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Speaker 1: Oh God, are y'all gonna put up with me like

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Speaker 1: I need better lines. It's your fault. You didn't give

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Speaker 1: me any lines. You didn't give me any you didn't

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Speaker 1: give me anything to say. So you know, you gave

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Speaker 1: me a setting, you gave me a kind of like

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Speaker 1: a scene to work out, but you didn't give me

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Speaker 1: a script. Give me a better script, and I'll be

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Speaker 1: a better actor. At least that's my excuse, right. So

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00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: God says, I'm going to give you the strategy for

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Speaker 1: each city in your life. But first, before I give

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Speaker 1: you the strategy for it, I want to give you

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Speaker 1: the script so that when you get into it, what

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Speaker 1: you say on the inside will empower you to face

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Speaker 1: what's on the outside. Joshua, this is going to be

436
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: an inside job. Yes, you're going to face giants. Yes,

437
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: there is going to be dry terrain. Yes, there are

438
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: going to be screaming, whining people that will remind you

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00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: of toddlers that you will have to lead. But Joshua,

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00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: be strong and very courageous. How do I be very courageous? God,

441
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: be very careful, be very careful what you let in you,

442
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: and you will be very courageous when you face what's

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00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: in front of you. We keep trying to fix what's

444
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: in front of us. Oh, if they would change. Oh,

445
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: if I were single three years ago? You said if

446
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: I were married? Which one is it? Because we keep

447
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: talking about situations changing, but God is talking about conversations changing.

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00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: The Lord said to Joshua, am I preaching? Or am

449
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: I crazy? Because I think you might be discouraged not

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00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: because of something that you're facing or feeling, but because

451
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: of something that you are saying about what you were facing.

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00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: So here's what you gotta do, Joshua. What do I do?

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Speaker 1: Do I shoot them? Do I kill them? Do I

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00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: stab them? Do A choke them? All? Right, before we

455
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: get to all that, because we're gonna do all that.

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00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: Verse eight, keep this Book of the Law. Now, Joshua

457
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: is jealous of you because he had the Book of

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Speaker 1: the Law Genesis exits number it's Leviticus Stuteronomy. You got

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00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: the whole story. Hold on, let me see real quick,

460
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: because you got something Joshua doesn't have. And I just

461
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: want to make sure real quick. Oh yeah, you win.

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00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. I didn't mean to mess it up for

463
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: you because I know you were gonna read it this week.

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Speaker 1: But you win. We win. The grace of God's people

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Speaker 1: be with you. Amen, you win. Come Lord Jesus, we win.

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Speaker 1: He's already here with us. You win. Wherever you step

467
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: your foot, he's already there. You win. There's fifteen people

468
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: who felt that. When I said it, it's like, oh yeah,

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00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: I read this one. This is a good one. We

470
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: gotta fight a lot, but we're going to have faith,

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00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: and we're not going to feel it every time, and

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00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: we're not going to see it every time, and we're

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Speaker 1: not going to always know how. But He always makes

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Speaker 1: a way. And we know this by faith because we

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Speaker 1: have his word's exceeding great and precious promises. When author

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Speaker 1: called down the living Word of God, which never returns void,

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00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: is in your heart. We thank you for your word. Lord.

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00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: I thank you for your word. Lord. I thank you

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Speaker 1: for the promises that I have in spite of the

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Speaker 1: problems that I face. I thank you Lord. Now with Joshua,

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00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: the instruction is simple. Keep this Book of the Law

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Speaker 1: always on your lips. Meditate on it. And it sounds

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00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: Eastern meditation. Isn't that Buddhist or something? Is this a

484
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: yoga class? We need to quit given our definitions of

485
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: words to the world and let them take it from us.

486
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: The Bible is Eastern, dude, I told somebody one day,

487
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm concentrating on breathing more these days.

488
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, that's new age. I thought God did

489
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: that in the garden, like the very first page of

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00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: the story. I thought, that's what the word for spirit

491
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: meant when the spirit ruac. God started this. So we

492
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: need to take some of this stuff back, just like

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00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: success when I read that, or prosper, Oh God, let

494
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: a preacher say prosper, Oh God, God said prosper. And

495
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: if you think that refers only to cars and places

496
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: that you can go on vacation, you just need a

497
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: bigger definition of God, because it includes your peace, it

498
00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: includes your freedom, it includes the richness of your interior life.

