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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 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 is moving in your life.

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Speaker 3: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: I know we were singing it, but I want to know,

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Speaker 1: do you really believe it? Do you believe that God

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Speaker 1: can make away?

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Speaker 3: Here's what I love about God.

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Speaker 1: If he didn't have to give you a preview or

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Speaker 1: a blues clue that he's about to make away, he

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Speaker 1: can just do it. For those of you who are saying,

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Speaker 1: I tell it doesn't look like he's about to make away,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't have to look like. When God wants to

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Speaker 1: make away, he will split a red seat, he will

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Speaker 1: bring a wall down, whatever it is, He's able to

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Speaker 1: do it. And I got a feeling he's gonna do

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Speaker 1: something incredible today. Do you believe that? On across every location,

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Speaker 1: would you give somebody a high five next to you

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Speaker 1: and tell them I'm glad I'm next to you today.

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Speaker 3: Come on, make sure they got some faith. High five Somebody.

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Speaker 1: Say I'm glad I'm next to you today. Hey man, Amen,

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Speaker 1: Hey remain standing. I want to do something. I want

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Speaker 1: to do something. As was mentioned, I am not a

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Speaker 1: guest here at Elevation. I'm a part of the family,

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Speaker 1: but doctor myself in bring your greetings from the great

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Speaker 1: country of Texas with my wife and I passed an

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Speaker 1: amazing church social Dallas. And I don't take it lightly

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Speaker 1: and I don't take it for granted, the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: be here today. And I know what some of y'all

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Speaker 1: are thinking, like, that's Stephen look different now I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I'm not Pastor Stephen. I know some of y'all are disappointed.

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Speaker 1: And I tried. I did extra bench press today just

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Speaker 1: to come in and U Pastor Steven or the team

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Speaker 1: are out Elevation Nights. God is doing incredible things, incredible

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Speaker 1: things literally around the world. And here's what I'm hoping.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I hope you're praying for the team

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Speaker 1: as they're out ministering, that God would use them mightily,

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Speaker 1: that they're gonna come back refresh. But not only that,

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Speaker 1: I pray you never take for granted the gift that

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Speaker 1: God has given you. If you needed any evidence, Elevation Nights,

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Speaker 1: so let you know Pastor Steven and the team, they

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Speaker 1: could go anywhere. Come on, somebody anywhere. So I pray

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Speaker 1: you never take for granted that gift God has given

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Speaker 1: you in Pastor Stephen, in Pastor Holly, and I always

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Speaker 1: want to give honor to them. They have been a

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Speaker 1: blessing to my life, to our church. I know they've

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Speaker 1: been a blessing to you and the Capital C Church.

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Speaker 1: So come on, can we let them know, just in

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Speaker 1: case they're watching, we love you. Come on, y'all can

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Speaker 1: do better than that. What. Thank you for your leadership,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your sacrifice, thank you for your yes.

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Speaker 1: So we don't have fun today? Are you all ready

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Speaker 1: for the Wordma? Stayding and I'm gonna jump straight into it.

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Speaker 1: I hope you feel like hearing it like I feel

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Speaker 1: like preaching it. Come on, if you got a Bible,

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Speaker 1: would you wave it in the air?

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Speaker 3: I could just do.

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Speaker 1: Care how many about a paper Bible? I see paper bibles? Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's for real, save people. Come all, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

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Speaker 1: Even if your Bible is glowing you good. I want

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Speaker 1: you to go with me to a familiar passage of scripture.

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Speaker 1: Can we thank God for this worship team. Y'all are amazing,

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Speaker 1: so good. Thank you so much for meeting us into

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Speaker 1: God's presence. We're gonna jump into a familiar passage of scripture.

