 2: you were in chains. You beg God, God, if you'll

480
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 2: take me, if you'll.

481
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: Use me, I'll do anything for you.

482
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 2: And has inheritance mentality become entitlement mentality in your life?

483
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 2: Fussing cause the coffee's cold, fuss and because it buffered

484
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 2: for twenty three seconds. Boy, you better remember that card

485
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 2: catalog you used to have to go through to find

486
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 2: out information. And now you're mad because chat GPT took

487
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 2: twelve seconds to think. Don't forget where you come from.

488
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: I come from Monks Corner, South Carolina.

489
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: That's why I cannot.

490
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 2: Be discouraged when I stand up in front of large crowds.

491
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: To preach, because when I look at the.

492
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 2: Size of the crowd and realize the town I came from,

493
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, yeah, it was you, guy, it was you.

494
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 2: I mean, this makes no sense. This is just absolutely stupid,

495
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 2: and I'm so grateful that you use the foolish things

496
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 2: of the world to confound the wise. Now I need

497
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 2: to rush past this point because.

498
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: I have another point to make.

499
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 2: But maybe this would be a good challenge for you

500
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 2: to put in front of your family this week. Have

501
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: we allowed inheritance what God gave us to be replaced with.

502
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: Entitlement because it's not enough and too much. Not enough.

503
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: You got the blood of Jesus.

504
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 2: One drop of his blood is enough to cleanse you

505
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,959
Speaker 2: from what you did Thursday. One drop of his blood

506
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: can erase the shame of how you spent the years

507
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 2: between twenty twenty and twenty twenty five.

508
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,959
Speaker 1: One drop of his blood.

509
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 2: Holly said, they've been sending pictures around online of twenty sixteen.

510
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: She said, you need.

511
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 2: To know there's a trend all over Instagram, at least

512
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 2: for middle aged white women that everybody's sending around pictures

513
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 2: of twenty sixteen, and something like twenty six is the

514
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 2: new twenty.

515
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: Sixteen or something. And then she was right.

516
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 2: Everybody started sending me pictures of where they were in

517
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. I started getting them randomly on my phone.

518
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 2: People are sending me. I'm not even on Instagram and

519
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: I'm getting pictures on my phone twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen,

520
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, and I thought that's crazy.

521
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: Where was I twenty sixteen. I pulled something up.

522
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 2: This is the first Sunday grand opening in our Ballantine

523
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:53,719
Speaker 2: building in twenty sixteen, and it was supposed to happen

524
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen, but it was on a two year delay.

525
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 2: The building I preached from, By the way, if you're

526
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 2: in Kenya, you probably don't know what talking about when

527
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 2: I say Valentine. The building that I broadcast from, where

528
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 2: we reach into your home, and where we reach into prisons,

529
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 2: and where we send messages into rehabs, and where we

530
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 2: send messages into hospital rooms, and where we send podcasts

531
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 2: into cars of parents driving their kids around all day

532
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 2: and athletes that are getting all the ministry.

533
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: It comes from right here.

534
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 2: Valentine to all of our other campuses, and we were

535
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 2: opening it twenty sixteen and.

536
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: We were having the best time kind of. But show

537
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: them the other picture.

538
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 2: This is the one that was next to it on

539
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 2: my phone, and there's me and Holly and she looks

540
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 2: like blessing.

541
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: And I look like pressure. Ain't that right? Would you say?

542
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: I captioned that correctly.

543
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 2: Because for me, I was jet lagged that Sunday morning,

544
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 2: and for me, I had just gotten back from Australia,

545
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 2: and for me, the headlines were all about a potential

546
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 2: place of civil unrest in our nation. And for me,

547
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 2: my best friend was getting fired from pastoring his church,

548
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 2: and so between the nine thirty and the eleven thirty

549
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 2: I was talking to him on the phone before I

550
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 2: came out to preach again because I was scared about

551
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 2: whether he was in a safe place emotionally or not.

