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Speaker 1: This is a special season for our church. It's a

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Speaker 1: this year we've themed it around the word available. Available.

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Speaker 1: That's all God has ever wanted is for us to say,

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Speaker 1: through the ministry, it's good to receive. It's even better

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Speaker 1: to give. If you want to make a donation, a

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Speaker 1: part of what God is doing here. We so appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: You can get all the details at Elevation Church dot

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Speaker 1: What you just did, you have Elevation Worship on your sweatshirt. Hey,

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Speaker 1: Elevation Church dot org and you can select available. And

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Speaker 1: Go to Elevationchurch dot org dot com if you're not

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Speaker 1: believing that your best is ahead. Somebody asked me the

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Speaker 1: I am the son of Larry Ferdick. There are some

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Speaker 1: genetic yeses that she did not know. She was saying, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I love a newly married person. Well, I'm marrying them,

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Speaker 1: not their family. All these little cute things you say

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Speaker 1: on the first yes, the first yes you say to them,

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Speaker 1: the second yes you say to Uncle Don. And Uncle

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Speaker 1: Don is crazy, Uncle Don is a drunk, Uncle Don

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Speaker 1: is absolutely demon possessed. You have no idea what you're

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Speaker 1: saying yes to. Now here's the question, do you trust

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Speaker 1: the person even when you don't like the plan. Because

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Speaker 1: I did not say yes to my understanding of God's plan,

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Speaker 1: I said yes to God and the second yes. The

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Speaker 1: second yes is not just to the blessing. The second

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Speaker 1: yes is to believing that God is working even when

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Speaker 1: his presence is hard to discern. Who is this message

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Speaker 1: for today? You're on the second yes, You're not on

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Speaker 1: the first yes. Here's the first yes. The first yes

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Speaker 1: is immature. The first yes is yes accept or yes

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Speaker 1: unless okay, you know, yes, God, I will do everything

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Speaker 1: you want me to do x X. That turned the

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Speaker 1: other cheek crap. I'm not soft like that. I was

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Speaker 1: at race like that. So yes, Lord, to the to

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Speaker 1: the other part or you know where you really see it,

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Speaker 1: in the areas of greatest conviction and in the areas

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Speaker 1: that go against the grain of what has been culturally

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Speaker 1: embedded in us. The first yes is the stuff that

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Speaker 1: we want God to change about us. The second yes

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Speaker 1: the second. The first yes is follow me and I

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Speaker 1: will make you fishers of men. The second yes is

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Speaker 1: I'm going to Jerusalem to die, and this ends on

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Speaker 1: a cross. The second yes, I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you're ready for the second yes. The

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Speaker 1: second yes is not yes except you know how someone

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Speaker 1: will say, well, I'm I'm coming to Christna, I'm gonna.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to church. But but yes, this is

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Speaker 1: yes unless I'll do it unless m hm, some people

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Speaker 1: watch my sermon online unless I start talking about something

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Speaker 1: they don't want to hear about. That day, now we

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Speaker 1: got clique Christianity. It went from across to a clique.

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Speaker 1: I can't figure out what happened. Jesus didn't say, take

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Speaker 1: up your click and stream me if I'm saying something

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Speaker 1: you want to hear. He said, follow me, follow me

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Speaker 1: when it's hard, follow me. Can I still get a

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Speaker 1: yes when it's not what you expected and it's not what?

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Speaker 1: Do you still love me? Will you still serve me?

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Speaker 1: Will you still trust me? Will you still surrender to me?

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Speaker 1: Will you still follow me when what I speak to

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Speaker 1: you leads you to a place that you didn't know

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Speaker 1: to expect. This is the second yes. This is when

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Speaker 1: Jesus knelt down in the garden of Gethsemine and he said, Father,

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

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Speaker 1: go to this cross. I don't want to experience separation.

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Speaker 1: So if there's any other way, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say yes. But in that moment, in that crux, in

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Speaker 1: that crucible of the second yes, Jesus said, nevertheless, see

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Speaker 1: a real yes will reach past your flesh, past your feelings,

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Speaker 1: past your experience, past your logic, past what's popular, past opinions,

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Speaker 1: and say, God, this is not a yes from my flesh,

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Speaker 1: This is a yes from my spirit. Nevertheless, not my will,

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Speaker 1: but yours be done. So the answer is still yes. Devil,

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Speaker 1: come against me is still a yes. Tell me I

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Speaker 1: have no right is still a yes. And the more

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Speaker 1: he persecutes me, the more I'm going to praise him,

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Speaker 1: because it's a yes. It was yes. It was settled

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Speaker 1: when he called me. When he sells me, it's a yes. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and Amen to the glory of God. A man is

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Speaker 1: not just something you say to help the preacher know

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Speaker 1: he's doing a good job. Amen is a is a

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Speaker 1: covenant word. Now look, the first yes is about convenience.

