WEBVTT - Don’t Forget Where You Come From

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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<v Speaker 2>Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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<v Speaker 2>in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's give a warm welcome to our entire church family

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<v Speaker 2>and all of our campuses and online. Hey, welcome e fam.

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<v Speaker 2>I haven't done an EPAM roll call in a while.

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<v Speaker 2>Put your name and where you're watching from. Please in

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<v Speaker 2>the chat if you're watching online, and everybody in this

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<v Speaker 2>place today, be encouraged. The Lord has heard your prayers.

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<v Speaker 2>The Lord has heard your prayers.

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<v Speaker 1>Tell the person next to you he heard you. Tell him.

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

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<v Speaker 1>Doesn't mean he didn't hear you. We were singing a

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<v Speaker 1>song a moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Ago called call God, and we said I call God,

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<v Speaker 2>and he answered And some people were like, well you

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

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<v Speaker 2>thing is he did so many times before, so many

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<v Speaker 2>times before.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm gonna preach a little bit about this today.

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<v Speaker 2>But sometimes we adapt to our answered prayers and we

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<v Speaker 2>cease to appreciate them. But one thing I'm gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>very intentional about from this pulpit in this year is

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<v Speaker 2>to not let you just walk past stuff that God

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<v Speaker 2>did in your life without recognizing it, because that's how

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<v Speaker 2>the enemy weakens you. So you're gonna notice me a

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<v Speaker 2>lot more in my sermons and when I come up,

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<v Speaker 2>just turning your attention not only to the things that

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<v Speaker 2>God has done, but who He is, because that's what

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<v Speaker 2>you can count on. If your wife divorces you, He'll

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<v Speaker 2>never leave you or forsake you. If your kids go

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<v Speaker 2>absolutely prodigal crazy, God is still going to keep you

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<v Speaker 2>in your right mind. If everybody and your company gets

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<v Speaker 2>together and votes you off the island, God will take

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<v Speaker 2>care of you. He will supply your needs. So I

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<v Speaker 2>want to connect you today through a scripture in Joshua

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<v Speaker 2>chapter seventeen. And let's do a shout out real quick.

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<v Speaker 2>I told the people online, Hello from Kenya, Hello from

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<v Speaker 2>West Virginia. Now, how'd you feel for me if you

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<v Speaker 2>had to preach a message that applied in Kenya and

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<v Speaker 2>West Virginia all in English?

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

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<v Speaker 1>we are. I love it. I love it.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome Dayton, Ohio. Welcome California, Welcome Cape Town, Welcome Cornelias,

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>here today. Welcome settle in. God has a word for you.

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<v Speaker 2>You Joshua, what chapter seventeen? You ever notice you don't

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<v Speaker 2>hear many sermons passed around Joshua chapter three or four.

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<v Speaker 2>All the exciting stuff happens kind of in the beginning

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<v Speaker 2>of the Book of Joshua.

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<v Speaker 1>They're taking the land.

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<v Speaker 2>And they're you know, they're going forward in the promise

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<v Speaker 2>of God and crossing the Jordan, and so we usually

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<v Speaker 2>preach from that.

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

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<v Speaker 1>See what happens after that.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, listen to this because this is where we live

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<v Speaker 2>in our everyday life. Everyday life is not always exciting

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<v Speaker 2>new adventures and explorations on the opportunities that all wait you.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes it's just three advil and a prayer and sorry,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm five minutes late, but I'm here anyway, And we're

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<v Speaker 2>trying to deal with that. This year because I preached

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<v Speaker 2>you last week that there will always be wheat and

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<v Speaker 2>there will always be weeds in the garden of.

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<v Speaker 1>Your life with God. And I was trying to get

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<v Speaker 1>you to watch the.

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<v Speaker 2>Wheat, not the weeds, Not just looking at the things

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<v Speaker 2>you can't control and wishing they weren't there, but realizing

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<v Speaker 2>that what God planted in you is significant in every

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<v Speaker 2>season of your life, whether you can see the growth

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<v Speaker 2>or not. Now, in Joshua chapter seventeen, something interesting happens,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'll read it and then we'll back into the context.

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<v Speaker 1>But listen to this.

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<v Speaker 2>The people of Joseph said to Joshua, why have you

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<v Speaker 2>given us only one allotment and one.

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<v Speaker 1>Portion for an inheritance?

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<v Speaker 2>Remember, they possessed the land that God swore to Abraham

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<v Speaker 2>and Isaac and Jacob, and they got in the land

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<v Speaker 2>and they won the victory. And the people of Joseph,

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<v Speaker 2>one of the groups from the nation, comes to Joshua

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<v Speaker 2>the leader, and says, why did you only give us

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<v Speaker 2>one allotment? Look, we are a numerous people and the

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<v Speaker 2>Lord has blessed us abundantly.

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<v Speaker 1>Now watch Joshua's response.

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<v Speaker 2>If you are so numerous, Joshua answered, since you're so

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<v Speaker 2>blessed like you say you are. And if the hill

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<v Speaker 2>country of Ephraim is too small for you, go up

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<v Speaker 2>into the forest and clear land for yourselves.

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<v Speaker 1>There in the land of the.

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<v Speaker 2>Perizites and the Rephites, those are their enemies. And the

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<v Speaker 2>people of Joseph replied, the hill country is not enough

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<v Speaker 2>for us. And all the Canaanites who live in the

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<v Speaker 2>plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in beth

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<v Speaker 2>Shahan and its settlements, and those in the valley of Jezreel.

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<v Speaker 2>But Joshua said to the tribes of Joseph, to Ephraim

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<v Speaker 2>and Manassa. To Ephraim and Manassa, you are numerous and

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<v Speaker 2>very powerful.

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<v Speaker 1>You will have not only one.

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<v Speaker 2>Allotment, but the forested hill country as well. Now lean

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<v Speaker 2>into this clear it and its farthest limits will be yours.

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<v Speaker 2>Though the Canaanites have chariots fitted with iron, and though

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<v Speaker 2>they are strong, you can drive them. Ah, thank the

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<v Speaker 2>Lord for his word one time. Would you come on

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<v Speaker 2>right there? Thank him for his word. My message today

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<v Speaker 2>is called don't forget where you come from. Look at

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<v Speaker 2>three people say, don't forget where you come from.

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<v Speaker 1>And man, you may be seated.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't forget where you come from, Kenya or West Virginia,

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

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<v Speaker 2>somebody said something to me the other day. I never

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

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<v Speaker 2>Monk's Corner. It's changed a lot since I was there.

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<v Speaker 2>Bad traffic in Monk's Corner when I was a boy

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<v Speaker 2>meant you had to wait through the red light once

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<v Speaker 2>at rush hour. My guess is growing, you know, is

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<v Speaker 2>really expanding, And it is, it is, it is.

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<v Speaker 1>It's all the population that's pushed.

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<v Speaker 2>Anyway, I won't tell you the geography of Charleston in

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<v Speaker 2>the low country of South Carolina. By the way, welcome

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

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<v Speaker 2>I love Jesus because Somerville was our rival in high school.

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<v Speaker 2>We were the Berkeley Stags and we hated the Somerville

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<v Speaker 2>Green Wave. And now God has prepared a table in

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<v Speaker 2>the presence of my enemies in Somerville, South Carolina.

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<v Speaker 1>But we love you, no.

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<v Speaker 2>No. The reason I bring up where you come from

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<v Speaker 2>is because everybody in here has a point of reference

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<v Speaker 2>for what you think is successful in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>You have a point of reference.

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<v Speaker 2>If you never had five hundred dollars in your bank

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

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<v Speaker 2>point of reference if you're seventy three years old and

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<v Speaker 2>hoping to retire next year five hundred dollars. There's not

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<v Speaker 2>a prayer warrior in the world that can turn five

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<v Speaker 2>hundred dollars into a retirement account, but it's your point

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<v Speaker 2>of reference. I remember the first bonus that I got

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<v Speaker 2>when I was working at a church in Shelby, North Carolina,

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<v Speaker 2>and Rick Bowling told me, by the way, we're giving

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<v Speaker 2>a five hundred dollars bonus to all of our employees

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<v Speaker 2>this Christmas.

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<v Speaker 1>And I literally cried.

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<v Speaker 2>Twenty two year old, twenty three year old men just

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<v Speaker 2>crying over.

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<v Speaker 1>Five hundred dollars.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes I wish I could still cry that easy, because

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<v Speaker 2>there was something about that stage in my life where

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't expecting a bonus. I remember when he first

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<v Speaker 2>sat me down and explained my salary package to me.

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<v Speaker 2>He was like, this is how much we're going to

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<v Speaker 2>pay you this year, and of course that doesn't include

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<v Speaker 2>the benefits.

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<v Speaker 1>And I said, the what he said, the benefits. And

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<v Speaker 1>this is how when school I was because my dad

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<v Speaker 1>was self employed. I didn't even know what benefits were.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know that that's something that you could negotiate

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<v Speaker 2>into a I wasn't negotiating. I was just thankful. I

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<v Speaker 2>was like benefits. He's like, yeah, that's going to be

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<v Speaker 2>additional to this amount. You know, it's been a while

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<v Speaker 2>since I praise God for my health insurance.

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<v Speaker 1>Because I had it too long. I had it too long.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes I let three days go by and don't tell

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<v Speaker 2>Holly how pretty she is. But that's wrong, because she's

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<v Speaker 2>pretty every day and she deserves to be told that

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<v Speaker 2>every day. And plus I spend too much on those

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<v Speaker 2>clothes she's wearing, not to compliment how she looks at

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<v Speaker 2>her and that two hundred and eighty dollars makeup that's

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<v Speaker 2>in her bathroom, whatever I'm spending over there at Sephora.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like she she deserves to hear it. When

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<v Speaker 2>we were dating, it was just constantly every day. But

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<v Speaker 2>one thing I noticed in the text that we read

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<v Speaker 2>is that when you forget how far you've come from

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<v Speaker 2>a certain point, it makes how far you have to go.

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<v Speaker 1>The only thing that you're focused on.

