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

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Speaker 1: and this is our podcast and 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 you perspective to

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

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Speaker 1: Let's go in our bibles now to Genesis chapter forty

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Speaker 1: for the final week of our series. Trigger at least

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Speaker 1: I think it's the final week, but we'll preach it

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Speaker 1: and see what happens. I had been preaching about taking

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Speaker 1: back your mind in the age of anxiety. But looking

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Speaker 1: at you, you seem to be completely now free of stress,

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Speaker 1: and it seems as if you have gotten the message,

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Speaker 1: and we can call it quits after today. But this

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Speaker 1: last message that I want to bring to you, I

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Speaker 1: hope will be as profound to you hearing it as

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Speaker 1: it was to me as I studied for it, And

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Speaker 1: ask that you consider it peerfully, because it's one of

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Speaker 1: those messages where if you try to understand it with

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Speaker 1: your mind, you won't get the most out of it.

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Speaker 1: But if you'll listen at a different level and see

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Speaker 1: what God wants to speak to you. I believe that

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Speaker 1: he will welcome to every single location. I pray that

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Speaker 1: you would lean into this word wherever you are and

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Speaker 1: receive something from the Lord. Genesis, chapter forty, verse five.

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Speaker 1: Let's jump right into the middle of it. And one

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Speaker 1: night they both dreamed, the cupbearer and the baker in

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Speaker 1: the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison,

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Speaker 1: each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation.

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Speaker 1: When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw

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Speaker 1: that they were trouble. So he asked Pharaoh's officers, who

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Speaker 1: were with him in custody in his master's house, why

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Speaker 1: are your faces downcast today? And they said to him,

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Speaker 1: we have had dreams and there is no one to

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Speaker 1: interpret them. And Joseph said to them, do not interpretations

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Speaker 1: belong to God? That was the question that got me

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Speaker 1: started on this quest to preach this message today. Do

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Speaker 1: not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm going to do something kind of weird. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to go to a new Testament scripture, one verse

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Speaker 1: of scripture that doesn't seem to go together on the

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Speaker 1: surface with the one I just read, but it does

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Speaker 1: seem like, you know, peanut, butter and mayonnaise, but it's

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Speaker 1: really jelly. So go to First Corinthians fourteen three, and

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Speaker 1: here Paul is giving some instructions to the Corinthian Church

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Speaker 1: about orderly worship, and he says, therefore, one who speaks

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Speaker 1: in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret. Again, therefore,

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Speaker 1: one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the

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Speaker 1: power to interpret. I want to lift that phrase from

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Speaker 1: power of interpretation. Very very, very good stuff come in

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Speaker 1: your way today from the word of God, not from me,

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Speaker 1: but from God. And that's really the starting point for me.

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Speaker 1: I realize that you come to church not to hear

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Speaker 1: my opinion, but to hear a correct interpretation of the

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Speaker 1: Word of God for your life and an application so

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Speaker 1: that it is not only a historical document, but so

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Speaker 1: that it becomes flesh, and so that the Spirit of

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Speaker 1: God would breathe into your situation. Understanding this, I've already

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Speaker 1: mentioned that many backgrounds attend church. And when I read

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Speaker 1: First Corinthians fourteen, verse thirteen, and Paul is talking about

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Speaker 1: speaking in tongues, you know half the church had flashbacks.

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Speaker 1: And if you really want to start a good YouTube

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Speaker 1: in tongues, and it is very beautiful and helpful to

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Speaker 1: many of us who believe in Jesus to pray that way.

