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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. Hope

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: I shared a teaching with our staff.

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Speaker 2: A couple weeks ago, what was it about two months ago?

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Speaker 2: And I came in and taught this teaching called three

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Speaker 2: Habits of a Healthy Heart, and several of them said you.

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Speaker 1: Need to share that with the church.

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Speaker 2: And I couldn't find a good weekend to share it

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Speaker 2: because of all of the scheduling and well, when I

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Speaker 2: realized we would have to postpone our series for a week,

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Speaker 2: I thought, this is the time, this is the window

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Speaker 2: for me to.

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Speaker 1: Share this with you. So I want to teach you

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Speaker 1: a little bit today. You may be seated.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your enthusiasm in God's presence today.

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Speaker 1: This teaching.

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Speaker 2: Is going to require your full attention, and I don't

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Speaker 2: just mean with your mind, I mean your emotional attention

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Speaker 2: and kind of while I get set up here to

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Speaker 2: teach you today, Three Habits of a Healthy Heart how many,

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Speaker 2: No real lasting change has to happen in your heart?

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Speaker 2: Talk to me, please, I said, how many? No real

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Speaker 2: lasting change has to happen in your heart? Can't just

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Speaker 2: be in your behavior. You really have to fundamentally change

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Speaker 2: your belief. And that's kind of what the Psalmist is

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Speaker 2: talking about in Someone nineteen, verse one twelve. There aren't

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Speaker 2: many chapters in the Bible that have one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twelve verses. I think Some one nineteen is on record as.

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Speaker 2: It's constructed grammatically in a specific way that we won't

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Speaker 2: go into in this class. I kind of want to

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Speaker 2: teach a little bit today, if that's all right, he said,

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Speaker 2: all right, if I don't even shout.

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Speaker 1: Or holler or anything.

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Speaker 2: If you wanted to hear me holler, you should have

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Speaker 2: come to the praise party. We had an amazing time

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Speaker 2: saying good morning midnight, because we welcome not only in

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Speaker 2: new year, but we welcomed our challenges this year, knowing

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Speaker 2: that often our calling is contained in our challenges if

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Speaker 2: we learn.

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Speaker 1: How to see it correctly.

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Speaker 2: Everything begins with perspective, and the perspective of the Psalmist

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Speaker 2: in Psalm one hundred and nineteen is kind of all

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Speaker 2: over the place. I think he's dealing with some inner

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Speaker 2: issues and getting beyond.

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Speaker 1: The grammar of the song. We can know a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit of the intention of it because the Psalmist says

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Speaker 2: in one twelve, I incline my heart to perform your statutes,

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Speaker 2: forever to the end, Forever to the end.

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Speaker 1: I want this to last. I don't just want to.

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Speaker 2: See some changes in my life for a few weeks

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Speaker 2: in January. Come on, somebody, I didn't hand them much

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Speaker 2: eaten chocolate by Valentine's Day. I want to see some

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Speaker 2: lasting change in my life this year. The Psalma said,

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Speaker 2: I incline my heart. It has to happen within, not

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Speaker 2: just the behavior, but the belief that drives the behavior

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Speaker 2: has to change or the change won't stay. We found

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Speaker 2: this out over and over again. Every new year we

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Speaker 2: learn it again, and so lasting change is what I'm after,

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Speaker 2: and I incline my heart. Interesting choice of works. If

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Speaker 2: you incline something that means that it was naturally not

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Speaker 1: That means you had to.

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Speaker 2: Act upon it in order to orient it in a

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Speaker 2: different direction right, So we don't incline something that's already upright.

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Speaker 2: Must have meant that his heart was declined. And the

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Speaker 2: problem with a lot of us is we go through

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Speaker 2: life reclined. That is just however we wake up.

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Speaker 1: That's how we stay.

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Speaker 2: However we feel, that's how we act. This almost said,

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Speaker 2: Did you know you're in charge of your heart? Quit

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Speaker 2: saying people broke your heart. They can't break it if

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Speaker 2: you don't give it to them. Hey, and so he said,

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Speaker 2: I'm setting my heart in the direction of Heaven. I

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Speaker 2: wonder is your heart set in a divine direction today?

