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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik.

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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. Hope

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God has moving in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: I am continuing in a series that I am thoroughly enjoying,

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Speaker 3: preaching to.

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Speaker 1: Myself and then letting you listen. The Lord has been working.

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Speaker 1: I have been hearing from you.

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Speaker 3: I have gotten so many good reports from this series.

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Speaker 3: And it's only part five today. It's only part five today,

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Speaker 3: so you're not too late. The Lord has a word

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Speaker 3: for you today, and I want to share with you

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Speaker 3: a word from his word. Stay standing for just a

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Speaker 3: moment at all of our locations and watching online all

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Speaker 3: over the world. And if you can find a Bible

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Speaker 3: or if you have one on your app turn to

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Speaker 3: First Chronicles, chapter twenty.

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Speaker 1: Eight, verse nineteen.

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Speaker 3: Therein is the instruction that the Lord has for us today.

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Speaker 3: You don't have a Bible with you, or you prefer

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Speaker 3: not to pull out your phone because you don't want

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Speaker 3: to be distracted, because you know somebody might be trying

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Speaker 3: to reach you, but you want to ignore them while

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Speaker 3: you're in church.

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Speaker 1: We'll put it on the screen for you. First Chronicles,

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Speaker 1: chapter twenty.

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Speaker 3: Eight, Verse nineteen. King David has come a long way.

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Speaker 3: He is an old man and he's sharing the plan

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Speaker 3: that God gave him for the Temple of the Lord

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Speaker 3: to be built. And after sharing several of those specific

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Speaker 3: instructions that the Lord gave him in verse Chronicles twenty eight,

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Speaker 3: he says something really cool, and I really want you

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Speaker 3: to hear it today.

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Speaker 1: He says, all this, David said.

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Speaker 3: Remember, he's just listed all of the different materials that

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Speaker 3: are going to be used to build the temple, all

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Speaker 3: of the dimensions of each room. He gets so specific

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Speaker 1: Down to the dishes. Now they say the devil is

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Speaker 1: in the details. So is God. And he says all this.

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Speaker 3: Somebody say all this, if you're watching online, just put

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Speaker 3: All this, David said, I have in writing as a

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Speaker 3: result of the Lord's hand on me, and he enabled

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Speaker 3: me to understand all the details of the plan and

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Speaker 3: that a good verse.

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Speaker 1: Let's read it again.

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Speaker 3: All this, somebody say, all this, God's not going to

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Speaker 3: leave one single thing out.

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Speaker 1: God's got it all accounted for, he said.

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Speaker 3: All this, David said, I have in writing as a

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Speaker 3: word of the Lord today is this, God said, to

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Speaker 3: tell you, hand him the plan, Hand him the plan.

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Speaker 3: I was praying as I prepared about the thoughts that

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Speaker 3: we think.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the.

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Speaker 3: you who are making decisions in your life right now

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Speaker 3: about all of you who are trying to recover from

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Speaker 3: things that have happened to you, and you hadn't got

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Speaker 3: your balance back yet.

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Speaker 1: And I thought about all of you who feel a

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Speaker 1: tell you hand him the plan. Father.

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Speaker 3: I lift up every person that will hear this message

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Speaker 3: And I thank you that you know the plans you

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Speaker 3: have for them, plans to prosper them, not to harm them,

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Speaker 3: Plans to give them a hope and the future. We

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Speaker 3: right now. Speak now, God, we're listening. In Jesus' name, Amen,

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Speaker 3: tell three people on your way to your seat, hand

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Speaker 3: him the plan. Put that in the comments. If you're

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Speaker 3: watching on YouTube, hand him the plan. Come on, put

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be wonderful?

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Speaker 1: Though? If the Lord did that for you what he

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Speaker 3: details of the stock market, all the details of cryptocurrency,

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Speaker 1: It would be awesome.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to do something Graham that I never did

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Speaker 3: before in twenty plus years of preaching, twenty years of pastoring, twenty.

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Speaker 1: Nine years of preaching since I was a little boy.

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Speaker 3: I've been teaching Graham about preaching lately, sharing with him

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Speaker 3: lessons that I've learned and I never did this before,

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Speaker 3: but the Lord led me to give you this message

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Speaker 3: in a very peculiar way.

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Speaker 1: That I think you will enjoy.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to take a proverb from proverb number nineteen,

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Speaker 3: verse twenty one, Proverbs nineteen twenty one. I'm going to

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Speaker 3: And the proverb that I'm going to use is going

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Speaker 3: to be the points of my message, so.

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Speaker 1: You'll have all the points when I read you this proverb.

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Speaker 3: And then I'm going to break it down for a

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Speaker 3: your heart, your thoughts, and what God is building in

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Speaker 3: your life. And here's what Proverbs nineteen, verse twenty one says.

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Speaker 3: Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it

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Speaker 3: is the Lord's purpose that prevails. Now, I see that

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Speaker 3: because everything you're fighting against, it's the Lord's purpose that prevails.

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Speaker 3: is the Lord's purpose that prevails.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that great verse?

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Speaker 3: The first point I'm going to talk to you about

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Speaker 3: to you about many are the plans. So that's point

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Speaker 3: number one. Many are plans. Yeah, write it down. That's

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Speaker 3: point number one. Write it down many of the plans.

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Speaker 3: Put it in the comments, many of the plans, and

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Speaker 3: in the comments as well, and put it in your notes,

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Speaker 3: And point number three, I want to talk to you

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Speaker 3: about purpose that prevails.

