1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: Let us pray. The Lord is my light and my salvation. 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm twenty 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 1: seven one. Thank you Lord for saving me from the 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: darkness of my sins that led to death. I was 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: lost until you shine your glorious light into my darkness 7 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: and revealed your truth. Joy entered into my heart once 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: I found you and gave me strength. You are the 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: strength of my life. I can live without any one 10 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: or anything but you. You are my provider, protector, provision, deliverer, 11 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: and soon coming King. There is nothing any one in 12 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: this world can do to make me afraid when I 13 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: know you are surrounding me. You defeated my enemies on 14 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: the cross, and I declare that victory over my circumstances. 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 1: I refuse all fear in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you 16 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: for listening to today's daily prayer for more inspiration and 17 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay tuned to 18 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: pray dot COM's Sunday service. 19 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 2: Welcome to pray dot COM's Sunday service sponsored by ol 20 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: True Health. 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Father, 48 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 3: thank you for choosing each of us. Thank you for 49 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 3: the opportunity to be called children of God, King Jesus. 50 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 3: It is an overwhelming privilege to live, speak, and serve 51 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 3: in your name, Holy Spirit. Thank you for dwelling in us, 52 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 3: safeguarding our hearts for the truth. Lord God, Thank you 53 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 3: for empowering us to live like you, loving the people 54 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 3: around us, made in your image. Thank you for the 55 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 3: gift of faith given to each of us. Let it 56 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: grow and flourish that you would have the full measure 57 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 3: of glowy through us. We love God. Friends. May your 58 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 3: faith and hope be ignited afresh and anew right now 59 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 3: in Jesus's name. 60 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 4: Amen. Hey guys, we're so happy to be back with you. 61 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 4: Ignite Kingdom talk. I've got my beautiful wife, Desiree back 62 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 4: with us, and guys, we just got done. We just 63 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 4: got done with our conference just a couple of weeks ago, 64 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,919 Speaker 4: and it's like, oh my gosh, we're just kind of 65 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 4: coming off of this this big exciting thing that just happened. 66 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 4: And there was so many great things that happened, so 67 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 4: many things that took place during the conference. What's some 68 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 4: of the what's some of the things that stuck out 69 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 4: stood out to you more than more than anything. 70 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 5: Well, we had incredible worship music worship with Jasmine Brady 71 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 5: and Higher Ground. But I would have to say just 72 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 5: how hungry people were to glean and the speakers did 73 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 5: not disappoint. They were so powerful and the things that 74 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 5: they taught and brought and revel that came. It was 75 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 5: and even some of the struggles that a couple of 76 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 5: the speakers had in getting there. Sean Foyd had such 77 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 5: trouble getting there, in fact, he said it was the 78 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 5: most difficult place he had ever had. Flights canceled. He 79 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 5: in fact, he had to fly into Des Moines to 80 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 5: get to Omaha rent a car and so that was crazy. 81 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 5: And that happened to one other speaker. I can't remember 82 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 5: who the other speaker was right now, but the same 83 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 5: type of thing. 84 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, but so many things, so many hindrances happened this 85 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 4: time around that we just knew, we just knew that 86 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 4: God was going to do something big and he did. 87 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 4: And it's just it's just but I think I'm going 88 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 4: to back up a little bit. The hunger. Yeah, the 89 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 4: hunger that is there with the people is to me, 90 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 4: it's encouraging. They're hungry, they're looking and as business professionals, 91 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 4: as business owners, kingdom minded people, we want to go 92 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 4: to a different level. We want to go to higher level. 93 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 4: We want to make a difference. And I think this 94 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 4: conference was one of those things that encourage people to 95 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 4: step out. And I guess I've just got to read 96 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 4: this out of salts talking about fearless fearless faith. But 97 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 4: listen to this. The Lord is my revelation light to 98 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 4: guide me along the way. He's the source of my salvation, 99 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 4: to defend me. Every day. I fear no one's good. 100 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 4: I fear no one. I'll never turn back and run 101 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:43,479 Speaker 4: from you. Lord, surround and protect me. The evil one 102 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 4: comes to destroy me. They will be the ones who 103 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 4: turn back. My heart will not be afraid, even if 104 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 4: an army arises to attack. I know that you are 105 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 4: there for me, so I will not be shaken. That's encouraging. 106 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 4: I will not be shaken. Here's the one thing I 107 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 4: crave from God, the one thing I seek above all else. 108 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 4: I want the privilege of living with him every moment 109 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 4: in his house, finding the sweet lovingness, lovingness of his face, 110 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 4: filled with awe, delighting in his glory and grace. This 111 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 4: is good. I was just going to read a little bit. 112 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 4: I think you okay if I just read this whole 113 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 4: chapter here. I want to live my life so close 114 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 4: to him that he takes pleasure in my every prayer. 115 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 4: In his shelter in the day of trouble, That's where 116 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 4: you'll find me, for he hides me there in his holiness. 