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00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: All that, all of that, all of it. Now, he said,

500
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: let's fix this script you got going on, Joshua, before

501
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,479
Speaker 1: I take you into this place, before I give you

502
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: this strategy, before I can get you this success that

503
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: I want you to have, which is not necessarily the

504
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: success that you imagine. It's going to be much deeper.

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00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: He said, do this, keep this book of the Law

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Speaker 1: always on your lips, meditating on it day and night,

507
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: which does not mean hear me, please to quote scriptures

508
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: obnoxiously at people when they're going through stuff. Just for

509
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: a cautionary moment in this sermon, he said, be careful. Okay,

510
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be careful. This does not mean you walk

511
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: around the house and your kid is like I had

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00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: a bad day. Well, all things work together for the

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00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: good of them that love God and are called according

514
00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: to His purpose. For those he for knew, he also predestined,

515
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: and those he predestined he also justified, and those he

516
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: just shut up say I'm sorry you had a bad day.

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00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: You want to talk about it. That's not what the

518
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: word always on your lips means. Somebody said, man, I'm

519
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: really struggling. Well, Judas went and hanged himself, So you

520
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: see how can backfire if you hear me wrong. So

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00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: what does he mean when he says meditate? I got

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00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,919
Speaker 1: a picture of him. I got the picture about seven

523
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,720
Speaker 1: years ago, but I didn't realize it was a picture

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00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: of meditation at the time. I thought it was a

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00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: NASCAR race. I went to a NASCAR race to see

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Speaker 1: Joey Logano, the champ, the two time champ, and his

527
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: number on his race car is twenty two. Like Taylor Swift.

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00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I'm feeling twenty two.

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Speaker 1: I know we got a lot of drivers in the church,

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Speaker 1: but Joeoe is my guy and I will always cheer

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Speaker 1: for him. And he said, come out and see me race.

532
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: I said, I want to. I said, I respect what

533
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: you do, but that sounds really boring. He's like, bring

534
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: the kids, they'll like it. I promise we'll take care

535
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,399
Speaker 1: of them. So, man, they treated us so good. As

536
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: soon as we got there, they gave us these little

537
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,959
Speaker 1: uh like look like a walkie talkie and shout out Warren.

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00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 1: He gave each of the kids one and we all

539
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 1: had one and on it we could hear. But show

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Speaker 1: them the picture of Abby because we have one of

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00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: Abbey holding it, just to kind of bring it into

542
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: the scene that. Yeah, they gave me a hat, a shirt.

543
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: I think those are Joey Logano jeans or something Joey

544
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 1: Logano underwear somewhere in there too, and then those yellow

545
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: Joey Logano headphones and all of this that you know,

546
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: because we're right by the track, and we're standing by

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00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,280
Speaker 1: the track and you see that little thing that Abby's holding,

548
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: Do you see it? You see it? Talk to me, Okay,

549
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: that thing is uh, hand it to me, just just yeah,

550
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 1: just hand it to me. Yeah, yeah, thank you, baby.

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00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: She called, next sermon illustration is me. When I had

552
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: Grandma up here, she said, hey, next sermon illustration is

553
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: me some kind of multitask and parenting and preaching right now?

554
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: All right? So we had this, and I promise you

555
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: this is not a made up sermon illustration because it's

556
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: going to sound like, oh, that's just too perfect. You

557
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: made that up. But I promise you. We had a

558
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 1: video of it too, but I didn't want to show

559
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 1: you the video. Abby's five years old and she's holding

560
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: this thing and she's standing there because on this you

561
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: can hear the crew chief of the driver and the

562
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: spotter telling Joey what to do, and you can hear

563
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: what they're saying to him. Is amazing. It's made it

564
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: really fun for me. Give it helped me understand a

565
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: little bit more of what was going on. But Abby,

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00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: she thought that Joey could hear her too, So she's

567
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: standing over there now really how there's cars going fast

568
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: and what they do at NASCAR and she's going five

569
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: years old. Joey Wigano, Joey Wigano, Joey Wigano. Can you

570
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: hear me, Joey Wiggano, Joey Logana. And we let her

571
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: do it for like an hour because it was so cute.

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00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: I know we're going to hell because we let her

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Speaker 1: sit there for at least forty five minutes going, Joey Wiganeo,

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00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: joe Ogano? Is that you, Joey wigane Can you hear me?

