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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: How many are ready for the Word of God to

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Speaker 1: be preached? Get up on your feet. Pastor rich Wilkerson

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Speaker 1: is in the house. He is my friend. He is

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Speaker 1: the only adult who can keep me up after four

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Speaker 1: am to talk about the things of God. He pastors

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Speaker 1: the Great Bout Church. We love him so much. Come

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Speaker 1: on and give God praise Epham around the world for

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Speaker 1: Pastor Rich wilker Son. I know. Come on, church, Hey,

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Speaker 1: can we go ahead and lift up the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Come on all around the world today. Come on, let's

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Speaker 1: give Jesus the highest praise. Anybody thankful to be in

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Speaker 1: the House of God on this Sunday, anybody in his

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Speaker 1: sense that God is moving right now, not just in

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Speaker 1: the room. But we're believing that wherever you're watching this

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Speaker 1: from the e fam that the same power that's right

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Speaker 1: here right now. I'm believing. Come on, the same power

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Speaker 1: is right there today with you. Oh it's good to

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Speaker 1: be at Elevation Church. As you find your seat in

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Speaker 1: the room, we want to once again just welcome everybody

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Speaker 1: who's tuning in online. We're so grateful for the way

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Speaker 1: that this ministry continues to go forward and just make

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Speaker 1: a global impact. And I just got to say, what

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Speaker 1: in honor, what a privilege it is for me to

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Speaker 1: be back here in Charlotte, North Carolina. And I just

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Speaker 1: think the Elevation Church. Come on, anybody thankful that you

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Speaker 1: just go to the greatest church. In fact, I was

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Speaker 1: here last week for the worship night. I'm a I

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Speaker 1: sense a revival coming. Man. This place was jammed packed

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Speaker 1: to the right. I mean, I'm telling you what a

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Speaker 1: tangible sense of God's presence and we get scared. When

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Speaker 1: Brandon Lake just did a full CrowdSurf. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I got insurance for that, but uh,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was a powerful, powerful night. I said,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you understand just what you're a part

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Speaker 1: of here at Elevation Church. And any chance I get

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Speaker 1: get to brag and give honor where honor is due

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Speaker 1: towards your pastors. I want to make sure I take

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Speaker 1: my chance. Anybody thankful for Pastor Stephen and Hally Ferdick,

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Speaker 1: come on in the chat right now, just tell them

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Speaker 1: that you love them in the chat, real love you, guys,

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Speaker 1: So so grateful for both of them. And here's what

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Speaker 1: I believe. And I'm a preacher, and so I make

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Speaker 1: make sure that I'm I'm being loud and clear that

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Speaker 1: I'm aligning myself with what I think is some of

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Speaker 1: the world's greatest leaders in the Body of Christ today,

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Speaker 1: because a lot of people miss this in life. A

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Speaker 1: they miss out on who they're doing it with and

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Speaker 1: what God has given you here in the leaders of

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Speaker 1: you get to be in this soil and in this space.

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Speaker 1: I just think that what's on their life, it begins

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Speaker 1: love you guys so much, and thank you for being

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Speaker 1: standard carriers. It's not easy what they do to continue

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Speaker 1: and it gives so many of us around the world

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for letting me be here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: come on, we can thank God one more time for them.

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Speaker 1: I you know, sometimes as a preacher, it's a labor

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Speaker 1: of love as you open up God's word, and it

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Speaker 1: I just sensed as I was coming here to Elevation

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Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna need some help today, not just

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Speaker 1: But today everyone is tapping into their inner Pentecostal We're

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Speaker 1: gonna all verbally engage. Come on. How many believes God

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get there. We're gonna get there. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get the Romans Chapter eight. Romans, Chapter eight. I'm just

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Speaker 1: that okay? Thank God? Romans, Chapter eight, verse eighteen. This

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Speaker 1: is Paul the Apostle. He writes to the church in Rome,

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Speaker 1: and he says, I consider our present sufferings are not

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Speaker 1: The Creation waits in eager expectation, someone say, expectation for

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Speaker 1: the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation

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Speaker 1: As we wait, someone say, wait, as we wait eagerly

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Speaker 1: For in this hope we are saved, But hope that

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Speaker 1: himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

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Speaker 1: many sens today that God wants to speak to his church?