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<v Speaker 2>And when you forget the gifts that God has given you,

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<v Speaker 2>it makes it impossible for you to access the power

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<v Speaker 2>that He put inside of you.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't forget where you come from.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't forget that there was a time that a five

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<v Speaker 2>hundred dollars Christmas bonus.

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<v Speaker 1>Made you cry.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't forget that there was a time when you prayed

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<v Speaker 2>that God would give you these children that you're praying

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<v Speaker 2>for Him to help you not to eliminate from the

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<v Speaker 2>face of the earth at this very moment.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't forget where you come from.

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<v Speaker 2>We see an interesting dynamic in Joshua chapter seventeen in

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

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<v Speaker 1>One is called Manassa and one is called Ephraim. Those

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<v Speaker 1>were Joseph's boys.

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<v Speaker 2>Manassa was his first born, Ephram was his second, and

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<v Speaker 2>both of them were born in Egypt, in the place

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<v Speaker 2>where he suffered, in the place where he was falsely accused,

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<v Speaker 2>in the place where he was thrown into prison, in

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<v Speaker 2>the place where God also raised him to prominence in Egypt.

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<v Speaker 2>He had two boys, Manassa and Ephraim, and those boys

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<v Speaker 2>have now several generations later turned into tribes, and these

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<v Speaker 2>tribes have taken territory in the land of Canaan, And

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<v Speaker 2>not only have they settled into the land, but they've

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<v Speaker 2>started to grow and do what people do. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>when two people love each other very much, so they've grown.

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<v Speaker 1>I have to talk with you later.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just that they're blessed so much that they are

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<v Speaker 2>experiencing the pressure of blessing. Many times in church we

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<v Speaker 2>only speak to the desperation of failure, but there is

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<v Speaker 2>a need to preach to the pressure of blessings because

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<v Speaker 2>blessings are heavy in your life. Sometimes when you're going

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<v Speaker 2>through all of the things that you're worried about, it's

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<v Speaker 2>not even so much that you're complaining about them or

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<v Speaker 2>that you don't appreciate them. It's that pressure has kept

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<v Speaker 2>your perspective from seeing the bigger picture of what's happening,

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<v Speaker 2>so you get zoned in on only one thing and

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<v Speaker 2>you forget, like the tribes of Ephram and Manassa, that

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<v Speaker 2>just a few years ago you were wandering in the wilderness.

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<v Speaker 2>That's kind of why when I read this scripture it

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<v Speaker 2>stood out to me because when I read it, I

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to say to them.

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<v Speaker 1>You just left the.

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<v Speaker 2>Wilderness, and now you're complaining that there's not enough room

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<v Speaker 2>for you. Did you notice what they said to Joshua.

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<v Speaker 1>Why did you only give us one allotment? We're too

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<v Speaker 1>big for this place.

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<v Speaker 2>We need more elbow room, we need new countertops, we

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<v Speaker 2>need hardwood floors, we need more space. We need a minivan.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, we're a growing nation. We are. It's getting bigger.

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<v Speaker 2>In Monk's corner. The traffic is terrible. In Monk's corner.

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<v Speaker 2>Everything in the text is growing. And while everything is growing,

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<v Speaker 2>their perspective is narrowing, and all they can see is

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<v Speaker 2>the space that they don't have. And so they come

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<v Speaker 2>to Joshua and the people of Joseph in Genesis or

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<v Speaker 2>excuse me in Yashawa, chapter seventeen, verse fourteen, say why

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<v Speaker 2>have you only given us one allotment? We're a numerous people,

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<v Speaker 2>and the Lord has blessed us abundantly. But just because

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<v Speaker 2>he blessed us doesn't mean we don't have pressure. Just

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<v Speaker 2>because I have money doesn't mean I know how to

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<v Speaker 2>manage it.

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<v Speaker 1>Just because God gave me.

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<v Speaker 2>A job doesn't mean I don't get tired. Just because

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<v Speaker 2>God sent people to my ministry doesn't mean I always

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<v Speaker 2>have a message to give them when they show up.

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<v Speaker 1>Blessings create pressure. If pressure is.

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<v Speaker 2>Not dealt with, pressure can create self pity.

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<v Speaker 1>Self pity, if not.

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<v Speaker 2>Dealt with, can create a situation where you are in

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<v Speaker 2>this state of watch this. Too much and not enough.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what they said in verse sixteen. They said, we

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<v Speaker 2>do not have enough land. The land that you gave

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<v Speaker 2>us is not enough for us, and the people are

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<v Speaker 2>too much for the land that is not enough. I

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<v Speaker 2>felt like when I I'd be preaching to somebody today

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<v Speaker 2>who would understand this tension of too much and not enough,

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<v Speaker 2>Too much and not enough. This is why we toss

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<v Speaker 2>in turn, because it's too much and not enough. Too

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<v Speaker 2>much to do and not enough in my tank to

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<v Speaker 2>do it. That's called burnout. Too much of people calling

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<v Speaker 2>me and not enough patience to listen to their problems.

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<v Speaker 2>Too much bills and not enough income to answer the

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<v Speaker 2>bills when they knock at the door.

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<v Speaker 1>Too much on my mind and not enough in.

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<v Speaker 2>My life that makes me feel happy and recharged. Too

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<v Speaker 2>much demand, not enough supply. Too many people sucking energy

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<v Speaker 2>out of me and not enough people supplying it. Too

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<v Speaker 2>many people asking and not enough people offering too many

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<v Speaker 2>things wrong and not enough things working out too much

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<v Speaker 2>and not enough. That's what they said. Look at verse sixteen.

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<v Speaker 2>It's in the Bible. They said, the land you gave

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<v Speaker 2>us verse sixteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Is not enough. It's not enough. All right, let's talk

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<v Speaker 1>about that for a minute. It's not enough.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not gifted enough, I'm not talented enough, I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>experienced enough. I told you during the Same Lives, New

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<v Speaker 2>Loop series that the devil only has two lives that

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<v Speaker 2>he puts on a loop in your mind, and one

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<v Speaker 2>is I'm not loved, and one is not enough. So

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<v Speaker 2>that's why you wake up in the morning feeling like, well,

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<v Speaker 2>whats on my agenda for today? Is too much? And

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<v Speaker 2>the time I have to do it and is not enough.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what I'm using this land to represent. If you

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<v Speaker 2>thought I was going to teach a real estate seminar

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<v Speaker 2>off of Joshua chapter seventeen, that's not my expertise. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>trying to teach a real life seminar about why you're

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<v Speaker 2>snapping at the wrong people. I'm trying to teach a

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<v Speaker 2>real life seminar about why you don't look forward to

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<v Speaker 2>some of the stuff that God actually gave you through

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<v Speaker 2>his favor. I'm trying to teach a real life seminar

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<v Speaker 2>about how you could be so blessed. Did you notice

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<v Speaker 2>the tribes they said, we're so blessed, And I dare

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<v Speaker 2>somebody to just say it by faith, Say I'm so blessed,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm so blessed. Say with the headshakes, say I am

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<v Speaker 2>so blessed, matter of fact. Do this at every campus,

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<v Speaker 2>and especially at Valentine. Look at the person on either

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<v Speaker 2>side of you and say you are so blessed. Tell

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<v Speaker 2>him I am so blessed, you are so blessed.

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<v Speaker 1>Matter of fact.

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<v Speaker 2>Start doing like this because I'm so blessed. I need

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<v Speaker 2>some elbow room. I'm so blessed. I need you to

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<v Speaker 2>scoot over a little bit. I'm so blessed. You better

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<v Speaker 2>get out of my way. I'm so blessed because if

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<v Speaker 2>I think for a minute about that five hundred dollars

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<v Speaker 2>bonus and how much God has done for me since, then,

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<v Speaker 2>if I think for a minute about how He kept

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<v Speaker 2>me upright on my feet and in my right mind,

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<v Speaker 2>you better give.

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<v Speaker 1>Me some room.

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<v Speaker 2>Because if I think for one minute about how I

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<v Speaker 2>called and he answered, and he came through like only

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<v Speaker 2>he could, just not. Your neighbors say, we're so blessed,

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<v Speaker 2>getting more blessed every day.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm spreading out my tent in this season.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm driving down my stakes in this season because I'm

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<v Speaker 2>so blessed. That's why I'm tired.

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<v Speaker 1>Because God bless me. What a perspective. And now the

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<v Speaker 1>land I have is not enough?

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<v Speaker 2>And so now your prayer request is about all your

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<v Speaker 2>praise reports? Did that make sense? I prayed for it,

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<v Speaker 2>I got it. It's a blessing. It creates pressure, and

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<v Speaker 2>the decision in this season of your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Is this What do I do with the pressure? What

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<v Speaker 1>do I do about them? Not enough? Why do I

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<v Speaker 1>feel like it's not enough?

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<v Speaker 2>Why when God sends an opportunity into my life do

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<v Speaker 2>I reject it and send it away because I think

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<v Speaker 2>I can't do it? Why do I send people who

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<v Speaker 2>love me away and push people who care about me

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<v Speaker 2>away and reach for things that destroy me?

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<v Speaker 1>Why am I still in this season.

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<v Speaker 2>Of my life struggling with something that I prayed about

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<v Speaker 2>since I was a teenager?

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<v Speaker 1>Is there not enough of God's power to deliver me?

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<v Speaker 1>Do I have not enough faith to receive it.

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<v Speaker 2>What's the problem here, Well, Joshua. Joshua gets a real

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<v Speaker 2>I call this a dad energy with these tribes, and

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<v Speaker 2>me and Holly are totally different in our parenting approach,

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<v Speaker 2>totally different.

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<v Speaker 1>I told you.

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<v Speaker 2>Last week, if my kids run out the house without

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<v Speaker 2>a coat.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, cool. She's like, You're going to freeze. I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>they're not going to freeze.

