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Speaker 1: if we name everything bad that happened in this room,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't get to preach another sermon until twenty sixty four,

427
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: all right, I wouldn't get to preach. And if we

428
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Speaker 1: spent the rest of this day, we would still over

429
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Speaker 1: into tomorrow. And then Yet Joseph, after after everything he's

430
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: been through Genesis fifty twenty. Put it on the screen.

431
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: You intended to harm me, And that's all he said

432
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Speaker 1: about that. That's freedom. He wouldn't denial either, because he

433
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Speaker 1: still wept. There was a process. He didn't say it

434
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Speaker 1: the next day. He didn't say it in the pit,

435
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: he didn't say it in the back of the caravan

436
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: as he's being sold in chained. But at some point

437
00:28:53,360 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: his perspective became, But God, so you break it with

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00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: a butt. Let me show you again, y'all. I got

439
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: the I got the remedial class, the summer school. In

440
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: here today, I'm gonna show you again. You intended to

441
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: harm me. That was bad. Now I could blame you,

442
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: I could be bitter about it, and I could spend

443
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: the rest of my life. But God, show you again,

444
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: show you again, get back together. Let me show you again.

445
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: Let me show you till you see yourself interrupting what

446
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: the enemy said to destroy you. And you could break

447
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: it with a butt. God, you can break it. So

448
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: so I'm looking now. Now I'm looking. My future is

449
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: my focus. So I'm looking for everything in my life

450
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: that has me in bondage, and I'm looking to put

451
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: a butt right here to see what God is gonna

452
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: do next. I need thirty of doll I need thirty

453
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Speaker 1: people in a Hammond B three to praise God, not

454
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: no power to break it. He's say, in your praise,

455
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: in your perspective, in your purpose, get together. That's how

456
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: you break a chain. That's how they left me. But

457
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: God has somebody else for me. They hurt me, but

458
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: God healed me. He's healing me right now. Somebody's saying

459
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: in the chat, but God, but God, I feel like

460
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: preaching in this room today wright. God is breaking saying,

461
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: I'm serious enough. You can break it with a foot

462
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: in our sin. But God, you meant it for evil.

463
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: But dah, the weapon was formed against me, but it

464
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: didn't prosper because I'm still breathing, living, balking, dunking oven.

465
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: But God, by God, but God, but God, Bah, break

466
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: that thing. I can break that thing. You break it

467
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: before it breaks you. You hear me, You break it

468
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: before it breaks you. So start interrupting yourself and start

469
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: you'll go, y'all go sit down. I almost played Red Rover,

470
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Speaker 1: Red Rover, Sin Joseph right over who Red Rover, Red Rover,

471
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: Red Rover, Red Rover. Y'all didn't play that game. Uh,

472
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: y'all play the blame game, the blame game, the blame game. Yeah, man,

473
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you. Let me talk to the staff for

474
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: a minute. I'll be right back with the whole church

475
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: if my supervisor would let me. But you didn't do

476
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: the last thing they ask you. I'm gonna leave y'all alone.

477
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: I promise, I promise. I'm going on my summer break soon.

478
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: Y'all won't have to put up with me for a while.

479
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: But I want you to begin. Let's get very practical

480
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: to interrupt your self, defeating God, dethroning self talk with

481
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: a butt And when you say but, it signals to

482
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: your brain we're moving on. We're changing the focus, because

483
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: my focus is my future. They say you can't change

484
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: the past. That's not true. Certainly you can't reconstruct the events.

485
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: But do you really think you remember it exactly as

486
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: it was? And do you really believe that you are

487
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Speaker 1: at the point in your life when you can fully

488
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: understand why it happened how it happened. When the Bible

489
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Speaker 1: says the Lord was with Joseph, I want you to

490
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: understand that was written years after, decades after the events

491
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: had transpired, after he wept forgave, wept forgave, wept forgave,

492
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: wept forgave, And you have to do that sometime and

493
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: every time you find yourself stuck in that first part

494
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: you intended. I sometimes see these things and I don't

495
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: show them like I should put Verse twenty back up.

496
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: But God, that's how you break the chain. That's how

497
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: you get set free to live beyond your feelings. That's

498
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: how you break it. Addiction, not just forgiveness, bitterness, blame.

