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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: How many want to receive the Word of God today?

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Speaker 1: How many want a fresh, big Bible lesson today? All right,

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Speaker 1: if you're not standing, stand up for a moment. If

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Speaker 1: you are standing, remain that way in the upright position,

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Speaker 1: and we're about to take off. Look at Exodus chapter

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Speaker 1: twelve with me. Thank you for your spirit Lord. Put

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Speaker 1: that in the chat. Thank you for your spirit Lord.

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Speaker 1: Welcome all over the world. We welcome you. Let us

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Speaker 1: know where you're joining from right now, where you're worshiping from,

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Speaker 1: not watching worshiping. I'm a participator. I'm not a spectator.

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Speaker 1: I want to get in on it, what God is

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Speaker 1: doing in the season. I don't want to be left out.

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Speaker 1: Look at this scripture. I mentioned it last week. I

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Speaker 1: told you that last week when I preached on comfort food,

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Speaker 1: I had a tupperwaar anointing. And so hopefully your fridge

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Speaker 1: has been stocked this week, and you've been able to

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Speaker 1: nibble on what you need. That's a goal anyway, then,

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Speaker 1: and I want to go back into one of the

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Speaker 1: passages that I mentioned and really really see what God

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Speaker 1: is saying to me. Please help me, Lord, as you

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Speaker 1: lavished your word on me, helped me to access it

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Speaker 1: now for your people who needed. Exodus twelve thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: the Israelites journeyed from Ramses to Suckott. There are about

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Speaker 1: and many other people went up with them, and also

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Speaker 1: large droves of livestock, both flocks and herts. With the

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Speaker 1: dough the Israelites had brought. With the dough the Israelite

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Speaker 1: had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unloven bread.

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Speaker 1: They baked loaves of unloven bread with the dough that

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Speaker 1: they brought from Egypt. All right, lean into this, it's

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Speaker 1: getting good. You smell the bread, all right, here it comes.

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Speaker 1: The dough was without yeast because they had been driven

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Speaker 1: to the very day, all the Lord's divisions left Egypt

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Speaker 1: because the Lord kept vigil. Somebody say, God is looking

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Speaker 1: out for me. That's not my sermon, but I needed

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Speaker 1: to underscore it real quick in case you've been wondering lately.

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Speaker 1: The Lord kept vigil. That means you don't have to

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Speaker 1: watch all the things all the time Lord kept vigil.

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Speaker 1: The Bible said, he doesn't slumber or sleep, so that

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Speaker 1: means you ought to get some rest. Tell somebody take

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Speaker 1: that night to bring them out of Egypt. On this night,

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Speaker 1: all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the

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Speaker 1: Lord for generations to come. I wanted you to get

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Speaker 1: the full context, but really I want to go off

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Speaker 1: And I want to give you two titles that you

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Speaker 1: can choose from. The first is more descriptive. It says

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Speaker 1: on this title, we could say what God left out?

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Speaker 1: What God left out? If you like your titles a

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Speaker 1: little on the spicy side, we're gonna call this little

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Speaker 1: sermon flat bread faith, Flat bread faith. Serve your word

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Speaker 1: to the people, and use me as a waiter God

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Speaker 1: in Jesus' name, Amen, Amen, what God left out? You

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Speaker 1: never really tell anybody everything, not even yourself, not even God.

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Speaker 1: Self awareness is an ongoing process. You tell yourself the

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Speaker 1: we're all revisionist historians. So when we compile how certain

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Speaker 1: Revisionist history. It's like you leave certain things out, you

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Speaker 1: our life doing a revisionist history. And another thing, if

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Speaker 1: not mandatory, it's recommended, we're all reductionists. Wow. And that's

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Speaker 1: when we take something that's incredibly complicated and make it

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Speaker 1: I like that, but sometimes I have noticed that I

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Speaker 1: oversimplify what is actually very complicated. I'm preaching to you today.

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Speaker 1: I came over, I came over. I brought a big

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Speaker 1: But then I also sometimes overcomplicate what is really pretty simple,

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Speaker 1: make is to think you already know what you're reading.