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<v Speaker 2>Like, first of all, first of all, they're not going

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<v Speaker 2>to freeze. Secondly, if they do, it will be a

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<v Speaker 2>memory in their life that will create maturity for their future.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm just building memories.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm building memories of the time that your dumb self

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<v Speaker 2>left without your coat and almost froze to death. And

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<v Speaker 2>then maybe one day you'll give money to somebody who

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't have a coat so they can buy one. So

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<v Speaker 2>I'm promoting generosity. I'm teaching you good stewardship and responsibility

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<v Speaker 2>all by just letting you be an idiot. The other day,

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<v Speaker 2>Holly was telling me her schedule for the day. I said,

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<v Speaker 2>what do you have the rest of the day. She said, well,

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<v Speaker 2>all three kids have a dentist appointment. I said, what

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<v Speaker 2>does that have to do with you? I understand abby,

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<v Speaker 2>she can't drive yet. But Graham's eighteen, Elijah's about to

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<v Speaker 2>be twenty one years old of age in the United

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<v Speaker 2>States of America. What does his dentist appointment have to

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<v Speaker 2>do with you at this stage in your life? And

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<v Speaker 2>she's like, if I don't remind them, they'll forget. And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, and then what well? And then the dentist

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<v Speaker 2>has to charge me. And I'm like, but can't you

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<v Speaker 2>take it out of their account? And she's like, well, yeah, maybe,

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<v Speaker 2>I guess. So I didn't think about it like that.

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<v Speaker 2>And then I thought, well, if their teeth start falling out,

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<v Speaker 2>I want you to let enough teeth fall out of

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<v Speaker 2>their mouth that they don't need you to follow them

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<v Speaker 2>to the dentist when they're forty seven years old.

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<v Speaker 1>This is not a good.

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<v Speaker 2>Path because if I got a sit of the dentist

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<v Speaker 2>office to make sure you're here, you got a beard,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm taking you to the dentist. Help me, Praise

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<v Speaker 2>the Lord. All the dad's in that house. Joshua was like.

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<v Speaker 1>So you want more land, now, listen, how you to

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<v Speaker 1>tell you something? I forgot to tell you this.

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<v Speaker 2>The land that they had it was the second biggest

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<v Speaker 2>piece given to all of the tribes, the only one

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<v Speaker 2>bigger was Judah. So when they come to Joshua and

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<v Speaker 2>they're like, hey, we don't have enough land, Joshua was like,

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<v Speaker 2>it's interesting you should say that, because I noticed that

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<v Speaker 2>when I gave you the land, there were some parts.

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<v Speaker 1>Of the land that you did not occupy.

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<v Speaker 2>I noticed that when I assigned you the acreage, you

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<v Speaker 2>had the second biggest plot of land of any of

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<v Speaker 2>the tribes. So if you want more room, if you

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<v Speaker 2>really need more space, instead of asking me for more

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<v Speaker 2>land when you've already been given the second largest piece

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<v Speaker 2>of land, can I stop for a moment. Somebody else

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<v Speaker 2>would die to trade places with you in your life.

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<v Speaker 2>Somebody else would give all the money in their bank

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<v Speaker 2>account to have the peace that you have in your home.

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<v Speaker 2>Somebody else would give their entire career just to have

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<v Speaker 2>the relationship that you have. And it is true that

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<v Speaker 2>when we are under pressure, we lose perspective. And it

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<v Speaker 2>is also true that God has given us a lot

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<v Speaker 2>more than we have occupied. So Joshua says, if you

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<v Speaker 2>are so numerous verse fifteen, and if the hill country

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<v Speaker 2>of e from the place where you are is too

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<v Speaker 2>small for you because when they settled in, some of

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<v Speaker 2>the land was already developed because Canaanites were living there.

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<v Speaker 1>So when they moved in, they were like, cool, this

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<v Speaker 1>is great, this is great.

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<v Speaker 2>But then after a while, all the land that was

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<v Speaker 2>producing because it was a very fertile piece of land.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't get it twisted. They didn't get any land that

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<v Speaker 2>was like second rate. This was not scraps. This was

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<v Speaker 2>good land. But they got in there and they eventually

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<v Speaker 2>started to outgrow it, and then they eventually began to

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<v Speaker 2>grumble because they had grown, and so they started to

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<v Speaker 2>grumble about their growth, and they started to grumble about

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<v Speaker 2>the gift that God had given.

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<v Speaker 3>And you just want to slap them real quick, just

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<v Speaker 3>slap them real quick, like, really, you came from the wilderness. Really,

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<v Speaker 3>God gave you the second largest piece of land, and

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<v Speaker 3>all you can think of to say is I want more. Really,

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<v Speaker 3>sometimes I want to slap myself when I hear the.

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<v Speaker 2>Things that I complain about. And here's what I've noticed.

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<v Speaker 2>Without a constant focus on the goodness of God, Without

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<v Speaker 2>a constant focus on the goodness of God, it is

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<v Speaker 2>easy for me to go from inheritance to entitlement inheritance

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<v Speaker 2>to entitlement. Look at this that Paul prayed in Ephesians

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<v Speaker 2>chapter one.

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<v Speaker 1>Put it on the screen, please.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, I pray that the eyes of your heart

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<v Speaker 2>may be enlightened in order that you may know the

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<v Speaker 2>hope to which He has called you, the riches of

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<v Speaker 2>his glorious inheritance in his holy people. So Ephesians is

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<v Speaker 2>telling us spiritually what Joshua is showing us physically, that

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<v Speaker 2>you have an inheritance. But notice the verse again. Put

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<v Speaker 2>it on the screen for another moment, where he says,

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<v Speaker 2>I pray that the eyes of your heart may be

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<v Speaker 2>enlightened to know the riches of the inheritance you already have.

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<v Speaker 2>Here is what Paul did not pray. Check the scripture.

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<v Speaker 2>He did not pray that God would give you an inheritance,

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<v Speaker 2>because you already have one.

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<v Speaker 1>What he prayed instead was so specific.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, I pray that you would be able to

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<v Speaker 2>see clearly what God has already given you freely.

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<v Speaker 1>So this is the shift. Inheritance says God gave me this.

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<v Speaker 2>God gave me this responsibility to preach today.

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<v Speaker 1>I get to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Entitlement says I've got to do it. Inheritance says, God

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<v Speaker 2>has given me the privilege to minister to these precious people.

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<v Speaker 2>Y'all don't even know how much I love doing this.

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<v Speaker 2>Y'all don't even know how much it matters to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Y'all don't even know how much. I wake up at

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<v Speaker 2>two thirty on Sundays and say, go back to sleep,

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<v Speaker 2>You're gonna.

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<v Speaker 1>Need your energy.

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<v Speaker 2>And then it's two forty five, and it's three, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's three point fifteen, and it's three thirty and finally

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<v Speaker 2>say I can't sleep. I might as well get up

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<v Speaker 2>and start thinking about it. And then by about three

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<v Speaker 2>forty five, I'm appreciating it out loud. So I know

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<v Speaker 2>the kids think that's going crazy downstairs again, but I

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<v Speaker 2>don't care, because God gave me this mantle.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm gonna tell you something else.

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<v Speaker 2>I prayed hard for this, and I sacrificed for this,

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<v Speaker 2>but it was my sacrifice. It was his sovereignty that

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<v Speaker 2>gave it to me, because I could.

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<v Speaker 1>Not earn this.

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<v Speaker 2>And some of us know that it was not by Mike,

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<v Speaker 2>and not by power, and not by intelligence, and not

0:26:13.280 --> 0:26:17.320
<v Speaker 2>by connections and not by networking, and not by pedigree,

0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:21.520
<v Speaker 2>and not by GPA, and not by your skill, but

0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:34.119
<v Speaker 2>by his grace that I am what I am. Thank you, Lord,

0:26:35.400 --> 0:26:38.840
<v Speaker 2>thank you God, thank you. I've got kids to worry about,

0:26:39.359 --> 0:26:42.600
<v Speaker 2>thank you. I've got a spouse to fight with, Thank you.

0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:44.720
<v Speaker 2>I've got clothes to get dirty.

0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:45.720
<v Speaker 1>And have to wash them again.

0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:49.000
<v Speaker 2>Thank you. I've got dishes to yell at somebody for

0:26:49.119 --> 0:26:51.679
<v Speaker 2>leaving in the sink. Thank you, thank you, thank you,

0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:54.639
<v Speaker 2>thank you. I've got a toilet to get clogged up.

0:26:55.200 --> 0:27:04.760
<v Speaker 2>I remember where I came from. Slap yourself and say, really,

0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:10.080
<v Speaker 2>you're fussing about this. You forgot where you came from.

0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:13.440
<v Speaker 2>You were in a wilderness, you were in your sin,

0:27:13.960 --> 0:27:17.680
<v Speaker 2>you were in chains. You beg God, God, if you'll

0:27:17.720 --> 0:27:19.160
<v Speaker 2>take me, if you'll.

0:27:19.040 --> 0:27:21.240
<v Speaker 1>Use me, I'll do anything for you.

0:27:27.000 --> 0:27:34.120
<v Speaker 2>And has inheritance mentality become entitlement mentality in your life?

0:27:36.480 --> 0:27:41.440
<v Speaker 2>Fussing cause the coffee's cold, fuss and because it buffered

0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:44.960
<v Speaker 2>for twenty three seconds. Boy, you better remember that card

0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:46.960
<v Speaker 2>catalog you used to have to go through to find

0:27:47.000 --> 0:27:51.200
<v Speaker 2>out information. And now you're mad because chat GPT took

0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:58.800
<v Speaker 2>twelve seconds to think. Don't forget where you come from.

0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:01.280
<v Speaker 2>I come from Monks Corner, South Carolina.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why I cannot.

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<v Speaker 2>Be discouraged when I stand up in front of large crowds.

0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:08.800
<v Speaker 1>To preach, because when I look at the.

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<v Speaker 2>Size of the crowd and realize the town I came from,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, oh, yeah, it was you, guy, it was you.

0:28:15.720 --> 0:28:18.760
<v Speaker 2>I mean, this makes no sense. This is just absolutely stupid,

0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:21.560
<v Speaker 2>and I'm so grateful that you use the foolish things

0:28:21.600 --> 0:28:23.360
<v Speaker 2>of the world to confound the wise. Now I need

0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:25.399
<v Speaker 2>to rush past this point because.

