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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: You never want to miss a Sunday at Elevation because

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Speaker 1: you never know what God is going to do. He's

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Speaker 1: just amazing, and I think you picked a good Sunday

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Speaker 1: to join us too, or if you're watching this on

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday or listening to this on the treadmill. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people tell me that they listen to a

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Speaker 1: sermon that I preach while they run or something like that.

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Speaker 1: So that's good. You do my cardio, I build your faith.

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Speaker 1: This is a great arrangement. But seriously, though, y'all go

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Speaker 1: get some rest. It's my turn to work now. How

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Speaker 1: many are excited for the word of God? Thank you Jesus. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't stop thinking about last week's message, get to

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Speaker 1: the good part. I got home and I felt like

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Speaker 1: I didn't even get to give you the best part

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Speaker 1: of my sermon. So the Lord said, Part two, Part two.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to the good part. V seed it. Relax

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Speaker 1: enjoy this time. This is the time that God gave

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Speaker 1: you not to worry about stuff that you can't do

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Speaker 1: anything about right now. Anyway, whoever's texting you can text

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Speaker 1: you back. Leave them on red in the name of

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Speaker 1: the Lord, and listen to this word. In Philippians, Chapter one,

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Speaker 1: verse six, actually, let me do this. Let me stare

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Speaker 1: step you through three verses. That'll be good. Can I

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Speaker 1: have a minute to set up my Let's do Somealm

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Speaker 1: twenty seven. First, this is what David said. This is

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Speaker 1: what David said, verse thirteen. I remain confident of this.

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Speaker 1: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the

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Speaker 1: land of the living. Put it in the chat. I

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Speaker 1: remain confident. Okay. Now Paul said something similar in Philippians.

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Speaker 1: I'll read you that too. This is the verse that

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Speaker 1: I ended on last week. He said in Philippians one,

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Speaker 1: verse six, being confident of this, that He who began

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Speaker 1: completion until the day of a global pandemic. No, of course,

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Speaker 1: he said that God has a plan even beyond our

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Speaker 1: human surprises, right until the day of Christ. Jesus till

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Speaker 1: us over basically, okay, he said, being confident of this.

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Speaker 1: And then if you move down to verse fourteen, he's

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Speaker 1: describing his prison sentence, and he said, because of my chains,

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Speaker 1: most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in

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Speaker 1: the Lord, and they're all the more to proclaim the

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Speaker 1: Gospel without fear. So I just noticed a kind of

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Speaker 1: a similarity the word confident, But then I noticed a

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Speaker 1: little distinction. David said, I will remain confident in this.

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Speaker 1: Paul said, being confident in this. Then Paul also says,

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Speaker 1: there are some who are becoming confident. And I want

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Speaker 1: to teach on the principle today of borrowed confidence, borrowed confidence,

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Speaker 1: and I want you to pray for us because our

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Speaker 1: family is experiencing something very difficult. My oldest son is

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Speaker 1: now the same size as me, and he's in my

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Speaker 1: closet all the time. We have beef, and I hate

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Speaker 1: to work it out like this on a worldwide global

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Speaker 1: ministry platform, nonprofit five oh one C three organization, but

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Speaker 1: for the purposes of group therapy, pray for me. I'm

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Speaker 1: not mad at him because he comes in my closet

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Speaker 1: that's actually cheaper than me having to buy him his own.

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Speaker 1: So that's just, you know, to me, that's just good stewardship.

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Speaker 1: He's in my closet today, I could tell he's got

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Speaker 1: be mine. They were mine at one time, the Turbo greens,

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Speaker 1: Yet he wore. I'm not mad at him because he

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Speaker 1: You know, somebody gave me this. I remember somebody gave

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Speaker 1: a word that we all know is important to get

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Speaker 1: a date. If can't be cute, be confident. That's what

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Speaker 1: one guy told me. He really did. Harold Staley told

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Speaker 1: be confident. He said, it'll put like three points on

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Speaker 1: your scale, just to be confident. But there's different kinds

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Speaker 1: where Paul is writing this church of Christians who have

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Speaker 1: and watch it that if he's saying that he is

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Speaker 1: they're not anymore. And there's a bunch of reasons for them.