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Speaker 1: Okay, purpose that prevails.

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Speaker 3: So now if you need to leave early, you got

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Speaker 3: all four points, and you can pretend like you said

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Speaker 3: through the whole sermon, many are the plans, somebody say

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Speaker 3: many are the plans. In my experience as a leader

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Speaker 3: whatever he has asked me to do. By faith, and

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Speaker 3: I called this series That's what I thought, because it

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Speaker 3: helped me to reflect on how dumb I was at times.

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Speaker 3: at every point along the way in my journey as

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Speaker 3: gave him obedience.

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Speaker 1: And as much as we think.

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Speaker 3: As much as we think we would love God to

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Speaker 1: And I found so many.

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Speaker 3: other way. Obedience follows details. So show me the entire

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Speaker 3: path God, and then I'll take the first step. But

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Speaker 3: pretty quick, right, did all that with no details, obedience,

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Speaker 1: He didn't ask any of that. He didn't say how

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Speaker 3: He did say, what do you intend to do with

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Speaker 1: And now that he did it, he knows. Now go

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Speaker 3: I needed you to illustrate that details follow obedience.

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Speaker 1: Now you know how long I wanted you up here,

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Speaker 3: I wanted you up here that long for that reason,

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Speaker 3: to prove this point that details follow obedience. Say it,

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Speaker 3: details follow obedience. That's right, detail else follow obedience. I

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Speaker 3: know you want God to show you seven weeks from now,

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Speaker 3: The lesson of my life that I wish I didn't

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Speaker 3: that usually what I thought and what God saw are

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Speaker 3: two totally different things. Somebody say many are the plans.

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Speaker 3: Many are the plans. There have been so many plans

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Speaker 3: and in my life that looking back on them, I.

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Speaker 1: Thought too small.

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Speaker 3: I didn't think big enough because I didn't pray big enough.

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Speaker 3: I thought too small. Have you ever thought too small?

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Speaker 3: Many are the thoughts? Everybody say many are the thoughts,

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Speaker 3: And y'all know I love wordplays, so I mean many

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Speaker 3: are the thoughts, and I mean many are the thoughts.

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Speaker 1: My thoughts have been so many through the years.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember LB when we were meeting at the

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Speaker 3: Senior Center, and this was when the church was very young.

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Speaker 1: Y'all don't know nothing about the Senior Center days.

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Speaker 3: When we pulled up for the grand opening, and I

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Speaker 3: looked around at that room that would seat two hundred

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Speaker 1: It will last us five years.

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Speaker 1: Everybody say, many are the thoughts. That's what I thought.

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Speaker 3: five months. We had outgrown the building. Because my thoughts

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Speaker 3: rarely see today, a kind of courage I rarely see

444
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Speaker 3: in my own life, A kind of courage that would

445
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Speaker 3: stand before a giant with a shepherd's tool.

446
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Speaker 1: In his hand and say I got something for you.

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Speaker 3: The kind of courage that will stand before the devil

448
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Speaker 3: of spiritual oppression in your life with nothing but a

449
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Speaker 3: prayer and a faith and a belief, and say I

450
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Speaker 3: got something for you. That kind of faith is rare.

451
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Speaker 3: It's in a person's heart. And I taught you last

452
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Speaker 3: week that the place where God gives you the blueprint

453
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Speaker 3: will always be the place where the enemy brings the battle.

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Speaker 1: So give me my camera.

455
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Speaker 3: If you are fighting hell right now in your mind,

456
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Speaker 3: there is something Heaven is trying to download that Hell

457
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Speaker 3: is trying to interfere with.

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Speaker 1: I'll say it again.

459
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Speaker 3: If you are fighting panic attacks, anxiety, temptations, if you

460
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Speaker 3: are fighting hell in your mind, there is something that

461
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Speaker 3: God is trying to download into your mind that Hell

462
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Speaker 3: is trying to interfere with.

463
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Speaker 1: It is in a.

464
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Speaker 3: Person's heart that you can receive a word from God.

465
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Speaker 3: It is in your heart that God can speak to

466
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Speaker 3: you the details of his plan. It is in your

467
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Speaker 3: heart that God can speak to you the assurance of

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Speaker 3: his love. It is in your heart that God can

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Speaker 3: speak to you how to have that conversation. It is

470
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Speaker 3: in your heart that God can speak to you who

471
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Speaker 3: you need to reach out, that has been through what

472
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Speaker 3: you're going through, that can show you a few things

473
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Speaker 3: so that you don't have to be dealing with this

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Speaker 3: next time, this time, next year. It is in your

475
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Speaker 3: heart that the enemy will also tell you if you

476
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Speaker 3: reach out to them, you can't trust them. It is

477
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Speaker 3: also in your heart that the enemy will remind you

478
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Speaker 3: so much of your past that you can't even hear

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Speaker 3: what God is speaking in your presence. It is in

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Speaker 3: your heart that God gives plans. It is in your

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Speaker 3: heart that you harbor pain. Pain in God's plans are

482
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Speaker 3: in the same heart. Just like there are multiple apps

483
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Speaker 3: on your phone right now and you choose which one

484
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Speaker 3: to open. There is a plan that God has for you.

485
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Speaker 3: It is in your heart. There is a plan that

486
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Speaker 3: the enemy is speaking over you. It is hatching in

487
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Speaker 3: your heart. The plan that the enemy wants to hatch

488
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Speaker 3: in your heart has to bow its need to the

489
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Speaker 3: purpose that God speaks into your life.

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Speaker 1: Many are the plans, you know.