552
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: So now you understand, put the picture back up again.

553
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: Why she's uh.

554
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 2: Smiling and I'm like, she's like, God is good all

555
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 2: the time, and I'm like, she's.

556
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: Like, this is an amazing day. Now. Obviously that's just

557
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: a really unfortunate capture of my face in that moment.

558
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: I don't know I was.

559
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 2: Really thinking and we fired that photographer, by the way.

560
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: Capture that moment.

561
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 2: I'm kidding, but I just want to give you a

562
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 2: visual for a moment here as we talk about Joseph

563
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 2: and Ephraim and Manassa, and as we talk about your life,

564
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: and as we talk about forgetting where you come from,

565
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: and when we talk about your past, and when we

566
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 2: talk about the things that you remember, and when we talk.

567
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: About the challenge that you're facing.

568
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 2: Remember, the people of Joseph, the tribes of Ephraim and Manassa,

569
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 2: came to Joshua and said it's too much and it's

570
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 2: not enough.

571
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: And Joshua said, it is enough.

572
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 2: There is all of this territory that you were given,

573
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: but it's forest territory, and it's covered not only in trees,

574
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 2: but there are canaanites that are there, which represent the

575
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 2: enemies that you did not drive out of the land yet.

576
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 2: And so God has given you an inheritance. But to

577
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 2: develop in that it's going to take two things, work

578
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 2: and war. It's going to take work and it's going

579
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 2: to take war. I heard an old self motivation talk

580
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 2: parable about a farmer who had a beautiful piece of

581
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 2: property and it was so lush man The gardens were

582
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 2: just beautiful and flourishing, and the cows were fat, and

583
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 2: the white gravel driveway was lined with the prettiest trees

584
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 2: you ever saw.

585
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: And it didn't look like a.

586
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 2: New farm, but it looked like a love farm, a

587
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 2: farm that had received a lot of attention. And a

588
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,479
Speaker 2: preacher drove by the farm one day and he was

589
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 2: so absolutely enchanted with the farm that he had to

590
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 2: meet the farmer. And the farmer came over on the

591
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 2: tractor and turned off the tractor for a moment and

592
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 2: said to the preacher, can I help you? And the

593
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 2: preacher said, I was just admiring your property. What a

594
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 2: beautiful piece of property the Lord gave you. And the

595
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 2: farmer said, yes, it is very beautiful, and we're grateful.

596
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 2: But Preacher, you should have seen this place when the

597
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 2: Lord had it all to himself.

598
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: In other words, I worked this thing.

599
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 2: In other words, the people that you're driving by and

600
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 2: envying their life, they.

601
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 4: Didn't just get that marriage. They didn't just get that body.

602
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,479
Speaker 4: They didn't just get that financial situation. They didn't just

603
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 4: get that influence.

604
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 2: They were in the field keeping sheep before Goliath ever

605
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:11,720
Speaker 2: showed up.

606
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: They were developing it.

607
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 2: And the question is are you investing into what you

608
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 2: inherited in your life? If it's a gift, are you

609
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 2: investing in it? If it's a relationship, are you maintaining it?

610
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 2: Are are you working with what God gave you or

611
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 2: simply complaining how it's not enough. Because I'm gonna tell

612
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 2: you it is enough. It is enough. It just hasn't

613
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 2: had the time yet in your life to develop into

614
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 2: what it needs to be. So I came to declare

615
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 2: a message today it is enough, but it is going

616
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 2: to take faith on your part. God is not simply

617
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 2: going to drive out every enemy in your life. God

618
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 2: is not simply going to chop down every tree in

619
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 2: your life. God is not simply going to disrupt every

620
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 2: bad habit in your life.

621
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: We pray for deliverance.

622
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,720
Speaker 2: I believe in deliverance, but I also believe in support groups.

623
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: I said.

624
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 2: I also believe in AA.

