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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope

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Speaker 1: it gives your perspective to see God is moving in

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Speaker 1: your life. Enjoy the message. Come on, clap your hands,

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Speaker 1: make some noise for the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thank God for the worship team.

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Speaker 3: Thank God for our students, thank God for all these volunteers,

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Speaker 3: thank God for the group leaders, for you tex thank

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Speaker 3: God for Elevation Valentine celebrating a ten year campus anniversary.

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Speaker 1: Elevation Raleigh, celebrating us wealth year.

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Speaker 2: Anniversary, Happy Birthday, Raleigh, and celebrating you making it to

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Speaker 2: church another day looking good.

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Speaker 1: You're looking good.

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Speaker 2: Tell somebody you don't look like what you've been through.

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Speaker 2: Tell them I know you've been through some fire, but

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Speaker 2: you don't smell like smoke. You smell like deodorant, and miss.

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Speaker 1: Smell like creed. Praise the Lord. Let me look at

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Speaker 1: you remains standing for just a moment.

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Speaker 2: I do want us to take a moment and welcome

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Speaker 2: our EPAM around the world.

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Speaker 1: Would you help me do that elevation.

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Speaker 2: Valentine, wherever you're watching it, let us know in the

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Speaker 2: comments where you're watching from.

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Speaker 1: And let us know in the comments today if.

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Speaker 2: You feel like it a prayer request that we can

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Speaker 2: pray for you about we would love to do that.

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Speaker 2: We have an entire prayer team that just exists to

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Speaker 2: surround you with prayer.

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Speaker 1: I know we may not be together physically.

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Speaker 2: But just to have these moments with you in the

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Speaker 2: presence of God and to believe that there is no

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Speaker 2: distance in the spirit. I believe God brought you here

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Speaker 2: for a reason, whether you came in a car or

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Speaker 2: whether you came through a link. I believe that God

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Speaker 2: has something that he wants to do in your life.

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Speaker 2: I believe he wants to speak to you. It is

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Speaker 2: an incredible honor and privilege that I will never be

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Speaker 2: able to describe to you.

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Speaker 1: To preach God's word from this pulpit.

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Speaker 2: I value and treasure every opportunity that I get, and

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Speaker 2: I prayed for you today that God might give me

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Speaker 2: the words that he wants you to hear, cut to

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Speaker 2: the continuity of your situation, to remind you that your

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Speaker 2: God is greater than anything you will ever face.

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Speaker 1: He can bring down any giant. He can cause any

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Speaker 1: wall to tumble. He's a great God.

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Speaker 2: And in the name of Jesus, today I come into

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Speaker 2: agreement with you concerning your family, your children.

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Speaker 1: Your health, your body, your mind, and your purpose.

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Speaker 2: I pray that God would not only bless you, but

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Speaker 2: that you would be a blessing. That God would set

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Speaker 2: you back up on your feet so you can serve Him,

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Speaker 2: make a difference for him.

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Speaker 1: You were made to glorify Him. You were not.

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Speaker 2: Made to be in depression and stay in the bed.

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Speaker 2: You were not made to go through the motions of Christianity.

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Speaker 2: You were made to glorify Him. And I pray that

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Speaker 2: today God would give us a word to that end.

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Speaker 2: Clap your hands and thank God for his presence. I

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Speaker 2: don't think I have to tell you. I think you

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Speaker 2: know what time. It is.

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Speaker 1: Elevation, preaching time.

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Speaker 2: Put it in the comments, just preaching time.

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Speaker 1: Put it in the comments. Is preaching time. Say it

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Speaker 1: out loud, it's preaching time.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be starting a brand new series today,

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Speaker 2: and the title of the series is I know that voice.

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Speaker 1: I know that voice.

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Speaker 2: I'll explain it to you as we go, but let

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Speaker 2: me read our foundational scripture for today's message, and it's

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Speaker 2: found in First Samuel chapter sixteen. I'm going to read

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Speaker 2: only through verse four and then I'll pick up the rest.

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Speaker 1: In just a moment, we stand in honor of the

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Speaker 1: Word of God in our house.

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Speaker 2: Is just something that we do to say to him. Speak, Lord,

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Speaker 2: we respect you. It's something we do to say, you're

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Speaker 2: the most important person in the room.

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Speaker 1: Lord, So speak to me. Somebody say, speak to me.

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Speaker 2: Lord. You may even want to stand right where you

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Speaker 2: are in your home or in your kitchen. If you're driving,

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Speaker 2: I understand there's limitations keep your seatbelt on, but just in.

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Speaker 1: Your heart, your posture reverence the Lord. This is his word.

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Speaker 1: On Samuel chapter sixteen, verse one.

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Speaker 2: The Lord said to Samuel, how long will you mourn

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Speaker 2: for Saul? Since I have rejected him as king over Israel?

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Speaker 2: Fill your horn with oil and be on your way.

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Speaker 2: I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have

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Speaker 2: chosen one of his sons to be king. But Samuel said,

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Speaker 2: how can I go? If Saul hears about it, he

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Speaker 2: will kill me. The Lord said, take a heifer. Take

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Speaker 2: sacrifice to the Lord. Invite Jesse to the sacrifice.

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Speaker 1: And I will show you.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the most beautiful thing that I've read

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Speaker 2: to say, I know you're confused, I know you're afraid,

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Speaker 1: Somebody say that he will show me. The Lord said,

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Speaker 1: I will show you what to do.

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Speaker 2: You are too anoint for me, the one I indicate,

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to stop my reading right here. Samuel

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Speaker 2: did what the Lord said, and that's really the goal

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Speaker 2: of this sermon, the goal of this series, and the

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Speaker 2: goal of our faith. Samuel did what the Lord said.

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Speaker 2: And so for our week one installment of our new series.

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Speaker 1: I know that voice.

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Speaker 2: I want to say something to you that maybe you

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Speaker 2: felt before, but maybe you don't have the courage to

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Speaker 2: say so.

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Speaker 1: I'll say it for both of us.

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Speaker 2: This is the title of today's message.

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Speaker 1: Is hard to hear God. It's hard to hear God.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to hear God.

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Speaker 2: And if you disagree with me, you can send me

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Speaker 2: an email to Hollyfordick nineteen eighty.

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Speaker 1: At Juno dot com.

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Speaker 2: But all the honest people look at somebody and say

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Speaker 2: it's hard to hear God.

