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I want to begin a series of sermons throughout this summer period

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entitled Out Living Your Life. Out Living Your Life.

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Let's pretend for a moment that you had a rich benefactor or an uncle or

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grandparent who left you a sizable amount of money with caveats and

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stipulations. A rich family member or benefactor left you 86,400 dollars to

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spend every day. 86,400 dollars to spend every day with one stipulation.

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You cannot bring any of Sunday's money into Monday. You cannot bring any of

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Monday's money into Tuesday. You have to spend all 86,400 dollars in one day

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every day. You can't save it. You can't put it in a chicken at the bottom of the

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deep freezer. You can't put it in an account in you and your sister's name so

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your husband don't know where it is. I wish I had a witness here. You can't put

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it in a shoebox or a hat box. You can't hide it in the back of the closet and

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say, oh this whole thing? You have to spend all 86,400 dollars in one day.

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You can't bring one day's money into the next day. I think I could handle that.

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I think there are two or three other people in here who could handle that.

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Spending 86,400 dollars a day every day until the day you die. The only

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stipulation is you cannot bring one cent of Monday's money into Tuesday. I think

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that's a pretty good deal. But let's quit dreaming. Let's get our head back

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in the sermon. You do not nor do I have any rich people in my family who would

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leave me that kind of money. I do not have 86,400 dollars for spend every day.

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That was a wonderful game to play. But now let's get serious for real. No kidding.

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There's somebody who loves you more than a rich benefactor. There's somebody who

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loves you more than a grandmother, than a mother or father who deposits 86,400

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seconds in every day of your life with one stipulation. You can't bring a

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minute of Sunday into Monday. You can't bring a minute of Monday into Tuesday.

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You got to spend all day Monday in Monday.

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Somebody will help me preach it. I only have a minute with 60 seconds in it.

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Trust upon me and I can't refuse it. I didn't seek it and I didn't choose it.

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But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give an account if I

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abuse it. A tiny little minute, but eternity is in it. You do not have one

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second more than the person sitting next to you. Every single one of us has only

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24 hours in a day. Nobody here has 27 hours. Nobody here has 18 hours. All of

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us have 86,400 seconds that God expects us to invest in every day. And if you

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take one second out of Monday and bring it into Tuesday, you wasted Monday.

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So how, Pastor, can I outlive my life? Because if all that you are can be

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put in a casket, your living has been in vain. If all that you are can be six

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feet underground at Houston Memorial Garden, you've missed what life is all

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about. Sadly, brothers and sisters, most people live and die and never ask why. The

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greatest day of your life was the day you were born. But a day greater than the

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day you were born is the day you find out why you were born. Ralph Waldo Emerson,

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Ralph Waldo Emerson said, see how the masses of men worry themselves into

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nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself

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into immortality. Most people worry themselves into nameless graves while

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here and there an unselfish person forgets him or herself into eternity. Your

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life will never be lived by anyone else. You have been given your life. No one

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else has a version of your life. They might try to style their hair like yours,

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but they'll never be you. They might try to color their hair like yours or walk

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like you walk or talk like you talk or dress like you dress or drive what you

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drive. And listen, imitation is a sincere form of flattery, but no matter

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how they try to be you, you are the best you in Houston. And it makes no sense at

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all to get a copy when you can get the origin. That's why you ought to walk

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with your head in the clouds because God made you your individual version of you.

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God gave you your own set of fingerprints. God made you who you are and God

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likes you just the way you are. No, God loves you just the way you are, but he

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won't leave you there. He wants to bring you to another level of significance, but

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you've got to put yourself in God's hands to outlive your life. A Chrysler 300

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looks fairly much like a Bentley until a Bentley drives up. And people who are

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envious of you or people who try to bury the light of your potential under the

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bushel of their expectation, people who suck all the air out of the room because

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of their insecurities, people who won't let you be you because they don't want you

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to shine. They want you to come underneath them so that they can always be

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over you. You need to get out of the company of those kinds of people because

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they halt and keep you from being all God wants you to be. God has a destiny for

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your life, but you got to get away from some people.

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You got to you got to unfriend some people. I wish I had a witness here.