625
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: I said. I also believe in accountability. I said. I

626
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: also believe in Christian counseling.

627
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 2: I said, I also believe in starting to exercise. I said,

628
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 2: I also believe in app deletion. See the thing about

629
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 2: some of us is we are praying for peace in

630
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 2: areas where we are unwilling to clear out trees. How

631
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 2: can it grow? How can it grow? It has nowhere

632
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 2: to grow. And the problem is.

633
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: Not that I need more time.

634
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 2: The problem is that I need more priorities. Because God

635
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 2: gave me enough time for what he called me to do.

636
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 2: So I declare, in this year of my life, it's

637
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 2: the year that I do what Joshua told the people

638
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 2: of Joseph to do. Listen to this. He said, you

639
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,439
Speaker 2: have enough doesn't feel like enough. You have enough doesn't

640
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 2: look like another. There's all these trees, there's all these enemies.

641
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 2: There's all these things that you have not confronted yet.

642
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 2: But behind what you have been unwilling to confront is

643
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 2: the answer to the prayer that you see. I am

644
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 2: preaching prophetically to somebody give me Verse seventeen. Joshua was

645
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 2: said to the people to eat from in Manassa. You

646
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 2: are numerous and very powerful. You will have not only

647
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 2: one a lot meant your two tribes, but you can

648
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 2: have the forested country too. There is more for you

649
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 2: to enjoy. There is more for you to experience in God.

650
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 2: There is more. You can be happy again. You can

651
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 2: rejoice again. You can have meaning in your day again.

652
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 2: You can have it if you clear it. Somebody shall

653
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 2: clear it. Speak that over your mind this year.

654
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: Clear it.

655
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 2: I gotta clear it. I'm praying for peace, but I'm

656
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 2: not clear in my mind. How can I stuff my

657
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 2: mind full of and then ask Jesus to fill the

658
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 2: space that's already filled with jump Somebody shall clear it.

659
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 2: It might have to be cleared in your life of

660
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 2: some unproductive.

661
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: Relationships this year.

662
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Speaker 2: There are so many roots that can drink water in

663
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 2: your yard. But any more than those roots and you

664
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 2: are not going to have the rain you need for

665
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 2: what God is planting. Somebody shall clear it. And don't

666
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 2: even apologize to people. If you have to cut off

667
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 2: some communication this year, that's all right. It's not rude,

668
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 2: it's righteous because I gotta clear it this year because

669
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 2: God has more for me. Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't

670
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 2: get back with you. I gotta get clear this year.

671
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I didn't snap you back. I gotta get

672
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 2: clear this year because what God gave me, what God

673
00:37:52,320 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 2: is doing through me, what God promised me. Clear it,

674
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 2: clear it, clear it, clear it. Clear your mind this year.

675
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 2: This may be the season for you to stop focusing

676
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 2: on what would have been. You are so full of

677
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 2: regret that you cannot see what is right in front

678
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 2: of you. Oh, yes, Lord, thank you for reminding me

679
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 2: the word of the Lord. He says, you still can.

680
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 2: You still can because the lie that starts to clutter

681
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 2: up your mind is it's too late. Oh look at

682
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 2: the mistakes you may look if you would, how many

683
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 2: of you had that.

684
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: Going on in your mind in an area right now,

685
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 1: like if.

686
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 2: I would have just given it more attention. That may

687
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 2: be true. You may have missed the opportunity. You may

688
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: not have done it when you should have done it.

689
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:50,479
Speaker 2: But you still can. Yeah, you still can. I wish

690
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 2: I would have lived for God in college. Well you

691
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 2: are seventy nine. Now you still can live for God

692
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 2: and leave the legacy.

693
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Speaker 1: Somebody shout, I still can. You can if you get clear.

694
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 2: But if you stay in what it was in the

695
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 2: previous season of your life, you will have more available

696
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 2: to you and you will die for the lack of

697
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: what Jesus died to put in your life. Clear it

698
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 2: clear it tell the devil we are not having this

699
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 2: conversation again.

