Walking in Blessing: Trust, Repentance, and Deliverance

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Father god i ask that you speak through me today,
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that is your words that are coming out of my mouth and nothing that has a personal
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agenda from myself lord i just pray that it is you,
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that the people here as i speak to them today and as always we just want the
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holy spirit to move and to lead this thing.
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And God, just keep self out of it. Make it all about you. In Jesus' name, amen.
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I hope everybody's doing good. I know it's been a while since I've posted anything on here.
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That did not go according to plan. The plan was to do it once a week and be
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diligent and be obedient about it.
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And I could sit here and tell you about life and all the things and make excuses,
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but that's exactly what they would be is excuses.
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The great thing about podcasts is you can put it down and pick it up whenever you want to.
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And I've learned that in doing this, the few episodes that I've done,
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I've been very inconsistent for that. I apologize to anybody who's looking forward
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to one coming out every week.
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I am trying to do better about it. But, hey, you know, sometimes that's what
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devotion is, is not getting it perfect and not getting it right every time,
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but devotion is coming back for more.
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And I know that God asked me to do this, and I'm going to do better about doing
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it to the best of my ability.
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I'm not going to say that life isn't going to interrupt some things,
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but I am going to say that I'm devoted to doing what He asked me to do.
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And that's kind of what we're talking about today today.
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Is being obedient to him and coming back to him, even when you mess up.
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I've messed up numerous times in my life, and God's always waiting right there with open arms.
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We have to get to a point in our devotion and in our walk that we're not doing such, you know.
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We're not straying from him, because the thing about being with God is he wants us to be with him.
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He wants to spend time with us. He wants us to have a relationship with him,
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and not just run around fearing him.
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I was talking to a buddy yesterday. We tried to record an episode of the podcast
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last night. We had a really good talk. It was awesome.
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Then we got down to the end of it and thought that we were recording because
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it said on the Zoom call that we were recording.
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We got down to the end of it, and lo and behold, Zoom will not record your meeting,
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to your device, to your mobile device. It'll record it to your computer,
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will not record it to your mobile device.
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But man, we had a really good talk about, we were talking about 1 Corinthians,
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we were talking about a lot of stuff that I wish that I could share it all with you.
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But i did not have the premium zoom package or whatever where it records i didn't have the pro,
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workplace pro so it didn't record it to the cloud and i had to try to record it to,
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the device thinking well it's going to record to my iphone it did not do that
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so unfortunately there was a great conversation that was just between us,
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and we don't get to share that with you but we did tried.
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We did try to do that. I've been having hiccups and stuff like that.
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Either way, one of the things that was brought out when we were talking,
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and we got into a really good discussion about it, was fear. People treat God,
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a lot of times, like Santa Claus. They treat God like Santa Claus in a way that
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they're like, oh, well, you know, you better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout.
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You know, you got to be naughty or nice, right? You got to be naughty or nice.
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And that's not relationship, man.
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You run around, you're treating him like, oh, if I can hide this from him or
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if I can hide that from him, you know, and you try to run from him when you do bad, right?
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You do something bad, and instead of coming back to them and repenting,
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or you do something where you feel like you're letting them down, right?
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You sin, you're disobedient, whatever, and so you run from God.
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You're like, oh, well, I messed up, can't go back to them now,
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and it takes you a while to get up the courage to go back to God.
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Guys, that's not what it's about. We've all been guilty of it, I feel like.
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That's a thing that we've all been guilty of, but if you haven't been guilty
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of it, hey, more power to you, great, cool, match yourself on the back.
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But I feel like most people have been guilty of exactly that.
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I know from personal experience that I have, and most of the people that I have
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come in contact with have done something that looks similar,
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where you mess up, so you stray.
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You strayed a little bit, and you sinned, and so you don't want to go back because
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you don't want to face the music because you think he's going to hit you with
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shame and condemnation and all these things. That's not God.
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That isn't Jesus. So if you're hearing, you're not worth it.
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You know, you've messed up too many times. You're not worth it.
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You're unsavable. You're unredeemable. If you're hearing words like that,
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they're not coming from God. So a quick way to tell,
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is, one, if you're hearing you, you are, you're this, you're that, guess what?
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That is someone speaking to you. It's not self-talk. It's not you talking to yourself.
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Because when you talk to yourself, you talk to yourself in the first person. I'm this. I'm that. I am.
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I do. I can. I can't. If you're hearing you, you, you, you, that is something
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else speaking to you. And if it's not God, then you need to determine what it is.
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Because if it's talking in condemnation, it's talking in shaming,
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it's talking in anything other than a loving, quiet whisper that's telling you,
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hey, it's okay, come here.
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You are worth it. I love you. If you're here and you're worthless, God doesn't love you.