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Speaker 1: Come on, can you put your hands together? Can you

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Speaker 1: give God glory? And can you shame the devil for

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Speaker 1: a moment. I've been married to the same woman for

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Speaker 1: fourteen years. Thank God. We have two beautiful boys. In fact,

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Speaker 1: name is Wild Wesley Wilkerson. I know these names are

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Speaker 1: them Worldwide Web for short. You know, like, these names

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Speaker 1: the frustrate of expectation, the frustration of expectation. I suppose

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Speaker 1: I just have a basic question, and that is, what

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Speaker 1: just thinking that you're just going to stumble into something. No.

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Speaker 1: I really believe it's the man of God. It's the

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Speaker 1: because I have an expectation that you're going to do

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Speaker 1: Christ will never just stumble into a revival. You don't

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Speaker 1: The church hopes for revival. The church believes for revival.

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Speaker 1: verse twenty. He says, while the whole world is waiting

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Speaker 1: for this, the sons of God to be revealed. He says,

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Speaker 1: for the creation was subjected to frustration. Everyone say frustration,

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Speaker 1: not by its own choice, but by the will of

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Speaker 1: the one who subjected it in hope that the creation

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Speaker 1: itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and

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Speaker 1: brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

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Speaker 1: So what the apostle Paul is doing is he's laying

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Speaker 1: out really beautiful theology that we must all understand that

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Speaker 1: ever since are great great I don't know how many

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Speaker 1: greats grandfather Adam, ever since he sinned, the whole world

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Speaker 1: has been frustrated. Ever since that moment, there has been

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Speaker 1: a gap from us to God. This is the gospel message.

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Speaker 1: This is why we gather. This is why we can

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Speaker 1: put a smile on our face even though life around

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Speaker 1: us might be really troubling right now, because we have

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Speaker 1: this eternal hope that we serve the God that when

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Speaker 1: I couldn't get to him, come on, he came to me.

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Speaker 1: Anybody thankful that Jesus came and closed the gap. Jesus

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Speaker 1: closed the gap. And while my eternity is secure, my

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Speaker 1: reality is frustrated. C. S. Lewis that if I find

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Speaker 1: in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy,

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Speaker 1: the only logical explanation is that I was made for

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Speaker 1: another world. What if I told you today that frustration

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Speaker 1: is an indication that you are living with divine expectation.

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Speaker 1: We got a whole bunch of people in the body

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Speaker 1: of Christ today that are cursing their frustration. May I

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Speaker 1: plead with the people of Elevation Church, don't curse it

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Speaker 1: here it, don't curse it. Solve it, don't don't don't

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Speaker 1: curse it, fight through it, don't don't don't curse it.

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Speaker 1: Manage it, because there's a blessing on the other side

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Speaker 1: of your frustration. See, I wish somebody would have told

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Speaker 1: me this a whole long time ago, that frustration is

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Speaker 1: not a curse. Frustration is a reality, and frustration is

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Speaker 1: actually a gift. You say, rich, it's a gift. It

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Speaker 1: certainly is a gift. And you need to reframe this today.

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Speaker 1: You need to make sure that you start seeing your

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Speaker 1: frustration as a gift, because frustration, many times, is an

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Speaker 1: indication of the thing that you're called to do. Come on,

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Speaker 1: if it bothers me so much, maybe it's because God

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Speaker 1: believes I'm the one to solve it. Come on, if

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Speaker 1: you're the only person who sees that thing, maybe it's

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Speaker 1: because God is trusting you to solve that thing. Come on,

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Speaker 1: if you're the only person who cares about it all

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Speaker 1: the time, maybe it's because God has trusted you with

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Speaker 1: an ability to actually bring communication to the vision. I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna lie. The other day I woke up and

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Speaker 1: I was like, man, am I coasting? Like? Am I

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Speaker 1: playing it easy? Like? Am I taking the safe path?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I just this is