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Speaker 1: There's fighting in the church. Yodia and Synekey aren't getting along,

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Speaker 1: so he's like begging them to stop fighting. And not

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Speaker 1: the least of which is not that their leader is

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Speaker 1: impartation of faith that is so powerful. He's like, let

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Speaker 1: me read you a little bit more of the pastors

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Speaker 1: so you can get a sense. He goes verse three,

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Speaker 1: I thank my God every time I remember you in

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Speaker 1: all my prayers for all of you, look at somebody

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Speaker 1: next to you and say, you make me happy. He says,

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Speaker 1: I always pray with joy because of your partnership in

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Speaker 1: the Gospel from the first day until now. Being confident

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Speaker 1: of Christ Jesus. So there's a sequence here that I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about. But there's also a substance. Let

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Speaker 1: me talk about the substance of it. He's talking about

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Speaker 1: a kind of confidence. Watch this that is not cosmetic,

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Speaker 1: we teach all kinds of things about confidence these days. Culturally.

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Speaker 1: Body confidence. That's a good thing. I think that's great.

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Speaker 1: look good. I'm not lying to you. But at the

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Speaker 1: same time, body confidence, or what's another one that we teach, Oh,

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Speaker 1: confidence in your career, Like I'm really good at this.

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Speaker 1: I'm good at this, man, I've been doing all my life. Well.

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Speaker 1: The thing about the last year is that everything that

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Speaker 1: when we're forced to deal with our core kind of

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Speaker 1: all he's got with him in prison that can come

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Speaker 1: visit him is a paphroditis. A paphroditis. A paphroditis is

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Speaker 1: watch this. I told you. I wanted to preach you

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Speaker 1: When he left Macedonia went to Thessalonica, they were the

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Speaker 1: day of Christ. They sent him a gift, they loaned

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Speaker 1: him a person. He borrowed a paphroditis for the season

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Speaker 1: I'm still confident. Make this confession by faith if you can.

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Speaker 1: I'm still confident. And the principle I want us to

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Speaker 1: determines when it runs out. So while body confidence is awesome, newsflash,

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Speaker 1: your body goes through different versions states. If my confidence

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Speaker 1: I mess up? God is still with you. I don't

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Speaker 1: that's kind of Morbidefully, they call an ambulance and try

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Speaker 1: to fix me. But by next Sunday God would send

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Speaker 1: you somebody else to preach his word. He loves you

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Speaker 1: that much. It's weird to imagine that. I mean, and

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Speaker 1: that's true of everything in your life. So if you're confidence.

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Speaker 1: As the letter progresses, Paul gets heavier. He starts out,

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Speaker 1: I thank God for you. Every time I think about you,

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Speaker 1: You make me happy. The Philippians were that church for Paul.

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Speaker 1: He liked to hear from him, unlike the other churches,

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Speaker 1: like the Corinthian Church. You know, the Corinthian Church. They

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Speaker 1: They had incest in the church. They were getting drunk

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Speaker 1: off the communion wine. With the Philippian Church, He's like,

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Speaker 1: y'all make me happy, man, We have this partnership. Y'all

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Speaker 1: have been with me for a minute. Yeah, he knew

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Speaker 1: the power of partnership. Yeah. And when I preached last week,

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Speaker 1: behavioral patterns. Well, where did that come from? We all

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Speaker 1: and God hasn't stopped being God, and God hasn't stopped

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Speaker 1: And God sees everything that's going down in your life

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Speaker 1: blood pressure is going up, your bank account's going God

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Speaker 1: you're going through. That's what I'm talking about the currency

427
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Speaker 1: of confidence. So when you're young, you start borrowing confidence

428
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Speaker 1: from the wrong places. You borrow confidence from sexual attractiveness. Ooh,

429
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: did you hear the decibel levels sink down beneath the floor.