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Speaker 1: You miss all kinds of stuff when you take out

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Speaker 1: the parts revisionists, you take out the parts that make

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Speaker 1: you feel uncomfortable, take out the parts that you don't

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Speaker 1: to something that is palatable. You can't take all of

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Speaker 1: the tension out of the truth. You can't. Well, you can,

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Speaker 1: but you're not going to have a strong faith that way.

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Speaker 1: You'll be weak. Then anytime something happens that doesn't clearly

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Speaker 1: any shield to protect you from the attacks of the enemy.

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Speaker 1: I need a little help online. This room's kind of

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Speaker 1: sleepy today. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we all

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Speaker 1: do it. We all do it. I tell people sometimes

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Speaker 1: how our church started. But I don't tell him everything

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Speaker 1: And secondly, there are some things I don't even remember.

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Speaker 1: We were we drove about eight hours and we drove

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Speaker 1: Adrian's this big intimidating god. This He used to throw

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Speaker 1: Great man of God, great passion. I looked up to him.

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Speaker 1: You ever hear Adrian do the four chairs? He had

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Speaker 1: this one sermon he would put sticks down his pants.

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Speaker 1: of God. He told me. I blocked some of this

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Speaker 1: for him, like, Man of God. You didn't You left

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Speaker 1: Y'all thought I was just having a random flashback, like

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Speaker 1: it out. Today, I don't want to talk to you

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Speaker 1: they were not in Egypt because of something they did wrong.

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Speaker 1: was filled with compassion. He ran to his son. Can

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Speaker 1: you believe this undignified decision of a great wealthy man

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Speaker 1: who has hired servants to run toward his son who

429
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Speaker 1: wasted his money. I see the son getting his speech

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Speaker 1: ready because he didn't expect to see his father until

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Speaker 1: he rounded the corner. But before he could get all

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Speaker 1: these things out of his mouth, I'm not worthy, Make

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Speaker 1: me a servant. I'm so horrible. Before he could get

434
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Speaker 1: to any of that, the father said to his servants. Quick,

435
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Speaker 1: bring the best road, put it on him, put a

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Speaker 1: ring on his finger, sandals on his feet. Way to

437
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Speaker 1: have a speech to give you where I'm going to

438
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Speaker 1: relist all the bad things I did. Huh. I hear

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00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: God saying leave that out. That's not what this moment

440
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Speaker 1: is about. That's not why I'm convicting you so I

441
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Speaker 1: can just so that I can just crush you under

442
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Speaker 1: the weight to bad decisions. I know you got a

443
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Speaker 1: lot of those thoughts too, But if I'm hearing God right,

444
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 1: he's saying, lead that out. Wow, I don't know you

445
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: by those things that you identify yourself by. Lead that out.

446
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: Stop introducing yourself to the next season of your life

447
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: with the resume of your regrets from the last one.

448
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: Leave that out. Leave it out, leave it out, leave

449
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Speaker 1: it out, leave it out, leave it out. You know

450
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Speaker 1: when you go in your mind and you're like, I

451
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Speaker 1: think God is calling me to do but da da

452
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Speaker 1: da leave that out. Go back to the first thing

453
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Speaker 1: you said and make a little sandwich with the last

454
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Speaker 1: thing God has said, and leave out whatever you put

455
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Speaker 1: in between, because that's the space for you to believe. Right.

456
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Speaker 1: I thought you were going to talk about this ointment.

457
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Speaker 1: I am talking about disappointment. The Father had every right

458
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Speaker 1: to be disappointed in the sun, but he left that out.

459
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: He left that out. And I wonder why are we

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Speaker 1: so quick to put stuff back on people that God

461
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Speaker 1: is leaving out. God doesn't talk to them like that.

462
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Speaker 1: God doesn't see them like that. God doesn't judge them

463
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Speaker 1: like that. And we do leave it out next time

464
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Speaker 1: this week, you get a little something in you. It

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Speaker 1: feels real good. Right, you're gonna say something bad about

466
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Speaker 1: somebody you know, Oh, well, they're good, you know. And

467
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Speaker 1: I heard shine to leave it out. I hope y'all

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Speaker 1: make a meme out of me. I hope y'all make

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Speaker 1: a meme out of me. Leave it out, leave it out,

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Speaker 1: leave it out, leave it out, put your little speech off,

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Speaker 1: put your little self righteous thing. And so we don't

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Speaker 1: know what to leave out. And God's trying to send

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Speaker 1: us right the Holy Spirit, but we need too many details.

