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Speaker 1: Who this word that God gave me to share with

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to share with you. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to share with you. Hey, welcome. Before we go to

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Speaker 1: the word, I wanted to make sure you knew that

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Speaker 1: the new Elevation worship album we've been working on this

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Speaker 1: two years, Lion, is out March fourth, the whole album.

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Speaker 1: What an awesome release date for an album, March fourth,

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Speaker 1: so you can March fourth into the things God has

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Speaker 1: planned for you. I might preach that next week, but

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Speaker 1: also wanted to let you know about Elevation Nights. Have

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Speaker 1: you heard about Elevation Nights. It's gonna be me preaching

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Speaker 1: our whole Elevation Worship team, all the songs you love.

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Speaker 1: Put the favorite elevation worship song in the chat. Put

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Speaker 1: it in the chat right now. And if you're anywhere

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Speaker 1: near these cities, let's see. I got them listed from

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Speaker 1: We want to see you their Elevation Nights dot com.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time for the word of God. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. Put a Hallelujah in the chat and let

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Speaker 1: me know where you're watching from and let me know

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Speaker 1: what song is your favorite song off of our brand

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Speaker 1: new album, Lion Roar. Y'all didn't think Katie Perry was

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Speaker 1: pop culture references are dated, but we're so excited everything

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Speaker 1: that God is doing. God is really busy, and I

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Speaker 1: know the devil is too, But God is busy and

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Speaker 1: we have to look for him at work. And I

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Speaker 1: believe that today He has given me the kind of

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Speaker 1: word I was going to do a lot of announcements

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Speaker 1: and all that He did all of them before I

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Speaker 1: got here. So now all this left for me to do,

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Speaker 1: just preached this word to you. Now, make sure you

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Speaker 1: get the new Elevation Worship album, make sure that you

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Speaker 1: go to Elevation Nights dot com. But right now, the

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Speaker 1: presence of the Lord is in this place, and I

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Speaker 1: What a week it was? What a week it was.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about Genesis one. I'm not talking about twenty

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Speaker 1: he chilled and you should chill too, right, you should

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Speaker 1: It's not the critics that count. It's what the Creator

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Speaker 1: it has to happen because he's spoken. And God said,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to study today whether God literally made

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Speaker 1: it's symbolic of a longer period of time. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a scientist. We're not going to study today the different

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Speaker 1: you'll know that I'm wrong. Before the internet, preachers could

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Speaker 1: lot of times they give you good advice based on

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Speaker 1: because you are constantly critiquing and you are constantly correcting.

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Speaker 1: So they give you advice, well, you should just leave them.

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Speaker 1: what did she say? I want to be part of that?

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Speaker 1: And we got a lot of Christians that havn't read

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Speaker 1: Romans twelve one. Do not conform to the pattern of this.

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Speaker 1: Did y'all see the little Murray? And God is not

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Speaker 1: king frightened? And God is not gonna give you legs

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Speaker 1: if he made you for water, and God is not

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Speaker 1: gonna help you flap if he gave you fins. You've

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Speaker 1: got to move in operate according to and function by

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Speaker 1: what you were made for. I didn't want to bring

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Speaker 1: any animals out here because we live in a contentious

435
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Speaker 1: time and I figured I would offend somebody and Peter

436
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Speaker 1: might shut my church down. But just imagine now this

437
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: would be really bad. Right. I would never do this.

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00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm not an animal person, but I would still never

439
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Speaker 1: do this. If we put a bird in the bowl

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Speaker 1: and I knew Hollywood like this sermon, beg, did you

441
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Speaker 1: know there are six birds for every human? I thought

442
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: about you this week. I was studying the birds. She's

443
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Speaker 1: a bird person in theory. Let one fly up close

444
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: to her, and she likes the information about the birds. Right,

445
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: And a lot of Christians are confident in christ in theory.

446
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Speaker 1: I'm a child of God, Yes I am. That's your

447
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Speaker 1: surface self. But before God can bring forth what he

448
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: really wants to bring forth in this season, he's got

449
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: to move waters. He's got to start clearing out stuff

450
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: that is covering up stuff to ask you, what is

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Speaker 1: beneath the surface in your life? And are you moving

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Speaker 1: in it? Are you moving in what you're made for?