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That's some folks you got to get out of your concentric circle of concern

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because God has a destiny for your life because nobody is a better version of

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you than you. And so how preacher can I outlive my life? You shall be my

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witnesses. You shall be witnesses unto me. The message that God sends us through

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through this acts of the Holy Spirit through the apostles. John Chrysostom,

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the golden mouth preacher of another generation, John Chrysostom said that the

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gospel of Luke is what Jesus did and said, but the book of Acts is what the

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other comforter did and said. The Holy Spirit came to continue what Jesus

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started in the gospel of Luke. Acts is what Jesus is the continuation of what

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Jesus started in the gospel of Luke. We are an extension of what Jesus started

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in the gospel because Jesus said greater works than these shall you do. And I

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thought about that. How can I do greater work than Jesus? Well, when Jesus was here

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on earth, when he was in Capornium, he couldn't be in Galilee. When he was in

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Nazareth, he couldn't be in name because he was spatio-temporally related to the

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universe in that he could only be in one place at one time. But now that he's here

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in the presence of the Holy Spirit, he can be everywhere at the same time with

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my eyes, my hands, my feet, your mind, your heart, your spirit, everywhere

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Lillie Grove lives. That's where God is.

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You shall be witnesses not to Pastor Anderson, not to a congregation called

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Lillie Grove, but witnesses under me. That's talking about Jesus. And the only

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star in this show is Jesus Christ. He's the fountain from which all else flows.

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He's the root out of which all else grows. And if you didn't come here to hear

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about Jesus, if you came here with an entertainment philosophy and a nightclub

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mentality, you've come to the wrong place. Because all I come to talk about this

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morning is a man from Galilee.

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He was rich, but for my sake he became poor. He was wounded. I wish I had a

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witness for my transgression. He was bruised for my iniquities. The chest

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ties of one of my peace was upon him. All we like sheep have gone astray.

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But God has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was born in Bethlehem. He was

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brought up in Nazareth. Healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, made the lame to

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walk, made the dumb to speak. He healed a woman with an issue of blood by just a

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touch of his clothes. He was sleeping one night and a storm blew up. He stood up

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on the boat of that on the hull of that ship and said, peace, be still. The people

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were hungry in the desert place. All they had was two fish and five loaves. He said,

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bring it to me. He lifted it up to his father, brought it down and gave it to

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his disciples. Fair five thousand not counting the women and she was Jesus.

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Jesus in the morning. Jesus at noon day. Jesus laid in the evening. Jesus when

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the sun goes down. That's something about that name. There is a name I love to

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hear. I love to sing its worth. It sounds like music in my ears. It's the

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sweetest name on earth. He heals my wounds. He soothes my sorrows. He lifts my

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bow down head. He puts food on my table, clothes on my back, money in my pocket.

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He puts down my enemies. He raises up friends for me. He's a doctor in a sick

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room, a lawyer in a courtroom. There's nobody.

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There is none.

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Like him.

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Searched all over.

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Couldn't find nobody.

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Nobody greater.

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Have a good witness here. He's a rock in a weary land. He's a shelter in a time of

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storm. He's a friend when you're by yourself. He's company when you're all

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alone. He'll be a husband for you. He'll be a father for you. Whatever you need, he

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can provide.

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You shall be witnesses.

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Under me.

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Everywhere you go. Talk about Jesus.

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When you wake up in the morning before you go to bed at night, tell your

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nephew, tell your grandson, boy, have you heard about Jesus? I know you got some

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problems, but I know a man who can fix it for you. I know you think you're grown.

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I know you think you know everything, but you're gonna run up against some

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stuff, young people, that you don't have to have somebody because mama and daddy

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is not gonna be there, but I know somebody who'll go to college with.

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I know somebody who'll get in a dormitory with you.

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Won't he do it? Somebody here ought to help me testify when I was down in my last

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time.

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That's the message. That's the message.

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But there's a method to this message.

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Jesus said, everywhere you go, talk about me.

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Because when you talk about me, that makes you a witness.

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You shall be witnesses.

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Witnesses and a witness in a court of law cannot testify on hearsay.

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You have to have seen a herd for yourself.

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You can't be talking about my mama say God is good.

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I know for myself what God can do.

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Somebody ought to help me here.

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I need to get it over to my young friends this morning.

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That we old folk wasn't always old.

