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Speaker 1: Hello Evams, especially our West Coast family, we have an

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Speaker 1: Let's see you there. Let's go to the message. God

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Speaker 1: is really moving through this minister. So thanks to all

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Speaker 1: of you who give and pray and serve and believe

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Speaker 1: and show up and invite and invest and do all

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Speaker 1: the stuff that makes it possible. God has using you

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Speaker 1: in a great way. And to that end, I believe

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Speaker 1: He's given me a word today that will empower your spirit,

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Speaker 1: encourage your faith, and strengthen your heart. Who's ready for

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Speaker 1: the word of God. I want to call your attention

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Speaker 1: to Isaiah chapter thirty, verse nineteen through twenty one. In

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Speaker 1: this prophecy, there is a promise from God that he

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Speaker 1: spoke to me on a personal level a few months ago.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes I have to hold onto something personally before

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Speaker 1: I can preach it prophetically into your life. But I

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Speaker 1: believe today He's called me to do just that. Let

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Speaker 1: he who has an ear to hear hear what the

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Speaker 1: Spirit is saying to the church. Isaiah thirty, verse nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Listen to this awe some exceeding, great and precious promise

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Speaker 1: from the Word of God. People of Zion who live

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Speaker 1: in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. Eugene Peterson said,

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Speaker 1: your time for tears is over. How gracious He will

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Speaker 1: be when you cry for help. As soon as he hears,

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Speaker 1: he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the

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Speaker 1: bread of adversity in the water of affliction, your teachers

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Speaker 1: will be hidden no more. With your own eyes, you

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Speaker 1: will see them. Whether you turn to the right or

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Speaker 1: to the left. Your ears will hear a voice behind

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Speaker 1: you saying this is the way walk in it. Wow.

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Speaker 1: The Lord put me up behind this pulpit today to

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Speaker 1: remind you something very simple, very strong. He wanted me

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Speaker 1: to tell you God's got your back. God's God your back,

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Speaker 1: and on your way to your seat. Just tell three people.

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Speaker 1: I can't reach them. You can't say God's got your back.

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Speaker 1: He's absolutely committed. And connect it to whatever is concerning you.

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Speaker 1: God's got your back. Say it, God's got my back. Amen,

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Speaker 1: you receive it. God's got my back. I need thirteen

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Speaker 1: people to put it in the chat. God's gotten my back.

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Speaker 1: God's got my back. Amen. And I'm learning, at least

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Speaker 1: in this season or stage of my life, how important

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Speaker 1: it is for me to stay in constant communication with

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Speaker 1: the Lord, because I forget that. I can't be one

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Speaker 1: of these pray five minutes in the morning and see

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Speaker 1: God again tomorrow morning Christians, because that's too long for

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Speaker 1: me to get in trouble. You give me twenty three

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Speaker 1: hours and fifty five minutes between prayer times. I'm a mess.

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Speaker 1: I mean imagine this, that we would just talk to

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Speaker 1: God in the morning, run off, see you back here tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: You might not make it back tomorrow. If you don't

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Speaker 1: say something to God between that morning and the next morning,

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Speaker 1: how many know I'm right? And has it gotten more

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Speaker 1: that way for you? I used to be a little cockier.

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Speaker 1: I think I used to be cockier when I was

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Speaker 1: younger or something like that. But now just little aches

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Speaker 1: talk to the Lord. I don't know if I could

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Speaker 1: pick up my fork unless He helps me do it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say I'm old in decrepit or

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Speaker 1: this with without meaning. I promise you the whole thing

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Speaker 1: will end up in the junkyard and you better talk

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Speaker 1: to me along the way. And that's how I that's

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Speaker 1: how I keep my heart with God, just to talk

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Speaker 1: to him in constant conversation. Now, I don't mean I'm

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Speaker 1: walking around out loud talking to God. I do that too.

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Speaker 1: One trick I learned is put your AirPod in and

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Speaker 1: that will help you talk to God and people won't

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Speaker 1: telling you, I need constant course correction. So I was

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Speaker 1: telling my son this, how your attitude is like that.

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Speaker 1: You know, you don't just get in the car and

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Speaker 1: it back all the time. Well, our minds are like that,

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Speaker 1: our hearts are like that. At least mine is like

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Speaker 1: the infomercial used to say, set it in forget it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all ever saw that infomercial. Well,

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Speaker 1: reset it and reset it and reset it and reset it.