117 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 4: He has listened to this word. He has smuggled me 118 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 4: into his secret place where I'm kept safe and secure, 119 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 4: out of reach from all my enemies. Triumphant, Now I'll 120 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 4: bring him my offering and praise you like that, don't 121 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 4: you singing and shouting with aesthetic joy? Yes, listen and 122 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 4: you can hear the fanfare of my shouts of praise. 123 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 4: To the Lord. God, hear my cry, show me your grace, 124 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 4: show me your mercy, and send the help I need. Lord, 125 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 4: when you said to me, seek my face, my inner 126 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 4: being responded, I'm seeking your face with all my heart. 127 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 4: I don't. I didn't hide yourself. Lord, when I come 128 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 4: to find you. You're the God of my salvation. How 129 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 4: can you reject your servant in anger? You've been my 130 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 4: only hope, So don't forsake me now when I need you. 131 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 4: My father and mother abandoned me. I'm like an orphan, 132 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 4: but you took me in and made me yours. Now, 133 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 4: teach me all about your ways and tell me what 134 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 4: to do. I mean, we're searching for what to do. Lord, 135 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 4: tell us what to do. Make it clear for me 136 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 4: to understand. For I'm surrounding by waiting enemies. Don't let 137 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 4: them defeat me. Lord, You can't let me fall into 138 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 4: their clutches. They keep accusing me of things I've never 139 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 4: done while they plot evil against me. Yet I totally 140 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 4: trust you to rescue me one more time. He'll do 141 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 4: it again so that I can see once again how 142 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 4: good you are while I'm still alive. Here's what I've 143 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 4: learned through it. All this is the best part. Don't 144 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 4: give up. Ye don't be impatient. You always say I'm impatient, 145 00:09:54,720 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 4: But don't be impatient. Be entwined as one with the Lord. 146 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 4: Be brave and courageous, and never lose hope. Yes, keep 147 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 4: on waiting, for he will never disappoint you. What a 148 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 4: great word, What a great word. That's Psalms twenty seven. 149 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 4: And that's that's David actually before he was before he 150 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 4: was anointed king. And and again, guys, we we look 151 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 4: for we look to the Word for our hope. We 152 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 4: look to the world, we look to we look to 153 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 4: him Lord. What do we do next? How do we 154 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 4: how do we do this? How do we navigate in 155 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 4: this stuff that we're living in? And and how do 156 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 4: we operate our businesses? How do we how do we 157 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 4: go to market? How do we how do we do this? Uh? 158 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 4: You know with our employees? How we you know, how 159 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 4: do we resist? Or what what are we supposed to 160 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 4: do in this woke culture that we live in? And 161 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 4: I think everything we need is right here in the Word. 162 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 4: And there's so many times that you know, we talked 163 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 4: about it on the way here. You know, why is 164 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 4: it that we give up so easily anymore. 165 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,719 Speaker 5: I think we have a drive through mentality where we're 166 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 5: used to just instant answers. You get online, you order 167 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 5: something from Amazon, it's there the next day, and in 168 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,839 Speaker 5: some cities it's there that afternoon. If you order it 169 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 5: in the morning and you drive through to get your food, 170 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 5: your coffee, or do your banking, you know, the majority 171 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 5: of it you can do on just driving through or 172 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 5: and or online, and it's just instant and I think 173 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 5: it's we have lost the practice of patients and even 174 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 5: you know, when a farmer goes out and he kills 175 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 5: the soil and removes all of the you know, the 176 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 5: weeds and gets it the soil rich and ready to 177 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 5: you know, plant the seeds in. Then you have to 178 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 5: cover it and you water it. I'm not a farmer, 179 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:10,079 Speaker 5: but this is kind of what you do. And then 180 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 5: you begin to see a sprout come up and you 181 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 5: just see this little tiny seed that looks like nothing. 182 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 5: And once it's planted, you know, and it sprouts, and 183 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 5: if you allow it to continue to grow and nurture 184 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 5: it and water it and the sun shines on it, 185 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 5: you end up with a harvest a crop. And in 186 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,719 Speaker 5: that there's no fast I mean, I guess there's bioengineered 187 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 5: foods and all of that kind of stuff which isn't food, 188 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 5: but we want to wait on what's good, and so 189 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 5: many things are counterfeit nowadays as well, and so anyways, 190 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 5: I just believe that there is a waiting on the Lord. 191 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 5: And some of the most incredible things that we've ever 192 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 5: been through or received from the Lord have been through 193 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 5: hard times long you know, where you're waiting for a 194 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 5: long period of time for something and you keep praying, 195 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 5: you keep seeking God Lord when you're going to answer that, 196 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 5: you know, and then in his time and in his way, 197 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 5: he answers and he never disappoints. And so. 198 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 4: You talked about Joseph. You talked about Joseph there at 199 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 4: the conference. 200 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 5: He waited, Oh he wait it, yeah, yeah, you had 201 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 5: a long time he waited. 202 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 4: But tell us back up a little bit. Tell that 203 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 4: story how he was in the pit, his brothers came back. 204 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 4: And because you you revealed something to me that that 205 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 4: I never thought of. When when his brothers come back, 206 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 4: they put him in the pit and then they come back. Yeah, 207 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 4: and what happens then, well. 208 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:49,479 Speaker 5: When they when they came back, you know, poor Joseph. 