430
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Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god, he's preaching like it's twenty

431
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Speaker 1: twenty one. It's like people really run around to different

432
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Speaker 1: sexual partners, partner after partner after partner after partner after partner,

433
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Speaker 1: and rather than ever being in a real relationship, the

434
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Speaker 1: good part where you have to love somebody for who

435
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: they are, not what they look like. You take this

436
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Speaker 1: feeling of oh, I have somebody, and you borrow the

437
00:28:55,440 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: confidence of having somebody. But when you borrow confidence from

438
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: the wrong places, the interest rate is ridiculous. That hit

439
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: me right there. I'm talking about when you get in

440
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: a relationship where you have to compromise your values to

441
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: get your needs met, y'all, that's worse than the check

442
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: cash in place. It's an interest rate. And let me

443
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: tell you another thing. While I got you fired up

444
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: about all the people that you kept going to because

445
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: you wanted them to validate you. But they cant because

446
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: they're not gone. They didn't make you, they don't know

447
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: you like that, and they have they're all these securities.

448
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: So leave them alone and get it from God. Hey,

449
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:57,239
Speaker 1: you keep trying to borrow confidence from people who have

450
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: insufficient funds. They can't do it. They can't. They want to,

451
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: they just can't. They're flesh and bone and blood and

452
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: dirt and snot and spit and human and stuff like you.

453
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Speaker 1: So that's why Paul wouldn't go into self pity. Nobody

454
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: nobody pre for me. He's like, no, I got a partner.

455
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: I got a partner. I've got a partner. I got

456
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Speaker 1: a partner. I got a partner. I got a partner.

457
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Speaker 1: I got a partner. Say it right now, I've got

458
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Speaker 1: a partner. Wow. Wow, Wow. God gave me some people

459
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Speaker 1: that were with me at first. God gave me some

460
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Speaker 1: people who have been where I've never been before. You know,

461
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: when you go through something challenging, you can read a book.

462
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Speaker 1: You are not the first one in history who went

463
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Speaker 1: through that. You know how many times I borrow Tom

464
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: Layman's knowledge, confidence, wisdom, Lisa every nine thirties that y'all

465
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: would be at he would text me before the eleven thirties.

466
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: I would be back there in the back trying to

467
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Speaker 1: rewrite my message because I would think that was horrible,

468
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: that's awful. He would text me my pastor pretch it

469
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: just like that again. At eleven thirty, I'd be like, huh,

470
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: that was good. How many times Carrie is a little

471
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: melody and a songwriting session right, and it it'd be

472
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: like and stuffing. He goes, Oh, that's good, and you're like,

473
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: it is, that's why you need partners. Are you always

474
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Speaker 1: the needy one? Or can somebody else hold a little

475
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Speaker 1: bit of your faith for a while? Are you always

476
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: a Paphroditis or can you be Paul sometimes too good?

477
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: I hope more than Elijah borrows my my boosts. We're

478
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: gonna get on that Instagram page with this sermon. I

479
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: can feel it, all right, God, I think that guy does.

480
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna be on the that's all right. But if

481
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Speaker 1: he borrows my shoes, I hope more than he borrows

482
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Speaker 1: what's in my closet. I hope God will help me

483
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Speaker 1: get to a point kind of where Paul was in

484
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Speaker 1: my life where it's like becoming confident. That's great. To

485
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: borrow confidence, you have to sometimes, But then there's being confident.

486
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Speaker 1: It's where this is what God has called me to do,

487
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Speaker 1: This is how God made me to do it, This

488
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Speaker 1: is what He's given me to get the job done.

489
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Speaker 1: This I keep hearing that this, this, this all the

490
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Speaker 1: clothes in the world, all the money in the world.

491
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Speaker 1: I know that sounds I know that sounds really like

492
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Speaker 1: abstract and spiritual. But I promise you all of that

493
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Speaker 1: cannot compare with one word from this. From this, you

494
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: forgot about David Pastor. No, no, no, I didn't because

495
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Speaker 1: the people that should have been his partners, the people

496
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Speaker 1: that should have been his comrades, the people that should

497
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Speaker 1: have believed in him. Isn't that awful when the people

498
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: who should should have said you got something? Man? Keep going, Hey,

499
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: I know that's all right. You don't fit in, but

500
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: that's for a reason. You're too big for that small place.