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Speaker 1: Speak. Lord, we're listening in Jesus' name. Amen, you may

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Speaker 1: be seated.

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Speaker 2: Soone set up my series with a story. My oldest son,

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Speaker 2: Elijah turns twenty one this week. For those of you

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Speaker 2: who have been in the church for a long time, that.

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Speaker 1: Makes you feel old.

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Speaker 2: You remember when we would come up there and hold

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Speaker 1: But you think I was going to say.

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Speaker 2: Had a flashback this week as I was preparing a

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Speaker 2: What could be more important to talk about? What could

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Speaker 2: But I was reminded of something that happened when Elijah

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Speaker 2: was five years old. I'd been traveling a lot during

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Speaker 2: Holly brought him by the office to say hi to me,

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Speaker 2: and I said, man, I'm really sorry I got to

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Speaker 2: I'd be back tomorrow. And he walked away and then

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Speaker 2: and he was like, hey, I want to go to

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Speaker 2: Easy called it Weezy. I was going to New Orleans

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Speaker 2: ambitious TSA agent came and took Elijah and said, sir,

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Speaker 1: I didn't really like that very much, but I let

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Speaker 2: But after he took Elijah, like a minute goes by,

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Speaker 2: and I'm standing on the other side of the little

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Speaker 2: What do you call him security things that you go through.

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, hey, what's up man, My son's on

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Speaker 2: TSA guy goes, you need to calm down, and I said, no,

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Speaker 1: Because I'm a pastor, see I have a shepherd's heart.

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Speaker 2: But before I'm a pastor, I'm a dad. And if

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Speaker 2: to win. Okay, I've said a few words I had

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Speaker 2: to repent for at baseball fields over that very same principle.

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Speaker 2: I'm being honest with you. Well, anyway, it goes on

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Speaker 2: and on. Three TSA agents later, I'm yelling. I'm yelling

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Speaker 2: because I'm about to go Liam Neeson in this airport

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Speaker 2: and I can feel it. And as I'm yelling top

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Speaker 2: we've got a code one, and I realize I'm a

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh God, I'm in trouble, but I'm still yelling.

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Speaker 2: I'm yelling the whole time. Well, finally the smart TSA

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Speaker 2: separated you from your son. Come right through, Come right through,

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Speaker 2: Come right through. And I'm like, that's still going right.

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Speaker 2: Did y'all hear what he said? And when I got

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Speaker 2: to Ali, joh, I'm and be honest with you, I

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Speaker 2: was disappointed.

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Speaker 1: Because he was calm. He was he was so calm.

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Speaker 1: In fact, he was so calm.

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Speaker 2: I'm still shaking, you know, I'm still shaking thinking I

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Speaker 2: was about that prison ministry from inside the prison and

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Speaker 2: the appreciate all from the other side of the screen.

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Speaker 2: And then and then I'm walking with him through the

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Speaker 2: airport and I said, son, you weren't scared.

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Speaker 1: He said no. I said, why were you not scared?

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Speaker 2: He said, I could hear your voice the whole time.

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Speaker 1: That's how loud I was. I could hear your voice

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Speaker 1: the whole time. Oh, to have the confidence.

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Speaker 2: Of a five year old kid going through the TSSAY

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Speaker 2: screenings of life, To have the confidence of a five

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Speaker 2: I know, at this stage in our life, it's not

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Speaker 2: that simple anymore, is it. It's not that simple anymore, Even

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Speaker 2: I just hear from God all the time, and I

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Speaker 1: You know, on the.

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Speaker 2: Maps app the greatest technological invention of my lifetime, you know,

445
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Speaker 2: because I have no sense of direction, and I can

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Speaker 2: tell it two things. Watch, I can tell it where

447
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Speaker 2: I want to go, and then I can choose the

448
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Speaker 2: route I want to get there.

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Speaker 1: But the difference between God and a maps app.

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Speaker 2: And I really thought you'd enjoy this little illustration because

451
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Speaker 2: it's going to help you see why. Sometimes you're confused

452
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Speaker 2: and you go, I don't know what God wants me

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how he's directing me.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what he's say, I don't know he's

456
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Speaker 2: being Okay, I got a few ideas about that number.

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Speaker 2: In my life, I want to give God the destination

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Speaker 2: and then let him give me the directions, because that's

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Speaker 2: what I do on my maps.

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Speaker 1: At y.

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Speaker 2: I tell the maps at where I want to end

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Speaker 2: up and then I expect it to tell me how

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Speaker 2: to get there. So when it comes to this app,

464
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Speaker 2: I tell it the destination and it tells me the directions.

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Speaker 1: That's how we treat God.

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Speaker 2: We tell God where we want our life to be

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Speaker 2: at a certain age. We tell God what we want

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Speaker 2: our kids to turn out, like we tell God what

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Speaker 2: college we're going to.

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Speaker 1: We tell God what we want him to use us

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Speaker 1: to do. We tell God all of.

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Speaker 2: These things, these destinations, and then we say, speak, Lord,

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Speaker 2: your servant is listening. But I'm not sure he's going

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Speaker 2: to give you the details if you didn't let him

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Speaker 2: set the destination. I'm not sure that I I can

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Speaker 2: just ask God for directions for a destination that I set.

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Speaker 2: So I remember early in the church, I was talking

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Speaker 2: to a great global leader and I said, what are

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Speaker 2: some of the things that I need to do to

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Speaker 2: have the kind of ministry that you have? He said,

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Speaker 2: the first thing is to ask God, are you supposed

482
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Speaker 2: to have the ministry that I have? What's he saying?

483
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Speaker 2: It might not be your destination to do what I did.

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Speaker 2: Some of the reason that it's hard for us to

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Speaker 2: hear from God, some of the reason that we're so confused,

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Speaker 2: some of the reason that we're so stressed out, some

487
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Speaker 2: of the reason that we're so anxious is because we've

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Speaker 2: set the destination to something that God never destined us

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Speaker 2: to do. And the reason we can't hear God isn't

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Speaker 2: because he's quiet. It's because we're comparing, and so we're looking, Oh,

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Speaker 2: I'm teaching good today, I'm back, baby, I'm back to

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Speaker 2: help you with this craziness you feel in your life.

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Speaker 2: Because as long as you're looking at everybody else's destination,

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Speaker 2: everybody else's eta, how long it took for them to

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Speaker 2: get married, how long it took for them to get

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Speaker 2: the job, how long it took them to get the promotion.

