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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: great to be with you today, and I hope you'll

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Speaker 1: us in person. We'd love to have you be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I'd like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about this positive farmer

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Speaker 1: and negative farmer. When it would rain. Positive farmer, Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you for the rain water in our crops. Negative farmer, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but if it keeps it up, it's going to rock

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Speaker 1: the roots. When the sun came out, Positive farm the Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you for the sunshine giving our plants valuable nutrients.

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Speaker 1: Hagging a farmer, Yeah, it keeps it up, it's going

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Speaker 1: to scortch the crops. One day they went bird hunting

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Speaker 1: together in a boat and positive farmer just got a

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Speaker 1: new bird dog and is so proud of them. Shot

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Speaker 1: a bird fell in the water to the negative farmer,

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Speaker 1: why's this? The dog jumped out of the boat, ran

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Speaker 1: on top of the water, picked up the bird, ran

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Speaker 1: back on top of the water, put it in the boat.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? Negative farmers said, Yeah, I should

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Speaker 1: have known it. That dog can't even swim. Say it

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Speaker 1: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 1: what it says. I am. I have what it says

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Speaker 1: I have. I can do what it says I can do.

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Speaker 1: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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Speaker 1: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: pick up your mantle. A mental in the scripture was

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Speaker 1: a coat or some type of covering. It was symbolic

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Speaker 1: of the blessing of God. It represented his calling and

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Speaker 1: authority to carry out his will. The mantle enabled the

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Speaker 1: person to do things they couldn't do on their own.

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Speaker 1: It was favor to accomplish dreams and faith to see miracles,

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Speaker 1: and courage to outlast opposition. Having that mantle empowered the

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Speaker 1: person to go further and take new ground. God never

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Speaker 1: created us to get stuck at one level. He's a

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Speaker 1: progressive God. He wants every generation to increase. He has

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Speaker 1: these destiny moments where he'll give us an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: pick up a new mantle so we can step into

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Speaker 1: new levels. Now often it happens when someone goes to

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Speaker 1: be with the Lord. Their work here on earth is finished,

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Speaker 1: but the purposes of God never stop. They finished their course,

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Speaker 1: but they left the mantle. And of course we're celebrating

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Speaker 1: the homegoing of my mother. She lived ninety one amazing years.

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Speaker 1: She carried different mantles. The mantle of faith, believing for

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Speaker 1: miracles until a prayer covering her family and loved ones.

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Speaker 1: A mental of generosity. My mother was always helping people,

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Speaker 1: giving gift cards, paying their rent, be it a blessing.

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Speaker 1: A mental of commitment, pastoring faithfully since she was in

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Speaker 1: her early twenties, always in church, taking care of people.

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Speaker 1: And a mantle of standing in the gap for others,

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Speaker 1: people that she didn't even know, someone she saw in passing,

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Speaker 1: praying for them year after year, calling them by name.

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Speaker 1: And I know she was my mother, Joel, that's your mantle.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't have anything to do with me, but no, she

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Speaker 1: was the mother of the church. You listen to our ministry.

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Speaker 1: She's connected to you because everything I do was influenced

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Speaker 1: by her. We are at one of these destiny moments

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Speaker 1: where God is saying, who's going to pick up these mantles?

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Speaker 1: It's not just for one any of us can. God

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Speaker 1: is calling us to greater things. Who's gonna cover your

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Speaker 1: that loved oneness? Off course, others are criticizing, writing him off.

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Speaker 1: Somebody's got to rise up and say, I'm gonna pray

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Speaker 1: him back home. I'm gonna remind God every day, don't

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Speaker 1: leave that mantle on the ground, pick it up. Be

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Speaker 1: the one to make a difference. Who's going to believe

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Speaker 1: for miracles in a greater way. Who's gonna take the

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Speaker 1: stuck here all my famili's depressed. We'll never get well, Joel.

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Speaker 1: Someone has to break out of the status quo and

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Speaker 1: Who's gonna pick up the mantle to live more committed,

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Speaker 1: to get. God is calling us up higher. He's saying,

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Speaker 1: But it's going to require greater commitment, new mindsets, being

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Speaker 1: to new levels. This is what happened to Elisha in

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Speaker 1: the scripture. He was a young man out in the

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Speaker 1: was working in the family business. Life was good. One day,

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Speaker 1: while he was minding his own business, the prophet Elijah

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Speaker 1: showed up. He was a powerful man. He'd called down

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Speaker 1: fire from heaven and destroyed four hundred and fifty false prophets.

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Speaker 1: He prayed, and a three and a half year drought

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Speaker 1: came to an end. He's the one that outran a

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Speaker 1: all kinds of miracles. God do amazing things. When he

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Speaker 1: saw Elisha out in the fields, he took off his

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Speaker 1: and fell to the ground. Elisha thought, who is this

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Speaker 1: it was the prophet Elijah. This wasn't just his coat,

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Speaker 1: this was his mantle. This represented the favor, the authority,

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Speaker 1: God was calling Elisha to greater things, was giving him

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Speaker 1: play it safe. But does someone else have that mantle?

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Speaker 1: She'll never reach your destiny if you play it safe

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Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable, that are over your head, that require greater commitment,

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Speaker 1: greater consecration. You can't hang around those same people and

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Speaker 1: carry this new mantle greater faith. You can't stay in

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Speaker 1: what God has for you. All these thoughts were bombarding

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Speaker 1: could have walked away and went about his business. Instead,

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Speaker 1: he reached down and picked up that mantle. This was

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Speaker 1: a destiny moment. He was saying, God, I'm willing to

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Speaker 1: trusting me with. He had a new mindset. A shift

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Speaker 1: in greater power, greater authority, greater consecration. You can't pick

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Speaker 1: needs to be this shift in your thinking. No more.

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Speaker 1: of authority, that kind of power. It's not just up

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Speaker 1: High is behind you. What you couldn't do before. That

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Speaker 1: mantle you picked up brings the authority, the power, the

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Speaker 1: favor of Almighty God. Elisha stopped the oxen cut up

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Speaker 1: things you can't carry that mantle of favor, that mantle

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Speaker 1: of greater influence and compromise. At the same time, you

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Speaker 1: Or walk away from fear, doubt, those thoughts telling you

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Speaker 1: many mistakes. The enemy will tell you all the reasons

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Speaker 1: you like he did my mother, for greater miracles, greater favor,

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Speaker 1: That's what I had to do, and my dad went

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Speaker 1: But God wouldn't have given you the opportunity if you

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Speaker 1: The last ten years of my mother's life, she didn't

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Speaker 1: written fifteen thousand handwritten notes. She loved to thank people

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Speaker 1: but their spouses, extended family, her grandchildren. She had over

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Speaker 1: She was an incredible force for good, for our family

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Speaker 1: a part of our ministry. Now. I told Victoria when

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