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Speaker 3: When David got up to tell the people about the

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Speaker 3: temple and how God gave him all the details, it

493
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Speaker 3: was a magnificent announcement. Man, This temple is not going

494
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Speaker 3: to be a storefront temple. This temple is not going

495
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Speaker 3: to be a garage bend temple. We've had the ark

496
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Speaker 3: of God in a tent for too long, David said,

497
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Speaker 3: And we are going to build a temple for the Lord.

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Speaker 3: But I want to take you back to something very

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Speaker 3: powerful in verse two and three, because.

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Speaker 1: I think there's something that God is.

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Speaker 3: Trying to download into your mind and your heart, but

502
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Speaker 3: you can't receive it because of your disappointments. And David

503
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Speaker 3: had a disappointment, a disappointment that, had he chosen to

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Speaker 3: allow it, would have interrupted the download. Remember, the battle

505
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Speaker 3: always happens in the place of a blueprint, Pastor Stephen,

506
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Speaker 3: this is a lot of alliteration.

507
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Speaker 1: Can you break it down for me?

508
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Speaker 3: Yeah, when God is trying to do something, the devil

509
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Speaker 3: starts saying something, and you hear from both of them,

510
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Speaker 3: not out loud, but in your mind, in your heart. Why,

511
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Speaker 3: that's why it's a battle. Maybe you're not going crazy,

512
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Speaker 3: maybe you're called. That's all y'all want to say about

513
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Speaker 3: what I just said is I said, maybe you're not crazy,

514
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Speaker 3: maybe you're called. Tell your neighbor I might be called.

515
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Speaker 3: Got him with real big eyes and say I thought

516
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Speaker 3: I was crazy, but.

517
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Speaker 1: I might be.

518
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Speaker 3: Called I might be golf and I might be crazy.

519
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Speaker 1: But I got a deal with my crazy. So I

520
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Speaker 1: can hear God calling me?

521
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Speaker 4: Does I do not intend to let him just continue

522
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Speaker 4: to disrupt my destiny with doubt, dysfunction, and despair.

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Speaker 3: I five your neighbors say I might be called, So

524
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Speaker 3: I'm just teaching boys calm down. David gets up. Imagine

525
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Speaker 3: the occasion rights he's getting ready to tell them, and.

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Speaker 1: This is how big that the Holy of Holies is

527
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Speaker 1: going to be.

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Speaker 3: And this is the kind of wood that you need

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Speaker 3: to put in the doorway, and this is the kind

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Speaker 3: of gold. And he's not just talking about it. He

531
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Speaker 3: stored it up.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this man spent his whole life building up

533
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Speaker 1: for this moment.

534
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Speaker 3: And he's giving the plans for the temple where God

535
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Speaker 3: is going to live, where God is going to dwell,

536
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Speaker 3: and God gave him the plan. Watch what he says

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Speaker 3: before this, just seventeen verses earlier in First Chronicles, chapter

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Speaker 3: twenty eight, verse two, he started this way. King David

539
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Speaker 3: rose to his feet and said, listen to me, my

540
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Speaker 3: fellow Israelites, my people, I had it in my heart

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Speaker 3: to build a house as a place of rest for

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Speaker 3: the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Now that

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Speaker 3: represents God's presence. So he said, I had it in

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Speaker 3: my heart to do something I had. I had it

545
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Speaker 3: in my heart to build a place for God's presence.

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Speaker 3: Let me just stop and take a quiz. Is that

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Speaker 3: a good desire or a bad desire?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean, you could argue about, well, Jesus is ultimately

550
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Speaker 3: the temple, but Jesus isn't here yet.

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Speaker 1: We got a couple hundred years, so let's build a

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Speaker 1: temple right now.

553
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Speaker 3: That temple was eventually destroyed, as all human things are.

554
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Speaker 3: But at this point, David wants to do a good thing.

555
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Speaker 3: I came to speak to somebody. Dream is a good thing.

556
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Speaker 3: It's a good thing. What you want is a good thing.

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Speaker 3: I had it in my heart to build a house

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Speaker 3: as a place of rest, for the ark of the

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Speaker 3: covenant of the Lord, for the footstool of our God.

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Speaker 3: Circle this next part justin and I made plans to

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Speaker 3: build it.

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Speaker 1: Now pause for a moment. You're gonna hate verse three.

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Speaker 1: I made plans to build it. Watch this, and here

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Speaker 1: they are.

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Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, not

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Speaker 3: that quick, not that quick. See David was sitting around

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Speaker 3: years earlier, and he turned to the prophet, who was

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Speaker 3: Nathan at the time, and said, I want to build

569
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Speaker 3: the Lord a house.

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Speaker 1: And Nathan said, all right, go ahead and do it.

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Speaker 1: The Lord's with you. Do whatever you have in your mind.

572
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Speaker 3: But then the Lord stopped Nathan, and Nathan turned around

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Speaker 3: and the Lord said, not David, somebody else is.

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Speaker 1: Going to do it.

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Speaker 3: What he wants to do is good, but it's not

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Speaker 3: in my purpose for him to do it. When you

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Speaker 3: start making your plans off of a picture that is

578
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Speaker 3: not specific to your purpose.

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Speaker 1: Is that why you're so worn out? Is that why

580
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Speaker 1: you're so tired?

581
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Speaker 3: Are you building something for a blueprint that does not

582
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Speaker 3: pertain to your purpose?

583
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Speaker 1: All right, I'll give you an example.