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Speaker 1: If this text was an eighteen episode Netflix series, we're

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Speaker 1: jumping straight into episode seventeen. We're skipping all the other ones,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna see why in a moment. But first, Samuel,

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Speaker 1: chapter number seventeen, and I want to look at versus

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Speaker 1: forty one through forty seven. When you're ready to read it,

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Speaker 1: say yeah, if you need some time to find it,

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Speaker 1: say hold up. I heard them hold up, So I'm

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Speaker 1: wait for you, wait for somebody on you fan waiting

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Speaker 1: to find it. First Samuel, up to number seventeen. You're

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Speaker 1: And it says, meanwhile, the Philistine Meanwhile, it was a

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Speaker 1: verbally assaulting and attacking the children of Israel. He hadn't

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Speaker 1: he says. Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in

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Speaker 1: That bless me. So he's a hater. But he's still

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Speaker 1: got to admit, Yo, you healthy and you hanswer. I

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Speaker 1: at me with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

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Speaker 1: Come here, he said, and I'll give your flesh to

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Speaker 1: Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom

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Speaker 1: you have defied. This day, somebody say, this day, this day,

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Speaker 1: the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I'll

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Speaker 1: strike you down and cut off your head. This very

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Speaker 1: day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army

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Speaker 1: Sword or spear that the Lord saves, for the battle

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Speaker 1: is the Lord's, and he will give all of you

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Speaker 1: into our hands. Can you say a man? Can you

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Speaker 1: don't know what else. Really, look at what David is

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Speaker 1: saying before he starts fighting. I'm gonna preach today, not long,

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Speaker 1: probably about three and a half hours, using this as

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Speaker 3: Who you talking to?

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Speaker 1: Who you now? Who are you talking to? Who you

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Speaker 1: talking to? You gotta help me pre this. Look at

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Speaker 1: the person next to you one last time, say neighbor,

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Speaker 1: I got a question? Who are you talking to? Come on,

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Speaker 1: find another neighbor. Find another neighbor, because that neighborhood stuck up.

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Speaker 3: Come on, say other neighbor. You my second option, But

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Speaker 3: I gotta ask who you're talking to.

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Speaker 1: If you believe God's gonna speak today, would you give

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Speaker 1: us some praise?

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Speaker 2: Father?

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Speaker 1: Have your way speak today? Amen? You can sit out,

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Speaker 1: you can sit down. You talking to.

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Speaker 1: Before I really jump into this text today, I want

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Speaker 1: to do something that I have never done in all

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Speaker 1: talked to past Steve, but we're good. Were good. But

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Speaker 1: come out is because this person is, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: one of the most influential and greatest communicators of our lifetime.

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Speaker 1: And I'm putting them on the spot. You're gonna know

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Speaker 1: exactly who they are as soon as they come out. Okay, don't,

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Speaker 1: don't pass out, But can we just welcome them before

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Speaker 1: Just for them, they can welcome across every location. Come on, y'all,

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Speaker 1: would you make them feel welcome?

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Speaker 3: Come on, y'all? Can you see you? Yep, ephil I'm

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Speaker 1: You'll see him. Make sure you get a good look

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Speaker 1: at yourself. And some of y'all, are you played too much?

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Speaker 3: I saw some of you. It's not like who is it?

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Speaker 1: You had you have already. But please don't let the

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Speaker 1: comedy mitigate the weight of what I said in my introduction,

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Speaker 3: Then I brought out a mirror and asked you, can.

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Speaker 1: You see you? Because I want to ask you, who

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Speaker 1: talks to you more than you, Who influences you more

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Speaker 1: not to go, what to wear and what not to wear,

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Speaker 1: what to post and what not to post more than you.

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Speaker 1: You are an influential communicator. You are a powerful communicator.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, you are not just the

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Speaker 1: communicator that you are always hearing. There's always a voice

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Speaker 1: on the inside talking to you about you, who who

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Speaker 1: you talking to? I'm fully aware that as I'm preaching today,

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Speaker 1: although I'm preaching the infallible, incorruptible, everlasting, eternal Word of God,

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Speaker 1: and I do everything in my power to preach it

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Speaker 1: with clarity and precision, however, I'm aware that the most

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Speaker 1: It's what you are saying to you about what I'm

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Speaker 1: God's gonna use you, and then that voice says who

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Speaker 1: your trauma and your baggage, not you.

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Speaker 3: I could be saying things like, oh, you're suffering. It's

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Speaker 1: God is able to use that suffering to shape you

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Speaker 3: I could be saying to you that God is gonna

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Speaker 1: And then you'll say to you, well, he should have

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Speaker 1: done it in January. We and I'm told. But now.