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Speaker 1: Take a picture if you want to, so you can

454
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Speaker 1: put this on your screensaver this week. You know what

455
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm not saying you want to look at me,

456
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: but maybe you just want a little reminder, like when

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Speaker 1: you're comparing yourself, when you're sitting there looking at other

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Speaker 1: people's life, comparing yourself because what we do go back

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Speaker 1: to Genesis one, twenty six minute. Let us make man

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Speaker 1: in our image, God said. But we don't go off

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Speaker 1: of God's image. We go off of an image of

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Speaker 1: what we think a good mom is supposed to look like,

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Speaker 1: or a good dad, or a good man, or a

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Speaker 1: successful person. That's what we think, right, that's what you

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Speaker 1: have to be like that. But it's an image you

466
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: imagined it. It's not the real image. It's a surface image.

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Speaker 1: So now you try to make memories with your kids, right,

468
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: and they backfire, and it's it doesn't go down like

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Speaker 1: it was supposed to go down. That's because you are

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Speaker 1: making memories compared to somebody else's for tend memory that

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Speaker 1: they posted, they captured it. You're a burning a bowl.

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Speaker 1: We have these amazing things God made called brains. Amazing.

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Speaker 1: Your brain is amazing. Your mind is amazing, absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, even the ones of us in here who

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Speaker 1: had to take algebra a few times, your brain is amazing.

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Speaker 1: What it just enables you to do is just amazing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, the moon is jealous of you,

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Speaker 1: the stars are jealous of you. God made you by hand.

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Speaker 1: He made all of that stuff. Boom with his mouth.

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Speaker 1: He made you by his hand. Your brain is amazing.

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Speaker 1: Your brain was not made to look at everybody else's

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Speaker 1: life all day. Your brain was not made I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: make see younn and Fox newsman like they're watching. It

484
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Speaker 1: was not made for you to process all the infra

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Speaker 1: the world all the time. You're a burd in a

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Speaker 1: bowl right now, and you are drowning in stuff that

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Speaker 1: God did not intend for you to live in. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll read you all the quota. Listen how good this

489
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Speaker 1: quote is. The lady said, this book is called Gift

490
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Speaker 1: from the Sea. She said, we are asked today to

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Speaker 1: feel compassionately for everyone in the world. Listen again, this

492
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Speaker 1: is the demand that's being placed on us today in

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Speaker 1: the day we live in, going back to the beginning,

494
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Speaker 1: what God made you for versus what is being marketed

495
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Speaker 1: to you today as normal. We are asked today to

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Speaker 1: feel compassionately for everyone in the world, to digest intellectually

497
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: all the information spread out in public print, all of it.

498
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Speaker 1: You got to know everything all the time. What's happening

499
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: on the other side of the world, what's happening you

500
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: are watching people eat lunch on a screen, and they

501
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: sit three cubicles down from you. That's how weird it

502
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: is right now, and you are asked to digest on

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Speaker 1: the same screen world events and also somebody's vacation that

504
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: lifts three doors down from you. And it's all right there. Now.

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00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: Listen to what she says. We are asked to implement

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Speaker 1: in action every ethical impulse aroused by our hearts and months.

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Speaker 1: The inter relatedness of the world links us constantly with

508
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 1: more people than our hearts can hold. She wrote that

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Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty five, what would she say today? What

510
00:35:55,120 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 1: would she say about your week? Where you've been this week?

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Speaker 1: You've been a bird in a bowl. Here's what I

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00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: mean by a bird in a bowl. God told the fish,

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Speaker 1: you are good in what I made for you. And

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Speaker 1: I think the Lord wants to say that to somebody.

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Speaker 1: You are good in what He made for you, and

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Speaker 1: you going, don't you mean that he made me for? No? No, no,

517
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Speaker 1: what he made for you? Ephesians two ten. For we

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Speaker 1: are created in Christ Jesus. This is like the New

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Speaker 1: Testament explanation of the illustration in Genesis one. We are

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Speaker 1: God's handiwork. Remember he spoke the son with a word

521
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Speaker 1: He made you with his hand. So the author here

522
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: is simply saying, Paul is reminding you God made you

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Speaker 1: by hand. And that's to know that He stitched me together.