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God is done with you. God has deemed you unredeemable.
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If you're hearing that and words like that, you're a poor mother,
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you're a terrible wife, you're a terrible husband, you're not a good son,
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you're not worthy of the Lord.
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If you're hearing words like that, that is the enemy.
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It's either Satan or it's one of his minions talking to you or multiple of his
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minions. You need to figure out what spirits you're listening to that aren't
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God and get those out of there.
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And there's a there's a very simple way to get those out of there and it's called,
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deliverance and and you need to get deliverance from those spirits you need
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to silence those spirits you need to ask christ to come in,
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kick them out and fill you up with the holy spirit so that you can hear that
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voice and you can focus on that voice because you got all these other voices
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going on in your head that are they're drowning out the voice of the holy spirit,
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that that sets you up for a bad life.
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They come for three reasons. Kill, steal, destroy. Okay?
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They will kill your self-drive. They will kill your self-worth.
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They will shoot your self-esteem straight down. And by doing that,
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they're going to use you to destroy the people around you.
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They're not just going to try to destroy you. They're going to use you and set you up in this,
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place of self-loathing and anger and bitterness, and they're going to set you
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up in a place where you start destroying the people around you.
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You'll find yourself irritable. You'll find yourself depressed and sad,
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and you'll be annoyed by everyone who's around you.
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Nothing will be good enough. You won't be able to recognize blessings.
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You know, you'll get the blessing that you praise for, and then you'll start finding reasons,
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that you can't enjoy it because this isn't right or that isn't right or,
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well, this happened and that happened, instead of just being able to walk in
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the blessing that you have.
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So I'm telling you from personal experience, if you are hearing,
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voices or thoughts tell you that you're not worth it, tell you that you aren't
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good enough, tell you that you're going to fail, that this is not okay.
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That what you are doing has made you to where you're not redeemed by God,
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and God doesn't love you anymore,
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or that the people around you don't love you anymore, that you're not worth
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their love, that you don't deserve their love, that you're better off alone,
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that you're better off without anybody, that you're better off,
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without any friends, without a husband or a wife or whatever it may be.
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If you're hearing thoughts and words like that, that's not God speaking to you.
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Now, if you're hearing, I'm this or I'm that, that could be coming from yourself.
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But I would very...
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Oftentimes I would very much still refer speaking like that to the enemy because
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you might be saying that to yourself, but you heard it from somewhere and it
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wasn't from God. It was not from God.
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And so if you're listening to stuff like that or you're saying things like that
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to yourself or about yourself or about the people around you,
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then I would suggest seriously looking into deliverance, getting delivered of
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that and then changing your thought patterns.
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Changing your thought pattern to where you're not speaking that way to yourself.
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And I tell you this because God wants us to have a better quality of life.
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Doesn't mean he wants us to be rich and profitable with finances and have all
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the joys and pleasures of this world.
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I'm not on some prosperity gospel. I'm telling you, he wants you to have a better quality of life.
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And by that I mean even if you are living in a tent next to a creek he wants you to look at him as holy,
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and that he is enough that he is enough not that I have to have this and it's
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all these different things and all this money in the bank and all these vacations
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and all these cruises and all this stuff, he's looking at it.
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He wants you to view him as enough.
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And until we can silence those other voices, I'm not convinced that that's a
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doable thing for everyone.
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You have to be able to silence those other voices. And a lot of times that's
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going to take deliverance.
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Not everything is a demon, but demons cause a lot of bad stuff.
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And they love it. They love it. They love it that we take the credit and give
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it to mental illness. They love that. They don't necessarily need the credit
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because if they don't get the credit, they can work in secret.
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They can work in silence. And they're okay with that.
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And so you can sit here and say, well, I'm clinically depressed or I'm this
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or that. And I just need to take a pill for that. God doesn't want you to be
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on pills the rest of your life.
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He does not. He doesn't want you to be on pills the rest of your life.
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And nine times out of ten, maybe ten times out of ten, if people would look
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at it from a spiritual standpoint, they get that spiritual alignment in check, guess what?
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A lot of things can be cured through deliverance.
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Because let me tell you this. If
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you're walking around and you pray for something, and I can tell you this.
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I'm using personal experience because I've prayed for a lot of things.
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And then and then what happens is I get that blessing and I turn around,
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start worrying about the next thing or I find some reason that I can't enjoy it.
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You know, you pray for something and instead of being able to enjoy it,
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you start looking at like, well, yeah, now I got this this thing that I prayed for.
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You know, I got my wife and and unfortunately, like I got my wife and and I'm
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happy and I love her. And oh, but we're not in this great place.
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We're not in this. We're not in that. Oh, my son's not here.
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And then I prayed for my son to be here. So me and my wife prayed for my son to be here.