700
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: Clear it.

701
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:27,760
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm talking about your calendar.

702
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,439
Speaker 1: You need to clear it up a little bit.

703
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 2: It's got a little too much stuff on it that

704
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: you're doing to impress.

705
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: People, and it's not making an impact. Clear it. Clear it.

706
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 2: Let me talk to a leader, because pastors watched me

707
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,879
Speaker 2: preach some of the people that you are running around

708
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,399
Speaker 2: trying to please by preaching the sermons that they want

709
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 2: so bad. They're not supposed to be a part of

710
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 2: your church in this season. And if you don't stop

711
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 2: preaching to the people who are threatening to leave, you

712
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 2: cannot reach the people that God has called you.

713
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 5: To reach, and they need Jesus. Clear it, you hear me,

714
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 5: clear it? Clearing this might be.

715
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Speaker 2: A prophetic word about your shopping cart on Amazon.

716
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: Clear it. You ain't buying none of it this year.

717
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:13,879
Speaker 1: We're getting out of debt this year.

718
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 2: We're gonna use okay, lost all the shouts, ljay, no

719
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 2: organ necessary on that point.

720
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Speaker 1: And if you can clear it, you can conquer it.

721
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 2: You remember I said we were two years late getting

722
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 2: in this building. One of the reasons that we were

723
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 2: so far behind getting in on this building was because

724
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Speaker 2: the Environmental Protection Agency told us that there was a

725
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 2: possibility that a Carolina heel splitter clam was on the property,

726
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 2: and they said that this clam or muscle I think

727
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 2: it was, but I'm gonna call it a clam because

728
00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 2: it sounds better what I'm trying to say. One little

729
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 2: clam kept us from building this whole big church.

730
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Speaker 1: For six months.

731
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Speaker 2: We could not clear the land because of a clam.

732
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 2: You realize how many times a little thing in your

733
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 2: life keeps you from building.

734
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Speaker 1: A little thing.

735
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Speaker 2: One person you don't want to make mad, one thing

736
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Speaker 2: you don't want to be judged about, one uncomfortable moment

737
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 2: you don't want to push through, one phone call you.

738
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Speaker 1: Don't want to make.

739
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Speaker 2: So you're just gonna let dread eat you up like

740
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 2: cancer for six months because of a clam. The devil

741
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 2: doesn't even really have to put a clam on your land.

742
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,240
Speaker 2: He can just tell you there may be a clam.

743
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 2: They may laugh at you, it may not work, you

744
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: may look stupid, this may backfire, your kid may end up,

745
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,439
Speaker 2: your mom may it's not even there.

746
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 1: But you're not building.

747
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 2: And so we get to the heart of the issue.

748
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 2: At this moment in the text tribes of Ephraim and Manassa.

749
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 2: Ephram and Manassa, let's look at the moment that these

750
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 2: boys were born. Now remember, just to be clear, it's

751
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 2: been generations since Ephram and Manassa were born to Joseph,

752
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 2: So these people didn't know Joseph.

753
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: They were Joseph's great great great great great great great.

754
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 2: Great grandchildren, and Ram and Manassa were his children.

755
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 1: Now look in Genesis forty one, verse fifty.

756
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 2: It's going back in time to when Joseph was in

757
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 2: Egypt and he was starting to serve as an administrator

758
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: in Pharaoh's palace. The Bible says he wrote in the

759
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,720
Speaker 2: Second Chariot in command of Pharaoh. But it says before

760
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 2: the years of Famine came, after everything Joseph had been through, imprisonment, accusation, abandonment,

761
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 2: the people who were supposed to remember him forgetting him.

762
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,439
Speaker 2: The Bible says, before the years of famine came, two

763
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: sons were born to Joseph by asa Out, daughter of Potiferah,

764
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 2: priest of Aughn. Joseph named his firstborn Nassa Nassa, and

765
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 2: he said, it's because God has made me.