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00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: He made me by hand. I'm not mass produced. I

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00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 1: didn't come off an assembly line. That means I don't

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Speaker 1: have to fit in with something else because I was

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Speaker 1: formed by someone who knew me before my frame was whoo.

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Speaker 1: So then if that's good news, how much better is

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Speaker 1: it to know what comes next? We are God's handiwork

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Speaker 1: verse Please created in Christ Jesus to do good works

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Speaker 1: which God prepared in advance for us to do. To

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Speaker 1: understand the fifth day, you have to understand the second day.

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Speaker 1: To understand your life, you have to understand the heart

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Speaker 1: to mind and the order of God. See, because God

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have made a bird before he made a sky.

536
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: God wouldn't have made a fish before he made an ocean.

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00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: You think God just dropped you down in your life

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Speaker 1: and didn't put in you everything that you need to

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00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:05,959
Speaker 1: do everything he's called you to do. Break it down

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Speaker 1: for Nick, All right, if God put me in it,

541
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Speaker 1: he put it in me. But see, I have surface

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00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: words that have been spoken over me that create insecurities

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Speaker 1: that keep me from believing what God said and moving

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Speaker 1: in what He made me for. Can I tell you

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00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: how much I suck at most stuff? I mean, really

546
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: really bad. I'll be right back. I got some other

547
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: stuff back here. You're good, You're good. I've been excited

548
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: to precis word. I really, I really want to give

549
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Speaker 1: it to you. Okay, I be right back. I'll be

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00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: right back some stuff. Now. When I say I'm bad

551
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: at basketball, I'm I mean my kids started beating me

552
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: at horse when they were four years old. I am

553
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 1: so bad. I'm not saying like, oh, I'm not really

554
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,959
Speaker 1: good behind the line. No, I'm saying I'm not good

555
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: against the backboard on a ladder. I can't shoot a basketball.

556
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: And here's how bad it was when God called me

557
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: to preach. Now we're talking about what you were made for.

558
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: Don't get distracted like I'm giving you a history lesson

559
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Speaker 1: on my life. I know you don't come to church

560
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 1: for a memoir, but there's something like this for you, okay.

561
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: And I remember when I first went around preaching. Me

562
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: and Holly would go to these little churches and we

563
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: would end up after I preached, the kids would all

564
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Speaker 1: want to go in the gym and play basketball, and

565
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: then it would undo the good impression that I made

566
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,479
Speaker 1: on the pulpit when they saw me play basketball. They're

567
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Speaker 1: like that God can't know God. Look at it. Look

568
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: at him out there, look at he moves. And so

569
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: so I went to my friend. Now I'm gonna tell

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00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 1: you this, and this is a detail that you may

571
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: not need. But I went to my friend. He was

572
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Speaker 1: the captain of the Lady Stags, the Berkeley Stags, the

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Speaker 1: high school team, and I said, I need help. I said,

574
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Speaker 1: I'm out here preaching. Said don't know anything I preach.

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Speaker 1: I don't need for you. I need you teach you

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Speaker 1: by basketball. And I said, can I come over? And

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Speaker 1: we went out in her driveway, and after an hour,

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Speaker 1: she said, maybe you should just ref Okay, I'll be

579
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Y'all hang out right there. Because I'm bad at that.

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Speaker 1: I'm bad at that, I'm bad at that. Another thing

582
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Speaker 1: I want to show you. This one's a little This

583
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 1: one's a little bit more close to home. When I

584
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: told him what to get me, y'all look at me.

585
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: I said, get a pink hammer. Just to symbolize that

586
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: Holly is a better handyman than I am. I see.

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00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: I don't like to tell you stuff like this when

588
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 1: I preach because I look kind of manly, I got

589
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:05,280
Speaker 1: a beard. But I need to show you this because

590
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: it's gonna help you with something. It's gonna say you

591
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: free from something. When we first got married, I felt

592
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:16,280
Speaker 1: so insecure and act incompetent and capable. It's efficient because

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00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: I thought a good husband was a good handyman. That

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00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: was the image I had. My dad could fix stuff.

595
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: Her dad can fix stuff. What kind of husband can

596
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Speaker 1: I be if I can't fix anything? Burning a bull?