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Speaker 3: I want to know what are you saying to you?

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Speaker 1: Because that voice is critical. It is the internal narrative

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Speaker 1: talking to? Some of you would slap a person if

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Speaker 1: I want to know what is the conversation that you

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Speaker 1: Is it that negative voice that wants to shoot down

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Speaker 1: where does that come from the devil? It's a demon maybe,

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Speaker 1: But have you ever noticed, at least for me, the

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Speaker 1: it don't sound like that. Have you ever known that

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Speaker 1: the enemy always sounds like you in your head?

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Speaker 3: And that is the voice that you are.

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Speaker 1: A warrior against, that you are waging war against every day.

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Speaker 3: Who are you talking to?

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Speaker 1: For some of us, it's the voice of somebody else

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Speaker 1: that planted a seed in our mind, and we have

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Speaker 1: and over and over again, and it's become a stronghold

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Speaker 1: in our minds. Who are you talking to? Reminds me

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Speaker 1: of a fighter. I'll never forget watching this fighter who

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Speaker 3: I am somebody. And the interviewer was looking at him like,

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Speaker 3: Who are you talking to?

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Speaker 1: in line waiting for this interview to go in. But

435
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Speaker 1: what they didn't know, the people who waiting in line,

436
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Speaker 1: was that the interview was actually for somebody that knew

437
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Speaker 1: Morse code so here they are standing the line. While

438
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: they were standing in line, over an intercom morse code

439
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: was going on, and the message of the Morse code was.

440
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Speaker 3: If you.

441
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Speaker 1: Can interpret this message, get out of line and come

442
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: straight to the front door. All of a sudden, one

443
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: dude who could interpret morse code gets out of the line.

444
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,479
Speaker 1: He was in the back and walked all the way

445
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Speaker 1: up to the front and walked in, and everybody was

446
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: looking at him like what is he doing. The reason

447
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 1: that he walked in when everybody else stood still is because.

448
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Speaker 3: He could hear something that they couldn't hear.

449
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 1: See. People will never understand the way you moved because

450
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,120
Speaker 1: they don't hear it the way you hear it. See

451
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 1: you heard they're not hiring folks. I don't have a job,

452
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 1: I heard. God must have something else for me and

453
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: another job.

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Speaker 4: You heard.

455
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Speaker 1: I don't want to go on a date with you,

456
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Speaker 1: so I must be worthless, I heard, God. Thank you

457
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Speaker 1: for not letting me waste my time on the day.

458
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Speaker 1: You must have somebody else from me. I didn't even

459
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: have to go to Cheesecake Factor to figure it out.

460
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Speaker 1: Thank you that they rejected.

461
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Speaker 4: What are you hearing?

462
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: There's a frequency the faith. And so David heard something different,

463
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Speaker 1: and watch what his action does. He goes, he talks

464
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Speaker 1: to the soldiers. Here's another conversation. He goes, uh, what

465
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Speaker 1: will be given to the man that defeats him? First

466
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: words out of his mouth, the conversation to the soldier, Hey,

467
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: what will be given to the man who defeats him?

468
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 1: You missed it, David, here's Goliath. And then goes, what

469
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: will be given to the man that defeats him? David

470
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: already sees himself winning. He already sees himself winning. The

471
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: back y'all sitting up here talking about his shield and

472
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Speaker 1: his armor. I'm trying to figure out what does the

473
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: man get who knocks him out? Because I am that man.

474
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: I'm about to knock him out. He said. He said, Yo,

475
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the king's daughter in marriage, and you

476
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: don't have to pay taxes? Say less? Say less? Where's

477
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: no taxi? Where's my sling shot? In other words, he

478
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: doesn't just have a harder humility, He's got a vision

479
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 1: of victory. He can already see himself winning. While everybody

480
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 1: else is focused or how big it is, David's like that,

481
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 1: that's not my focus. I'm trying to figure out what

482
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: do you get if you knock him down? Because I'm

483
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: about to knock him down. When you read for Samuel

484
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: and you see all the imagery that is giving about

485
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: Delia's armor and his shield, what the writer is doing

486
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: through beautiful poetry, He's actually shown you what the soldiers

487
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: are focused on, which is why they're paralyzed in fear,

488
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 1: because whatever you focus on is what's going to grow

489
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: in your life.