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Speaker 1: But yet other people have been told, well, if you

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Speaker 1: don't speak in tongues, you're not full of the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 1: Never mind the fact that Paul here is saying that

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Speaker 1: every spiritual gift is only given to build others up,

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Speaker 1: not to showcase your status and how much more spiritual

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Speaker 1: are gifts. And what's far more important to God than

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Speaker 1: us going around condescending to others because of our spiritual gift,

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Speaker 1: is that we would cultivate the fruit of the Spirit

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Speaker 1: in our lives. Things like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

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Speaker 1: the history. I don't know how you type in tongues

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Speaker 1: this spiritual gift of speaking in tongues where one person

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Speaker 1: in turn so that it can be understood. It is

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Speaker 1: not only true about languages. It is true about life

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Speaker 1: Touch somebody next to you and say I need an interpretation. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I need an interpretation to be a good husband, because

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Speaker 1: men and women are different. And if I don't learn

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Speaker 1: to interpret, if I don't learn to understand that nothing

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Speaker 1: is wrong does not mean literally on the surface, nothing

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Speaker 1: say literally, it doesn't mean literally. I literally died. Think

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Speaker 1: you mean figuratively. Touch somebody, say I need an interpretation.

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Speaker 1: I need an interpretation to be able to raise my kids,

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Speaker 1: you know, because I'll be thinking they're ungrateful when really

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Speaker 1: they're just adolescent. And if you want to play back

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Speaker 1: the tape from when I was their age, well let's

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Speaker 1: don't do that touch somebody say I need an interpretation.

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Speaker 1: That's what Paul is talking about. And really no one's

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Speaker 1: life illustrates this more than the Old Testament character Joseph.

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Speaker 1: power of interpretation. Well, you know, Joseph's life could be

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Speaker 1: used to illustrate injustice. He was abused and actually survived,

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Speaker 1: what put him in this position in Genesis chapter forty,

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Speaker 1: the situation he was in, okay, principle number one and

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Speaker 1: this is not coming up on the screen, So you know,

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Speaker 1: write it down if it seems like it's worth writing

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Speaker 1: my interpretation of my situation. I don't mean to sound

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Speaker 1: say is a lot of times we want an intervention

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Speaker 1: from God in our situation. Instead of that, God will

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Speaker 1: often give us a different interpretation of the situation, and

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Speaker 1: he won't necessarily change it. He will change us in

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Speaker 1: a different interpretation, because interpretation is based on many different

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Speaker 1: some of us don't have as much to work with,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, we see things more simple than

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Speaker 1: somebody says this about evolution, and somebody says this about creation.

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Speaker 1: But we're reading the same story with a different interpretation.

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Speaker 1: God and tell me that my interpretation is not valid.

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Speaker 1: So Joseph is in prison and he should be in

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Speaker 1: Imagine you've had his life, but you still are looking

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Speaker 1: Joseph said, do not interpretations belong to God. Now know

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Speaker 1: Joseph's like three branches three days. In three days, we

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Speaker 1: going to do that today. He said, three days, Pharaoh's

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Speaker 1: rightful position. This is the interpretation. And now I remember

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Speaker 1: that Joseph gave to the cupbearer. But he's the Pharaoh's

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Speaker 1: life can be understood through many different constructs, but one

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Speaker 1: way to look at it is there three major interpretations.

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Speaker 1: This is the first one. He tells the cupbearer three days,

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Speaker 1: Pharaoh's gonna put you back in your position. The baker

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Speaker 1: that verse because it seemed like such a contradiction. He said,

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Speaker 1: On one hand, please put it on the screen for

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Speaker 1: just another moment. You sold me. Do you see that

431
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Speaker 1: you sold me? So he is placing the blame for

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Speaker 1: his situation on his brothers who stand before him. He's

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Speaker 1: not denying their hand in bringing him into this situation,

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Speaker 1: nor is he denying the dysfunction of it. You sold me,

435
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 1: and it was wrong. You sold me out, you let

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Speaker 1: me down. You are the reason on one hand that

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Speaker 1: I'm here. I would not be in Egypt. I would

438
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Speaker 1: be back home if it were not for you. But

439
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,400
Speaker 1: watch the shift. This is the message that God gave

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Speaker 1: me for somebody today, and I pray that you'll have

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Speaker 1: ears to hear it and that God will will enlighten

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00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: your spirit to receive it. He said, you sold me

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Speaker 1: here for God sent me before you to preserve life.

444
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Speaker 1: And what I was praying about is which one is it.