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And guess what? Then he gets here. And now he's here, and I'm happy that he's
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here, and I'm so overjoyed that he's here.
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And then, bam, I'm trying to figure out another thing.
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Well, he's here, but I can't take him to do this. Or he's here,
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and I can't take him to do that. Or I haven't been able to do this with him
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yet. And you look for all these reasons that you can't enjoy the blessing that you're walking in.
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Instead of just being happy with my wife and kids, I look for all these reasons that I can't.
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When the prayer was answered, the blessing was answered, I got my wife,
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I got my kids, I got this beautiful family.
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And now we're in this beautiful home that we pray for. And then you start looking
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for reasons that it's not good enough.
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That is a slap in the face to God and the blessing that he gave us.
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And I'm telling you this from personal experience because I'm telling you,
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someone out there will listen to this, and they are going through the exact same thing.
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Because as soon as you get that blessing, what do you do? You try to take the
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reins and take back control.
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And you try to do, well, all right, I got the blessing. Thanks for giving me
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that. Now I got to handle it my way.
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Now I have to control it my way. instead of just walking in the blessing and
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being thankful and doing the thing that got you there in the first place, which was trusting him.
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Trusting him got you to the blessing. Trusting him got you to where you're at.
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You prayed for it and you told, man, God, if this is the right thing for us, let me just trust you.
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I'm going to trust you, God. You got to show up in a big undeniable way. I'm going to trust you.
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I'm going to trust you that this is right.
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And as soon as you get the blessing, what do you do? You start worrying about it.
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First, you start picking things apart. all these things you let them interrupt the joy,
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you let them interrupt the joy because that's what the enemy does he knows you're
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being blessed so he's going to find a way to try to distract you from that well
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yeah you got blessed with this house but now this is
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messed up or that's messed up or or or your car broke down or or or,
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or somebody broke in and stole all your stuff that's something that happened
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to us you know in the midst of us moving somebody broke in to our house that
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we were moving from and stole a bunch of stuff from us.
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And I let it get me angry, people. I let it get me angry. In the midst of an
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undeniable blessing, I let it get me angry. And I let it get me upset.
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Had to remind myself that I'm walking in blessing.
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I'm telling you this out of personal experience because it's what I have done.
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You get caught up, you accept the blessing and then you get caught up back in the old way,
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the old way of i now it's time to worry again now i can worry about this and
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worry about that instead of just enjoying the blessing that he's given us you look at it and you go,
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this is aggravating me that's aggravating me let me try to control this let
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me try to take the reins on that when what got us there in the.
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This isn't to condemn anybody. It's to bring it to the surface and bring it
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to your attention because we do this.
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I know that we do this because I talk to my church. I talk to my pastor.
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We all are guilty of this. And there is a way to change it. And the way to change
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it is to spend time with the Lord.
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Remember to reflect on the holiness. Remember to reflect on the...
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If you can't... If you're one, I guarantee you.
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Does it matter what you are going through?
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Because I've been through a lot. My wife has been through a lot.
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My kids have been through a lot.
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There are things in this world that people have been through that I can never imagine.
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There are things that my wife has been through that I could never imagine. There are things.
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But let me tell you something. We're walking in blessing.
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And I guarantee you, you are too. You prayed for something. And you were blessed.
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And right now you might be listening to this and you can't see the forest for
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the trees right you can't see the forest for the trees.
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You're focused on something that's bad that's going on in your life,
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and I'm sorry that that's happening to you. Whatever it is, you're focused on
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something that's bad that's going on in your life, and you can't see the blessing. But you know what?
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You're walking in blessing because he's blessed you.
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And if you have to, in order to get back on track, not if you have to,
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you have to do this. You have to.
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You have to look back at the previous thing that you prayed for that he answered.
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What's the answered prayer that he gave you?
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Look back on that thing and remember that feeling and remember how grateful
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you were and remember what you told him when you were praying for it.
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God, if you just do this for me, I'll be so grateful.
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I could never be ungrateful for that. God, if you just do this for me,
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I'll change the way that I look at everything.
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And you did for a second. And then you went right back to it.
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You went right back to the old way. Keep that in the forefront of you. Write it down.
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Look back on it. You know, if it's something that you have a photograph of, be grateful for it.
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And go back and get in that grateful place and just start praising him and thanking him again.
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Instead of talking about the little things, talking about the bad things that are happening.
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Man, we praise problems more than we praise God.
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It. We praise problems more than we praise God. And it's just,
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it's a human thing. I don't know why we do it, but we can change it.
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We certainly can change it.
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We start praising and worshiping the problem because if you're talking and focused
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on the problem, you're praising the problem because you're not talking and focusing on God.
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You need to be talking and focusing and praising Thank God.
