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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Do you ever hear a recording of

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Speaker 1: yourself and you think is that me? He said? Oh?

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Speaker 2: I sound Should I only send texts from now on?

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Speaker 2: And like I walk around even I walk around the

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Speaker 2: house preaching, and my kids know sometimes, like Abby is

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Speaker 2: the most attuned, and she's only six, but she knows

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Speaker 2: when I have left the room, but my body's still

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Speaker 2: there and I'm thinking about a sermon, and she'll even

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Speaker 2: called me out. She looked at me the other day

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Speaker 2: and said, are you working on a sermon.

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Speaker 1: In your head?

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Speaker 2: And I was so busted because we were supposed to

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Speaker 2: be watching this kids show together, this boring, awful television

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Speaker 2: show that Abby enjoys, and I was trying to pretend

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Speaker 2: to be watching.

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Speaker 1: It with her.

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Speaker 2: But I was working on something in my head and

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Speaker 2: two things at once, And she said, are you working

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Speaker 2: on a sermon in your head? And I said, Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: how did you know? And she said, I watch your mouth.

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Speaker 2: I said, so, I talked to myself when I work

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Speaker 2: on sermons.

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Speaker 1: In my head.

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Speaker 2: She said, ish, you make moves, and she started showing

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Speaker 2: me how I didn't even realize it. But when I'm

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Speaker 2: preaching to myself, I start, I start making moves.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that when God is about.

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Speaker 2: To speak something, the people who really know Him who

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Speaker 2: came to help me preach today, I'm looking for you,

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Speaker 2: the people who really know their Father can see when

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Speaker 2: God is up to something. Tell your neighbor, God is

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Speaker 2: up to something. I know it, not because I feel it,

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Speaker 1: Know my Father.

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Speaker 2: And there is this unique ability that God will give

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Speaker 2: making moves. That's what I would like to talk to

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Speaker 2: you about in this installment of Bars and Battles. I

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Speaker 2: want to talk to you about making moves because for me,

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Speaker 2: it's interesting to study the contrast between.

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Speaker 1: David's destiny and his decisions.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about that how in a sense,

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Speaker 2: he was anointed as a sixteen year old kid, and

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Speaker 2: so he had no choice but to become king because

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Speaker 2: God spoke it. So it had to happen. Wouldn't that

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Speaker 2: be a good sermon? It had to happen. But there

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Speaker 2: was a sense in which David's decisions either supported or

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Speaker 2: sabotaged his destiny. And we've talked about shortcuts, but today

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about decisions. I think it's important

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Speaker 2: that we look at David's decisions. One thing that he

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Speaker 1: To how he looked at his decisions. And I want

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Speaker 1: to give this to you. In the King James version

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Speaker 1: of the Bible.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not necessarily a better translation, it's just the

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Speaker 2: one that I've first heard it in. It says, the

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Speaker 2: thirty seven are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth

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Speaker 2: in his way. I love that scripture. How many of

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Speaker 2: you love that scripture? I love it because I do

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Speaker 2: believe that my life is destined, that there is an

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Speaker 2: outcome that God intends, or he wouldn't have put me

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Speaker 2: on this earth. I believe that not only when it

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Speaker 1: Evidence is to the contrary.

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Speaker 2: And you know in a court of law, you present

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Speaker 2: Well, faith actually works in the exact opposite direction. It

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Speaker 2: is that God has already established a verdict an outcome

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Speaker 2: for your life, and now, as a child of God,

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Speaker 2: already know I'm more than a conqueror. I already know

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Speaker 2: usually you will collect evidence to support whatever verdict you've

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Speaker 2: already decided to believe in your heart. So David says

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Speaker 2: If you think about David's early life after God anointed

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Speaker 2: We've been following David over the last several weeks, and

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Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like his steps are very ordered. In fact,

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Speaker 2: it seems more like Saul is determining his next move

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Speaker 2: in Second Samuel, chapter two, verse one, in a place

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Speaker 1: How could David be living in the territory of the

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Speaker 2: But he's on this border between Felicitia and Israel, waiting

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Speaker 2: And he just received news while in zick Lag that

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Speaker 2: told him I won't mess with you anymore. And even

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Speaker 2: And so while we are expecting David to celebrate the

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Speaker 2: news of the death of Saul, not only has Saul

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Speaker 2: Because I got news for you. You don't even have to

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Speaker 2: worry about fighting against what comes against you. God will

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Speaker 2: kill it when the time is right. Some of the

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Speaker 2: So they tell David Saul is dead, but instead of celebration,

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Speaker 2: he writes a song of lament for his enemy, King

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Speaker 1: Who was David's best friend.