499
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: That's how you break any cycle in your life. You

500
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: have got to interrupt it every time it happens, even

501
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: if you weep five times to get there. Every time,

502
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: if you weep five, you worship five. If the enemy

503
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: attacks five, you interrupt five. But God intended it for

504
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: good to accomplish. Ah Ah, what is now being done?

505
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: I thought we were appreciate about the future. Well, the

506
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: only way that you can affect the future is to

507
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: be faithful. Right now, let me give it to you

508
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: like this. Everything God wants to do next in your

509
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: life is connected to what He is calling you to

510
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: do now. It took Joseph's attitude in the prison to

511
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: interpret someone else's dreams while he himself was still in

512
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 1: a dungeon to bring him to the place where he

513
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: could be everything God called him to be, and not

514
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 1: just for himself, but for others. Because some of the

515
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: things that you're fighting with are not for you, they

516
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: are for your children. I don't have children yet. No,

517
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about I'm not talking about your view

518
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: of things. I'm talking about God's view of things. He

519
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 1: already sees them at six foot two and you're only sixteen. Yeah,

520
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: that's how God works, right. So he says I had

521
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: plans to give you a hope in a future. And

522
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: when we say, but God, I just think about how

523
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: this needs to operate in my life when I'm saying hm,

524
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: when I'm saying and the church now is not what

525
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: it was before the pandemic. But God brought people into

526
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 1: our church through the pandemic that would have never even

527
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:18,760
Speaker 1: gone to church if there were not a pandemic. Because

528
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: if you just let the enemy attack you, attack you,

529
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: and you don't learn to interrupt him, it just strengthens

530
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: the chain. It becomes bondage. Your belief becomes your bondage,

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Speaker 1: your belief that was Joseph's belief. God is using this

532
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: for good and everything that I went through that wasn't

533
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: good when God, I don't know if you've ever heard

534
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: a preacher say God will work it out. That's cool.

535
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: Let me give you one better. God will work it in.

536
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: God will work it in. Whatever happens to you, God

537
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 1: will work it in. One time, I was preaching about

538
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: the woman who worshiped Jesus, and I was talking about

539
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 1: how she poured it on his feet, how she poured

540
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: the oil on his feet to annoy him, and how

541
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: everybody thought it was a waste. And I was preaching

542
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: so hard. It was only about one hundred and fifty

543
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: people in the room, not even this many who are

544
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 1: here with the staff today. It was about one hundred

545
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 1: and fifty people in the room. But I was preaching

546
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: so hard, man, because I don't just preach big when

547
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: the crowd's big. I don't just do it big when

548
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people are watching. Never did ask Holly.

549
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: When we travel go, I don't do everything right. But

550
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: I've always been passionate about this. I used to travel

551
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: to little, tiny little churches, tiny little crowds, and the

552
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: first place we would stop was Walmart, and go to

553
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Speaker 1: the Walmart in that town, and I would buy a

554
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: mirror for five dollars and ninety seven cents out in

555
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: my pocket because they didn't pay for it out of

556
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: the ministry fund at the college ministry team that we

557
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: were interning with, So we would go to the walmart.

558
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: I knew exactly what i'le I had to find the

559
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: mirror on. I would get the mirror and I'd stand

560
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: up and preach to those kids, and I've had a

561
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: hammer in the van, and I'd start preaching about the

562
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: image of God, and I'd hold up the mirror and

563
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: I was then a get real condemnation oriented, and I'd

564
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 1: take the mirror and I start smashing the mirror. And

565
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: I did it all the way until a kid got

566
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: a piece of mirror in his eye, and the parents

567
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: almost sued me. But I prayed, and the Lord is faithful,

568
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: all right, But so don't I don't preach, And you

569
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: need to start. You need to stop waiting for it

570
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: to discover what God has put in you, because if

571
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: you don't have it in the prison, you won't have

572
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: it in the palace. And I was preaching with a

573
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: worship night and I was flailing my arms and my

574
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: water fell over I was so embarrassed my water falls

575
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: and spills, and it totally broke the flow my message

576
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: until I realized, don't cry over spilt water. Work it in.