501
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: Just keep growing, you dont have to fit in. That's

502
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:05,479
Speaker 1: all right. Right now, David, the future King of Israel,

503
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: comes down to Britain, bread to his brothers, and his

504
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 1: brother go back to the verse. Now I'm really ready

505
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: for it, burned with anger and said why have you

506
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Speaker 1: come down here? And now I'm gonna tell you something.

507
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: David didn't exactly know that yet. He thought he came

508
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Speaker 1: to feed his brothers. He really came to fight for

509
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 1: his nation. So his confidence is not in what he's doing.

510
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: His confidence is something different. I will remain confident in this.

511
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: That's what he said in some twenty seven. Now look

512
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: at this incident it's not necessarily connected, but maybe this

513
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: is where he started becoming confident. Becoming confident, becoming confident,

514
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: building that confidence, building the skill to walk into a

515
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: room and have enough confidence that you don't need to

516
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: be the center of attention, building enough confidence to have

517
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Speaker 1: people who criticized the way you choose to live your

518
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: life and just keep on being true to what God

519
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: has put in your heart. And yeah, I'm gonna adjust

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00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: and change, but that's a process. And this event in

521
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Speaker 1: his life is really indicative of the integrity of what

522
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Speaker 1: God was creating in David. Because when Eliab said you

523
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Speaker 1: left this few sheep in the wilderness, he's the meaning, David,

524
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: you see it. You're a shepherd, You're not a soldier.

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Speaker 1: You're too young for this, you're too small for this,

526
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Speaker 1: you're too little for this. You have bad motives, all

527
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Speaker 1: the things that people may say. Okay, he's saying all

528
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: of that, and he accuses him and belittles him. He says,

529
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Speaker 1: you're done. They're keeping a few sheep. You don't belong here.

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Speaker 1: I know how conceited you are and how wicked your

531
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Speaker 1: heart is. You came down only to watch the battle.

532
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Speaker 1: And David is a little bit confused, frustrated for sure,

533
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Speaker 1: Now what have I done? Can't I even speak? And

534
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Speaker 1: then he turned away to someone else and brought up

535
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Speaker 1: the same matter, and the men answered him as before,

536
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 1: watch this. His confidence didn't come from his big brother,

537
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: so his big brother can't take it away. There needs

538
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: to be a part in you that knows I appreciate

539
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: everybody and everything that God sends me. But if they

540
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:21,760
Speaker 1: walk away, he won't. If they fall short, he won't.

541
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Speaker 1: If this brook dries up, there will be a bird

542
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Speaker 1: in the sky an hour from now. And David is young,

543
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: but he's confident. It's not about the shoes, it's not

544
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: about the swag. It's not about the beliefs of other people.

545
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: When will you stop borrowing other people's bad beliefs? One

546
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: that Alive didn't believe in David Alive didn't believe in himself.

547
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Speaker 1: I don't have to carry things that others believe. I

548
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: don't have to carry I don't have to carry things

549
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: that culture beliefs. I don't have to feel how culture

550
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: feels about things. I don't have to pay the interest

551
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:22,919
Speaker 1: rate on a broken world system of thought. I don't

552
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: have to pay a generational tax on what happened in

553
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: my great breath. I can break it in my bloodline

554
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: if I can believe it in my spirit. Y'all, calm down.

555
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: You're pushing me. But God says some of you are

556
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: built to break it. You're built to break it. What

557
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: they said is not your limitation. Don't let their limitation

558
00:37:52,400 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: become your insecurity. Because they can't see it doesn't mean

559
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: you can't see it. Just because they can't believe it

560
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you can't believe it. And you're like, you

561
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: sound kind of cocky up here right now, Pastor. I

562
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 1: thought we were supposed to be humblest Christians. Imagine what

563
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 1: he took for Jesus, for the choicet before him, to

564
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Speaker 1: endure the cross, despising his shame, with everybody telling him,

565
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 1: come down and prove that you're God, called the angels,

566
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Speaker 1: call your father, and he stayed up there, confident on

567
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,319
Speaker 1: that cross. Paul said, I learned from the Master. I

568
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: want to be in the fellowship of his sufferings, to

569
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Speaker 1: participate in his resurrection power. It's a partnership. It's a partnership.

