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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This

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Speaker 1: is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for

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Speaker 1: you to break it down a little more, to take

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Speaker 1: it a little deeper.

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Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: So if we bring these two verses together, right, get

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Speaker 1: in a mighty warrior hiding in a wine press. You

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Speaker 1: an incredible creative human being, kind of living in a

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Speaker 1: state of constant chronic distraction, and you know, giving into

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Speaker 1: the culture around you that wants you to compare and

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Speaker 1: feel terrible about yourself, or compare and feel like you're

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Speaker 1: you're better than other people, whatever extreme you fall in.

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Speaker 1: This culture of comparison, this culture of cynicism, this culture

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Speaker 1: of reliance on everything else that isn't God on the

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Speaker 1: scene rather than the unseen, This culture that we seem

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Speaker 1: we can't learn anything from anybody, so we stay in ignorance.

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Speaker 1: The Lord says, go in the strength you have and

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Speaker 1: save Israel out of Midian's hand. And then after Gideon

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Speaker 1: God says it's friendly fire. He says peace, you're not

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Speaker 1: going to die. And they built an altar and called

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Speaker 1: it the Lord is Peace. I want to bring those

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Speaker 1: what the Lord spoke to me. He said, make peace

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Speaker 1: with your strength. Make peace with your strength. Don't you

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Speaker 1: mean with your weakness. Don't you mean with your past?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, those two, but make peace with your strength.

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Speaker 2: That is so.

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Speaker 1: Contradictory to a lot of what I was taught, especially

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Speaker 1: getting too big for his breeches, and I thought that

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Speaker 1: was just monk's corner until I went to Australia. They

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Speaker 1: they cut him down. And in all fairness, you know,

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Speaker 1: after God gives Gideon two signs with the fleece, the

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Speaker 2: So that's like the thing the thing.

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Speaker 1: That God touched was wet and everything around it was dry,

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Speaker 1: and then the second time everything around it was wet,

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Speaker 1: but it was dry. And I take that to mean

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Speaker 1: that God's spirit will be your supply in any situation.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you'll be dry inside. But God will bring do

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Speaker 1: what He has called you to do. And how sometimes

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Speaker 1: to drench you with his spirit. Because Gideon picked up

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Speaker 1: of Israel heard that Gideon went after he built an

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Speaker 1: He then went and smashed the altars that his father

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Speaker 1: had made to Bail, which is crazy, right, like to

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Speaker 1: He went and smashed the altar that they would use

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Speaker 2: Now, all of this.

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Speaker 2: And I know you've done that before.

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Speaker 1: You just feel like, why am I down here in

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Speaker 2: That's not what I mean I.

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Speaker 1: Don't mean if your if your parents' drink, you go

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Speaker 2: That'd be kind of that'd be kind of bad if

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Speaker 1: But realistically, though, I think a lot of us never

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Speaker 1: with Gideon and God is with you. And there may

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Speaker 1: I actually remember this cool moment where somebody was saying

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Speaker 2: He's like, don't you ever tell my boy.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that's like christ.

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Speaker 1: Like, Like I often joke, that's not going to land

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Speaker 1: I think the fears that he experienced now he grew

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Speaker 1: to my mom too that they gave me opportunities, even

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Speaker 2: That's not me. But what if it is? What if

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Speaker 1: What if wimp and a wine press is just where

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Speaker 1: I think he's pretty crazy. How much faith he did have,

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Speaker 1: the things that Gideon would depend on that would make

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Speaker 1: Gideon think that it was his.

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Speaker 2: Own strength that saved Israel.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want Gideon to rely on his own strength,

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Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean he didn't want him to own

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Speaker 1: and powerful, powerful things are ahead for Gideon. But the

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Speaker 1: When you hear about a when you hear about a target,

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Speaker 1: Don't reject it when you feel yourself going like man,

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Speaker 1: I could be more kind, Maybe I could be more encouraging.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I could do these things. Maybe you could go

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Speaker 1: But the first step to going in the strength that

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Speaker 1: Don't fight the fire God has given you, don't fight

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Speaker 2: That, honestly a lot of times are weaker than you are.

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Speaker 1: And don't worship at the altar of everything that your

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Speaker 2: There are so many.

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Speaker 1: Applications of this, I know we could take it to

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