209 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 5: He's you know, in the pit, and his brothers come 210 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 5: and they're bringing him out, and at that moment, I 211 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,319 Speaker 5: can just imagine Joseph like it kind of could get 212 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 5: your emotional thinking about it, that he's just like, you know, 213 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 5: I have a father that loves me, and this is family. 214 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 5: This is my family, and my brothers, you know, they 215 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 5: throw they're coming back to say they're sorry, they're coming 216 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 5: back to get me out, and you know, they're trying 217 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 5: to teach me a lesson, whatever it might be. And 218 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 5: instead they said, oh, we see a caravan coming. We 219 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 5: can sell our brother and make money off of him. 220 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 5: And so they lift him out to only betray him again. 221 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 5: And how the wounding of your heart. It was bad 222 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 5: enough to be in the pit once, but then to 223 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 5: be sold twice, you know, like for the second time, 224 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 5: and I just think how it would be so easy 225 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 5: to carry that offence and that wound. But the story, 226 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 5: you know, then goes where he's in Potterphar's house and 227 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 5: everything he did touch it was just success and favor. 228 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 5: And then Potipher's wife, you know, tried to seduce him 229 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 5: and and he said no, and so he ends up 230 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 5: in prison for doing something that was good and right, 231 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 5: and you know that the Lord would have been, yeah, 232 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 5: that's my boy. And yet he found himself in prison unjustly, 233 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 5: and so I just look at that and I think 234 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 5: in the worst time, and so many people can find 235 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 5: themselves in a place where you feel in prison, you feel, 236 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 5: you know, in a dark place. And yet it's in 237 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 5: those places that God is refining and redefining who we 238 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 5: are and who Joseph was to be, and the favor 239 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 5: in that that was even on him and the success, 240 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 5: but he never lost hope. He you know, interpreted dreams 241 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 5: even in the prison where you didn't have to do that. 242 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 5: And you know that one day he interpreted interpreted the 243 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 5: pharaohs streams, and the king brought him out and then 244 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 5: elevated him and he was second in command. And the 245 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 5: beautiful part of this, I mean, the whole story is incredible, 246 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 5: but when you know it wasn't just a nation, It 247 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 5: was nations that came to get food and be fed. 248 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 5: And so by the Lord allowing him to be in 249 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 5: that place and have the mind and have a kingdom 250 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 5: mindset because he was obviously the Lord was grooming him 251 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 5: into being a man that was able to be successful 252 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 5: in all that he did and everything he put his 253 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 5: hand to and his mind, and that he had visions 254 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 5: and dreams and could interpret. And so when he was 255 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 5: in that place, I just really believed that the favor 256 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 5: of God being so strong on and one of Pastor 257 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 5: Kent and then Pastor Hanksus the other day was talking 258 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 5: to you about the favor of God and man and 259 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 5: how important that is. And you know, Samuel grew in 260 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 5: favor and stature with both God and man. And you 261 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 5: could tell that Joseph was a man who grew in 262 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 5: favor with both God and man. And how when he 263 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 5: was called out and into the kingdom and his brothers came, 264 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 5: it says he wept over them and kissed them. And 265 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 5: obviously he had to have forgiven during the process of 266 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 5: being in prison, and maybe part of the time of 267 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 5: him being in prison was to make sure that there 268 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 5: was no wound. No, you know, maybe part of the 269 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 5: length of the time was being able to let go 270 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,400 Speaker 5: and just I'm not wounded, I forgive them, I love them, 271 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 5: and being able to actually walk that out when he 272 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 5: saw them again. 273 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, and think of think of the church, think of 274 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 4: think of all the offenses all the things that people 275 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 4: get offended by leave the church or get bitter of 276 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 4: just little things, and look what happens. Yeah, look what 277 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 4: he goes through went through. But yet forgave. And I 278 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 4: just I just think what a different story, what a 279 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 4: different story that would be if there was unforgiveness. Yeah, 280 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 4: totally different story, totally different outcome. But yet he forgave, 281 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 4: he endured, He never ever gave up. I'm sure he 282 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 4: had to have wanted to at some point to give up, 283 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:14,360 Speaker 4: but he didn't. He kept he kept the faith and 284 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 4: and and and kept kept going and going strong. I 285 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 4: just think we need that. I just think we need 286 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:24,199 Speaker 4: that mentality. I think we need to get back to 287 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 4: who we are in Christ and understanding that he's there, 288 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,919 Speaker 4: he's never left us, he's never gonna forsake us, and 289 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 4: to continue on in such a bold way. And it's 290 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 4: like we just we give up way too soon. Marriages. 291 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 4: Look at marriages all the time. I think of I 292 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,880 Speaker 4: think of how you and I fought for our marriage. 