575
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: Joey Wigano. And finally, after I got the video in

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00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: the picture and we left left and left and left,

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00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: I say, he can't hear you, baby, This is a

578
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: one way device. But what if he could just come

579
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: with me real quick from Palestine to the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

580
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: I'll take you on the journey right now. What if

581
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: Joey did from Joshua to Joey what if he did?

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00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: What if they met every fan at the gate and said,

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00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: here you go, now put this on, and the driver

584
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: has a headset too, and you could put this on.

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00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 1: Don't want me to put it on. He's gonna mess

586
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: my hair up? Right that way? I should have practiced

587
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: this is it on wrong? It's upside down? What you mean? Oh?

588
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: Strapping the bell? Thank you? Like that? Is it right?

589
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: I can't really hear y'all, these are really really it's wrong. Okay.

590
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: I tried so, but you saw it. Good grief, Okay,

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00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: come back to the Bible. So he's like, Joshua, there

592
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: are certain things that need to be in your heart

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00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: that will enable you to fight the good fight when

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00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: you are discouraged and afraid. Now watch this. What if Joshua,

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00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: when God spoke to him, instead of Verse ten, says

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00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: he went around and told all of the people, get ready,

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00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: get ready. In three days, we're going in. Hey, hey,

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00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: officers go around telling people get ready, get everything packed,

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00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 1: get your shoes laced, get everything ready. We're going in

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00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: in three days. We're going in in three days, three days.

601
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: I don't know how we're getting across the Jordan. Joshua

602
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: will tell us. I guess we're going in. How are

603
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: we going to get over the walls of Jericho. I

604
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: don't know. Just get ready, We're going in in three days.

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00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: Imagine if he had gone around asking them what'd you think?

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00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,760
Speaker 1: And then I remember they tried that forty years earlier.

607
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: They tried that. The whole nation started saying to Moses,

608
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 1: we can't do that, we can't be that. We can't

609
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: defeat that, we can't beat them now. And you're like,

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00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: this does not sound like Canaanites and land I understand that.

611
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 1: It sounds like change you need to break. It sounds

612
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: like impact that you know you can make. It sounds

613
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: like that thing that you have been avoiding that you

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00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: know God is calling you to engage, and you know

615
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: what it is. So imagine Joey meets everybody at the

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Speaker 1: gate and says, here, just tell me when you think

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00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: I should turn. Here's your device. Just tell me what

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00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: to do. Because see when you're in the car and

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00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 1: there've been in one bit. This is what he told me.

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00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: He said, you can only look forward. You can't turn

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Speaker 1: your head at all. So that's why the spotter has

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00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: to tell him. Here's what's ahead of you, here's what's

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Speaker 1: behind you, Here's what's going on around you. Oh, they're

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00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: about to wreck up there. This is where we need

625
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: to be. That's why the crew chief. Now the crui

626
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: chief doesn't talk as much as the spot but he

627
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: could talk to He could tell him stuff too. But

628
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: imagine if every single NASCAR beer drinking NASCAR fan and

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00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: five year old girl got a device, got a device,

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00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 1: got a device, got a device to talk to the driver.

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Speaker 1: And here we are trying to steer our lives in

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Speaker 1: a season we've never been in before. And yet the

633
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Speaker 1: first thing we do when we wake up in the morning,

634
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Speaker 1: Oh what do they think? Oh where are they today?

635
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: Oh where are they vacationing? Oh what is this political

636
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: party up? To? Shut it down? And look up and

637
00:41:48,400 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: see what God's doing? Lauren, Glory, Glory, Glory, Gord. In

638
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: times of transition, you gotta keep it tight. You gotta

639
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: keep it tight. Touch three. People say, keep it tight

640
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,760
Speaker 1: right now, keep it tight, right now, keep it tighter.

641
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: I'm not saying don't make new friends. I'm not saying

642
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,240
Speaker 1: don't read books. I'm not saying don't take a class.

643
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying don't have counsel on the multitude counselors

644
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Speaker 1: their safety. I know the Bible versus two. But what

645
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you is God is your spotter. Oh I

646
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:38,439
Speaker 1: got a better one, and Jesus is my CRUSI there's

647
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Speaker 1: more than the story. Baby zas on. What's the only one?

648
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: God sat? Cause three days later, Jesus saying, we're going

649
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Speaker 1: across this sortid, We're crossing over this Cancel from dead

650
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Speaker 1: to life, from dead, so alive, from the long to praise?

651
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: He yes, Lord, But what do you think I should do?

652
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: How do you think I should raise my kids? What

653
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: do you think I should should do? Keto? Should do?