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We were 25 years old, 12 months.

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We were 18 and 19 years old, 12 months.

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You know how we got to be 64 and 70 and 85, trusting in the Lord?

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We didn't always have a lot of money.

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Somebody ought to help me shout right here.

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We didn't always have opportunities because there was time when black folk couldn't go in a whole lot of places.

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But look where the Lord has brought us from.

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Look how many doors God has swung open for us.

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God opened those doors for us so we could open those doors for you.

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Moses told the children of Israel in his valedictory address before he was buried in the plains of Moab.

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He said you're going to come to houses that you didn't build.

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I wish I had a Bible reader.

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Vineyards that you didn't plant.

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Wells that you did not dig.

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He said that's the time for you to be careful because when you get a lot, it's easy to forget God.

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I need somebody who can run back here with me in your own mind and think about when you didn't have a lot.

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But God provided and God opened the door and you just kept putting one foot in front of the other.

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You just kept coming to church.

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You just kept praying.

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Some days were better than other days.

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Some days were good.

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Some days were bad.

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Some days were sunshine.

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Some days were rain.

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Some days were hot.

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Some days were cold.

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Some days you smile.

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Sometimes you smile to keep from crying.

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But look where God has brought you.

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You can help me like David said.

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I've been young.

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I'm old.

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I've never seen the righteous forsaken.

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Not his seed.

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Not only would God take care of you.

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God will take care of your children.

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God will take care of your grandchildren.

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Have I got to witness it here?

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I'm blessed today because somebody in that grave prayed for me.

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God is still answering prayers of people who's sleeping in that grave.

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Somebody told me about Jesus.

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I know him because somebody told me about him.

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But then one Wednesday, down in Eunice Louis there,

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I came to Jesus as I was weary,

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worn and sad.

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And listen, listen, listen beloved,

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don't you think because these young people are young,

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they don't get weary sometimes.

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Because there's a heaviness over these young people.

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There's a cloud sometimes over these young people

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because we've left them to raise themselves.

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And we're not telling them our story.

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We're not telling them how we made it.

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And we're not close to them as our parents and grandparents were close to us

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because we are letting them be raised by TikTok and Instagram.

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But you ought to sit them down and tell them that I know somebody who can help you in your midnight hour.

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Young people are so lonely these days.

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They are so depressed now because nobody is around.

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They are locked and latchkey children.

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They got to go in the house by themselves because nobody's around.

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Mama still thinks she's in her 30s.

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Daddy ain't nowhere around because they can't even put his name on the graduation invitation.

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But when daddy is not around, when mama is still a fool,

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there's a God who loves you.

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There's a God who will provide for you.

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There's a God who will protect you.

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There's a God who will be with you in your midnight hour.

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There's a God who will make a way for you when it looks like there is no way.

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Witnesses.

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But there's a mindset that goes with the method and the message.

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You'll be witnesses in Jerusalem.

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That's the mindset.

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Your mindset, you got to start at home.

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You can't be something outside the house and nothing at home.

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I want to try to be all spiritual over here.

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And you get home and your family can't stand you.

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Because your Christianity ought to go with you when you leave church.

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You're not just good on Sunday.

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You're not just spiritual on Sunday.

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You're not just holy at Lily Grove.

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It goes to your job as a witness.

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Because on your job, people who are un-Christian have listened to you talk about how good God is.

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And they've watched you pray over your lunch.

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And they've seen you testify to other coworkers who were struggling about God's mercy and God's forgiveness.

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And they know when you just supposed to take an hour for lunch and you take an hour and 45 minutes.

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They know when they go to your house and all your towels say holiday in.

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They know when you dine and dash.

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Eat and don't pay for your meal and you're trying to act like it's some hair in the food.

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Or you keep sending it back.

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You've eaten about 15 spoonfuls but I don't like this.

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Take this back and you full so you get up and leave.

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Your witness goes beyond Sunday morning.

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That's all I'm trying to get over to you.

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You've got to be what you say you are.

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And listen, you will always have some failures.

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There will always be some snaffles and some slip ups and you will mess up big time.

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Well, let me talk about myself.

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I have made some cataclysmic mistakes.

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There are some decisions I wish I hadn't made.