0:28:25.119 --> 0:28:26.400
<v Speaker 1>I have another point to make.

0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:30.879
<v Speaker 2>But maybe this would be a good challenge for you

0:28:30.960 --> 0:28:33.520
<v Speaker 2>to put in front of your family this week. Have

0:28:33.680 --> 0:28:38.200
<v Speaker 2>we allowed inheritance what God gave us to be replaced with.

0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:43.160
<v Speaker 1>Entitlement because it's not enough and too much. Not enough.

0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:46.000
<v Speaker 1>You got the blood of Jesus.

0:28:46.040 --> 0:28:52.440
<v Speaker 2>One drop of his blood is enough to cleanse you

0:28:52.480 --> 0:28:56.959
<v Speaker 2>from what you did Thursday. One drop of his blood

0:28:57.040 --> 0:28:59.920
<v Speaker 2>can erase the shame of how you spent the years

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<v Speaker 2>between twenty twenty and twenty twenty five.

0:29:02.520 --> 0:29:04.959
<v Speaker 1>One drop of his blood.

0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:08.840
<v Speaker 2>Holly said, they've been sending pictures around online of twenty sixteen.

0:29:09.920 --> 0:29:10.720
<v Speaker 1>She said, you need.

0:29:10.600 --> 0:29:13.520
<v Speaker 2>To know there's a trend all over Instagram, at least

0:29:13.520 --> 0:29:17.000
<v Speaker 2>for middle aged white women that everybody's sending around pictures

0:29:17.000 --> 0:29:20.440
<v Speaker 2>of twenty sixteen, and something like twenty six is the

0:29:20.480 --> 0:29:21.280
<v Speaker 2>new twenty.

0:29:21.000 --> 0:29:23.040
<v Speaker 1>Sixteen or something. And then she was right.

0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:25.920
<v Speaker 2>Everybody started sending me pictures of where they were in

0:29:25.960 --> 0:29:28.640
<v Speaker 2>twenty sixteen. I started getting them randomly on my phone.

0:29:28.720 --> 0:29:30.880
<v Speaker 2>People are sending me. I'm not even on Instagram and

0:29:30.920 --> 0:29:33.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm getting pictures on my phone twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen,

0:29:33.800 --> 0:29:36.400
<v Speaker 2>twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, and I thought that's crazy.

0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:38.560
<v Speaker 1>Where was I twenty sixteen. I pulled something up.

0:29:38.600 --> 0:29:42.840
<v Speaker 2>This is the first Sunday grand opening in our Ballantine

0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:53.719
<v Speaker 2>building in twenty sixteen, and it was supposed to happen

0:29:54.000 --> 0:29:58.080
<v Speaker 2>in twenty fourteen, but it was on a two year delay.

0:29:58.280 --> 0:30:00.280
<v Speaker 2>The building I preached from, By the way, if you're

0:30:00.280 --> 0:30:01.800
<v Speaker 2>in Kenya, you probably don't know what talking about when

0:30:01.800 --> 0:30:04.280
<v Speaker 2>I say Valentine. The building that I broadcast from, where

0:30:04.280 --> 0:30:06.680
<v Speaker 2>we reach into your home, and where we reach into prisons,

0:30:06.800 --> 0:30:09.160
<v Speaker 2>and where we send messages into rehabs, and where we

0:30:09.200 --> 0:30:12.320
<v Speaker 2>send messages into hospital rooms, and where we send podcasts

0:30:12.360 --> 0:30:15.440
<v Speaker 2>into cars of parents driving their kids around all day

0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:18.000
<v Speaker 2>and athletes that are getting all the ministry.

0:30:18.200 --> 0:30:19.120
<v Speaker 1>It comes from right here.

0:30:19.240 --> 0:30:22.080
<v Speaker 2>Valentine to all of our other campuses, and we were

0:30:22.120 --> 0:30:24.360
<v Speaker 2>opening it twenty sixteen and.

0:30:24.280 --> 0:30:26.200
<v Speaker 1>We were having the best time kind of. But show

0:30:26.200 --> 0:30:26.920
<v Speaker 1>them the other picture.

0:30:27.360 --> 0:30:28.600
<v Speaker 2>This is the one that was next to it on

0:30:28.640 --> 0:30:33.560
<v Speaker 2>my phone, and there's me and Holly and she looks

0:30:33.600 --> 0:30:34.640
<v Speaker 2>like blessing.

0:30:36.760 --> 0:30:42.760
<v Speaker 1>And I look like pressure. Ain't that right? Would you say?

0:30:42.800 --> 0:30:44.360
<v Speaker 1>I captioned that correctly.

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<v Speaker 2>Because for me, I was jet lagged that Sunday morning,

0:30:49.760 --> 0:30:51.960
<v Speaker 2>and for me, I had just gotten back from Australia,

0:30:52.880 --> 0:30:55.880
<v Speaker 2>and for me, the headlines were all about a potential

0:30:56.520 --> 0:30:59.080
<v Speaker 2>place of civil unrest in our nation. And for me,

0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:02.520
<v Speaker 2>my best friend was getting fired from pastoring his church,

0:31:02.760 --> 0:31:05.040
<v Speaker 2>and so between the nine thirty and the eleven thirty

0:31:05.200 --> 0:31:07.320
<v Speaker 2>I was talking to him on the phone before I

0:31:07.320 --> 0:31:09.600
<v Speaker 2>came out to preach again because I was scared about

0:31:09.640 --> 0:31:12.280
<v Speaker 2>whether he was in a safe place emotionally or not.

0:31:13.800 --> 0:31:16.120
<v Speaker 1>So now you understand, put the picture back up again.

0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:17.800
<v Speaker 1>Why she's uh.

0:31:19.200 --> 0:31:24.560
<v Speaker 2>Smiling and I'm like, she's like, God is good all

0:31:24.600 --> 0:31:28.680
<v Speaker 2>the time, and I'm like, she's.

0:31:28.520 --> 0:31:30.920
<v Speaker 1>Like, this is an amazing day. Now. Obviously that's just

0:31:30.960 --> 0:31:37.640
<v Speaker 1>a really unfortunate capture of my face in that moment.

0:31:37.640 --> 0:31:38.200
<v Speaker 1>I don't know I was.

0:31:38.200 --> 0:31:41.320
<v Speaker 2>Really thinking and we fired that photographer, by the way.

0:31:41.960 --> 0:31:42.640
<v Speaker 1>Capture that moment.

0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:45.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm kidding, but I just want to give you a

0:31:45.200 --> 0:31:47.080
<v Speaker 2>visual for a moment here as we talk about Joseph

0:31:47.120 --> 0:31:50.680
<v Speaker 2>and Ephraim and Manassa, and as we talk about your life,

0:31:51.680 --> 0:31:54.600
<v Speaker 2>and as we talk about forgetting where you come from,

0:31:54.640 --> 0:31:57.000
<v Speaker 2>and when we talk about your past, and when we

0:31:57.040 --> 0:31:59.880
<v Speaker 2>talk about the things that you remember, and when we talk.

0:31:59.720 --> 0:32:01.760
<v Speaker 1>About the challenge that you're facing.

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<v Speaker 2>Remember, the people of Joseph, the tribes of Ephraim and Manassa,

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<v Speaker 2>came to Joshua and said it's too much and it's

0:32:11.960 --> 0:32:12.480
<v Speaker 2>not enough.

0:32:13.680 --> 0:32:15.000
<v Speaker 1>And Joshua said, it is enough.

0:32:16.040 --> 0:32:18.760
<v Speaker 2>There is all of this territory that you were given,

0:32:19.960 --> 0:32:24.320
<v Speaker 2>but it's forest territory, and it's covered not only in trees,

0:32:24.400 --> 0:32:27.400
<v Speaker 2>but there are canaanites that are there, which represent the

0:32:27.560 --> 0:32:30.280
<v Speaker 2>enemies that you did not drive out of the land yet.

0:32:31.480 --> 0:32:34.800
<v Speaker 2>And so God has given you an inheritance. But to

0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:37.200
<v Speaker 2>develop in that it's going to take two things, work

0:32:38.160 --> 0:32:43.440
<v Speaker 2>and war. It's going to take work and it's going

0:32:43.480 --> 0:32:48.320
<v Speaker 2>to take war. I heard an old self motivation talk

0:32:48.400 --> 0:32:50.960
<v Speaker 2>parable about a farmer who had a beautiful piece of

0:32:50.960 --> 0:32:55.120
<v Speaker 2>property and it was so lush man The gardens were

0:32:55.200 --> 0:32:58.200
<v Speaker 2>just beautiful and flourishing, and the cows were fat, and

0:32:58.240 --> 0:33:01.840
<v Speaker 2>the white gravel driveway was lined with the prettiest trees

0:33:01.880 --> 0:33:02.520
<v Speaker 2>you ever saw.

0:33:02.680 --> 0:33:03.640
<v Speaker 1>And it didn't look like a.

0:33:03.600 --> 0:33:06.200
<v Speaker 2>New farm, but it looked like a love farm, a

0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:09.440
<v Speaker 2>farm that had received a lot of attention. And a

0:33:09.480 --> 0:33:11.479
<v Speaker 2>preacher drove by the farm one day and he was

0:33:11.840 --> 0:33:16.640
<v Speaker 2>so absolutely enchanted with the farm that he had to

0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:19.240
<v Speaker 2>meet the farmer. And the farmer came over on the

0:33:19.320 --> 0:33:21.800
<v Speaker 2>tractor and turned off the tractor for a moment and

0:33:21.840 --> 0:33:24.960
<v Speaker 2>said to the preacher, can I help you? And the

0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:27.760
<v Speaker 2>preacher said, I was just admiring your property. What a

0:33:27.920 --> 0:33:32.400
<v Speaker 2>beautiful piece of property the Lord gave you. And the

0:33:32.400 --> 0:33:35.800
<v Speaker 2>farmer said, yes, it is very beautiful, and we're grateful.