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Speaker 1: just maybe you're watching right now, man I am I

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Speaker 1: kind of mailing it in? Am I playing safe? Am

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Speaker 1: I still dreaming? Are my best days really actually in

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Speaker 1: front of me? But then I woke up frustrated and

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Speaker 1: I said, oh, I'm still frustrated, And that tells me

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Speaker 1: God is not done with me yet. I am still

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Speaker 1: becoming who He has called me to become. He is

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Speaker 1: still giving me vision, He's still putting expectation on the

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Speaker 1: inside of me. My frustration is an indication that I

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Speaker 1: still have divine expectation. Somebody, thank God that not all

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Speaker 1: of your problems are solved yet. Somebody, thank God that

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Speaker 1: you're still believing for more. Somebody, thank God that you

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Speaker 1: still have some faith that works. If you want to

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Speaker 1: see your expectation fulfilled. You're gonna have to get good

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Speaker 1: with managing the frustration. And when I say managing frustration,

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Speaker 1: this is where a lot of people get lost because

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Speaker 1: a lot of people, what their challenge in life is

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Speaker 1: is that they're not they're not managing frustration. They're trying

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Speaker 1: to attain perfection. Frustration is not about perfection. Frustration is

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Speaker 1: about making progress little by little, day by day, moment

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Speaker 1: by moment. I'm closing the gap. See some gaps like

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Speaker 1: come on, homi. Some gaps like I can manage, But

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Speaker 1: there's other gaps. There's some people that are watching right now.

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Speaker 1: You're a first generation Christian, you're believing for your parents

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Speaker 1: to get saved. Come on, that's a gap that you're

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Speaker 1: gonna need some supernatural power to come and help close

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Speaker 1: that gap. But if you make your whole entire goal

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Speaker 1: in life perfection, you're gonna find yourself in a constant

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Speaker 1: state of frustration that leaves you depleted and disappointed. In fact,

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Speaker 1: there's this psychological study it's called the silver metal syndrome.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever heard this before, but

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of people today that live life and

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Speaker 1: maybe you're watching right now and you're anxious, or you're depressed,

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Speaker 1: or you're depleted. A lot of that comes from this

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Speaker 1: idea that you have to be perfect. So you go

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Speaker 1: through life and you're going, it could have been better.

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Speaker 1: How about this should have been better? It has to

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Speaker 1: be better. They did a study and what they discovered

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Speaker 1: is they discovered that silver medal winners, like in the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: are more unhappy than bronze medal winners. You say, why

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Speaker 1: is that rich? I mean one one finished further. Well,

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Speaker 1: the silver medal winner, he's up on the podium and

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Speaker 1: he's sitting in there and going, ah, I was so close.

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Speaker 1: I was so close to being perfect. I should have

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Speaker 1: been perfect. I should have been first. I'm not first,

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Speaker 1: I'm second. But the bronze medal winner like this ain't

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Speaker 1: so bad. He's like, it could have been worse. He goes,

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Speaker 1: I was so close from nobody even knowing my name.

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Speaker 1: But thank god I got myself up on the podium.

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Speaker 1: We made it. Come on, somebody, anybody thankful. You might

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Speaker 1: not be where you want to be yet, but anybody

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Speaker 1: thankful that you're not where you used to be. We

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Speaker 1: made it. It could have been worse. It could have

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Speaker 1: been worse. Frustration is not about perfection. It's about progress.

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Speaker 1: It's about waking up each day with a fight inside

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Speaker 1: of you. It's about say, I'm solve this thing. If

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Speaker 1: God put me here, he trusted me that I am

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Speaker 1: the man for the job. I am the woman for

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Speaker 1: the moment. I'm the right mom for this house. I'm

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Speaker 1: the right dad for this home. I'm the right pastor

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Speaker 1: for this location. I'm the right leader at this job.

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Speaker 1: He has put me in a place if he called

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Speaker 1: me to it, His grace is gonna get me through it.

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Speaker 1: See this is our challenge. I want you to get

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Speaker 1: this today because the enemy of your soul, the only

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Speaker 1: thing he cares about when it comes to your life

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Speaker 1: is your future. One thing I know about following Jesus

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Speaker 1: is the future will always be more demanding than the past.