570
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: And David said, I don't need to be partners with

571
00:38:51,080 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: the lib I'm partners with God, partners with God. I

572
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 1: have the name of the Lord. And things start getting

573
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: really weird after that, because Saul, who is the king

574
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Speaker 1: that God is replacing, here's that David wants to go

575
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Speaker 1: fight Goliath. And he calls him over in verse thirty

576
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Speaker 1: three and said, you're not able to go out against

577
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Speaker 1: this philistin, this philistine, this philistine. What's the philistine's name? Goliath?

578
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: This philistine, this philistine. You're only a young man. He's

579
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: been a warrior from his youth. His inexperience was his

580
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: greatest benefit. Everybody else knew too much. David was dumb

581
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: enough to defeat the enemy that they were running from.

582
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Speaker 1: So stop saying, oh, I can't do this, I don't

583
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Speaker 1: know enough. I gotta show you something. David said to

584
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Speaker 1: Saul verse thirty four. Your servant has been keeping his

585
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Speaker 1: father's sheep. He starts reading his resume to the insecure king,

586
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: and isn't it funny David put the same thing on

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Speaker 1: his resume that his brother used to insult him, The

588
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: things that the things that you used to disqualify you.

589
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: God's like, that's exactly what it is. That's exactly what

590
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: what is you that crazy. I've been keeping sheep, didn't

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00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: you hear? My brother and watched the slutch this. When

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Speaker 1: a lion or a bear came and carried off a

593
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Speaker 1: sheep from the flock, I went after it and struck

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Speaker 1: it and rescued the sheep from his mouth. And when

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00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: it turned on me, I seized it by it here,

596
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: instruck it and chill confident your servant has killed both

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00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised philistine will be

598
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: like one of them because I got a partner. So

599
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: what do you do when your big brother doesn't believe

600
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: in you, and neither does your leader when you go

601
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 1: to when you go to get help and encouragement and

602
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: love and support, because some of you are there, Man,

603
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't have anybody my life, Paul, I

604
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,240
Speaker 1: don't have the Philippins. I'm not a pustle this, Chris Paster, Steven,

605
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 1: I don't have Holley on the front row. Shes to

606
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: encourage Angel and she loves you, and she does and

607
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 1: that's great. But since David couldn't get it from Eliah,

608
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: and he couldn't get it from Saul, he borrowed it

609
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Speaker 1: from a bear. He said, no, wait, a minute. I

610
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: never did this before, but one time, somebody say, one time,

611
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: one time I was out doing my job and there

612
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 1: was an attack that came against what I was responsible for.

613
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: And no, it wasn't some big giant, some philistine army. No.

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Speaker 1: I never been on this level before. No, I've never

615
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: been in this season before. No, I never dealt with

616
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: this challenge before. I never passed her through a pandemic before.

617
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: But one time, one time, I'm talking about first statement.

618
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Speaker 1: One time, one time, come on, bring it all the

619
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: way back. I know you never did this before, but

620
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: you did that. You did that, put it in the chat.

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Speaker 1: I did that. I did that. I did that. I

622
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 1: held on to God when I had no job, held

623
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Speaker 1: on to God when I had This is for somebody.

624
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: This is for somebody who's up under a thread of

625
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: intimidation right now for something that You've never traveled this

626
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: way before. But you did that. And the most annoying

627
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: thing I read in a long time is verse thirty six.

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Speaker 1: This will be like one of them, this this this, this.

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Speaker 1: God has given you a this for every them, every enemy,

630
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: every insecurity, every question. God has given you a this. Now,

631
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 1: if you start getting distracted by them, what they're doing,

632
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: where their life is, they're progressing, what they've accomplished. Your

633
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:13,320
Speaker 1: power is not in them, it's in this and your confidence.

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00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 1: Your confidence will follow your focus. Your confidence will follow

635
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Speaker 1: your focus, so you will start believing the fear report,

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Speaker 1: like the spies who kept the whole nation from going

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Speaker 1: into the Promised Land because they had a good land,

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Speaker 1: but they had a bad report. This it's an amazing

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Speaker 1: thing to realize the power of your this. I never

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Speaker 1: did this before. I begged my kids one day. They

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Speaker 1: were all fighting and I was mad. I was like,

642
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Speaker 1: y'all stop. I never did this before as a dad. Mercy, Mercy, mercy.