445
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: Did they sell you or did God send you? And

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Speaker 1: I kept praying about that because it sounds like he's

447
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: talking out of both sides of his mouth. You sold

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Speaker 1: me for God sent me. Notice the construct. He doesn't say,

449
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Speaker 1: you sold me, but God sent me. It's not even

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Speaker 1: that he's contrasting the two. The second is a continuation

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Speaker 1: of the first. God help me preach this Bible verse

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Speaker 1: right now. This is the most annointed verse I've read

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Speaker 1: all year. He said, you sold me, and it hurt

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Speaker 1: me not but you sold me for God sent me.

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Speaker 1: Don't be mad about it, don't even punish yourself, and

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Speaker 1: don't cower in my presence. You don't need to spend

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Speaker 1: another day tormented by it, because now I see through it.

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Speaker 1: It's been a lot of years since you pushed me

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Speaker 1: in that pit. It's been a lot of years since

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Speaker 1: you broke my heart. It's been a lot of years

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Speaker 1: since my dad left me. It's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: years since they walked out. It's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: years since I went down. It's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: years since they lied on me. It's been a lot

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Speaker 1: of years since they said I did it. It's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of years, and now I've got a I've

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Speaker 1: got an interpretation of the event. I've been studying about this,

468
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Speaker 1: and I realize it is not the event that determines

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Speaker 1: the outcome. It is your interpretation of the event that

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Speaker 1: determines the outcome. And so watch this you'll be good.

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Speaker 1: Sit down. The first one is the event you sold me.

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Speaker 1: The second one is the interpretation God sent me. Which

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Speaker 1: one are you going to live in the event or

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Speaker 1: the interpretation? And here's a better question. Here's a better question.

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Speaker 1: Who is your interpreter? Are you interpreting your God through

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Speaker 1: your life or your life through your God? Because see

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Speaker 1: your interpreter. Sometimes it's not what's happening, it's how you

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Speaker 1: are interpreting what's happening. Right. I thought she was sleeping,

479
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: but she was really praying. I thought they didn't love me,

480
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Speaker 1: but really they just couldn't be there for me because

481
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Speaker 1: they were going through some of their own issues. Is

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Speaker 1: not the event, it's the interpretation. I thought the fire

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Speaker 1: came to kill me, but I found out God was

484
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Speaker 1: using the fire that I thought was gonna kill me

485
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Speaker 1: to refine me. So God will use a fire that

486
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: neipuchinesser started to refine me and bring me forth this goal.

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Speaker 1: I don't just need the spirit of God to help

488
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Speaker 1: me interpret tongues. I need God to help me interpret

489
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: trauma and trouble and trials. And so I'm praying like

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Speaker 1: Paul told the church, to pray for the power to interpret.

491
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Speaker 1: I need the power to interpret. How many of you

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Speaker 1: need the power to interpret by the wisdom of the

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Speaker 1: Spirit of God. You don't need the spirit of God

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Speaker 1: to give you goosebumps. A lot of things can give

495
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Speaker 1: you goosebumps. You know, if you put on Mariah Carey,

496
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Speaker 1: I can make it through the rain right now. It's

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Speaker 1: one of her lesser known hits, just off the album

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Speaker 1: with the rainbow on it where she's not wearing enough clothes.

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Speaker 1: So I never looked at the cover when I was

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Speaker 1: a teenager. Well, anyway, the problem with that, it can

501
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: give you a feeling. I don't need the spirit of

502
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: God just to give me a feeling. If it's a feeling, great,

503
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: But I need the Spirit of God to give me focus.

504
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Speaker 1: The unique property of the Spirit of God. You know,

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Speaker 1: you got the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

506
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Speaker 1: The Father that's the legislative branch of the government of God.

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Speaker 1: He's the one who makes the laws. You've got the Son,

508
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Speaker 1: who is the executive branch of the government of Heaven,

509
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Speaker 1: who enforces the grace of God and takes the penalty

510
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Speaker 1: of your sin because you can't keep the law. And

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Speaker 1: then you've got the judicial branch, which is the Holy

512
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: Spirit which lives inside of you. That helps you to

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00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: get in a situation and say, I don't know what

514
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: to do, I don't know what to say, but God,

515
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: will you give me an interpretation of what the people

516
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: in my life need right now this season I'm in

517
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: right now, I need the Holy Spirit or I'll get

518
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: it wrong. I'll get it wrong, And some of us

519
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: have the wrong interpreter. We are interpreting our present through

520
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: our past. We are interpreting our purpose through our pain.