584
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Speaker 3: Why is my Instagram or my YouTube short speed so

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Speaker 3: full of so many people who are so much fitter

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Speaker 3: than me.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 3: I searched a bunch of videos on YouTube talking about

589
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Speaker 3: how to do.

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Speaker 1: The perfect pull up, how to.

591
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Speaker 3: Do the perfect tricep workout, how to do the perfect

592
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Speaker 3: chest workout, And so my YouTube said, oh you want perfect,

593
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Speaker 3: we'll give you perfect. Now, everybody in my YouTube short

594
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Speaker 3: Speed looks perfect, and I look the same as I did,

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Speaker 3: and now.

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Speaker 1: I get a picture of perfect.

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Speaker 3: But I'm living with me, and now all I'm seeing

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Speaker 3: is people who look so much different. Why because they're

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Speaker 3: on steroids and they're nineteen.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not supposed to be either of those things.

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Speaker 3: I'm not supposed to be nineteen and I'm not supposed

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Speaker 3: to be juicing, so I'm not gonna look like you

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Speaker 3: if I don't have your juice.

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Speaker 1: But I'm looking at a picture.

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Speaker 3: Of your temple, and I fail to realize that I

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Speaker 3: am a temple that God is building. I am a

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Speaker 3: masterpiece that God has.

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Speaker 1: In his mind.

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Speaker 3: I am a poem that God is speaking in the

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Speaker 3: earth today. I am the one who is supposed to

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Speaker 3: be preaching this word to you today. I can't preach

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Speaker 3: it like Billy Graham. I can't preach it like Charles

613
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Speaker 3: Hadden Spurgeon. I can preach it like Larry Stevens Fredick Junior.

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Speaker 3: I can preach it like I'm meant to preach it.

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Speaker 3: And you can do it like you're built to do it,

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Speaker 3: and you can build it like you're built to build it,

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Speaker 3: and you can say it like your grace to say it,

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Speaker 3: and you can move it like you know to move it,

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Speaker 3: and you can lead it like you know to lead it.

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Speaker 3: And you can win it if you use the weapon

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Speaker 3: God gave you.

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Speaker 1: Point number three.

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Speaker 3: Say it out loud, but it is the Lord's Say

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Speaker 3: it again, but it is the Lords. Many are the

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Speaker 3: plans in a person's heart, David's just a person. He's

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Speaker 3: a good person, but he's a person. He's an anointed person,

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Speaker 3: but he's a person. He's a strong person, but he's

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Speaker 3: a person. He's a faithful person, but he's a person.

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Speaker 3: And he gets it wrong, just like Samuel got it

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Speaker 3: wrong and he thought God wanted him to do something.

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Speaker 3: And now he has the disappointment. Watch this in First

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Speaker 3: Chronicles twenty eight, verse three, he said, I had it

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Speaker 3: in my heart and I made plans. But God said,

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Speaker 3: now let's put those two verses together. I made plans

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Speaker 3: verse two, but God said, that's where some of y'all

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Speaker 3: are today. I made plans verse three, and God butted

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Speaker 3: in Oh, we love to shout about but God in church, Yes,

638
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 3: we were dead and dresfastess and sins. But God, you

639
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Speaker 3: don't even have to try. If you just say but

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Speaker 3: God in church, it is an instant reaction.

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Speaker 1: I mean this one.

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Speaker 3: I had plans, but God said to me, you are

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Speaker 3: not to build a house for my name because you're

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Speaker 3: a warrior in the shed blood. And in this moment

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Speaker 3: of disappointment, David has a DISI decision. Many are the

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Speaker 3: plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's,

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Speaker 3: can we just minister to our hearts for a moment,

648
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Speaker 3: But it is the Lord's just that, just that will

649
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Speaker 3: get you set free from anxiety. But it is the Lord's.

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Speaker 3: Come on, say it to the thing that you're stressed about.

651
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Speaker 3: But it is the Lord's. Say it over the battle

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Speaker 3: that you're fighting in your life right now.

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Speaker 1: Say but it is the Lord's.

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Speaker 3: Say it over the plans that you're making right now,

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Speaker 3: the plan that you're making for your life, that you're

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Speaker 3: asking God to bless, the plan that you're making for

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Speaker 3: your life, that you're asking God to bless. That you

658
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Speaker 3: just want him to kick in a little funding, as

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Speaker 3: if God is a venture capitalist and not the sovereign

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Speaker 3: God of heaven and earth, as if he as if

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Speaker 3: God just.

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Speaker 1: Wants a percentage back over your life.

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Speaker 3: Any parents in the room wave at me, say this,

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Speaker 3: Say this over your family, But it is the Lord's.

665
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Speaker 3: I'm worried about my family. I'm trying to take care

666
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 3: of my family. I'm doing the best I can for

667
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 3: my family. But you know one thing about this family,

668
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 3: I'm giving it back because it is the lords.

669
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Speaker 1: He gave it to me.

670
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 3: He knew I would need the wisdom that I need

671
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 3: right now, so I might as well ask him for it.

672
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 3: And he said, if I ask him of wisdom, I

673
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 3: can ask it from God, and he give it to

674
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Speaker 3: all men liberally, and upbraide it not. But he that

675
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 3: asks must not doubt in his heart. For he that doubt,

676
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 3: if there's like a wave of the sea tossed and

677
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 3: driven with the man. When he is an unstable man,

678
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 3: he is a double minded man, and he will be

679
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 3: unstable in all he does. But when you believe that

680
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 3: wisdom belongs to God, power belongs to God, answers belong

681
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 3: to God, solutions and strategies belong to God. Peace belongs

682
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 3: to God. And I just want to ask a question.