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Speaker 2: As long as you're looking at all of these snapshots

498
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Speaker 2: of their life and then bringing it to God and

499
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Speaker 2: say God, I want to have what they had, I

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Speaker 2: want to do what they did. I'm supposed to be

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Speaker 2: like they are. As long as you're comparing, you will

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Speaker 2: feel like God is quiet, but He is not going

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Speaker 2: to give you directions for a destination that he did not.

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Speaker 1: Set for your life.

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Speaker 2: My Bible says the steps of a good man are

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Speaker 2: ordered by the Lord. That means he sets the direction.

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Speaker 2: That means he sets the time, That means he sets

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Speaker 2: the purpose. There's a lot of things I may love

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Speaker 2: to do that God did not call me to do.

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Speaker 1: And I am always going to.

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Speaker 2: Be frustrated if I try to anoint a king that

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Speaker 2: God has canceled in my life. And the question is this,

513
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Speaker 2: how long are you going to pity yourself over what

514
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Speaker 2: God didn't give you. How long are you going to

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Speaker 2: try to wear yourself out getting to somewhere that God

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Speaker 2: didn't even call you. You're not going to even have

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Speaker 2: a hotel room when you get there. God didn't call

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Speaker 2: you there.

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Speaker 1: Yea. And you hear other people talk and they make

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Speaker 1: it sound so simple. God called us to Charlotte. What

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Speaker 1: do you mean he called you to Charlotte. Really, if

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Speaker 1: you were honest about it, you just thought the schools

523
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Speaker 1: were good here and.

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Speaker 2: They were gonna pay you fifteen thousand dollars a year more.

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Speaker 1: But now you talk about it, God called us to Charlotte.

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Speaker 2: Well, he may have called you to Charlotte, but to

527
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Speaker 2: say that the biggest thing that God is going to

528
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Speaker 2: tell you is what city to live in is to

529
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Speaker 2: miss the very nature of God. Right, you could be

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Speaker 2: a crack addict in Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: One thing I love, I really love this.

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Speaker 2: I love to get inside of the cliches that we

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Speaker 2: use as Christians.

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Speaker 1: And just talk about them a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I call this Christian Eese. You can speak English and

536
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Speaker 2: need a translator when you come to church.

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Speaker 1: Really, the way we talk, you're.

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Speaker 2: Reading an old Testament, says the Lord said, to Samuel.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's a prophet the way that the Lord spoke

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Speaker 1: in the Old Testament.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he spoke out loud to Samuel

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Speaker 2: or not, but the Lord spoke to Samuel. The Bible

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Speaker 2: says that Samuel was the most powerful prophet from Dan

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Speaker 2: de Bersheba. The Lord let none of his words fall

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Speaker 2: to the ground. Samuel was an amazing prophet. So much

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Speaker 2: hinged on his word. History hinged on his word. The

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Speaker 2: history of the nation hinged on him. Hearing God write

548
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Speaker 2: what apartment you move into is not that important. So

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Speaker 2: some of the cliches that we use in church, we'll

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Speaker 2: be like, I'm just dealing with this red sea right now,

551
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Speaker 2: what's the red sea?

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Speaker 1: My rent's going up? I get it. I know that's

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Speaker 1: a challenge. It's not a red see, it's a rent increase.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about the difference rent increase, red sea.

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Speaker 1: Okay, one you move, the other you die. They're not

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Speaker 1: the same.

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Speaker 2: The stakes are not always as high as the enemy

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Speaker 2: would have you to believe. It doesn't always matter when

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Speaker 2: the Lord speaks to you. The Lord did not tell

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Speaker 2: me to wear matching denham today. I just did the

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Speaker 2: best that I could to put it together. Did I

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Speaker 2: do all right? Only God can judge me. Who cares

563
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Speaker 2: what you think? I did not pray? This is this

564
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Speaker 2: is so, this is so important for you to get.

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Speaker 2: Some of the reason is hard for us to hear

566
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Speaker 2: from God is that we want him to tell us

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Speaker 2: things about situations that he just wants us to use

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Speaker 2: wisdom for. And so we're singing this song and you

569
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Speaker 2: thanks all week.

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Speaker 1: I love this song. I didn't write this song.

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Speaker 2: I'm jealous that I didn't write this song, but we

572
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Speaker 2: sang it in church today.

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Speaker 1: We're about to see revival like we've.

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Speaker 2: Never known, like something out the Bible, the impossible. I

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Speaker 2: think the room is ready for a miracle. I think

576
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Speaker 2: this room is ready for a coma. Right about now,

577
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Speaker 2: y'all ain't saying nothing. Come on, I think the room

578
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Speaker 2: is ready.

579
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Speaker 1: I don't know about.

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Speaker 2: University City, but I think, come on, young people.

581
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Speaker 1: Stand up real quick.

582
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Speaker 2: Sing the song we're about to see.

583
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Speaker 1: Like we never know.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you're about to start something, singing like y'all were

585
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Speaker 2: singing at Friday night, something out the Bible, the impossible.

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Speaker 1: I think the room is Come.

587
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Speaker 2: On, Church, help these young people praise the Lord what

588
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Speaker 2: a smile on your bed. We're about to see a revival.

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Speaker 1: I love that, all right. How many want to see.

590
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Speaker 2: God do something like it's something out.

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Speaker 1: The Bible in your life? Come on, come on, come on, everybody,

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Speaker 1: get in on this. Come on, I want to How many.

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Speaker 2: Want to see God raise something back to life like

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Speaker 2: He raised Lazarus, like something out the Bible. Come on,

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Speaker 2: touch your neighbors say, like something out the Bible, Like

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Speaker 2: something out the Bible, like.

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Speaker 1: A red sea splitting, like a mountain moving. I want to.

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Speaker 2: See dry bones come back to life. I want to

599
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Speaker 2: see the dead raised. I want to see the sick heal.

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Speaker 2: I want to see it like it's something out the Bible.

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Speaker 2: But the question becomes this, if you want to see

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Speaker 2: something out the Bible, are you willing to do something

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Speaker 2: in the Bible?

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Speaker 1: Ah ah, I.

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Speaker 2: Gotta ask you this because it's hard to hear a

606
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Speaker 2: God speaking specifically who you will not obey generally.

607
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Speaker 1: So I want to.

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Speaker 2: See I want to see something out the Bible.