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00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: We are interpreting our entire life through one little situation.

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00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: We are interpreting our future through our flaws. When you

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00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: have the wrong interpreter messages everything. The first time I

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00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: went to speak in a country where they didn't speak English,

525
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Speaker 1: the first international speaking trip that I remember was Australia.

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Speaker 1: That they speak kind of English. I like to pick

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Speaker 1: on the ossis they shorten everything, kind of speak English,

528
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: but they nickname everything. They call praise songs praisees, and

529
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: that's weird. And when I go over there, they don't

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00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: call me Steve, and they call me Steve and there's

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Speaker 1: an inn on my name for a reason my mom

532
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Speaker 1: put it there. Would you please let my consonants come

533
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Speaker 1: through customs and put the in on the end of

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Speaker 1: my name. I love Australia. I've been there many times.

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Speaker 1: But one time I went to preach in a place

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Speaker 1: where they didn't speak English, and I called a wiser

537
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: minister who had preached many times in international settings, and said,

538
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: give me some just different things I need to know

539
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: about preaching through an interpreter. Translator is for written, interpreter

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00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: is for spoken. I said, I need some of your

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Speaker 1: wisdom on speaking through an interpreter. He gave me a

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Speaker 1: few things, but one thing he said that stood out.

543
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: He said, First, pray that you get a good one.

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Speaker 1: He said, cause you'll think that he's saying what you said,

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00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: and sometimes you can tell. I said, how will I

546
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: tell if I have a bad interpreter? He said, one thing,

547
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: he'll talk longer than you. When you finish your sentence,

548
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: he'll say three sentences. That means he's putting something in

549
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: that you didn't intend to say. Can I tell y'all

550
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: something the devil has been putting some stuff in. Come

551
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: on between what God has spoken to you. He puts

552
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: thoughts in people's minds about you, in your mind that

553
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: they weren't even thinking about you. Makes you paranoid. Oh man,

554
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: look how they're looking at me. They don't like me. No,

555
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: they actually don't like their husband. And they came to

556
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: work in a bad mood because of something else that

557
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with you. But the devil will

558
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: make you think that they don't like you because he's

559
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: an interpreter that likes to add. He puts all that

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Speaker 1: you have. You ever had this happen before in a

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Speaker 1: situation where you start interpreting it wrong, and now all

562
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Speaker 1: of a sudden you're thinking that they said things or

563
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: thought things that they didn't say or think. He said,

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Speaker 1: the other extreme you gotta look out for. Sometimes they

565
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Speaker 1: won't say everything that you just say. They'll cut it short,

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Speaker 1: he said. Sometimes they'll leave stuff out. And that's what

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00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: the enemy will do. When you let him interpret your life,

568
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: he'll only show you what's wrong with you. But he

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00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: won't let you see how God is going to use

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00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:20,479
Speaker 1: everything that you consider to be a deficiency to bring

571
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: you into your destiny. So he will only keep you confined.

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00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: Come on church, that golf clap. That's not even worth

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Speaker 1: doing if you're going to brace God and worship God

574
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: for what he's spoken over your life and the fact

575
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Speaker 1: that no man can add to it or subtract from it.

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Speaker 1: If he said it, it it will happen. If he said

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Speaker 1: in three days he will rise. I might be on

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00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 1: a cross now, baby, but resurrection power is in my

579
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Speaker 1: God future. So before we leave this place today, I

580
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: just want to give you five things to pray for.

581
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: Don't get nervous where we are now approaching our initial dissent.