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Speaker 1: The second yes is about covenant. Anytime you see something

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Speaker 1: twice in scripture, like when God called Moses and he

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Speaker 1: said his name twice, it is symbolic of covenant. It

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Speaker 1: means that God has already said yes to you, even

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Speaker 1: when you say no to him. Some of y'all don't

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Speaker 1: like that, because you are a real Christian this week.

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Speaker 1: But I promise you, if you will have a bad week,

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Speaker 1: you will need a covenant with God. You will start

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Speaker 1: quoting verses like even if I am faithless, he is faithful,

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Speaker 1: for he cannot deny himself. That's the second yes. It's

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Speaker 1: when you've given God every excuse or reason to exclude you,

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Speaker 1: and he brings you in and uses you. The second

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Speaker 1: yes is a covenant. Yes. When I give to God

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Speaker 1: in an offering, the reason that I give to God

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Speaker 1: is because I believe that everything that I have comes

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Speaker 1: from him. I don't want to take a vote because

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Speaker 1: we don't really do a lot of church votes here,

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Speaker 1: But how many would say everything I have comes from God?

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Speaker 1: I worked hard for what I have. Who made it

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Speaker 1: so you weren't laying in a hospital bed this morning?

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Speaker 1: Or who even made it so you were born into

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Speaker 1: an opportunity where you could have the ability to work

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Speaker 1: hard er. See an example of hard work sets so

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Speaker 1: that you could follow in it. I found out a

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Speaker 1: long time ago that if he doesn't breathe out, I

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Speaker 1: don't breathe in. So everything I have I received from

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Speaker 1: the Lord. And you know how, you know how? Malachi

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Speaker 1: three is a scripture about giving back to God, and

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Speaker 1: on our offering weekend, it'll be a great chance for

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Speaker 1: some of you to say the second yes to God. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The first yes is yes, I enjoy this church. The

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Speaker 1: second yes is I'm invested in it. Praise the Lord,

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Speaker 1: the yes of investment. And God says in that great scripture,

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Speaker 1: he says, test me in this, bring the whole tithe

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Speaker 1: into the storehouse. That's that first ten percent I give

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Speaker 1: to God. Ten percent. That's a lot. No. Ninety that

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Speaker 1: he lets me keep is a lot. It all comes

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Speaker 1: from him. Somebody said to me one time, why do

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Speaker 1: you have such boldness when you preach about giving? I said,

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Speaker 1: because I believe that our faith is the access point

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Speaker 1: by which God blesses us. So like a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago, Abby was bringing me her cereal in her bowl.

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Speaker 1: She's five years old, and she said, I got you,

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Speaker 1: she said, he said. She said, look on the bright side,

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Speaker 1: here's my bowl and here's my cereal for you to

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Speaker 1: make me cereal. But look on the dark side, daddy,

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Speaker 1: I can't reach the milk. Look on the dark side

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Speaker 1: so adorable. I wrote it down in my phone so

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't forget it. Look on the dark side. I

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Speaker 1: can't reach the milk because she understood something. Sometimes you

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Speaker 1: can see something but you can't reach it, and it

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Speaker 1: was available, but it wasn't accessible. Come on and help

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Speaker 1: me preach if you know what I'm talking about. And

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Speaker 1: it is by grace that you are saying that's God's

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Speaker 1: yes to you. But it is through faith. Faith is

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Speaker 1: what makes grace accessible. It is believing that God is

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Speaker 1: with you. It is believing that God is for you.

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Speaker 1: It is believing that God is enough. Because God's yes

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Speaker 1: is settled, your yes will be tested. But I need

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Speaker 1: you to understand this last point. Your yes is connected.

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Speaker 1: Your yes is connected to God's yes. Not that we

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Speaker 1: earn his love or our obedience curries his favor. God

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Speaker 1: is not a man like that. But when you put

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Speaker 1: yourself in a position where you say yes to God,

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Speaker 1: you have no idea what is connected to your yes.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes when you're really fighting to trust God, you're

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Speaker 1: not even actually fighting for you. You're fighting for your

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Speaker 1: children and your children's children. Hear the word of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Some of you are changing bloodlines by your faith. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to say it for the fifty people who receive it.

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Speaker 1: Some of you are not just fighting for what's right

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Speaker 1: in front of you. See yes isted your yes. When

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Speaker 1: Jody said yes to Jesus and came through Monk's corner

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Speaker 1: and led me to Christ sitting at the restaurant, his

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Speaker 1: yes was connected to me preaching. Now that we started

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Speaker 1: this ministry, I've seen thousands of people say yes to Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Without his first yes, the second yes would not have

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Speaker 1: been possible. The devil is fighting you over your yes

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Speaker 1: right now because he knows what is connected to your yes.

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Speaker 1: If you throw your hands up right now, I promise

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Speaker 1: you there is a breakthrough in your yes. There is

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Speaker 1: deliverance in your yes. There is freedom in your yes.

