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May I be seated?

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It's a great honor to be here with you.

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I had the honor of being here with you, Mending, also.

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As we had the memorial, I called her my daughter.

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Cindy and I are so old that everyone's our daughter and son.

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Cindy and I are very old that everyone's our daughter and son.

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I think I'm older than her parents.

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Anyone know? Anyway.

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Let me start tonight by saying this.

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Cindy has a saying.

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And it's this.

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Don't preach past the anointing.

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Don't preach beyond the anointing.

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Don't say, you have to fill the time.

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I'm not going to do that.

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I believe the Lord has given me a specific message that I believe is anointed.

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I don't know how long it's going to take for Jennifer and I to release it.

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But we'll do it.

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And it will give you something that I hope will have impact in your life.

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As we have been walking together through this very challenging season,

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I was asking, what do you say to a people who are in a challenging season?

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I want you to teach tonight about the revelation of why

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and the revelation of where.

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I want you to teach tonight about the revelation of why and the revelation of where.

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Why, or why, and the revelation of where.

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Very important for your life.

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If you mess up these two revelations, you will get stuck in your life.

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How many of you do not want to be stuck in your life?

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Most of you.

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We'll talk to the ones who like being stuck later.

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I want to talk about why.

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Even prophets don't always have the revelation that they would desire to have.

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I'll give you an example of that in the Word.

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In 2 Kings, the 4th chapter, and we'll not go to the specific verses at this time.

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The prophet Elisha had developed a relationship with a couple

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and we know the woman was called a shunamite woman

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and she had prepared, she entered the world,

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and she had prepared, she and her husband had prepared a special room for the prophet.

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What can I do to bless this woman?

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and she wanted a child.

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and the Lord allowed him to release a word

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that in one year she would be holding a son in her arms.

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and she basically said, don't you play with me?

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you have to account for this child.

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there was a day when he went into the fields

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and he had some kind of episode, I believe it may have been sunstroke,

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but it was very serious,

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and he died.

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The prophet promised the child.

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the Lord hath hid it from me

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and hath not told me.

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it is not given for us to know why.

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where we have true clarity on everything that's happened

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and all of our whys will be answered.

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things happen and we're just not given to know

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if there's been a tragedy,

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if there's been something traumatic,

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and you will get stuck in your why

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and you will not be able to move forward in your life

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and the Bible says you can become shipwrecked in your faith.

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to say when you don't understand or you don't know why,

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you have to be mature enough to move on.

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but you cannot afford to get stuck on wondering why.

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Two very simple things.

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Even prophets don't understand everything.

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You're not going to understand everything.

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Now the main thing I want to focus on tonight

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is the revelation of where.

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Let me unpack this.

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Let me unpack this.

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we find Jacob.

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You know him. You have Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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He was only the third generation into this walk.

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last October, I turned 75.

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that Abraham began his journey.

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You're never too old to begin something new.

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Cindy and I have been pretty busy through the years.

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Am I getting ready to move into a new season of my life?

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Is there a new journey that you're going to have me begin on?

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That's going to take generations to complete.

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Paddan-er-ram, which is a number of hundreds of miles away.

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in the beginning of his life.

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that is, to him.

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he reaches a place where he lays down to sleep,

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he reaches a place where he lays down to sleep,

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and he begins to have a revelatory dream.

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and he sees the Lord.

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he realizes where he is.

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and he realizes where he is,

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and also note that he says he had not had the revelation of where he was.

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even though he was a child of promise.

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and promises were released to God,

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and he had the revelation of where he was.

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and he realizes where he is,

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and he has the revelation of where he was.

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and rather than grow in revelation,

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was stuck in an earthly understanding.

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he receives the revelation that his where is a gate,

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or a portal of heaven.

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you have by virtue of that covenant,

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access to a heavenly revelation all the time.

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that you need a consciousness of your where,

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that revelatory position that you have been given on earth,

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that allows you to look up to heaven

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and know that the Lord himself is there,

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and he is going to speak to you how you fit in the covenant.

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Most people never achieve a consistent consciousness

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of their where.

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as it relates to having this where consciousness.

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I want you to understand something.

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Walking in the revelation of your covenant promises,

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unlocks a heavenly gate

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that releases an atmosphere of heaven,

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an atmosphere of the miraculous power of God.

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this is yours.

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Let's talk about the power of God.

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The power of God is the power of God.

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The power of God is the power of God.

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Let's talk about Jesus.

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Jesus was the seed of Abraham.

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Jesus was the promise that God gave to Abraham that he would have a seed.

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He knew where ever he was.

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There existed a gate of heaven.

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He knew where ever he was.

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that released the miraculous atmosphere of heaven.

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He walked exhibiting signs and wonders.

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He walked performing miracles.

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He exhibited being totally conscious of his where.

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The disciples of Jesus were trained to walk in that revelation of where.

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We see that manifested in Luke 9.

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Power and authority to cure diseases.

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Power to preach the kingdom of God.

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Power to preach the kingdom of God.

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Power to heal the sick.

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In the first example, Jacob was in a place

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and had the revelation of covenant people living in the kingdom of God.

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Jacob was in a place.

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And had the revelation of covenant people living in a portal of heaven.

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By the time you get to Jesus, Jesus was a mobile gate of heaven.

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The disciples were mobile gates of heaven.

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Wherever they walked, they had been trained.

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You need to understand your where.

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Because where you are, where you go, where you walk,

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you will create an atmosphere.

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If you are conscious of what I have for you,

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wherever you go, you will create an atmosphere of heaven.

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And you will see a manifestation of heaven on earth.

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Wherever you go.

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