490
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 3: They're focused on the shield like.

491
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 1: It is that bronze. Yeah, how much do you think

492
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: of ways? I don't know, but it's got to be heavy.

493
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 1: That's that's what they are focused on, which is why

494
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 1: they're paralyzed and fear. David was talking to somebody else.

495
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 1: He had a vision of victory. Do you have a

496
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: vision of victory? Do you see yourself winning? Do you

497
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: even see the marriage be in the hell?

498
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 3: Do you see that.

499
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: Child coming back home? Do you see it? I know

500
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: that the enemy's trying to cloud your vision, but I

501
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: want to encourage you today see it.

502
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 4: Have a vision of victory, because if you can't see it,

503
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 4: it's gonna be hard for you to receive it.

504
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: Can you see yourself winning? Or have you lost so

505
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: much hope that you don't see it anymore. Can I

506
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: just testify about the season I'm in right now? We

507
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: in a crazy season. Our church is three years old.

508
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: God's doing incredible things. It's exploding, and we decided in

509
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: the middle of all that to homeschool our kids in

510
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: this season. And only that, I'm going back to school

511
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: and working on a master's degree that I didn't finish.

512
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: All that's going on, I leading the church, and y'all,

513
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard out here in these streets. Oh

514
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: by the way, did I mention Our church is mobile

515
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: and we've been in ten different venues in the last

516
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: three years, trying to find a space. We don't have

517
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: a building, and.

518
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 3: It's hard in these streets.

519
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: But you know what's keeping me. I got a vision

520
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: I can't see. Oh, I see myself in twenty twenty

521
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: six walking across the stage, my master's degree completed with

522
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: that hood of I see myself. I see us having

523
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: our own building where we can give God glory and put.

524
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 4: I see it.

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00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: I stan.

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Speaker 3: That's what's kicking from me right now? Is I got

527
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:32,719
Speaker 3: a vision?

528
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: A good do it?

529
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 4: What do you see?

530
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: What do you see? Yo? I see myself at eighty

531
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Speaker 1: years old, still coming to church. I'm still gonna pull

532
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: up an elevation. I probably won't be preaching at eighty eight,

533
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna be in an artist, just standing

534
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: up going to preach.

535
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 3: Now, who that crazy dude?

536
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: Oh?

537
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 3: He used to come back in the day and speak,

538
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 3: do you have a vision a victory?

539
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: He saw it. He talked to the soldiers. He said,

540
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: what do you get them mountain? Because I'm about to

541
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: knock him out. He had a vision of victory. Right

542
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: after he talks to the soldiers, somebody else shows up. Oh,

543
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: and this is a critical conversation. His older brother, Eli

544
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: Have comes up to him. I imagine him running up

545
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: to him, what are you doing here?

546
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 3: Reading?

547
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 1: When you get to the crib, he's burning with anger

548
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: translation he's big man, and he says, what are you

549
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: doing here? And with whom have you left those little sheep?

550
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: You know somebody's trying to get at you when they

551
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: try to put a little number to your stuff. Don't

552
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: nobody care about you your little job? Ah? You think

553
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: I care about your little car?

554
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 3: You left them?

555
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: Borrow money? Can I get that little hundred dollars you

556
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,479
Speaker 1: care about? That or one little one you ask for anyway?

557
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: With whom have you left those few sheep? I know

558
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: the conceit and the arrogance that is in your heart.

559
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: You come down here to see the battle. EXE was me.

560
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 3: I'm like, what battle?

561
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: Y'all? Ain't fighting? Y'all?

562
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 3: Eliab is mad.

563
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: And hear me. I understand Eliab's anger. The Bible gives

564
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: you a blues clue to his anger because remember in

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00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: First Samdue chapter sixteen, whenever the prophet comes, when he

566
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: comes to anoint the next king, guess who Samuel's first

567
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: pick was. It was Eliab, y'all.

568
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 3: Eliab looked the part of the next king. He was

569
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Speaker 3: Samuel's first pick. Eli App is the reason this scripture

570
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 3: is in your Bible.