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Speaker 1: What's the reward for passing the third grade? Fourth grade?

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Speaker 1: It's just one test after another. In fact, how about this, Oh,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna make someone really mad with with God. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there's there's no like. There's there's no like. He isn't

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Speaker 1: great on a curve. It's like pass or fail? Like

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Speaker 1: you just how you know? You just keep taking the

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Speaker 1: same test over and over again. Ask how he works

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Speaker 1: and if you're gonna follow Jesus, He's always got more

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Speaker 1: for you, and you're always stepping into more, which means

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Speaker 1: you're always facing new frustration because we live in a

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Speaker 1: broken world and what the enemy wants to do is

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Speaker 1: the enemy he wants to mess up your future. In fact,

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Speaker 1: when he said this way, the enemy doesn't care about

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Speaker 1: your past, you do. Oh my god, Oh I helpe sobody.

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Speaker 1: The only reason he brings up your past is because

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Speaker 1: he wants to destroy your future. He doesn't care at

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Speaker 1: all about what you did last year. He doesn't care

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Speaker 1: about your you care about your past. It's messing with you.

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Speaker 1: Look at what first, John says. I love this. This

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Speaker 1: is so beautiful, He says, dear friends, now we are

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Speaker 1: children of God. And what will be? Someone say what

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Speaker 1: will be? And what will be has not yet been made. No,

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Speaker 1: you know what that's saying to all of us. That's

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Speaker 1: saying that if you are in Christ Jesus, you are

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Speaker 1: still becoming and the only thing more important with who

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Speaker 1: you are today is who you're becoming tomorrow. Here's why

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Speaker 1: I find confidence today. I find confidence that Jesus could

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Speaker 1: close my eternal gap. I'm thankful for the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 1: who will help me close the gap from where I

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Speaker 1: am today and where he wants me to be tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: That's why the Apostle Paul says, in the same way,

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Speaker 1: the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not

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Speaker 1: know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit

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Speaker 1: himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

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Speaker 1: And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of

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Speaker 1: the spirit. Because the Spirit intercedes for the saints and

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Speaker 1: accordance with God's will. That's a whole lot right there.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you that's powerful because when you

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Speaker 1: begin to pray in the spirit, and some of you

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Speaker 1: got different words for all that. All I'm saying is

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Speaker 1: when you say God, Holy Spirit, you feel me. You

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Speaker 1: start praying with me. At times you don't even know

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Speaker 1: what you're praying. My son wild he doesn't have all

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Speaker 1: the words right now. Sometimes he's like, ah, We're like,

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Speaker 1: what's up, bro, But he's got an expectation. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you what. You don't need the Holy Spirit just to

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Speaker 1: make it to Heaven. You need the Holy Spirit to

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Speaker 1: help you get through the supermarket you need the Holy

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Speaker 1: Spirit to help you in traffic. Come on, the Holy

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Speaker 1: Spirit doesn't make me better than you. Holy Spirit makes

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Speaker 1: me better than me, and he helps me close the

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Speaker 1: gaps of my weakness. We need the Spirit of God

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Speaker 1: our church. We need the Holy Spirit like never before.

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Speaker 1: We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit, with

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Speaker 1: the evidence of the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

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Speaker 1: has self control. The Holy Spirit is not about spiritual superiority.

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Speaker 1: It is about spiritual survival. I can't make it without

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Speaker 1: the Spirit of God. I'm not going to ever be

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Speaker 1: able to fulfill all that He's called me to do

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Speaker 1: unless the Spirit shows up. Someone say, mind the gap.

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Speaker 1: We all have weaknesses. We don't need to be afraid

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Speaker 1: of them, but we certainly need to be aware of them,

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Speaker 1: and it's time that the Body of Christ reframes them.

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Speaker 1: Frustration is not a curse. Frustration, many times is an

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Speaker 1: indicator of what God's calling me to do. As the

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Speaker 1: worship team makes their way up here, I want you

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Speaker 1: to see this spectation is coupled with frustration, But if

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Speaker 1: I manage the frustration well, it always leads to a revelation.