643
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Speaker 1: I'm a real good dad, I promise. But let's just

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Speaker 1: have murments of weakness. Now you've been saying that to God,

645
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Speaker 1: Lily this before. This is new to me. I never

646
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Speaker 1: been on monster dot com. Do they still have that website.

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Speaker 1: I've never been doing a resume. I've never been on

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Speaker 1: LinkedIn looking for a job. I'm fifty two. I never

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Speaker 1: did this before. I never had to impart wisdom to

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Speaker 1: somebody else. I don't feel very wise myself. David said,

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Speaker 1: this will be like one of them. But the key

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Speaker 1: to all of this will be where does your confidence

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Speaker 1: come from? Because if it comes from a paphroditis, he

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Speaker 1: gets sick. If it comes from alive, he has his

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Speaker 1: own issues. If it comes from Saul, do you remember

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Speaker 1: what Saul did to try to help David? He said, here,

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Speaker 1: take my armor. David's like I could, But you've been

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Speaker 1: wearing it for forty days and it's not really working

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Speaker 1: for you. So why do you keep wearing what's not

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Speaker 1: even working for the people that you're copying. Why do

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00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 1: we keep doing what the world's doing. Why do we

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Speaker 1: keep why do we keep participating in the same stuff?

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Speaker 1: David said, I can't wear your armor. I got my

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Speaker 1: own swag. Now, in David's case, his swag was a sling.

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Speaker 1: It was what he killed the bear with. It was

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Speaker 1: what he killed the lion with. So, when you're standing

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Speaker 1: in front of something you've never seen before, never seen

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Speaker 1: this age, never seen this stage, never seen these challenges,

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Speaker 1: never seen this environment, never seen this uncertainty, never seen

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Speaker 1: this instability. Borrow it from what's already in your bag.

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Speaker 1: There is a this for every that. There is a

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Speaker 1: this for everything, And all you need to believe is

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Speaker 1: to remember I call you to remembrance today of what

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Speaker 1: God gave you, who He's been to you, what he

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Speaker 1: did for you. I declare prophetically over your life, whatever

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Speaker 1: Goliath you're standing in front of, because we all have one,

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Speaker 1: this philistine will be like one of them. You see

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Speaker 1: those dead lions behind you, You see those dead bears

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00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: behind you, You see those seasons you survived and you

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Speaker 1: didn't feel like you had enough, but God stretched it out.

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Speaker 1: I don't have it right now, God said, you can

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Speaker 1: borrow mine. You can come up in my closet. Why

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Speaker 1: would you wear Saul's armor when you have the shield

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Speaker 1: of faith? Why would you wear Saul's armor when you

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Speaker 1: have the shoes of the Gospel. Why would you wear

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Speaker 1: Saul's armor when you have the sword of the spirit.

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Speaker 1: David said, why would I borrow the armor of somebody

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Speaker 1: whose faith is smaller than mine. You have your own slave,

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Speaker 1: you have your own personality, you have your own gift.

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Speaker 1: Some of the most confident people are the most quiet people.

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Speaker 1: Because I know what I have, I'll have to broadcast it.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to compare mind to yours. This the

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Speaker 1: power of this for every insecurity in your life, God

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Speaker 1: has given you a this wow. So when it comes

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Speaker 1: to your faith, remain confident. Before you can remain confident,

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Speaker 1: you got to be confident. And before you can be confident,

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Speaker 1: you got to become confident. Paul said, I think you

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Speaker 1: feel very confident right now. I don't think you see

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Speaker 1: how it's going to work out. So just remember certainty

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Speaker 1: is knowing how. Confidence is knowing who. I am confident

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Speaker 1: of this give me Philippians one six. I think it'll

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Speaker 1: hit different now. Confident of this, this this Paul knows

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Speaker 1: the Philippian Church has limited faith. God knows you have

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Speaker 1: limited resource. God knows you have limited experience. He didn't

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Speaker 1: say I'm confident about you. He said I'm confident in this.

