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Speaker 1: Before we get to the message, let me know right

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Speaker 1: now where are you watching from, where you're joining from

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Speaker 1: our EPAM around the world. Welcome. I'm excited to bring

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Speaker 1: God's word to you today. Also April eighteenth through twenty seven,

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Speaker 1: Get your tickets right now. Let me know where you're

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Speaker 1: joining us from. I want to see it in the comments.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Word of God. It is a

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Speaker 1: tremendous honor to be here today and to be with

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Speaker 1: this amazing team. How about the new song I had?

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're not new to anybody but me, but could Lord.

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Speaker 1: That's why I would say sing it again. When you

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Speaker 1: have a team like this ministry has you are you?

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Speaker 1: People are spoiled writing and you don't even know it.

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Speaker 1: You act like that's normal music and that's normal worship.

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Speaker 1: What is wrong with you? And then you know to

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Speaker 1: see Stephen and see Holly and see their beautiful family

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Speaker 1: fulfilling that dream. He does not just get up and preach.

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Speaker 1: There is a tremendous price that is paid to bring

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Speaker 1: a fresh word from the Lord. He is not a

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Speaker 1: robot kind of preacher. Deal. He can't just get up

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Speaker 1: when he preaches. And you know that's the especially you

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Speaker 1: who are sitting here and at all the campuses every week,

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Speaker 1: and people have no idea, They have no idea. The battles,

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Speaker 1: the mental battles, the spiritual battles. Not just He, but

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Speaker 1: Holly and the family carry a tremendous, tremendous load. And

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Speaker 1: I get emotional about it because I've watched God do

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Speaker 1: it at my place, and I've been there for thirty

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Speaker 1: something years, and when I see in my mind kids

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Speaker 1: doing what they're doing so quick, so fast, God is

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Speaker 1: up to something that we can't even imagine with this ministry.

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Speaker 1: And if you'll be faithful, and I know you will,

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Speaker 1: it includes every one of you and your gift and

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Speaker 1: what God has planned for you. And I want to

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Speaker 1: just preach a few moments this morning, but I want

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Speaker 1: to go to the Book of John chapter twenty one.

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Speaker 1: I don't preach long. They usually have me on a

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Speaker 1: clock for thirty minutes starting right now, and I'll preach

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Speaker 1: I want to read something. I do believe the Lord

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Speaker 1: gave me a message for this place. I do, especially

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Speaker 1: after hearing the last song. It freaked me out. The

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Speaker 1: that it was write another story. Actually, I gave them

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Speaker 1: away at that. But that's how God does it. John

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Speaker 1: This is the disciple who testifies of these things and

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Speaker 1: This whole miracle of Esther, in a whole group, of

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Speaker 1: And the king woke up and he said, say that again,

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Speaker 1: You have to read the rest of the story for yourself.

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Speaker 1: That's not what I'm preaching about. But what I want

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Speaker 1: see my faithfulness in your life, in your family, in

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Speaker 1: he can do it again. If he ever redeemed and

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Speaker 1: again to them. When I think about and I don't

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Speaker 1: even know all the stories, when I think about Chunks

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Speaker 1: think about his family coming here with nothing but a dream.

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Speaker 1: And you've done so much, so fast, so incredibly, so well.

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Speaker 1: Sure have impacted my life life. In my ministry, we

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Speaker 1: like it's normal. Don't act like you're just another ministry.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I'll give more instructions. I'll

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Speaker 1: your life is. If you'll let Jesus he'll write another story.

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Speaker 1: Give him a praise if you believe. Praise him just

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Speaker 1: It's not over. You don't have to live in the past.

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Speaker 1: to live in disgrace, you don't have to live in condemnation.

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Speaker 1: He's writing another story. Sit down, I'm almost done. I

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Speaker 1: have seven more minutes. Nine tend to preach all seven.

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Speaker 1: Tell somebody sitting besides you, I don't know what you're

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Speaker 1: going through. Come on, do it. I deputize you. Turn

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Speaker 1: a period. There's another chapter coming to your broken heart.

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Speaker 1: There's another chapter coming to your divorce. There's another chapter

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Speaker 1: coming to your addiction. There's another chapter coming to your abuse. Now, now, now,

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Speaker 1: how many of you glad he wrote you out of

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Speaker 1: the book of Moses and into the book of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: death and out of defeat and into victory and to

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Speaker 1: eternal life. Everybody who knows your name is written in

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Speaker 1: the Lamb's Book of life. Shout just for a minute,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna preaching them in the shell and praise him.