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There are some roads I wish I never traveled.

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There's some stuff in my closet that if I opened the door every skeleton would fall out and you would see me for who I really am.

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But by the grace of God, I can stand up here this morning and testify if you confess your sin.

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He's faithful.

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Just to forgive you of all your sins.

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You've got to start at home.

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And then you've got to go to the Judea and some Mary.

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You have to talk to homeless people.

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You have to talk to people who are homosexual.

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You have to talk to people who are drug addicted.

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You have to talk to your neighbors who have no relationship with Christ.

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It's not enough for you to drive here and leave your neighborhood with people who've never heard about Jesus.

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That's Judea.

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That's Samaria.

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You have to be able to talk to people and to let your guard down.

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Of course you're going to be misused.

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Of course you're going to be taken advantage of.

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Of course they're going to have a line.

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They're going to have a trick.

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They've got a scheme.

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They've got a hook.

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That's what they do.

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That's how they make it.

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But it's not on me for them to trick me.

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It's on me to do what God tells me to do.

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And if you just do what God says to do, if they trick you, that's on them.

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But God will bless you because your heart was in the right place.

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Now you know, you know as well as I know,

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that when they're holding up that sign, talking about will work for food,

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they ain't trying to do that.

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That there's a man on the corner of Benz and 288 who I respect

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and put some money in his little jar every time I pass there.

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Because his sign says, I memorized it.

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I memorized it.

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Why lie?

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I just want a beer.

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I said, have a cold one on me, doc.

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I said, have a cold one on me, doc.

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Weekends were made for make alone.

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Get your butt light.

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It's less filling.

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He ain't lying.

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He ain't talking about I want to wash your car.

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He ain't talking about I'm trying to come rake your grass.

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He just want to get him a cold one.

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And listen, it doesn't take anything away from me to help somebody who's in need.

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As a matter of fact, it enhances in my mind that it could have been me.

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Every time you pass by somebody who's in bad shape,

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you don't know what got them there.

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You don't know how far they've fallen to get to where they are.

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They might have been up one day, but they fell down to where they are right now.

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And you don't know because you're up right now does not mean you're going to be up six months from now

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or two years from now.

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Don't look down your nose at people who life has turned on because life can turn on you.

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But if you got your faith in God, when life turns on you, God can turn it around.

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I'm through.

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But he says you will be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem and in Judea and in Samaria

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and in the utmost parts of the earth.

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But there's only one way you can do that and I'm through.

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You need the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit is not an it.

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You can't catch it.

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Somebody ought to help me talk it.

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He's not like COVID or the flu.

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He is the third person in the Trinity.

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He has personality.

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He has a will.

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He has emotions.

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You can grieve him.

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Somebody ought to help me talk it.

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But if you let him, he'll take control of your life.

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He'll make you walk right.

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He'll make you live right.

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He'll convict you of righteousness, of judgment and of sin.

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He'll get you back on the road when you turn off in an exit that you have no business going on.

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He'll get your mind and your spirit right so that by the time you get to the right,

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by the time you get to worship on Sunday morning, all the mess you did last week

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should have disqualified you to even be in this place.

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But the Holy Spirit covers you.

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He surrounds you like a cloud.

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He protects you from hurt, harm and danger.

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He lets you get here and pray to God the Father who will give you power to pray to God the Father.

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The Bible says he'll make intercession for you with groanings that cannot even be uttered.

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There are some times you want to pray and you don't know what to say.

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Sometimes life can get so heavy.

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Life can get so hard that all you can do is sit down and fold your arms and just ask God to help you.

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Just ask God to come to your rescue.

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I wish I had somebody to help me.

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It's in that moment that the Holy Spirit comes in and takes your prayers and makes intercession for you.

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He goes up to God the Father and says to God, now here is what she's saying, but here's what she really needs.

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Here's why she's crying, but let me tell you what the problem is.

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Here is where she is, but let me tell you where she wants to be.

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And somebody ought to help me testify that before you know it, you start feeling better.

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You still got the same issues.

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You still got the same problems.

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You still got the same enemies, but the Holy Spirit just comes where you are and lets you know that everything is going to be alright.

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I don't know how he's going to do it.

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I don't know when he's going to do it, but I feel his Holy presence.