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Speaker 1: And because we will not leave the details in the

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Speaker 1: hands of God, we cannot receive what He has given

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Speaker 1: us for this moment. So there come moments in your life,

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Speaker 1: And I wonder are you in one right now, right

478
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Speaker 1: now where God is saying I'm calling you out of Egypt.

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Speaker 1: But you can't wait for the red to rize. You

480
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Speaker 1: can't wait for everything to be perfect. You can't wait

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Speaker 1: for everything to be convenient. You can't wait for everybody

482
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Speaker 1: to cheer you on. You can't wait till it makes

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Speaker 1: total sense. You can't wait till it comes on paper.

484
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Speaker 1: You can't wait till you have the facts. You can't

485
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Speaker 1: wait until you have more strength. You can't wait until

486
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Speaker 1: you have more wisdom. You can't wait till you have

487
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Speaker 1: the trophy. You gotta celebrate right now. You gotta go

488
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Speaker 1: right now. You gotta have faith, flat bed, flat bread faith.

489
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Speaker 1: Almost have flat bed like a big truck backing up

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Speaker 1: beat beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, with the blessings of God.

491
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Speaker 1: But does he have anywhere to put him? Flatbred faith,

492
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Speaker 1: flatbread faith. I don't know what to call the sermon,

493
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Speaker 1: But do you have anywhere for it? Or are you scrolling?

494
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Speaker 1: At the same time I'm preaching and you don't even

495
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Speaker 1: have a place in your heart? The thorns are growing

496
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Speaker 1: at the same time the seed is hidden the soil.

497
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Speaker 1: Jesus of Nazareth, come and preach to these people. I

498
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Speaker 1: need you, Lord, It's amazing. Well God sends to your life,

499
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Speaker 1: and you know he does. For he sends, he takes

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Speaker 1: something away, and in between. Your job is to believe

501
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: that something better is coming. She said, I'm leaving you

502
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Speaker 1: in the body. I'm sending my spirit. I want you

503
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Speaker 1: to go. What verses it? Star? What versues it? Give me?

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Speaker 1: Acts one? Fourteen? Is it? Maybe fourteen? He said, wait

505
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Speaker 1: for the Holy Spirit. Leave a blank for the part

506
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Speaker 1: that you don't know about right now. Oh God, how's

507
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Speaker 1: my kid going to turn out? And what college are

508
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: they going to go into? They're three? Your baby is three.

509
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Speaker 1: You can put Duke Jammy's on them all you want,

510
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Speaker 1: but they might go to you. N see, you can't

511
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Speaker 1: control that. It's a regional joke. But on fourteen fourteen?

512
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Speaker 1: Acts one fourteen? What is it? Star? A bunch of names?

513
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Speaker 1: They together joined together. They all join together constantly in prayer,

514
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Speaker 1: along with with the woman and Mary. No, because that's

515
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Speaker 1: who was there, Mary and the mother and all that

516
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Speaker 1: other people. Go back to the thirteen maybe when ye

517
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Speaker 1: when they arrived they went upstairs to the the room.

518
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Speaker 1: Why did they go to the room to what? He said?

519
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: They went to the room to receive. Do you have

520
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: room to receive. Do you have the right people in place?

521
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: Because I do want to preach a sermon one of

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Speaker 1: these weeks here early in the year about seasonal people,

523
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Speaker 1: and I will, God permitting, I will, God permitting, I will.

524
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Speaker 1: But let's start with the place. You know, you're the temple.

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Speaker 1: Crazy to me, however many times I read the scripture,

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Speaker 1: I just miss it until I make more room in

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Speaker 1: my heart to receive it. You know, It's like I

528
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Speaker 1: read this verse a million times where it said you

529
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Speaker 1: are always with me. All that I have is yours.