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Speaker 1: The enemy set you were finished. The enemy set your

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Speaker 1: family would never come up. I had a generational terses,

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Speaker 1: double white trailer, and all we had was a poolpit,

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Speaker 1: started moving, that place started shaking. He needs to leave

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Speaker 1: me alone. He needs to leave me alone. I don't

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Speaker 1: want him there on your seventeenth anniverse. You got to

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Speaker 1: Bible said, God, if you read the whole chapter, God

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Speaker 1: Scripture said, he got He got canceled by the culture

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Speaker 1: come to the temple and threatened him with his life.

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Speaker 1: And God said, that's all right. It ain't about you preaching.

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Speaker 1: Bible said, in that chapter he called a scribe, and

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Speaker 1: like a fire shut up in my bones. And when

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Speaker 1: every my sheep, know my, when you sung two of

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Speaker 1: those several of those songs, might that first one about

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Speaker 1: all the names of God? My holy ghost said, whoo,

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Speaker 1: that's one of ours. I'll be singing that one in

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Speaker 1: my place. I'll be shouting on that one, and that

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Speaker 1: Wat's this? And the man just stands up and starts

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Speaker 1: reading what came as he wrote it down. And the

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Speaker 1: Bible said that even the false prophets read that chapter

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Speaker 1: when you get home. The false prophets stuck their ear out.

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Speaker 1: And when they heard the word of the Lord, they

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Speaker 1: knew this little thing that we're about to teach on

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Speaker 1: seven ways to enjoy your winter vacation, that it just

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Speaker 1: ain't gonna quiet get it. And the Bible said, they

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Speaker 1: grab pens, read it, and they wrote down word word

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Speaker 1: for word what the man was saying, and took off

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Speaker 1: left the church and took off to the king's winter palace.

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Speaker 1: And the king was setting by his fireplace, and they

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Speaker 1: come in and they said, sir, this is so important.

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Speaker 1: We need to tell you. Jeremiah has another hit. It's

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Speaker 1: but we like it. And we had to come interrupt

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Speaker 1: your vacation, sir, at your winter palace, because the word

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Speaker 1: whole congregation. And the king said, let me hear it. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is where the story gets unbelievable. And they start

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Speaker 1: reading word for word everything, and the king pulled out

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Speaker 1: his pocket knife, your Bible said, and when he heard it,

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Speaker 1: he said, I like that part. Leave it alone. That's

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Speaker 1: the good part. I'm highly favored. I'm blessed. I'm oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do good. God is with me. I like that.

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Speaker 1: But then they get to some of that stuff about

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Speaker 1: but straighten up and live right, be hol in, be clean,

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Speaker 1: stand before me and love me with all of your heart, mind,

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Speaker 1: soul and strength. And if I don't like that, and

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Speaker 1: he'd start cutting, cutting that out and ball it up

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Speaker 1: and throw it into the fire cutting. I hate the preest.

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Speaker 1: Just say I had you all happy a minute ago,

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Speaker 1: but please don't become that ministry. We're not gonna cut

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Speaker 1: and paste the word of God. We still need the

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Speaker 1: blood of Jesus. We still need the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: There's no other name. I still believe that the Bible

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Speaker 1: says that marriage is between a man and a woman,

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Speaker 1: and we're not gonna cut that part out. I still

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Speaker 1: believe the Bible says holiness is right and separation and

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Speaker 1: coming out from the world and being different. Oh, come on,

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Speaker 1: it's in the book. It's a Let's don't throw out

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Speaker 1: everything because culture says it's too controversial. I'm afraid, and

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Speaker 1: I'm old. I'm an old preacher, so I got to

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Speaker 1: write to talk like this, And I just say to

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Speaker 1: the young preachers, don't be a cutting edge preacher. Preach

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Speaker 1: the eternal word of God. Let's don't cut hell out.

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Speaker 1: Hell's in the book. Hell is real and ever now

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Speaker 1: and then somebody needs to Hell is So where'd that

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Speaker 1: come from? Somebody needs It needs to be more than

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Speaker 1: a cuss word. It needs to be a conviction word.