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And if you look through your life and you can't think of one thing where he
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blessed you to remember that, where you prayed for something...
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Delivered on that if you can't if you just for the life of you cannot do that
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if you can't figure it out then look back to the cross which we didn't even have to ask for,
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look back in a day but he was there getting the flesh ripped from his body because
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he was being punished and tortured and beaten,
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and thrashed for the things that he knew that we would do.
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You're walking in blessing and you're ignoring it. You can't see it for whatever reason.
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And at some point it comes down to choice.
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You can choose to recognize it. And you just for whatever reason we get blinded,
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by the smallest problems.
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You know that saying first world problem?
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Man, my car broke down. First world pro.
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Minuscule on the grand scale of what God has done for us. Minuscule.
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The flesh was ripped from his bones while he was still breathing.
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For me and for you, we dare focus on such minor inconvenience to where we can't
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appreciate the blessings upon blessings upon blessings that he's given us.
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If you can't remember the last thing that he did for you, whether it was winning
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the lottery or paying an electric bill or getting your car fixed or having somebody
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give you a ride somewhere, being able to meet the love of your life.
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If you can't remember when he saved your life,
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if you can't remember when he turned the tide that got you out of the dark hole
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that you were in and you prayed and prayed and prayed, God,
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I need you to lift this burden for me because I can't take it anymore.
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Like I'm at a point where I have to give my shotgun to my neighbor so I don't
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blow my brains out. That's my story.
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That's my salvation story.
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I had to give my shotgun to my neighbor to get it out of the house.
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And then I laid there in the dark and a stranger put a prayer out there.
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I reached out to a stranger that was always posting about God not knowing at
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this moment that he was going through his own storm.
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He was going through his own battle and his own dealing back and forth with God.
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Sent me a prayer for salvation to read out loud that lifted all the weight from
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my chest and in the darkness of my room it got a little bit brighter like it
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was just like like a cloud had moved,
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how dare I forget that,
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how dare I forget him putting someone in my life in that moment that I'd never met before,
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who was going through their own battle and he used them to save me.
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How dare we forget what he's done for us?
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But we do it all the time.
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And the best part is he's not going to condemn us for that.
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If we just come back to him again, he'll brush us off.
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He'll dust us off and greet us with open arms because he loves us that much.
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Think about your own kids for a minute.
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They forget the last thing that you did for them that was so good,
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and they want more and more and more.
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Then they get mad or they act out or they do something bad. But do you turn your back on them?
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No. I hope you don't. And if you do, you might.
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If you do, you might want to spend some time with Jesus on that.
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If you do, you might want to spend some time with Jesus on that because he doesn't do that to us.
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He doesn't shut the door on us. He doesn't turn his back on us. He never shouted at me.
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Patient. Love is kind. It does not boast.
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Stop praying for blessings and receiving them and then treating them like your
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own victory. Like you did so.
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Stop praying for blessings and then receiving them and then looking for the
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smallest things to get inconvenienced by.
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Focusing on the negative. I'm talking to me.
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I'm just sharing it with you. God still has you here for a reason,
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he still has you for a purpose he's not done with you he just want us to trust him,
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and until we do that guess what,
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he's gonna keep making it to where all we can do is trust you keep taking blessings,
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after giving him trust and then you turn your back on it,
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he doesn't bless us to curse us he doesn't bless us to punish us he does not
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bless us to curse us i don't care what happens right after the blessing,
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that that it maybe looks so bad doesn't bless us to curse us but we can sure
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curse ourselves if we focus on the negative instead of focusing on the blessing,
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if we if we praise the problem instead of praising the lord,
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God wants your trust he wants your faith and he wants a relationship with you.
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Stop distracting yourselves with media, stop distracting yourselves with TV
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shows and all this other crap stop distracting yourself with problems and music.
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What you put in is what you get out and if you're listening to things that are
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of the world guys if you're running around listening to,
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to country songs or rap songs about cheating on your girlfriend and getting
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drunk every night and partying it up.
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Praising God, but it's praising something. Keep that in mind.
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If you're out there trying to listen to music, you're trying to be a faithful,
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God-following man, but you're listening to songs about getting drunk and cheating on your wife.
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You're not taking in the right thing, and I promise you, you're not putting out the right thing.
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Listen, Zach Topp, great singer, does not sing songs about the greatest stuff,
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okay i'm not i'm not listening to music about cheating on my wife i'm not,
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you know my you know my wife tells everybody i know for a fact that man would
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never cheat on me she gets playfully
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jealous sometimes not because she's worried that i'll do anything,
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i'm not out here listening to music about being single and and and and walking
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away from all my responsibilities,
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being a womanizer or being a drug abuser or being an alcoholic i'm not listening
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to music about that ladies if you're listening to music that's out there talking
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about how you're a strong independent woman you don't need no man,
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but you're trying to be a godly wife,
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listen pay attention to the way the way your mind changes when you start listening
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to music folks you get a little bit more irritable with your wife because because,
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Because the music you're listening to is talking about how.