766
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Speaker 1: Forget all my trouble.

767
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 2: Everybody say forget, say it out loud, forget, put it

768
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Speaker 2: in the comments, forget forget forget the title of this messages,

769
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:23,879
Speaker 2: don't forget where you come from. And when Joseph had

770
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 2: his first baby, after all the suffering, after all the hardship,

771
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 2: after all the misdirection, after all the delay, after all

772
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 2: of the things that went wrong in his life, and

773
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 2: finally God gave him an opportunity.

774
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 1: In a child. He looked at the child, and he

775
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: held the.

776
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 2: Child in a place that he never intended to be,

777
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 2: in a place that he never planned to be, and

778
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:44,280
Speaker 2: that may be you right now.

779
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: I didn't plan to be here.

780
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 2: But he looked at the baby, and in deciding what

781
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 2: to name the baby, he named the baby Manassa, which

782
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 2: means to forget.

783
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: He said, I'm naming this baby manassa.

784
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 2: Because God has made me forget all my trouble and

785
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 2: all my father's households stop right there. He named the

786
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 2: baby manassa, which means forget. Not because the memory left

787
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 2: him of the pain that he went through. It's just

788
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 2: that in that moment, what God was doing in his

789
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 2: life was so significant that it made what he had been.

790
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: Through small in comparison.

791
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 2: So he says, I'm gonna name this child forget, not

792
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 2: because the memory left me. But because I'm choosing to

793
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 2: remember it different, I'm going to remember it different what

794
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 2: I've been.

795
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: Through, what I suffered from.

796
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 2: I no longer see it as being sold into slavery.

797
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 2: I see it as God sending me here, and I

798
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 2: am forgetting what is behind me so I can press

799
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 2: toward what is ahead.

800
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: The name Manassa means forget. How many of.

801
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 2: You have ever heard of something called the man Mandela effect?

802
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, have you heard of this.

803
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 2: It's named after Nelson Mandela, of course, who was the

804
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 2: president of South Africa. But it's named because a group

805
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 2: of people collectively were documented as remembering Nelson Mandela dying

806
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 2: in the nineteen eighties.

807
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: So check this out. A woman did research and she

808
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: found out.

809
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 2: That there were large groups of people in the thousands

810
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 2: who remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the nineteen eighties.

811
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 2: The problem with that was he didn't die until the

812
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 2: year twenty thirteen, but they remembered it as if he did.

813
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 2: They remembered somehow, some fragmented misinformation and they remembered Nelson

814
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 2: Mandela died in prison in the eighties. There were so

815
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 2: many people who remembered that wrong that they named an

816
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 2: entire phenomenon psychologically, the Mandela effect and now the phrase

817
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 2: the Mandela effect is used to describe many things, some

818
00:45:58,040 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 2: not as significant as the death.

819
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: Of a leader.

820
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: For instance, how many of you remember the line from

821
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 2: the movie Star Wars when Darth Vader revealed his real identity?

822
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: What did he say? What did he say? Now?

823
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 2: Thousands of you remember, Luke, I am your father. But

824
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 2: if you check the DVD Old school, if you check

825
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,720
Speaker 2: the movie, he doesn't say Luke, I am your father.

826
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 2: He says, no, I am your father. That freaked me

827
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 2: out when I heard that. I thought, all these years,

828
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 2: I thought he said.

829
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: Luke, I am your father. He didn't say Luke, he

830
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: said no.

831
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 2: On how did I remember it so different than it

832
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 2: actually happened. It's the Mandela effect, or the peanut.

833
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: Butter that starts with the letter J. What's it called?

834
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 2: No, there's no why on it. It's just jiff It's

835
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 2: not Jiffy. You remember Jeffy. Don't I remember Jeffy too.