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Speaker 1: And seems like, no matter how many things God does

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Speaker 1: he's doing it, so then I ask God to help me,

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Speaker 1: and then I take off and like I discovered in

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Speaker 1: my body the other day, I was talking about aches

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Speaker 1: and pains. My shoulder had been hurting me for a while.

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Speaker 1: It finally got bad enough where I called doctor Gullason.

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Speaker 1: I said, can you help me? He came over and

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Speaker 1: helped me with my shoulder, but he asked me how

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Speaker 1: long has it been hurting? I said four months. Because

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Speaker 1: I'm a man, I'm not going to say anything about

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Speaker 1: it till I you know, I'm only sleeping two hours

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Speaker 1: he was angry with me about that. He said, why

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Speaker 1: didn't you say something sooner? Why didn't you call me

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Speaker 1: over here after four days? I would have been happy

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Speaker 1: to help you if you had said something sooner. Or

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Speaker 1: I'll tell Holly, I've had a headache all day. That

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Speaker 1: woman has a pharmacy in her purse. It comes out

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Speaker 1: she has all kinds of stuff with caffeine, without caffeine,

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Speaker 1: just all kinds of different things in her purse. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell her my head's been hurting all day, and

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Speaker 1: she'll say, why didn't you say something sooner? And so

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Speaker 1: that seems to be it with God. You know, why

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Speaker 1: And I know why we don't talk to God because

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Speaker 1: it is easier to turn to something that we can

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Speaker 1: see for immediate relief than it is to trust in

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Speaker 1: a father that we can't see, so that he builds

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Speaker 1: our faith. And that's the thing. You can't just talk

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Speaker 1: to God when you come here on Sunday. You really

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Speaker 1: can't just listen to a sermon a week or God

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Speaker 1: forbid you just listen to clips. I mean some people

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Speaker 1: that's not going to cut it when you really start

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Speaker 1: facing the challenges of life. Clips won't cut it. Cliches

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Speaker 1: won't cut it. Little you know, little little thank you

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Speaker 1: Lord help me as I go today and bless me

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Speaker 1: along my way. And you know, little prayer over dinner

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Speaker 1: is not going to cut it. I'm not saying God

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Speaker 1: will not love you, but you're just not going to

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Speaker 1: and you're going to turn to things that will work

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Speaker 1: because I have to constantly talk with God, and the

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Speaker 1: Lord was telling me pretty clearly before I came out today.

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Speaker 1: You don't talk to him enough. You don't talk to

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Speaker 1: I mean, in just that moment by moment way, It's

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Speaker 1: great to come to church. Trust me, I have a

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Speaker 1: lot invested in this. But you know, imagine if we

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Speaker 1: courage to ask what are you doing? And I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting my breathing in. It's because average human takes

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Speaker 1: Later today, I'm gonna just get all twenty thousand in

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Speaker 1: we think worship works like that. Three songs, three days later,

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Speaker 1: of Isaiah because listen, he's talking to a king, a

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Speaker 1: need some help, so I'll go to Pharaoh. Pharaoh rings

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Speaker 1: because we remember hundreds of years earlier, when Pharaoh was

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Speaker 1: This is several centuries later. But there is something in

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Speaker 1: unwise alliance. Lean in. When you're under attack, you make

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Speaker 1: unwise alliances. And when you feel tired, when you feel tested,

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Speaker 1: when you feel like you're in trouble, what do you

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Speaker 1: you help me? After going through everybody on their phone

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Speaker 1: of that, they'll say, well, all we can do now

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Speaker 1: is pray in that backwards like in the beginning, was

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Speaker 1: the word, The Word was with God, and the Word

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Speaker 1: was God. The scripture says in Hebrews eleven three that

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Speaker 1: by faith we understand that everything which was visible was

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Speaker 1: that He backs what he begins. He finishes what he starts.

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Speaker 1: He does not progress today. He's right on time. He's

428
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Speaker 1: not running behind. He didn't forget about you. He said

429
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Speaker 1: that soon as I hear you, AH help you. That's soon.