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You know, women ain't nothing.
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You know, I'm sure that's not the, that's probably not the vocabulary that they use.
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But if they're listening to songs that are saying how women ain't nothing,
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and they're not worthy, and they're not good, and they should just be used in
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cats' size, dropped off on the corner somewhere when you're done with them, guess what?
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Into the way that you start talking and treating people start treating your
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wife start getting a little irritable with her you start getting annoyed by her,
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you start to look at people start to look at her the way that that that they're
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talking about in these songs and if you don't when she hears you listen to that
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stuff it's the way she looks at herself,
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which is just as important might be even more important than than than than
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what it's doing to you is the way that it makes her view herself ladies if you're
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listening to stuff that's talking crap about men,
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and and focusing on the wrong things look at how it makes you look at your husband,
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look at how it makes him look at himself this isn't me talking anymore this
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is this isn't me talking i'm telling you.
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Coming out i had no plans and talking about music or anything like that today but,
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focus on what you're taking in especially in front of your kids but focus on
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what you're taking in when you're driving in the car by yourself then like you
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can't drive around all day listening to stuff like that and then and,
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and then you sit there and you're like you linger a little bit longer when when
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somebody jogs past you dressed a certain way,
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you're you're you're you're taking this crap in if you take in crap you're going
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to get crap out if you take in what's holy and what's righteous and what's good,
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you're going to get out what's holy and what's righteous and what's good,
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spend time with jesus the bible is a playbook to live by and we treat it we
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treat it like parables and fables and and and.
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And we just we don't treat it as the living word of god you don't you don't
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treat it as the living word of god,
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it literally tells us from the old testament all the way to the new testament
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it tells us how to live life down to how to plant our crops and how to harvest
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them what year to harvest them in,
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it tells us how to do it,
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and we just ignore it because guess what we're not planting our crops anymore
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but are we looking at the people that are growing them, going,
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hey, are they doing that the right way?
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Are they doing it the way God says would be the best?
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Are they leaving the four corners of their field for the poor?
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Go and buy you a new house. Do you make sure that they dug down and didn't build
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it on the dirt where it's going to settle later?
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Your foundation is going to be all cracked and damaged and you're going to have
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to call somebody out for foundation repair?
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Because that's a real thing. But guess what? It says in the Bible,
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Build your house upon stone on a firm foundation.
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The firm foundation for us but he's also they're giving you he's giving you
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exact exact play by play the best way to build your home to where it will not crumble,
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oh but we rent okay,
00:30:23.858 --> 00:30:27.223
the place that you're renting did you make sure that it was built on a firm
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foundation so it doesn't collapse on top of your family god told you to.
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We look at it is just these these these little like,
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cliches and these little little fables and these cute little stories and this
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and that on oh yeah that's a cool scripture i like i would like to put that
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on a t-shirt and wear it around but i'm not going to practice it.
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He is a firm foundation but i'm not going to practice but i want everybody to
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see it on my hoodie stop treating the bible like a buffet,
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i'm going to take some of this that dessert looks good oh yeah i'll have some
00:31:04.213 --> 00:31:05.789
of that fried chicken over there
00:31:05.939 --> 00:31:09.614
off the bourbon street chicken got to get some of that but you know what,
00:31:10.242 --> 00:31:14.293
i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna leave out that part because that tastes like radishes
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and radishes are a little bit bitter and i don't really like the way that they
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taste and i'm just gonna leave that oh i don't i don't eat mustard greens
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but y'all are crazy i eat greens i eat greens i don't know if it's a country
00:31:26.263 --> 00:31:30.473
thing you know but i eat greens and and you get them done up right,
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good eating okay but here's the thing.
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You can't sit here and nitpick the Bible and just take the things that you like
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and leave the things you don't like.
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He gave us a playbook for life.
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Does that mean that if you nitpick the things that he's not going to save you?
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Probably not, but he wants you to have a better quality of life,
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and that's why he gave us an entire playbook to go by.
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So you better read it. You better stay in it.
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I certainly need to be better about it. Thank you.
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This is me talking to me it's God talking to me and I'm sharing it with y'all,
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that's it I'm not condemning anybody I don't even know who's going to listen
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to this so I can't be talking about you,
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but I can tell you this he's sharing this with me for a reason he's speaking
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through me for a reason on this thing,
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it's not all about condemnation it's about love and he wants us to trust him
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and guess what the best way to grow closer to him is to get into his living word,
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really try to understand and digest it he will speak to you through scripture
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if you're running around and you're going i keep asking god to talk to me and
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i'm just not hearing him is your bible closed,
00:32:50.931 --> 00:32:54.280
sorry to yell at you is your bible closed,
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are you relying on pastor chris,
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or Pastor Jeremy or Pastor Harry or whoever, I'm just naming my pastors that
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I know, or Pastor Don to get up and speak to you and read the Bible to you.