0:33:36.560 --> 0:33:39.840
<v Speaker 2>But Preacher, you should have seen this place when the

0:33:39.880 --> 0:33:41.320
<v Speaker 2>Lord had it all to himself.

0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:48.200
<v Speaker 1>In other words, I worked this thing.

0:33:50.240 --> 0:33:53.160
<v Speaker 2>In other words, the people that you're driving by and

0:33:53.440 --> 0:33:57.080
<v Speaker 2>envying their life, they.

0:33:57.000 --> 0:34:01.360
<v Speaker 4>Didn't just get that marriage. They didn't just get that body.

0:34:01.720 --> 0:34:05.479
<v Speaker 4>They didn't just get that financial situation. They didn't just

0:34:05.640 --> 0:34:07.040
<v Speaker 4>get that influence.

0:34:07.560 --> 0:34:10.960
<v Speaker 2>They were in the field keeping sheep before Goliath ever

0:34:11.000 --> 0:34:11.720
<v Speaker 2>showed up.

0:34:12.120 --> 0:34:13.759
<v Speaker 1>They were developing it.

0:34:14.200 --> 0:34:18.759
<v Speaker 2>And the question is are you investing into what you

0:34:18.880 --> 0:34:22.239
<v Speaker 2>inherited in your life? If it's a gift, are you

0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:26.080
<v Speaker 2>investing in it? If it's a relationship, are you maintaining it?

0:34:26.360 --> 0:34:29.759
<v Speaker 2>Are are you working with what God gave you or

0:34:29.880 --> 0:34:32.640
<v Speaker 2>simply complaining how it's not enough. Because I'm gonna tell

0:34:32.640 --> 0:34:37.360
<v Speaker 2>you it is enough. It is enough. It just hasn't

0:34:37.400 --> 0:34:40.759
<v Speaker 2>had the time yet in your life to develop into

0:34:40.800 --> 0:34:43.400
<v Speaker 2>what it needs to be. So I came to declare

0:34:43.400 --> 0:34:46.680
<v Speaker 2>a message today it is enough, but it is going

0:34:46.760 --> 0:34:50.240
<v Speaker 2>to take faith on your part. God is not simply

0:34:50.280 --> 0:34:53.680
<v Speaker 2>going to drive out every enemy in your life. God

0:34:53.760 --> 0:34:56.200
<v Speaker 2>is not simply going to chop down every tree in

0:34:56.239 --> 0:34:59.880
<v Speaker 2>your life. God is not simply going to disrupt every

0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:01.440
<v Speaker 2>bad habit in your life.

0:35:01.600 --> 0:35:03.000
<v Speaker 1>We pray for deliverance.

0:35:03.320 --> 0:35:06.720
<v Speaker 2>I believe in deliverance, but I also believe in support groups.

0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:08.839
<v Speaker 1>I said.

0:35:08.880 --> 0:35:11.799
<v Speaker 2>I also believe in AA.

0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:15.560
<v Speaker 1>I said. I also believe in accountability. I said. I

0:35:15.600 --> 0:35:17.600
<v Speaker 1>also believe in Christian counseling.

0:35:18.200 --> 0:35:22.160
<v Speaker 2>I said, I also believe in starting to exercise. I said,

0:35:22.200 --> 0:35:25.800
<v Speaker 2>I also believe in app deletion. See the thing about

0:35:25.840 --> 0:35:28.440
<v Speaker 2>some of us is we are praying for peace in

0:35:28.520 --> 0:35:33.640
<v Speaker 2>areas where we are unwilling to clear out trees. How

0:35:33.680 --> 0:35:36.800
<v Speaker 2>can it grow? How can it grow? It has nowhere

0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:39.680
<v Speaker 2>to grow. And the problem is.

0:35:39.600 --> 0:35:41.200
<v Speaker 1>Not that I need more time.

0:35:41.520 --> 0:35:45.359
<v Speaker 2>The problem is that I need more priorities. Because God

0:35:45.400 --> 0:35:47.719
<v Speaker 2>gave me enough time for what he called me to do.

0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:51.560
<v Speaker 2>So I declare, in this year of my life, it's

0:35:51.600 --> 0:35:54.080
<v Speaker 2>the year that I do what Joshua told the people

0:35:54.080 --> 0:35:56.920
<v Speaker 2>of Joseph to do. Listen to this. He said, you

0:35:57.040 --> 0:35:59.439
<v Speaker 2>have enough doesn't feel like enough. You have enough doesn't

0:35:59.480 --> 0:36:02.920
<v Speaker 2>look like another. There's all these trees, there's all these enemies.

0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:05.880
<v Speaker 2>There's all these things that you have not confronted yet.

0:36:06.280 --> 0:36:09.880
<v Speaker 2>But behind what you have been unwilling to confront is

0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:12.480
<v Speaker 2>the answer to the prayer that you see. I am

0:36:12.600 --> 0:36:18.160
<v Speaker 2>preaching prophetically to somebody give me Verse seventeen. Joshua was

0:36:18.200 --> 0:36:21.440
<v Speaker 2>said to the people to eat from in Manassa. You

0:36:21.520 --> 0:36:25.720
<v Speaker 2>are numerous and very powerful. You will have not only

0:36:25.800 --> 0:36:28.319
<v Speaker 2>one a lot meant your two tribes, but you can

0:36:28.360 --> 0:36:31.480
<v Speaker 2>have the forested country too. There is more for you

0:36:31.560 --> 0:36:34.840
<v Speaker 2>to enjoy. There is more for you to experience in God.

0:36:35.200 --> 0:36:38.319
<v Speaker 2>There is more. You can be happy again. You can

0:36:38.520 --> 0:36:41.680
<v Speaker 2>rejoice again. You can have meaning in your day again.

0:36:42.200 --> 0:36:48.080
<v Speaker 2>You can have it if you clear it. Somebody shall

0:36:48.280 --> 0:36:51.839
<v Speaker 2>clear it. Speak that over your mind this year.

0:36:52.280 --> 0:36:52.799
<v Speaker 1>Clear it.

0:36:53.080 --> 0:36:56.239
<v Speaker 2>I gotta clear it. I'm praying for peace, but I'm

0:36:56.280 --> 0:36:58.920
<v Speaker 2>not clear in my mind. How can I stuff my

0:36:59.080 --> 0:37:02.200
<v Speaker 2>mind full of and then ask Jesus to fill the

0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:08.040
<v Speaker 2>space that's already filled with jump Somebody shall clear it.

0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:10.319
<v Speaker 2>It might have to be cleared in your life of

0:37:10.400 --> 0:37:12.040
<v Speaker 2>some unproductive.

0:37:11.400 --> 0:37:12.880
<v Speaker 1>Relationships this year.

0:37:13.400 --> 0:37:16.080
<v Speaker 2>There are so many roots that can drink water in

0:37:16.120 --> 0:37:19.040
<v Speaker 2>your yard. But any more than those roots and you

0:37:19.080 --> 0:37:21.840
<v Speaker 2>are not going to have the rain you need for

0:37:21.960 --> 0:37:26.879
<v Speaker 2>what God is planting. Somebody shall clear it. And don't

0:37:26.920 --> 0:37:30.160
<v Speaker 2>even apologize to people. If you have to cut off

0:37:30.200 --> 0:37:33.520
<v Speaker 2>some communication this year, that's all right. It's not rude,

0:37:33.800 --> 0:37:37.520
<v Speaker 2>it's righteous because I gotta clear it this year because

0:37:37.600 --> 0:37:42.680
<v Speaker 2>God has more for me. Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't

0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:45.279
<v Speaker 2>get back with you. I gotta get clear this year.

0:37:45.600 --> 0:37:48.359
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry I didn't snap you back. I gotta get

0:37:48.400 --> 0:37:52.200
<v Speaker 2>clear this year because what God gave me, what God

0:37:52.320 --> 0:38:00.000
<v Speaker 2>is doing through me, what God promised me. Clear it,

0:38:01.760 --> 0:38:06.839
<v Speaker 2>clear it, clear it, clear it. Clear your mind this year.

0:38:07.040 --> 0:38:09.879
<v Speaker 2>This may be the season for you to stop focusing

0:38:10.080 --> 0:38:12.560
<v Speaker 2>on what would have been. You are so full of

0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:15.440
<v Speaker 2>regret that you cannot see what is right in front

0:38:15.440 --> 0:38:18.960
<v Speaker 2>of you. Oh, yes, Lord, thank you for reminding me

0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:21.879
<v Speaker 2>the word of the Lord. He says, you still can.

0:38:25.600 --> 0:38:29.680
<v Speaker 2>You still can because the lie that starts to clutter

0:38:29.760 --> 0:38:32.560
<v Speaker 2>up your mind is it's too late. Oh look at

0:38:32.560 --> 0:38:34.440
<v Speaker 2>the mistakes you may look if you would, how many

0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:34.960
<v Speaker 2>of you had that.

0:38:34.920 --> 0:38:36.759
<v Speaker 1>Going on in your mind in an area right now,

0:38:36.960 --> 0:38:37.319
<v Speaker 1>like if.

0:38:37.200 --> 0:38:39.279
<v Speaker 2>I would have just given it more attention. That may

0:38:39.360 --> 0:38:42.680
<v Speaker 2>be true. You may have missed the opportunity. You may

0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:44.680
<v Speaker 2>not have done it when you should have done it.

0:38:44.920 --> 0:38:50.479
<v Speaker 2>But you still can. Yeah, you still can. I wish

0:38:50.480 --> 0:38:52.560
<v Speaker 2>I would have lived for God in college. Well you

0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:56.399
<v Speaker 2>are seventy nine. Now you still can live for God

0:38:56.440 --> 0:38:57.400
<v Speaker 2>and leave the legacy.

0:38:58.200 --> 0:39:02.600
<v Speaker 1>Somebody shout, I still can. You can if you get clear.