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Speaker 2: You look right past good news, bad news is right

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Speaker 2: where I am suspicious of good days. I don't know

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Speaker 2: for David, it's not a very sweet moment or an

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Speaker 2: in Hebrew poetry as a lament. It becomes a national

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Speaker 1: How the mighty have fallen in battle.

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Speaker 2: He's not celebrating good times, come on, he is despairing

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Speaker 1: That's kind of strange.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan lies slain on your heights.

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Speaker 1: Remember Jonathan was his guy.

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Speaker 2: You were very dear to me. Your love for me

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Speaker 2: was wonderful. It's kind of hard with you not around.

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Speaker 2: Know you in heaven smiling down watching us as we

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Speaker 2: pray for you. Every day. We pray for you till

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Speaker 2: the day where we meet again. In my heart is

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Speaker 2: where I keep you, friend, members, there's something different on

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Speaker 1: I must have switched out of.

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Speaker 2: Second Samuel and went into second Puff.

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Speaker 1: But that's all right.

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Speaker 2: Stay with me, because there comes a shift. Everybody say

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Speaker 1: And there comes a time in your.

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Speaker 1: Nobody can tell you when that is.

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Speaker 2: Only God can tell you when you've cried over Saul

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Speaker 2: Man after my own heart, and his name is David.

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Speaker 2: I think we might have a good time in church today.

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Speaker 2: Touch somebody say there's a shift.

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Speaker 1: There's a shift that happens.

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Speaker 2: When now David has to decide to step into what

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Speaker 2: God set him apart for. I'm hesitant to preach stuff

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Speaker 2: and quit their job. This is not a license for irresponsibility.

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Speaker 2: I have received so many emails from people who started

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Speaker 2: about Peter stepping out of the boat. That's not what

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Speaker 2: think if God, if God would be it's just a

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Speaker 2: theory that I have. Let me read you the scripture

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Speaker 2: I just want to take a poll at Valentine. I

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Speaker 2: wish I could do this at all the campuses. Do

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Speaker 2: you have a decision you need to make right now?

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Speaker 2: Raise your hand. It won't be as big as David's

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Speaker 2: decision to be king. I get it, You're not that epic.

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Speaker 2: I'm not that epic. We're not that epic. But don't

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Speaker 2: you believe that the principles that governed his epic rise

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Speaker 2: use to govern your everyday life. The principles aren't different,

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Speaker 2: the stakes aren't as high, but the principles are no different.

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Speaker 2: And I want to watch what David did when it

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Speaker 2: came time for him to decide saught was dead. Now,

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Speaker 2: are inseparable. Trust takes time. Trust takes time. Stop giving

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Speaker 2: your first state your family history. They have not earned

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Speaker 2: that information at this point in the relationship. Keep it

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Speaker 2: he inquired of the Lord, shall I go up to

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Speaker 2: one of the cities of Judah, which was not, by

450
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Speaker 2: the way, the ultimate capital. Because everything God does he

451
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Speaker 2: does in steps and stages. It would be I've been

452
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Speaker 2: in a half more years before David would come into

453
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Speaker 2: the fullness of his calling. But all you need for

454
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Speaker 2: now is the next step. David had been making moves. See,

455
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Speaker 2: he had been working toward this moment where he would

456
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Speaker 2: go to Judah, and he had sent them in of

457
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Speaker 2: Judah gifts and he.

458
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Speaker 4: Was set up now and he asked God, is now

459
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Speaker 4: the time? Because I don't want to move? Do you

460
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Speaker 4: want me to move?

461
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Speaker 2: And in one sentence God taught him his next move,

462
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Speaker 2: because for fifteen years God had taught him to submit.