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00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at

572
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: the heart. Eli Ab is frustrated with the rejection. Eliab

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00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: is jealous and envious of David, and he comes with

574
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: that energy to him, what are you doing here? I

575
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: love what David says back to him, He's like, what

576
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: did I do? Now? What I do now? That means

577
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: this has happened before? What did I do? Now?

578
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 3: Can I just talk?

579
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: And then he makes a powerful move that you have

580
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: to learn to make.

581
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 3: Watch it.

582
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: Watch it. They're spiritual, The Bible says, he turns his

583
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: back on Elab.

584
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 3: He watched it.

585
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: Woman talk. He turns his back on e Lab. Do

586
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: you know what that turn signifies? I know my real enemy. Eliab.

587
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: You are not my real enemy. I don't just have

588
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: a heart of humility. I don't just have a vision

589
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: of victory. I know who my real enemy is.

590
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 3: Eliab. You are not my enemy. You are my brother.

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00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: My real enemy is behind you, and I cannot waste

592
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: energy and all my fight trying to fight you when

593
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: you ain't the real enemy. Goliath is the enemy. So

594
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: I gotta turn my back on you and stay focused

595
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: on my assignment. I don't know who this is for,

596
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: but you have been wasting energy trying to your brother

597
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: or your sister in trist and they are not your enemy.

598
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: We wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with principality.

599
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: You better learned to know who the real enemy is

600
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: and it's not your brother. Who can I just speak

601
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: in this crazy season where people lose their minds in

602
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: political seasons and let you know your brother and.

603
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 3: Your sister is not your enemy. We got a bigger

604
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 3: battle to type.

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Speaker 1: We gotta kill the enemy that's trying to destroy this

606
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: nation and.

607
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 3: Our kids and our family. You better know where the.

608
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 4: Real enemy is.

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00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: Elia is not your enemy. Oh you in the common

610
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: section talking to Elijah, wasted energy?

611
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 3: Your kids, Mimmy, can we go play?

612
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 2: Now?

613
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: They crazy? Let me respond to this now, I'm not

614
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: the one hold on.

615
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 3: To kids, waste the energy fighting eli Ab when he

616
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 3: is not your enemy.

617
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: And Goliath would love for you to pull out your

618
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: sling shot on eli App and start fighting right there,

619
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: all while he towers and laughs. But David had enough

620
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 1: wisdom to know I can't fight you. You're my brother.

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Speaker 3: You're my brother. I came to bring you cheese, and

622
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 3: you mad at me.

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Speaker 1: But guess what, I'm still not gonna I'm still not

624
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: gonna fall into this trap to fight you. You are

625
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: not my enemy. I'm gonna turn my back because I

626
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: know where I knew my real enemy is. Some of

627
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: you have been fighting your brother and your sister in

628
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: Christ because you think they're the enemy, and I came

629
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: to tell you they're not. You're doing like my oldest girl, Evy.

630
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: I went to her room the other day and on

631
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Speaker 1: her wall and on the door. She had no siblings on.

632
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: I didn't want her younger brother or sister in the room.

633
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: I mean, beautifully color on her front door. No siblings home.

634
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: I said, that's interesting, because I don't remember the last

635
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: time you paid a light bill. The mortgets it's the

636
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 1: father's house. But you're trying to pick and choose which

637
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: sibling can come in or out. Not my enemy. He

638
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: turns his back when Eli abed and goes right into

639
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: the next conversation. Miss Saul. Saul has had the answer.

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00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: Walking to his office, David's like, letting nobody fear I'm

641
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: gonna fight him. You would think you would get some encouragement.

642
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: He gets discouraged by Saul. Saul says, you can't fight him.

643
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 3: You're just the youth. He's been killing people since his youth.

644
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: Have you ever had the voice of somebody else who

645
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: is too scared to step into something, project their fear

646
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: onto you, and they want to tell you what you

647
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: can't do and give you a history of the enemy.

648
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: He's like, you cannot fight goliaf He's killed so many people,

649
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: some of you allowed the words of other people to

650
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 1: get in your head. You can't defeat that alcoholism. It's

651
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:26,760
Speaker 1: destroyed everybody in your family. You can't beat that addiction.

652
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: You can't be free. Everybody in your family is an addict.