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Speaker 1: And I love that verse. You're always with me, all

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Speaker 1: that I have is yours. It's like a great thing

532
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: to pray. Right, God, you are always with me. All

533
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Speaker 1: that I have is yours. And just when JJ and

534
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: gregging them, they had their campus pastor meeting the other day,

535
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Speaker 1: and I zoomed on in the h I was thinking,

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Speaker 1: in the room where it happens, in the zoom where

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Speaker 1: it happens, well, lin Manuel, annoying the apostle lin Manuel.

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Speaker 1: Miranda once said, I want to be in the zoom

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Speaker 1: where it happens. Well. When I was talking to y'all,

540
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: the verse came to me, you were always with me

541
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Speaker 1: all I have is yours. When I told you that verse,

542
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Speaker 1: I left something out. I left out who said it,

543
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Speaker 1: because it sounds like something we say to God. I

544
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: wrote a song with some friends, but I started it

545
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: in my basement one night. I don't like the way

546
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Speaker 1: my voice sounds that much, Like sometimes it sounds good

547
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Speaker 1: in a certain range, but in other parts. I just

548
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: don't like to hear it that much. But it's okay

549
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: in a certain range, you know. And I said that

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Speaker 1: that way on purpose because one time I said on

551
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Speaker 1: stage I'm not a singer, and Holly said, next time

552
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Speaker 1: you talk about that, leave that out. Did you ever

553
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Speaker 1: say you're not a singer again? I got scared, like

554
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: God might give me nodules or throat cancer or something

555
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: if I said it. I was like, okay, I'm to

556
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Speaker 1: leave that out. But the fact is I have to

557
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Speaker 1: go in this big echoe room to sing, and then

558
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: I'll send these memos to Chris. He can tell you

559
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: and and different people. And I wrote the thing that

560
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Speaker 1: said I am available. I hear you call I am available.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't many notes, but it was just a thought. And

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Speaker 1: a little while later we got together with some friends

563
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Speaker 1: and some different things came together and the song is

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Speaker 1: something that we recorded. We sang it earlier in the

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Speaker 1: in the service that I was in the part of

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Speaker 1: the song that really touches me says, here I am

567
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 1: you can have it all. And that's a great prayer.

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Speaker 1: In fact, right now where you are, just put your

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Speaker 1: pen down and take in notes, your phone, all that,

570
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Speaker 1: and just lift your hands like like like like this,

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Speaker 1: like lift it, lift it up and say, here I

572
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Speaker 1: am you can have it all, as a song of render.

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Speaker 1: Now put your hands down. I love something out in

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Speaker 1: the text that wasn't something that someone said to God.

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Speaker 1: It was something that the father said to the son.

576
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Speaker 1: And when I show you this, it's going to flip

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Speaker 1: how you're going to be living this week. In Luke

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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty one, the father said to the son, the

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Speaker 1: older brother, the one who wouldn't celebrate, not the one

580
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Speaker 1: who wasted money, but the one who was wasting his life.

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Speaker 1: He said, my son, you are always with me, and

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Speaker 1: everything I have is yours. So I was thinking, the

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Speaker 1: next time we sing available, we can sing the same words,

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Speaker 1: but we can sing them instead of with our hands

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Speaker 1: like this, Here I am you can have it all.

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00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: Now I want you to do this with me. We

587
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: can sing them with our hands like this, because that's

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00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 1: what the Father is saying to you. You are always

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Speaker 1: with me, and all I have is yours. All I

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Speaker 1: have is yours. Some of the clothes Elijah wears are

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Speaker 1: from my closet. That's all right. All I have is yours.

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Speaker 1: The ones in your closet are mine too, if you

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Speaker 1: want to get technical about it. All I have is yours.

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Speaker 1: And have it changed my thing? Because I always thought

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Speaker 1: it was this this, this, this, you know, like you

596
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: can have it God, And God's like, yeah, that's a

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00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:48,439
Speaker 1: real good deal for me. You can have it. Oh God.

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Speaker 1: God's like, thanks, well, I'll bargain my blood for your broken.