654
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: Should do it? What do you should do? What should

655
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: I feel? What should I feel? It is so crazy

656
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: that we've got so many voices. Some of them aren't

657
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: on our phone. Some of them are from our family,

658
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: from people who are dead, who raised us, still talking.

659
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: I can make the message real simple. Who's in your headset? Who?

660
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: Who gets to you? I don't want to I don't

661
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: want to be stuck up. Then you'd rather be stuck

662
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,879
Speaker 1: I'm not saying don't listen to other people's point of view.

663
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: That is not this message. But the Lord said in

664
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Speaker 1: Transition times you only need to listen to two. How

665
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Speaker 1: many spies did Moses send into the Promised Land? No, Moses, Yeah,

666
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Speaker 1: he sent twelve too many? Too many. Joshua knew that's

667
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: ten too many. Joshua was one of the two. Y'all

668
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: are never gonna forgive me up here in this headset

669
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Speaker 1: with a wired dangling around, looking like I'm five years

670
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Speaker 1: old and I can't even put it on correctly. You

671
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: are never gonna forget this sermon. And that's just the

672
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Speaker 1: way I want it. So the next time that you

673
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,959
Speaker 1: got ten telling you we can't do it. The next

674
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: time you got Twitter telling you who to hate and

675
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Speaker 1: who like, the next time you got Facebook all up

676
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: in your face, sap in your faith making you a friend.

677
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: You remember that preacher. You remember Fredick was up there

678
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: telling me I just need two. I just need my

679
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: spoder that's God. I need my cru sees, that's Jesus.

680
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: And if I got the Holy Spirit, I got an

681
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Speaker 1: engine that will never turn out. And so watch me

682
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Speaker 1: make this turn, watch me turn this corner, watch me

683
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: do this thing, watch me reinovent in this season, discern

684
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Speaker 1: a greater purpose. Watch me be a mentor, watch me

685
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Speaker 1: be a single mom. Watch me break out of these things,

686
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Speaker 1: watch me grow this sort of sada the god. So

687
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: sus us us all yeah, I've been discouraged to change

688
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 1: the discussion. Get a different scrapped. I got one. I

689
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 1: got one for you. I got one for you. Gosh,

690
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: that make it per so for? I said, how personal? Lord?

691
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: He said, real personal? I said, embarrassing? He said, as

692
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Speaker 1: deep as you can go without getting fired. I said,

693
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Speaker 1: all right, I share this Richard watch, watch Rotch, watch Roger.

694
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: I've been driving up to this church to preach for

695
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Speaker 1: over seventeen years now, never even really understood that the meditation,

696
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Speaker 1: And I don't want you to use that word like um,

697
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: think of those, think of those the headset that'll help

698
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: you better to understand what I'm saying. Because I said,

699
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Speaker 1: how faster are you going out there? He said two

700
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour? I said, wow, Then you can't

701
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Speaker 1: really afford to just have Uncle Billy weighing in on

702
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: what Joey should do. Turn left, turn left, turn left,

703
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: turn left. That's what Uncle Billy knows about racing. Come on.

704
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Speaker 1: The fastest car Billy ever had was a Maxima. You're

705
00:46:55,960 --> 00:47:00,439
Speaker 1: gonna let Billy tell you how to drive. You're gonna

706
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: get Billy of device. Here you go, Here you go, Culture,

707
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: here you go, CNN, here you go, Fox News, here

708
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 1: you go, Elon, here you go, Kanye. I don't care

709
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: who it is. If they're not the spotter, if they're

710
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: not the crew teeth, I can listen, but I gotta

711
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: keep it tight wide because we're in a season right

712
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: now where we're all trying to turn the corner. Oh,

713
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: are we getting set up for Jericho where you're gonna

714
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: have to go around and around and around and around

715
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: and around and around seven times? And it isn't working.

716
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: And so I'm discouraged. So when you get discouraged and

717
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: you wonder, what's this really? God? Am I really valuable?

718
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: Will I ever heal? Is it gonna get better? Should

719
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Speaker 1: I even live? Am I gonna make it? Is it

720
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Speaker 1: gonna work? Can I recover? Is there still time? As

721
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: you're making those turns? You need to learn how to

722
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: talk with the one who is watching you and who

723
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: knows every hair on your head because he's with you.