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Speaker 2: Incline my heart. I don't think this is something you

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Speaker 2: do like one time. You know, you just incline your

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Speaker 2: heart to God when you were twelve at summer Bible

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Speaker 2: camp and you never were tempted again. And we want

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Speaker 2: like the infomercial. Do you remember the infomercial with the

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Speaker 2: rotissary Show time rotisseriy Oven and the man said, set

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Speaker 2: it and and forget it. That's how I want my

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Speaker 2: heart to be like that infomercial. Set it and forget it.

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Speaker 2: I want my heart to just stay there, you know.

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Speaker 2: Just hey, I went to church first Sunday in January.

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Speaker 1: That ought to get me by.

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Speaker 2: I said it, but the Psalmist said, it's not enough

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Speaker 2: to set it and forget it.

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Speaker 1: He said it, it's more like you said it.

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Speaker 2: You check it, you reset it, you check it, because.

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Speaker 1: All through your day and all through your year, your.

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Speaker 2: Heart is going to be tempted to decline to a

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Speaker 2: or despair or dysfunction. But when you take charge of

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Speaker 1: That's what the writer of Proverbs said. It's not just

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Speaker 2: The writer of Proverbs said, guard your heart. It's your heart,

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Speaker 2: and that's where the issues of life flow from.

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Speaker 1: So before we can.

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Speaker 2: Get the windows working, we gotta get our hearts open.

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Speaker 2: Hey man, the doctor was fussinate at me a couple

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Speaker 2: months ago about my cholesterol. Let's me know, I'm getting

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Speaker 2: on up there in age. I never had a conversation

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Speaker 3: And he just talking talking, blah blah.

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Speaker 1: Blah ldl HDL. Try glysseride all.

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Speaker 2: This stuff, and I know we could tell he wasn't

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Speaker 1: He took a real drastic turn.

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Speaker 2: He said, hey, I don't want you to be one

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Speaker 2: which made me feel happy that he said that about me.

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Speaker 2: But then one day you're just outside running and you

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Speaker 2: just fall over of a heart attack, and to listen

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Speaker 2: to me, And I corrected him. I said, doctor, I

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Speaker 2: know you got some degrees that I don't have it

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Speaker 2: all that, but you're wrong about that.

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Speaker 1: I don't run, so if fall over, it's not going

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Speaker 2: But he said, you can be blocked on the inside,

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Speaker 2: and be sexy and fall over, and be married and

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Speaker 2: fall over, come on, get a promotion and fall over,

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Speaker 2: be religious and fall over. It has to happen in

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Speaker 2: the heart. But it doesn't start with the heart. It

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Speaker 2: starts with the habits. Your habits create the condition of

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Speaker 1: It is good.

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Speaker 2: Every once in a while, you got to stop and

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Speaker 1: The word God speaks through you.

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Speaker 2: I feel like God is going to help somebody set

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Speaker 2: the right direction. But it's going to require some.

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Speaker 1: And they're all right there in the Sawmu. I want

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Speaker 2: Next two verses because my three habits are right there.

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Speaker 1: In the verses. Forever to the end.

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Speaker 2: I set my heart to perform your statutes. I hate

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Speaker 1: I hate. I hate what's that we're doing in the Bible.

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Speaker 1: I thought I was supposed to love everything.

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Speaker 2: Now I hate the double minded, but I love your law.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we should go on until we talk

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Speaker 2: I hate this. I hate the double minded. I hate

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Speaker 2: It's not a person. I hate, it's I hate the

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Speaker 2: And see, the thing about the thing about hate is

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Speaker 2: hate is the most powerful motivation to change, not love.

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Speaker 2: And so before you start with wanting to reach your goals,

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Speaker 2: maybe the first thing for you to do is to

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Speaker 2: And it's going to be complicated, because you know, ask

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Speaker 1: I feel kind of like David.

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Speaker 2: One time, David's son Absolom died and Joe ab came

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Speaker 1: He said, your son is dead.