653
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 1: You can't be a great father. You never saw one.

654
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 1: Have you ever had somebody tell you the history of

655
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: a giant to make you feel like there's no way

656
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: I can fight? But shout out to David. He's like,

657
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: you talking about the history or Goliath, but you don't

658
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: know about the history I have with God. When I

659
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: was out in green pastures and it was just him

660
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 1: talking to me, he said, I was out there, soul.

661
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: Just so you know, I killed a bear and I

662
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: killed a lion. I am posted, but it happened. If

663
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: I had time. I wish we had the people that

664
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: would just win some private battles first. And you ain't

665
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: gotta tell everybody about your private battle before you get

666
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: to the big battle. But anyway, that's another message.

667
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 3: He said, Yeah, I defeated a lion, I defeated a bear.

668
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: I feel like the same God that helped me defeat

669
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 1: the lion and the bear help me knock him down too.

670
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: Song goes, all right, the Lord be with you. That's

671
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: in the Bible, and he says, oh, but before you go,

672
00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: come here, takes his armor, puts it on David. Put

673
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: yourself in David's shoes.

674
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 3: Y'all.

675
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: This boy has been out with sheep. He's now finds

676
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: himself in the presence of a king who puts his

677
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: armor on him. No, this is like being in the

678
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: locker room and Lebron going, you know, put this jersey armor.

679
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: Just can you imagine? And here he is a shepherd

680
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: boy wearing the king's armor. I wonder if there was

681
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: a mirror, and he looked. He said, wow, I've never

682
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: put on armor before, and certainly not armored this nice.

683
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: I think while it was on, there had to be

684
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: a temptation. Maybe I could, Maybe I could fight in this.

685
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I know I killed the lion and the bear,

686
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 1: but this is a different This is a different battle.

687
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: Maybe a different battle requires different weapons. So maybe I

688
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:12,280
Speaker 1: should go out in this armor. But then something clicks.

689
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: He says, no, wait a minute, this looks nice, and

690
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: so this might work for you, but it's not me.

691
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: On I was praying for you this morning, and I

692
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: was thinking about somebody who has on somebody else's armor.

693
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: Some of you been wearing it for years, and you're

694
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: trying to convince yourself that is you, but you know

695
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: internally to say you, you've been trying to be your sister.

696
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,479
Speaker 1: You've been trying to be your brother. You've been trying

697
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: to be the person that was in the position before

698
00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: you got in the position. God sit me from Dallas, Texas.

699
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: Tell you you.

700
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Speaker 3: Gotta do what David did. Work your weapon, Work your weapon.

701
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 3: Watch this.

702
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: People think the boldest and bravest move David did was

703
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: to throw that rock. I think the boldest move was

704
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: to take off Saul's armor and say I cannot defeat

705
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: my giant in somebody else's armor. I've gotta work my weapon.

706
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: I've got to use what God has given me. Hear me,

707
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: You'll never grab your weapon until you take off somebody

708
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 1: else's armor. Can you prove it in the text?

709
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 3: I sure can.

710
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,959
Speaker 1: First Samuel seventeen, verse thirty nine. Look at what it says.

711
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: It says, so he took them off. What did you

712
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: take off Saul's armor? He took them off. Then he

713
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: took his staff in his hand, chose file smooth stones

714
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: from the stream, put them in the pouch of a

715
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: shepherd's back. And with his sling in his hand, a

716
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: person filled a sign. He took them off. Then he

717
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: took You cannot take what's yours to fight with until

718
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: you first take off what is not. You work your weapon.

719
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: Can I make a confession? Oh I'm a horrible Pastor Steven,

720
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 1: I'm a horrible Joyce Meyer.

721
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 3: Oh I'm not a good Matt Chandler. But guess what,

722
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 3: I'm the best Robert Madou, you have.

723
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: Had a say in your life, and I've learned no

724
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: matter the stage, it's a big stage. I gotta work

725
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: my weapon. I've got to be me and you've got

726
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: to be you. There's a weapon God that's given you

727
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: to defeat your giant. Can y'all play real softly so

728
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: I can land the plane? He had a herd of humility. Sure,

729
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: I'll go take the lunch. He had a vision of victory.