577
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 1: And since I happened to be preaching about the woman

578
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: who poured out or oil, the image kind of fig

579
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: because it was fluid, you know, And so if you

580
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: stay fluid like that, you got to be fluid in

581
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: those moments. You got to be fluid in those moments.

582
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: You got to be fluid in those moments. And all

583
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I said, just like that, water hit

584
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: that ground, and y'all are all wondering if I did

585
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: it on purpose. Some of the things in your life

586
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: that you're wondering, is this on purpose? You've got to

587
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: turn it to worship. And other people will see it

588
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: as a waste, but you got to turn it into worship. Hey, y'all,

589
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: when I say, when I say, that was better than

590
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: any illustration I ever could have planned, because I worked

591
00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: it in. And Joseph MA message to you today is

592
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: not gotta work it out. Just future is your focus.

593
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: God'll do it later, God'll send it when you need it. No, no, no, no, no,

594
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Speaker 1: he said, it is what is now being done this

595
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: season of your life, this moment of your marriage, this

596
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: moment of your ministry, this moment of your business, this

597
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: moment in your heart, this moment where you're deciding, am

598
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: I going to go see a counselor or not? Am

599
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: I going to work through this or not? Am I

600
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: going to keep repeating these same powerless patterns? Am I

601
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: going to take my power back? You said, well, no,

602
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: I don't have power. God has power, right, And in

603
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 1: Acts one eight, he said, you will receive power when

604
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit comes on you, but you give your

605
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: power away every time you stay focused on what happened.

606
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 1: Genesis fifty twety is good. Oh, we could stay here

607
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: all day, but we got to move. Genesis fifty twenty.

608
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: You intended to harm me. You can change the past

609
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: this way. I told Jared right before I came out.

610
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: This came to me. Put harm on the board, Put

611
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: harm on the center screen, and zoom out so everyone

612
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,959
Speaker 1: can see it. Oh, it's coming on that screen. That's right, Jared,

613
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: I forgot. We did it like that. There it is,

614
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: there is there is. You intended to harm me. Okay,

615
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: so let me break this down. I hope this makes

616
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: sense because it's a lot. He was putting on my mic,

617
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: and I told him to do this. You can change

618
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: the meaning of that by what you put after it.

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00:41:46,480 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: Put the letter O in Why what comes after that?

620
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: What comes after that? And now you will be reminded

621
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: of the New Testament companion verse of Genesis fifty twenty.

622
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 1: All things work together. What's harmony? What's harmony? What's harmony?

623
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: What's harmony? What's harmony? It's when I take one note,

624
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: play one note, play one note, and when I take

625
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: another note, and it's not the same note. But when

626
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: I put them together together, together, together, together, together together.

627
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 1: You hear this. You have got to let God bring

628
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: this thing together, because it's what comes after the attack.

629
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Speaker 1: He said, he said, let me tell you what Jacob said.

630
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 1: Let me tell what Jacob said about Joseph. He said,

631
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Speaker 1: he is a fruitful vine. Somebody say, fruitful vine, A

632
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: fruitful vine, a fruitful vine who climbed over a wall.

633
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: He climbed over a wall, He climbed over a wall.

634
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: I wonder what wall you think is stopping God from

635
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: doing what he's doing in your life? Right now, give

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Speaker 1: me my verse again in Genesis forty nine. I got

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Speaker 1: to show you this. He's a fruitful vine who climbed

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Speaker 1: over a wall. So question, are you going to be

639
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: defined by what stood against you or how you got

640
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:45,879
Speaker 1: over it? I'll tell you something right now. I want

641
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: to find out what's on the other side of the wall.

642
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 1: Because people don't put off walls unless they're concerned about

643
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 1: something on the other side. So whatever the devil has

644
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: been fighting you with, I just wonder why he's so

645
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: threatened and worried about you getting through it. What's on

646
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: the other side. It's what I want to find out

647
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Speaker 1: for Joseph. For Joseph, he saved the whole nation, He

648
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: preserved his entire family and posterity, And I wonder what's

649
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: on the other side of your wall. Now, we probably

650
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't have called Joseph a vine, would we by our definitions,

651
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: Because you know, we live in the days where everybody

652
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: gets a trophy, everybody gets a ribon everybody. Oh, I'm

653
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: so sorry. You didn't get what you wanted. You didn't

654
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,479
Speaker 1: get your seat, you didn't get your opportunity, you didn't

655
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 1: get to serve where you want to serve. You didn't

656
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: get the feedback you wanted. Nobody told me it was good.