0:39:02.640 --> 0:39:05.759
<v Speaker 2>But if you stay in what it was in the

0:39:05.880 --> 0:39:09.560
<v Speaker 2>previous season of your life, you will have more available

0:39:09.600 --> 0:39:12.080
<v Speaker 2>to you and you will die for the lack of

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<v Speaker 2>what Jesus died to put in your life. Clear it

0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:21.239
<v Speaker 2>clear it tell the devil we are not having this

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<v Speaker 2>conversation again.

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<v Speaker 1>Clear it.

0:39:25.840 --> 0:39:27.760
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I'm talking about your calendar.

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<v Speaker 1>You need to clear it up a little bit.

0:39:30.480 --> 0:39:32.160
<v Speaker 2>It's got a little too much stuff on it that

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<v Speaker 2>you're doing to impress.

0:39:33.239 --> 0:39:37.719
<v Speaker 1>People, and it's not making an impact. Clear it. Clear it.

0:39:38.040 --> 0:39:40.120
<v Speaker 2>Let me talk to a leader, because pastors watched me

0:39:40.200 --> 0:39:42.879
<v Speaker 2>preach some of the people that you are running around

0:39:42.960 --> 0:39:45.399
<v Speaker 2>trying to please by preaching the sermons that they want

0:39:45.480 --> 0:39:47.560
<v Speaker 2>so bad. They're not supposed to be a part of

0:39:47.600 --> 0:39:50.080
<v Speaker 2>your church in this season. And if you don't stop

0:39:50.120 --> 0:39:52.200
<v Speaker 2>preaching to the people who are threatening to leave, you

0:39:52.200 --> 0:39:54.160
<v Speaker 2>cannot reach the people that God has called you.

0:39:54.120 --> 0:39:58.080
<v Speaker 5>To reach, and they need Jesus. Clear it, you hear me,

0:39:58.760 --> 0:40:06.359
<v Speaker 5>clear it? Clearing this might be.

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<v Speaker 2>A prophetic word about your shopping cart on Amazon.

0:40:09.200 --> 0:40:12.160
<v Speaker 1>Clear it. You ain't buying none of it this year.

0:40:12.320 --> 0:40:13.879
<v Speaker 1>We're getting out of debt this year.

0:40:14.080 --> 0:40:21.120
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna use okay, lost all the shouts, ljay, no

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<v Speaker 2>organ necessary on that point.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you can clear it, you can conquer it.

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<v Speaker 2>You remember I said we were two years late getting

0:40:33.480 --> 0:40:36.440
<v Speaker 2>in this building. One of the reasons that we were

0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:39.840
<v Speaker 2>so far behind getting in on this building was because

0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:44.200
<v Speaker 2>the Environmental Protection Agency told us that there was a

0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:50.480
<v Speaker 2>possibility that a Carolina heel splitter clam was on the property,

0:40:51.480 --> 0:40:54.640
<v Speaker 2>and they said that this clam or muscle I think

0:40:54.640 --> 0:40:56.319
<v Speaker 2>it was, but I'm gonna call it a clam because

0:40:56.320 --> 0:41:00.640
<v Speaker 2>it sounds better what I'm trying to say. One little

0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:04.200
<v Speaker 2>clam kept us from building this whole big church.

0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:07.120
<v Speaker 1>For six months.

0:41:07.719 --> 0:41:13.640
<v Speaker 2>We could not clear the land because of a clam.

0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:16.359
<v Speaker 2>You realize how many times a little thing in your

0:41:16.360 --> 0:41:17.879
<v Speaker 2>life keeps you from building.

0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:20.560
<v Speaker 1>A little thing.

0:41:22.680 --> 0:41:26.160
<v Speaker 2>One person you don't want to make mad, one thing

0:41:26.239 --> 0:41:29.680
<v Speaker 2>you don't want to be judged about, one uncomfortable moment

0:41:29.719 --> 0:41:32.200
<v Speaker 2>you don't want to push through, one phone call you.

0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:32.759
<v Speaker 1>Don't want to make.

0:41:32.840 --> 0:41:34.920
<v Speaker 2>So you're just gonna let dread eat you up like

0:41:35.000 --> 0:41:39.920
<v Speaker 2>cancer for six months because of a clam. The devil

0:41:39.960 --> 0:41:42.160
<v Speaker 2>doesn't even really have to put a clam on your land.

0:41:42.360 --> 0:41:44.240
<v Speaker 2>He can just tell you there may be a clam.

0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:46.880
<v Speaker 2>They may laugh at you, it may not work, you

0:41:46.960 --> 0:41:50.480
<v Speaker 2>may look stupid, this may backfire, your kid may end up,

0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:52.439
<v Speaker 2>your mom may it's not even there.

0:41:52.680 --> 0:41:53.800
<v Speaker 1>But you're not building.

0:41:55.360 --> 0:41:57.120
<v Speaker 2>And so we get to the heart of the issue.

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<v Speaker 2>At this moment in the text tribes of Ephraim and Manassa.

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<v Speaker 2>Ephram and Manassa, let's look at the moment that these

0:42:07.360 --> 0:42:12.000
<v Speaker 2>boys were born. Now remember, just to be clear, it's

0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:17.680
<v Speaker 2>been generations since Ephram and Manassa were born to Joseph,

0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:20.040
<v Speaker 2>So these people didn't know Joseph.

0:42:20.080 --> 0:42:23.200
<v Speaker 1>They were Joseph's great great great great great great great.

0:42:23.000 --> 0:42:26.120
<v Speaker 2>Great grandchildren, and Ram and Manassa were his children.

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<v Speaker 1>Now look in Genesis forty one, verse fifty.

0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:33.520
<v Speaker 2>It's going back in time to when Joseph was in

0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:37.080
<v Speaker 2>Egypt and he was starting to serve as an administrator

0:42:37.120 --> 0:42:39.200
<v Speaker 2>in Pharaoh's palace. The Bible says he wrote in the

0:42:39.239 --> 0:42:42.720
<v Speaker 2>Second Chariot in command of Pharaoh. But it says before

0:42:42.760 --> 0:42:49.320
<v Speaker 2>the years of Famine came, after everything Joseph had been through, imprisonment, accusation, abandonment,

0:42:50.239 --> 0:42:53.839
<v Speaker 2>the people who were supposed to remember him forgetting him.

0:42:54.760 --> 0:42:57.439
<v Speaker 2>The Bible says, before the years of famine came, two

0:42:57.520 --> 0:43:01.040
<v Speaker 2>sons were born to Joseph by asa Out, daughter of Potiferah,

0:43:01.320 --> 0:43:07.239
<v Speaker 2>priest of Aughn. Joseph named his firstborn Nassa Nassa, and

0:43:07.280 --> 0:43:09.399
<v Speaker 2>he said, it's because God has made me.

0:43:09.480 --> 0:43:11.120
<v Speaker 1>Forget all my trouble.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody say forget, say it out loud, forget, put it

0:43:15.400 --> 0:43:19.120
<v Speaker 2>in the comments, forget forget forget the title of this messages,

0:43:19.160 --> 0:43:23.879
<v Speaker 2>don't forget where you come from. And when Joseph had

0:43:23.920 --> 0:43:27.320
<v Speaker 2>his first baby, after all the suffering, after all the hardship,

0:43:27.400 --> 0:43:31.040
<v Speaker 2>after all the misdirection, after all the delay, after all

0:43:31.080 --> 0:43:32.920
<v Speaker 2>of the things that went wrong in his life, and

0:43:32.960 --> 0:43:36.000
<v Speaker 2>finally God gave him an opportunity.

0:43:35.280 --> 0:43:37.919
<v Speaker 1>In a child. He looked at the child, and he

0:43:37.920 --> 0:43:38.440
<v Speaker 1>held the.

0:43:38.520 --> 0:43:40.960
<v Speaker 2>Child in a place that he never intended to be,

0:43:41.320 --> 0:43:43.040
<v Speaker 2>in a place that he never planned to be, and

0:43:43.080 --> 0:43:44.280
<v Speaker 2>that may be you right now.

0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:45.680
<v Speaker 1>I didn't plan to be here.

0:43:45.680 --> 0:43:48.239
<v Speaker 2>But he looked at the baby, and in deciding what

0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:51.920
<v Speaker 2>to name the baby, he named the baby Manassa, which

0:43:52.040 --> 0:43:53.280
<v Speaker 2>means to forget.

0:43:55.280 --> 0:43:59.520
<v Speaker 1>He said, I'm naming this baby manassa.

0:43:58.239 --> 0:44:02.440
<v Speaker 2>Because God has made me forget all my trouble and

0:44:02.560 --> 0:44:05.960
<v Speaker 2>all my father's households stop right there. He named the

0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:11.399
<v Speaker 2>baby manassa, which means forget. Not because the memory left

0:44:11.480 --> 0:44:13.960
<v Speaker 2>him of the pain that he went through. It's just

0:44:14.000 --> 0:44:17.480
<v Speaker 2>that in that moment, what God was doing in his

0:44:17.600 --> 0:44:22.960
<v Speaker 2>life was so significant that it made what he had been.

0:44:22.800 --> 0:44:24.799
<v Speaker 1>Through small in comparison.

0:44:25.920 --> 0:44:29.400
<v Speaker 2>So he says, I'm gonna name this child forget, not

0:44:29.560 --> 0:44:33.160
<v Speaker 2>because the memory left me. But because I'm choosing to

0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:39.040
<v Speaker 2>remember it different, I'm going to remember it different what

0:44:39.160 --> 0:44:39.800
<v Speaker 2>I've been.

0:44:39.640 --> 0:44:41.480
<v Speaker 1>Through, what I suffered from.

0:44:41.800 --> 0:44:45.080
<v Speaker 2>I no longer see it as being sold into slavery.

0:44:45.480 --> 0:44:48.560
<v Speaker 2>I see it as God sending me here, and I

0:44:48.600 --> 0:44:51.920
<v Speaker 2>am forgetting what is behind me so I can press

0:44:52.000 --> 0:44:53.480
<v Speaker 2>toward what is ahead.

0:44:53.960 --> 0:44:57.920
<v Speaker 1>The name Manassa means forget. How many of.

