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Speaker 1: Let's go to the word of God. I love the

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Speaker 1: flow that our pastors are in right now. There's so

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Speaker 1: much more to the story. And and obviously you can

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Speaker 1: tell I am not Pastor Steven, just in case you

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Speaker 1: didn't know, I'm not him. What you got to understand

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Speaker 1: about our pastor is you know that there are only

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Speaker 1: two people in this world that were ever given the

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Speaker 1: vision of this church, the weight of this church, the

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Speaker 1: weight of this vision, and I will I'd be remiss

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Speaker 1: to think that I would ever understand what that means

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Speaker 1: at all. And so the opportunity to be able to

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Speaker 1: get on this stage and talk for the next two

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Speaker 1: and a half hours, it's not that oh I thought

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Speaker 1: that was a deal, okay, thirty nine minutes. Thirty nine minutes. Man,

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Speaker 1: I don't take it lightly. And we have some incredible pastors.

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Speaker 1: I don't just say that because I work for him.

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Speaker 1: I want you to know that that man is a

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Speaker 1: hero of my life and a hero of the faith,

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Speaker 1: and he's the real deal. He really is the real deal,

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Speaker 1: and the little that I do get to know about him,

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Speaker 1: he is the real deal. And it's incredible. We need

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Speaker 1: people like that. We need people like that, Like, here's

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Speaker 1: the faith that we can actually look to. You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Top shelf leaders, right, top shelf leaders

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Speaker 1: the ones that who last, who go the whole way right,

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Speaker 1: who don't just like call it quits twenty years in,

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Speaker 1: but who keeps going. And so I'm so grateful for

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Speaker 1: this house and the pastors of this house, and I

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Speaker 1: really believe that this series is one of the series

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Speaker 1: that will really never forget. But I'm gonna be honest

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Speaker 1: with you. Three weeks in, you know, he's in the

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Speaker 1: Book of Joshua. And I told chunks about a month ago,

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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I think I want to be in

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Speaker 1: Joshua with them. And after about those three weeks he preached,

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Speaker 1: I said, Okay, he's getting every nook and cranny of Joshua.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay away from it, but I'm must stay

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Speaker 1: in the same vein. There's so much more to this story.

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Speaker 1: So here's what I want you to do. How many

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Speaker 1: of you brought your bibles? You believe in the Word

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Speaker 1: of God. Anybody believe in the Word of God. He

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Speaker 1: brought your bibles with you. Okay. No, you must be

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Speaker 1: familiar with this place because we put it on the

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Speaker 1: screens for you. No worries. Go to Second King's chapter

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Speaker 1: four Sega King's chapter four, verse eight. Second King's Chapter four,

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Speaker 1: verse eight. I'm gonna give you a second you found it.

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Speaker 1: eight says one day, everyone say one day. Elisha passed

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Speaker 1: I want to title my message today stretch the truth. Now.

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Speaker 1: Some of y'all, Oh, my mama told me different. Boy.

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Speaker 1: I know your mama be saying, do not, do not,

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Speaker 1: you know what? Come on, look at you, Dave, say

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Speaker 1: you know what. Maybe mama was wrong. Some of y'all

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Speaker 1: LEAs y'all. The name is say stretch the truth. Stretch

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Speaker 1: Think it seem stretch the truth? You know. I think

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Speaker 1: the world has given this phrase and negative connotations, Stretch

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Speaker 1: the truth. How many of you got teenagers? Man? You

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Speaker 1: know I come up on this. I appreciate here four

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Speaker 1: times on a Sunday. This is crazy my full time.

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Speaker 1: And each time I realized I've always talked about Genesis,

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Speaker 1: See yeah, you know, everyone's invited to come and work

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Speaker 1: you're coming with me to Ohio. You're gonna miss school

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Speaker 1: that's weird. Sixteen year old. Yeah, I'm saying, hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: We're going to Ohio. I thought he would be excited,

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Speaker 1: Come into a building, it's just church. Cool, make it

418
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Speaker 1: feel good. Check the box now. It could change your

419
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Speaker 1: future right now. It could change your kids right now.

420
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Speaker 1: It could change your attitude right now. It could change

421
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Speaker 1: his attitude right now. It could change her out, It

422
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Speaker 1: could change you. This is the real thing. I mean.