657
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: So if we had been Jacob, think of how we

658
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Speaker 1: would have spoke to Joseph, because he's going through their

659
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: life and he's defining their life as their father, and

660
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: he's saying some things to each of them. So Genesis

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00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: forty nine, twenty two, he gets to Joseph, you raw

662
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: boned donkey, you snake by the road, talking to all

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Speaker 1: out of the brothers, he gets to Joseph. He's a

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Speaker 1: Joseph a vine. But I thought he was a victim.

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Speaker 1: But his father called him a vine. But he was

666
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Speaker 1: a victim. But he was a vine. But he was

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00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: a victim. And what made him a vine was what

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Speaker 1: he climbed over. You ready, what he climbed over and

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Speaker 1: what he brought forth. Because he's not just any vine.

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00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: He's a fruitful vibe. Tell somebody I got something to give. No,

671
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: I'm not just surviving for me. I've got something special.

672
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,280
Speaker 1: I've got something to give. It will be the fruit

673
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Speaker 1: of what I've been through that will preserve my purpose.

674
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: Sitting next to a fruitful vine. Wow, look at that fruit.

675
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. And he's not

676
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: just a vine. He doesn't just talk about a wall

677
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: and he doesn't really describe the wall. I love it. Yeah,

678
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: he care what kind of wall doesn't matter, matters more

679
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 1: what the vine was made of than what the wall

680
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 1: was made of. And because listen, this is this is

681
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 1: the this is the meaning of a fruitful vine, because

682
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 1: you are abiding in Christ, because you are choosing and

683
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: deciding to focus on what He is doing, not what

684
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Speaker 1: you have been through, but what you are bringing forth.

685
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: And that's how you interrupted with a butt. Well that

686
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: was horrible, but God was there with us. Did you

687
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: ever watch somebody die in it? Horrible, but there was

688
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: a grace that was almost more reel than the air

689
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: that you breathed. And you almost feel sorry for the

690
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:15,240
Speaker 1: people who weren't there because of the grace that grew

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Speaker 1: from the grief of that moment. That's what I mean

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Speaker 1: by interrupting it with a butt, That's what I mean.

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00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: So that you don't stay chained to the way things

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Speaker 1: went down, so that you don't stay chained to what

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Speaker 1: other people called you. The only reason that Joseph was

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Speaker 1: able to do what he did in chapter fifty is

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Speaker 1: because of what his father said in Genesis forty nine.

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Speaker 1: She got to hear it firsthand from your father. Some

699
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 1: of you didn't have an earthly father who told you this.

700
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: So now God is speaking this over you. You're more

701
00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 1: than a conqueror. You're an overcomer. Is he that is

702
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: in you? Then the wall that is in the world.

703
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: Climb or die? Climb or die. You turn around the

704
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: first wall you see, the first rejection, you get, the

705
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 1: first know you here, the first relapse you turn around,

706
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,320
Speaker 1: he said, Joseph climbed over stuff that would have killed others.

707
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm gonna say this, and if

708
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: it was for you, send me a message. It's almost

709
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: impossible to climb over something while you're complaining about it.

710
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: Get it out of your system. Tell who you need

711
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: to tell. But then start climbing and start bringing forth

712
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to bring forth. And ask the question,

713
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: let me see how I wrote it down in my notes.

714
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: I write all these notes and I never look at them,

715
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: and I try to mess him up. Sometimes it was

716
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: something along the line, not God, why am I going

717
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: through this? But God, what are you bringing forth? Show

718
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: me what you are doing through this that is for

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00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: the benefit of others. Like Paul said, he comforts us

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00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: with the comfort by which others may be comforted. That's

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00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: a generational way of thinking about your faith. Now, faith

722
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: is a fight, ye, faith is a fight. It's a

723
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: fight for focus. It's a fight for focus. Not fighting

724
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: against people. You're not fighting against Reuben and Simeon and all.