730
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna knock this giant. Now what do

731
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: you get for knocking him out? He did what he

732
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: knew his real enemy, My brother's not my enemy, Goliath is.

733
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: Then he said, I gotta work my weapon. No more comparison.

734
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: God gave me a slinging a rock. I'm gonna work

735
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: that and so he goes ooh to the battle. This

736
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: is the final conversation. He walks out. You see him, handsome,

737
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: blowing with hell, small compared to this giant. And he

738
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: walks out and he's ready.

739
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 3: And Goliath laughs at him.

740
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 4: Is this a joke?

741
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 3: Am I a dog?

742
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: Y'all?

743
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 3: Come at me with sticks?

744
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 4: Is this for real?

745
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: Mocks him? You know it's the enemy. Whenever you are

746
00:42:55,239 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: being mocked, the enemy loves to more. I mean, he's

747
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,479
Speaker 1: the father of all lies. If he's talking, he's lying.

748
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: Lying is the native language. But he does have a

749
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 1: second language. It's called mocking. He loves me. Really you,

750
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: Oh you gonna lift up your hands and workship autter

751
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: what you did last night?

752
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 3: Oh?

753
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 1: Really?

754
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 3: You think God can use you.

755
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: With all your issues? He loves Am I a dog?

756
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: You come at me with sticks? He said, Hey, you

757
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: come at me with sword and spear, But I come

758
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 1: at you. And the name of the Lord takes the sling.

759
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:37,240
Speaker 3: You know the story.

760
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: Takes the sling, hits Goliath in forehead, knocks him down. Now,

761
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: because you've heard the story, I've heard store too. I'm

762
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:52,280
Speaker 1: curious if you know that there are scientists that actually

763
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: look at scripture through the lens of science, and there

764
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: are some of them that actually re few the veracity

765
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: of this story, and how in the world could a

766
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: rock kill a giant?

767
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 3: And they did the scientific research, and they did a

768
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 3: whole report on it, and I got the report. This

769
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 3: is the report.

770
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: They said, how is highly unlikely and improbable.

771
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 3: That this could happen?

772
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: You know what it says. Scientist said that David, with

773
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: the rock the size of a baseball, and with the

774
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: sling shot, the fastest that he could have released it

775
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: would have been with a trajectory of about ninety miles

776
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,839
Speaker 1: per hour. And if you take a projectile going ninety

777
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: miles per hour, and you use Newton's second law of

778
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: motion and taken to effect the coefficient of restitution, that

779
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: a projectile at that size at ninety miles per hour

780
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: would generate about three thousand pounds of force as it

781
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: was released. That is, if it was traveling the distance

782
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: of a picture to the home plate, which is sixty

783
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: feet and six inches. But since Goliath is at least

784
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: twice that far, one also has to take into effect

785
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,399
Speaker 1: the drag of the distance of the ball that's working

786
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: against the velocity of the force. Therefore, since he's further away,

787
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: what was generated at three thousand pounds has now reduced

788
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: itself arguably to at least one thousand pounds. That is,

789
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: if David is throwing it straight. The problem is Goliath

790
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 1: is taller than David, which means the angle of the

791
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: projectile from which he launched it had to be at

792
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: least forty five degrees, which means now the ball is

793
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: also working against gravity, which also has reduced the force

794
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: that the rock has been released. So what was three

795
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: thousand pounds of force has now been arguably reduced to

796
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: about five hundred pounds of force. But you must remember

797
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: there's an armor bearer who stands in front of Goliath

798
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: who would have lifted up his shield to take the

799
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 1: projectile off of course, which would have reduced the force

800
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 1: to at least fifty pounds and taken an off course

801
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: of the direction headed towards Goliath. But if David could

802
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: throw it, and if it did work against the drag,

803
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: and if it could counter the weight, and if it

804
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 1: did go against the coefficient of restitution, if it was

805
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: not off course, and still ain't that goliath head. Don't forget,

806
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:54,760
Speaker 1: Goliath is wearing a helmet and a projectaile that started

807
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,280
Speaker 1: with three thousand pounds of force and ended at fifty.

808
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: Hitting a bronze helmet would not have been enough to Goliath.