582
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: Make sure your bibles are securely open. But I thought

583
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: we would just spell out the word dream, because Joseph

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00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: interpreted not only the dream of the prisoners, not only

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Speaker 1: the dream of Pharaoh, but his own dream that he

586
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: had at seventeen years old, not through the lens of

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00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: what he had lost in his life. You know how

588
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: you keep doing it? You get you keep focusing so

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00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: much on who left you and the opportunity that you wasted,

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00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: that you keep bringing that forward with you into the

591
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: next opportunity, and it's messing with you and you need

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00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,240
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. This is what the Holy Spirit does

593
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: speak in tongues. That's awesome. Shout at the top of

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00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: your lungs. That's awesome. Get a goosebump. I'll get one

595
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: with you. We'll go, we'll goose, we'll rub our goosebumps together.

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00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: It's all wonderful. But what I really eat the spirit

597
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: of God for is for those groans that words can't express.

598
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: And I'll give them to you and we'll go and

599
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 1: we'll call it a day, and we'll call it a series.

600
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: But the first one that I'm praying for the power

601
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: to interpret, like Paul said, because I know that interpretations

602
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: belong to God. So I need God God help me

603
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: to interpret my desires. I don't sometimes know why I

604
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: want what I want, and neither did Paul. He was like,

605
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: what I want to do it? Don't do what I

606
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: don't want to do it. Don't do that didn't make

607
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 1: any sense. If you want to do it, you want

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00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: to do it. What do you mean you want to

609
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: do it? You don't do it? Like, well, there's flesh,

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00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: there's the spirit. I got a new nature. I love God,

611
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: and then four minutes later, I really, I really still

612
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: love God, but I love something that's the opposite of

613
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: God too, And I don't know what to do and

614
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 1: I need the Holy Spirit to show me why I

615
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: want what I want, because if the Holy Spirit doesn't

616
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 1: interpret my desires, I will run around my whole life

617
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: trying to get what I want, and then when I

618
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: get it, I won't even want what I've got. God,

619
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: help me interpret my desires, because sometimes what will happen

620
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: is it's not like one desire is divine and one

621
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: is demonic, and you know there's no devil and no angel.

622
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes what the enemy will do to me is he'll

623
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Speaker 1: take a god given desire and distort it. And what

624
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: I really want is not a bad thing. It's not

625
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: a bad desire. I notice a lot of people these

626
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: days seem to want to be famous, famous for what famous?

627
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: So I could be famous? Have you noticed that fame

628
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: is like the number one cultural value now? And I

629
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: was thinking about that as to why everybody wants to

630
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: be famous. I mean, you think about it, famous kind

631
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: of a weird thing. People aren't really built to receive

632
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: that amount of attention. And when you see the number

633
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: of famous people who are famous and don't even want

634
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: to go on living, it should cause you to question,

635
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: what is the real thing that I want? Is it

636
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: really fame? Is it really followers on some platform full

637
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: of people who don't even know me, but only the

638
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: presentation and projection that I choose to stage, the props

639
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: that I put in my life. Is that really what

640
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: I want? Do I really want to be noticed? Or

641
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: do I really want to be known? Because I think

642
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Speaker 1: a lot of times we're trying to be noticed, and

643
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Speaker 1: the real desire is we want to be known. And

644
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 1: the Spirit of God can show you your real desire

645
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: to say, I know that you're doing all this to

646
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: try to get people to notice you, but I'm the

647
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: only one who really knows you. And see when people

648
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: know you from a distance and they notice things about you,

649
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:55,959
Speaker 1: but they don't know the real you, and you still

650
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: feel lonely. It's so important that you ask the Spirit

651
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: of God things like this, what am I really spending

652
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: fourteen sixteen hours a day working for? Is it really

653
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: to give my kids the life that they Yeah? Is

654
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: it really that? Are you really trying to prove something

655
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: to somebody who's not even paying attention. Like early in

656
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: Joseph's life, he's like, you were all bowing down to me,

657
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 1: It was awesome. Twenty years later, he's the one crumbling

658
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 1: on his knees because he realizes that the desire God

659
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: gave him was not so he could be important, but

660
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 1: so that he could have influence, not so he could

661
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: have status, but so that he could be a servant. So, God,

662
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: show me my desires, show me which ones come from you,

663
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 1: and help me. You know, I used to always pray

664
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Speaker 1: some thirty seven for it says, delight yourself in the Lord,

665
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Speaker 1: and he will give you the desires of your heart.