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Speaker 2: And David started weeping, and Joe Ab was mad because

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Speaker 2: Absolom was trying to take the throne from David, and

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Speaker 2: so Absolom had become David's enemy. But David's heart was

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Speaker 2: connected to Absolom. So he was crying, and Joe Ab said,

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Speaker 2: love you, and you love those who hate you. You

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Speaker 2: trying to destroy you. And I feel that way about

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Speaker 1: I love how they feel.

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Speaker 2: For a minute, but I hate the crash and certain

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Speaker 2: I'm doing them. I hate the plank Exhibit A. I

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Speaker 2: mean I was for years. I was one of these people.

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Speaker 2: I would tell you to your face, I hate to exercise.

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Speaker 1: You can go back and watch my sermon videos from

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Speaker 2: I was standing on the stage and say I hate

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Speaker 2: wasn't to have it. I didn't do it enough to

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Speaker 2: love it. I hated it. But you don't have to

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Speaker 2: accept your default attitude toward anything. I incline my heart.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna teach today.

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Speaker 1: You came out. I'm gonna make it work your while.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna teach today. Get that elevation pen ready.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna burn it up today and get a new

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Speaker 2: one next week.

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Speaker 1: I grew to hate.

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Speaker 2: I think the moment of realization for me was when

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Speaker 2: I was paying Andy four hundred and fifty dollars to

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Speaker 1: I hated it. I looked at.

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Speaker 2: Andy and I said, I hate this, man. I could

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Speaker 2: be using this money to buy new clothes, and I'm

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Speaker 2: hate this. And he said, hey, keep eating. It's job

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Speaker 2: security for me. That's what my Taylor said. I said, no, man,

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Speaker 2: motivated by I know it's a strong word of some

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Speaker 2: very pastoral you.

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Speaker 1: Have to hate it. You have to hate it. You

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Speaker 1: have to hate self pity.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: And the problem with hating self pity.

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Speaker 2: Is Ooh, it feels good like a bag of Dorito's

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Speaker 2: my waist. This is so good, sounds simple, but it's

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Speaker 1: Help me preach this.

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Speaker 2: The expectation of no attack is a.

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Speaker 1: Are you coming back for the series? This series?

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Speaker 2: if the kids hadn't, well, if the car hadn't, you know,

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Speaker 2: blame just It's a convenient hiding place because it will

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Speaker 2: shield you from the inconvenience of change.

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Speaker 1: If it's somebody else that needs to change. It's a

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Speaker 1: convenient hiding place.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for a little while, but it's a it's a

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Speaker 2: paper mache shield. It can only keep you from so much.

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Speaker 2: She said, I blame I blame everybody. I blame everything.

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Speaker 2: I blame the way I was raised.

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Speaker 1: I blame my.

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Speaker 2: Parents for being too hard on me, and then I

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Speaker 2: blame them for being.

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Speaker 1: Too easy on me.

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Speaker 2: I blame them if they would have made me stick

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Speaker 2: with piano lessons. And then I blame them that they

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Speaker 2: made me show up the choir practice. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: blame them. I blame I blame what I did get.

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Speaker 2: I blame what I didn't get blame. What's her hiding place?

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Speaker 2: What's yours? What's yours? Elijah had a cave, she had blamed.

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Speaker 2: I wonder do you hide behind low expectations? This one

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Speaker 2: is real common because if you don't expect much, you

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Speaker 2: can't be disappointed, and so you learn how to hide

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Speaker 2: behind this fake smile.

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Speaker 1: You don't really have a whole heart.

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Speaker 2: You have a fake smile to cover up your half

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Speaker 2: hearted interior life.

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Speaker 1: And we hide.

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Speaker 2: Ourselves from even those closest to us. And we hide

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Speaker 2: ourselves because if I hide behind an image that I present,

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Speaker 2: I don't have to deal with who I am.

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Speaker 1: And the call of God is coming forth.

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Speaker 2: Like the voice of the Lord went into the cave,

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Speaker 2: the voice of the Lord is coming into your heart today, saying,

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Speaker 2: come out, Come out of hiding, Come out of fear,

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Speaker 2: come out of low expectations, come out of hypocrisy, Come

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Speaker 2: out from the stake spirituality, come out, come.