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Speaker 1: It needs to be something that somebody hears and says,

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Speaker 1: Oh my God, God, that's the word of God. Let's

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Speaker 1: not cut out the judgment. Let's not cut out I'm

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Speaker 1: preaching better than you're letting home. Let's not cut out

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Speaker 1: the safetity of life. Jeremiah, when you were in your

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Speaker 1: mother's wound, before you ever got there, I called you,

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Speaker 1: let's not cut that out. I'm not gonna cut it out.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna cut out the rapture. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: cut out He's coming back again. The trumpet's gonna sound,

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Speaker 1: the dead in Christ are gonna rise, and we're going

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Speaker 1: home to meet the Lord in there. Read the word

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Speaker 1: sit down. I'm almost done. You know, if you're not

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Speaker 1: careful in a great church like this, the Lord will

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Speaker 1: give you a word. Because this man spends time in

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Speaker 1: the throne room, and you know, and you know when

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Speaker 1: he speaks to you, because it rocks you to your

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Speaker 1: core and people all around. You may not be that

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Speaker 1: big of a deal into it, but when it's yours,

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Speaker 1: write it down. Here's the point. The Lord spoke to me,

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Speaker 1: and he said to tell people at Elevation Church, I

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Speaker 1: spoke to you. I made you a prophetic promise. And

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Speaker 1: just because it has not happened, there is a tendency

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Speaker 1: to pull out your little pocket knife and start whittling down. Well,

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Speaker 1: maybe he really didn't say it, and you get it

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Speaker 1: trimmed down to just what you can do, just what

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Speaker 1: you think you're capable of, just what your mind can conceive.

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Speaker 1: But if God said nations, then nations it shall be.

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Speaker 1: If God God says world wide, then worldwide. It's help me.

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Speaker 1: Get your knife off the promise. Get your knife off

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Speaker 1: what God's telling you, music team. If God says you

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Speaker 1: can feel colosseums better than the rolling stones beyond, say

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Speaker 1: why don't we get that mentality? And say, God, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna take my knife off of it. I'm tired of

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Speaker 1: trimming down the promise to what I can do. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the first seventeen years was just a test. Maybe where

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Speaker 1: you're going is gonna require more faith, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: look back in seventeen years and say, turn to somebody

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Speaker 1: right now and say, the lords gave you that promise,

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Speaker 1: Get your knife off of it. The Lord told you

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Speaker 1: that there was life beyond your day, and just because

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Speaker 1: you hadn't met them yet, get your knife off that

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Speaker 1: promise and learn how to praise heal until the answer comes.

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Speaker 1: Let me finish play and they'll know I'm almost done.

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Speaker 1: So here's where I've been trying to get to. This

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Speaker 1: Write the vision, make it plain. But here's what got

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Speaker 1: me Psalms forty five in verse one. You're not gonna

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Speaker 1: believe what God's pen is. Throw it up for me,

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Speaker 1: Psalms forty five and verse one. And the Lord answered me,

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Speaker 1: there it is. Everybody, watch this. My heart is indicting

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Speaker 1: a good matter. I speak of things which I've touched

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Speaker 1: and made touching the King my tongue. Everybody shouting. My

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Speaker 1: tongue is the pen whatever I start praising him for,

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Speaker 1: whatever I start prophesying, whatever I keep praying and praying

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Speaker 1: and praying about, and preaching and preaching and preaching about

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Speaker 1: and praising and praising and praising about and prophesying to

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Speaker 1: a new generation, a new generation. My children will be

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Speaker 1: used of God. They will do mighty things. My tongue

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Speaker 1: is the pen of the ready rib. Do you believe that?

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Speaker 1: Do you believe that there's power in what you continually praise, pray,

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Speaker 1: preach and prophesy. The Lord said, this is not the

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Speaker 1: final chapter of elevation. But tell the people to lift

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Speaker 1: their voice and ascribe the greatness of their God. Tell

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Speaker 1: the people that the pen is in this house, and

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Speaker 1: that means miracles are ready to be written. That means

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Speaker 1: stories and books are ready to come forward. That means

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Speaker 1: businesses are about to be started. That did not start

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Speaker 1: in the flesh. They were born in the sanctuary under

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Speaker 1: the anointed word of God. You're a vout to write

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Speaker 1: new chapters of your family. The first few were addiction

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Speaker 1: and brokenness and curses. But the next generation, the next

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Speaker 1: chapter will be blessed, will be annoyed, will be favor

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Speaker 1: Get up on your feet at every campus and give

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Speaker 1: the Lord the money. Please. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast,

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Speaker 1: there are a couple things I'd love for you to do.

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