597
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: Put down on the camera. Put down on the camera.

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00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: That burning a bull, that's you. Oh god, Well I'm

599
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: not good at that. I'm not quick on my feet. Well,

600
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: be slow on your feet, Be deliberate, be accurate, shop

601
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,439
Speaker 1: them right in the throat when you hit boom right there.

602
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: Because I was a fishing a tree in second grade,

603
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: the teacher said, nobody wants to just hear you talk

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00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, oh yeah, baby, I'm a bad burn.

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Speaker 1: Let me fuck. I believe I can move in. What's

606
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: you're made for? Let them say what they want. Let

607
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: them count you out. You get for the tights you got.

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00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: You were made for this baby a teleparents, back up,

609
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: I'm fleshed. Tell a fish sway less. So let's make

610
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: a trade. Let's make a trade. Bring me a mike,

611
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: Bring me a mike, Bring me a mic. She didn't

612
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: need a handyman, she needed a holy man. Give me

613
00:42:53,840 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: my mic. I just had the wrong thing in my hand.

614
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 1: And if you will focus with enough gratitude on what

615
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: God gave you and how God made you, your little

616
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 1: quirky bird, your little funky fish, you little weird you

617
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 1: get focused enough on what He gave you. Beneath the

618
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,959
Speaker 1: surface of what you see that's not what you thought

619
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Speaker 1: it was supposed to be. And you can knock down giants,

620
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 1: and God can break down walls, and you can see

621
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Speaker 1: great and mighty things. So I can't be her handy man.

622
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: I'm her holy man. I like that. Make me a

623
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Speaker 1: T shirt. I'm your holy man. It's good because God

624
00:43:54,840 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: prepared us in advance. Don't get me started. Are spelling

625
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: words wrong? Pre paired, pre paired, take it, take it,

626
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: take it. I'm done with it. Pre paired. Somebody say

627
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 1: pre pair. All right, let's ask Vana White, Can we

628
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: buy a vow? I want to buy an eye pre

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Speaker 1: p a I r ed paired. Come here, Holly, come here,

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00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: come in, Come in pre paired, pre paired. She was

631
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Speaker 1: pre paired. This is how I know God is God,

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00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: because on the second day he made the water. On

633
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Speaker 1: the fifth day, he made the fish to go in it.

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Speaker 1: On the second day he made the sky. On the

635
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Speaker 1: fifth day he made the bird to fly in it.

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Speaker 1: And the birds are smarter than we were because we

637
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Speaker 1: spent the first thirty years, forty years, fifty years. How

638
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Speaker 1: long is it gonna take for us to go to

639
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: fish school and learn what the fish and the birds

640
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: knew from the moment god'spocome. You didn't see a fish

641
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,319
Speaker 1: flapping around in the sky. You see people all the

642
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: time trying to dress like something there, talk like something.

643
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: They're not walk like something. They're not quacking and waddling

644
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: all around you, ugly duckling. I'm putting all the fairy

645
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: tales of Disney characters into his own because I want

646
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: you to get it. I want you to get it.

647
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: I want you to get that your handmaid, that your handmaid.

648
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about marriage. This is an illustration. We

649
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: were prepared, and when you preach yesterday, I was so proud.

650
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: My barber was cut my hair. He said, be still,

651
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna gap you up, and you're gonna make me

652
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: look bad on camera. I said, I'm sorry. She's just

653
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: doing so good. She was out there in Austin, Texas

654
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: preaching and he said, yeah, you from Austin, you are.

655
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:51,280
Speaker 1: She was bringing the Gospel to your homeland in fine style.

656
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: And when it was done, fly Twy said, you are.

657
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: You must be proud. I said, you have no idea

658
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: how proud? Because I know the process. I know all

659
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: the insecurity that she pushed through to preach like that.

660
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 1: Let me tell you a few you mind if I

661
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: tell them it's better to ask for forgiveness information. She

662
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: gotta forgive me for this, because this is what God

663
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: told me to tell you. She is saying, all right,

664
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Speaker 1: let the fish fill the water, let the birds fill

665
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: the sky. You will feel what you are formed for

666
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 1: when you stop complaining about where you don't fit, when

667
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:48,399
Speaker 1: you find your water, when you find your sky, when

668
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: you stop asking, kin, can I be a part of

669
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: that world? And Holly say, I wish I could preach

670
00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: and be more spirit filled. You know what she meantous

671
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: because where we grew up scripted and structure men, it

672
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:11,720
Speaker 1: wasn't spirit filled. So she was a bird in a bowl.