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Speaker 1: That's your call. I answer you. In the day I'm trouble,

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Speaker 1: I'm reach down and do it. Good quick, law good quick,

432
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Speaker 1: and help me stop quick and do it. Cup quick

433
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Speaker 1: with the red seam miracle. Duck quick, move a mountain,

434
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Speaker 1: Doug quick, make me strong, God quick, break these chains.

435
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Speaker 1: He said, I'll do it. God is strengthening me. Watch

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Speaker 1: verse twenty, gotta throw verse twenty in he said, sometimes

437
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Speaker 1: you get the bread of affliction and the water of adversity,

438
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Speaker 1: or one or the other. I don't remember which one

439
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: came first, adversity or affliction. But he he calls a

440
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Speaker 1: fight food. Isaiah at thirty twenty isaid, thirty twenty, I'm stolen.

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Speaker 1: So then get on the screen the bread of adversity,

442
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Speaker 1: the water of affliction, adversity, affliction. That's the fight, God said,

443
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: that's the food. That's how I'm building you. I'm bringing

444
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: you through things right now, and even the things that

445
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: are coming against you are going to work for you,

446
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Speaker 1: because God's God. My bad. You don't need the king

447
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: of Egypt for this fight. When Hezekiah got serious and

448
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: prayed to God, look it up. God sent angels into

449
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Speaker 1: the tents of the enemy and slew one hundred and

450
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Speaker 1: eighty five thousand of them. And all you get when

451
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Speaker 1: you lean on Pharaoh's staff is a splinter. So why

452
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Speaker 1: didn't you say something sooner? Why don't you say something?

453
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Speaker 1: Watch this, not after they ruined your day. Stop letting

454
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Speaker 1: people ruin your five minutes. Say something to God. Okay,

455
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Speaker 1: I'm off track. Now you see how they looked at me. Lord,

456
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Speaker 1: Now I will do it to an extreme, and you

457
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Speaker 1: may not need this extreme, but maybe God sent you

458
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Speaker 1: an extreme preacher because you are extremely dysfunctional. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I tell you how I do it. I got to

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Speaker 1: drop on my knees sometimes, just right in the middle

461
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: of stuff, just sneak off and get on my knees.

462
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Speaker 1: And I think that's better than to fall flat on

463
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Speaker 1: my face because I didn't get on my knees. Now,

464
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Speaker 1: you have to get a style that works for you.

465
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Speaker 1: But God said, you're not talking to them enough, and

466
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Speaker 1: that's why the enemy is busy. That's what worry is.

467
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: It's the substitute for the prayers you didn't pray. That's

468
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Speaker 1: how the enemy fills the space with the things that

469
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Speaker 1: you won't pray about. He gets your faith in reverse,

470
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Speaker 1: so it starts working against you, starts tearing your part.

471
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Speaker 1: Got you now, got you now? But the Lord said,

472
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Speaker 1: as soon as you cry, I hear you, and I

473
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Speaker 1: help you. You can't make that stuff happen. You know what,

474
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Speaker 1: that was an illustration. We didn't work that out. But

475
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Speaker 1: God got my back. God said, you need an illustration.

476
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Speaker 1: I'll make a baby cry at that moment. I'll set

477
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Speaker 1: it up, I'll make it work, I'll bring it together.

478
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Speaker 1: I cannect it, I'll hold it on. And just like that,

479
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: you can trust and the knowledge and the wisdom of God.

480
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: I can quit right here, we can keep going. It's

481
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Speaker 1: up to you. That was the set up. Because we

482
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Speaker 1: did at who what? When? Where? Right? We did who?

483
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Speaker 1: The Lord said, I want to help you. We did

484
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Speaker 1: a a What will he do? He said that he

485
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: will hear you. Yeah, we did a win. As soon

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Speaker 1: as you cry. As soon as you cry, the Lord

487
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Speaker 1: will quickly deliver you. But then he will also direct you. Now,

488
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Speaker 1: this is what I had to meditate on because verse

489
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Speaker 1: twenty one upended a lot of my understanding. It messed

490
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Speaker 1: with me because in twenty one he says, whether you

491
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Speaker 1: turn to the right or to the left, did you

492
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Speaker 1: hear a voice behind you saying this the way? Walk

493
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Speaker 1: in it? So it sounds like that wherever you go,

494
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Speaker 1: whatever you do, God will be with you to tell

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Speaker 1: you when to turn. If you're not stubborn. If you're

496
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Speaker 1: stubborn and you won't pray and you just stuff it

497
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: all down all the time, and you won't join any group.