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Because if you're relying on someone else to read it to you,
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you don't have a relationship with the Lord. You don't.
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Somebody else to come in and bring the word i can tell you this listen it gets,
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i'm not a pastor right but i can tell you that when when when someone is waiting
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on you to bring the word to them,
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and then they're disinterested when you try to deliver that word it gets discouraging right,
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i guarantee you if i sat down and took a poll of pastors or or sunday school teachers or.
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Any sort of man or woman in a position like that,
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where they're who they're challenged to bring the word and then the people that
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they bring it to they don't want to listen they don't even want to stop talking
00:34:03.003 --> 00:34:05.531
about stupid crap to listen to it,
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it is discouraging now here comes the battle with that,
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sometimes we fall in guilty fall into the point of ah yeah i've got a word but
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i'm not even going to bring it because nobody's listening. Don't care.
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They don't care. And I don't care that they don't care. Like at this point, I'm done.
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You get to that point. And here's the thing. That becomes a problem because
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if God challenged you with something and then you don't follow through on it,
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because someone else isn't ready to receive it, that's an issue.
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It doesn't Feel good in your spirit.
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It hardens you. I know from personal experience, it hardens you.
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That if your pastor came in one Sunday and I was like, yeah,
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well, nobody cares anyways.
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So I'm not going to, I'm not even going to, I'm not even going to bring a word
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today. What's anybody else got?
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Again, this is God speaking to me, right? This is God speaking to me.
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Y'all are just here to listen and be along for the ride.
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But if he did that if your pastor comes up and,
00:35:16.579 --> 00:35:22.125
one sunday gets up there that i haven't stopped reading my bible folks but that's
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i don't really i didn't bring a word bit prepare one today what's anybody else
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got how's that gonna go over,
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is it gonna work out real good probably not quite frankly everybody would probably,
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come down on him condemn him say he's not following god he's not in his word
00:35:41.485 --> 00:35:42.636
and they probably would be right,
00:35:43.664 --> 00:35:48.496
but you might have had a word or he might have had a word but he's just so tired
00:35:48.763 --> 00:35:53.322
so tired of everybody not listening so tired of everybody,
00:35:54.066 --> 00:35:59.285
getting to a point where they would rather talk about fantasy football and and
00:35:59.285 --> 00:36:06.031
all this other crap that doesn't really matter than to talk about God because we prop our idols up,
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and to a point where we defend them and forget that they're idols.
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We don't recognize them as such.
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We ignore it, you know. We've been given the truth and we choose to ignore it.
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And that's a bad place to be, guys. Truthfully, it's a bad place to be.
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I don't understand why we do that. I'm certainly guilty of it.
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But thank God for a loving Father full of grace who is,
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on us in those moments, who still answers prayers to bless us through those moments.
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When God tells you to move, it's time to move.
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When God tells you to do some, all the best decisions I've made in my life,
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most people would disagree with the timing of them.
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They would. God told me, this is your wife, go get her.
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And I did what he said. I did what he said. He didn't tell me to wait.
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He said, this is your wife, go get her.
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I did what he said. Best decision I've ever made in my life.
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Outside of following Jesus, outside of accepting him as my Lord and Savior,
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best decision I've ever made in my life.
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And people will tell you, well, if y'all would have just waited,
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it would have been easier. Y'all wouldn't have had to go through all this and this and this and this.
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I disagree with that wholeheartedly.
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God said to do it, and I did it. He refines us through fire.
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He's going to test us by trials. He's going to build us stronger by going through some things.
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Not everything that he tells you to do.
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Actually, I take that purely. Not everything. Nothing that he tells you to do,
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is going to be easy all the time. He's going to put you in places to be tried
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because he doesn't need you to be weak.
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He needs you to be strong in him. He wants you to lean on him. He wants you to trust.
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In him pastor Chris brought up yesterday he was talking about Abraham and Isaac
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right and he was talking about God telling Abraham to sacrifice his only son,
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and we talked about the parallel and the foreshadowing because I'd never heard
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it broke down this way but it was foreshadowing Jesus Christ like he,
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son ishmael we know abraham had had with with with hagar believe was her name,
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he had had with the the his wife's servant right because they they tried to rush what god was doing.