463
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Speaker 2: If you can receive this message today, and submit your

464
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Speaker 2: desires God will. God will tell you what to do.

465
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Speaker 1: When you delight yourself in His way.

466
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Speaker 2: That's what Psalm thirty seven says, that he delighteth in

467
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Speaker 2: his way.

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Speaker 1: I thought that meant I'm so stupid. I thought that

469
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Speaker 1: meant for the longest time. I don't know why we

470
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Speaker 1: can't get this stuff. The first time I thought that man,

471
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Speaker 1: God delights in his way. The steps of a good

472
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Speaker 1: man are ordered by the Lord. Put it up there.

473
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Speaker 2: The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord,

474
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Speaker 2: and he delighteth in his way. I thought that meant

475
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Speaker 2: that if I'm a good man and my steps are ordered,

476
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Speaker 2: God will delight And well, of course God delights in

477
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Speaker 2: the way that he orders.

478
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Speaker 1: I don't make any sense.

479
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Speaker 2: It means that when I delight in his way, See,

480
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Speaker 2: he delighteth in his way.

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Speaker 1: Who's he the man whose steps are ordered?

482
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Speaker 2: When I delight in God's way, I will be in

483
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Speaker 2: God's will, and my steps will be ordered.

484
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Speaker 1: And I can stay on.

485
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Speaker 2: This step as long as I need to stay on

486
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Speaker 2: this step, and I can stay in this season as

487
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Speaker 2: long as I need to be in this season. Because God,

488
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Speaker 2: I don't want to go into any greater responsibility or

489
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Speaker 2: influence until you say I'm ready. I don't want to

490
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Speaker 2: come out of this oven until I'm ready. I don't

491
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Speaker 2: want to enter into the promotion until I'm ready. And

492
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Speaker 2: when you say step, I step, and my steps are ordered.

493
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Speaker 1: It's a statement of submission.

494
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Speaker 2: But it's also a statement of sequence, right because when

495
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Speaker 2: you get.

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Speaker 1: Her number, not only.

497
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Speaker 2: Do you need the right digits, they need to be

498
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Speaker 2: in the right because if she gives you the right

499
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Speaker 2: digits in the wrong order, you'll be calling the wrong

500
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Speaker 2: girl sounding like a stalker. Hey, remember I met you

501
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Speaker 2: Thursday night.

502
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Speaker 1: She's gonna hang up on you. Because it has to

503
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Speaker 1: be in order.

504
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 2: David couldn't be a king until he learned to be

505
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 2: a shepherd because there was something that he needed to

506
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Speaker 2: get at the bottom that would enable him to be

507
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Speaker 2: who he needed to be at the top. Somebody shout,

508
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 2: my steps are ordered. That means God not only knows where,

509
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 2: but he knows what, and he knows when. And now

510
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 2: I can trust him because I'll have it when I

511
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 2: need it.

512
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Speaker 1: I'll have it when I need it.

513
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Speaker 2: I was thinking about something the other day, how if

514
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Speaker 2: I had known this fifteen.

515
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: Years ago, how good it would have been, and I

516
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Speaker 1: felt that voice in me.

517
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Speaker 2: It wasn't out loud, like David, where God just speaks

518
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Speaker 2: to you in complete sentences.

519
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Speaker 1: It was an impression that God said.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't have known what to do with it fifteen

521
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Speaker 2: years ago. It took fifteen years of your foolishness to

522
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 2: even respect what I wanted to show you. See, this

523
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 2: is what I mean when I say my steps are ordered,

524
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Speaker 2: I mean that not only are the ones, the steps,

525
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Speaker 2: the steps that feel like this ordered, so are.

526
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Speaker 1: These and you can't have one without the other.

527
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 2: To say my steps are ordered means that not only

528
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 2: does promotion not come from the East or the west,

529
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Speaker 2: but it comes from the Lord. But sometimes the pain

530
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 2: comes from him too.

531
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Speaker 1: My steps are ordered.

532
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Speaker 2: And God knows which is step three, and which is

533
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Speaker 2: step one, and which is step four. And if I

534
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 2: start skipping steps, I'm likely.