498
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Speaker 1: It's called a call back. Then the Lord can't direct you.

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Speaker 1: So you know. I'm look, I'm not a bad driver

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Speaker 1: as long as I don't have to find where to

501
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Speaker 1: turn right. Holly's much better. She is much better, And

502
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: usually I listen to her other thight. I didn't. We're

503
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Speaker 1: coming home from my mom's I'm going in traffic circle,

504
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: she said. Now I'm not this one. The third one,

505
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Speaker 1: the third one, the third one, the third one, the

506
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Speaker 1: third one, the third one. Now watch what she didn't do.

507
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Speaker 1: She didn't grab the wheel, she didn't yell at me,

508
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: she didn't reprimand me. She just said very softly, which

509
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: is usually not Holly's normal gear for talking. But she said,

510
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Speaker 1: not this, not this. And I was like, you know, woman,

511
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: you how many times I came back from my mom's house.

512
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Speaker 1: It's the second one. It's the second one. She said, Okay,

513
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Speaker 1: this is not the same circle. This is the one

514
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Speaker 1: they put in since the last six months, since we've

515
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: been going the other way to go to your mom's

516
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Speaker 1: house on Wednesday night to eat dinner and watch Wheel

517
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Speaker 1: of Fortune. This is the new We do that every

518
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Speaker 1: Wednesday night. I love it. From the highlights of my week.

519
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: She cooks so good, so nostalgic. Stay with me, Stay

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Speaker 1: with me, She said, this is the new circle. This

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Speaker 1: is not the same circle. This the new circle. This

522
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Speaker 1: is not the same circle. Your challenge is going to

523
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Speaker 1: be in your life that you are going to try

524
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Speaker 1: to memorize the miracles that God does for you and

525
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: the ways that He takes you. Not to realize that

526
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: things are always changing, and the way that you raise

527
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Speaker 1: your kids or approach your life in one season may

528
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Speaker 1: not produce success in the next season, because this is

529
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Speaker 1: not the same circle. And if you don't have the

530
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Speaker 1: voice of the Holy Spirit or the Holy Spirit, either

531
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Speaker 1: one will do to tell you where to turn, you

532
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Speaker 1: miss it. But sometimes even when the Lord tells you.

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Speaker 1: My friend the other day said I had a really

534
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Speaker 1: bad marriage, but God tried to tell me so many

535
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Speaker 1: times not to marry that person. It was crazy. I said,

536
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Speaker 1: what kind of little signs did he give? You? Said,

537
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Speaker 1: not little signs. She cocked a gun and pointed it

538
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Speaker 1: at me. I still married her. That was the first time.

539
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Speaker 1: So that might be God saying, you know, there's other

540
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Speaker 1: fish in the sea. Even if there's not another fish

541
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Speaker 1: in the sea, go kill a deer, eat that get

542
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Speaker 1: out of the sea. But the passage was so powerful

543
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Speaker 1: to me. It said, whether you turn to the right

544
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Speaker 1: or to the left, whether you go to Elon or

545
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Speaker 1: Chapel Hill. Let's think of a college. Right now. You

546
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: are so stressed about did you make the right decision

547
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Speaker 1: to go to school? Here it's the freshman year and

548
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: you're thinking, is this the right school? It really doesn't

549
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: matter right now. What you got to do is find

550
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Speaker 1: the right people. We can get paralyzed in decision making

551
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Speaker 1: about things that don't matter as much. I was telling

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Speaker 1: them one time in church, how in the town I

553
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: grew up and there weren't so many schools to choose

554
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Speaker 1: from where to put your kids. I mean, there weren't

555
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: so many schools like that. So you just did it,

556
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,240
Speaker 1: and you got along with it, and you made peace

557
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: with it. Sometimes our options are the enemy of our peace.

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Speaker 1: Oh I should have done this, Oh I should have

559
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: done that. Oh I could have done that. The Lord said,

560
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: whether you turn to the right or to the left.

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00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: The important thing isn't necessarily the road that you take.