683
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 3: Are you trying to ask God to give you peace

684
00:37:54,520 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 3: but you will not give him your plans? It is

685
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 3: the lords. It is the lords. Get in your car

686
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 3: today and when you sit down in it, just make

687
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,439
Speaker 3: a confession over your car.

688
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: It is the lords. And you're like, well, the Lord

689
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: is not picking up the car.

690
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 3: Note Apparently he didn't get the memo that we have

691
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 3: joint ownership over this vehicle. That is not the point.

692
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 3: The point is you wouldn't have it if it weren't

693
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 3: for him, so get grateful. And it's junkie. But it's

694
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 3: not a bicycle, it is the Lords. And if it's

695
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 3: a bicycle, it is the Lords. And if it's cheese

696
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 3: and bread that God put in David's hand, it is

697
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 3: the Lords. And if it's an assignment that He gave

698
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 3: you in a season, it is the Lords. It is

699
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 3: the Lords. David is disappointed. He wanted to build a temple,

700
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 3: but God said, not you. This is not the job

701
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 3: for you. It does not align with your background, it

702
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 3: does not align with your identity, it does not align

703
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 3: with your timing. I know it is you plan, David,

704
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 3: but you are a person, and not every plan that

705
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 3: is in a person's heart comes from the Lord. Many

706
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 3: are the plans, Some come from him, some come from others.

707
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: And I'm tired of you being in.

708
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 3: Needless pain because you are holding so tightly to your plan.

709
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 1: Your life is blessed.

710
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 3: You don't feel blessed because you're looking at a blueprint

711
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 3: that has nothing to do.

712
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: With your life.

713
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 3: But stop comparing, stop complaining about it.

714
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Speaker 1: It is the laws.

715
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Speaker 3: The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Bless it

716
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Speaker 3: be the name.

717
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Speaker 1: Of the Lord. It is the laws.

718
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Speaker 3: But it is the Lord's David said, I wanted to

719
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 3: I had it in my heart too. I bought the

720
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 3: software to design the temple. I was drawing up plans.

721
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 3: But God said to me, no, not this, David. I've

722
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 3: done a lot in your life and I'm not done

723
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Speaker 3: with you. And there is going to be a temple,

724
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 3: but you are not the one to build it. And

725
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 3: David continues to explain to the people on that how

726
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 3: God spoke to him, how what he thought was not

727
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,720
Speaker 3: what God had in mind, what was in his heart

728
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 3: was not what God had in his plan.

729
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: For I know the plans I have for you.

730
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 3: And he rose to his feet and said, I made plans,

731
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Speaker 3: but God said you are not to build it.

732
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: Verse four.

733
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Speaker 3: Yet the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me, chose me,

734
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 3: shows me.

735
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Speaker 1: Now here's what I think is happening.

736
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 3: I think David is dealing with the disappointment that I'm

737
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 3: not going to get to build this what I want

738
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 3: to build. I'm not going to get it exactly like

739
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 3: I want to get it. I'm not going to be

740
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,720
Speaker 3: able to do the thing I thought I was able

741
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 3: to do. And he deals with that disappointment by getting

742
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,760
Speaker 3: a bigger picture of his entire life. Yet the Lord,

743
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 3: the God of Israel, chows me from all my family

744
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Speaker 3: to be the king over Israel. There were seven brothers

745
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 3: bigger than me, and God chose little old me.

746
00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: He chose Judah as leader.

747
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 3: That it's the tribe that was least expected for the

748
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:03,720
Speaker 3: king to come from.

749
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: Benjamin was the kingly tribe, not Judah.

750
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 3: This is not the right tribe, This is not the

751
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,240
Speaker 3: right son, this is not the right anything.

752
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: But it's still God's plan.

753
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 3: This is not the human anything, but it's still Heaven's strategy.

754
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: He chose me. I was small. He chrove Judah. We

755
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: were the wrong tribe.

756
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Speaker 3: He chose from the tribe of Judah my family out

757
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 3: of four hundred thousand. He picked Jesse's family and from

758
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Speaker 3: my father's sons. He was pleased to make me king

759
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 3: all Israel. And he is my king over all my life.

760
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 3: And God has given me this opportunity, and God has

761
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 3: given me this breath, and God has given me this stewardship.

762
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,479
Speaker 1: God has given me this influence. And I wanted to do.

763
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 3: It, and I really still want to do it, and

764
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Speaker 3: I don't like it, but it is the Lord it's

765
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Speaker 3: not mine, it's the lord. Say it, it's not mine,

766
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 3: it's the lords. Tell your neighbor it's not yours. Come on,

767
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 3: tell them convincing. You got to say that with some offs.

768
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 3: Say it's not yours, it's the lords. It's not yours,

769
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 3: it's the lords.

770
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Speaker 1: Where have we heard this before?

771
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 3: In the valley of Elah, when a shepherd boy showed

772
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 3: up with the lunch and there was a giant named

773
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Speaker 3: Goliath that he did not plan for, but God did.

774
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 3: He planned to bring lunch. God plan to bring freedom.

775
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 3: He showed up on the battle lines. Some of the

776
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 3: best stuff that happens is not in your plan. Start

777
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 3: looking around for God to do purposes that don't fit

778
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 3: in your plan. And when he got to the battle lines,

779
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 3: can I preach about when he got to the battle lines?