725
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: You're fighting for your focus. And it's the fight of

726
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:50,720
Speaker 1: your life, right because how can God bring it into harmony?

727
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: If you die on the vine? He said, he's a

728
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,760
Speaker 1: vine climbing over a wall. I had a great picture,

729
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: a fruitful vine. You raw boned donkey, you snake by

730
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Speaker 1: the road, You fruitful vine, you fruitful vine. You're gonna

731
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Speaker 1: be defined by what stood against you. The next image

732
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: is cool too. One of those images is kind of pretty,

733
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Speaker 1: and the other one is grisly. I like this grisly image,

734
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I like this testosterone prophecy

735
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: that he gives it. Give me the next verse twenty

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Speaker 1: three with bitterness. Archers attacked him. They shot at him

737
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: with hostility. You intended to harm me. So, when Jacob

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Speaker 1: says it's to Joseph before he dies, at the moment

739
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: that Joseph is standing before his brother's making the decision

740
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: about what comes next in his life, He still has

741
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: this picture of the fact that every arrow that was

742
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: shot at him missed. But he went to prison, but

743
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: he didn't take his purpose. But he was thrown in

744
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: a pit, but it didn't take his purpose. That was

745
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 1: the word that kept comingto my mind when I said

746
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: my future is my focus. I kept thinking about about

747
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: preference and then purpose, and I thought that what Joseph

748
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 1: was meaning when he said, you hit me with your

749
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 1: best shot, but it didn't work. You tried to kill me.

750
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:35,479
Speaker 1: He didn't say it didn't hurt. He said, it didn't

751
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: move me from my purpose. In fact, it was the

752
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: exact thing that God used to bring me to this

753
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: place where I could stand in my purpose and fulfill

754
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: the promise that God gave to the nation. Isn't that awesome?

755
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: So Jacob said, they shot him. They attacked him with bitterness.

756
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 1: It was their bitterness, not his. He didn't let it in.

757
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 1: He didn't let it in. They shot it at him,

758
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: but it didn't get in. That's the challenge, y'all. Don't

759
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: let it get in. Don't let it get in. Deal

760
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: with it, acknowledge it, notice it, but do not let

761
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,799
Speaker 1: it define you. Whatever it is, let God work it

762
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: in let God work it in so you could be

763
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: like Joseph. I never shot a bow and arrow in

764
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: my life, so I might look stupid doing this, But

765
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 1: it said his bow Verse twenty four remained steady and

766
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 1: his strong arms stayed limber only because the hand of

767
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 1: the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the

768
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: Rock of Israel. Now I want you to see what

769
00:52:54,640 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: I saw in the spirit. It's a picture of Joseph,

770
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: through all of the pain that he went through, never

771
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: lost his focus. That's what you do when you aim right.

772
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: You got to focus. You know how heart it is

773
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: to focus when you got everything flying at you. We

774
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: went out on tour a couple weeks ago. Every night

775
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: was such a challenge because it was big rooms. And

776
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: when I preach at our church, everybody's paying attention, taking notes,

777
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:40,280
Speaker 1: and nobody's bored. Y'all. In those arenas, there are people

778
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: there that are literally praising God with one hand, eating

779
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: popcorn with another, got a chicken finger in their beard,

780
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 1: and talking about you know, oh God, my God, I

781
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: need you. It's very distracting. And I'm sitting there one night,

782
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: I'm about to preach in a few minutes, and I'm like, God,

783
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: this is so distracting. I can't even focus on the word.

784
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: Look at that guy down there. I think he has

785
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: a beer. They're selling beer. No, they don't sell alcoholic.

786
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 1: That's it looks like a beer. And I'm a it's

787
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 1: almost like I'm I'm saying, God, I can't preach with

788
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: all these distractions. And the Lord exactly. The Lord was like,

789
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: whose eyeballs? Who's whose sockets are your eyeballs in? You know,

790
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: at anytime you can stop watching mister chicken fingers. And

791
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: if you look three seats over, look at look at

792
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: those three guys right there, and and and these three big,

793
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: big guys had their arms around each other. I mean big,

794
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: wouldn't it You remember big guys? And I'm like, oh, yea,

795
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: there's way more people worshiping God then sitting here getting

796
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 1: a snack. But it's up to me to focus on

797
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 1: what I want more of? Am I doing it close

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00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: to right? I never shot a bow when arrow before?