836
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 2: I thought it was Jiffy all my life. I thought

837
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 2: it was Jeffy. It's not Jiffy. It wasn't Jiffy. It

838
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 2: never has been Jiffy. Somebody just called it jeffy, like

839
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 2: they call it Walmart Arts and revelations, and we all

840
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 2: run around calling it jiffy, but it was never jiffy.

841
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 2: It's the Mandela effect. I remember it different than it

842
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 2: actually happened. I came to preach today about the Manassa effect. Now,

843
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 2: the Manassa effect is when you've been through hell, and

844
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 2: you've gone through some trouble and some people have let

845
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 2: you down, and life has put you in a crowded

846
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 2: space and you feel like not enough and you don't

847
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 2: know what's next, but you decide in your mind, I'm

848
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 2: gonna remember it different, and rather than focusing on how

849
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 2: they forgot me, I'm gonna focus on how I have

850
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 2: a father.

851
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 1: Who never did.

852
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 2: Who never fails, who never can.

853
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: Shove.

854
00:47:56,719 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 2: Your neighbors say, remember it different. Bless the Lord, oh

855
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:06,280
Speaker 2: my soul, and all that is within me. Bless the Lord,

856
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 2: oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

857
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: I'm choosing to.

858
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 2: Forget some things so I can clear out some space,

859
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 2: so I can receive some things that God has given me.

860
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,439
Speaker 1: Clear it out, clear it out, clear it out, clear

861
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 1: it out. It's the Manassa that here. It is.

862
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 2: God can do one thing in your life. God can

863
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 2: send one person in your life. God can send one

864
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 2: opportunity in your life that will make you forget everything

865
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 2: you went through to be in this place. Make you

866
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 2: forget about how bad it hurt, every time they said no,

867
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 2: make you forget about all the years you thought it

868
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 2: was never going to happen. It'll make you thank him

869
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 2: for all the things that didn't come to pass, because

870
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 2: you'll say, if I wasn't here, I couldn't have had this.

871
00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 2: God is working in your life. His word does not return.

872
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 2: He has given you more than enough. This is the

873
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 2: Monassa effect. When you say, I remember when we open

874
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 2: this building, and I remember that we were late, But

875
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 2: I choose to remember that even though we were late

876
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 2: getting in, God did it. I choose to remember that

877
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 2: even though it didn't unfold according to my schedule, it

878
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 2: unfolded according to his sovereign purpose.

879
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 1: And I am preaching about.

880
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 2: The Nassa effect because now, generations later, the tribe that

881
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 2: is named after the boy who made Joseph.

882
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 1: Forget has forgotten. They have forgotten.

883
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 2: Joseph forgot his pain, but they forgot their power. And

884
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 2: Joshua had to remind them. He said, you are very powerful,

885
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 2: and I have to remind you of that every week

886
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 2: that the Holy Spirit lives in you, and you are

887
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 2: very powerful. I have to remind you that every week

888
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 2: that Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead, lives

889
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 2: in you, and that power works in you. And because

890
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 2: of that, you are very powerful. Don't give me all

891
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 2: this self empowerment stuff.

892
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: I don't need any of it. I got the Holy Spirit.

893
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: I got the Holy Spirit.

894
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 2: You don't have to hype me up to believe I'm worthy.

895
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 2: Jesus died for me. He's worthy. I'm very powerful. And

896
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 2: it's a beautiful thing when you remember where you came from. Right,

897
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 2: Because see they were complaining about the chariots. Right, they said,

898
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 2: we can't go into that land. They have chariots. Everybody

899
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 2: say chariots. Come on, work with me, say chariots. This

900
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 2: is the manassa effect. They have misremembered things because they

901
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 2: are scared of chariots. But I seem to remember a

902
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 2: time in the Bible where God dealt with some chariots.