673
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: You love birds. Hold that bowl. She was in that bowl,

674
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: the bowl of her belief about what God needed her

675
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: to be for her to be effective. And now y'all

676
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: make me mad because y'all see me in the store

677
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: and you'll say we love when Holly preaches. I'm like,

678
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do with that? I love

679
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: it when she preaches, too. She's not as available for

680
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: romantic interludes when she's preaching on me. So I'm not

681
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 1: gonna let her preach too much. So spontaneous, that's my gifts.

682
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: This is my water, this is my sky, this is

683
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 1: me being me. Blame it on the birds, laming, on

684
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: the birds leaming in the birth. I got excited because

685
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: even that they'll put on YouTube, they'll say, this isn't preaching.

686
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: This is a motivational seminar with a failed B rate

687
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: comedy hour on it like that. Okay, you swim in

688
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 1: your see, I'll swim in mind. We can both be blessed.

689
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: We can both be blessed. I'll preach it how I

690
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: preach it. You preach it how you preach it. They

691
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 1: told Finny, I don't like your style of evangelism. He said,

692
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: what's yours? Said, I don't have one yet. He said,

693
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: I like mine better. I like mine better. I like

694
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: mine better. I like my wife better. You know, because

695
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,720
Speaker 1: because I watched you, he said, you must be proud.

696
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: I said, I am, because I know the process, not

697
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: the product. People will see the product, but God knows

698
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: all the mess that you're in right now by hand.

699
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 1: He's crafting and designing you for it because he prepared

700
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: it with you. So I watched her. I watched her

701
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Speaker 1: go from I'm not spirit filled to realizing that the

702
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 1: spirit of God can fill a script that you don't

703
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 1: have to wing it bird reference. And yet the craziest

704
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: thing is now when she speaks and I see the

705
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: spirit of God, it reminds me of Genesis one too,

706
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: that the spirit was hovering over the surface, trying to

707
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: bring forth what was already there. You know how many

708
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: birds are in bulls today because of the insecurity that

709
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: imprisons you. And you can't move in it because you

710
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:57,359
Speaker 1: weren't made for it. Quit trying to fit in with

711
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: those friends that aren't good for you. Huh. Let me

712
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: be dad for a minute. Let me be dad for

713
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 1: a minute. Let me move in what I made for

714
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 1: for a minute. Okay, all right. God has given me

715
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: a parental annoying just as well. And there are times

716
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,919
Speaker 1: in my kid's life where I'm like, you don't fit

717
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: there because it's not for you. I'm not saying you're

718
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: better than anybody, but you don't fit there because they're

719
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: for you. So everybody who doesn't want to be your friend,

720
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: the real you, is doing you a favor. Uh huh. Oh,

721
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna preach somebody free today. You've been in this

722
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:39,439
Speaker 1: bowl going like, well, I can't. Some of you are

723
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: trying to be sinners and you suck at it because

724
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,280
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to be a sinner. You're a saint,

725
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:50,399
Speaker 1: You're the righteousness of God. You're a child of the light.

726
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: You're a child of the light, and that's why darkness

727
00:50:54,800 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 1: doesn't be a right to you. Make the confession, say

728
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm a child of the light. Now, let there be

729
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: light over your life. Let there be light over your life.

730
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: Let there be light over over your life. Because I'm

731
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,359
Speaker 1: a child of the light and if it doesn't fit,

732
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: it's not for you. Give me that blazer. Now, I'm

733
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: gonna show you how silly you look trying to fit

734
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: into the customs of this world. Some of y'all are encouragers,

735
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 1: and you are trying your best to be negative because

736
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: negative is so normal now and you're not even good

737
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 1: at it. Tell me I'll need to stop cussing because

738
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: y'all don't even know how to cuss correctly. You sound silly.