724
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Speaker 1: I need two of you. I need a spotter and

725
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: a crew chief. I need goodness and mercy. I need

726
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 1: to I need to. Everybody get two fingers up. They

727
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: say that's the peace sign. Well, for right now it

728
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: is gonna be the peace sign. It's gonna remind you

729
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: that when you are discouraged is often because you're distracted.

730
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:41,760
Speaker 1: Stuff it don't matter, stuff is passing. I know exactly

731
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,280
Speaker 1: who I'm saying this for. Right now, you've been telling

732
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: your stuff, craziest stuff. You don't like your story, then

733
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,839
Speaker 1: Why are you sticking with the script that was given

734
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: to you? Why are you letting a five year old

735
00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: tell you how to drive? Yeah, I'm talking Paris. I

736
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: don't want to go to bed. Okay, stay up forever

737
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Speaker 1: and die, Like what kind of parenting is that? You

738
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: gotta hand that over? So I was driving up to

739
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: preach every week. You know what, My meditation was not

740
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: um and it was worse some weeks than others, but

741
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: many seasons it ran through the background. I hope I'm

742
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: not a disappointment. I never would have known how to

743
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 1: name it as I was feeling. See, that's why you come,

744
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: so we can put a name on some of the

745
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: stuff that's going on in here. And you go, oh yeah,

746
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's a five year old talking to me.

747
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: That's an earlier version of me somewhere. I'm scared of

748
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: letting these people down. That's not where God put me now,

749
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: That's not who I am now, and recently, very recently,

750
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: but long enough ago that I've been working on it

751
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: so I can share with you you this didn't just

752
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,720
Speaker 1: happen this week. I'm preaching about stuff while was that fresh.

753
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 1: I drove up to the church and the Lord said,

754
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: change the whole thing that you're thinking, changed the whole

755
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: meditation and say this. Okay, the first part came like

756
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: this took me a minute. I just sat there. He

757
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: gave it to me. Say this, God is not against me,

758
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, that's weird. I'm not worried about

759
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: you being against me, God, I'm worried about them being

760
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: against me. The other one said, I'm scared of letting down.

761
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Speaker 1: What if I say something stupid? That's not really a

762
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Speaker 1: what if? Is it? That's kind of just a baseline

763
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 1: requirement for me to grab this mic? But what if

764
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: I try to let the Holy Spirit flow? If I

765
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: miss it? See all that? You know what else Joey

766
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: told me. He said, one thing about racing is if

767
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Speaker 1: you don't want to hit the wall, don't think about

768
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: hitting the wall, because you hit the wall. And I

769
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: don't know what we're preaching about today, are we Are

770
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,800
Speaker 1: we preaching about a new creation in Christ or a NASCAR?

771
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: You're preaching about all of this because this is you.

772
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: Life is going fast, and not everybody else out there

773
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: is for you. Some of them are against you, but

774
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:28,879
Speaker 1: God is not. See I'm talking about the secret things,

775
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: not the things that the enemy shouts, the things he whispers,

776
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: sh secret things you can't even you can't even name

777
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: them with language because they're happening at the level of

778
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: a feeling. So you don't even know how to process it.

779
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: You don't even know how to process it. You just

780
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: you're just turning here when you should turn there, and

781
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: you're crashing, and you're losing opportunity, and you don't know

782
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: why and the reason why. I was showing up a

783
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,879
Speaker 1: lot of times so anxious, I must have secretly thought

784
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: that God didn't want to work with me that day

785
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: to communicate his word to people because I study, I prayed.

786
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: I'm not perfect, but I'm sincere. I am passionate. So

787
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Speaker 1: if I gave it to him, and I gave him

788
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: the time that week, and I'm not running around being

789
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: an idiot and blaming it on the sovereignty of God

790
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: that I didn't have a sermon Lord speak, He's like

791
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:29,280
Speaker 1: I was trying Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. You were distracted.

792
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 1: If I've been with him, and even if I haven't,

793
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: he wants to speak to you more than he wants

794
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:40,320
Speaker 1: me to study. So even at that moment when you

795
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: screw up. You still got to believe He wants to

796
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:48,320
Speaker 1: work with you. How can you possibly get up and

797
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: preach or parent, or run a small business, or graduate

798
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,800
Speaker 1: from school, or go back and get your degree, or

799
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: fight diabetes or can and you to show up and

800
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: see your mom three times a week at the nursing

801
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: home and know that she doesn't even know who you are.

802
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: How can you possibly push through that kind of discouragement

803
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: if you don't believe that God is with you and

804
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 1: for you? He said, sind two spies, not too many.