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Speaker 1: We get the word revelation from the root word reveal.

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Speaker 1: And I'm believing today that everything that you're hoping for

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Speaker 1: and everything that you're believing for, that in due season,

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Speaker 1: in due time, God will reveal it to you. But

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Speaker 1: I want the Body of Christ to understand that there

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Speaker 1: is a correlation between me managing my frustration and my

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Speaker 1: capacity to receive revelation. Everybody wants revelation, but very few

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Speaker 1: of us are willing to walk through the idea of frustration.

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Speaker 1: Look at what the apostle Paul says as we get

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Speaker 1: ready to close. He says in Romans chapter eight, verse

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Speaker 1: twenty two, we know that the whole creation has been

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Speaker 1: growing in the pains of childbirth right up to the

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Speaker 1: present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have

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Speaker 1: the first fruits of the spear grown inwardly, as we

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Speaker 1: wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of

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Speaker 1: our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But

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Speaker 1: hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who

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Speaker 1: hopes for what he already has. But if we hope

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Speaker 1: for what we do not yet have, we wait for

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Speaker 1: it patiently. The apostle Paul, he likens revelation to childbirth.

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Speaker 1: You know, when a woman's pregnant, we say she's expecting that.

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Speaker 1: My wife is weeks away from giving birth to our

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Speaker 1: third child. Yeah, we can thank God for it. Some

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Speaker 1: of you know our story. But we waited eight years

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Speaker 1: to have kids. Waiting seasons on God are never wasted seasons,

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Speaker 1: and we waited and it makes the miracle that much better.

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Speaker 1: But my wife, she just weeks away. July second is

640
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Speaker 1: her due date. We're having a baby girl. You know

641
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be www something. If you've got w name,

642
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: just put it in the chat right now. Just give

643
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Speaker 1: us some names. We need some names. Wein Nona, Winter, Wendy,

644
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. How about Wanda Wilkerson. I like that

645
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Speaker 1: right there, just felt the Holy Spirit right there, Wanda Wilkerson,

646
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Speaker 1: Wanda Wesley Wilkerson. What I've learned about women who are expecting,

647
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Speaker 1: women who are waiting for that which is on the

648
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Speaker 1: end side of them to be revealed. What I've learned

649
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Speaker 1: about a woman who's pregnant when she does it the

650
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Speaker 1: right way. How many of you know that expecting a

651
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Speaker 1: child to come and being pregnant is a complete reorder

652
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Speaker 1: to your life. I think many times when it comes

653
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Speaker 1: to us wanting God to reveal the thing that we're

654
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Speaker 1: hoping for, when it comes to us believing God to

655
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Speaker 1: do the thing that we've been praying for, because that's

656
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Speaker 1: what hoping feels like. Hoping feels like waiting. Expectation feels

657
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: like waiting. And you gotta understand that because I've been

658
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: waiting for a long time. I know that's part of

659
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: it that makes it more beautiful, that makes it sweeter.

660
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: But you must understand that there's an order to revelation,

661
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: and if you wait the right way, it's a reorder

662
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: to your life. Because I've learned everybody wants revelation, but

663
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: nobody wants elimination. Yo. The first thing they tell a

664
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Speaker 1: woman when she's pregnant, the first thing, Yo, You're gonna

665
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: have to cut every toxic thing that's going into your body.

666
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: You can't be eight months pregnant smoking cigarettes. You can't

667
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: be drinking at night with nine months being You can't

668
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Speaker 1: be up dancing on the club floor all night long

669
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Speaker 1: nine months. But you can't do that. Why Because the

670
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Speaker 1: thing on the inside of you is so precious, it's

671
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: so beautiful, that you can't risk anything jeopardizing that what

672
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: you're waiting for. I wonder what are you pregnant with today?

673
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: I wonder what are you willing to eliminate from your life.