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Speaker 1: Out wherever you are.

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Speaker 2: You know when you hide in the shadow of the

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Speaker 2: most High, you can abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

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Speaker 1: I have a shelter.

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Speaker 2: I don't have to hide behind anything, but gosh, I'm

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Speaker 2: glad it's snows so I can breach this message.

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Speaker 1: What's going to open your heart?

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Speaker 2: What good will it do for the windows of heaven

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Speaker 2: to be open?

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Speaker 1: If your heart is blocked.

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Speaker 2: You gotta know where to hide, or you'll be running

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Speaker 2: doing your thing this year and just collapse.

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Speaker 1: The doctor said, because you.

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Speaker 2: Didn't know where to hide. I know where to hide.

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Speaker 2: I don't always do it, but I know where. And

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Speaker 2: I said, start, I.

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Speaker 1: Know where to hide.

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Speaker 2: Somebody shout, I know where to hide. My kids were

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Speaker 2: playing hide and seek one time and they got locked in.

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Speaker 1: The crass space. That's what you don't want to do.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes, just like that, you're running from something, thinking

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Speaker 2: you're hiding, but you end up locking yourself. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you can lock yourself in a pattern, in an attitude

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Speaker 2: and an effort to escape something, and what you get

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Speaker 2: locked in is worse than what.

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Speaker 1: You were running from.

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Speaker 2: Reaching to myself on the media's sermon, and you think,

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Speaker 2: and you need a better hiding place.

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Speaker 1: You got hide somewhere. So memorize some songs, the little

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Speaker 1: songs that you like. The little songs will be singing

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Speaker 1: the church.

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Speaker 2: You can sing them other than Sunday. You can run

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Speaker 2: the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The

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Speaker 2: righteous run into it. So you might have to sing

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Speaker 2: in the shower to incline your heart to keep his commands.

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Speaker 2: You might have to hide in a different place. Where

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Speaker 2: else are you gonna hide? You're gonna hide and feeling

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Speaker 2: sorry for yourself. You're gonna hide in enemy held territory

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Speaker 2: and expect to be safe there.

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Speaker 1: I know where to hide. I know how to say

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Speaker 1: I love.

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Speaker 3: You, Lord, and I lift my voice to word you.

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Speaker 3: Oh my soul, rejoice they joy my king this old song.

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Speaker 3: But it will still work to run the devil off

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Speaker 3: when he starts messing with you in the middle of

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Speaker 3: the night.

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Speaker 1: Why are you here?

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Speaker 3: May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your I

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Speaker 3: can sing when I'm squeezed.

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Speaker 2: I can sing when I'm pressed. I can rejoice. Hit

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Speaker 2: and reset on my heart.

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Speaker 1: I've set my heart that keep put the man. Come on,

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Speaker 1: we're hitting reset. I want you to picture yourself.

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Speaker 2: You're playing Nintendo, remember Bill, and you hit reset. You're

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Speaker 2: about to go have to start over all your progress

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Speaker 2: and you hit reset. The psalm is set. I know

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Speaker 2: where to go to reset my heart. It's not that

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Speaker 2: the missiles never fly. I just learned how to duck,

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Speaker 2: and I know where to hide, and I pointed my

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Speaker 2: heart in the direction of my destiny. I know where

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Speaker 2: to hide. I know what to hate, and my heart

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Speaker 2: knows how to hope. Want you to stand up if

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Speaker 2: you have hope, Stand up if you have hope.

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Speaker 1: It's good to have hope. I said, it's good to

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Speaker 1: have hope.

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Speaker 2: If a whole Christmas sermon on we have this hope,

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Speaker 2: I hope everybody at every location is standing up because

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Speaker 2: you have hope. But the Psalmist doesn't say, in this

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Speaker 2: particular instance, I have hope. He says I hope. And

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if I learned this in third grade

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Speaker 2: English or fourth But when he says I hope instead

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Speaker 2: of saying I have hope, that makes it a verb

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Speaker 2: and not a noun. Any English teachers can verify what

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Speaker 2: I just said.

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Speaker 1: It's not just something I have.

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Speaker 2: It's something that I what, is something that I do.

