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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's daily prayer. For more

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Speaker 1: inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor stay

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Speaker 3: The title of my message is this, don't miss your

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Speaker 3: appointment don't miss your appointment. I want us to begin

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Speaker 3: with a verse from Hebrews, chapter four and verse twelve.

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Speaker 2: That I think is a critical.

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Speaker 3: Verse for the Body of Christ in this moment. I

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Speaker 3: say to you, with confidence from the Lord, that one

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Speaker 3: of the chief concerns of the Body of Christ in

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Speaker 3: this moment, specifically in the West, is that we are

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Speaker 2: There is a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of soulish Christianity that is happening in the House

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Speaker 3: of God right now. What are you talking about soulish?

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Speaker 3: What do you mean, Bishop Well? I want you to

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Speaker 3: harken back for a moment to your teaching from the

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Speaker 3: seventies the eighties, where the Word of Faith movement, the

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Speaker 3: Deliverance movement, these other moves of God taught us that

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Speaker 3: we are a tripartite being. Man is a spirit, he

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Speaker 3: we understood that the spirit Man was at war with

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Speaker 3: we were conformed to the image of Christ. But in

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Speaker 3: our modern day church world, these lines are getting very,

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Speaker 3: very subtly, there has been a shift from.

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Speaker 4: All hell the power of Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: There's been a shift from Holy, Holy, Holy.

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Speaker 3: coming to this place where we're worshiping in a spirit

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Speaker 3: it all figured out. Where are you praying from your spirit?

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Speaker 2: Where God just shows up. People say, oh, that's emotionalism. No,

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Speaker 3: And it's Hebrews chapter four, verse twelve. For the word

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Speaker 3: I know you didn't read the fine print. I certainly

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Speaker 3: The kingdom we've signed up for is an upside down kingdom.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean? Bishop? What does that mean?

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Speaker 2: You don't know if it's from your soul or your spirit?

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Speaker 3: know it? So what does God give us? He gives

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Speaker 3: the marrow. And is what is the word is a

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Speaker 3: what the word is a discerner? Your mind is not

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Speaker 3: just feel, I just feel. Since when are we to

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Speaker 3: be multiple opportunities for your feelings to contradict what God

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Speaker 2: You'll never get to the bottom of. What do you need?

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Speaker 3: What is the discerner? The word not you. That's a

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Speaker 3: good line. Now please put up Pebrews four to twelve

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Speaker 2: I get the next one. Intense.

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Speaker 3: Where's that coming from? Is that coming from a healed place,

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Speaker 3: of great opportunity, but it's also a moment of great

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Speaker 3: This is not the word of God. This is print

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Speaker 3: I'm studying, I'm learning, I'm declaring, I'm listening, but I'm

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Speaker 3: And if there, if you don't get from God a

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Speaker 3: Because we've got dead flesh that's got to be cut away.

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Speaker 3: That can easily become cancerous to our spirit. If we

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Speaker 3: Set you free, but first it will hurt again. Fine print.

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Speaker 2: There's a work with your name on it. Listen to me.

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Speaker 2: Remember he's going up. We're gonna take that Charlo, Let's

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Speaker 3: Look at Elisha serving Elijah, people moving in kingdom position

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Speaker 3: It's I don't think you can get through a week

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Speaker 3: What happens, Church, listen to me. What happens is we

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Speaker 3: to tell you the truth. Not all walls look like that.

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Speaker 3: Why because we don't want anybody else in this room

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