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God said i am going to give you a son right he said i'm going to give you a son,
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and i'm going to give it to you with your wife you and your wife will have this
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son what didn't happen what the time frame that they thought so they tried to
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to skirt around that and make a way right,
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so anyways he says you're one true son talking about isaac sacrifice your one true son so isaac,
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abraham gathers isaac up they go they load up with the donkey and their two
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the two guys and they go out and they say hey two guys you got to stay here
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we're going to go over here and pray will be back and through that.
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Isaac is made to carry the the wood for the fire up to the altar so he's carrying
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this wood up this mountain up this hill to this altar right,
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and then he gets there and he's like hey there's no lamb god's going to provide
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the lamb don't worry there's no lamb there's no lamb,
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god's going to provide the lamb don't worry he gets to a point where he realizes
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what's going on and he still lays down on the altar to be sacrificed because
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he trusts his dad and abraham is trusting god right,
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but he knows that he's got to be the sacrifice because he trusts his dad so
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the obedience of isaac is what we talked about because nobody ever talks about
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the obedience of isaac we talk about the obedience of abraham they don't talk
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about the obedience of Isaac.
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This guy could have easily at this point in life overpowered his 90-something
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or 100-something-year-old dad, but he didn't.
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He did what he was told because he was being obedient. Carries the lumber up
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the mountain. Jesus carried the cross up the hill.
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He willingly lays down on the altar to sacrifice himself.
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Jesus willingly, trusting his father, was beaten and tortured and nailed to the cross for us.
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It's important to understand that through the way that he explained it,
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that that's foreshadowing things to come.
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It's foreshadowing. Isaac is not Christ, but it's foreshadowing the things to
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come so that the people reading it before Christ got here would know what to
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look for. So here's the thing. They know.
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They know as they're reading these things that this is what's coming.
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And they have all these prophets and all this wisdom to know what is coming,
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that the Messiah is coming and Christ is coming and what to look out for.
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And the prophecy still ignored that they refused to believe it because they were blinded by pride,
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they were blinded by by whatever it may be they were blinded they refused to
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see it some of it it was some of them were blinded and and just couldn't see
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it but some of them willfully ignored it,
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if you look back and you look at the if you look at Saul.
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And the road to Damascus he was so full with pride he thought he was doing the
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right thing he thought that christ thought that jesus was so disgraceful and disrespectful to god,
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that he thought he was doing the right thing because he was blinded,
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he was so so blind that he had to literally after meeting jesus be blinded for
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three days because he was dealing with that much pride in the decisions that he made.
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To have these people persecuted, to persecute Christ and his followers, stone,
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to death and the point that i'm getting to i believe is that sometimes we can
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ignore the blessing willfully ignore the blessing,
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because make no like make no mistake christ was that blessing jesus was that
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blessing the things that he came and he did and then he did for us,
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he was that blessing and even even in that time when people were walking around
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and seeing the miracles i know saul wasn't there and didn't necessarily see
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the miracles but he did hear about them mike.
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From people who witnessed it and it was so accounted at that time they saw,
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firsthand and still willfully ignored it.
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They were blinded by this, whatever it is. They were blinded,
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right? They were blinded by it, whether you want to call it pride or whatever
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else, but they were blinded to it.
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And sometimes if we're not careful, most of the time we get blinded to the blessings of our life.
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We get blinded to the miracles that he did for us.
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And I'm not trying to harp on the blessing that he gave me, but I'm using the
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experience that he set us up to get this house, this really nice place for me and my family.
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And it was one of those situations where I couldn't see a way for it to happen.
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Couldn't see a way for us to come up with the money that we needed in the right amount of time.
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I couldn't see a way for us to be able to do this.
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And my wife said, just trust him. You know, at first it was,
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it was kind of her worrying about it. And I was like, baby, we're just going
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to trust him. We prayed about it. We said, God, if this is you show up in an undeniable way.
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And he did because one, I shouldn't have gotten approved. We shouldn't have
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gotten approved for the credit application. And we did.
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We were right where, right, right where we needed to be to get the approval.
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Like within, within points of getting denied, We were right where we needed to be, right?
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On this application. Two, he made the deposit,
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disappear because instead of being able to move in on the first,
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like we had originally planned, we ended up moving in later date.
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And because of that, they prorated the first month's rent and it basically just
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made the deposit disappear. It just absorbed it somehow.
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Doesn't make sense. Wouldn't have happened in a million years to where one week's
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worth of prorate would have covered that amount, but it did.
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But God did, right?
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And I'm telling you that because he does amazing things all the time and we ignore it.
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This was undeniable. We didn't have to go borrow money. We didn't have to go
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get a loan. We didn't have to go beg, borrow, steal, kill.
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We didn't have to do any of that to get this place. It was undeniable.
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He showed up. He answered the prayer exactly like we asked them to.
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We said, make it undeniable, God, and he did it. He did it.
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And so quickly, you can start picking apart things that'll rob your joy from
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the blessing that he gave us.