780
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 3: Can I preach about the first significant moment that made

781
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 3: David recognize by Saul and that elevated him to the

782
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 3: position that God had for him. And I'm not saying

783
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 3: that God wants to make you a king or the president.

784
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 3: I don't even know if God wants to make you

785
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 3: the principle of a middle school.

786
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: He may, he may not. But the principle applies.

787
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 3: David got to the valley of Elah, and one Samuel seventeen,

788
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 3: verse forty seven says, Thus, all those gathered here, this

789
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 3: is what David said as a young man.

790
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: All those gathered here.

791
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 3: Will know that it is not by sword, it is

792
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 3: not by spear. Everything you brought to this fight is

793
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 3: not what God is going to use. Everything you thought

794
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 3: it was going to take is not what is going

795
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 3: to take. It is not by sword. It is not

796
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 3: by spear that the Lord saves for the battle is

797
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 3: not mine, but it is the laws. I need to

798
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 3: find a Pentecostal church I.

799
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: Can preach this in tonight.

800
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 3: I sold up at the Episcopalian Baptist First Church of

801
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:54,240
Speaker 3: the Frozen Chosen.

802
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: But I came to tell somebody.

803
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 4: This battle, this battle, it's not yours.

804
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:12,720
Speaker 3: Stop stressing, stop stressing, stop freaking out. Tell your neighbor

805
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 3: it's not yours.

806
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: But it is floors. But it is the lows.

807
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 4: And if it is this battle, it's got biped back

808
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 4: in this battle. If it is.

809
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 3: Now, I want to high five my neighbor. It is

810
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 3: the lords, It is the lords. It is this breath

811
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 3: in my lungs. So I ought to praise m But

812
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:46,800
Speaker 3: it is the Lord. Stop trying to do it alone.

813
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 3: It is the lords tack your partner. It is the

814
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 3: Lors call on heaven. It is the lords praying the spirits.

815
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 3: It is the Lords. It's his house, it's his plan,

816
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 3: it's his hand. Many are the plans in a person's heart,

817
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 3: but it is the Lord's. David said, I got to

818
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 3: thinking about my life and I realized that I didn't

819
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 3: get this far by planning.

820
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: I didn't get this far on my plans.

821
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 3: They didn't even plan to have me in the house

822
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 3: when they came through for.

823
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: The king auditions. I didn't get this far on my plans.

824
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna hand him the plan right right, the

825
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 3: word of the Lord, and.

826
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: Him the plan.

827
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 3: Oh you're going to sleep so good, like you had

828
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 3: three glasses of warm cookies and cold milk with the

829
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 3: ice all around the rim of the glass.

830
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: Just drink that down like a big sweat. Many are

831
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: the plans. I know.

832
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 3: I know you got some plans that aren't working out,

833
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 3: and I know you feel behind, and I know you

834
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 3: feel frustrated, and I know there's some things that God

835
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 3: is allowing others to do. Feel an experience that you're

836
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 3: not getting to feel doo in experience. Many of the

837
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 3: plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's

838
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 3: point four and I close. I want to tell you

839
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 3: about a purpose that prevails. Prevails is just fancy way

840
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 3: to say wins. So maybe we could say God's will wins.

841
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 3: Maybe we could say God will win if God is

842
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 3: for me. You think I'm trying to be Rick Flair.

843
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 3: I'm calling the Bible who can be against me? But

844
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 3: it is the Lord's It's too big for me, but

845
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 3: it is the lords. He said that about Goliath, and

846
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 3: he said that about the Temple. It is the Lord's

847
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 3: purpose that prevails. So I got up on my feet

848
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 3: today to tell you something that David wanted you to

849
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 3: know that even if you feel like you're in your

850
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 3: Plan B of your life, let me keep preaching Plan C,

851
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 3: Plan D, E F G, Plan Element OP. His purpose prevails.

852
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 3: Even if you thought we'll be in here five years.

853
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,839
Speaker 3: You know what God likes to do for entertainment. God

854
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 3: likes stand up comedy, so he listens to you make

855
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 3: your plans. He likes that. That's a good night for

856
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 3: the Lord. The Lord pop's popcorn and says back in

857
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 3: last Ah, I like a good comedy. Listen to where

858
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 3: they think they're going to be in three years. I

859
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 3: got stuff for them along the way that they don't

860
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 3: even know about. I want to talk to you about

861
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 3: purpose that prevails, and I need to give you one

862
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:56,320
Speaker 3: more detail.

863
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: Can I give you one more detail?

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00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 3: I know technically you have reached the satiation point where

865
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 3: you probably have had enough of this word, but I

866
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 3: will not sleep good if I don't tell you this

867
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 3: last point. The Lord told David, I'm going to use

868
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 3: one of your sons to build the temple, not you.

869
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,360
Speaker 3: I'm going to use you, but I'm not going to

870
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 3: do it through you. I'm gonna do it through Solomon

871
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 3: Solomon verse five, of all my sons, who he had

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00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 3: many sons, of all my sons, and the Lord has

873
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 3: given me many. He has chosen my son Solomon to

874
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,280
Speaker 3: sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord

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00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 3: over Israel. Verse six. He said to me, Solomon, your

876
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 3: son is the one who will build my house and

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00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:53,720
Speaker 3: my course. For I've chosen him to be my son,

878
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 3: I'll be his father. And you say, well, of course

879
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 3: he chose Solomon. Solomon was the wisest man who ever

880
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 3: lived right.

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Speaker 1: By the way.