809
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: So how can a young boy with one rock, working

810
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: against gravity, working against through laws of emotions, working against

811
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 1: the coefficient of restitutions, working against the drag being deflected

812
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 1: by an armor a hit a bronze helmet. How could

813
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: he kill a giant? And I got an answer for

814
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: every science is out there. He didn't just throw a rock.

815
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: He threw a name. He threw the name set is.

816
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 3: About every single name. I don't know how the science works,

817
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 3: but I know how the name works.

818
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: I know that there's a name set is about every

819
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: single name, And I think about somebody to day you

820
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: letter throw that name?

821
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 3: I know the giants sid throw the name.

822
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: How do it looks greater than you?

823
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 3: Roll the name? Roll the name that didn't heal the fish.

824
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: Roll the name that you lave to pay roll the

825
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: name that has healing and home and life, the name somebody,

826
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: and give God the best phrase that you got in

827
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: the place.

828
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 3: No, I mean praise. I'm like you know, then it's time.

829
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 2: That name.

830
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: Who reminder standing all locations he found, like down your

831
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:18,320
Speaker 1: living room, remain standing.

832
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 3: David didn't just throw a rock. She threw a name.

833
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: Listen to it. We've heard it so much we forget it.

834
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: You come at me with sword and spear and javelin.

835
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: It wouldn't make sense to say I come at you

836
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: with sleeve shot. He didn't say that. He said, you

837
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: come at me with sword and spear and javelin. But

838
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: I come at you in the name of the Lord Almighty,

839
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 1: the God of the Armies of Israel.

840
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 3: Coming on That name worked for David.

841
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: It'll work for you too.

842
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 4: He didn't throw a rock, He threw a name. The

843
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 4: name made all the difference. And I don't know what

844
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 4: Jihan you're facing today, but I do know. God's calling

845
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 4: somebody today, hear me, to let go of your pride.

846
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 4: You need a heart of humility. It says whatever my

847
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 4: father asked him.

848
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: Now I'll do it. He's calling somebody in here to

849
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: get your hope again and get a vision of victory.

850
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 4: See yourself winning. Stop forecasting your failure. Get a vision

851
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 4: of victory. Hear me, know your real enemy.

852
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: Your brother's not your enemy. That other denomination is not

853
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: your enemy. That person that votes different than you is

854
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: not your enemy. Your brother's not your enemy. You gotta

855
00:48:54,680 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: know the real enemy. You gotta work your weapon something

856
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: God has given you to do what he's called you

857
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: to do.

858
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 3: But watch this.

859
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 1: That weapons not enough. You better throw the name, throw

860
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. I'll tell you this, and I'm done.

861
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 1: God is not obligated to defend your name. He's not

862
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: obligated to defend your reputation.

863
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 3: I know you want him to.

864
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: But when his name is on the line, when his

865
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: name is on the line, or fire will come down

866
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: from heaven on now, Carmo, when his name is on

867
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:41,919
Speaker 1: the line, Red seas will split open when his name

868
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,280
Speaker 1: is on the line. Miracles, what happens.

869
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 3: Giants will balm when it's his name.

870
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: The name of Jesus. No matter what you're facing today,

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Speaker 1: I believe that the same name that worked for David

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Speaker 1: the same name that will work for you today.

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Speaker 3: I'm when to ask every head be bound.

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Speaker 1: I'll be closed across every location. Father, we're talking to you.

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Speaker 3: We're talking to you. Thank you that you're a God

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Speaker 3: that we can talk to.

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Speaker 1: God. I'm praying for my brother. I'm praying for my

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Speaker 1: sister who's in a real fight. But Lord, I'm praying

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Speaker 1: for the power of the conversations to change the talk

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Speaker 1: that they're saying internally. Let that shift today. Let us

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Speaker 1: echo and repeat what you have said about us. Father,

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Speaker 1: Thank you that the name that worked for David is

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Speaker 1: the name that'll work for us. There's no other name

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Speaker 1: by which we can be saved. In the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Let that name be appropriated, and the hearts and the

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Speaker 1: lives of every single person who would call on it.

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Speaker 1: Today in Jesus' name, we pray. Amen, Amen, Amen, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. Love you so much. Elevation thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us.

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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