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Speaker 1: The important thing isn't necessarily I'll be honest with you,

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00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to come to church here

564
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Speaker 1: for God to bless you. You can go to another

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00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 1: church and God will speak to you there. You can

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Speaker 1: go to another church and God will have a word

567
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: for you there. That's fine, But the important thing is

568
00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: not necessarily about that initial decision. Is itant thing is

569
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Speaker 1: not necessarily which way you go, but how you walk

570
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Speaker 1: on that path. The important thing isn't necessarily which church

571
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Speaker 1: you go to. Y'all, I think this is an amazing church.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact. This is my favorite church

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Speaker 1: in the world. As a matter of fact, if y'all

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Speaker 1: run me out of this church, I don't think I'll

575
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: will go find another one to preach in, because what

576
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Speaker 1: could I ever do after pastoring Elevation Church that would

577
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: live up? It would be such, it would be so

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00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: all I spent my whole time doing was comparing it

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Speaker 1: to this. I don't even think. I mean, if God

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00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: told me too, I have to do it, but I

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00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to. I would do with a bad attitude.

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Speaker 1: If the Lord make me pastor another church, well, I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: And yet the important thing isn't what church you go to,

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Speaker 1: Because you could sit in the back of this church

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00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: and never get involved and never get helped, and never

586
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: get hooked up, and never get connected, and never be successful,

587
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: and never be set free. And it's a great church.

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00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: You came to the right church. You turn to the right. Okay,

589
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,760
Speaker 1: good job, But how are you walking on that path

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00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,399
Speaker 1: whether you turn to the right or the left? Give

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00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,760
Speaker 1: me Verse twenty one is so annoying. It is so annoying.

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Speaker 1: The Lord said, you will hear a voice. God will

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Speaker 1: speak to you there. God will speak to you in

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Speaker 1: your rebellion. Even when you turn your back on him,

595
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: He'll still speak. Even when you walk away from him,

596
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: He'll still speak. He is always speaking. He's still speaking,

597
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 1: He's still talking, He's still directing. God didn't stop talking

598
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: when you graduated. God didn't stop talking when you got

599
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: the job. God didn't stop talking when you got saved.

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00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: He's still talking. Are you still stepping? Are you still growing?

601
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 1: Are you still going? Are you still maturing? Are you

602
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: still changing? Are you going around in the same circle,

603
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: the same circle? Missing your turn? Because there's something God

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00:38:55,719 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 1: is speaking, but you can't see it. As the Bible said,

605
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: something crazy. You will hear a voice behind you saying

606
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Speaker 1: this is the way. Walk in there. We found a

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00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: video of Graham's some of Graham's first steps the other day.

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00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: I show it to you. It's only thirty seconds. It

609
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: was too cute. Watch it, me and Graham watching it together.

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Speaker 1: Can you stand up and walk? No? No, stand up? Please? Graham?

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00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: Stand up? There you go. Good job. Come on, come on?

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Speaker 1: Oh do it again? Do it again? Come on? Stand up?

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00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: Kee y come, come, come come in. Look what all

614
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 1: he just did? And she went and clapping. I mean,

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00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,399
Speaker 1: that was a much more complicated journey than the one

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Speaker 1: that was on that video. No, yay, Graham. He just

617
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Speaker 1: did that. That even involved steps. It even involved steps.

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Speaker 1: He didn't even trip like you did on the video.

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Speaker 1: Now he's just doing it. Now, he's just doing it.

620
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Speaker 1: And y'all were just as bad, none of y'all platform.

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Speaker 1: He came all the way up here. I wish I

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00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: could have told him that. I wish I could have

623
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Speaker 1: told him that that is about as much encouragement as

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Speaker 1: you're ever gonna get for doing so little. From this

625
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: point forward in your life. You got to do crazy

626
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 1: stuff to get that level of applause. You've got to win,

627
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: like at least a state championship before your mom is

628
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: ever going to be that proud of you again for that.

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Speaker 1: And see that's where it shifts, because remember in the

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00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 1: picture where was she couldn't you couldn't see her. You

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00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: couldn't see Holly in that picture, could you. You couldn't

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00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,879
Speaker 1: see her in that video. But she was right there

633
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: in front of him saying, you know, yay, Graham, please

634
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Speaker 1: don't crawl, please, please don't crawl. She's begging him to

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Speaker 1: do something that he just did. And she was barely

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Speaker 1: even aware he did. I watched her. She was so

637
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Speaker 1: bored while he walked up here, and he just did it.