674
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: God is looking for a clean vessel that he might

675
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Speaker 1: pour his spirit out upon. That you would say, God,

676
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Speaker 1: I'm clean, I'm available. I'm ready to eliminate all that

677
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Speaker 1: you need me to eliminate. I'm ready to stop whatever

678
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Speaker 1: I need to stop in order for you to start

679
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: whatever it is you want to start. Come on, somebody,

680
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: give God some praise. It's a reorder some things I

681
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: gotta eliminate. This is not condemnation. This is just going God.

682
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Speaker 1: The thing that you've placed on the inside of me.

683
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,760
Speaker 1: It's so precious that I have to make a decision

684
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Speaker 1: that I can't keep living that way. That's putting the

685
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: thing on the inside of me at jeopardy. Everybody wants revelation,

686
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: nobody wants preparation. Don't tell me about your expectation. Show

687
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: me your preparation. I wonder to if God fulfills all

688
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:30,919
Speaker 1: your dreams, would you even be ready for it? Because

689
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: when God comes and knocks on the door of your life,

690
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 1: you can't say, yo, I'm busy, Come back later. You

691
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: should be living like God is doing what you're believing for.

692
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 1: You should be living like God is doing what you're

693
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Speaker 1: believing for. If you ever get around pregnant, WM tell

694
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: you what. It's a reorder. My wife isn't this thing

695
00:41:55,600 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 1: called nesting. It's real, y'all, cleaning the getting the rooms ready.

696
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: What is she doing? She's preparing for a baby to

697
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: be revealed in the house. This week, our church released

698
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: our very first ever worship project. We look up to

699
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: Elevation Worship and Elevation Church in so many different ways.

700
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: It's a huge miracle and we name the record I

701
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: need Revival. You want to know why, because before we

702
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: as a church say America needs revival or the church

703
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: needs a revival, we have decided in our hearts that

704
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: we would take personal responsibility that before I declared you

705
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: need a revival, how may know I need a revival.

706
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: I need God to do something in me before He

707
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: does something through me. In fact, I got a revelation

708
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: the other day. I'm not praying anymore for revival. I

709
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: just decided that every single day of my life, I'm

710
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: walking into every space. I'm walking into every room with

711
00:42:53,640 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: a calm confidence, that I am a walking, talking revival. Somebody,

712
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: you're reliable. It's a reorder. Everybody wants revelation, but nobody

713
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: wants frustration. Childbirth is brutal. So I hear holding a baby,

714
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. How do you give birth? You have to

715
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Speaker 1: keep breathing. You have to keep pushing. You have to

716
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: keep waiting. You have to keep breathing, You have to

717
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: keep pushing. Your frustration is not going to destroy the

718
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 1: expectation on the inside of you. Keep breathing, keep pushing,

719
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: keep waiting. I felt the spirit of God says, I'm

720
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Speaker 1: up here. If the Lord says it's worth it, it's

721
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:10,879
Speaker 1: worth it. So live a life worthy of it. Elevation, Church,

722
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: it's worth it. The labor, the pushing, the breathe, it

723
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: is worth it. Live a life worthy of it. Staff

724
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Speaker 1: is worth it. Live a life worthy of it. Campus

725
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Speaker 1: Is it's worth it. Live a life worthy of it.

726
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Speaker 1: You have no idea. All that is being revealed as

727
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: you manage your frustration. I can hear a back of

728
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: hundreds of years before Christ is up on the scene.

729
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: His nation is under siege. He's a prophet, and he's

730
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 1: looking around and saying, God, When am I going to

731
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Speaker 1: see all that I've been praying for and hoping for

732
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Speaker 1: and believing for. But a back, it says, I heard,

733
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound.

734
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: Decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet

735
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Speaker 1: I will wait, someone say, yet, I will wait. Yet,

736
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to

737
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: come on the nation invading us. The pig tree does

738
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 1: not bud, And though there are no grapes on the vines,

739
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: though the olive crop fails in the fields produce no food,

740
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: though there are no sheep in the pen and no

741
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: cattle in the stalls, Yet I will rejoice in the Lord.

742
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: I will be joyful in God, my Savior. Can we

743
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: just take a five second praise break all of this place.