599
00:37:55,920 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: But if you flip it and you say here I am,

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Speaker 1: here I am, you can have it all. What if

601
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 1: God is saying that to you while you're saying it

602
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Speaker 1: to him. The power of that point was in what

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Speaker 1: I left out. I didn't tell you that the Father

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Speaker 1: said it to the son, so you thought you were

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00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: supposed to say it to the father. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: it's by grace. God's bringing you into a grace space.

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00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: Everything that's being removed is making room for you to receive.

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Speaker 1: There was no yeast in the loaf. God didn't want

609
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: Egypt's yeast in your life for this next season, and

610
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 1: he wanted them to eat it, to eat the Passover

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Speaker 1: meal every year right to remember not only what God

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Speaker 1: brought them out of, but it was to remind them

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Speaker 1: to have flat bread faith that if you don't have enough,

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Speaker 1: that's all right, you can still eat flat bread. Y'all

615
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: are too luxurious. I'm telling you right now, y'all need

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Speaker 1: a bubble bath blessing. Look at me, some people need

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Speaker 1: a yeast roll. Word of God. It's got to be

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Speaker 1: buttered like you wanted. You ever go to Quincy's with

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Speaker 1: a big fat yeast roll, wasn't it. Quincy's was a Quincy's.

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Speaker 1: Some of y'all need the yeast roll blessing. Some of

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Speaker 1: y'all need the Christy kream blessing. But how many of

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00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: y'all got flat bread faith and that kind of faith?

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Speaker 1: Watch this, somebody somewhere is didn't this cause that's like

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00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: I didn't have enough. But somehow this is the fish

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00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: and the loaves in the New Testament. This is David

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Speaker 1: with one I see David showing up to the battle lives.

627
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: I see you showing up to your life with one stone,

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Speaker 1: five foot seven, looking small next to a nine foot philistine.

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Speaker 1: But I got flat bread. I got cheese and bread

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Speaker 1: for my brothers, and I got a rock, gotta knockout

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Speaker 1: a bear, and I gotta praise that will stut depressing.

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Speaker 1: Flat bread faith, flat bed for flat bed, flat bread.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. Get God to praise.

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Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no stop. You think we're

635
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Speaker 1: praising him because of what God gave us. We're praising

636
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Speaker 1: God because of what he took out, what he removed,

637
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Speaker 1: what he proomed from Lord Room. We got flat bread faith.

638
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: We're going into Canaan, Egypt. This is not our emotional home,

639
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:53,280
Speaker 1: and the wilderness is not our destination. Flat bread faith.

640
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: What God leaves out is what makes you a masterpiece.

641
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:08,760
Speaker 1: They said six hundred thousand left Egypt, and they didn't

642
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: count the women and children or the rabble. But it

643
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: was the rabble. They didn't count what they left out

644
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: of the number that cost them in the wilderness. You

645
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: see how it works. That's what God leaves out. I'm

646
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: not a great singer, you know that's awesome. I'm not

647
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: a great singer. It made me surround myself with great singers.

648
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 1: See how it goes. I told we had a board

649
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: meeting the other day where we oversee the direction of

650
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: the future of the church, and it was amazing to

651
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: celebrate what God has done. In a global pandemic, with

652
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: the inability to open most of our campuses to full capacity,

653
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: God still grew us how I don't know. He left

654
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 1: out what I thought we needed, and he gave us

655
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Speaker 1: what we didn't know to ask for. True for you too.

656
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: And I told Holly it was all these numbers and

657
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: chunks as our CFO. And he started the church with

658
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Speaker 1: me chunks, and Amy started the church with me in Holly.

659
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Speaker 1: And I was telling Holly afterwards how my eyes went

660
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: blurry while he was going through the numbers just a blessing.

661
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: I was blurry with the blessings of God and a

662
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,240
Speaker 1: little zoned out to me. I like words more than numbers.

663
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Speaker 1: But that's another thing I said one time preaching, I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a business man, I'm a preacher. Holly said,

665
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Speaker 1: leave that out. You are a businessman. You're everything God

666
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: called you to be. He built a great ministry. Dog's

667
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: annoying you so I never said it again until just

668
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: now to tell you that I've never said it again.