638
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: And and early in your in your walk, it'll be

639
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: like God, it'll be like yay, okay, okay, okay. If

640
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Speaker 1: you get baptized at elevation, we'll cheer for you. We'll

641
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: cheer for you in that wonderful in that awesome and

642
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: I want some of you to get baptized. I'd be great.

643
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: We'll be there to cheer for you, and they'll be

644
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: around that tank going yay Graham, that's amazing that you

645
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: gave your life to Christ. That it's amazing that you

646
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Speaker 1: did that. That's so great that you put your faith

647
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 1: in Christ. And that's about as good as it's ever

648
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: gonna get. If you raise your hand in a minute,

649
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 1: when I give the invitation, who wants to give their

650
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: life to Christ, Who wants to turn their life over

651
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: to Jesus, who wants to receive the gift of his salvation,

652
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: the forgiveness of sins, the remission of sins by the

653
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: shedding of His blood. When your hand goes up, everybody

654
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: start clapping, and the angels in heaven will start rejoicing,

655
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: and it'll be amazing. And it's our way of saying, yeah,

656
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: come on, w walk do it. Do it. It's amazing.

657
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: It's amazing. But watch Isaiah thirty twenty one for the revelation.

658
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Speaker 1: Then you will hear a voice behind you saying, watch this.

659
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in. Yeah, this is the

660
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: way walk in it. This is the way walk in it.

661
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in. Trust me. This is

662
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: the way walking in. This is the way walk in it.

663
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: Turn to the left. This is the way walk away.

664
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Speaker 1: This is the way. Do it again, turn to the left.

665
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in it. Y'all. He could

666
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: have walked right off the edge and it wouldn't have

667
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: been my fault. This is the way this is the way.

668
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Speaker 1: Notice that God's word comes as you walk. This is

669
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Speaker 1: the way walk in it. This is the way walk

670
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: in it. This is the way walk in it. Now

671
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 1: we've come a long way from yay Graham, yay that

672
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: It wasn't that awesome what he did on that video.

673
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: It was basic. But then God calls you to walk

674
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: by faith, not by sight. God pass God my back.

675
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in it. This is the

676
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Speaker 1: way go slow walk in it. This is the way

677
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: walk in it. This is the way walk in it.

678
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in it. This is the

679
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: way walk in it. This is the way walk in it.

680
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: And he doesn't even have to touch me to turn me.

681
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in it. Turn left. This

682
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 1: is the way walk in it. This is the way.

683
00:44:51,200 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: It assumes that I will stay close enough. If you

684
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: get too far ahead, maybe you can't hear him anymore

685
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 1: if you get too far in the future. Somebody asked

686
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,240
Speaker 1: me the other day, do you plan on pastoring Elevation

687
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:21,800
Speaker 1: Church when you're eighty? If I even start thinking about

688
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: having to have a new sermon thirty eight years from now,

689
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:32,240
Speaker 1: y'all will watch me have a panic attack on YouTube

690
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 1: in front of the world. I can't think that far out.

691
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: All I know is today he told me to tell

692
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,959
Speaker 1: you God's got your back. God s got your back.

693
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Speaker 1: God s got your back. God Scott, You're back. This

694
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Speaker 1: is the way. This is the way. Yeah, that's good.

695
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 1: This is the way. You can't see me, but you

696
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: believe me. This is the way. Walk in it. We

697
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: walk by faith, not by sight. I'm not looking at

698
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 1: what I'm wanting into. I know what I'm walking in with.

699
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: I got a word from Almighty God over my shoulder

700
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: to fight every devil and to tell every Jezebel. I

701
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Speaker 1: am no prophet. I will stand up on the mountain

702
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Speaker 1: of the Lord. I will proclaim illustration and progress. I

703
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: will declare the works of the Lord. This diet will

704
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Speaker 1: go down. This is the way walk in in and

705
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:34,760
Speaker 1: one word from God is all you need to walk

706
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: into this day. This is the way. Walk in it.

707
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: This is the way. Walk in it. When you get

708
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 1: to the next day, I'll give you the next word.

709
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: When you get to the next turn, I'll give you

710
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,320
Speaker 1: the next word. When you get to the next decision,

711
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 1: I'll give you the next word. When you get to

712
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: the next challenge, I'll give you the next word, because

713
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: I got your back, see, because I'm right back here.