293 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 4: But it's like anymore, people just they give up so 294 00:18:55,200 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 4: easily and it's over over Sometimes it's just over williness, 295 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 4: silly things, fixable things. Yeah, and it's it's easier for them, 296 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 4: in their in their thinking just to give up. And 297 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 4: I even think that of businesses. How many times people 298 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 4: have a great idea, maybe it's something that God breathed, 299 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 4: maybe it's something God downloaded on them, but they came 300 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 4: up against some difficult times and instead of fighting through 301 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 4: seeking wisdom, seeking counsel, they've they've just given up and 302 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 4: let let it go, let it go along the wayside. 303 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 4: And I just I just think if we can just 304 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 4: get back to fighting for what we believe, fighting for truth. Yeah, uh, 305 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 4: it's it's in every area, It's in every area of 306 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 4: our life. And I just think once we get back 307 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 4: to the word, once we get into the word where 308 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 4: we need to be as believers, as business owners. Man, 309 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 4: I just I just think we can we can make 310 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 4: a huge impact, a huge u change within our culture, 311 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 4: within our cities. 312 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 5: Well, the story about Isaac and Abraham and Isaac, you know, 313 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 5: there's so many people like you said about wanting to 314 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 5: give up on business, wanting to give up on marriages, 315 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 5: your family, you've got a prodigal child, whatever it might be. 316 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 5: But I think when people really understand the kingdom and 317 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 5: you understand who your father is, and you know our father, 318 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 5: which are in heaven hollowed be your name. He's holy, 319 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 5: he's just, he's righteous, he's everything. Like there's not enough 320 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 5: words that could ever describe the beauty of the Father 321 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 5: and of the Son. And you know we are joint 322 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 5: heirs with Jesus. And I just wanted to read for 323 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 5: anyone who is going through a place where you feel 324 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 5: like it's been dry and barren and where Lord, where 325 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 5: are you? You gave me a promise, you know, and 326 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 5: it's been how many years? And I'm getting old and 327 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 5: I'm not you know, I feel like I'm not going 328 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 5: to see that come to fruition. And with Abraham, you know, 329 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 5: he was ninety nine or one hundred, and it said, 330 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 5: you know, he had heard the word of the Lord 331 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 5: through an angel saying that you're going to have a child. 332 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 5: And you know, Sarah laughed and like, yeah right, why 333 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 5: kind of funny, But I thought even say says Genesis 334 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,879 Speaker 5: twenty two. It says sometimes late sometime later, God tested Abraham, 335 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 5: and so I know many times we feel like you're 336 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 5: in a testing period and we do go through tests. 337 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:48,679 Speaker 5: And it says he said to him, Abraham, here I 338 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 5: am he replied. Then God said, take your son, your 339 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 5: only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the 340 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,880 Speaker 5: region of Mariah. Sacrifice him there as a burn offering 341 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 5: on one of the mountains I'll tell you about. And 342 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 5: I thought about that. I thought, Okay, you've given me 343 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 5: the promise of my son. And you know, he told 344 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 5: Abraham that you won't be able to count the stars 345 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 5: in the sky or the sand on the seashore through 346 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,919 Speaker 5: this promised son of yours. But now I'm asking you 347 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 5: to go kill him and sacrifice him. And I just thought, 348 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 5: I feel like so many people, regardless of what it 349 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 5: might be, it's your business. Your business has been successful, 350 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 5: and you know that God gave you this business. And 351 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 5: all of a sudden it's nose diving, and it's like, 352 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 5: do you still trust the Lord even when it looks 353 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 5: it looks not good? And so it says early the 354 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 5: next morning. I love this because he didn't wait for 355 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 5: weeks and ponder on it. It says early the next morning, 356 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 5: at Abraham got up, saddled his donkey. He took with 357 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 5: him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When 358 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 5: he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he 359 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 5: set out for the place God had told him about. 360 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 5: On the third day, Abraham looked up and saw the 361 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 5: place in a distance. He said to his servants, stay 362 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,439 Speaker 5: here with a donkey, while I and the boy go 363 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 5: over there. We will worship, and then we will come 364 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 5: back to you. And I thought, well, there's a key 365 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 5: right there. Because so many people they hear something and 366 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 5: it's like you're in a place of testing. And then 367 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 5: number one thing to do in a place of testing, 368 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 5: obviously is to obey what God is saying and to worship, 369 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 5: to worship and not be Woe is me, Oh my gosh, 370 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 5: I'm undone. How in the world is this going to 371 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 5: you know, even come to pass? Like what God has spoken, 372 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 5: what God has promised. God's promises are always yes and amen, 373 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 5: like He is always faithful, even when we're not faithful. 374 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 5: But the obedience of Abraham, and it says Abraham took 375 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,479 Speaker 5: the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on 376 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,439 Speaker 5: his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and 377 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,880 Speaker 5: the knife, and the two of them went on together. 378 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 5: Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, he says, father, yes, 379 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 5: my son. Abraham replied, replied, the fire in the wood here. 380 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 5: Isaac said, but where's the lamb for the burnt offering? 