666
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: And an immature interpretation of that is God's going to

667
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: give me what I want. You know, God's just peeling

668
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: them off. You know what you want, what you want?

669
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Speaker 1: What you want. Now I look at it like he

670
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Speaker 1: will give me the right desires. He will give me,

671
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: I part unto me the right desires. So I don't

672
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Speaker 1: just come up wanting to impress people. But I start

673
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: asking God, how can I be a blessing? Because I

674
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: cannot simultaneously be a blessing if I'm trying to be impressive.

675
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: So I want to get out of my own way

676
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: and ask God to interpret my desires. God, I want you.

677
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 1: I want your presence in my life. God. I want

678
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: your pleasure, your smile. God. I want harmony, and peace

679
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:42,439
Speaker 1: with you, even if it costs me sometimes position with people. God,

680
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: I don't want to just be popular. I want to

681
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: live a life of purpose. I want to know that

682
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 1: this matters and means something at the end of it all.

683
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: So I need the power of interpretation for my desires.

684
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Speaker 1: And see, you can't really have that if you don't

685
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Speaker 1: get past rejection. So the second thing is, God, will

686
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: you help me interpret my rejection? Will help me look

687
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: at my brothers not just through the lens of what

688
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: they did to me, but through the lens of what

689
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: you want to do through me. I did not expect

690
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: an amen right there, but I didn't expect that level

691
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: of silence. I'll tell you that right now. That was

692
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: that was just over the top. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah,

693
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Speaker 1: all of them. Yeah, because he says two things. He says,

694
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Speaker 1: you rejected me, but God protected me. Is see it,

695
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, I see it again on the screen? Do

696
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: you I can show it to you on the screen

697
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: that push a button. It'll come right up on the screen.

698
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Speaker 1: Genesis forty five to five. You sold me, God sent

699
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: me to preserve life. So when I was seventeen, it

700
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: felt like rejection. But now that I've grown, and now

701
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: that I've experienced the grace of God, and now that

702
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: I've led go of the resentment and I refuse to

703
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 1: hold on to it, I see that what man calls rejection,

704
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: sometimes God calls protection. Some of the people who left you,

705
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: God was removing them. God wanted to do some things

706
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: for you that only he could do, And if he

707
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: had let them say yes, you wouldn't have been ready

708
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: for what was match. I'm gonna come back to these

709
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: and preach a whole series on them. Each one. I'm

710
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: gonna preach a series on dream. I promise you I

711
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: will do it. If you stay here long enough, I

712
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: will do it. I might be ninety three years old,

713
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Speaker 1: board and over three. I'm APPRECIAU singer because I got

714
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: to get God to help me interpret what my desires

715
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Speaker 1: and rejection, and then I gotta make sure that God

716
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: filters my emotions. So God, help me interpret my emotions

717
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: because I know what I feel. Well, let me be

718
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Speaker 1: honest as a man. Sometimes I don't even know what

719
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: I feel. And being married has helped me so much

720
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Speaker 1: with interpretation. I really love my wife I jokingly call

721
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: Holly the Holly Spirit. It's only half joking. She's a

722
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: great interpreter. She interprets things. One time we were fighting

723
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Speaker 1: about a bill. I think it was like three two

724
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,919
Speaker 1: hundred and forty three dollars. And guess what I didn't

725
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: have in the bank account three thousand, two hundred and

726
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: forty whatever. I said, dollars and I got so angry.

727
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,399
Speaker 1: And I don't yell. I'm not the kind of guy

728
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: that goes around yelling at his wife. But I was

729
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: yelling at her this day. This was years ago. This

730
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: was like, you know, the early stage is a marriage,

731
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,720
Speaker 1: and so you know, you'll forgive me for being angry.

732
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: But she she, at one point in the argument, goes,

733
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: why are you so angry? I said, that'spens around. You

734
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: know what I was telling the truth. I wasn't really angry.