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Speaker 1: It's an active hope.

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Speaker 2: And you cannot go into another year of your life

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Speaker 2: hoping it gets better. Like the lady I sat next

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Speaker 2: to on the plane, she said, here's Mulfulow's feet. Hope

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Speaker 2: for the best, expect the worst. That's clever, but it's crap.

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Speaker 2: Hope doesn't just wish it would. And I'll tell you

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Speaker 2: what if you don't know how to hope. If you

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Speaker 2: think hope is just when we say I hope in

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Speaker 2: your word, that's not a bookmark in your Bible that

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Speaker 2: you look at every once in a while or something

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Speaker 2: on your coffee mouth.

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Speaker 1: It is a way of living.

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Speaker 2: I hope somebody saying I hope, I hope, not just I.

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Speaker 1: Wish I hope. What does hope do. Hope puts its

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Speaker 1: hand to work.

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Speaker 2: Hope, not just in my heart, but hope. Look, have

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Speaker 2: you put your hand to what you're hoping for? Because

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Speaker 2: faith is the substance of things hope for and the

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Speaker 2: evidence of things not seen. God wants to open your

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Speaker 2: heart this new year to possibility.

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Speaker 1: But you're going to have.

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Speaker 2: To put your hand to what you're hoping for. In

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Speaker 2: other words, you've got to work your window and watch this.

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Speaker 2: I don't hope. It's not cold. I wear a coat.

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Speaker 2: When I was leaving for church this weekend, Elijah said,

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Speaker 2: Daddy is going to be great.

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Speaker 1: He said.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be record attendants. I said, no, it's not.

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Speaker 2: He said, yes, it is. Daddy, have a little faith

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Speaker 2: practice what you preache. But I said, boy, let me

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Speaker 2: teach you a little lesson.

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Speaker 1: About church growth and hope.

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Speaker 2: Okay, some of my campuses have to be closed, so

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Speaker 2: it can't be record attendants and Charlotte people are kind

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Speaker 2: of crazy, some of them anyway, not you' all, but

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Speaker 2: some people watching a line.

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Speaker 1: And I said, my hope isn't that the rooms are

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Speaker 1: going to be full.

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Speaker 2: My hope is that God is going to show up

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Speaker 2: and speak to whoever calls. That's how I hope. I

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Speaker 2: don't hope it's not cold. I put on a cold

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Speaker 2: and go outside.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, I don't hope it's not hard. I SARTs to who.

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Speaker 1: My hope is not in the path. My hope is

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Speaker 1: in the promise.

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Speaker 2: So the path can look like this, but I'm still

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Speaker 2: headed to the promise. I hope in your word, how

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Speaker 2: many received something from the Lord today? You tell your

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Speaker 2: heart opening enough, you can feel it, you can feel

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Speaker 2: God doing something this This is going to be an

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Speaker 2: amazing year church. If I were you, I wouldn't miss

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Speaker 2: the window. I wouldn't miss it. Next weekend, I'm really

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Speaker 2: going to start the series this time, work your window.

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Speaker 2: What I feel like today was a little w D

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Speaker 2: forty amy on the window on the hinges. We got

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Speaker 2: the window crack. We got our hearts open.

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Speaker 1: If you feel comfortable, I don't know if you do

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Speaker 1: or not.

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Speaker 2: Would you just lift your hands like this to the

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Speaker 2: Lord to receive what he has for you, hoping your word,

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Speaker 2: hope in your promise. Thank you for your presence, Lord,

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Speaker 2: I thank you for the expectation of change. We incline

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Speaker 2: our hearts. We're set up for success. The windows of

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Speaker 2: heaven are open, and so are our hearts. We won't

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Speaker 2: be blocked. We've set our hearts. We'll set it again

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Speaker 2: and again and again. I will bless the Lord at

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Speaker 2: all times, and his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

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Speaker 1: Come on say it.

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Speaker 2: I will bless the Lord at all times, and his

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Speaker 2: praise shall continually be in my mouth. I will bless

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Speaker 2: the Lords at all times, and his phrase shall continually

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Speaker 2: be in my mouth.

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