381 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 5: And you just think right there, and you think, gosh, 382 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 5: we have a son, and for your son to say, Dad, 383 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 5: you know, where's the offering? Where's the lamb? Where is 384 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 5: what we're going to sacrifice to the Lord, because we're 385 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 5: going up to sacrifice something, and normally they would have 386 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 5: taken the you know, whatever animal they were sacrificing with them. 387 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 5: And he says, this is so crucial. Abraham answered, God 388 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 5: himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering my son. 389 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 5: And the two of them went together. Life and death 390 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 5: is in the power of the tongue. And so when 391 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 5: we speak life, when we speak faith, God God delivers. 392 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 5: And because he made the promise to Abraham about his son, 393 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 5: so I just think that's just powerful. When they reached 394 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 5: the place God had told him about, Abraham built an 395 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 5: altar and arranged the wood on it. He bound his 396 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 5: son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top 397 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 5: of the wood. And I thought, oh, even that, you know, 398 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 5: you have to know he's old enough to talk, he's 399 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 5: old enough to say Dad, and no. 400 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 4: He carried the wood and he. 401 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 5: Carried the wood of And so at that point I 402 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 5: really believe that Abraham. It doesn't say, but I really 403 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 5: feel like Abraham had to say, son, God is requiring 404 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 5: me to sacrifice you. And because he knew God the 405 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 5: you know father, God as father as well, because of 406 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 5: what Abraham had modeled, I feel like he had to 407 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 5: willingly lay down his life, just as Jesus willingly laid 408 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 5: down his life because his father had asked him for 409 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 5: to do that. So and he said, no one can 410 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 5: take my life. I lay it down willingly. And I 411 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 5: feel like Isaac had to lay it down willingly because 412 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 5: how would a hundred year old man be able to 413 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 5: catch his son, tie his son, fight with his son, 414 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 5: to bind him to the altar, Like I just don't 415 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 5: know humanly if you could actually do that and have 416 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 5: a crying, wailing son laying there. And yet there had 417 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 5: to be the peace of God to know at that 418 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 5: moment that God is going to either resurrect the son. 419 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 5: And so anyways, it goes on, and it says then 420 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 5: he reached out his hand and took the knife to 421 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 5: slay his son. But we love the word butt in there. 422 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 5: But the Angel of the Lord called out to him 423 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 5: from heaven, Abraham, Abraham, here I am, he replied, do 424 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 5: not lay a hand on the boy. He said, do 425 00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 5: not do anything to him. Now I know that you 426 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 5: fear God because you have not withheld from me your son, 427 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 5: your only son. Abraham looked up and therein eth thicket 428 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 5: he saw a ram caught by his horns. He went 429 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 5: over and took the ram and sacrificed, sacrificed it as 430 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 5: a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called 431 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 5: that place the Lord will provide. And so I just 432 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 5: feel there's so many people that might be listening and 433 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,439 Speaker 5: or watching, and that you're just in a place of 434 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 5: feeling so tested. So, oh God, this is a hard place. 435 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 5: I don't think there could be a more difficult place 436 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 5: than what Abraham was in in that but it was 437 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,160 Speaker 5: accredited to him as righteousness, and he was known as 438 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 5: the father of faith, and through his through Isaac, the 439 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 5: generations and the blessings of Abraham, you know, that went 440 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 5: on to his son and to the generations to follow. 441 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 5: And I just feel like, had he not obeyed, where 442 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 5: would we be? Where would you know? And so I 443 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 5: feel like there's a lot of us that are in 444 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 5: the place of do you trust God? Do you willingly 445 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 5: lay down the dreams and the promises that God has 446 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 5: given to see the Lord raise it back up, and 447 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 5: to see it then become a harvest. And because the 448 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,719 Speaker 5: harvest of souls, the harvest of people through Abraham and 449 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,160 Speaker 5: Isaac and Jacob and the seed, you know, that continued on. 450 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 4: And and and to worship. Get back into it and 451 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 4: get back into that. I think I think that's a 452 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 4: that's a that's a crucial point of of of what 453 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 4: he did through that, through that test, through that whole test, 454 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 4: they walked up to where that took place worshiping well. 455 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 5: And I really feel like you read all throughout the 456 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 5: Old Testament that when they would go to worship, sacrifice 457 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 5: always accompanied worship. And when Moses went to say, let 458 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 5: my people go to Pharaoh so that we can go 459 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 5: and worship, but they had to take the livestock with 460 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 5: them to be able to sacrifice. So sacrifice and worship 461 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 5: our hand in hand. That I think even when when 462 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 5: Sunday morning, you think, well, what does it costs on 463 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 5: a Sunday morning, or every day when you're at home 464 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 5: worshiping the Lord, but you are setting aside time you're 465 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 5: getting lost in just in love with the one that 466 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 5: you love, like praising and worshiping the Lord, and there 467 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 5: is a place of just being abandoned to Him and God. 468 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 5: It doesn't matter what's going on in my life. It's 469 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 5: just you're going to come through. You are the one 470 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 5: I adore. You are the one that my eyes and 471 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 5: my gaze are fixed upon you. My ears are tuned 472 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 5: because had Abraham not had his ears are tuned to 473 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 5: the spirit. When the Angel spoke and said, Abraham, Abraham, 474 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 5: you know, don't hurt your son, don't touch your son. 475 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 5: He had to hear, and then he had to see. 476 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 5: And God calls our ears to be in a place 477 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 5: where we can hear, and our eyes to be where 478 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 5: we can see, and to keep our eyes so fixed 479 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 5: upon him. He's the author and the finish of our faith. 