805
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:21,359
Speaker 1: You don't need a whole bunch of this right now.

806
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: You need to focus on what God spoke to you.

807
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,399
Speaker 1: So here's the question I want going through your mind.

808
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:30,839
Speaker 1: What is something I know God spoke that I can

809
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: obey today? Get it? What is something I know God

810
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:43,319
Speaker 1: spoke that I can obey today? Do you see how

811
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: different that is than what we run around managing a

812
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 1: lot of times we run around thinking like, oh, I

813
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: got to get my life together. If you do it

814
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: like that, you're gonna fall apart. That's too much. Now.

815
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: The enemy's just listing stuff you need to fix in

816
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: your life. You need to fix your attitude. You need

817
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: to fix your relationships. You need to fix your money.

818
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: You need to fix your kitchen, sink and a toilet

819
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: too much. Watch what Joshua said in chapter two, verse one.

820
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: He said, go to spies. It's an inside job. We're

821
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: gonna We're not gonna make a big deal about this.

822
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: We're just going to focus our faith right now. I

823
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: not only feel that God called me to impart faith

824
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:28,760
Speaker 1: to you today in this series, but also to impart focus.

825
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: What is the next thing you need to face? Just that?

826
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Speaker 1: What is the one thing? Because Jericho was like the

827
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: key city, it was the strategic command center. It's like

828
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: your mind is to your body. If they got in Jericho,

829
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: they could take the rest of the land. And I

830
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 1: am telling you the enemy is trying to get you

831
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: to focus on too much so that all you want

832
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 1: to do is go take a nap and do it tomorrow.

833
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: But no, who cannot call to What can I do today? Oh?

834
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: Well I don't have money. Well what would you do

835
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: if you did have money? Do a little bit of that.

836
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Speaker 1: I don't have time to go work out? Well you know,

837
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Speaker 1: I do it. I don't have time. You got ten minutes, Yeah,

838
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: I got ten minutes. Do ten minutes. I would work

839
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,320
Speaker 1: out for an hour. Okay, do the thing that you

840
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 1: would do for an hour for ten minutes. You don't

841
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: get it. I heard a guy say the other day,

842
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Speaker 1: if I was a billionaire, i'd build orphanages in Africa.

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Speaker 1: I said, do you support the outreach ministry of your church?

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Speaker 1: You can go over here. So what in offensive? He's like,

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Speaker 1: not explicitly. I'm like, what does that mean? Not explicitly?

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Speaker 1: All the stuff we say to avoid doing stuff, you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't do it at a billionaire level. If you won't

848
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Speaker 1: do it at this level, that's deception. And this goes deep,

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Speaker 1: right because the things that you're really discouraged about are

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Speaker 1: running deep. And so you're like, if I had I

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Speaker 1: would do that. Okay, do the thing that you would

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Speaker 1: do if you had that. What would you do if

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Speaker 1: you did? Okay, I don't have Let me make up

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Speaker 1: another one. I don't have kids right now, and I

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Speaker 1: want kids, Okay, what would you do with your kids

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Speaker 1: if you had them? I would love them? Then who

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Speaker 1: can you love? I don't have prayer time in the

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Speaker 1: morning because I have to leave it at five point

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Speaker 1: thirty for my job. The car is the sanctuary. Do

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Speaker 1: the thing that you would do sitting there at the

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Speaker 1: table anyway, and do it on the road, and plug

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Speaker 1: the iPhone in and put me in your device, and

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Speaker 1: I'll be your spotter. I'll start talking to you. I

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Speaker 1: will preach this same I'll make a deal with you.

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Speaker 1: I will meet you tomorrow morning and preach you this

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Speaker 1: same sermon word for word on your device. I'll be

867
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Speaker 1: your spotter, and see can be your crutieth. And together

868
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Speaker 1: we're going in to something amazing. So get ready for it,

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Speaker 1: get strong for it, and be careful what you led

870
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Speaker 1: in your heart. I've met week Stephen. I've met strong Stephen.

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Speaker 1: And you know what the Lord is teaching me to do.