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Speaker 3: In our family Bible club right now, we're reading the

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Speaker 3: Song of Solomon. Let me tell you, you don't know

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Speaker 3: awkward unless you've been in a Bible club with your

885
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Speaker 3: fourteen year old daughter trying to text about the Song

886
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Speaker 3: of Solomon in a group chat with your wife. It's

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Speaker 3: a whole situation. But the Song of Solomon is not

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Speaker 3: the only book that Solomon wrote. He also wrote a

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Speaker 3: book called Proverbs, and one of those proverbs, of all

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Speaker 3: the many that he wrote was Proverbs nineteen twenty one,

891
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Speaker 3: and Proverbs nineteen twenty one says, many are the plants

892
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Speaker 3: in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose

893
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 3: that prevails. I wonder when he wrote that, did he

894
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Speaker 3: think back to the moment where his father di Dad

895
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Speaker 3: said I had it in my heart to do it.

896
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Speaker 3: And I wonder was it even more powerful for Solomon

897
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Speaker 3: considering the circumstances of his birth. Solomon was born in

898
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Speaker 3: a very strange circumstance, in a very sorrowful time. You see,

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Speaker 3: David's brilliant mind that conceived the temple was a mind

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Speaker 3: that was also very tempted. He built the temple, but

901
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Speaker 3: he was tempted a person's heart.

902
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Speaker 1: Let me stop. That's what's going on in you right now.

903
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Speaker 3: You are a temple that God is building, but you

904
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Speaker 3: are tempted, not because there's something wrong with you, but

905
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Speaker 3: because there's something God is going to release through you.

906
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Speaker 3: And David, in all of his creativity, could cause himself

907
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 3: real problems because many are the plans. He had plans

908
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Speaker 3: to do good, he had plans to do bad. Many

909
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Speaker 3: are the plans. Don't look at me like the only

910
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 3: word you said this week was Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus.

911
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 3: Many are the plants. And David won the springtime, decided

912
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Speaker 3: not to go fight the battle. And he walked around

913
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Speaker 3: his rooftop and he saw a beautiful woman bathing, and

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Speaker 3: her name is Bethsheba, and he said, go and get her.

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Speaker 1: I want her.

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Speaker 3: And the same mind that was able to conceive something

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Speaker 3: as beautiful as a temple conceived a sin that he

918
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Speaker 3: committed that was very grievous in the sight.

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Speaker 1: Of the Lord.

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Speaker 3: In fact, in fact, the Lord never even calls Bathsheba

921
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Speaker 3: David's wife. It calls him the wife of your Riyah,

922
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Speaker 3: the Hittite that was the man that David stole her

923
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 3: from and the Lord didn't like it. The Lord didn't

924
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 3: like it one bit. Many are the plants in a

925
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 3: person's heart. The same mind that built the temple was tempted.

926
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Speaker 3: It's a struggle of flesh and spirit in your life

927
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Speaker 3: right now. You understand that. In this student section, it

928
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 3: is a struggle in the spirit for your life right now.

929
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 3: And in one season David was very courageous, and in

930
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 3: one season he was the kind of coward that slept

931
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Speaker 3: with another man's wife and had that man killed on

932
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:16,239
Speaker 3: the front lines of battle. And the Lord didn't like it,

933
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Speaker 3: and he sent Nathan, the same prophet who turned around

934
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Speaker 3: and said, hey, you don't get to build the temple.

935
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Speaker 3: Years earlier, he turned around and said, you shouldn't have

936
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Speaker 3: done that, and there's going to be a consequence. In fact,

937
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Speaker 3: the child that was the child that was conceived from.

938
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Speaker 1: That act died.

939
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Speaker 3: And David fasted and wept and prayed and wouldn't eat,

940
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Speaker 3: and that still didn't change the consequence. So now in

941
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 3: this moment, David is very depressed, disappointed, and guilty. He

942
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 3: probably wrote Psalm fifty one. He was a man of

943
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 3: many songs. He was also a man of many sins

944
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 3: and many sons. Many are the plans in a person's heart,

945
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 3: but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. And that

946
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,280
Speaker 3: child was given no name because that child never lived.

947
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Speaker 3: And after David wept, he got up and washed his face,

948
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Speaker 3: and they said, have you lost your mind? The child

949
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,280
Speaker 3: died and you're getting up and eating. When the child

950
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:21,359
Speaker 3: was still alive, you were fasting and praying. And David said, well,

951
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 3: I thought the Lord was going to heal him, but

952
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 3: now that he didn't, I have to move on.

953
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 1: David goes into Bathsheba and he.

954
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Speaker 3: Takes his wife and he comforts her and he makes

955
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 3: love to her, and they conceive a child, and they

956
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 3: named him Solomon. Now decades later, David had it in

957
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 3: his heart to build a temple for the Lord. And

958
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Speaker 3: he has a plan that God gave him for the temple,

959
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,760
Speaker 3: and he has a son that God gave him named Solomon,

960
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 3: after the worst failure of his life. And First Chronicles

961
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:07,320
Speaker 3: twenty eight, verse eleven says that he made a decision.

962
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:15,879
Speaker 3: Then David gave his son Solomon the plans. And isn't

963
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 3: it just like God and just like Grace that the

964
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 3: son that was born after his worst sin was the

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Speaker 3: one that God chose to build the temple that he

966
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 3: would live in. And I want you to begin to

967
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 3: clap your hands today because it doesn't matter what mistakes

968
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 3: you've made, because it doesn't matter how much time you've lost,

969
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 3: because it doesn't matter how bleak it has looked. It

970
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what weapon has been formed against you. It

971
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what the enemy is sowing in your heart

972
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 3: to try to discourage you. Hand him the plans, Hand

973
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 3: him the plans. Same son that was born of the

974
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 3: wife that David never should have even had.