609
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Speaker 1: But how can I see something.

610
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Speaker 2: Out the Bible if I won't do something in the Bible.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I don't need to hear God's voice, I just

612
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Speaker 2: need a verse because sometimes the verse is his voice

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Speaker 2: in the beginning was a word, and the word was

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Speaker 2: with God, and the word was God.

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Speaker 1: So when I have God's word, I have God's voice.

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Speaker 2: And I believe that the reason that Samuel was abel

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Speaker 2: to hear the voice of God. Yeah, he knew that

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Speaker 2: voice because he had known that voice since he was

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Speaker 2: twelve years oh when he was ministering in the temple

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Speaker 2: under Eli, whose vision was them.

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Speaker 1: He couldn't see and the temple was corrupt.

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Speaker 2: But the Lord called him Samuel, and he thought it

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Speaker 2: was Eli, but it was God. And he called him

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Speaker 2: again Samuel, and he thought it was Eli, but it

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Speaker 2: was God. And he called him a third time, and

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Speaker 2: Eli said, that's not me, that's God.

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Speaker 1: Next time he speaks, say speak, Lord, your servant is listening.

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Speaker 2: For Samuel three ten, six decades earlier than the passage

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Speaker 2: I read you. The Lord came and stood there, calling,

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Speaker 2: as at other times Samuel Samuel. Then Samuel said, speak

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Speaker 2: for your servant is listening. Go to verse nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Please.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says the Lord was with Samuel as he

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Speaker 2: grew up, and he let none of Samuel's words fall

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Speaker 2: to the ground.

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Speaker 1: And from Dan Tabersheba. Next verse, please.

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Speaker 2: All Israel recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet

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Speaker 2: of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Verse twenty one.

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Speaker 2: The Lord continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he

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Speaker 2: revealed himself to Samuel through his word.

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Speaker 1: Through his word, you have his word.

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Speaker 2: And so before we go getting confused about the things

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Speaker 2: that God isn't speaking to us, let's check on the

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Speaker 2: things that he's already spoken. Because the more I'm flowing

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Speaker 2: in what He's spoken, the more I can hear what

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Speaker 2: he speaks. Clap your hands and praise the Lord. Come on,

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Speaker 2: clap your hands and praise the Lord. You like that

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Speaker 2: something out the Bible, Daniel in the lions, Then well

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Speaker 2: you're not going to see something out the Bible if

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Speaker 2: you don't do something in the Bible. What do you

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Speaker 2: mean something in the Bible? I brought a list. You

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Speaker 2: want to hear my list?

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Speaker 1: Let's go through it real quick. Just a few things.

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Speaker 2: How many want to see God do something out the

656
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Speaker 2: Bible in your life?

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Speaker 1: I mean a miracle?

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Speaker 2: Brak okay, okay, all right, now I got something in

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Speaker 2: the Bible, so you can see something out the Bible.

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Speaker 2: Colossians three nine. Do not lie to each other. That's

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Speaker 2: in the Bible. That's what the Lord wants you to do.

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Speaker 2: I'll know what the Lord wants you to do.

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Speaker 1: I know what the.

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Speaker 2: Lord wants you to do. He wants you to do

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Speaker 2: do not lie to each other. That means you have

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Speaker 2: to maybe delete your whole social media account because maybe

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Speaker 2: the whole.

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Speaker 1: Thing is a lie. Maybe the whole thing is not

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Speaker 1: a you. Maybe you are like something out the Bible.

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Speaker 2: How about some in the Bible? Can we do some

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Speaker 2: in the Bible? Do not lie to each other? Oh,

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Speaker 2: I'm just getting started.

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Speaker 1: With this list.

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Speaker 2: They want something out the Bible. Give them Philippians to fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Do everything without grumbling.

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Speaker 1: Or arguing. Now now I want something out the Bible.

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Speaker 2: I want to do something in the Bible because.

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Speaker 1: I want God to ope in the grave.

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Speaker 2: And God is like, before we start dealing with graves,

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Speaker 2: can we deal with grumbling? Because your grumbling is the grave.

681
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Speaker 2: For every good thing I'm trying to do in your life,

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Speaker 2: you bury it in your complaining. You want see some

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Speaker 2: out of the Bible. I wants you to do something

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Speaker 2: in the Bible. Next verse, let's keep it going. James

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Speaker 2: wanted you to know this is in the Bible. Now.

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Speaker 2: He didn't know this was going in the Bible when

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Speaker 2: he wrote it. He was just writing out of faithfulness,

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Speaker 2: and now it's in the Bible. James one, chapter four,

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Speaker 2: verse eleven says, brothers and sisters do not slander one another.

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Speaker 1: That's in the Bible. That's in the Bible. I can't

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Speaker 1: figure out why y'all aren't.

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Speaker 2: Shouting over that, because when I was saying stuff out

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Speaker 2: the Bible, it made us feel excited. But when I'm

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Speaker 2: saying something in the Bible, we get quiet. And maybe

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Speaker 2: God's not quiet. Maybe I'm just not doing what's in

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Speaker 2: the Bible.

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Speaker 1: You said you were glad I was back.

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Speaker 2: Next verse touch somebody say it's in the Bible.

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Speaker 1: Flee from sexual immorality.

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Speaker 2: Put that on the Uthex twenty twenty seventy shirt.

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Speaker 1: Flee sexual immorality. That's in the Bible.

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Speaker 2: I love you enough to tell you you're not gonna be

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Speaker 2: able to hear God if you're so tangled up in

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Speaker 2: intimacy that isn't really intimacy, that's just corrupting your ability

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Speaker 2: to think you're not gonna really be able to hear

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Speaker 2: the great, imprecious promises of God, if your mind.

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Speaker 1: Is consumed with porn, you got to you gotta run from.

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Speaker 2: Some stuff in order to receive some stuff.

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Speaker 4: And it's not just true for the youth. It's in

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Speaker 4: the Bible. Touch somebody say it's in the Bible. It's

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Speaker 4: in the Bible. It's in the b I, B L E.

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Speaker 1: Bible. I think I got one more. I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, put this for the kids. Honor your father

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Speaker 1: and mother.

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Speaker 2: Come on, parents, you ought to tie this week with

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Speaker 2: this sermon.

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Speaker 1: About to see revival, life, heaven. Honor and my mama.