423
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Speaker 1: We don't just say church. I mean this is This

424
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Speaker 1: is a lifeblood. This is the whole reason why Jesus

425
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Speaker 1: gave his life was for the church. So I can't

426
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Speaker 1: have you missed in moments because you think this is

427
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Speaker 1: just a meal. But you got to be connected to

428
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Speaker 1: God to see that. You know that God can be

429
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Speaker 1: doing something new in your life and you not see it.

430
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Speaker 1: I say forty three nineteen for I am about to

431
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Speaker 1: do something new. See I have already begun. Do you

432
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: not see it? The question this year isn't about whether

433
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Speaker 1: or not God is going to do it in your life.

434
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Speaker 1: It's about whether or not you are going to see it.

435
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: She had stretched from her mouth, asking now to her eyes,

436
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Speaker 1: and now because she saw more, she could do more.

437
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: So so now she's stretching from her mouth to her

438
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Speaker 1: eyes and now to her hands. Because she saw more,

439
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: because she saw that meal differently, she could now do more.

440
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 1: She begins to build this other level on this house. Right,

441
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: I was telling you, it's the first Airbnb of the Bible. Right,

442
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: like she went to home depot. You know what I'm saying,

443
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: Like some of y'all just sitting waiting on a blessing.

444
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: I know we wrote the song wait on You. I'm

445
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: going on wait on you. I got a new song.

446
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move for you. You can't you can't just

447
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: sit waiting for an open door. You can't just sit

448
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: waiting for more answers. You can't just sit waiting for

449
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Speaker 1: a miracle. You gotta show me your faith in action.

450
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Speaker 1: You gotta show me your faith in motion. Scripture says

451
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Speaker 1: the faith without works is dead. She didn't call on

452
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Speaker 1: Jehovah Jirah in that moment, Chunks. She called on Joanna

453
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Speaker 1: and Chip Gaines. You know what I'm saying, Some of

454
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Speaker 1: y'all walking in here and y'all want shun da da

455
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Speaker 1: ba Kunda door. But some of y'all need to go

456
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Speaker 1: to home depot. You know what I'm saying, it's both,

457
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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying one is greater than the other.

458
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's both and and you will never

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Speaker 1: get the blessing of well if you don't stretch ow.

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Speaker 1: So she builds another level. In fact, you could say

461
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Speaker 1: it she builds a new story. What story are you

462
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Speaker 1: focusing on? What story are you focusing on? She had

463
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to just focus on the wrong story, right,

464
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Speaker 1: no baby, no nursery, no new life, but she stretches

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Speaker 1: into a new story. You know what's interesting is Elisha

466
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: had never asked for this room, but she did it anyways.

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Speaker 1: I think that's very interesting because does God always have

468
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Speaker 1: to ask you to do something? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, so

469
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Speaker 1: you passed a cane? Does God always have to be like,

470
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Speaker 1: always have to give you a sign? Yeah? If she

471
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Speaker 1: wearing pink shoes and a blue shirt, that's your moment.

472
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Speaker 1: This way, if your kid comes to you and talks

473
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Speaker 1: to you about signing up for you techts, then you

474
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Speaker 1: can start talking to you about signing up for you techs. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: you know it's interesting about this you know, shameless plug

476
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Speaker 1: because I'm the youth pastor and talk about you text

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Speaker 1: every single time. I know summer camp. Also, okay, she

478
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Speaker 1: made space for Elisha. We have to do the same

479
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Speaker 1: thing with our teenagers. We have to make space for

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Speaker 1: them to encounter Jesus. So when we talk about like

481
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Speaker 1: signing up registering for youth X and like, like do

482
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Speaker 1: that's very very important, that's very very important. Like we

483
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Speaker 1: are creating, you're creating four days with their life could

484
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Speaker 1: be radically changed, radically changed because you made space. Let's

485
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Speaker 1: go to youth X twenty three dot common register. So

486
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Speaker 1: Lysha comes because she made space for him, and and

487
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Speaker 1: he goes, what can I do for you? And she says,

488
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Speaker 1: I'm good. I don't need anything. I'm secure, I'm with

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Speaker 1: my family. In fact, she says I'm good, probably for

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Speaker 1: the same reasons we say we're good. You know, when

491
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Speaker 1: people ask how you doing, like, yeah, I'm good, it's

492
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Speaker 1: all good, right. Maybe she been believing for so long

493
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Speaker 1: that she knew that it was going to actually hurt

494
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Speaker 1: to believe again. She's like, yeah, no, I'm good, everything

495
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Speaker 1: is fine. Don't don't dig. Have you ever gotten to

496
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Speaker 1: a place where you're just content, like like, but not

497
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Speaker 1: the good content where you're just like, yeah, it is

498
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Speaker 1: what it is. So I'm fine, I'm comfortable. I've taken

499
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Speaker 1: a deep breath, I've gotten over it and everything is good.