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<v Speaker 2>You have ever heard of something called the man Mandela effect?

0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:02.879
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, have you heard of this.

0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:07.279
<v Speaker 2>It's named after Nelson Mandela, of course, who was the

0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:10.680
<v Speaker 2>president of South Africa. But it's named because a group

0:45:10.719 --> 0:45:16.040
<v Speaker 2>of people collectively were documented as remembering Nelson Mandela dying

0:45:16.080 --> 0:45:17.080
<v Speaker 2>in the nineteen eighties.

0:45:17.080 --> 0:45:20.040
<v Speaker 1>So check this out. A woman did research and she

0:45:20.120 --> 0:45:20.800
<v Speaker 1>found out.

0:45:20.600 --> 0:45:23.360
<v Speaker 2>That there were large groups of people in the thousands

0:45:23.920 --> 0:45:28.880
<v Speaker 2>who remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the nineteen eighties.

0:45:29.400 --> 0:45:32.279
<v Speaker 2>The problem with that was he didn't die until the

0:45:32.360 --> 0:45:36.640
<v Speaker 2>year twenty thirteen, but they remembered it as if he did.

0:45:37.480 --> 0:45:42.400
<v Speaker 2>They remembered somehow, some fragmented misinformation and they remembered Nelson

0:45:42.440 --> 0:45:45.120
<v Speaker 2>Mandela died in prison in the eighties. There were so

0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:49.239
<v Speaker 2>many people who remembered that wrong that they named an

0:45:49.440 --> 0:45:54.680
<v Speaker 2>entire phenomenon psychologically, the Mandela effect and now the phrase

0:45:54.760 --> 0:45:57.920
<v Speaker 2>the Mandela effect is used to describe many things, some

0:45:58.040 --> 0:45:59.920
<v Speaker 2>not as significant as the death.

0:45:59.719 --> 0:46:00.400
<v Speaker 1>Of a leader.

0:46:00.880 --> 0:46:04.520
<v Speaker 2>For instance, how many of you remember the line from

0:46:04.560 --> 0:46:09.400
<v Speaker 2>the movie Star Wars when Darth Vader revealed his real identity?

0:46:09.680 --> 0:46:14.520
<v Speaker 1>What did he say? What did he say? Now?

0:46:14.520 --> 0:46:18.840
<v Speaker 2>Thousands of you remember, Luke, I am your father. But

0:46:18.920 --> 0:46:22.319
<v Speaker 2>if you check the DVD Old school, if you check

0:46:22.400 --> 0:46:25.720
<v Speaker 2>the movie, he doesn't say Luke, I am your father.

0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:28.920
<v Speaker 2>He says, no, I am your father. That freaked me

0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:31.279
<v Speaker 2>out when I heard that. I thought, all these years,

0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:32.120
<v Speaker 2>I thought he said.

0:46:32.080 --> 0:46:34.719
<v Speaker 1>Luke, I am your father. He didn't say Luke, he

0:46:34.760 --> 0:46:35.080
<v Speaker 1>said no.

0:46:35.160 --> 0:46:38.000
<v Speaker 2>On how did I remember it so different than it

0:46:38.080 --> 0:46:41.600
<v Speaker 2>actually happened. It's the Mandela effect, or the peanut.

0:46:41.320 --> 0:46:43.640
<v Speaker 1>Butter that starts with the letter J. What's it called?

0:46:44.480 --> 0:46:46.799
<v Speaker 2>No, there's no why on it. It's just jiff It's

0:46:46.800 --> 0:46:50.040
<v Speaker 2>not Jiffy. You remember Jeffy. Don't I remember Jeffy too.

0:46:50.200 --> 0:46:52.359
<v Speaker 2>I thought it was Jiffy all my life. I thought

0:46:52.360 --> 0:46:55.799
<v Speaker 2>it was Jeffy. It's not Jiffy. It wasn't Jiffy. It

0:46:55.880 --> 0:46:59.040
<v Speaker 2>never has been Jiffy. Somebody just called it jeffy, like

0:46:59.080 --> 0:47:02.839
<v Speaker 2>they call it Walmart Arts and revelations, and we all

0:47:02.920 --> 0:47:05.960
<v Speaker 2>run around calling it jiffy, but it was never jiffy.

0:47:06.160 --> 0:47:09.880
<v Speaker 2>It's the Mandela effect. I remember it different than it

0:47:09.960 --> 0:47:16.080
<v Speaker 2>actually happened. I came to preach today about the Manassa effect. Now,

0:47:16.960 --> 0:47:21.279
<v Speaker 2>the Manassa effect is when you've been through hell, and

0:47:21.320 --> 0:47:25.040
<v Speaker 2>you've gone through some trouble and some people have let

0:47:25.080 --> 0:47:28.239
<v Speaker 2>you down, and life has put you in a crowded

0:47:28.320 --> 0:47:32.440
<v Speaker 2>space and you feel like not enough and you don't

0:47:32.520 --> 0:47:37.120
<v Speaker 2>know what's next, but you decide in your mind, I'm

0:47:37.160 --> 0:47:41.600
<v Speaker 2>gonna remember it different, and rather than focusing on how

0:47:41.680 --> 0:47:45.799
<v Speaker 2>they forgot me, I'm gonna focus on how I have

0:47:45.960 --> 0:47:46.879
<v Speaker 2>a father.

0:47:47.080 --> 0:47:48.360
<v Speaker 1>Who never did.

0:47:48.560 --> 0:47:51.600
<v Speaker 2>Who never fails, who never can.

0:47:56.360 --> 0:47:56.640
<v Speaker 1>Shove.

0:47:56.719 --> 0:48:01.640
<v Speaker 2>Your neighbors say, remember it different. Bless the Lord, oh

0:48:01.719 --> 0:48:06.280
<v Speaker 2>my soul, and all that is within me. Bless the Lord,

0:48:06.440 --> 0:48:11.799
<v Speaker 2>oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

0:48:12.160 --> 0:48:13.279
<v Speaker 1>I'm choosing to.

0:48:13.360 --> 0:48:17.200
<v Speaker 2>Forget some things so I can clear out some space,

0:48:17.760 --> 0:48:21.960
<v Speaker 2>so I can receive some things that God has given me.

0:48:23.120 --> 0:48:25.439
<v Speaker 1>Clear it out, clear it out, clear it out, clear

0:48:25.480 --> 0:48:28.279
<v Speaker 1>it out. It's the Manassa that here. It is.

0:48:28.920 --> 0:48:32.239
<v Speaker 2>God can do one thing in your life. God can

0:48:32.320 --> 0:48:35.640
<v Speaker 2>send one person in your life. God can send one

0:48:35.680 --> 0:48:39.640
<v Speaker 2>opportunity in your life that will make you forget everything

0:48:39.760 --> 0:48:42.440
<v Speaker 2>you went through to be in this place. Make you

0:48:42.520 --> 0:48:45.520
<v Speaker 2>forget about how bad it hurt, every time they said no,

0:48:46.040 --> 0:48:48.319
<v Speaker 2>make you forget about all the years you thought it

0:48:48.400 --> 0:48:51.120
<v Speaker 2>was never going to happen. It'll make you thank him

0:48:51.160 --> 0:48:53.600
<v Speaker 2>for all the things that didn't come to pass, because

0:48:53.640 --> 0:48:56.000
<v Speaker 2>you'll say, if I wasn't here, I couldn't have had this.

0:48:56.520 --> 0:49:00.000
<v Speaker 2>God is working in your life. His word does not return.

0:49:00.840 --> 0:49:03.440
<v Speaker 2>He has given you more than enough. This is the

0:49:03.520 --> 0:49:07.160
<v Speaker 2>Monassa effect. When you say, I remember when we open

0:49:07.239 --> 0:49:10.080
<v Speaker 2>this building, and I remember that we were late, But

0:49:10.200 --> 0:49:12.960
<v Speaker 2>I choose to remember that even though we were late

0:49:13.040 --> 0:49:16.319
<v Speaker 2>getting in, God did it. I choose to remember that

0:49:16.400 --> 0:49:19.680
<v Speaker 2>even though it didn't unfold according to my schedule, it

0:49:19.760 --> 0:49:21.960
<v Speaker 2>unfolded according to his sovereign purpose.

0:49:22.200 --> 0:49:23.680
<v Speaker 1>And I am preaching about.

0:49:23.440 --> 0:49:28.719
<v Speaker 2>The Nassa effect because now, generations later, the tribe that

0:49:28.880 --> 0:49:32.680
<v Speaker 2>is named after the boy who made Joseph.

0:49:32.239 --> 0:49:39.240
<v Speaker 1>Forget has forgotten. They have forgotten.

0:49:40.760 --> 0:49:50.200
<v Speaker 2>Joseph forgot his pain, but they forgot their power. And

0:49:50.320 --> 0:49:54.360
<v Speaker 2>Joshua had to remind them. He said, you are very powerful,

0:49:55.560 --> 0:49:57.080
<v Speaker 2>and I have to remind you of that every week

0:49:57.080 --> 0:49:58.480
<v Speaker 2>that the Holy Spirit lives in you, and you are

0:49:58.560 --> 0:50:02.239
<v Speaker 2>very powerful. I have to remind you that every week

0:50:02.280 --> 0:50:05.200
<v Speaker 2>that Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead, lives

0:50:05.200 --> 0:50:07.240
<v Speaker 2>in you, and that power works in you. And because

0:50:07.239 --> 0:50:10.680
<v Speaker 2>of that, you are very powerful. Don't give me all

0:50:10.680 --> 0:50:11.840
<v Speaker 2>this self empowerment stuff.

0:50:11.840 --> 0:50:13.520
<v Speaker 1>I don't need any of it. I got the Holy Spirit.

0:50:14.440 --> 0:50:15.480
<v Speaker 1>I got the Holy Spirit.

0:50:16.600 --> 0:50:18.680
<v Speaker 2>You don't have to hype me up to believe I'm worthy.