535
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Speaker 1: I'm likely to.

536
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Speaker 2: End up on my face, which is the next thing.

537
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Speaker 2: David said in Psalm thirty seven twenty four. He said,

538
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Speaker 2: watch this, though he fall, he shall not be utterly

539
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 2: cast down, for the Lord upholded him with his hand.

540
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: It means that my confidence is not in the stability

541
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Speaker 2: of my feet. My confidence is in the sovereignty.

542
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Speaker 1: Of his hand.

543
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 2: You want to shout right there, Even when I fell,

544
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 2: even when I tripped, even when I stumbled, even when

545
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 2: I missed it, My steps are ordered, and when I fall,

546
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 2: I fall forward because God's hand.

547
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Speaker 1: Is over my life. Order. Order.

548
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 2: Everybody say order, It means sequence, sequence that God knows

549
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 2: what to do and when to do it. There's a

550
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Speaker 2: sequence to things. Do you trust God's sequence? Do you

551
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Speaker 2: trust it? In some seasons he needs to move your

552
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 2: way some seasons, he needs to move you toward. Some seasons,

553
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 2: he's gonna use things that you hate. Some seasons, he's

554
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 2: gonna use things that you love. Are all of your

555
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 2: steps ordered by the Lord? Are just the ones that

556
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 2: you like? Because some of you feel like you're going

557
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,760
Speaker 2: down today, but you're still in order. You're still in order.

558
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 2: God's order isn't like your order. Peter said, Jesus, you

559
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 2: can't go to the cross yet. You can't let him

560
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 2: kill you yet. They can't kill you until you establish

561
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Speaker 2: the kingdom. Jesus said, no, I can't establish the kingdom

562
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Speaker 2: until they kill me, because I gotta go down like

563
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 2: Tuna went down to the belly of the earth three days.

564
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 2: That's the only way I can rise. My steps are order,

565
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 2: my steps, shutting my steps, my right steps, wrong steps,

566
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Speaker 2: left steps, right step. I feel like.

567
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: Dancing in here. My steps are order.

568
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: And that's part of the reason that LJ makes me

569
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Speaker 2: so sick. I mean to do this in front of everybody,

570
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 2: but I'm jealous of his talent because we both play music,

571
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 2: but he plays it so much better than me. I mean,

572
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 2: I can play a little bit, but after about ten

573
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 2: minutes I will have exhausted my knowledge of what I

574
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 2: know to play.

575
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:48,240
Speaker 1: This guy he took lessons the right way.

576
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: My mom sent me to lessons, but I didn't learn

577
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 2: the right way.

578
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: It was my fault.

579
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: It wasn't her fault, the teacher's fault, or anything like that.

580
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 2: I wanted to learn certain songs. I wanted to learn

581
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 2: Every rose has its thorn, So I learned it, but

582
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 2: I didn't learn I didn't learn the theory. I just

583
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 2: learned right. I just learned how to make the chords,

584
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 2: but I didn't know how the chords functioned together. That's

585
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 2: solz problem. He got to be king too soon. He

586
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 2: didn't have a chance to keep sheep while he was

587
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 2: waiting to be king. That's the advantage that LJA.

588
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 1: He learned all the scales and.

589
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 2: The pentatonic scale and the modes and all the other

590
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 2: things I didn't pay attention to that I was supposed

591
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 2: to know. And I just learned a G chord and

592
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 2: he learned showing a scale or something.

593
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Speaker 1: You see.

594
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 2: Doesn't that make you sick? How many of you took

595
00:36:55,480 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 2: piano lessons? And he makes you sick? Makes makes makes

596
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 2: me sick. He can just play stuff like, just play

597
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 2: a few notes, just anything you want to play.

598
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: I don't care. Okay, do it, do it again, that

599
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: same thing. Do it again.

600
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 2: Okay, m hm, do it again. Do those same notes,

601
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 2: but do them different, like different order or something.

602
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: Do it again, all right, do it? Do it again.

603
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 2: Don't change any of the notes. Do it do the

604
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 2: same notes. Do it in a different order, Maybe switch

605
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 2: the instrument. Do it like an electric guitar sound or something.