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Speaker 1: When I get back home, the leading all my snapchat

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Speaker 1: from my phone, and now I've got a fire.

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Speaker 2: And this in a Bible, you can change. You can

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Speaker 2: be transformed through the renewing of your mind. Jimmy verse

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Speaker 2: four again, first Samuel sixteen four. Here's the goal. Samuel

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Speaker 2: did what the Lord said. Oh, it's wonderful to hear.

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Speaker 2: It's wonderful to be in tune. It's wonderful to be educated.

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Speaker 2: It's wonderful to have information. It's wonderful to quote scripture.

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Speaker 2: But I would rather you walk in one than quote

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Speaker 2: a hundred. Now I'm going to encourage you a little

728
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Speaker 2: bit more uplifting message that the Lord gave me today

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Speaker 2: called I.

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Speaker 1: Know that voice. By the way, I got to put

731
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Speaker 1: this in there.

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Speaker 2: If you hear me condemning you right now, that's not

733
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Speaker 2: God's voice. Just because I'm being loud doesn't mean I

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Speaker 2: don't love you.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't mean God doesn't love you.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes we confuse correction, which is a sign of love,

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Speaker 2: with condemnation, which is the opposite of love. You can

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Speaker 2: drive your car wherever you want tonight at two am.

739
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Speaker 1: I don't love you like that, Graham Fredick.

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Speaker 2: We got to have some boundaries around two am because

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Speaker 2: I love him so much.

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Speaker 1: I love him so much. Yeah, but so much to share.

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Speaker 1: Will you come back to next week too?

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Speaker 2: I'm not done, but will you come back to next

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Speaker 2: week too? You know, one of the things that I

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Speaker 2: associate with hearing from God is frequency. Frequency. That's an

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Speaker 2: interesting word because it has a double meaning. One we

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Speaker 2: hear in frequency. Sound has a frequency, but frequency also.

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Speaker 1: Refers to how many times you do it.

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Speaker 2: And did you notice that the Lord continued to reveal

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Speaker 2: himself to Samuel. But what encouraged me that I really

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Speaker 2: don't want you to miss here is that even though

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Speaker 2: Samuel had been doing it for decades, he still found

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Speaker 2: it hard to hear God.

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Speaker 1: Good watch.

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Speaker 2: The Lord said to Samuel, how long will you mourn foresaw?

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Speaker 2: Since I've rejected him as king o is Israel. By

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Speaker 2: the way, I could preach another message sometime about how

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Speaker 2: sometimes God says, your grieving period is over, even though

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Speaker 2: your grief is still real, and you have got to

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Speaker 2: move forward filled until you find what's next. That's another

762
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Speaker 2: message for another day, filled forward found. But see, Samuel

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Speaker 2: has to launch out with the knowledge that he has

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Speaker 2: to pass through Saul's hometown to get to Bethlehem, where

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Speaker 2: God is sending him. So the word God is giving

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Speaker 2: him is taking him through a difficult place. So he's

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Speaker 2: got to go back to his school and live it out.

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Speaker 2: He's got to go back to a loveless marriage and

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Speaker 2: love his wife as Christ loves the truth. He's got

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Speaker 2: to go back to a job where there aren't many Christians.

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Speaker 2: He's got to go back to a job where the

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Speaker 2: boss doesn't even appreciate or actually the boss is the problem.

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Speaker 1: He's got to go.

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Speaker 2: Back to something in this case that could cost him

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Speaker 2: his life. So in verse two it says, but Samuel said,

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Speaker 2: how can I, which we're all familiar with, How can

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Speaker 2: I he heard God? He recognized and discerned this is

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Speaker 2: God because he knows that voice. But what that voice

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Speaker 2: is saying is very hard. And so his question is how,

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Speaker 2: And I think that's where most of us are. How

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Speaker 2: How can I go? If so all hears about it,

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Speaker 2: he will kill me. Now we all have a how,

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Speaker 2: and we all have an if.

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Speaker 1: How do I do that? If this happens?

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Speaker 2: That happens, and the Lord responds verse three, So beautiful,

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Speaker 2: the Lord said, I got this cover. Get your heifer.

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Speaker 2: It's your heifer. Tell somebody get your heifer. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what that means. I just wanted to hear you

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Speaker 2: say heifer too. If I got to say it, we

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Speaker 2: all got to say it.

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Speaker 1: Get your heifer, take your heffer with you. Of course,

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Speaker 1: this is very symbolic.

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Speaker 2: He's a priest, a prophet, and a judge, so he's

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Speaker 2: going to make a sacrifice when he goes by the way.

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Speaker 2: I used to think that this was a lie when

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Speaker 2: the Lord told him take a heifer and tell him

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Speaker 2: I've come to sacrifice to the Lord. But it's not

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Speaker 2: a lie because every time there is an anointing.

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Speaker 1: There's a sacrifice, and.

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Speaker 2: What the Lord is giving him here is a strategy

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Speaker 2: for a difficult act of obedience. How many have a

802
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Speaker 2: difficult act of obedience hanging over your head right now?

803
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Speaker 2: How many have something in your life that is going

804
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Speaker 2: to be hard to obey God about?

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Speaker 1: Raise your hand?

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Speaker 2: A difficult act of obedience God has called you to.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to slow down and ask you again, because

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Speaker 2: I just read do not lie. How many have a

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Speaker 2: difficult act of obedience ahead of you? It could be anything.

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Speaker 2: It could be staying sober. It could be staying on

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Speaker 2: this diet because you're trying to take care of your body.

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Speaker 2: It could be being more loving. It could be refusing

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Speaker 2: to consume certain things that you know are actually consuming you.

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Speaker 2: A difficult act of obedience. Sometimes it's not hard to

815
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Speaker 2: hear God. Sometimes it's hard to know how you're going

816
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Speaker 2: to do what he said. Lors said, take a heifer,

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Speaker 2: and we don't have to have heifers anymore.

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Speaker 1: We have Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Praise the Lord somebody. We don't have to have a

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Speaker 2: heifer anymore.

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Speaker 1: We have the Holy Spirit. We have Jesus, the once

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Speaker 1: and for all sacrifice. But now watch this this crazy.

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Speaker 2: He's been doing this for six decades, Prophesy. Not only

824
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Speaker 2: has he been hearing from God, he's been speaking for God.

825
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Speaker 1: He should know how to do this by now.