500
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Speaker 1: But I love Alyisha because Elisha didn't quit. He says,

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Speaker 1: Hayes that come here. He said, Yo, we got to

502
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Speaker 1: talk talk about this. She said, yeah, man, I saw

503
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: her Instagram. I saw her Facebook. Here's the deal. I'ma

504
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: be honest with you. She ain't got no kids. Her

505
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: husband real old. By the way, it says real old.

506
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: Doesn't just say husband old husband, real old. Like she posting,

507
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Speaker 1: but she ain't living what she posting. She's saying everything

508
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Speaker 1: is fine, But I don't think everything is fine. And

509
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Speaker 1: the life show is like you know what, Come here,

510
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Speaker 1: talk to the shooting. My woman says, this time next year,

511
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Speaker 1: you will be holding a baby boy. Look look at

512
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Speaker 1: that scripture. This time next year you will be holding

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Speaker 1: a baby boy. Notice he didn't say this time you

514
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Speaker 1: will be pregnant. He didn't say this time next year

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Speaker 1: you will be pregnant. Why because pregnancy does not guarantee

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Speaker 1: a child. He says, I know your faith has been

517
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Speaker 1: so fractured. I'm not just gonna say a thing about

518
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Speaker 1: pregnancy so that you'll be stressed the entire time wondering

519
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Speaker 1: about whether or not if this is actually going to

520
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: come to pass. I'm gonna speak to you about your future,

521
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: and I want you to know exactly what is on

522
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Speaker 1: is sway. I asked how you were mouth right, I

523
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Speaker 1: saw you add no baby eyes, and I'm gonna prophesy

524
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Speaker 1: to you that you will hold a baby boy in

525
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Speaker 1: your hands. You are painting that room. Blue girl is happening,

526
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Speaker 1: And you know what I love about this is Elisha

527
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Speaker 1: spoke to her imagination. Elisha spoke to her imagination. Some

528
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: of you have lost your imagination. Some of you have

529
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Speaker 1: lost your ability to dream again. Some of you have

530
00:33:54,920 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: lost that comprehension to dream and imagine and to have

531
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Speaker 1: that belief in what God wants to do in your life.

532
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: You gotta get your imagination back. The same energy that

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Speaker 1: it takes to worry is the same energy it would

534
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Speaker 1: take to imagine. What would be the reason that she

535
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Speaker 1: didn't ask for a miracle was because she had lost

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Speaker 1: her imagination. She didn't ask for this miracle. Right. Here's

537
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Speaker 1: what you have to understand asking and imagining are both connected. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you don't believe me. If fatures three twenty, Now to

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Speaker 1: him who is able to do a measure more than

540
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Speaker 1: all we ask or imagine. We celebrate a measurement more

541
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Speaker 1: all the time. And forget that asking and imagining are

542
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: completely connected. I can tell what you are imagining for

543
00:34:54,719 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: based off of what you're asking, and you could else.

544
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: She had lost her imagination because she wasn't asking for

545
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Speaker 1: a miracle, and now she's holding her baby. And then

546
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: it says, one day he grew up. He began to complain,

547
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,439
Speaker 1: my head, my head, and this headache turned into her

548
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: holding a dead baby. Boy, it went small too serious

549
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: in seconds. Have you ever been there before? Small too

550
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: serious in seconds? You live in life, and all of

551
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 1: a sudden you get that text small too serious in seconds,

552
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: No life in his body. But did you know that

553
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: it is possible to have disappointment and hope at the

554
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 1: same time. Pastor spoke last week that Got's up to

555
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: something upstream, and he talked about downstream disappointments. She was

556
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: experiencing a downstream I mean disappointment, But God was up

557
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,919
Speaker 1: to something upstream. She didn't know resurrection was on the way,

558
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: but God did, and she carries her dead boy to

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Speaker 1: the room, shuts the door and tells her husband everything's fine.

560
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: Disappointment and hope right there living in the same space.