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And I'm telling you not to be willfully blind to the blessing.
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Don't be willfully blind to the blessing of Christ. Don't be willfully blind
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to the blessing for the prayers that he's answered for you,
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do not be willfully blind and distracted by the enemy who is going to throw
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little hiccups in there just because he wants to see if it's going to get you
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off your focus, get your focus off of God and the blessing that he's done for you.
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If he wants to see if he can steal your joy to where you can't fully enjoy this
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blessing that he's given you, you are walking in blessing right now.
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And if you're not enjoying that, stop focusing on the stuff.
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Stop focusing on the negative, the stupid little negative things that are trying
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to rob you of that joy, because that's not of God. And I would,
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They fall on your face and repent. So what I had to do, fall on your face and repent. God, I'm sorry.
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Dude, I prayed so hard for something and you delivered on it.
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And I, I, I, I ignored being able to walk in that. I ignored being able to enjoy
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that blessing because I was distracted by this or this or this or this or this.
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God is great, guys. He is amazing. He is holy all the time. Even when we were
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walking in things that seem unbearable, he's been right there the whole time.
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And he's always holy. He is holy yesterday. He's holy today. And he's holy tomorrow.
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He is, was, and will be.
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He's the same God that he was when he blessed you the first time.
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When he blessed you with that last thing. He is the same God.
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And so stop doubting and start living in trust and in joy and in peace of knowing
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that whatever it is he's got it whatever it is he's handling it,
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he needs you to trust him and stop trying to take the reins and control everything,
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because what you do in that you take the reins you try to control and guess what,
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try to control your life then you start trying to control the lives of those
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around you because you're not trusting God.
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You start relying on personal feelings, start relying on personal fears and
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worries, and you don't trust God.
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I'm not living my life like that anymore, I can't.
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I have to remind myself daily, it's a daily battle to remind myself,
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I have to look back and go, hey, look at this blessing, look at that blessing,
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look at that blessing, look at that blessing. He did it, he did it,
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he did it, and he did it in times and ways that are undeniably him,
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it did it so so stop taking credit for the things that he did,
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and stop trying to take the reins and take control and stop trying to control
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those around you because that's what it leads to you try to control those around
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you instead of trusting god,
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it turns you turns husband against wife father against son mother against daughter,
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brother against sister brother against brother.
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Because we try to get in and we try to have our little agenda and we try to control things.
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Stop doing that. And if you're doing it and you can't see it,
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pray God to hold the mirror up to you.
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If you don't see where you're doing that in your life, pray for God to hold
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the mirror up and examine you and reveal it so that it can be dealt with.
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Because I want you to walk in freedom.
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If you're looking at your wife or your kids a problem or is the enemy or is
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an annoyance or is a grievance, you need to pray for that.
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You need to pray, God, reveal what's wrong in me so that we can squash that.
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If you are looking at your husband or your family as a grievance or as an annoyance
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or as the enemy, you need to pray for God to reveal in you what is going on there. You need to,
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You need to come out of agreement with that and get into agreement with God
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and trust him. Let him be the leader of your life.
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Submission is not a dirty word. Submission is not a dirty word.
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I want to be fully submitted to God and I want to trust him to take care of things.
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He's inviting you to do the same thing.
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Stop trying to control every little aspect. Stop trying to take the reins back
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after you were trusting him so willfully and then you try to take the reins back.
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Stop it stop it right now god i ask that you reveal that to me any place that
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i'm i'm taking control where i don't need to be taking control and where i'm
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taking on worry and fear and doubt,
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and stress that i don't need to be taken on i ask you to reveal that to me lord i ask that,
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i pray that y'all are praying this out loud with me god reveal to us hold the
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mirror up and examine us and pluck that stuff out get it out of me.
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And fill me up with the holy spirit and trust in you get that out of my life
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i break agreement i break agreement and cancel any contracts i've made with
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the enemy who has sown doubt,
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self-righteousness control,
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i i break agreement with that get it out of me i don't want it.
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Take those spirits and kick them back to the abyss, God, put them in the abyss
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where they never return because that's what you've created for them.
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You created the abyss for them.
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And so we send them to the abyss.
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We get them out of us right now.
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And we fill us up with the Holy Spirit so that they cannot return.
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I want to be fully submitted to you, Christ. In the name of Yeshua,
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it is done. He said it will be done. If we call upon your name,
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it will be done and is done.
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Amen guys I hope that I hope that,
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whoever needs to hear this hears this because I know that that message as much
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as it was for me it was for somebody else too,
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maybe multiple somebodies I don't know who I don't know who will hear it,
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but I pray God that that the right people hear this that's why I do this anyways,
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and I pray for obedience for myself and for those listening In Jesus' name, amen.