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I feel his Holy Spirit in this room right now.

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The only people who can help me shout right now is folk who has felt the presence of the Holy Spirit.

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He'll walk with you.

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He'll warm your heart.

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He'll make your burden lighter.

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He'll make your pathways brighter.

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That's something about being in the room with the Holy Spirit.

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I wish I had one or two more witnesses.

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There's a language that the Holy Spirit will give you to help you talk to him in a way that nobody understands but you and him.

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He'll help you to know that life seems to be going in one direction, but God can turn it in another direction.

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I need somebody here who's got some problems in your life.

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Everything is not going well in your life.

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Everything is not coming up roses in your situation.

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Your job is getting on your nerves.

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Your friends are sometimes there's some family members you having some problems with.

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There's some church people you may not even want to be on the road with, but you still come in here on Sunday morning because it's not about your family.

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It's not about your coworker.

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It's not about your friends or your husband.

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It's not about your wife or your sister.

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It's about a God who saved you one day and put his Holy Spirit in your heart to make you love people who don't love you.

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He'll make you do good to people who hate you and pray for people who despitefully use you.

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They think they've gotten away with something.

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They think they've gotten over on you, but the Holy Ghost has a way of turning things around in your life.

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He'll make you smile when you feel like crying.

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He'll make you get in a hurry when you ain't going nowhere.

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He'll wake you up in the middle of the night and let you know everything is going to be all right.

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I need a witness this morning who knows that God will show up in the dark hours of your situation.

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God will show up in your midnight hour.

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God will turn midnight in the day.

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God will turn sadness into joy.

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God will turn bad times into good times.

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Be not dismayed, whatever be tied.

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God will take care of you.

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Won't He do it? Won't He do it? Won't He make a way out of nowhere? Won't He pick you up?

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Turn you around, place your feet on solid ground.

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I need a witness right now who's got some stuff in your past that you shame to talk about.

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But since you met Jesus, you can witness now that that's what I used to be.

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That's where I used to go.

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That's how I used to act.

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That's how I used to talk.

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But since I met Jesus, since I met Jesus, since I met Jesus, there's a change in my life.

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Since I met Jesus, there's a change in my disposition.

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Since I met Jesus, I am not the same.

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If you met Him and you're not ashamed to talk about Him.

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If He brought you and you don't care who's looking at you.

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If He made a way for you and you don't mind testifying.

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If He saved you and you are a witness, why don't you look at somebody?

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You don't have to put your hands on them. You don't have to touch them.

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Just look at somebody.

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Tell them look at me. I'm a testimony.

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Look at me. I'm a testimony.

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Come on, use your preaching voice. Come on, use your preaching voice.

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Tell them look at me. I'm a testimony.

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I didn't make it on my own. I'm not standing here alone.

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It was Jesus. Y'all know Him, don't you?

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It was Jesus. Adam's Redeemer.

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Abel's Vendicator. Abraham's Sacrifice.

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Noah's Ark. Y'all know Him, don't you?

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He died. Didn't he die?

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But suddenly morning, He got up with all power in His hand.

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Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

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Thank you, Jesus. No, He's alright.

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I feel His presence in the room right now.

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I said I feel His presence all in the room right now.

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There's somebody but the catch on fire.

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Because the Holy Spirit is all in this place.

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The Holy Spirit is all in this place.

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Why don't you worship Him? Why don't you magnify?

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Why don't you lift Him up? Why don't you lift Your hands?

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And tell Him, come Holy Spirit. Come Holy Spirit.

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Come Holy Spirit. Come Holy Spirit.

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Come Holy Spirit.

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Come Holy Spirit. Come Holy Spirit.

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Come Holy Spirit.

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Come Holy Spirit.

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Feel this room. Feel every heart. Feel every life.

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Bless every job. Bless every house. Bless every child.

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Bless every child. Bless every job. I knew He's alright.

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Bless every child. Bless every house.

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Bless every child. Bless every house.

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Bless every house.

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Bless every house.

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Bless every house.

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When I think about Jesus and all He's done for me.

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Think about Jesus how He set me free.

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When I think about Jesus and all He's done for me.

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How He set me free. You dance.

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Hey!

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Hey!

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There's nobody like Jesus.

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There is none like Him.