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Speaker 1: Carried the dead boy into the room, shut the door,

562
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Speaker 1: tells her husband everything's fine, gets to the assistant Geese

563
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Speaker 1: and says everything as well with my soul, and then

564
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: runs to Elisha and the resurrection begins to happen. It

565
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: says that Elisha gets on top of this dead boy,

566
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Speaker 1: mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. Johns,

567
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Speaker 1: I don't think they're getting it. Let's illustrate it real quick. No,

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Speaker 1: it's okay. I'm not gonna make it. Got real nervous

569
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Speaker 1: mouth and mouth, eyes, dives, hands, dance. You want to

570
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Speaker 1: know why I believe this resurrection happens is because she

571
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: goes back to the one who made all of this happen.

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Speaker 1: She said, moved to the side, husband, moved to the side. Assistant.

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Speaker 1: I need to go back to the one. For some

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Speaker 1: of you in this room, everything that I had just

575
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 1: said prior to this you didn't need, but you needed

576
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Speaker 1: this moment right here. For some of you, you need

577
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Speaker 1: to come back to the one you need to come

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00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: back to the one who anointed you. You need to

579
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Speaker 1: come back to the one who strengthened you in that season.

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Speaker 1: You need to come back to the one who pulled

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Speaker 1: you out of that deep dark hole that you never

582
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: thought you could get out of, but then, by the

583
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: grace of God, he got you out. You need to

584
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Speaker 1: go back to the one that loves you, that promised you,

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00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: that anointed you, that appointed you. For every season, you

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00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: need to go back to the one, and for a

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Speaker 1: lot of us, I believe that this is going to

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Speaker 1: be a year of resurrection. It matters what story you tell.

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00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: She could have been telling the story about no baby,

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Speaker 1: no nursery, no life. Let me tell you something, It

591
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: matters what story you tell. God did not fail you.

592
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: God has not forgot about you. He loves you, He

593
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: is not mad at you, He has not misplaced you.

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Speaker 1: In fact, God has uniquely set you apart for everything

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00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: that is coming your way. He already knows what's happening upstream,

596
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: and when it comes down stream, He's got you covered. Well.

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00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. If all you focus on

598
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Speaker 1: is death, death will be honest way, and death will

599
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:29,439
Speaker 1: be here to stay. She had a dead baby boy.

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Speaker 1: She didn't focus on that. No move away husband, get

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Speaker 1: my donkey move away assistant. I need Elisha. He spoke

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00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 1: this into existence. He can make something happen now this year,

603
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: I want us to choose to stretch the truth over

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Speaker 1: our end entire life, over our mouths, over our eyes,

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Speaker 1: over our hands. I'm not saying to be naive. I'm

606
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: saying to stop being negative. I'm not saying to be fake.

607
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying to stop forcing death into every situation of

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Speaker 1: your life. Listen to me. We can't keep teaching the

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Speaker 1: next generation that resurretion exists if we don't know how

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00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: to get there. We can't keep doing it. We're coming

611
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: to churches and we're like, yeah, my faith, I believe,

612
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: I believe in the resurrection power. This is the greatest

613
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: miracle that could ever happen. But we go home and

614
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Speaker 1: we're worried about the littlest things that have no eternal

615
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: value whatsoever. Why we ain't stretching the truth over our

616
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Speaker 1: entire life. We stretch it over church and that's it.

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Speaker 1: One and a half hours and we're done. It's gotta

618
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: be over our entire life. This is what God wants,

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Speaker 1: This is what the Holy Spirit arns for every single

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Speaker 1: one of us, and some of us have been standing

621
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: for too long. Some of us have been standing for

622
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: too long in our own rights, in our own strength,

623
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Speaker 1: and in our own minds. Are here to tell you leaders,

624
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: burnout does not exist. Burnout means you ran out, and

625
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: that's exactly where God wants you. Where. You have run

626
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 1: out and you have got to need Jesus. So what

627
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:44,320
Speaker 1: am I saying? Mountain mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands.

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Speaker 1: This is what he did. The dead boy gets on

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Speaker 1: mountain mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands, mouth to mouth.

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Speaker 1: What life are you speaking? Or what death? Are you speaking?

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Speaker 1: Over your life? Eyes to eyes? What example do people

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Speaker 1: have to see the working miracles of Jesus other than yourself?

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Speaker 1: Hands to hands, what are you doing? Just like the

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Speaker 1: Shunamite woman, this miracle started with her mouth stretched to

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Speaker 1: her eyes stretched to her hands. Resurrection is not just

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Speaker 1: a fairy tale. You know what I think is interesting?