739
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: Give me that now. I could put this on. I

740
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 1: told her I was gonna do this. I said, what

741
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: if I rip it? She said, then rip it. If

742
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:01,840
Speaker 1: you gotta rip it. I want you to notice something.

743
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: It wasn't made for me, so I can't move in it.

744
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: That's the mindset you've been in this insecure. You can't

745
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: take me seriously, you gotta get it off me. I's

746
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: just that turn around so we could see how you

747
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: look from the back. This is you. Oh I can't

748
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:27,280
Speaker 1: be free. Oh I can't fly. Oh oh he's doing nobody.

749
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: Get it off you, I get back. Take this jacket on.

750
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: I know daieve it's God. Oh bless, I'm bless my

751
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: highly paper. Watch this ferks I can't fly too. Whoa, oh,

752
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 1: you were made to praise. Do what you were made

753
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: to do. You were made to glorifib. I believe I

754
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: can fly. I know I can make it. I was

755
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 1: made for this. Here is the potter. I am the clay.

756
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm staying on the wheel. I got wings like a dove.

757
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: I can make it over this situation. Now, scrunch up

758
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: your eyebrows like you mean business and tell somebody I

759
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: was made for this. I was made for this. I

760
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: was made for this. I was made for this like

761
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 1: a fish in water, like a burning and sky, like

762
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 1: something sprouting forth out of the ground. I was made

763
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: in the image of God. So why in the world

764
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: would I move in the condemnation of my enemy. I'm

765
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: coming out of insecurity today because I wasn't made for insecurity.

766
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 1: I was made in the image of God. And how

767
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: do I know what I'm made for? I spend time

768
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: with my maker. I gotta deal with him now. And

769
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: God said, and God said, y'all better stand up and

770
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: put pressure on me to close, because I feel a

771
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: part two coming on early. I feel a part two

772
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 1: coming on early. Stand up, stand up. You're never gonna

773
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: find out what his hand can do because you are

774
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:37,240
Speaker 1: so distracted by way your hands are holding that wasn't

775
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: made for you. Now, God did not make the sky

776
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 1: for the birds to hover in and hang out, and

777
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: God did not make the sea for the lobsters to

778
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: get some son. You got to move in. You've got

779
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: to move in what you were made for. That's how

780
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: life happens. Did you ever have a baby? I didn't.

781
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: But when it moved and it got uncomfortable, best when

782
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 1: we knew she was closer than ever to bring in

783
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 1: forth life. The same is true in the spirit. And

784
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: God said, don't you want to know what he spoke?

785
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: Don't you don't you play gyro? Don't you want to

786
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: know what he spoke? Don't you want to know what

787
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: he who chose you before the foundations of the earth,

788
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: before all this surface stuff got on you. Don't you

789
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,280
Speaker 1: want to know what you were created in Christ Jesus,

790
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: for that was prepared in advance for you to do.

791
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: This is your season to begin to move in your water,

792
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: to begin to fly in your sky, to begin to

793
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: control the atmosphere that you allow in your art. Your

794
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: mind was not made to worry about the future. Sufficient

795
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: is the day and if you move in what God

796
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: gave you this day, our daily breath. I feel annoyted

797
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: to help somebody because he said this was a word

798
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 1: for your insecurity. And when you bring that to your maker,

799
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 1: remember what you were made for. Oh I'm a reflection

800
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 1: of God. I told my buddy a while back. He

801
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,880
Speaker 1: was getting criticized, and I said, that's happened to me before.

802
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:30,400
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I learned. I read a

803
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,840
Speaker 1: quote where the man said, never wrestle with a pig,

804
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: and then he said, because you both get muddy and

805
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: the pig likes it. And then God gave me something

806
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: to say, You're a prince, not a pig. I wasn't

807
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: made for the Mud. I was made from the mud.

808
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 1: When I'm in the hands of my maker. Come on,

809
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 1: release it to God right now. If you just start

810
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 1: like getting ready to leave right now and you don't

811
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:09,759
Speaker 1: seal this word, the enemy's gonna snatch it. You're gonna

812
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 1: get back in the same situation, the same people, the

813
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: same stuff you've been staring at all week. But this

814
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: is the principle of the Fifth Day that we could

815
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: learn from the birds. But we don't know with our

816
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: human mind that when I fly in what I'm formed for.