669
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Speaker 1: It's not true. And I was telling Holly when we

670
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Speaker 1: were we went on a walk just to decompress before

671
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Speaker 1: I started getting into the sermon, and Holly I said, Holly,

672
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: it's amazing that God sent us chunks. And Amy, I said,

673
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: it's just amazing, I said, I told her this. I said,

674
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Speaker 1: even what makes him get on my nerves is what

675
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: makes him so great for us to partner in the gospel.

676
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: Sometimes you'll run up to me talking about I'll be

677
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,320
Speaker 1: working on a book or a song or something and

678
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: be like, are we ready to put it on Spotify?

679
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, on Spotify, I hadn't even finished the verse yet.

680
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: I don't even have a second verse. That's what makes

681
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: us great is what God left out of me. What

682
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 1: God left out of me, he put in him. Now,

683
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, You're complete in Christ. So if

684
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Speaker 1: a person leaves you, God is always faithful. That's not

685
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But when we said the disappointment, when

686
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 1: we said the deficit, that's just the way you frame it. Yes,

687
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: the place of the deficit will be the place of deposit.

688
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: That's why we carry the unlovened bread. That's why we

689
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Speaker 1: still eat it, just to remember, Oh God, well I

690
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: didn't have I didn't have yeast in the bread. Then

691
00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: I don't have money in the bank. Now I don't

692
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 1: have this wis here, I don't have this experience here.

693
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: That's why you carry around that bread, and that's why

694
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 1: you eat it to remind yourself that God's presence is

695
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: often most evident in what he left out. We love

696
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: to celebrate what he gives us. If he gave you

697
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Speaker 1: a new house, praise him. I've received God's blessings in

698
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Speaker 1: my home and my cars and all of those things.

699
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Speaker 1: But sometimes what he left out makes it special. And

700
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: sometimes you got to leave with what you have. I

701
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 1: don't mean to leave your church, leave your marriage, leave

702
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: your home. You'll quit misinterpret in my scripture before I

703
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:36,479
Speaker 1: can even post it on Facebook. I'm saying that in you,

704
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: that's the grace space. What is that space for you?

705
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Speaker 1: I'm not good at that. I didn't learn that. I

706
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: didn't have a dad to teach me that that's the

707
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: grace space. Beautiful what God leaves out. I think of

708
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: it musically, you know, I'm a songwriter. And it took

709
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: me a long time to say that, but because I

710
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: didn't think I was good at everything. But God surrounds you,

711
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 1: like like LJ came from Toronto. I needed someone who

712
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: came and knew all of the hymns, and God sent

713
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Speaker 1: us l J. Praise God for him. He's amazing. You're amazing.

714
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: And all the people who used to sit on a

715
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 1: piano playing when I was preaching, you know, they were

716
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: great too. But then God sent an LJ, and he's awesome.

717
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: Play me real quick. I know this is way beyond

718
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: your capabilities. I don't know all the right terms, but

719
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: just play like a major scale. What key is that

720
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Speaker 1: the what are the actual notes? D Let's just do

721
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: the numbers one, two, three, four, five six. I can

722
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: play the notes, so don't always know what to call one, two, three,

723
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:58,919
Speaker 1: four five? When did you played again? That's the major skill?

724
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: Play again one two three four No, no, no no, no,

725
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: do it again. First one. That's the first one. That's

726
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: a major scale. K D. Leave out play one the

727
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:26,720
Speaker 1: one in the four right, Uh play the other ones.

728
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: Mum hmmm, do it again, five, six, and uh again

729
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: drop the five. Uh that's the six. Do the six,

730
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: one four six six. Oh that sounds like something. Uh

731
00:46:51,440 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 1: uh again, just the one, four and six done. Uh uh,

732
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: may see grace one four, sax six. Nuh then grace,

733
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: do all the notes again. That's a scale. Leave out

734
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: the other ones to do the one force. That's a song.

735
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: What turned the scale into a song wasn't what we

736
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: put in. That's what we left out. God said, I

737
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: brought you out of Egypt, out of shame, out of sin.