480 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 5: And I believe he does want to just pour out 481 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 5: so much blessing that we cannot contain it. But worship 482 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 5: is always going to be key in encountering the Lord. 483 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 6: Wow. 484 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 4: Wow. So if you're out there you're thinking about starting 485 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 4: a business, she just told you shed you just laid 486 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 4: out a business plan right there. Here's what you need 487 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 4: to do, and here's the things that you need to 488 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 4: put into place. And I love these, I love I 489 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 4: love how God shows us, reveals to us. But how 490 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 4: important we get so we get so caught up with 491 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 4: the things of the things of the day, things of 492 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 4: the world, that we we just kind of scoot those 493 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 4: things off and we don't go back into the Word, 494 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 4: or again we give up. He could have gave up 495 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 4: and and and and not. Uh, I don't know. It's 496 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 4: just it says, Wow, what a what a powerful story. 497 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 4: And there's even things in there that every time, every 498 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 4: time you read it, every time you read a story 499 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 4: within the Word, you kind of learned something new that 500 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 4: that that God maybe reveals, you know, the Holy Spirit 501 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 4: reveals something different to you, or in a even in 502 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 4: a deeper, a deeper way. What would you what would 503 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 4: you say to people that are maybe starting a business 504 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 4: or thinking of starting a business and comparing it to 505 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 4: this right here, how would you how would you navigate that? Well? 506 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 5: I would say, first, even before I answer that, you know, 507 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 5: when Abraham first was told that he's going to have 508 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 5: a son, and it's not going to be that his 509 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 5: inheritance wasn't going to be going to. 510 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 4: His name delate. 511 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 5: I don't even know how to pronounce his name right, 512 00:31:55,480 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 5: but anyways, pretend I did. And but that it's confirmed 513 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 5: that no, you're going to have a son, and that 514 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 5: you know that will be your own seed. And it 515 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 5: says after that he took animals and he cut them 516 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 5: in half. And there's an important part in there, and 517 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 5: I never really paid much attention to it, but it 518 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,400 Speaker 5: says he had to drive off the birds that were coming, 519 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 5: the prey that was coming to eat the sacrifice. And 520 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 5: I thought, how many times when we're worshiping and your sacrifice, 521 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 5: Like there's a sacrifice and you're worshiping, you know, and 522 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 5: it's something costly, you're you know, you're having a bad day, 523 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 5: your work is crazy, and yet you're saying, Lord, I'm 524 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 5: just going to go and spend an hour, two hours, 525 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 5: whatever it may be. I just need to be with you. 526 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 5: I need to hear from you. I just need to 527 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 5: love on you. And how many times those birds that 528 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 5: come to try to take away your worship, take away 529 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 5: what you're doing. And it says Abraham showed them away, 530 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 5: And I thought, we need to shoe away the things 531 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 5: that will come to try to stop your worship, to 532 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 5: stop your time with the Lord and to get glean 533 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 5: revelation from the Lord. It's very hard to get revelation 534 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 5: from the Lord when you were just reading ten minutes here, 535 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 5: ten minutes there. But to absolutely set aside time because 536 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 5: in order to worship back in the Old Testament, it 537 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 5: required time. You had to repair the altar. And there's 538 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 5: a lot of places in us I feel like there's 539 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 5: repairs that need to take place. And because we've been 540 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:40,520 Speaker 5: wounded in churches, We've been wounded by family friends, you know, 541 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 5: we've been just and Christians are the worst for shooting 542 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 5: the wounded. And I just feel like even in that 543 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 5: I'm kind of rabbit trailing a little bit, but that 544 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 5: we need to become unified as the body of Christ. 545 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 5: And you know, we are a strong, vast army when 546 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 5: we lock arms and we lift one another up. And 547 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 5: to be the brother I just quick with David. It 548 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 5: said after he was anointed. You know, I'm sure his 549 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 5: brothers were very well, they were very jealous, it says, 550 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 5: but it says that that they would bicker with him 551 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 5: when he came out to kill Goliath, you know, and oh, 552 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 5: you know, what are you coming to do and like 553 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 5: kind of be littling, mocking, making fun of him. But 554 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 5: it was so interesting to me that when David then 555 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 5: is running from King Saul and he has his Mighty Men, 556 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 5: that his brothers became part of the Mighty Men. And 557 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:48,240 Speaker 5: I'm like, Lord, let those brothers that have been filled 558 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 5: with jealousy, like I want to be king, I want 559 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 5: to be on the platform, I want to lead worship, 560 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:59,760 Speaker 5: I want to whatever I And instead it's like, Lord, 561 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,239 Speaker 5: what place do you have me? Where would you want 562 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 5: me to be. I may not be the owner of 563 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,760 Speaker 5: a business, but God, if I can help that business 564 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 5: get to the next level. But God, if you do 565 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,799 Speaker 5: want me to be a business owner. Whatever, Lord, bring 566 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,319 Speaker 5: those people that are going to lock arms with you 567 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,799 Speaker 5: to help you get to that next level. And so 568 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:24,040 Speaker 5: I just think that's just a beautiful story. Yeah, because 569 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,759 Speaker 5: they had to have humbled themselves to be able to 570 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 5: come and be under his authority. 