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Speaker 2: They said, how can I go, Saul, here's somebody coming,

827
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Speaker 2: should take a heffer and bite Jesse to the sacrifice,

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Speaker 2: and I I will show you what to do. But

829
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to show you what to do there.

830
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Speaker 1: Here. I'm gonna show you what to do today. I'm

831
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Speaker 1: gonna show you what to do this moment.

832
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Speaker 2: I have a weird time when I'm coming back from

833
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Speaker 2: time off from preaching, where I start thinking about, oh man, I've.

834
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Speaker 1: Got to get ready. I'm not I.

835
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Speaker 2: Don't even know if I remember how to do this,

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Speaker 2: you know, And then the enemy start loading me with

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Speaker 2: all the preaching that I've got to do over the

838
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Speaker 2: rest of the year, and I have to come back

839
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Speaker 2: to You don't have a preesure rest of the year.

840
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Speaker 2: You just have preach today.

841
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Speaker 1: You just have to forgive today. You just have to

842
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Speaker 1: love today.

843
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Speaker 2: You just have to go the meeting today.

844
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Speaker 1: Today. You just have to breathe today. You have to

845
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Speaker 1: get on the peloton today. You gotta read the Bible today.

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Speaker 2: You just got to not freak out and not lose

847
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Speaker 2: your mind, not go crazy. Today, the Lord said, I

848
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Speaker 2: will show you.

849
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Speaker 1: What to do.

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Speaker 2: You are to anoint for me the one I indicate.

851
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Speaker 2: Samuel did what the Lord said, but now I want

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Speaker 2: to read the rest to you. When he arrived at

853
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Speaker 2: Bethlehem versus four party, please, the elders of the town

854
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Speaker 2: trembled when they met him. They asked, do you come

855
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Speaker 2: in peace? That's a loaded question. They mean, is their trouble?

856
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Speaker 2: Because the prophet could declare a war, prophet could do

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Speaker 2: almost anything.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Samuel was the man, But.

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Speaker 2: I think it's kind of got a double meaning to it,

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Speaker 2: don't you. He has a problem, but he came in

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Speaker 2: peace because he heard from God. I think that's the

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Speaker 2: most amazing thing in life, when you have a problem

863
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Speaker 2: and peace. I think that's the most amazing proof of

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Speaker 2: God's presence. Is that I am dealing with stuff you

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Speaker 2: wouldn't believe right now, and I'm concerned about.

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Speaker 1: It, and I am losing some sleep. But something down

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Speaker 1: in me knows that voice. I can hear his voice

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Speaker 1: on the other side of that tsa line. I know

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Speaker 1: somehow he's going to get me. I don't know how,

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Speaker 1: but I know who. I know. Sama did what the

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Speaker 1: Lord said. When he arrived. The elder said, do you

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Speaker 1: come in peace?

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Speaker 2: And Samuel replied, yes, in peace, I have come to

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Speaker 2: sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come to the

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Speaker 2: sacrifice with me. And then he consecrated Jesse and his

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Speaker 2: sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

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Speaker 1: Now reset, because I.

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Speaker 2: Need your full attention for this last thing I want

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Speaker 2: to give you on this sermon today. I need you

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Speaker 2: to not be checked out. I need you to not

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Speaker 2: be thinking. Man, he's been talking a long time. If

882
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Speaker 2: God is still talking, don't you want to still be listening?

883
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 2: So listen close to what I'm about to say when

884
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,919
Speaker 2: they arrived. I think this is the pivotal skill when

885
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 2: it comes to hearing from God. Because in this series,

886
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about how to know

887
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 2: the difference between your crazy impressions in God's voice. I

888
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 2: want to talk to you about how to discern the

889
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 2: difference between just a burst of motivation or a surge

890
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 2: of ambition and a mission.

891
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: That comes from the Holy Spirit.

892
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 2: I want us to see together how to not just

893
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 2: wait for something out the Bible, but to do what

894
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 2: is in the Bible, so we can see something out

895
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 2: of the Bible happen in our lives. But I need

896
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 2: you to understand what verse six says. When they arrived,

897
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 2: Samuel saw Eliab and thought, surely, the Lord's anointed stands

898
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 2: here before the Lord.

899
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: But the Lord said to Samuel, do not consider his appearance.

900
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 2: Or his height, for I have rejected him.

901
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,760
Speaker 1: Listen close to me. The Lord does not look.

902
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 2: At the things people look at. People look at the

903
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 2: outward appearance. The Lord looks at the heart. So I

904
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,800
Speaker 2: want to preach a little about verse six. It says

905
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 2: Samuel saw Eliab and thought, surely, how many times have

906
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 2: you got in trouble in your life because you saw

907
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 2: and thought surely? You saw and thought surely, and you

908
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 2: held so hard to what you thought because of what

909
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 2: you saw that God couldn't show you what he wanted

910
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 2: because you were so sure about what you thought. The

911
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 2: reason he thought Eliab was the one is that Eliab

912
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 2: was tall. Guess who else was tall, Saul. So the

913
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 2: first thing Samuel wanted to do was pour the oil

914
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 2: on somebody who reminded him of the past. But God said,

915
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 2: I'm done with the past. I'm doing a new thing

916
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 2: in your life. I'm doing a new thing in this generation.

917
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 2: I'm doing a new thing in this church. I'm doing

918
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 2: a new thing in your faith.

919
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: I can't hear God's voice.

920
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 2: Sometimes because I can't do what God says if I

921
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 2: don't see as God sees.

922
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: So the Lord says, the first.

923
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 2: Thing I've got to get you to do is stop

924
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 2: thinking that everything you see is true, thinking that everything

925
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 2: you feel is true.

926
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:24,919
Speaker 1: Y'all. They send me a clip the other day.

927
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 2: One of my friends send me a clip of one

928
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 2: of my sermons and said, I got this the other day.

929
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 2: It was kind of surprising. Show real quick. They send

930
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 2: me on YouTube is a fifty second clip. I want

931
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 2: to show you this. It's called how to make a

932
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 2: man miss You Deeply. Sometimes the hardest thing isn't about

933
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 2: making someone love you. It's about making them feel your

934
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 2: absence to miss you deeply, not just in passing, but

935
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 2: in that place where their heart aches and their mind

936
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 2: keeps coming back to you. It's not about chasing or pleading.