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Speaker 1: There is healing in your yes. Come on, there's salvation

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Speaker 1: in your yes. Let me ask you a question. Aren't

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Speaker 1: you glad Jesus said yes to the growth. That's why

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Speaker 1: you got saved. That's why you got healed. That's why

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Speaker 1: you got redeemed because he said yes. Yes, say it, yes,

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Speaker 1: say it with defiance. Yes, I'm hurting, but yes, I'm confused.

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Speaker 1: But yes, I don't know the way out. But yes,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense on paper, But yes, I'm still

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Speaker 1: in a depression right now. But yes, I still believe

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Speaker 1: in freedom, even though I'm dealing with the addiction yes,

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Speaker 1: say yes, Say yes till the devil has no choice

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Speaker 1: but to believe. You convince yourself and your spirit. Press

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Speaker 1: that's your flesh, and say yes from your spirit. Yes.

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Speaker 1: Your yes is connected to your purpose. And when you

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Speaker 1: say yes to God, you have no idea what you're

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Speaker 1: saying yes to. Oh I'm done, you can stay standing.

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Speaker 1: I said what God gave me to say, Jump up

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Speaker 1: on your feet. What is your response? This is the

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Speaker 1: second yes. The first yes is that you came to

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Speaker 1: hear the message. The second yes is what will you

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Speaker 1: do with it? Paul said something so powerful. He said

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Speaker 1: that the yes comes from God and the amen comes

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Speaker 1: through us for His glory. The second yes is yours

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Speaker 1: to say. So I want us to take a moment

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Speaker 1: and sing the Old Country Baptist Him together, and I

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Speaker 1: want you to close your eyes and just think about

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Speaker 1: the yes that God has put in front of you.

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Speaker 1: Some of you is a heavy yes for summons to

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Speaker 1: get semony yes. For sum it's a nevertheless yes. So

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Speaker 1: when I'm on Plan B and I have to accept

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Speaker 1: something that God has allowed, well, I still say yes

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Speaker 1: when it comes to a challenging point in my life?

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Speaker 1: Do I trust the plan or the person? With your

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Speaker 1: hands lifted to heaven. If you love the Lord and

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Speaker 1: are called according to his purpose, just try to sing

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Speaker 1: it if you can say yes, Lord, yes to you

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Speaker 1: and to your way. Yes, Love, Yes, I will trust you,

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Speaker 1: and when your spirits with my whole heart, I lookree

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Speaker 1: and my answer You know. I don't mean any disrespect

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Speaker 1: to Pastor Mickey that we should put some pep in

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Speaker 1: our yes. But I think sometimes we should put some

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Speaker 1: depth in our yes. It's just so shallow to say

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Speaker 1: yes to the blessings of God when it feels good,

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Speaker 1: and then only to say no to the burdens in

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Speaker 1: our life that He gives us to make us stronger.

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Speaker 1: Or I just wonder, would you lift your hands one

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Speaker 1: more time and say yes, Yes, Lord, Yes, I will

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Speaker 1: trust you and will yours its face with my and

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Speaker 1: min answer, and my answer will be yes. That means

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Speaker 1: the answer is yes before I even know the question

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Speaker 1: word w yes to your will and to your way. Yes, Lord, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I will trust you and open when your spirit speaks

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Speaker 1: to me with my whole heart look and my answer

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Speaker 1: be LOI heads bowed, eyes closed. What is your next? Yes.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't always mean that you relocate cities, change jobs.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it could just be a simple place in your

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Speaker 1: heart where something that you've been denying God access to

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Speaker 1: in your life becomes open before him, knowing that he

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Speaker 1: is Lord of all. Father, I bring your people before

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Speaker 1: you today in prayer. You know what they have need

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Speaker 1: of before they ask of it. I hear you saying

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Speaker 1: yes to meet every need in this place. I hear

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Speaker 1: you saying yes to satisfy every desire with good things,

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Speaker 1: so that our youth is renewed like the eagles. I

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Speaker 1: hear you saying yes. I thank you for the yes

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Speaker 1: of Heaven. God, that when people say no, you say yes.

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Speaker 1: That when situations and circumstances seem shut down and closed in,

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Speaker 1: you say yes, and you make a way in the wilderness,

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Speaker 1: and you bring forth water from a rock. I hear

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Speaker 1: you saying yes today. I hear you saying yes the

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Speaker 1: second chances, Yes to new beginnings. I hear you saying

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Speaker 1: yes today, and we respond with yes. We respond not

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Speaker 1: just with a nod of our head, but with the

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Speaker 1: posture of our horse. Yes, Lord, Yes to your will

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Speaker 1: and to your way, Yes, Lord, Yes I will trust

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Speaker 1: you when yes yes fish face see we've all and

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Speaker 1: my ex will be lordious. So the word amen in

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Speaker 1: Hebrew is a word of agreement. It means so be

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Speaker 1: it as I come into alignment with you God. It

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Speaker 1: means that my plan B is your plan A. And

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Speaker 1: the answer is yes. Thank you for join joining us

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Speaker 1: special thanks to those of you who give generously to

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Speaker 1: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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