799
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,799
Speaker 1: Does it look bad? Am I gonna get mean for this?

800
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,399
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to give a picture. When I read

801
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: it, it it said the archers put the verse up. The

802
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 1: archers shot at him, but his bow remains steady his bow,

803
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: his bow, not their bow. It's not their bow that matters.

804
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:49,399
Speaker 1: It's not there. If you get that. I know you're

805
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: twenty four, I know you haven't been through a lot

806
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 1: of life yet. But I'm telling you you can be

807
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: attacked on every side. You can be attacked by everything.

808
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: You can be attacked by the worst thing Hell has

809
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: to throw at you. But if your bow stays steady,

810
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 1: if your gaze stays on God, if you let me

811
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,959
Speaker 1: give it to you like this, if you point toward

812
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: your purpose, your purpose, your purpose. It's about purpose. It's

813
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:21,840
Speaker 1: about purpose. It's not about problems. It's about walls and weapons.

814
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: It's about what you climb over. And it's about what

815
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: you focus on. And that is the message God gave

816
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 1: me to give you, is that he has put a

817
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 1: hope in a future ahead of you. But you will

818
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: not see this future by watching somebody else's bow. Your future,

819
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:43,839
Speaker 1: your fruit, your future, your focus. They do what they do,

820
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,919
Speaker 1: They are who they are, They say what they say,

821
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 1: They go where they go, they leave, when they leave,

822
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 1: they stay when they stay. They are not God. I

823
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 1: am not God. He is the Holy One. He is

824
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:01,320
Speaker 1: my rock. He is not fortress takes my hands strong,

825
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:08,800
Speaker 1: He teaches my fingers to walk. And all I gotta do, baby,

826
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 1: is hold that focus and point toward my purpose. To

827
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: know that in all things, the good notes and the

828
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: bad notes work in harmony. You mint it to harm me,

829
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: But God took what you did to harm me. That

830
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: was the bow and shot me to Egypt. I was

831
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: the arrow, and I am where I am, not because

832
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: of the schemes of men or the failed plans, but

833
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: because of the purpose of God. Oh Lord, send this

834
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 1: word where it's supposed to go today. Send it like

835
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 1: an arrow flying through the night sky. Send it like

836
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: an arrow. Send it like a weapon that they can

837
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: that they can use against the enemy in the dark

838
00:57:55,880 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: night of their soul. Send it, Lord, Send You sent

839
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: Joseph ahead of his brothers to Egypt where they sold him.

840
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 1: You sent him where they sold him. I want to

841
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 1: bring before you again today, Lord, all of the things

842
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: that are in all of the hearts of all of

843
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: these people that they cannot name. It's too painful to name.

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00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 1: Some of it they didn't even quite come to terms with.

845
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 1: Yet they can't even really verbalize it. And yet I

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Speaker 1: know that alongside each deep trauma and every breaking disappointment

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Speaker 1: and crushing betrayal. There are those little things, those little foxes,

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Speaker 1: that spoil the vine. Sometimes the wall that we can't

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Speaker 1: climb over is only two inches high. Sometimes it's not

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Speaker 1: the height of the wall. Sometimes it's the lack of

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Speaker 1: our strength because we are not rooted in you. I

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Speaker 1: would pray today, God, that on our staff and in

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Speaker 1: our church, that you would raise up Joseph's that even today,

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Speaker 1: as I have spoken, that you've been pointing to purpose.

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Speaker 1: Now we don't always know what that purpose is. But God,

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Speaker 1: we're shifting now from you intended to harm me, and

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Speaker 1: we're going to what comes after that comma. But God

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Speaker 1: and I thank you that you are using everything that

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Speaker 1: they've been through. I speak now to childhood abandonment. I

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Speaker 1: speak to the anger that you feel that you can't contain.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I speak to the isolation that is a byproduct

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Speaker 1: of your insecurity. There is enough in you to climb

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Speaker 1: over it. There is enough in you to climb over it, y'all.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to yell to preach a powerful thing.