975
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Speaker 1: God said, I will.

976
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 3: Redeem that too, and I will use the mistake that

977
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 3: you made.

978
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: I'm preaching to somebody, and I don't know who it

979
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: is yet.

980
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 3: I will use the thing that you thought I couldn't use.

981
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:19,839
Speaker 1: I will take the plans that I gave you.

982
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 3: I will take the purpose that I put in you,

983
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,240
Speaker 3: if you will hand him the plans.

984
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: I picture Solomon.

985
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 3: Years later, sitting down with this pen and writing Proverbs

986
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 3: nineteen twenty one.

987
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:35,280
Speaker 1: Many are the plans.

988
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 3: In a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose

989
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 3: that prevailed. Solomon new I wasn't even supposed to be here.

990
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 3: Solomon new I wasn't even supposed to be born. Solomon

991
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 3: new I wasn't born in the best circumstance. But Romans

992
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 3: eight twenty eight says.

993
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:56,760
Speaker 1: All things, all things.

994
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 3: Mistakes and major successes, all things failures, and they all

995
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 3: things work together for the good of them that love.

996
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 1: God and are called according to his purpose.

997
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 3: So I am preaching to somebody today that is not

998
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 3: living in your plan, but you're still in his purpose.

999
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 1: I'm preaching to somebody today who didn't even follow his plan.

1000
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 3: But the Lord is so good that if you hand

1001
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 3: him the plan, God said, hand me the plan. If

1002
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 3: you got ten years left, hand me ten years. If

1003
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 3: you don't have many brain cells left, hand me the

1004
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 3: ones you got left. If you got nothing left to

1005
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 3: offer me but a broken heart, lift your hands with

1006
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 3: a broken heart and bless the name of the Lord,

1007
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 3: and hand him the plan.

1008
00:56:56,280 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: Stand to your feet and do just like this, and

1009
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: hand him the plan. Hand him the plan.

1010
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 3: Where you thought you'd be by now, you're thinking too

1011
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 3: small what you thought you were supposed to be. You're

1012
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 3: looking at the wrong blueprint. Hand him the plan. You

1013
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 3: are his temple. Hand him the plan. Let him build

1014
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 3: it how he knows to build it. Let him bring

1015
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 3: who he wants to bring, let him remove who he

1016
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:35,320
Speaker 3: wants to remove, Let him do what he wants to do.

1017
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: Many are the plants in a person's heart, but it

1018
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: is the Lord's purpose that prevails. Now.

1019
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 3: If you take your hands and just put them like this,

1020
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 3: just like that, I think what the Lord wants us

1021
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 3: to take away from this message that Holly can cover

1022
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 3: in highlights. Hand him my tight shot, please, is you

1023
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 3: need to be open handed with the plan. Open handed

1024
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 3: with the plan, but keep a firm grip on the purpose.

1025
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: Open handed with the plan. But I'm certain about the purpose.

1026
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 3: I know God wants to get glory out of my life.

1027
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 3: I know he wants to get glory out of my life.

1028
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 3: I know God wants to fill this temple with glory.

1029
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 3: I know God wants to work all things together for good.

1030
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna ask you one more thing. Was Bathsheba

1031
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 3: part of the blueprint too? If he works all things together,

1032
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 3: do you really think there's anything about you that would

1033
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 3: stop him from building? Stop letting the enemy cut you

1034
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 3: off at the place of your last mistake, Fast, pray, repent.

1035
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: Do better, and move on.

1036
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 3: Because it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. And this

1037
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 3: is a strong word. It is a strong word. It

1038
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 3: is hard to hand him the plan. It's hard to say, Okay, God,

1039
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 3: you know, my kids aren't turning out like I think

1040
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 3: they should. Wait, stop and think about that for a minute.

1041
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 3: My kids aren't turning out how I think they should.

1042
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: I can't get them to do what I want them

1043
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 1: to do. You can't even get you to do what

1044
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 1: you want you to do. And him the plan.

1045
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 3: Clap those hands real quick, or I'm gonna keep prophesying.

1046
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: Open handed.

1047
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 3: So when you go to lunch today, realize that you

1048
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 3: not only heard four points, but you learned a proverb.

1049
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: You learn that many are the plans, and watch this plans.

1050
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 3: If the first one didn't work, God's already got another

1051
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 3: one cooking. Many are the plans in a person's heart.

1052
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 3: That's where the battleground is. That's where the fight is.

1053
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 3: God's looking for a person after his own heart. But

1054
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 3: it is the Lord's open your hands one more time.

1055
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: It is the Lord's whatever you need to give him today.

1056
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 1: You know what it is. I don't know what it is.

1057
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: I don't live with you. You know what it is.

1058
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: Say it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.

1059
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 3: God, I thank you that, in spite of everything that

1060
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 3: I've gone through, all things are working together for the

1061
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 3: good of those who love you and are called according

1062
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 3: to your purpose.

1063
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:45,919
Speaker 1: And now, Lord, we hand you the plan.

1064
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 3: We hand you the plan for what it looks like

1065
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 3: to be us in this season of our life. We

1066
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 3: hand you the plan for the space we think we're

1067
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 3: supposed to occupy.

1068
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1069
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,760
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1070
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:06,320
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1071
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:09,280
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1072
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:13,720
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1073
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