571 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,239 Speaker 4: Wow, isn't that something you know? And guys, again, the 572 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,600 Speaker 4: ignite Christian business, Really, that's that's kind of our heart. 573 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,920 Speaker 4: We want to be able to be there for people, 574 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 4: not only successful business owners, but those people that are 575 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 4: starting out. How do you do this, how do you 576 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,400 Speaker 4: take the next step? We want to be there for you. 577 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 4: We want to be able to help you, guys take 578 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,920 Speaker 4: that next step and bring even the resources or the 579 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 4: people that can help. I remember I talk about this 580 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,040 Speaker 4: all the time, but I remember it like it was yesterday. 581 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 4: When we first started in business, there was absolutely it 582 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 4: just felt like we were on this island all by ourselves. 583 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,360 Speaker 4: It didn't know what we were doing. We kind of 584 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,600 Speaker 4: didn't know what we were doing, but we knew we 585 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 4: were doing the right thing. But there almost wasn't that help. 586 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 4: There wasn't that Even when we asked other even other believers, 587 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 4: you know, how do you how do you do this? 588 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 4: It just wasn't much of a an answer. There wasn't 589 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,880 Speaker 4: a direction. And you know, you try to seek wisdom, 590 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:37,319 Speaker 4: you try to seek understanding on what to do. That 591 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 4: really is is kind of the the heart cry for 592 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 4: for Ignite And you guys need to check check out 593 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,240 Speaker 4: a little bit more. Go go to ignite dashcb dot com. 594 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,040 Speaker 4: You'll find a lot of great information there. But but 595 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 4: let's get back to that story. That that story of 596 00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:01,000 Speaker 4: the story of David just going up, going up, and 597 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 4: and he was he wasn't going there to fight Goliath. 598 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 4: He was going there too because he answered the call 599 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,800 Speaker 4: of his of his father, to take his brother's lunch, 600 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:18,000 Speaker 4: right snacks, some some cheese and crackers or whatever it is. 601 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 4: And and and he goes up there and is almost 602 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,440 Speaker 4: I don't want to say embarrassed, but he can't believe 603 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,720 Speaker 4: that no one has taken a stand against this, this philistine. 604 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 4: But yet there he is, and and and the leadership, 605 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 4: the leadership even within him, the boldness uh to be 606 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:46,600 Speaker 4: able to step out, step up, and and and conquer 607 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:51,760 Speaker 4: a giant, kill a giant. What a What a story 608 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:56,840 Speaker 4: right there? What a what a testimony of of just 609 00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,120 Speaker 4: doing it, just going, just doing that. I mean, he 610 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 4: didn't plan it. He didn't have a he didn't have 611 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:07,799 Speaker 4: a business plan, he didn't have an attack plan. He 612 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,400 Speaker 4: just had that thing in his heart. And and and 613 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:15,120 Speaker 4: sometimes I don't know, I just I'm not saying you 614 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,279 Speaker 4: don't need a business plan. I'm not. I'm not. Don't 615 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:21,399 Speaker 4: take that wrong, But I'm saying there's sometimes where when 616 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,719 Speaker 4: God lays something on your heart, I think you just 617 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,920 Speaker 4: need to step out and go and just do it. 618 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,920 Speaker 4: And that was David at that time. He didn't he 619 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,280 Speaker 4: didn't strategize with anybody else on how to go slay 620 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,319 Speaker 4: this giant. He knew exactly what he did because of 621 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:43,600 Speaker 4: the past experiences that he had with slaying a bear, 622 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,279 Speaker 4: a lion. I can't remember what else was there, but 623 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,880 Speaker 4: just to take either one of those, and that's a 624 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,319 Speaker 4: that's a that's a pretty good track record right there. 625 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,959 Speaker 4: And he goes and he does the exact same thing. 626 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,560 Speaker 4: But that boldness that he has, he stepped out and 627 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,759 Speaker 4: he did it, and oh my gosh. You know, I'm 628 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:10,520 Speaker 4: thinking of today's world, how many times we would we 629 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 4: would start to weigh the the you know, this is this, 630 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,719 Speaker 4: this challenge is too big. He's too he's a it's 631 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,160 Speaker 4: too big. I can't I can't do it. I'll never 632 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,880 Speaker 4: I'll never do that. And he didn't go and ask everybody, 633 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,239 Speaker 4: because look at look at what would happen if David 634 00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:32,040 Speaker 4: would have asked his brothers, asked all the people, all 635 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:36,239 Speaker 4: those mighty military people. Look what would have happened. Look 636 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:41,399 Speaker 4: at all the bad, negative influence, all those different things 637 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,360 Speaker 4: that he would have had, and it's like, oh my gosh, 638 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 4: but he stepped up and just did it. What a story. 