714
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: See because I'm fighting stuff behind you that you don't

715
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: even know about. That's why I got your back. That's

716
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:05,240
Speaker 1: why you can't see me, because I'm dealing with every

717
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: bar ol Hey therec see hey ho you So you

718
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 1: don't sack God, you're bad. God's got your back. Let

719
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Speaker 1: baral No. I don't need you anymore. God's gotten my back.

720
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Speaker 1: So I'm not just going back to school. I'm going back.

721
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: I'm going back. God's got my back. I don't care

722
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Speaker 1: if you like me. God loves me. I don't care

723
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: if you notice me. God knows me. I don't care

724
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: if you recognize me. What God is revealed is this

725
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: guy my bad and I can trust him because when

726
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Speaker 1: I was in the ninth grade, you went in ninth grade,

727
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: ninth grade, trying to be taller than me and he

728
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: last crowd. I still I'm still stronger than him, at

729
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: least psychologically. Don't look back at I'm talking to them.

730
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 1: But take something. Man, you're not good. You have it

731
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: at the school, me and Uncle Irquin too. When you

732
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: were freshmen, they throw you in the trash can as

733
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: an initiation, and there was a lot of rednecks, so

734
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 1: they'd be spitting, dip in the trash can and throw

735
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: you in their head. First, it goes to a bougie school.

736
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 1: They don't throw you in the trash can at his school.

737
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,280
Speaker 1: But now his brother is a senior. And the funny

738
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: thing is it reminds me of the exact age gap

739
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: between my brother and me. I was a senior, he

740
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: was a freshman by that time. I don't mean the brag,

741
00:48:55,560 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: but I was the man at Berkeley High School weight

742
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: leave me and watch this. Watch this. My brother was

743
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: a freshman, I was a senior. I said, oh, on

744
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: the first day of school, when they go to throw

745
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: you in that trash can, come find me because I

746
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: won't let him. And he did. I was standing out

747
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:27,720
Speaker 1: there in the courtyard talking to Eric and he was running.

748
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:32,959
Speaker 1: He was running, and he said, tell him, they can't

749
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: do it. And I said, all right, y'all can't do it.

750
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: And they didn't do it. And he never went in

751
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: in trash can because I had it's back. There comes

752
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: a point where you've done all that you can do

753
00:49:56,719 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: and it's bigger than you. But my confidence isn't because

754
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 1: us I'm big. My confidence is because I'm backed. I'm back,

755
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: and you have an elder brother named Jesus. See, you

756
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 1: got a big brother and you can't see him. He

757
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: is invisible, so it's hard to depend on. But I

758
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: just need you to get this picture before you go

759
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: into whatever you're going into this week, that God has

760
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,759
Speaker 1: got your back, and I want us to confess it.

761
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: I want us to confess it like you got a

762
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,720
Speaker 1: big brother that can keep you out of the trash,

763
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: can see if they can't throw you away, because God's

764
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: got my back. You hear a word behind you, you

765
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: won't see it. I'm not looking for proof. That's how

766
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: you stood up at your mom's funeral. Buck preached. He

767
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: did a thing at his mom's funeral. It was so beautiful.

768
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: He did such a beautiful tribute to his mom at

769
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: the end of a long battle with als. He did

770
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: such a beautiful trip to his mom. It was incredible.

771
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: I was in tears. I told him afterwards, that was

772
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 1: so beautiful, Buck, because he doesn't preach. He's not a preacher.

773
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: He's had my back for what now, seventeen years. He's

774
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: had my back, But I didn't know he could preach

775
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: like that. I said, you should have never showed me

776
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: you could preach like that. I'm gonna have you do

777
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: a series. It was so beautiful, man, I'm telling you

778
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: the truth. He got up there. He said, if my

779
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,439
Speaker 1: mom could see all of you here today, she would

780
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: say what she always said when she was surprised, really

781
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: for me. His mom was Taiwanese, and he showed when

782
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: she would get really surprised, she would say, really for me.