937
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 2: It's about becoming so powerful in who you are that

938
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 2: you lingers even when you're gone. Today I want to

939
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 2: show you how to unlock that power, the kind that

940
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 2: doesn't beg for attention, but commands it naturally. This is

941
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 2: about mastering the art of being unforgettable, of creating a

942
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 2: space in his life that only you can fill. Are

943
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:23,760
Speaker 2: you ready because what you're about to learn will change

944
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:24,399
Speaker 2: the way you.

945
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 5: Love and the way he remembers you. Let's dive in.

946
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 5: Let's dive in. That's crazy.

947
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 2: It had my image, it had my name, It even

948
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 2: kind of had my voice, but it didn't have my values.

949
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:57,839
Speaker 2: That's how you can tell. Because you listen to me preach.

950
00:50:58,040 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 1: You know my values.

951
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 2: And no AI bought in the world, trained on a

952
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 2: manual about seduction can make you believe that's me because

953
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 2: you know that boy, when you know God's boy, when

954
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 2: you know what God values. No devil in hell, no

955
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 2: freight room, no toxic person can't talk you out of

956
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 2: what God said without surfish, no lie. I think the

957
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 2: Lord is saying over some stuff.

958
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:42,439
Speaker 1: In your life that's not me. Touch somebody say that's

959
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: not God.

960
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 2: I don't care if it sounds spiritual, if it does

961
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 2: not align with his word, it is not God. I

962
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 2: don't care what culture calls it.

963
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: If God calls his sin, run from it and be

964
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:57,720
Speaker 1: ye sextified.

965
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:04,399
Speaker 2: And if God says He's for you, I don't care

966
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,280
Speaker 2: if the whole world is against you. What he says

967
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 2: is the final Say phil your horn with oil and

968
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 2: be on your way.

969
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: Even if you feel like you don't know what to

970
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: do next.

971
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 2: It's hard to hear God speaking about your future when

972
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 2: you're still talking to him about your past.

973
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 1: It's hard for you to hear God talk about the

974
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: heart when you keep focusing on the height.

975
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,439
Speaker 2: And if you want to hear God's voice, you got

976
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:47,879
Speaker 2: to have God's values so you'll know what to do,

977
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 2: so you'll know how God wants you to treat somebody.

978
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: So you'll know how he wants you.

979
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,799
Speaker 2: To live, whether you're in Miami or Montana, so that

980
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 2: you'll know what He's saying about your life, so that

981
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 2: you can fill your horn, move forward with God.

982
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: And find his purpose. Because watch this.

983
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 2: The proof of Samuel's ministry is not that he never

984
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 2: got it wrong. You saw him get it wrong twice

985
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 2: in his seventies. Anybody in their seventies in here tell

986
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 2: these young people. Listening to God is a life long skill,

987
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 2: and doing what the Lord said requires that you get

988
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 2: the grace for this season of your life, because the

989
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 2: Bible says in verse seven this Maybe you won't care

990
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 2: about this, but this blew my mind, y'all. I called

991
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,240
Speaker 2: three preachers and said, have you ever seen this before

992
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 2: in the Bible? And they all said no. And if

993
00:53:56,040 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 2: you don't preach it this Sunday, I'm stealing it. There

994
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 2: is a progression that happens. In verse six, Samuel thought,

995
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 2: because he saw, surely, I want you to I want

996
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 2: you to get that this week and kind of work

997
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 2: it through.

998
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: I saw.

999
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 2: I thought, surely. I was so certain about it. I

1000
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 2: was so committed to the thing that wasn't God. I

1001
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 2: was so like I hear things and they sound like God.

1002
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 2: You know, certain things sound like God, but just because

1003
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 2: they sound good doesn't.

1004
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: Mean they're from God.

1005
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 2: I've heard sermons before where people say God has to

1006
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 2: take you into isolation to give you revelation.

1007
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,399
Speaker 1: That rhymes, but that's not right.

1008
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 2: Occasionally God will give you revelation in isolation. But our

1009
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 2: God is a God of community, and God doesn't want

1010
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 2: you in isolation.

1011
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,800
Speaker 1: The enemy does. God speaks through peopure.

1012
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, And it sounds like God,

1013
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 2: like that video sounded like me kind of.

1014
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: That's not his values.

1015
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 2: And when you know his values, you will know his voice.

1016
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 2: In verse six, he said, Samuel saw and thought surely,

1017
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 2: But the Lord said to Samuel, you're wrong.

1018
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: You got the wrong one.

1019
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:22,760
Speaker 2: And God doesn't measure faith by your confidence. He measures

1020
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 2: faith by your correct ability. Oh wow, wow. Is not

1021
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:32,720
Speaker 2: in never getting it wrong that God calls you faithful.

1022
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,760
Speaker 2: It's that when the Lord spoke and interrupted what Samuel

1023
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 2: thought was supposed to happen.

1024
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:39,440
Speaker 1: This is crazy.

1025
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 2: In verse seven, the Lord said to Samuel, he's.

1026
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: Not the one who said, come on, talk to me.

1027
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 2: Who said, okay, The Lord corrected Samuel's values. He said,

1028
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 2: I'm not looking at what you're looking at. Now look

1029
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 2: at verse eight. Then Jesse called a benedab that was

1030
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 2: his second son, the second one that wasn't right. He

1031
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:00,839
Speaker 2: called a Benaedabh and had him pass in.

1032
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: Front of Samuel. But Samuel said.

1033
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 2: The Lord has not chosen this one either. Who said,

1034
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 2: read it again, Samuel. Because he's heard God's values.

1035
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,359
Speaker 1: Now he knows God's voice.

1036
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 2: And God doesn't have to tell him over and over

1037
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 2: and over again. He has internalized the word of God

1038
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 2: until the point where seven sons of Jesse passed before Samuel,

1039
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 2: and he kept saying, not that one looks good, not

1040
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 2: that one sounds good, not that one seems to be

1041
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 2: a king, not that one.

1042
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 1: No, no, no, noe is that all you have?

1043
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 2: And Jesse said, there's still the youngest. He is tending

1044
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 2: the sheep. And Samuel said, sin for him. We will

1045
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 2: not sit down until he arrived. So he sent for

1046
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 2: him and had him brought in. He was glowing with

1047
00:56:55,320 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 2: help and had a fine appearance and handsome features. Then

1048
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 2: the Lord said, rise and annoying him, this is the one.

1049
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 2: So Samuel took the horn of oil, the one that

1050
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 2: he filled back home, for the one that he found,

1051
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 2: even after he got it wrong to love this sermon.