903
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 2: I seem to remember a time in the Bible when

904
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 2: God's people were coming out of Egypt and a red

905
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 2: sea stood between them and their freedom. And I seem

906
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 2: to remember that the chariots of Pharaoh were coming up

907
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 2: back behind them. And I seem to remember that, just

908
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 2: at the moment when it looked like the chariots were

909
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 2: going to overtake them, what's that, God closed the sea

910
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 2: over the chariots. So God sent me to remind you,

911
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 2: this is not your first time calling on his name.

912
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 2: This is not your first time needing his help. Remember

913
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 2: where you come from. You come from a God who

914
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 2: opens red seas. You come from a faith where a

915
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 2: stick can split a body of water. You come from

916
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 2: a lineage of believers that can climb over walls and

917
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 2: shout and they fall down. So let me remind you

918
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 2: something about you today. You are very powerful, You are

919
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 2: very capable, You are very strong.

920
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 1: You defy the odds. You are not one of them.

921
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: You are not like them. You are not subject to this.

922
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 2: And don't let what you are facing make you forget

923
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 2: who you are. High five three people say, don't forget

924
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 2: where you come from. Don't forget where you come from.

925
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:36,720
Speaker 2: The tribe of Manassa stood before Joshua, and verse eighteen.

926
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,399
Speaker 2: He said something that I've been declaring over our church

927
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Speaker 2: all week.

928
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: He said, if you clear it, you can claim it.

929
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 6: That was for you, dude.

930
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,799
Speaker 1: If you clear it, you can claim it.

931
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:58,359
Speaker 2: Even though they have chariots, God says, I am an

932
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 2: expert in overpowering chariots.

933
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: Holly, do you hear.

934
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 2: What I'm preaching, baby, Because I'm trying to say, after

935
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:10,880
Speaker 2: all God did for us up to this point in

936
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:14,839
Speaker 2: our ministry, how can we ever doubt him again. You're

937
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 2: talking about chariots. God doesn't care about chariots. God drowns chariots.

938
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 2: God will jam the wheels of a chariot. You're talking

939
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 2: about chariots. You're talking about the economy. God will make

940
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 2: it rain. If it's not raining anywhere else, he'll make

941
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 2: it rain in Goshen.

942
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: You're talking about chariots.

943
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 2: God will make a way through the sea. And if

944
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 2: you'll clear it, you can claim him. I came to

945
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 2: tell you today you can drive them out.

946
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: Verse eighteen.

947
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 2: You can drive them.

948
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: Stand to your feet and give.

949
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 2: God a praise today.

950
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus. Let me talk to you for a moment.

951
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: You still can? You still can?

952
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 2: They said, we're in this land, We're crowded, We're surrounded

953
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 2: by enemies. And Joshua said, you still can't drive them out.

954
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:37,320
Speaker 2: You know, it's important for me to remember that every

955
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:41,240
Speaker 2: promise that God gives me comes with enemies still living

956
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 2: in it. All of the wheat that God gives me

957
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 2: guarantees that there will be weeds all around it.

958
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:51,959
Speaker 1: But I came with the message from.

959
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 2: The word of the Lord that you can do all

960
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:57,440
Speaker 2: things through Christ to strengthens you, and you can drive

961
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 2: them out. Make a different decision. You can reach for

962
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 2: something other than that bottle. You can drive them out

963
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 2: because greater is He that is in you than he

964
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 2: that is in the world.

965
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:12,359
Speaker 1: You can drive them out.

966
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 2: Now, what's happened to a lot of us is we've

967
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:22,879
Speaker 2: gotten too comfortable with the Canaanites, so we've gotten in

968
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 2: small places. But you can drive them out. You can

969
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 2: forgive that person who hurt you. You can drive them out.

970
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,759
Speaker 2: You can It's going to be a process, but you

971
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 2: can drive them out. You can absolutely repair that relationship

972
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 2: if God means for that relationship to be in your life.

973
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 1: You can drive them out.

974
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 2: You can get this health issue under control. You can

975
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 2: drive them out. You can't apologize. You can drive them out.