783
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: And he went on and he told about her hard

784
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: life but her faith in God. And every time he

785
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 1: was talking about it, it was a situation where, Wow,

786
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,760
Speaker 1: it doesn't really look like God was with her in that. Wow,

787
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 1: it didn't look like God lifted a finger to help

788
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: her during the abuse. Wow, it didn't look like God

789
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: provided for a while she was working three jobs and

790
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: still having to stretch. But it's not about what you

791
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: can see, it's about what you can hear. God has

792
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: your back. Say it, God's God mind back. I'm not

793
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: pointing to something I can prove it with. No, I'm

794
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 1: not showing the devil my bank balance right now. No,

795
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:15,879
Speaker 1: I'm not showing the devil to medical report right now,

796
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 1: because if I look at that, I'm gonna get more

797
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 1: focused on what I'm walking into than who I'm walking

798
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: in with. I got a big brother name Jesus. Walk

799
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: in it, walk in it. Walk in the confidence of God,

800
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: Walk in the favor of the Lord, walk in the

801
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:40,840
Speaker 1: strength he gives. When Buck finished talking about that amazing

802
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: life well live, he said, I know my mom is

803
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 1: watching right now, and I know she's singing in the

804
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 1: choir in Heaven Love, even though she's not the best singer.

805
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 1: And I know that she saw her mansion, and I

806
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:10,880
Speaker 1: know what she said when she saw it. Really, for me,

807
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: I lost it sitting right there in the pew because

808
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: I knew what it meant, because he told me. I

809
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: almost didn't even get up and do it because I

810
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: thought it was trash. But God had your back. That's

811
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: how you did it. That's how you did That's how

812
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna make it, son, because God has your back.

813
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: Don't get too far out ahead of him, and never

814
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:45,879
Speaker 1: stop walking toward what he called you to be. Don't

815
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,439
Speaker 1: get paralyzed. You talk to him, you walk with him,

816
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: You get in the rhythm with him. You let him lead.

817
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 1: You can't get you back on track. God to say,

818
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: oh no, turn around, dummy and the Lord to talk

819
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 1: to you like that sometimes. But if we don't, let

820
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 1: there be this distance. Hey, the next time that you

821
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: hear from God can't be next Sunday when we get together.

822
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 1: That's too far apart. God has your bat and I

823
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: walk right off that stage and go take your seat.

824
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: Everybody stand up from a list of the Lord of

825
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: praise that he has my back, that he has my back,

826
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: that he has my back. God has my back. Tell Hazekiah,

827
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: I'll send an angel in the tent of your enemy.

828
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: I got your kids, I got your future, I got

829
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: your finances. I got it in my hands. But you

830
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: got to walk in this word now. Father, you said

831
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 1: in your word that if you begin a good work

832
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: in us, you'd be faithful to complete it. And here

833
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: we are today again, Heavenly Father, asking you for your

834
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:07,280
Speaker 1: help to hear your voice saying this is the way,

835
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: walk in it. I want you to lift your hands.

836
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: We're going to sing this is how I fight my battles.

837
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:17,879
Speaker 1: And we're just gonna remember that God can do more.

838
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: He can do more sneaking in the tent of your

839
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: enemy than you can relying on the splintered staff of Pharaoh,

840
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: and I want you to lift those hands so high,

841
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 1: because it's been too long since you ask God for

842
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: his help. And he said, as quick as you can

843
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: say it, I can do it. It may take some

844
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: time for you to walk it out, but I'll help

845
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:46,240
Speaker 1: you so quick. I'll hold you so quick, I'll grab

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Speaker 1: you as quickly as any parent would grab a child

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Speaker 1: going out into the street. But today, if you hear

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Speaker 1: his voice, harden not your heart. Don't wander around in

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Speaker 1: the wilderness because you won't ask for help, ask him.

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Speaker 1: Say it out loud. I need your help, Lord. I

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Speaker 1: got some hard things up ahead. I'm carrying some heavy

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Speaker 1: things in my heart. I got some history that I'm

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Speaker 1: not proud of. Lord, I need your help with that.

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Speaker 1: I've made some decisions like Azekiah that were really dumb,

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Speaker 1: some unwise alliances. But when I see that you're behind me,

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Speaker 1: and remember that you've gone before me. Now, remember, our

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Speaker 1: faith isn't what we see ahead of us. Our faith

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Speaker 1: is not in what we see ahead of us, or

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Speaker 1: how clear that path is. Our faith is in how

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Speaker 1: great our God is, who fights our battles behind us.

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Speaker 1: I know I said lift your hands, but I want

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Speaker 1: you to clap them now and begin to celebrate the victory. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple things

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