817
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: God always has a worm for me that when I

818
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: swim in where God set me. Now, don't go quit

819
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 1: your job. Tell your boss you're a bird. You're gonna

820
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: be a broke bird looking for a worm. That is

821
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: not my message. Do not put a asterisk by my message.

822
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: I say that I want to talk about your heart.

823
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: You want to talk about what you believe. I want

824
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 1: to talk about the bull you put yourself in. And

825
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: if the Lord helps me, I'm gonna continue the same

826
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: lineitude next me. I am prodigal son said, I'm out

827
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: here with the pigs, and my father has hired servants.

828
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: I'm a prince, but I'm down here with the pigs.

829
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: I wasn't made for this. I wasn't made for this addiction.

830
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: My heart was made for God. I wasn't made for

831
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: this bitterness. I'm not I'm not going to be down

832
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: here with the pigs and forget that. I'm a prince.

833
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: I was made in the image of God, created in

834
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: Christ Jesus to do good works, and God made the

835
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: work for me to do before he made me to

836
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: do it. So whatever you're in right now, I don't

837
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: care if it's for a job or for a challenge

838
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: that can't be named in the room, because you know

839
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: how we are. We can only talk like three things

840
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: in church. Beneath the surface. That's what the spirit of

841
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 1: God brought for. I believe he's bringing it forth right

842
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 1: now in your life, just to get you to realize

843
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 1: that when you move in what you were made for.

844
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is yet, that's all right,

845
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 1: Your Maker does. Yeah, but my life is a mess,

846
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 1: do you not remember that's how the whole thing got

847
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: started to begin with? And he remembers our frame Psalm

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Speaker 1: one three fourteen says, And he knows that we are dust.

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Speaker 1: So when it's messy, just remember your maker knew all

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Speaker 1: of that. Now we don't. We only see the pieces.

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Speaker 1: Remember he sees the picture. He knew what to make

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Speaker 1: on the second day, so what was made on the

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Speaker 1: fifth day would have somewhere to live. He knew who

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Speaker 1: to allow to leave you, so that who came into

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Speaker 1: your life later would have a place to be. He

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Speaker 1: what disappointments to allow you, so that he could teach

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Speaker 1: he wants to use you in the glory that shall

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Speaker 1: be revealed. This is the principle of the fifth Day.

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Speaker 1: And I wonder, can we who were made on the

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Speaker 1: sixth day learn from the birds and the fish who

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Speaker 1: were made on the fifth day? Just to move in

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Speaker 1: what you were made for. You can have this. When

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Speaker 1: your nee gets better, you can have this. God is

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Speaker 1: calling me from glory to glory, from strength to strength.

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Speaker 1: Is the insecurity keeping you from seeing the strength. The

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Speaker 1: spirit of the Living God is hovering over your heart

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Speaker 1: at this moment. Thank you, Lord, drawing some things forth.

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Speaker 1: Some of us going to look ugly, some of us

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Speaker 1: going to look unfamiliar. But you just trust that the

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Speaker 1: one who is speaking knows what is beneath the surface.

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Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, lift your hands, everybody. We receive the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 1: the equipping, the divine enablement, and the grace of God.

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Speaker 1: Not to think more highly of ourselves than we are,

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Speaker 1: but the function and the gifts that we've been given up.

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Speaker 1: Shall the thing made say to the thing that made it,

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Speaker 1: why have you formed me this way? No, God, you're

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Speaker 1: the potter, we're the clay. And as you shape and

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Speaker 1: form and move our lives in conformity to your perfect

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Speaker 1: will and purpose and your divine counsel. We offer ourselves

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Speaker 1: to you. Jehovah, Jirah, the God who provides the sea

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Speaker 1: before he ever speaks forth the fish, the God who

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Speaker 1: God who gave us the grace before we ever encountered Goliath. Hallelujah,

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Speaker 1: We receive your grace. Lord. We worship you, Lord. Come on, worship, Worship, Worship, Worship, worship, worship,

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Speaker 1: Worship with your mouth. With your mouth. Now, don't just cheer.

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Speaker 1: Worship him, Worship him. Worship him. You were made for worship.

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Speaker 1: You were made for worship. 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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