0:50:18.760 --> 0:50:23.200
<v Speaker 2>Jesus died for me. He's worthy. I'm very powerful. And

0:50:23.239 --> 0:50:29.520
<v Speaker 2>it's a beautiful thing when you remember where you came from. Right,

0:50:30.520 --> 0:50:34.680
<v Speaker 2>Because see they were complaining about the chariots. Right, they said,

0:50:34.960 --> 0:50:39.680
<v Speaker 2>we can't go into that land. They have chariots. Everybody

0:50:39.719 --> 0:50:44.040
<v Speaker 2>say chariots. Come on, work with me, say chariots. This

0:50:44.080 --> 0:50:48.719
<v Speaker 2>is the manassa effect. They have misremembered things because they

0:50:48.719 --> 0:50:52.000
<v Speaker 2>are scared of chariots. But I seem to remember a

0:50:52.040 --> 0:50:55.840
<v Speaker 2>time in the Bible where God dealt with some chariots.

0:50:57.960 --> 0:51:01.279
<v Speaker 2>I seem to remember a time in the Bible when

0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:05.040
<v Speaker 2>God's people were coming out of Egypt and a red

0:51:05.160 --> 0:51:08.560
<v Speaker 2>sea stood between them and their freedom. And I seem

0:51:08.640 --> 0:51:11.680
<v Speaker 2>to remember that the chariots of Pharaoh were coming up

0:51:11.719 --> 0:51:15.120
<v Speaker 2>back behind them. And I seem to remember that, just

0:51:15.280 --> 0:51:18.160
<v Speaker 2>at the moment when it looked like the chariots were

0:51:18.160 --> 0:51:22.360
<v Speaker 2>going to overtake them, what's that, God closed the sea

0:51:22.920 --> 0:51:26.759
<v Speaker 2>over the chariots. So God sent me to remind you,

0:51:27.160 --> 0:51:30.319
<v Speaker 2>this is not your first time calling on his name.

0:51:30.800 --> 0:51:34.600
<v Speaker 2>This is not your first time needing his help. Remember

0:51:34.680 --> 0:51:38.719
<v Speaker 2>where you come from. You come from a God who

0:51:38.760 --> 0:51:42.319
<v Speaker 2>opens red seas. You come from a faith where a

0:51:42.400 --> 0:51:46.000
<v Speaker 2>stick can split a body of water. You come from

0:51:46.000 --> 0:51:50.040
<v Speaker 2>a lineage of believers that can climb over walls and

0:51:50.239 --> 0:51:53.400
<v Speaker 2>shout and they fall down. So let me remind you

0:51:53.560 --> 0:51:57.160
<v Speaker 2>something about you today. You are very powerful, You are

0:51:57.280 --> 0:51:59.719
<v Speaker 2>very capable, You are very strong.

0:52:00.120 --> 0:52:03.239
<v Speaker 1>You defy the odds. You are not one of them.

0:52:03.520 --> 0:52:06.759
<v Speaker 1>You are not like them. You are not subject to this.

0:52:08.480 --> 0:52:13.080
<v Speaker 2>And don't let what you are facing make you forget

0:52:13.920 --> 0:52:22.120
<v Speaker 2>who you are. High five three people say, don't forget

0:52:22.120 --> 0:52:30.120
<v Speaker 2>where you come from. Don't forget where you come from.

0:52:30.280 --> 0:52:36.720
<v Speaker 2>The tribe of Manassa stood before Joshua, and verse eighteen.

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<v Speaker 2>He said something that I've been declaring over our church

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<v Speaker 2>all week.

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<v Speaker 1>He said, if you clear it, you can claim it.

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<v Speaker 6>That was for you, dude.

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<v Speaker 1>If you clear it, you can claim it.

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<v Speaker 2>Even though they have chariots, God says, I am an

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<v Speaker 2>expert in overpowering chariots.

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<v Speaker 1>Holly, do you hear.

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<v Speaker 2>What I'm preaching, baby, Because I'm trying to say, after

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<v Speaker 2>all God did for us up to this point in

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<v Speaker 2>our ministry, how can we ever doubt him again. You're

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<v Speaker 2>talking about chariots. God doesn't care about chariots. God drowns chariots.

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<v Speaker 2>God will jam the wheels of a chariot. You're talking

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<v Speaker 2>about chariots. You're talking about the economy. God will make

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<v Speaker 2>it rain. If it's not raining anywhere else, he'll make

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<v Speaker 2>it rain in Goshen.

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<v Speaker 1>You're talking about chariots.

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<v Speaker 2>God will make a way through the sea. And if

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<v Speaker 2>you'll clear it, you can claim him. I came to

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<v Speaker 2>tell you today you can drive them out.

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<v Speaker 1>Verse eighteen.

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<v Speaker 2>You can drive them.

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<v Speaker 1>Stand to your feet and give.

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<v Speaker 2>God a praise today.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you Jesus. Let me talk to you for a moment.

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<v Speaker 1>You still can? You still can?

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<v Speaker 2>They said, we're in this land, We're crowded, We're surrounded

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<v Speaker 2>by enemies. And Joshua said, you still can't drive them out.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, it's important for me to remember that every

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<v Speaker 2>promise that God gives me comes with enemies still living

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<v Speaker 2>in it. All of the wheat that God gives me

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<v Speaker 2>guarantees that there will be weeds all around it.

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<v Speaker 1>But I came with the message from.

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<v Speaker 2>The word of the Lord that you can do all

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<v Speaker 2>things through Christ to strengthens you, and you can drive

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<v Speaker 2>them out. Make a different decision. You can reach for

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<v Speaker 2>something other than that bottle. You can drive them out

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<v Speaker 2>because greater is He that is in you than he

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<v Speaker 2>that is in the world.

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<v Speaker 1>You can drive them out.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, what's happened to a lot of us is we've

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<v Speaker 2>gotten too comfortable with the Canaanites, so we've gotten in

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<v Speaker 2>small places. But you can drive them out. You can

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<v Speaker 2>forgive that person who hurt you. You can drive them out.

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<v Speaker 2>You can It's going to be a process, but you

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<v Speaker 2>can drive them out. You can absolutely repair that relationship

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<v Speaker 2>if God means for that relationship to be in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>You can drive them out.

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<v Speaker 2>You can get this health issue under control. You can

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<v Speaker 2>drive them out. You can't apologize. You can drive them out.

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<v Speaker 2>But the problem with us becomes that we forget that

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<v Speaker 2>we have a God who specializes in defeating chariots. The

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<v Speaker 2>chariots won't stop you. They won't stop God. You can

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<v Speaker 2>drive them out.

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<v Speaker 1>Now. The challenge of this message, only you know what

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<v Speaker 1>you're them is I don't.

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<v Speaker 2>All I can tell you is I know a God

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<v Speaker 2>who is greater than any of them that.

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<v Speaker 6>You can name. And this is the Manassa effect.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm praying that rather than misremembering something, I'm praying that

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<v Speaker 2>you would remember it right today and remember how much

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<v Speaker 2>God has done to bring you to this point and

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<v Speaker 2>take that forward with you into your future. Because honestly,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't just want to preach another sermon and then

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<v Speaker 2>you go live among Canaanites all week and don't believe

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<v Speaker 2>you can.

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<v Speaker 1>Drive them out.

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<v Speaker 2>I want something for Monday, when that anxiety comes strong,

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<v Speaker 2>you hear the voice of God in your heart saying

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<v Speaker 2>you can drive that out. You can breathe through that,

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<v Speaker 2>you can move through that, you have other options for that.

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<v Speaker 2>You can drive them out the next time you want

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<v Speaker 2>to explode and go off and just freak out. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't have to be a slave to anger. You can

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<v Speaker 2>drive them.

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<v Speaker 1>Out because you're not in this by yourself.

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<v Speaker 2>And I want to pray for you right now because

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<v Speaker 2>I know there are some things in your land and

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<v Speaker 2>in your life where you have either become entitled or

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<v Speaker 2>you have allowed your insecurity to keep you from being

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<v Speaker 2>what God has called you to be.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know what I can.

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<v Speaker 2>Always tell where I get to a point in a

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<v Speaker 2>message where you have a decision to make. Are you

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<v Speaker 2>really going to believe what God is saying to you

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<v Speaker 2>or are you going to go back home and talk

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<v Speaker 2>to him about the chariots? For the rest of twenty

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<v Speaker 2>twenty six, I want to pray for you. There is

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<v Speaker 2>so much that Jesus Christ saved you for. There is

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<v Speaker 2>so much that He sees in you, so much that

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<v Speaker 2>you can't see in yourself, but if you can clear it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's yours.

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<v Speaker 6>Well.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm praying that your mind would.

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<v Speaker 2>Get peaceful right about now. Just the peace of God

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<v Speaker 2>fill your heart and your mind, heads bowed, eyes closed. Father,

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<v Speaker 2>thank you for the word that you gave us today.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't forget where you come from. Thank you for reminding

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<v Speaker 2>us to be grateful. Thank you for encouraging us to

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<v Speaker 2>be strong.

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<v Speaker 1>Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>If there's anything I've learned in my walk with you.

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<v Speaker 2>It's that we can't drive it out without your help.

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<v Speaker 2>And we try so hard, and we try everything but you.

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<v Speaker 2>But right now, in the name of Jesusus, I joined

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<v Speaker 2>my faith with each and every man, woman, boy and

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<v Speaker 2>girl who is living in a place today, and let's

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<v Speaker 2>confess it together. We all have something. But God, you

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<v Speaker 2>are greater than whatever it is. So Father, in Jesus' name,

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<v Speaker 2>I pray that there would be a remembrance in your

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<v Speaker 2>presence today, not only of what you've done, but of

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<v Speaker 2>who you are.

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<v Speaker 1>God.

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<v Speaker 2>I thank you for every way that you have made

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<v Speaker 2>for us. I thank you for all the times that

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<v Speaker 2>you have shown yourself strong. And now God, I.

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<v Speaker 1>Declare over your people. They are very powerful. In your name,

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<v Speaker 1>they are very strong. God.

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<v Speaker 2>I thank you for how you've blessed them and how

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<v Speaker 2>you will continue to bless them.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for joining us.

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