738
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 1: Leave it there, leave the rabble there, leave the regret there,

739
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: leave it out, leave it out for Christ, our passover

740
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: lamb has been sacrificed. So now, first Corinthians five seven says,

741
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: let us eat the unleavened bread and get rid of

742
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: the old yeast, so that you may be a new

743
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: unleavened badge. Here's the anointed part. As you really are.

744
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: All that other stuff, somebody make this confession, that's Egypt,

745
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: that's not me. All that take slop that's on you

746
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: when you come round, leave that out. Take that off,

747
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: and leave that out for this next season of your life.

748
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: All you need is the robe from your father's closet,

749
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: the ring on your finger, and somebody. Get ready for

750
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: some unloving bread, because I am about to feast this

751
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: year on the faithfulness of God. How many of you

752
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: have that flat bread faith, that one stone faith that

753
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: I know who I am and I'm chosen faith. Yeah,

754
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: that little boy with five loaves and two fish. If

755
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: you've got flat bread faith, if you've got a praise

756
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: that is not dependent on a circumstance, give it to

757
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: him right now. Come on. It's a grace space. That's

758
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:01,399
Speaker 1: where grace goes. That's where the annoyance goes. That's where

759
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:05,479
Speaker 1: the wisdom of the spirit goes. Right there, right there

760
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: in your ignorance, that's the space for grace. Right there

761
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 1: in your uncertainty, that's the space for grace, right there

762
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,879
Speaker 1: in your addiction, that's the space for grace, right there

763
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: in your heartbreak. They left you because they were not

764
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: of you. And God is bringing something better in the

765
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: grace space, the grace space that you are always with me,

766
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: and all that you have is mind. So whatever you

767
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 1: didn't put in me, you want to fill it yourself.

768
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go,

769
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go, let's go. And no, I don't

770
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:05,240
Speaker 1: have enough yeast. Yeah, but I don't even want Egypt's yeast.

771
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 1: I'm moving forward toward Canaan's grapes. I told you last

772
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: week there is always a funeral before the feast. And

773
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: what God is removing from you right now, it was

774
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: just taking up too much space. I'm not driving a

775
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: mac truck of a Bible verse over your pain. I'll

776
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: never I would never do that. Yes we cry, yes

777
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: we heard, Yes we struggle. I'm doing some of that

778
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,720
Speaker 1: right now in my life. I call that grieving Egypt.

779
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: That's all right. But so now I'm gonna let the

780
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: grief of Egypt cost me the grapes of Canaan. Nah.

781
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: Uh uh uh huh. There are hired men in my

782
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,319
Speaker 1: father's house with food to spair, and here I am

783
00:51:56,360 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 1: starving to death. Get it out, get it out, get

784
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: the resentment out. This year. Yeah, they treated you bad,

785
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: they treated you like crad. What you're gonna do beat

786
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: them up in the mental gymnasium of your own misery,

787
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: and eventually they're gonna get a transported signal that you're mad.

788
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: And it's gonna now you're gonna get an ulcer, an ulcer,

789
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: an ulcer, and a doctor bill. So all the rabble,

790
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,479
Speaker 1: all the things we mentioned, all the things. When God

791
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: is bringing something that we love that we want, we

792
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 1: lose something in the in the process. Wow, but all

793
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: that he has is yours. All that he has is yours.

794
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: So you lack nothing you like? Not that I know.

795
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: I didn't get to all my d's that I said.

796
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: I don't even remember the last one I said. But

797
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: lift your hands right now, everyone's standing. I think we

798
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 1: need to receive this message actively. Yeast is an active ingredient,

799
00:52:56,120 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: So activate your faith for a moment. I'm serious this man.

800
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 1: Your imagination is so crowded and cluttered it's ridiculous. God

801
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 1: gave you a big life, a big vision, but some

802
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: stuff's gotta go now. And I don't know what what

803
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,399
Speaker 1: flesh this will wear for you what I'm about to say,

804
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: But why every time that God makes space in your

805
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: life to do what you asked him to do, why

806
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: do you fill it right back with something he didn't

807
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: give you before he can send it. Why do you

808
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,879
Speaker 1: keep cramming your day like that? What are you doing

809
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: starving to death? Your father has plenty of food, Just

810
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: make room. Why are you already leaving the service in

811
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,280
Speaker 1: your mind? Why are you already back, You're already closing YouTube,

812
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 1: You're already Why why not let this be a great space?