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Speaker 1: And what I just said is worthy of your meditation.

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Speaker 1: There is enough in you, the spirit of God, the

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Speaker 1: fruit of the spirit. Love is joy, his peace is patience,

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Speaker 1: is kindness, is goodness, is faithfulness, it's jealous his self control.

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Speaker 1: All of that is yours. And you will receive power.

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Speaker 1: Power to get up out of the pit, power to

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Speaker 1: do what you were sent to do in the prison,

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Speaker 1: power to do what you were intended to do in

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Speaker 1: the palace. Power to point toward your purpose in every

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Speaker 1: painful season of your life. My focus is my future.

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Speaker 1: When I said that title, I intended for you to

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Speaker 1: hear it two ways, And one is that you stop

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Speaker 1: focusing so much on the bad things that happen and

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Speaker 1: blaming people who aren't even here to pay for it anymore,

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Speaker 1: and becoming bitter in your own soul, and that you

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Speaker 1: would break that chain. But I also meant it as

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Speaker 1: a prophecy that the future you experience is going to

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Speaker 1: be based on the focus you choose right now. So

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Speaker 1: if you don't get some help with this, if you

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Speaker 1: don't own it, if you don't submit it to God,

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Speaker 1: if you don't get like Joseph and say I will

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01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 1: provide for you, I will do what I'm supposed to do,

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Speaker 1: your future is just going to look like more and

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01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: more of the same frustration you're living in right now.

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01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: But it doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to be that way because the chain breaker is

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Speaker 1: in the room. But God, how will you finish the sentence?

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Speaker 1: How will you finish the sentence? You know first, the

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Speaker 1: first eighteen years of my life were rough, but God

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01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: made them up to me. But God, how will you

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Speaker 1: finish the sentence? When you go to prison, they call

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01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: it a prison sentence. And Joseph refuse to stay chained

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Speaker 1: one more day. He said, I've been in prison long enough.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going back. I'm not going back in my

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Speaker 1: memory to the prison that God brought me out of.

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Speaker 1: In my reality, I'm moving into my future. That's my focus.

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Speaker 1: How can God use what I've been through? Oh, it

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01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 1: gets glorious when you ask that. And I came to

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Speaker 1: attack not only every devil of your past, but every

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Speaker 1: devil of your own regrets, not only what happened to you,

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Speaker 1: but what you keep saying to yourself about it. I

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Speaker 1: came to beat every should have, could have wooded devil

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Speaker 1: off your shoulder today in the name of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Every should have could have wood a devil, Every should

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Speaker 1: have could have would have if you'd have done this,

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Speaker 1: and if you'd have done that, it wouldn't end it

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Speaker 1: like that. Why would you bow to a should have

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Speaker 1: could have wood, a devil when you got a sure

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Speaker 1: enough gonna God who is able to do. I got

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Speaker 1: a sure enough gonna God who is sure enough gonna

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Speaker 1: bless you and blessing I will bless you, and multiplied,

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Speaker 1: I will multiply this. That's the promise. I stand on

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Speaker 1: the Rock of Israel, on Christ, the solid rock I stand.

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Speaker 1: All other ground is sinking. Same, all other ground is sinking.

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Speaker 1: Sam Father, I thank you today that the boast a

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Speaker 1: steady because of the strong hand of God. I want

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Speaker 1: you to lift your hands right now and worship God,

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Speaker 1: knowing that it's his hands that are holding up your hands,

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Speaker 1: that it is His purpose that is aiming your bow.

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Speaker 1: And with your hands lifted up and with your heart

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Speaker 1: filled with faith, I want you to say again what

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Speaker 1: we said an hour ago, but I want you to

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Speaker 1: say it with faith. My future is my focus. I'm

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Speaker 1: going forward in the name of the Lord. Now, let's

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Speaker 1: give him thanks and praise on every location. Thanks and praise,

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Speaker 1: Thanks and praise with your mouth, with your mouth, with

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Speaker 1: your mouth, the fruit of Liss. That's confesses Well. If

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

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Speaker 1: I'd love for you to to make sure to subscribe, rate,

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Speaker 1: and thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast.