Is Complaining Actually A Sinful Spiritual Habit?

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There is a kind of complaining that goes far beyond
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having a bad day. And Laura and I were just
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doing some of that. But it becomes a posture, right?
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So nothing is ever enough. Nobody is doing it right.
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Every inconvenience becomes an offense. Every delay becomes somebody else's fault. Yada, yada, yada, right?
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Every blessing has a problem attached to it. And before long,
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complaining becomes the language of your home, your marriage, your workplace,
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your church, and even your relationship with God. That is
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what we are talking about today on Testing the Spirits.
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Scripture repeatedly warns about murmuring, grumbling, fault-finding and complaining. Israel
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did a lot of it in the wilderness. They had
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watched God split the Red Sea, destroy Pharaoh's army, provide
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manna from heaven, literally, and give them water from a rock, okay?
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Yeah.
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They continually looked at what they did not have instead
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of remembering what God had already done. Man, that sounds
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like the modern age. And that is where this gets spiritual.
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Complaining can begin with a legitimate frustration. But if it
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is continually fed, it can turn into resentment. And resentment
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becomes accusation. Accusation produces division. And eventually we find ourselves
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questioning the goodness, the provision, and frankly, the character of God.
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Paul tells believers in Philippians 2.14, do all things without
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murmurings and disputings. That is a much stronger command than
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most of us probably want to be, right? Want it
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to be for sure. Today, Laura and I are going
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to talk about what complaining does to the heart, what
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murmuring did to Israel and how it affects marriages, families, churches,
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and friendships. And perhaps most importantly, how we recognize it
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in ourselves before we spend all our time recognizing it
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in everybody else, which is what we're so good at. So, um,
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Because sometimes the thing poisoning the atmosphere around us isn't
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what somebody else is doing. It's what's coming out of
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our own mouths. Laura, welcome back to another episode of
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Testing the Spirits.
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Thank you for having me back, Bennett. I always love
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doing these. Love it. Okay, so let's talk about this
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spirit of complaining. Or murmuring.
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I mean, God, in this day and age, it's the
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absolute worst.
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It is.
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It's everywhere.
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It is everywhere. And it's normalized like it's okay.
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Right.
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But the consequences, when you go back and look in
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the Bible, the consequences are extreme. I mean, extreme. So
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we're going to talk about that. And then we're going
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to talk about what you can do to stop it.
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Because it is a spirit. You need to test the spirits.
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And this is a spirit. It is a spirit that
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is in your mouth and in your heart. And you've
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got to cast it out. You do need to cast
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it out. So don't let me forget at the end
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to do the repentance prayer for people that suffer from this.
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The problem a lot of times with the people that
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have this spirit on them Just like you said, they
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fault find, they nitpick everybody else to death. They usually
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have a spirit of pride. It's rooted in pride. And
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so they can't see it or they're too prideful to
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admit that they have it. If you live with someone
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like this, and I feel really sorry for the people
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that live with someone like this, you have to pray
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for them. You need to pray for them and bind
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that spirit from operating in them. Bind the murmuring spirit,
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the spirit of complaining from operating in your home, from
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functioning in your home. or your marriage, because this spirit
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will absolutely destroy a marriage, a friendship, your health, your
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own health, and so many other things, your workplace. I mean,
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it's literally death coming out of your mouth. And we
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have the power of life and death, right, in the tongue.
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And you're speaking death. Now, the word tells us to
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call things that are not as though they are. That
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is just the opposite. So if you've got a kid
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that is on drugs, Don't don't speak, you know, complaining death,
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words of death over that kid. Call that kid. Start
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decreeing what they're not. We call things that are not. OK,
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they're not following God. They're not living right. They're not clean.
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Start decreeing those things. Find scriptures that say what you
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what what's right for them. Start agreeing with heaven instead
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of agreeing with the world. And the complaining part goes
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with it. I mean, this is everything from complaining about
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your kid to complaining about your spouse to complaining about
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your coworkers, your mother-in-law, yourself. I mean, like you said,
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it's normalized.
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I'm sorry. Sorry for the language. Man, I'm the worst.
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I'm the worst.
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Well, praise God you can see it.
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I'm the absolute worst when it comes to complaining about
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my kids.
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Oh, God.
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I so have to, I got to repent, like heavily, hardcore.
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Hallelujah. Hey, I know where there's a good deliverance minister
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that can help you out.
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Here I am.
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OK, so it is not a solution. Complaining is not
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a solution. It solves nothing. We're always going to have
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problems in the world. We are always going. The world's
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not going to change. OK, it's run by Satan. Second
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Corinthians 4.4. We go over this, I think, every episode.
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The God of this world is Satan. OK, so the
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world isn't going to change. And everybody's influenced. And the
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Lord taught me this. that the enemy is out for influence.
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That's what it is. It's influence. Because I had a
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problem with writing a book back when the Lord was
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telling me to write my first book. And I thought
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it was vainglory. I was like, no, I'm not doing that.
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You know, no. And he had to talk me into
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it and explain to me that if you're a representative
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of Jesus Christ and you're living right, he needs those
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people influencing the world. He needs his people representing and
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influencing because it's all about influence. And the entire world
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is influencing our kids to do everything ungodly, everything worldly.
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And they've got, you know, they've got one foot in
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and one foot out. They have their dad, like you,
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teaching them in the ways of God. But they have
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the world 24-7 saying all this other stuff that, You know,
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let's just be honest. I mean, it's the flesh and
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it's so much easier to just say yes to the
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things of the flesh. So you have to ask God,
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if you have the spirit on you, you have to
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ask God, please give me a new perspective. I have
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asked him this before. It's a perspective change. It is a, yeah,
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I see my kid is on drugs or I see
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my kid is not doing right. Or I see that
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my wife or my husband is this or that, but
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that's okay. I'm going to love them where they're at.
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And God, I'm going to ask you to give me
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your heart for them. And I'm asking you to change
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my perspective. So that, and also ask for the spirit
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of grace, asking to give you the spirit of grace,
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which is a power that makes up the difference of
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what you don't have. So like when Paul said, hey,
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I have this thorn in my side, would you, you know,
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would you get this out of, you know, take this
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from me, Lord? And he says, no, my grace is sufficient.
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So the grace is the power to make up the
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difference of what you do not have. And you can
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pray for that in all kinds of things. I pray
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for grace in anything that I don't have the strength
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myself to do. I pray for grace for people that
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are struggling and they're about to break. They can't take
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it anymore. I bind the spirit of grace to them
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so that they can get through that time in their life. So, okay,
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so biblical, whenever we go to the biblical stories, first
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in the New Testament, when you look at 1 Corinthians 10,
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This is such a severe thing, such a major, major
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issue with God that he dedicated a whole section of
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1 Corinthians 10 to this one topic. And it says
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that it's talking about the Old Testament. And he's saying
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they complained so much that they were destroyed. And we're
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about to go over these by fire. They were destroyed
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by serpents. They were swallowed up in the earth. And
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one of them became turned into a leper. And that
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was Moses' sister, turned into a leper from her complaining.
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So we're going to go over what those stories were.
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But God was not pleased. It literally says in 1
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Corinthians 10, 5, that God was not pleased with most
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of them. And that's why their bodies... listen to this,
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their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. They died folks.
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They died. So that's how far complaining can go. Just
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what you were saying, Bennett, it leads to greater things
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and it is severe. And Philippians 2, I want to
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expand on what you were saying earlier, Philippians 2, do
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everything without grumbling or arguing. Why? So that you may
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become blameless and pure. That's huge. Without fault. Isn't that
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what we all want to do? We all want to
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be blameless and pure. Well, complaining is attached to it
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because it's telling you right here, right there in that
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Philippians 2, without fault in a warped, crooked generation. That's
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where we live. We live in that generation. And then
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it says, then you will shine. You will shine like
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stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the
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word of life. Again, life and death right here. So
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complaining is directly associated to the spirit of death. You
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are speaking death over your kids, into your marriage, into
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your job, into your relationship with God. When you complain,
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it's a major problem, major problem. So, I mean, I can't,
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I can't like, um, I can't say it enough. This
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is something that you've got to get tamed in your tongue.
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You've got to get fixed. You really need to take
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it to heart is what I'm saying.
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So let me ask you a question to a discernment minister. No,
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this is a real question, and it just hit me.
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It's like, are we calling... A lot of people, right?
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Are we calling discernment what is actually just chronic criticism? Like,
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some people believe they're spiritually discerning because they find something
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wrong with everything, right?
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Okay.
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Discernment identifies truth and error, right?
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Yes.
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Fault finding needs something to criticize. Yep. I feel like there's,
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there's a very slippery slope.
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I hear you. And I, okay. So let me show
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you how the Lord, um, I mean, I've had to
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walk through this because, because I used to, boy, I
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used to be the first one to, you know, just
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come right out of my mouth what I think. And, um, and,
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and what you do with it is, is the answer. What,
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how you respond is the answer. So definitely like I'm
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the big I'm the big skeptic to Bennett. I mean,
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I'm skeptical about everything. All the history and all the
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stuff we've ever been taught is all complete lies. So, yes,
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I'm skeptical of everything. And my books reveal that kind
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of stuff. But being a skeptic and being discerning, there's
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nothing wrong with that. That is not complaining. Complaining is,
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you know, when you're just griping and there's no solution.
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Discernment is taking it to the Lord and saying, hey,
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am I seeing this right? And if so, what do
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you want me to do about it? And he usually
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wants you to start praying into it and break it.
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So I have a friend that she and I do
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not see eye to eye. She's heavily Zionist and I'm not.
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And I mean, I got it just got to where
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it was eating me up. Like, how does she not
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see this? How can she not see this is demonic
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and are killing people and, you know, all the things
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like she she just can't see it. And so I
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started getting to where I was complaining about her in
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my own home, you know, in my own time by myself.
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And he finally snapped me out of it. And I
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love her. I love her dearly. We've been friends a
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long time. And he snapped me out of the complaining
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thing and took me to praying for her. See, that's
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a different response. And all the complaining stopped. And now
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I can be around her. And we have fellowship. And
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I truly love her again. And there's not all of
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this icky, you know, like, oh, God, she's going to
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start up again. I can be around her and I
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I love her dearly and I can pray from my
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heart for her to, for her eyes to be open.
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She's probably doing the same for me. She's probably going,
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Oh God, she just does not, you know, she's probably
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saying the same thing. and praying for me that God
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opened her eyes. But let the Lord handle that and
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take it to the Lord and handle it with prayer,
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handle it in love. We're supposed to esteem each other
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as higher than ourselves. So if you truly esteem another
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Christian as higher than yourself, then you will go to
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bat for them. You will fast for them. You will
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pray for them. You'll do whatever you need to for
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them because it's a spirit that's on them. That is
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what the problem, the problem is the spirit, not the,
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we're not fighting flesh and blood, right? We're fighting the
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spirits that are on them. But if you keep your
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focus on Jesus and you don't compare, like you, like
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a lot of people, they use comparison and it gets
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them to griping. It gets them to start murmuring because
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they're using comparison techniques. But Jesus said to Peter, when
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Peter goes, Well, what about John? You know, what are
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you going to do with him? And he said, basically,
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it's none of your business what I'm doing with John.
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You follow me, right? In other words, quit comparing what
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your call is to what John's call is. And he says,
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what's it to you if I keep him around to
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the end of the age? You follow me. So take
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that to heart and keep your focus on your call
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and on your life and what God is supposed to
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be doing with you. And if you see a brother
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or sister in error, then just pray for them. Pray, Lord,
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I pray a lot of times for the Lord to
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heavily convict my brothers or sisters, when I know that
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they're in error, I can see the spirit on them.
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You know, I can, I can call, I could literally
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go up and say, Hey, you're totally operating. There's a
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spirit of pride on you big time. I can see
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it all over you. And let me just spit out
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all the reasons why you did this. You said that
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you did, but all that's going to do is cut
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them down, tear them up. I don't want to do that.
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So I just go to the Lord. And I ask him, hey, so-and-so,
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I can see the spirit of pride on him, Lord.
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I'm praying that you would heavily, heavily convict them. Let
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the scales fall. Open their eyes. Let them see what's
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going on in their own life. And it happens. He
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does it. He does it. And then they all of
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a sudden they're different, whether they say, hey, I got
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this revelation the other day. Sometimes they do. They're like,
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I just realized something the other day. And I'm like,
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thank God, you know, he already talked to him. And
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then other times I just see it change and they
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don't tell anybody. It just changes. It goes away. But
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but complaining about it is is not going to change anything.
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And I think I told you one time the story
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about where I was complaining about my husband. And this
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was in the beginning of my walk. And the Lord,
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the Holy Spirit had just taught me the day before
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about the power of my words and life and death.
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And the next day I'm outside raking. Do you remember
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that story? Yeah.
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Yes, I do, actually.
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And that rake popped out of my hand. It smacked
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my face. And I wasn't thinking about the, I wasn't
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thinking about the Lord. I wasn't thinking of, I was
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just griping about my husband, but I, I heard the
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Holy spirit with total grief in his voice say, I
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love him. And it was because I was complaining and
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speaking death over my own husband. And so if you
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want to speak life and, and one, one time I
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had a friend, um, I had met her in a class.
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was thinking about her one day, like a year later. And, um,
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And so I started praying for her. Lord, I just
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looked up that friend. I don't know what's going on
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in her life, but I just want to pray this
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and that and the other. And so I'm praying over
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her for blessing, for her marriage to be blessed and
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for provision and prosperity and just all the things. And
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so I just texted her. I had her number and
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I texted her and I said, hey, I just want
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you to know that I was thinking about you today
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and praying over you. And she replied back and said, oh,
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my gosh, Laura, is there any way we can talk?
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You have no idea. She said, I've been crying out
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to God to hear from him. And she said, my
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marriage is a mess right now. And I said, well,
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are you speaking life into it? And she said, will
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you call me? I don't know what that means. She
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didn't even know what that meant. And so I had
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to explain to her what speaking life meant. And that's
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agreement with scripture. That's agreement with what scriptures say, calling
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things that are not as though they are and letting
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go of all that complaining. Because if you sit around
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and just go, my husband is this and he's a
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lazy bum and he doesn't do anything. And I've asked
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him 15 times to fix this, that, and the other.
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And is that ever going to get done? No, it's
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never going to get done. I've asked for this. And
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you just go on and on and on. You're literally
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prophesying and speaking. And the devil is more than happy
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to agree with that. And let every word be established
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out of the mouth of two witnesses. So don't give
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the devil anything to agree with. Speak life. and give
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something that heaven can agree with. You already have the word.
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The word is already there. And if you're agreeing with it,
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that's agreement. Let it be established now. out of the
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mouth of two witnesses. That's how it works. That is
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how the kingdom works. That is how manifestation works. That
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is why the demonic side produces movies that where they
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always tell us what they're going to do in the future.
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They're prophesying. They are prophesying what they're going to do
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in the future. That's why it may not happen in
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five years or 10 years, but then we'll go, man,
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did everybody, did you see that movie about salient green?
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You know, it was like from 60 years ago or whatever.
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It's these movies because they're constantly prophesying their demonic agenda.
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And they don't care when it comes to pass. They
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know that it will eventually. And they've revealed their plan.
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They've prophesied it into the airwaves. And they're waiting for
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it to come to pass. Well, likewise, our kingdom works
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the same. We got to call things that are not
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as though they are. So you want to speak words
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of life into the atmosphere, into the airwaves, and agree
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with heaven to bring those things into manifestation. So I'm
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writing a book of decrees right now and, um, I'm
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trying to get it done before the end of the year.
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But if, if things would quit blowing up, um, for me, okay,
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I don't want to complain. I don't want to complain,
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but Oh my gosh, man, this last week has been
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crazy and my videos like exploded. And so I'm not
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going to complain about it, but it's a lot of
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work and you know, it's a lot of work. Right. And, um,
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And so it's a new perspective. It's just changing your perspective.
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And you can pray that and ask God, please change
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my stinking thinking.
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I mean, gratitude and this complaining, gratitude and complaining have
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a really hard time sharing space. So one of the
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best things I found is gratitude. It's a really good
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way to combat things.
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That's absolutely right.
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And then there's another angle. that fits testing the spirits
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extremely well, uh, is like you had said, Satan is
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called the accuser of our brethren. Well, you had brought
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up Satan, but in revelation 12 verse 10, he's the
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accuser of our brethren among other places. He's the accuser,
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but that does not mean every complaint is demonic. I'm
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not saying that, but, Habitual accusation and condemnation and resentment
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and fault finding should make a Christian stop and ask,
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whose character am I reflecting with my words?
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Yes.
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I think that's another quick little way to combat this
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is stopping and thinking like who, you know, whose character
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am I reflecting in those words, these words?
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Yeah, you're a representative. That's what it says. We're ambassadors.
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We're ambassadors in this dark kingdom of another kingdom. So
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if I'm representing Jesus, that's the last thing I want
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to be doing. And not only that, if you're humble
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enough to receive it everywhere in the New Testament, there's
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these jabs that you should feel when he says, you know,
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quit worrying about that speck in your brother's eye and
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go get the plank in your own out. You know,
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go work on you for a little bit. And turn
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that finger of blame that you're pointing on everybody else around.
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And if you're complaining about everybody else, if you're just like,
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everyone is crazy. The common denominator is you. Go work
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on you. So I tell people that. Go work on you.
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If everyone, if you're like, you're finding fault with everybody else,
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the common denominator is you. And maybe you need to
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work on your own self and your perspective.
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Yeah. It often, complaining often begins with absolutely something real, right?
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That's not the problem. The problem isn't acknowledging that something
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is wrong, okay?
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Correct.
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So take David, for example. I've done so much studying
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on David. David complained constantly. Like, he cried out, questioned,
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and lamented throughout all the Psalms. Okay.
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Yes.
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But biblical lament, there's a difference. Biblical lament takes pain
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to God.
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Yes.
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Right?
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Yes.
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Murmuring, as we're murmuring, complaining, tends to talk about God
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as though he has failed us. That distinction is huge, folks. Yes.
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And I was going to close out with that, but
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you've already said it. Oh, sorry. No, you're absolutely— it needs
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to be said that cries of sorrow and honest lamentation,
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that is not complaining. That's good. You want to take
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those things to the Lord. But we're talking about complaining
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and fault-finding and finger-pointing and blaming and murmuring. And not
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thinking about the goodness of God and the gratitude that
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we're supposed to have. So like in the Old Testament,
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you see in Numbers 12, Miriam and Aaron, they come
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up against Moses because he's married an Ethiopian woman. And
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they're questioning his leadership abilities. And they're thinking that they
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need to be in those positions. And instantly Miriam turns
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into a leper. And, uh, and Moses prays for her.
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Oh God, please take this from my sister. And God says, basically, no,
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she's going to sit in it for a week. And
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then she can, so it, I mean, just sit in it, girl,
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sit in it. Yep. She's going to sit in it.
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I say that.
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I say that a lot. That's why I laugh. I
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say those words, those exact words, sit in it. And
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I'll be like, Hey, you got to sit in it, kid.
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There's consequences to this. Yeah, there are. Then in number 16, we,
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you know, Korah's rebellion. And for anybody who doesn't know
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about Korah's rebellion, Korah and two other guys, Dathan and Abiram.
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They go with 250 leaders who have been given positions
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from God, but they're not happy with their positions. They
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think that they need Moses' position. And so they're, you know,
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they're going up, they're claiming that the entire nation is
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holy when Moses is the one that God is directly
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talking to. And they're saying, you're acting like you're some
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kind of prince over us. Okay, well, he was a prince.
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He was raised in Pharaoh's, um, in Pharaoh's kingdom under
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Pharaoh's daughter. So he was considered a prince and he
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gave all that up. He walked away from all of that,
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which takes great humiliation to do that. Um, humility, I mean,
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humility to do that takes a lot of humility to say, yeah,
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I'm in a prestige, prestigious position and I don't want it. Um,
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I pass, I give it a hard pass. And matter
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of fact, it even says in the Bible somewhere that
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Moses was the most humble man on earth, which is
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probably why he was chosen for that position. So these
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three guys and the 250 leaders come up against Moses
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and his and God putting him in that position. And
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what happens? God says, yeah, tell them to all go
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over there and get by their tents. And their wives,
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their children, their tents, their goods all got swallowed up
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by the earth like that. Matter of fact, let me
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find it. It literally says they went down alive into
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the pit and the earth closed over them like a sinkhole.
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And that started from complaining, fault finding. You know, we're
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better than you. We need your position. When I used
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to be a manager, I'm at a petrochemical plant. I
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actually had one of my designers come in and go, what?
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He sits down in the chair in front of my
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desk and goes, what exactly do you do, Laura? And
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I said, it's none of your business what I'm doing.
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I'm not working for you. I'm turning in stuff to
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the people that I work for. Why don't you go
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ask them? And he goes, well, okay, okay, okay. That's fine.
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He goes, I just wanted to say that I really
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think that I could do your job. And I said, well,
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go on and get out there, big boy. There's a
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whole world. I found my job. Go find your own.
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But you have these people that they think for whatever
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reason they, he, and he, oh my gosh, if he
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only had any idea what kind of stuff they said
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about him, but they, in their mind, they think, they
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think that they are, they need your position. Nevermind what
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you've had to sacrifice, what you had to do, the
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schooling or the education you had to get. Never mind
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everything that's led up to that point. They just think
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that they deserve your spot. And they're wrong. They are
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absolutely wrong. So if you have these kind of thoughts
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in your mind, again, if you turn it back on
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yourself and you're just working on you, you say, God,
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I want to do better, or I want to be
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a spokesperson for you, or I want to represent you better, whatever.
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You turn it on you and you say, what can
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I do to be the better servant? Matter of fact,
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whenever I started out with the Lord, I said, Lord,
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I want an assignment from you. What would you have
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me do? And he told me, he said, make five rooms,
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get a piece of paper and make five rooms. And
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I was like, okay. So I'm picturing five rooms, empty rooms.
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And he said, now fill those rooms with this. And
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the first room was marriages. And he made me put
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the name marriage on the paper. And he said, write
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down everyone that you know and pray for their marriages
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every day. The next one was the youth groups that
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I helped. I put down the names of all the kids.
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The next one was, and he told me to call
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it marriages of excellence. And these marriages were horrible. They
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were horrible and they were falling apart. They were not
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marriages of excellence, but that's what he called them. And
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I prayed over their marriages. Every single day I would
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go in my closet and these five rooms he had
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me build were family members that needed salvation. They were
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my youth kids that were in the world. They were
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marriages that were falling apart. And okay, I didn't, That's
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not some kind of a job that everybody gets to see.
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That's me being obedient in a prayer closet, doing what
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the Lord gave me. I asked for an assignment. And
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if you are humble enough, you will accept an assignment
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that nobody else gets to see but Him. And I
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would pray and pray every single day over those five rooms,
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those five empty rooms that I filled up with names
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of people. And And he showed me how to do that. Um,
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later on, he started showing me how to, um, I
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would go to rivers and, um, I would go to places, locations.
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Nobody saw that either. I would go to schools and
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I would go anoint them and pray over them, rivers
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and pray over the rivers that had become contaminated.
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Just so you know, I've actually kind of gotten, uh, it,
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I think that's what it was, but, uh, some of
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my research has been directed towards rivers and because water, uh,
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water carries a lot of stuff. And so, um, it was,
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it's specifically water source, like resources of the water. Um,
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so we'll see, we'll see what happens with that.
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No, he's taking you somewhere in it.
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Oh man.
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Yeah.
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Waters do need to be purified. definitely that's, that's definitely him. But, um,
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but I'm just saying that, you know, if you direct
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your attention to your own spiritual growth, instead of pointing
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out everybody, every, everybody else's problems, you will be so happy.
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I mean, you will get so happy. So the biggest
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one in the Bible is numbers 21. This is where
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the snakes come out. Okay. So the people are discouraged. Um,
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And then the Lord gives them manna. They're eating manna.
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Manna is a representation of Jesus Christ. It's spiritual food.
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And they go, and we loathe this light bread. Okay,
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you just messed up big time because you are basically
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dissing my son and putting down the very representation of him.
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which is why Moses got in trouble for striking the
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rock twice. The rock is Jesus Christ, and the types
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and shadows are to be perfected. And Jesus was not
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struck twice. He was struck once for all. And so
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Moses didn't get to go into the promised land because
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he messed it up. So whenever they said, we loathe
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this light bread, it says God sent the fiery serpents
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out on the people and that it killed many. So complaining,
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they're discouraged and they're complaining. And the snakes, the spiritual snakes, guys,
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I'm telling you right now, the spiritual snakes come out
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into your life. Whenever you start complaining, that that sepulture,
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your mouth of death that is speaking death, it allows
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the snakes an open door. It is an open door
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for the snakes of the demonic kingdom to come into
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your life and start having all kind of problems. Now,
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what do you do to fix it? This is exactly
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what they had to do. And it's a type and
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shadow in the Old Testament. He said, OK, Moses, because
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the people go, we repent, we repent. You know, we
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really messed up. You know, all the snakes are killing us.
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And so Moses goes before the Lord, what do I do?
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And he says, make a pole with a bronze serpent,
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put the bronze serpent up on the pole. And when
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the people get bit by a snake, they have to
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run to that pole. And then they have to intently focus,
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intently focus. Okay, this seems like the most bizarre solution, right?
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But what it is is a type and shadow that
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the serpent is the serpent that has been judged. That's
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why it's on a pole, okay? Cursed is anything that's
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on a pole. Jesus judged that serpent at the cross
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when he was put on the pole. So he can
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take care of any curse because he became a curse
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for us. Thank you, Jesus. Okay, so what you do
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to fix this problem and any other problem is you
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close your eyes and you intently focus on Jesus Christ,
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on Jesus Christ. Hold your focus on him. Repent for
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your sins. Receive the light of Christ into the wounds
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of your soul that were created by sin and Because
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complaining is a sin. It is. Murmuring is a sin.
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As we're discussing here, I mean, 1 Corinthians 10 dedicated
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a whole section for it. And it pointed out what
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1 Corinthians 10 pointed out was all these stories that
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I'm talking about. They became lepers. They got swallowed up
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by the earth. The snakes came out. And even Jonah. Oh, Jonah. Remember,
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he was complaining. Oh, yeah. What happened to him? He
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had to die and get eaten by a fish. Yeah.
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Or a whale.
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And he gets spit out by fish.
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Whatever it is, right?
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Okay, well, maybe he made a little campfire in the
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fish's belly like we see in the kids' department at
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the church. So whatever happened to Jonah, it wasn't good.
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He got thrown overboard in a storm, and he washed
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up in Assyria to go do the job that he
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was supposed to do without his complaining.
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And.
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But yeah, complaining is not a solution. It is not
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a solution. And you need to change your perspective and
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go get the plank out of your eye and go
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before God, take it before God asking to tell me,
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tell me how do I handle this? Help me to
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handle this. Give me the spirit of grace. Give me
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a new perspective. Give me your heart for that person.
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Now I'll tell you this on my husband, um, my husband,
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good man, good, good, good man, very good man. I
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love my husband so much, but he's not where I
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am spiritually. And, um, and so instead of finding fault
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with where he's still lacking the bondages that he still has,
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which is dipping skull and drinking beer.
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Okay.
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I'll just tell you. And, um, I told him, Hey,
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those are bondages. And he's like, No, they're not. And
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I'm like, if, if I told you today that they're
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all the beer on the planet was gone, would you
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freak out or not? If I told you no more skull,
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no more skull, it's gone. You can't wait. If you're
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a freak out, if you're like, Oh no, no more cigarettes,
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no more wine, no more, whatever. It has you. That
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has you. It's a bondage. You're not using it. It
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has you. It's, and it's above the Lord and the
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Lord will help you get rid of it, but you
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got to surrender that. So I don't care if he
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has a beer. I drink beer. But if someone told
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me that every beer on the planet was gone, I
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could care less. I wouldn't care. So that's the difference.
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And so instead of harping on him, because I used to,
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I used to beg. I used to threaten. I used
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to try to make him feel guilt. None of that.
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Manipulate.
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Manipulate. Yes, that was me. Those were spirits on me.
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None of that works. It has to be come from
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the heart of the person. So I asked the Lord,
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I said, I finally said, Lord, I see that in
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most people, they don't change. You're totally fine with allowing
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them to go around that mountain and stay in that
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bondage until they are sick of it. And when they
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finally get sick of it, they go, they come before
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him and they go, okay, I'm ready to lay it down.
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And I said, but I'm married to that. So I
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need the spirit of grace on me that I can
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love him where he's at, just like you are until
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he surrenders. And the Lord gave it to me. And
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so it doesn't bother me at all. So ladies, for
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all of you out there that are married to a
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guy who's not spiritually where you're at, and I know
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there's hundreds of thousands of you because I talk to
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a lot of women. and their husbands are not spiritually
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where they need to be, turn those complaints into prayers
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and pray for the spirit of grace that you can,
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that it just, it's water off a duck's back. It
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just doesn't bother you. You just love your guy. You
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love your guy and you lift him up and you
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cover him in the blood and you pray for him
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and support him and all the things and he'll change.
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And my husband has changed. He's changed a lot. And
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since I started with that, which is why I'm writing
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the book of decrees because I wrote those decrees The
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Lord told me, write a new one every day for
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40 days. And I would say them. So like on
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day seven, I had written seven at that point. I
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would add a new one every day. And then I
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would say those seven. Day eight, I would add a
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new one and I would say those eight. And at
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the end of 40 days, I kept going through over
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a year for over a year, praying things over my
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husband and my son. And, um, And I did see changes.
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And sometimes it's like, oh, no, it didn't change. And
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then other times it's like, wow, I can't believe that
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just came out of their mouth. That's that's amazing. That
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is like there and he's in there and he is
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working in their hearts and he is changing them. And
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they and if I look back, you know, from now
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to say three years back, there are major changes. And
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and so it's all about. turning those complaints into prayers
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and into decrees and agreeing with heaven. So just what
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you were saying, Bennett, and this is 1 Thessalonians 5,
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16 through 18. You want to replace your complaining with
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thankfulness and joy. It says, rejoice always, pray without ceasing,
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in everything give thanks. So it's about shifting your focus
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and it's about gratitude. and speaking life out of your
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mouth and agreeing with heaven, agreeing with what the word says.
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And you will see the changes. They may be gradual
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and it doesn't matter because every day that goes by,
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it's not like, oh God, another day has gone by.
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It's been three years. No, you're one day closer to
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that manifestation. It will come because the word cannot return void.
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All it needs to fuel it is your faith. That's
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all it needs. So let your faith fuel those words
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and persevere. That's another one that's in the book of James.
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And it tells you that the perfect man is the
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one who perseveres in faith. And that's for your own self.
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That's where you want to get your own self. And
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Philippians 2.14, if you want to become blameless and pure
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without fault in a warped and crooked generation and shine
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like the stars in the sky as you hold firmly
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to the word of life, you want to quit complaining.
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That's what it's all about.
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Yes, for sure. Let's roll through it. Let's help people
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get rid of some of this complaining, especially me.
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Okay. Okay. I'm going to lead you, Bennett, and everybody
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else in the prayer of renunciation. Okay. Do you want
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to say it out loud or are you just going
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to do it in your head?
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I'll just do it in my head.
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Okay. Okay. Here we go. All right. Heavenly Father, I
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come before your holy throne. to repent for coming into
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agreement with the spirit of complaining, for having my focus
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on the wrong things, for speaking death, for allowing my
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mouth to be an open sepulcher, speaking words of death.
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I confess all of that as sin. I lay it
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under the blood of Jesus. I ask you to forgive
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me and wash me clean. Okay, now you're going to
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take your authority. Now I take authority over the spirit
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of murmuring, complaining, fault finding, blame, bitterness, resentment, and I
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break your power. I break your assignment in my life.
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I bind you. I cast you out in Jesus name.
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I tear down any altars that have been set up
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to you. And I command them to be utterly destroyed.
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And I break every curse that has come into my
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life or my family's life because of my complaining. I
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ask you, Lord, to give me the spirit of grace
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and a new perspective. Align my thoughts and my heart
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with you and help me to prosper and to represent
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you properly. And I ask all these things in Jesus
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Christ's mighty name. Amen. Amen.
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I actually got chills. Just saying.
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Confirmation. There's Holy Spirit.
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Wow. All right.
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That's going to help you.
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Yeah, I feel like it is. Man, I, God, I
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complain a lot. Not all the time. Just sometimes. You know,
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you get into it. It's like the more you do it,
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the more you do it. Right? Yes.
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Yes.
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And that sounds so simple, but the more you do it,
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the more you do it. And it's like, duh.
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It's an open door.
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It's also whoever you hang around with.
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That's right.