976
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 2: But the problem with us becomes that we forget that

977
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 2: we have a God who specializes in defeating chariots. The

978
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:10,919
Speaker 2: chariots won't stop you. They won't stop God. You can

979
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 2: drive them out.

980
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 1: Now. The challenge of this message, only you know what

981
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: you're them is I don't.

982
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 2: All I can tell you is I know a God

983
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 2: who is greater than any of them that.

984
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:36,880
Speaker 6: You can name. And this is the Manassa effect.

985
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 2: I'm praying that rather than misremembering something, I'm praying that

986
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 2: you would remember it right today and remember how much

987
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,920
Speaker 2: God has done to bring you to this point and

988
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,760
Speaker 2: take that forward with you into your future. Because honestly,

989
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 2: I don't just want to preach another sermon and then

990
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:58,720
Speaker 2: you go live among Canaanites all week and don't believe

991
00:56:58,760 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 2: you can.

992
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: Drive them out.

993
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 2: I want something for Monday, when that anxiety comes strong,

994
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 2: you hear the voice of God in your heart saying

995
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 2: you can drive that out. You can breathe through that,

996
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 2: you can move through that, you have other options for that.

997
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 2: You can drive them out the next time you want

998
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 2: to explode and go off and just freak out. I

999
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 2: don't have to be a slave to anger. You can

1000
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 2: drive them.

1001
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: Out because you're not in this by yourself.

1002
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 2: And I want to pray for you right now because

1003
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,520
Speaker 2: I know there are some things in your land and

1004
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 2: in your life where you have either become entitled or

1005
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:46,960
Speaker 2: you have allowed your insecurity to keep you from being

1006
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 2: what God has called you to be.

1007
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 1: And you know what I can.

1008
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 2: Always tell where I get to a point in a

1009
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 2: message where you have a decision to make. Are you

1010
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 2: really going to believe what God is saying to you

1011
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 2: or are you going to go back home and talk

1012
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 2: to him about the chariots? For the rest of twenty

1013
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 2: twenty six, I want to pray for you. There is

1014
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 2: so much that Jesus Christ saved you for. There is

1015
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 2: so much that He sees in you, so much that

1016
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 2: you can't see in yourself, but if you can clear it.

1017
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: It's yours.

1018
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 6: Well.

1019
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: I'm praying that your mind would.

1020
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 2: Get peaceful right about now. Just the peace of God

1021
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 2: fill your heart and your mind, heads bowed, eyes closed. Father,

1022
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 2: thank you for the word that you gave us today.

1023
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 2: Don't forget where you come from. Thank you for reminding

1024
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 2: us to be grateful. Thank you for encouraging us to

1025
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 2: be strong.

1026
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:49,479
Speaker 1: Lord.

1027
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 2: If there's anything I've learned in my walk with you.

1028
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 2: It's that we can't drive it out without your help.

1029
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 2: And we try so hard, and we try everything but you.

1030
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,479
Speaker 2: But right now, in the name of Jesusus, I joined

1031
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 2: my faith with each and every man, woman, boy and

1032
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 2: girl who is living in a place today, and let's

1033
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 2: confess it together. We all have something. But God, you

1034
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 2: are greater than whatever it is. So Father, in Jesus' name,

1035
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 2: I pray that there would be a remembrance in your

1036
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 2: presence today, not only of what you've done, but of

1037
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 2: who you are.

1038
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 1: God.

1039
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 2: I thank you for every way that you have made

1040
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 2: for us. I thank you for all the times that

1041
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 2: you have shown yourself strong. And now God, I.

1042
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 1: Declare over your people. They are very powerful. In your name,

1043
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 1: they are very strong. God.

1044
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 2: I thank you for how you've blessed them and how

1045
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 2: you will continue to bless them.

1046
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:52,120
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1047
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,880
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1048
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:58,440
Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

1049
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:01,080
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1050
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:05,840
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1051
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:09,120
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