744
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 1: I might not have it yet, but I'm believing it's

745
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,760
Speaker 1: on the way. I'm lifting my expectation. I'm raising my expectations.

746
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,959
Speaker 1: It's coming in due season. It's coming in due time.

747
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: My son wild he gets up to that pool deck

748
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 1: and he gets on his tippy toes, and he puts

749
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: his arms back, and he smiles over at me, and

750
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: he says, Dad, I'm fixing to jump some of you today.

751
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: You might say, Rich, what's wrong with your boy? Does

752
00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: he not know that he can't swim? Does he not

753
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: know if he jumps into that water he is going

754
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: to sink to the bottom. I can't explain if he

755
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: knows that or not. What I do know is that

756
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: my son has a revelation that every time he's jumped

757
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,919
Speaker 1: into the deep waters of the pool, his father has

758
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: been right there to rescue him and save me. Come on,

759
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: I came to serve notice on you today that this

760
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 1: is your season to jump. Come on, this is your

761
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 1: season to dive in. This is your season to swim.

762
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: Come on, God's doing something bigger, God's doing something better.

763
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Speaker 1: Come on, where are the Saints at today? Go'll lift

764
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Speaker 1: your hands, don't lift your voice. Lift the expectation in

765
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: this room. Maybe I'm gonna jump, Maybe I'm doing into

766
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 1: the unknown. He'll rescue you. He'll be there. He's never

767
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 1: failed anyone. He's not gonna start with you. Come on,

768
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: Chris sting it out. Come on, Porson, whatever you got,

769
00:46:56,360 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: come on from here. Come on, Cordy to his powers working.

770
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: He's small. Did he knows? Oh? Then you ask Steak

771
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Speaker 1: or Benage occord to his pi work in it. He's working.

772
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: He sot to me it's morning. If he hunts, sleep

773
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Speaker 1: jail a cordy to his power working sound smoking, how

774
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Speaker 1: the shoes smarted, steak nage according to his power working

775
00:47:47,000 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: smart any shop shop jo, You're enough, your enough to shine, shine,

776
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: He's more than enough. He's all that you need. Keep waiting,

777
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: keep breathing. There's a revelation coming. He's about to reveal it.

778
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: What is hope. We don't hope for things that we have.

779
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: We hope for what we do not yet have. There's

780
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:42,320
Speaker 1: a gap. I know it's frustrating, but you're not quitting today.

781
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: You didn't. You didn't you didn't tune into elevation church

782
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,919
Speaker 1: to quit today. I hear God say, it's time to jump,

783
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: it's time to die, it's time to swim. He will

784
00:48:53,880 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: be right there to catch sheep. It's worth it. It's

785
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: in the unknown that our God makes himself known. And

786
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: the best days of this house, I just see it.

787
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: The best days of this house are in front of you.

788
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: No eye is seen and no ear has heard what

789
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:25,359
Speaker 1: God has in store. You're in the right place, at

790
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: the right hour, at the right moment. God has fashioned

791
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: you here. God has brought you here, come back to

792
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: your first love. Stretching season, It's diptoe season, it's leaning season,

793
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: it's arms back season. What's going to happen this week?

794
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: What's God gonna do this week? I know I'm getting

795
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: expectation today, but I'm ready for the frustration tomorrow. It's

796
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: the struggle of today that produces the strength I need

797
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,399
Speaker 1: for tomorrow. I'm leaning in, I'm ready for the fight.

798
00:49:56,719 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: I'm ready to push in. I'm believing for more, and

799
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 1: your God is more than enough in that sense. The

800
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: power of the spirit here today. Thank you, Holy Spirit,

801
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: Thank you that you close every one of my gaps.

802
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: If you're here in personally, but even right now online,

803
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: would you just close your eyes? Would you just put

804
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 1: your hands in a posture to receive. Lots of reasons

805
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: why we raise our hands in church we surrender, But

806
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: a big reason why we raise our hands in church

807
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: is we're saying, God, I give up to give in

808
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: that I might receive all that you have for me.