1052
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: Today he took the oil that he.

1053
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 2: Filled, not knowing, and anointed him in the presence of

1054
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 2: all of his brothers. And from that day on the

1055
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 2: spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David, and Samuel

1056
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 2: went to Rama. And all I'm trying to say to

1057
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 2: you today is when you know God's voice, when you

1058
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 2: know God's heart, when you know your God. When Jesus said,

1059
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 2: my sheep know my voice, and they follow me.

1060
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: And I know his hard.

1061
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 2: I know his heart for you to hear for what

1062
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 2: God wants you to do about this situation.

1063
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: But I want to remind you of something.

1064
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 2: You've heard his voice before, You've missed his voice before,

1065
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:19,439
Speaker 2: and he didn't stop speaking, and he's still speaking. Even

1066
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 2: though you can't always feel him, you can be filled

1067
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 2: with him, even though you didn't get it right the

1068
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 2: first time. Even though your morning there is a message.

1069
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 2: When Elijah went to college, he came home after three

1070
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 2: weeks and he said, it's been so hard for me

1071
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 2: to get on track without you.

1072
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 1: Dad. I said, dude, I miss you too.

1073
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy because sometimes we would drive each

1074
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 2: other crazy in the house. But there were days where

1075
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 2: I'll be like, man, I love for Elijah to be

1076
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 2: here driving me crazy.

1077
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? He said. The hard part

1078
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: is you have always been.

1079
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 2: The voice in my head giving me wisdom. And I

1080
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 2: know I can call you, and I know I can

1081
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 2: text you, but it's just not the same because when

1082
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 2: I lived at home, you would come wake me up

1083
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 2: and get me to work out, and nobody does that

1084
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 2: for me now, he says.

1085
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: So now.

1086
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 2: I have to hear you even though you're not here.

1087
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 2: I know that God is always present. I know that

1088
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 2: he's always here, but there may be somebody in here

1089
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 2: who you have been feeling like God is not speaking

1090
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 2: to you anymore. And I think you think that because

1091
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 2: you think you did something that disappointed him so much,

1092
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 2: you did something that was so different, you are secretly

1093
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 2: afraid that he's left you. You are secretly afraid that

1094
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 2: you messed it up. Do you really think that the

1095
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 2: God who raised up a shepherd named David to replace

1096
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 2: a king named Saul doesn't have a plan for your

1097
00:59:58,760 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 2: life too?

1098
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 1: Do you really think God's that small that.

1099
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 2: There's something you can do that's bigger than the blood

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Speaker 2: of Jesus. Do you really think that the God who

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Speaker 2: created you didn't have a contingency plan? Do you really

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Speaker 2: think that the God who knows your destination doesn't know

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Speaker 2: how to reroute you when you take a wrong turn?

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Speaker 2: So he's still speaking, Somebody says, speak, Lord, your servant

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Speaker 2: is listening. Stand to your feet all over this room,

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Speaker 2: heads bowed, eyes close. Although you may not be Samuel,

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Speaker 2: and you may not be a prophet, I'm not either.

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Speaker 2: A lot hinges on you hearing from God. The truth

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Speaker 2: of the matter is, if you keep listening to the

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Speaker 2: voice of the enemy. You're going to drive everyone and

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Speaker 2: everything away that you love. If you keep isolating and

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Speaker 2: thinking that God has you isolated, when God has really

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Speaker 2: surrounded you by people, you are going to continue to.

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Speaker 1: Be depressed and you can't pray it away. You're going

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Speaker 1: to have to obey it away. You hear me.

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Speaker 2: You can't pray that away. You're going to have to

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Speaker 2: take the next step. If you keep staring at the

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Speaker 2: missed opportunity called Saul, you will never meet the future

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Speaker 2: called David. You are going to have to fill your

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Speaker 2: horn with oil and be on your way.

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Speaker 1: With heads bowed and eyes closed.

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Speaker 2: I want to pray for the people in this room

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Speaker 2: today who have been feeling like God has stopped speaking

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Speaker 2: to you. You feel like it's been silent from heaven,

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Speaker 2: with heads about and eyes closed, no one looking around,

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Speaker 2: and even online. Would you raise your hand if that's you.

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Speaker 2: I felt like God has been not talking to me.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna fix that right now. God said

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Speaker 2: he loves you. God said he knows you. God said

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Speaker 2: he knit you together in your mother's roomb. God said

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Speaker 2: that you are not a mistake. God said that he

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Speaker 2: knows the plans that He has for you. God said

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Speaker 2: that you're more than a conqueror. God said that nothing

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Speaker 2: in all create will be able to separate you from

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Speaker 2: the love of God that is in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.

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Speaker 2: I know that's God's will, because that's God's word. I

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Speaker 2: want to pray for those today who have been paralyzed

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Speaker 2: by some decisions, and you've been letting the details that

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Speaker 2: you don't have distract you from the things that you

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Speaker 2: know to do.

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Speaker 1: Raise your hand. If that's you. I've been so distracted and.

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Speaker 2: So stressed about what I don't know that I haven't

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Speaker 2: been putt it.

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Speaker 1: Raise your hand.

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Speaker 2: If that's you, raise your hand, Raise it boldly. Father,

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Speaker 2: in Jesus' name, Your sheep, know your voice.

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Speaker 1: I pray that this week there's going to be clarity

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Speaker 1: in their spirit.

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Speaker 2: They're going to maybe not know what the next ten

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Speaker 2: steps are, but they will know what the next one is,

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Speaker 2: and they'll know who's with them. I thank you God

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Speaker 2: that we're walking in the confidence of a God who

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Speaker 2: never stops carrying us.

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Speaker 1: I thank you that we're walking in the confidence of

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Speaker 1: belonging to a.

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Speaker 2: God who knows the end from the beginning and God,

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Speaker 2: I thank you that.

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Speaker 1: You speak to us, not through the words that we

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Speaker 1: can hear, but through the whispers that we can't.

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Speaker 2: Father, help us to quiet the noise. What's that song

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Speaker 2: that we sing? Tune the whole world out. I don't

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Speaker 2: need a thing, couldn't ask for more. If I have

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Speaker 2: seen your face, I have all I want. Put me

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Speaker 2: at your feet. Tune the whole world out. You know

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Speaker 2: where I'll be in my father's house.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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