606
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: Like that, some a little more interesting. Yeah, yeah like that.

607
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: Do it do it again?

608
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, do it do it again, different different order.

609
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that.

610
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 2: Now go up, go up again, and then back down

611
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 2: to the first one. You're luck at him right there,

612
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 2: right there, right.

613
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: There, a little faster minor six.

614
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 2: Four five and one that sounds like something the same

615
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 2: notes he was playing before, but now with movement, an order,

616
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 2: shift sequence order, if you know what you ought to sing?

617
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 2: Six I'm laughing because the white people are singing the

618
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: police and the black people are singing puffy, but keep playing.

619
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Speaker 2: Those are the same notes he started playing, but when

620
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Speaker 2: he cut him in order. Come on, I feel somebody's

621
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 2: life getting in order today. I feel somebody's steps getting

622
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 2: in order.

623
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 1: All right, stop, it's just an illustration.

624
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 2: I'm trying to show you that everything you need is

625
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,720
Speaker 2: in your life, and.

626
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: Your steps are order.

627
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 2: And if I'm going on or if I'm going down,

628
00:39:58,480 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 2: my steps.

629
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Speaker 1: Har order. If you know your steps.

630
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Speaker 4: Harder sound right now, every step.

631
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Speaker 1: Every food.

632
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 2: Sent to your feet up said, I'm gonna take you

633
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:30,439
Speaker 2: down sometimes and you're gonna fall sometimes. But whether I'm

634
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Speaker 2: taking you down or raising you up, your steps are

635
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Speaker 2: in order. I don't know who is for, but you've

636
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 2: been going this direction. Who there's something that you need

637
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 2: down here that God is gonna use. You've been stuck

638
00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 2: on a step, but this somebody say this step, stop

639
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 2: your foot, say this staff is ordered by the Lord.

640
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 2: And David says, should I go to Hebron, and God.

641
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: Said, yeah, yeah.

642
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 2: Because when you're walking with God, you don't have to

643
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 2: fast twenty one days to figure out what he wants

644
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 2: you to do.

645
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: You'll know.

646
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 2: You'll know when you walk with him, every step you'll

647
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,439
Speaker 2: know his will. And the Bible says something in verse

648
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Speaker 2: four that got my attention. It says that after David

649
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Speaker 2: had inquired of the Lord, the men of Judah came

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Speaker 2: to Hebron, and there they anointed David king over the

651
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Speaker 2: tribe of Judah, where.

652
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Speaker 1: In the place of his next step.

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Speaker 2: Often we want God to give us confirmation before we obey.

654
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Speaker 1: That's out of order.

655
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Speaker 2: God said, your confirmation awaits your obedience. God, I'll forgive

656
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: them if you give me the grace to forgive them.

657
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 2: That's out of order. You forgive them, and then you

658
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Speaker 2: get the grace. It's a decision.

659
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 4: It's a decision that leads to destiny, and every step

660
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Speaker 4: is ordered by the Lord. In fact, if we're doing

661
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Speaker 4: it our way, we would praise God when he moved

662
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Speaker 4: in our lives. Real praise comes from a faith of place.

663
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,879
Speaker 4: Real faith, says God, I'm going to brace you on

664
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Speaker 4: credit because.

665
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Speaker 2: You've never failed me yet, so I'm gonna take the.

666
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Speaker 1: Next step by faith.

667
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 2: I'm taking the next step by faith, and my steps.

668
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Speaker 1: Are ordered by the Lord. Give them a great sound

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Speaker 1: of praya and watch the walls fall. Gather my great

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Speaker 1: soun of praise. And what shall I come?

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Speaker 2: Here?

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Speaker 1: It comes the morning? Shall I go up? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Go up, God says I'm already there. Your oil is

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Speaker 2: waiting in the place of your next order. Father, I

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Speaker 2: thank you for the word you gave me today, the

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Speaker 2: spirit of Christ that I feel operative in this place,

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Speaker 2: touching the hearts of people, meeting the needs of people.

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Speaker 2: Lift your hands in the presence of the Lord. He's

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Speaker 2: speaking now, be sensitive to his spirit.

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Speaker 1: He's speaking now.

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