735
00:43:55,840 --> 00:44:02,720
Speaker 1: I was afraid, and it was expressing itself as anger.

736
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: But she was able to interpret the fear that was

737
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: driving my anger, and when she realized that I wasn't

738
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: mad at her. I was mad at the attorney who

739
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 1: sent that bill, and mad at BB and T for

740
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: not having enough money in my bank account to pay

741
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: the attorney who sent the bill. See how an interpretation

742
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: can change everything. She was able to realize, it's not

743
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: me versus you in this moment's us versus this bill,

744
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: and let's figure it out together. But if you don't

745
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,399
Speaker 1: pray for the power to interpret, you will just live

746
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: at the level of the emotion and never know what

747
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,720
Speaker 1: is beneath the surface. And you will repeat the emotion

748
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: on the next person who steps into the line of

749
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: fire of your unfiltered experiences. Okay, I'm gonna download this

750
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: podcast myself. I think, all right, so God help me

751
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: interpret my emotions. So I say I'm depressed. I'm in

752
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: depression right now. Well maybe maybe you are depressed or

753
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: maybe you know sometimes it's just it's just Monday. You

754
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: always feel this way on Monday. This hadn't been outside yet. Yeah,

755
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: but if you don't ask God, God, see, do not

756
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: interpretations belong to God. That's what Joseph knew. That's what

757
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: Joseph knew because on one hand, emotionally he's angry, he's crying,

758
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: and he sends everybody out of his presence. But then

759
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: beneath the emotion he realized the reason. Now here's a

760
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: good question, are you living at the level of reaction

761
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: or reason, because if you always just react, react, react,

762
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: but never ask God, what is the reason I'm reacting

763
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 1: this way, you will fix the wrong factors. And this

764
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 1: is where a lot of preaching gets so mean and

765
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 1: hateful and impossible, because we're correcting behaviors but not addressing

766
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: the beliefs that drive the behaviors. So you'll hear a

767
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: preacher sometimes preach against addiction, but why is she drinking

768
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: six classes? Or you'll hear it preached against, you know,

769
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: pornography or sexual addiction, and the preacher will never address

770
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: the fact that you're reaching out for God. When you

771
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: log on that site, you just don't know it's God

772
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: that you're reaching out for, so you're trying to fill

773
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: it with something that leaves you more empty. But you're

774
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: really reaching out for God. But what you really want

775
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: isn't sex, it's connection. So you run around for sex,

776
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: but you don't get connection because it's empty because you

777
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: never ask God why. And this takes reflection, and this

778
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: takes sitting alone with God and even other people that

779
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: you trust, and joining an e group and sharing some

780
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: stuff that makes you uncomfortable. Shameless plug. Today there's tenths

781
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: outside join any group. She again interpret Pharaoh said, I

782
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: need someone interpret my drink. The prisoner said, someone interpreted

783
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: the dream, But really I need God to help me

784
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: interpret not only the hard things I've been through. But

785
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: look at Joseph. Now he's in a position of power.

786
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: Not only does have the power of interpretation that God

787
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 1: has given him, but he has the power to punish

788
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: his brothers or provide for them. And what's he going

789
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: to do with his advantage? That's the fourth one. God,

790
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: show me the advantages that you've given me, and show

791
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: me why you gave them to me. Because when people

792
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: receive advantages, but they think that the purpose for the

793
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 1: advantage so that they can call attention to themselves, that's

794
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: when leaders become toxic. That's when rich people become oppressive.

795
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: The hard thing is sometimes recognizing the advantage. Because remember

796
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: when David killed Goliath and Bible says that after he

797
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: killed him, he took his sword. I always thought that

798
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: was an illustration of how today's attack can become tomorrow's advantage.

799
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,959
Speaker 1: You sold me for God sent me, and the whole

800
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,280
Speaker 1: time that people were pushing me in a pit, God

801
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: was preparing me so that I could provide with the

802
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: power that He's given me. And maybe the reason that

803
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: you went through the attack is so that you could

804
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: have an advantage. Do you hear me, Just forget I'm talking.