809
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: I just sink. There's people today that are walking in

810
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: immense frustration, challenged, tempted to lower their standards. The man

811
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: in Act three was meant to be walking, but he

812
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: had been reduced to begging. He doesn't just want to

813
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: change your day, he wants he wants to change your

814
00:50:55,880 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 1: life for you here today, and you're struggling challenge today,

815
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:03,359
Speaker 1: just with your hands up, we just pray for your Lord.

816
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,320
Speaker 1: I just thank you so much for every person in

817
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,799
Speaker 1: this room. I thank you for every person online right now,

818
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: faithfully watching, faithfully participating a part of this house. Lord,

819
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 1: I pray that the same power that conquered death, hell

820
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,399
Speaker 1: and the grave would transcend right now and meet people

821
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: right where they are. That as we sing this song,

822
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 1: that you are more than enough. God, I am not enough,

823
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: but you are. And so we believe right now that

824
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: your Holy Spirit is meeting people right where they are.

825
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: And right now today, Jesus, they're being strengthened. They're getting

826
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,399
Speaker 1: a new revelation. Today. They're beginning to see the things

827
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,839
Speaker 1: they've been praying for, the things they've been hoping for. God.

828
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 1: Today we're ready to reorder our life. God, We're ready

829
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: to change things around. If I got to eliminate something, God,

830
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: I want to start preparing right now. I want to

831
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: manage the frustration I'm breathing I'm leaning in God, Do

832
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Speaker 1: a new thing inside of me. Lord, do a new

833
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: thing inside of me. Strengthen my legs, make me strong

834
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: for the fight. Do a work today, Jesus. Inside of people,

835
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 1: your heads are bawd, your eyes are closed. If you're

836
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 1: watching today or here in person, and you've never met

837
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: this Jesus, this God who came from heaven to earth

838
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: that we might have a relationship with him. Here is

839
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: the gospel in a sentence. Jesus Christ came, took everything

840
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 1: that you deserved so that you could get everything that

841
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: he deserved. And you cannot achieve him. You can only

842
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: receive him. And how do you receive him through belief?

843
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: You must raise your expectation to believe that he is

844
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: who he said that he is, that he loves you,

845
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: and that he's for you. He's not mad at you,

846
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Speaker 1: He's madly in love with you. For God to not

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Speaker 1: send his un in the world to condemn the world,

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Speaker 1: but to save the world. If he wanted to condemn

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Speaker 1: the world, he certainly would have sent a condemner. But

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Speaker 1: instead he wanted to save the world. Therefore he sent

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Speaker 1: a savior, and he came to close the greatest gap.

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Speaker 1: The greatest gap, the most frustrating thing. He came to

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Speaker 1: remind you that you were meant for another reality. And

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Speaker 1: wherever you're at today, in this room or online, if

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Speaker 1: you don't know Jesus on the count three, would just

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Speaker 1: be bold? Would you just lift your hand u high enough,

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Speaker 1: long enough right there? Online? That's you just that's me

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Speaker 1: just in the chat, that's me on the count of three.

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Speaker 1: If Jesus is speaking to you now and you want

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Speaker 1: today to ask for his forgiveness, to receive his love,

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Speaker 1: only count threeould you just let you have ready? One, two, three,

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Speaker 1: I that's you. That's me, Richly, that's me. That's me.

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Speaker 1: That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me.

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Speaker 1: That's me. Come on, Epham and Elimation Church. When we

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Speaker 1: lift our hands fords that if we pray this prayer together,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna pray this prayer and then we're gonna sing

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Speaker 1: with everything we've gone, pray this prayer out loud and say,

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Speaker 1: dear Jesus today, Lord, I surrender. I give in to

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Speaker 1: receive all that you have for me. Forgive me God.

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Speaker 1: I turned towards you, believing that you have good things

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Speaker 1: for me. I believe Jesus you are who you said

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Speaker 1: that you are. Today, I wait patiently for all that

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Speaker 1: you promised me for. I believe it will be revealed

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Speaker 1: in due time in Jesus name. Come on, Elevation Church.

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Speaker 1: We put our hands together on can we lift our hands?

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Speaker 1: Come on? Can we lift our Thank you for joining us.

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