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If you hang around with people that complain, you kind
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of suck that up and absorb it. And it oozes
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off on you, as I like to say.
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Well, and birds of a feather, you know, birds of
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a feather flock together. So show me your friends and
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I'll show you your future. So you want to pray
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for them or tell them, point it out and say, hey,
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let's do a project together. Let's start speaking life over
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all these negative things. Let's make a list and put
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them under the blood and then start speaking life for
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our people. Because if you're not praying for them, who is?
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And your prayers aren't doing anything if you're not speaking. Okay,
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it says that angels hearken to the voice that speak
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in the word of God. They're not hearkening to somebody
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who's complaining. They're not doing anything but sitting there rolling
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their eyes, waiting for something to do. Right. They're waiting
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on you to get in alignment with heaven and call
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things that are not as though they are. Yeah. So
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that's the goal.
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For sure.
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Oh.
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Let me get my head squared. Okay. Father, we come
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before you with humility and gratitude. Search our hearts and
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show us where complaining and murmuring and bitterness, resentment and
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fault finding have taken root in us. Forgive us for
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the times we have focused more on what is wrong
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than on what you have done or have already done.
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Forgive us for the times we have spoken words that
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created division and discouraging others and questioning your goodness and provision.
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Holy Spirit, teach us to recognize the difference between honest
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lament and sinful murmuring. Give us wisdom to know when
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we need to speak And when we need to be silent,
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when we need to repent, and when we simply need
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to trust you, replace complaining with gratitude, bitterness for forgiveness, um,
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fear with faith, pride with humility, and help us become
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people who carry peace in our homes and our marriages
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and our churches and our workplaces. Um, Guard our mouths, Lord.
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Let our words bring life instead of death, encouragement instead
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of discouragement. We belong to you. Our homes belong to you.
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And our minds and our words belong to you. Fill
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us with the Holy Spirit and produce in us love
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and joy and peace. And above all, help us become
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more like Jesus. We all We ask all of this
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in the name, the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
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Amen. The matchless name. Amen. Amen.
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All right. Tell us where we can find you, Laura.
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Okay.
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Cleansingthebloodline.com. And on Telegram, it's called Cleansing the Bloodline. Also,
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that's my channel. And my books are on Amazon.
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Okay. Also, for everyone that wants to watch these episodes, Ad-free.
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Go to Patreon. Forward slash Broadcasting Seeds. $ 5 for audio,
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no ads. $ 10 for audio and video with no ads.
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I've got to start throwing that in at the end.
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Amen.
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And the music, because I get a lot of questions
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about the music. The theme music, the outro music for
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most episodes, except for Sunday Seeds and Testing the Spirits
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is always original to the episode. We have our own song,
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and I think I sent it to you. But Testing
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the Spirits, if you want to find those songs, go
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to any streaming platform of your choice, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music,
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and just type in Broadcasting Seeds, and they will all
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come up. All right. We'll see everyone next week. And Laura,
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thank you. And we'll talk to you soon.
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Thanks for having me on Bennett. Love it. I love
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doing it.
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You can wear the robe. You can quote the page.
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You can stand beneath the steeple and still be locked
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inside a cage.
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You can speak his name.
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So I won't follow every voice just because it sounds
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like truth.
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Every tree will show its fruit.
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Every word will face the proof.
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Test the teaching.
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Test the fruit.
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Test the spirits for the truth.
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If it fills my heart with pride If it puts
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the rules above the Savior.
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Then something isn't right Test.
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The teaching Test the fruit Test the spirits Hold it
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to the light.
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Tradition builds its altar and calls the altar God. Men
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can add their chains and burdens, then tell you there
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is laws. The Pharisees knew scripture, but couldn't see the sun.
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He fought the very kingdom he believed.
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He fought for.
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So I won't measure holiness.
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By the title or the crowd.
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Truth does not need pride and fear.
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To make its message loud. Test the teaching, test the fruit,
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test the spirits for the truth if it leads. If
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it puts.
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The rules above the Savior, then something isn't right. Test
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the teaching, test the fruit, test the spirits, hold it
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to the light. Search my heart before my brother.
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Search my motives, search my ways.
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Show me where I chose tradition when I should have
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sought your face.
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Break the pride, break the blindness.
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Let the scales.
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Fall from my eyes.
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I don't want religion if religion hides the cross.
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Not every voice that says his name speaks for him.
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Not every church.
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Not every teacher. Not every sign. Not every spirit. Test
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Test the teaching.
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Test the proof. Test the spirits for the truth. Does
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it lead me closer to you?
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Does it look.
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Like what you taught? Does it carry love and mercy
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or the.
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Pride of being right?
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Test the teaching.
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Test the fruit.
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Test the spirits. Hold it to the light.
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Test what I say. Test what you hear.
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Test what you carry. Year after year. Test the teaching.
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Test the fruit. Test the spirits.
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And follow Christ.