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Speaker 1: He who began a good work in you will bring

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Speaker 1: it to completion to the day of Christ. This I

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Speaker 1: will remain confident in this. So I can't think ten

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Speaker 1: years ahead right now. I can't even think ten minutes ahead.

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Speaker 1: I got to reach back to the last bear. I killed,

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Speaker 1: the last challenge. I overcame the last way. God. May

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Speaker 1: and stay confident in this because you might be like

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Speaker 1: Moses standing there at a burning bush, asking God, what

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Speaker 1: do I do if they don't believe me? Exodus. For one,

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Speaker 1: what do I do if they they they don't believe me.

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Speaker 1: Remember God has given you a this for every day.

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Speaker 1: For whoever doesn't like you, or whoever doesn't support you,

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Speaker 1: they may not believe you. But watch what God did

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Speaker 1: with Moses. Next verse the Lord said, what's in your hand?

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Speaker 1: And Moses said, a staff. So like David has a slaying,

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Speaker 1: Moses has a staff. You have something to just put

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Speaker 1: it in the chat right now? I have this, all right?

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Speaker 1: And Moses is like, I have a shepherd's instrument. I

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Speaker 1: have something that's very common and very ordinary and very

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Speaker 1: How can confidence come from a shepherd's staff? He doesn't

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Speaker 1: know what this staff is capable of, yet neither do you.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't know that it's going to split waters, neither

728
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Speaker 1: do you. He doesn't know that it's going to produce

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Speaker 1: water from rocks, hydration from impossibilities, and neither do you.

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Speaker 1: But in his hand was a staff, and the Lord

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Speaker 1: said verse three, throw it on the ground. And he

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Speaker 1: threw it on the ground, and it became a snake,

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Speaker 1: and he ran from it. He's running from the thing

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Speaker 1: that God is going to use. But that's not the point.

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Speaker 1: The point is this verse four, the Lord said, reach

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Speaker 1: out your hand, take it by the tail. So Moses

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Speaker 1: reached out to cold of the snake, and it turned

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Speaker 1: back into a staff in his hand. Now you have

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Speaker 1: it in your hand, and watch what the Lord says.

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Speaker 1: Verse five. This this you mean my staff? Yeah, this,

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Speaker 1: you mean the symbol of my mistake. I wouldn't even

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Speaker 1: be a shepherd if I hadn't killed the Egyptian. God said, yeah, this, this,

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Speaker 1: this is so that they may believe this. God gave

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Speaker 1: you a this, this moment. Give us this day our

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Speaker 1: daily bread. Give us this day, this this, this, this, this, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this this, this is the day the Lord is made.

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Speaker 1: I will remain confident in this. No, I can't do

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Speaker 1: what you can do. I don't have to, but I

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Speaker 1: can do this. No, I can't do next Wednesday's work

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Speaker 1: in my head, but I can do this. I can

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Speaker 1: do this. Wow, Father, we release our staff. We release

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Speaker 1: the thing that was good for us in one season,

753
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Speaker 1: but it needs to become something else in this season.

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Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord that you showed me while I

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Speaker 1: was studying the power of this, not them, not that,

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Speaker 1: but this all across the world right now. I believe

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Speaker 1: in your ability to interpret this word, and it will

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00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: be custom made for the exact situation that each person

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Speaker 1: is hearing it. They will hear this message when they

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Speaker 1: need to hear it. They will receive it when they're

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Speaker 1: ready to take it in. Our confidence has been shaken.

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Speaker 1: The entire world has been rocking and reeling nearly for

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Speaker 1: a year now. What we used to absolutely assume now

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Speaker 1: we can hardly predict. We thank you for that, because

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Speaker 1: in a lot of cases, our confidence was coming from

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Speaker 1: a bad bank that was charging us too much interest.

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Speaker 1: So we're coming back to you today. We confess that

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Speaker 1: sometimes we've trusted in the wrong things. I have. I

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Speaker 1: trusted in my own wisdom. I didn't ask you. I

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Speaker 1: trusted in my hustle. I didn't know I could rest

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Speaker 1: and be strong. Sometimes, Lord, I assumed that when something

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Speaker 1: left my hand had left my life, but it didn't.