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Speaker 1: When I'm weak, say I'm strong, and do the thing

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Speaker 1: you would do if you were strong. When you get

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Speaker 1: this going in your life, you're going to be able

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Speaker 1: to do everything that the Lord commanded you to do,

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Speaker 1: not everything he commanded somebody else to do, and not

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Speaker 1: everything you're in laws think you should do, and not

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Speaker 1: everything that your mom or your dad hoped that you

879
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Speaker 1: would do that they didn't do, so they're taking it

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Speaker 1: out on you. But the thing that God made you

881
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Speaker 1: to do, core you. I speak to that you today,

882
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Speaker 1: who's in your head? Say let's get the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 1: in there for a minute, telling you, hey, I'll be

884
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Speaker 1: with you. Come on, y'all. They went to Jericho and

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Speaker 1: God was with them to knock down walls. You think

886
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Speaker 1: he's not with you. They went to a prostitute's house,

887
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Speaker 1: stayed there. God used even the enemies to confirm his purpose.

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Speaker 1: You think he's not with you. So I started showing

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Speaker 1: up to the church and I started saying this. I

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Speaker 1: say it out loud because there's nobody with me in

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Speaker 1: the car. Well. Shoot, if there was somebody, i'd tell him, hey,

892
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Speaker 1: watch this. I don't care anymore. I would rather look

893
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Speaker 1: crazy than be crazy. But that's just the point in

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Speaker 1: my life I'm at. I say, God is not against me.

895
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Speaker 1: He is in it with me, working through me, fighting

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Speaker 1: for me. God is not against me. Do the thing

897
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Speaker 1: that you would do if you believed God was not

898
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Speaker 1: against you. Do the thing that you the one God knows,

899
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Speaker 1: the knew you the Jeremiah one to five. You do

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Speaker 1: the thing that you the kind, you, the whole. You

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Speaker 1: do the thing that you would do, one step at

902
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Speaker 1: a time. Joshua told the spies, just Jericho, don't look

903
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Speaker 1: around at the whole land. You're going to get discouraged.

904
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Speaker 1: Just Jericho and do the thing that you would do

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Speaker 1: if you knew what to do. Do the thing that

906
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Speaker 1: you would do. Take a step in that direction toward God,

907
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Speaker 1: because I see people in my spirit right now who

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Speaker 1: need to take one step forward. And so let's change

909
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Speaker 1: your not medication, but your meditation today. Let's do it

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Speaker 1: real quick, say it out loud. God is not against me.

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Speaker 1: I really need you to feel that, because if you're

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Speaker 1: just like, okay, if we say it, he'll let us go,

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Speaker 1: and I'm hungry, then nothing happened. But I want you

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Speaker 1: to get this in your headset so I can get

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Speaker 1: in your mindset, so it can get in your mouth,

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Speaker 1: so it can get in your life, so it can

917
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Speaker 1: get in your marriage, so it can get all up

918
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Speaker 1: in your business. God is not against me. Jesus died

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Speaker 1: for me. God sees me through eyes of love. He

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Speaker 1: looks at me with the very same affection that he

921
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Speaker 1: looks at his son, who gave his life for me.

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Speaker 1: So I know he's not against me. If he was

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Speaker 1: against me, he would already because I saw what he

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Speaker 1: did to Pharaoh. He was against Pharaoh he not against me.

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Speaker 1: God is not against me, but he's in it with me.

926
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Speaker 1: He said, I'll be with you wherever you go. Now

927
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Speaker 1: put that in your heart. God is in this with me.

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Speaker 1: God is in this with me. You say that when

929
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Speaker 1: you come to church. I need you to say it

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Speaker 1: as you're walking out of here into it. God is

931
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Speaker 1: in this with me. God is in it with me.

932
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Speaker 1: God is in it with me. God is in it

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Speaker 1: with me. Three thirty in the morning. Oh, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be in front of that board on Tuesday, and

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Speaker 1: God is going to be in it with me. God

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Speaker 1: will already have the coffee made when I get there

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Speaker 1: because God is in it with me. He will be

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Speaker 1: with me wherever I go. He's already preparing for me

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Speaker 1: what He is preparing me for. God is in it

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Speaker 1: with me. I want it to get in your head.

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Speaker 1: I want it to get in your heart. God is

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Speaker 1: in it with me. But I'm not selfish. He's working

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Speaker 1: through me. God wants to flow through you. God wants

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Speaker 1: to use you, and he's fighting for me. I want

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Speaker 1: you to get this in your heart so deep this week.

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Speaker 1: Put in in that chorus for make Away that you

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Speaker 1: can almost make a song out of it where you

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Speaker 1: could just walk around. I don't remember how the chorus

949
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Speaker 1: went at the moment, but I was just hearing it,

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Speaker 1: like God is not against me. God is not against me.