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Speaker 1: If I asked every single one of you to stand

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Speaker 1: up and do that, you wouldn't ah to think the

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Speaker 1: place God that s embarrassy? Why would I do that?

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Speaker 1: Why would you not? Because you'd rather stand and just

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Speaker 1: fake it until you made it. You'd rather just stretch

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Speaker 1: the truth over this hour and a half rather than

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Speaker 1: be honest with yourself and understand, this is what I need.

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Speaker 1: There are many people who are living their lives with

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Speaker 1: dead parts. So let me ask you, are you really alive?

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Speaker 1: Are you just the walking dead? That's not the life

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Speaker 1: that God had intended for you. He wants you to

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Speaker 1: live a full life, a blessed life, a strong life,

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Speaker 1: a full breath life. I'll end with this second King's

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Speaker 1: thirteen twenty two. You don't have to bring it up, guys,

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Speaker 1: but I told you a little earlier about the story

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Speaker 1: of Elciaan, how he had the double portion resurrection, how

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Speaker 1: he raises this boy, this shot white woman's boy, then

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Speaker 1: he lives a long life, then he dies. Elciaus sent

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Speaker 1: into a tomb, and these men pick up this man

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Speaker 1: and they throw him on a licious tomb, on a

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Speaker 1: licious grave. And told you earlier that man raised from

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Speaker 1: the dead just because of the power that was in

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Speaker 1: Elisha's bones. You know whose body that was. It is

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Speaker 1: said to believe that that is the Shoonomite woman's son.

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Speaker 1: So the double portion that Elisha had prayed was not

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Speaker 1: just for himself, but it was also for that shotemite

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Speaker 1: woman's boy. What am I saying? When you come into

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Speaker 1: a right relationship with Jesus Christ, your life is no

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Speaker 1: longer about you. One life on another, just like Elisha

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Speaker 1: and that little boy, and just like Jesus, one life

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Speaker 1: for another, and just it's like your life, one life

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Speaker 1: so that someone else can experience the true life of

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Speaker 1: one life for another, one life for another, one life.

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Speaker 1: We're here to give it all for someone else to know,

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Speaker 1: believing breathing miracle of Jesus Christ, so that people can

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Speaker 1: know that the world of God, it is alive, it

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Speaker 1: is well, and it is true. Passes said, it's not death,

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Speaker 1: it's just a shadow. I'm here to encourage you and

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Speaker 1: let you know the thing that you think has been dead,

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Speaker 1: it might have just been a shadow. It said today

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Speaker 1: with every hand open like this, God, I pray for

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Speaker 1: people right now that have been living with dead parts,

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Speaker 1: that have been living with dead dreams, that have been

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Speaker 1: living with with dead, dead moments. God, I pray that

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Speaker 1: you would resurrect that. God. We believe in resurrection. God,

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Speaker 1: we believe that resurrection still exists. It is not a

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Speaker 1: fairy tale. So we believe that you can resurrect the

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Speaker 1: dead parts of our life. God, stretch the truth of

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Speaker 1: your Holy Spirit over every single part, even the parts

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Speaker 1: that we hide from you, even the parts that we

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Speaker 1: don't want to talk about, even the parts that we

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Speaker 1: try and put into a corner and we're content with

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Speaker 1: it never happening again, even those parts. God stretch us,

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Speaker 1: move us. God. I pray that people would go into

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Speaker 1: lunches today and they're talking about dreams that they haven't

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Speaker 1: talked about in ten years. Got I pray people in

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Speaker 1: here right now. There's some people online right now that

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Speaker 1: need to text their dad, that need to make that

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Speaker 1: phone call to their mother, that need to have that

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Speaker 1: conversation with their sister, who with their son, because they

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Speaker 1: have believed the lie of the enemy, that it is

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Speaker 1: dead and it will no longer happen anymore. And I

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Speaker 1: rebuke that. In the name of Jesus Christ, you can

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Speaker 1: be allies, You can be alive. God is fighting for us,

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Speaker 1: He is in it with us, and he is working

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Speaker 1: through us. He is not against us. He is in

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Speaker 1: it with us. He is fighting for us, and he

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Speaker 1: is working through us, He is not against us, and

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Speaker 1: God we believe it. We don't just come in here

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Speaker 1: check off a box. We say, right now, Lord, right now, life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life,

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Speaker 1: over dead things life life. Some of you need to

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Speaker 1: stretch out over a debt cult thing right now life. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you enjoy today's podcast, there are a couple of

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Speaker 1: things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate,

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