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Speaker 1: You were just changing it. We thank you for this,

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Speaker 1: and when the next thing comes, we thank you for

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Speaker 1: that too. We're looking back over slain lions, dead bears,

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Speaker 1: and we're walking right past Eliah, and we're shaking off

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Speaker 1: Saul's armor today, and we've got our sling, we've got

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Speaker 1: our swag. It comes from coming in the name of

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Speaker 1: the Lord, particularly Lord, for those who don't have a

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Speaker 1: partner Right now, I want to stand in the gop

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Speaker 1: and believe with them. You know my faith fails. You

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Speaker 1: know that so well, Lord, But in this moment, you've

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Speaker 1: given me great faith to this message. So from the

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Speaker 1: overflow of your word that you put inside of me,

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Speaker 1: the ingrafted word that produces faith. Faith comes by hearing

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Speaker 1: the word of God. So as we step into this word,

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Speaker 1: we borrow confidence. We borrow confidence not in what we see,

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Speaker 1: but in what you say, not in what we've experienced,

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Speaker 1: but in what you predestined. We're coming into this moment,

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Speaker 1: in this season, with uncertainty, but we're coming in with confidence.

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Speaker 1: I stand with every brother and every sister who has

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Speaker 1: been wondering can I do this? And I agree with

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Speaker 1: Heaven that what you've put in their hand is more

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Speaker 1: than enough. Be it a slang, be it a staff,

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Speaker 1: be it five loaves into fish. I will remain confident

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Speaker 1: that I will see the goodness of the Lord. Help

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00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: them see it, God, help them see it to walk

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Speaker 1: right past every other thing and to see the power

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Speaker 1: of this. We believe you for breakthroughs because this word

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Speaker 1: was preached we believe you that people who have been

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Speaker 1: unable to sleep are going to find rest in your

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00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: presence this week. I thank you, Lord, that there is

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Speaker 1: nothing that the enemy can put in front of us

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Speaker 1: that is greater than what you put inside of us.

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Speaker 1: I believe that, I believe that, I believe that I

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Speaker 1: decided to believe that I choose to believe it. And

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Speaker 1: this philisty will be like one of them, and this

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Speaker 1: battle will be like one of those past victories. And God,

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Speaker 1: we're not reaching into tomorrow to borrow worry. We're reaching

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Speaker 1: into our past tomorrow. Fan And now we touch heaven,

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Speaker 1: and we agree that whatever we do in your name,

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Speaker 1: it shall be established, it shall be. We come into

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Speaker 1: covenant with your work. We come into covenant with your

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Speaker 1: son Jesus, and we declare yes, and a man, your

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Speaker 1: promise is true in Jesus, Nay, lift up a great

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Speaker 1: shout of praise, you sci a killer, you bear slayer,

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Speaker 1: you lion killer. Thank you Lord. Just catching my breath

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Speaker 1: after preaching, I like to always just come on and

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Speaker 1: tell you, thank you, thank you for being a part

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Speaker 1: of this ministry. Paul talked about the partnership in the

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Speaker 1: gospel that's the way I feel about you. There are

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Speaker 1: thousands around the globe. We may never meet face to face,

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Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean God didn't connect us. And I

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Speaker 1: want you to remember you're not alone. Sometimes you'll feel lonely.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you won't find anybody who has the answers that

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Speaker 1: you need. But not only is God with you, but

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Speaker 1: as your church family, we're standing with you, and Holly

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Speaker 1: and I are believing for you that God's going to

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Speaker 1: continue to build your faith, increase your confidence. And if

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Speaker 1: you're in one of those seasons where you don't have

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Speaker 1: a lot of faith right now, that it can get better.

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Speaker 1: Borrow mind. We believe good things concerning you. He who

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Speaker 1: began a good work, he will be faithful. We love you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to all of you who give faithfully. It

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Speaker 1: touches my heart so much to know that you believe

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Speaker 1: in this ministry, that you believe in Jesus, that you

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Speaker 1: believe in His word. I'll see you next time. Pray

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Speaker 1: for you.