813
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: Why are you standing looking into heaven? Jesus asked the disciples.

814
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: The Angel said the same, Jesus, He's coming back. You

815
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: focused on the wrong thing. Why do you want to

816
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: go back to Pharaoh's fish when you can have canaan scraps.

817
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, listen, this is where we are.

818
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: We're in between, right. We don't have it yet. He

819
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 1: promised it, but we're not really experiencing it yet. That's

820
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 1: all right. That's why I gave you the flatbread. Flatbread

821
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: travels better. You can eat it and remember that the

822
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven is inside of you. Lift those hands again,

823
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: but not like you're giving God something. Read it. Lift

824
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: it like you're reading it from his perspective, where Heaven said,

825
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: all that I have is yours. I want you to

826
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 1: keep your hands lifted. We rush so bad, and our

827
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: rush robs us of our revelation. God's trying to show

828
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: you something. Right now, lift your hands. I want one

829
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 1: of my singers just to begin to minister to you.

830
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,920
Speaker 1: Right now, whatever is in your heart, make a throne,

831
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: Make a throne, Make a space, make a space, make

832
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 1: a praise, make a praise. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord.

833
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: Right here right, that's it. You can have it. An

834
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 1: that's the voice of the Father over you. You ride.

835
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:42,320
Speaker 1: He didn't leave you. He's here in the valley, in

836
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,359
Speaker 1: the mountain you you can have it in the winter,

837
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: in the spring, you can shime you see ever press

838
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: that god. You ride, right, He says, you can have

839
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 1: my joy. You can if you make room for it.

840
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 1: Yeah here I am. Yeah, he didn't leave you. I

841
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 1: promise you. He's running towards you. You can have his piece.

842
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: You can have this jorn, you can have his healing.

843
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,919
Speaker 1: You can have freedom. Why would you go back to fish?

844
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 1: You can have freedom. Come on, you gotta believe this.

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Speaker 1: This is how he feels about you. This is what

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Speaker 1: he says. To make room for it. Get the shame out,

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Speaker 1: get the yeas stock, give the leaven out, get the unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Use your horse, say the Father says, receiving. It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: For zep. You can have it. Get the ring. Get

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Speaker 1: the ring. You're the thing. That's a lot, Sonny, that's

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Speaker 1: my sorrow. Honey, say we the whos she really is.

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Speaker 1: That's my son. You can happen, you can wear it,

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Speaker 1: you can walk, and you can receive them in the

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Speaker 1: light name of Jesus. Received this lesson, received this life.

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Speaker 1: It's yours. It's yours. Go. I know I already preached

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Speaker 1: a lot of scriptures, and I promise you I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to pile more on you. But one thought that

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Speaker 1: I had was when Paul said, one time, make room

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Speaker 1: in your hearts for us. He said that to the

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Speaker 1: church that he didn't get to personally be with, but

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Speaker 1: he wanted to share in God's Word with them, And

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Speaker 1: I feel that way about you. If we've never personally met,

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Speaker 1: it's still such a privilege to partner with you in

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Speaker 1: the gospel and to hopefully provide you with words that

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Speaker 1: come from God so that you can do what He's

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Speaker 1: called you to do and be all that He's called

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Speaker 1: you to be. Just want to let you know we

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Speaker 1: love you and thank you for sharing, thanks for giving.

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Speaker 1: Your faithfulness is amazing. I feel so grateful to be

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Speaker 1: the pastor of this movement. I'm excited about what God

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Speaker 1: is speaking to us as the year has already started

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Speaker 1: so strong, as we're making room to receive. Have you

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Speaker 1: done that in your life? How can you do that

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Speaker 1: this week? How can you apply what you just heard

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Speaker 1: in the message in a way that will give God

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to lavish you with this grace. I pray

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Speaker 1: that for you, Holly, and I love you. We'll see

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Speaker 1: you next time.