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Speaker 1: That's the key, right, because if I just say it,

952
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Speaker 1: they'll forget it. But if I sing it, we might

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Speaker 1: remember it. God is not a guesst me. God is

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Speaker 1: not guesst me. I'm gonna do the whole thing. Put

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Speaker 1: it on the screen, y'all. Let's turn this real quick.

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Speaker 1: I talked to doctor God on your behalf. He said,

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Speaker 1: you've been discouraged and it's becoming a disease. So he

958
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Speaker 1: said that you need to come. I'll be the pharmacist.

959
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Speaker 1: He said, this is the pharmacy. He is the doctor,

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Speaker 1: and he wants to change not your medication, but your meditation.

961
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Speaker 1: Once you walking around all week saying stuff like this

962
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Speaker 1: to yourself. God is not against me. Let's say it.

963
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Speaker 1: But he's in it with me, working through me, fighting

964
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Speaker 1: for me. Again. God is not against me, but he's

965
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Speaker 1: in it with me, working through me, fighting for me again.

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Speaker 1: God is not against me. I want to see it

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Speaker 1: all in the chat. But he's in it with me,

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Speaker 1: working through me, fighting for me. You feel that faith

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Speaker 1: coming right now. Let's do it a couple more times.

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Speaker 1: Let the Canaanite snow, let the Hittite snow, Let the

971
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Speaker 1: Jebusite snow. Let the anxiety I know, let the depression

972
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Speaker 1: I snow, Let the loneliness I know. Let him know.

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Speaker 1: God is not against me, but he's in it with me.

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Speaker 1: He's working through me, fighting for me. Again, God is

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Speaker 1: He's not against me, He's in it with me, working

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Speaker 1: through me, fighting for me. One more time. God is

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Speaker 1: not against me, but he's in it with me. Do

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Speaker 1: what you would do if you believe God was in

979
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Speaker 1: it with you? How would you praise him right now?

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Speaker 1: If you believe He was in it with you? How

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Speaker 1: would you stand in the fire if you knew he

982
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 1: was in it, if you knew that not only was

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Speaker 1: He in it with you, but He was working through you,

984
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Speaker 1: flowing through you, setting generation free through you. I feel

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Speaker 1: God working through me right now to come through that

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Speaker 1: camera and tell you God is not against me, but

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Speaker 1: he's in it with me. He's working through me, and

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Speaker 1: he's fighting for me. Do what you would do if

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Speaker 1: you believed it shound like you would shout. If you

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Speaker 1: believe it, shout like you wouldn't shout in your film,

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Speaker 1: that's you do, not you doing? Come on doing what

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Speaker 1: you would do if you know do what you would do,

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Speaker 1: you would do it, if you will make all right,

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Speaker 1: Let's get this medical Let's get this meditation, medication to

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Speaker 1: go down. Say, I guess me, but he's in it

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Speaker 1: with me, working through me. It's fighting for me. You

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Speaker 1: know it's not against me, but he's in it with me,

998
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Speaker 1: fighting for me. Only got two? How are we doing?

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Speaker 1: God is not against me, but he's in it with me,

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Speaker 1: working through me, fighting for me. Like that. Here we

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Speaker 1: go turn this man's wake up. Let's get some meditation.

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Speaker 1: Meta follow me. Let's get this discouragement out. God not

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Speaker 1: again me, but he's in it with me. You're working

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Speaker 1: through me, fighting on the screen, y'all? What it off there?

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Speaker 1: God is not right down with me, working through me,

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Speaker 1: fighting for me. Sa sa sa sa. Same. God is

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Speaker 1: not again me. Why he's anyway with me, working through me,

1008
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Speaker 1: fighting for me? Why know God is not again, but

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Speaker 1: he did it with me, working through me. Fight. Oh

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Speaker 1: wait all week thinking out all way. God is not

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Speaker 1: agay me, but he's doing with me, working through me.

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Speaker 1: Fight ball of me God is not again for me,

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Speaker 1: But he's in it with me working. Do me fight, Yes,

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Speaker 1: he's in it with me working, doom me fighting, ball me.

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Speaker 1: I know that he's in it with me working. Do

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Speaker 1: me fighting? No knowing me working fight. Yes, he's being

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Speaker 1: with me working, Do me fighting? Call me well. If

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of things

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Speaker 1: others by investing today at Elevation Church dot org. Slash

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Speaker 1: GiB and thanks again for joining us on the Elevation

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