805
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: Hear this from God. He wanted to say this to you,

806
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: and he's just using me to do it. Quit calling

807
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: it an attack. It's an advantage. Quit calling it a

808
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: weakness because it is in your weakness that he is strong.

809
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: Quit being ashamed of it. Quit trying to run from it,

810
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: hide it and numb it and cover it up. The

811
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: attack is the advantage. And you know what Paul said.

812
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: He said, I am convinced that the sufferings of this

813
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: present time are not even worthy to be compared with

814
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: the glory that will be revealed. So I interpret my

815
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: pain through the lens of God's purpose and my feelings

816
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 1: through my faith. So God give me the power to interpret.

817
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: Not just to interpret when I get there, not just

818
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 1: to interpret when it's all better. But God, help me

819
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: to interpret when I'm in the middle. I'm in the middle.

820
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: Joseph spent twenty years with a dream. They contradicted everything

821
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,240
Speaker 1: he was facing in his situation, and yet the most

822
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 1: frequent line that is repeated in the account of his

823
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 1: li life. Is this the Lord was with Joseph. You

824
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: know that's not something you always feel. That's not something

825
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: that you can always prove. That's not something that you

826
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:17,879
Speaker 1: always have facts to back it up. But I don't

827
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: need facts. I got faith. I don't need feelings. I've

828
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: got faith God. I want to interpret my life as

829
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: it unfolds through the lens that you love me and

830
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: that you're with me. And I need a faith interpretation

831
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,799
Speaker 1: because you know, Church, the world is trying to give

832
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: us a fear interpretation every single day, and if you

833
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: read the paper, it's a fear interpretation. But when I

834
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: come to God, I can look at everything in my

835
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: life and look at it through the lens of what

836
00:50:54,080 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: He's spoken to me and the power of interpretation to

837
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: confess the presence of God in every situation, whether you

838
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: feel it or not. And if you need God to

839
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: show you something right now in your life, stand to

840
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: your feet so I can pray for you. Because this

841
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: message was not meant for those who just want to

842
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: live by your five senses, And this message was not

843
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: intended for those who just want to spend the rest

844
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: of their life blaming people. And this message was not

845
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,720
Speaker 1: for those who everything is easy and you can always

846
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: explain it and you understand it all. This message is

847
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: for someone who needs an interpretation. God. I don't need

848
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: you to explain everything to me. You'rre God and I'm not.

849
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 1: But I need to know God, what you are doing

850
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: in this moment of my life. I don't want to

851
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 1: spend the rest of my life projecting stuff. I need

852
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 1: an interpretation, Paul said, pray for the power of interpretation.

853
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: You can't get this on your own. You can't get

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Speaker 1: this by logic. You can't see this on a spreadsheet.

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Speaker 1: You cannot consult bank accounts and other people and books

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Speaker 1: in a library. This only comes from God. God. I

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Speaker 1: need an interpretation. I need to know why my kids

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Speaker 1: are acting crazy right now. I need to know God,

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Speaker 1: to know why they said no. I need to know

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Speaker 1: why this keeps happening. I need to know why this

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Speaker 1: pattern keeps submerging. And I need to know more than anything,

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Speaker 1: that you are with me in this moment, even when

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Speaker 1: I don't feel it. I need an interpretation. Do not

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Speaker 1: show you why I made you. Doesn't he have the

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Speaker 1: power to comfort you in all of your trouble? Doesn't

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Speaker 1: he have the power to assure you of his presence

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Speaker 1: in this moment? Father, thank you for your word, and

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Speaker 1: thank you for your people. And I pray that today

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Speaker 1: I have been a faithful interpreter of what you said

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Speaker 1: through Joseph, and what you said through Paul, and what

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Speaker 1: you're saying to each life represented in this place. Today,

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Speaker 1: I asked God that you would interpret the message exactly

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Speaker 1: as each hearer needs to receive it. In fact, if

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Speaker 1: you would just lift your hands right now and show

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Speaker 1: the Lord that you're listening, we'll receive from you in

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Speaker 1: this moment as you speak to us. Well. I hope

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed the podcast today, and if you did, there

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