639 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 5: Well, and I'm just thinking of when David was, when 640 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:59,880 Speaker 5: he was so he's against Goliath and he's I thought it, 641 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,840 Speaker 5: it's interesting how it mentions that he's a small ruddy boy, 642 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,400 Speaker 5: and so that would even make it that much greater 643 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,040 Speaker 5: for the giant, you know, to be able to annihilate 644 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,880 Speaker 5: a small ruddy boy, like there was nothing to his size, 645 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,520 Speaker 5: but the faith and the heart of him was obviously 646 00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,600 Speaker 5: so in tune with the spirit of God. But none 647 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,480 Speaker 5: of that could have happened, I don't believe without the 648 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,799 Speaker 5: anointing of the Lord upon him. And he had been 649 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:33,960 Speaker 5: anointed by Samuel to become king at that point. And 650 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:39,319 Speaker 5: so it's just interesting because I think anyone who has 651 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,960 Speaker 5: a business plan from the Lord, a kingdom strategy that 652 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,600 Speaker 5: is released in and through that you may not even know, 653 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,879 Speaker 5: but at the moment you walk into it. He knew 654 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:52,280 Speaker 5: he had a sling, grabbed five stones, and he knew 655 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,000 Speaker 5: that I've got what I need. And with the faith 656 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,759 Speaker 5: and determination and the anointing of the Holy Ghost, he 657 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,440 Speaker 5: went and he's like, how dare you come, you know, 658 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,160 Speaker 5: come against me and against the Lord, and how dare 659 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 5: you defy the Living God? And he just took it 660 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,960 Speaker 5: and believe you know that the Holy Spirit aimed that 661 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,760 Speaker 5: rock right to his head. He falls and he takes 662 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,160 Speaker 5: the sword and severs it like this will not come back. 663 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,640 Speaker 5: There's nothing that can, you know, come back to get 664 00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,000 Speaker 5: us from this giant and it was gone. But I 665 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:25,840 Speaker 5: just really feel like I just want to pray for 666 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,160 Speaker 5: some of the people that are listening. And so Father, 667 00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:33,520 Speaker 5: we thank you, We thank you for your goodness, your mercy, 668 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:38,400 Speaker 5: your love. God, you are the one that never changes. 669 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,600 Speaker 5: You are the same yesterday, today and forever. And what 670 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,280 Speaker 5: you did for Joseph, what you did for David, Lord God, 671 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,759 Speaker 5: you will do. And what you did for Abraham and 672 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,480 Speaker 5: Isaac and Jacob, you will do for us. So whatever 673 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:57,320 Speaker 5: situation you may find yourself in Jesus, you are more 674 00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,759 Speaker 5: than enough, and that you are at the right hand 675 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,040 Speaker 5: of the Father interceding on our behalf, and that there 676 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:07,080 Speaker 5: is nothing too difficult. You take everything that could be wrong, 677 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,839 Speaker 5: and you bring good from it. Lord, as long as 678 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,000 Speaker 5: we keep our eyes upon you, as long as we 679 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,160 Speaker 5: hear your voice and listen and obey that we walk 680 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,360 Speaker 5: in faith, Lord, you give us the steps are the 681 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,040 Speaker 5: righteous are ordered of you. So Lord, I pray you 682 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:24,600 Speaker 5: order each person, each listener steps. Lord today, God that 683 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,040 Speaker 5: your gifts and your blessings and the fruit and the 684 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,240 Speaker 5: gifts of your spirit are there, Lord for the taking. 685 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,680 Speaker 5: That we reach out and we grab and we take 686 00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,040 Speaker 5: a hold of that which you have said to take 687 00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,480 Speaker 5: a hold of. Lord and God, that we apply kingdom strategies, 688 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,080 Speaker 5: kingdom principles to our lives. Lord, that we seek first 689 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,839 Speaker 5: the Kingdom of God and your righteousness and everything will 690 00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,279 Speaker 5: be added to us. So Lord, we thank you that 691 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,000 Speaker 5: you never disappoint that even in the time of testing 692 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:58,360 Speaker 5: and trials. Lord, God, the end is always worth going 693 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,120 Speaker 5: through the testing and the trial, because Lord, you refine 694 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,880 Speaker 5: us in the fire, and Lord that we come out 695 00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,640 Speaker 5: like pure gold. So Lord we pray make us stronger, 696 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,400 Speaker 5: make us more like You, and everything we say, in 697 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,759 Speaker 5: everything we do, let our lives be pleasing to you. 698 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:19,600 Speaker 5: Take away hurt, take away wounds. Lord, we say, grab it, 699 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,960 Speaker 5: take it from the roots, Lord, and just tear it 700 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,000 Speaker 5: out of us. Let us love as you love, and 701 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,239 Speaker 5: let us hate what you hate. And God be glorified, 702 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,960 Speaker 5: be magnified in our families, in our marriages, in our businesses. 703 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:38,680 Speaker 5: Lord God, we pray that we become successful generous lovers 704 00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:42,040 Speaker 5: of you, that we never put anything in front of you, 705 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,360 Speaker 5: no idols, no love of money, of self. Lord, that 706 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,960 Speaker 5: we give you all the honor, all the glory, all 707 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,120 Speaker 5: the praises do your name. So we thank you, Lord, 708 00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,320 Speaker 5: and we just bless your holy, wonderful name and holy Spirit. 709 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,160 Speaker 5: As you came upon David, as you were upon Joseph, 710 00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:04,040 Speaker 5: as you are upon us, Lord, your children, we pray 711 00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,279 Speaker 5: increase the anointing, Lord, to do what you've called each 712 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:11,640 Speaker 5: of us to do. Where we've been anointed. God, you 713 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,280 Speaker 5: are opening doors that no man can shut, and shutting 714 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,879 Speaker 5: doors that we don't want to open. So Father, thank 715 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,680 Speaker 5: you for your favor. And we say Lord that we 716 00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,400 Speaker 5: would grow in favor and stature with both God and men. 717 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,040 Speaker 5: Let it be even revealed today in your name. 718 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:31,799 Speaker 4: Amen. Amen, guys, we love being with you. Kingdom Strategies, Wow, 719 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,480 Speaker 4: I love that. I love that word that you used. Guys, 720 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:39,480 Speaker 4: keep the faith. Remember what you do today determines your 721 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,120 Speaker 4: success for tomorrow. Go out and go out and conquer. 722 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:45,080 Speaker 4: Go out and change your business, change your world, change 723 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,120 Speaker 4: the people around you. We love being with you. 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