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on your word this morning. Lay our burdens at

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your feet and magnify your holy name. We're asking

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God that you stir up a sense of peace on the

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inside of us so that we can hear your truth this

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morning with acceptance that this is a condemnation

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-free environment. It's a fear -free environment.

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that this is a place where we, we bask in the

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glory of your love for us. We hear this truth

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as those who are loved by you. We hear this truth

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as those who have been called out of darkness

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into this marvelous light. We don't hear this

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word as outsiders, but we come today as insiders

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to your divine promises, your precious plan.

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We're grateful above all else that you and all

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your majesty Splendor would invite us in So we

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hear this word with a grateful heart Knowing

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that we could be in this world without you But

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here we are in this world, but not of this world

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because of you And we thank you God For loving

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us and saving us pouring out your grace upon

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us. We're grateful. And we take this moment to

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submit ourselves to your truth. It may not always

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taste good, but it lives good. Thank you for

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a living word this morning. The word we hear

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will be alive. Sharp Dividing lies darkness from

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life Taking the grave asking it to pick a color

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We thank you father for this day In your precious

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name, I pray the name above all names shout it

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with me Jesus a man well As you take your seat,

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look at your neighbor, just shout at him, greater

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glory. I said greater glory. I didn't hear the

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glory part. Look at him. Greater glory. Greater

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glory. Greater glory. You know, there are some

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moments, you know, I come up here every Sunday

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knowing that God has given me an assignment to

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do. But I can tell you there's moments where

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it's different. And this is one of them Sundays.

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Matter of fact, God has told me that the next

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three Sundays is going to be them type of Sundays.

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That he's beginning to lay the foundation for

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what he's going to do in and through you for

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2027. Now, some of y 'all might say, Pastor Brian,

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I'm still worried about 2026. If you worried

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about 2026, then go ahead, start planning for

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2027. But what I'm simply saying is this is a

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moment of divine alignment. And so I'm incredibly

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excited, you know, for anybody that spends any

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time around me, right, that this time of the

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year, God tends to take what he's wanting to

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do in the new year and starts making it very

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clear and it's amazing because in certain moments

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you'll see me and you know, I might just start

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crying or doing all types of stuff, but it's

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just the presence of God just Just showing me

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making me clear and getting me clear so I can

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carry a conviction and a boldness concerning

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what he's saying because there's always gonna

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be something coming up against what God says

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The goal is to be so clear. You know, I said

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some things just along the way, take a second.

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Separate yourself. Have a conviction about what

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you're doing in your life. Because every word

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from God will have adversaries. But we have a

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conviction. And that conviction, it takes That

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adversary, it takes that challenge and it minimizes

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it. I say it all the time that you don't have

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big problems. You have a small view of God. And

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so a lot of times Satan will try to get you so

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problem oriented that you're not promise oriented.

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And anytime you get problem oriented and not

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promise oriented, you're on your way to destruction.

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And so that's why I say we fight for clarity.

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What's that? That's that promise. Because no

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matter what the problems trying to reorient reorientate

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me to if I have orientation with the promise

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I don't suffer to it Any y 'all ever been on

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a cruise before? And if you're going to cruise

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they'll say something when you get a little seasick

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They'll tell you don't look at the waves below

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you look at the horizon beyond you That if you

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look at the waves below you you'll start to adapt

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to the motion But if you can fix your eyes on

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that horizon sitting still It doesn't matter

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what motions happening in this boat. It will

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calm you from the inside out Well, that's what

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the promises of god do That if you become problem

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oriented You'll begin to look around so much

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that you'll become a part of the problem But

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you got to lift up your eyes to those heels which

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come at your health because your help comes from

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This case y 'all thought I was not fired up.

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I'm so fired up just Just letting God do what

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he do None of this was actually in my message.

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That's why I'm just taking my time to let him

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say all he wants to say in this moment So I'll

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say all the things he wanted me to say in this

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moment first before I get to his message He got

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always he tells me certain things he speaks to

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me and I may not shot top top But it's I'm telling

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you that God is saying this And he told me that

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there's some people that are in this room today

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that you think favors connected to strategy when

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favors corrected to responding That sometimes

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we hear what God tells us to do We start making

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a plan and expect the blessing from actually

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doing it. No, you're planning There's no blessing

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on your planning. There's blessing on your obedience.

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And so a lot of times we'll hear what God is

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saying We'll start planning and think that he's

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blessing what's in your head No, he's blessing

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what you do with your hands And so you got to

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start responding to what he's saying that y 'all

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do know that's where we see his glory His glory

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shows up when he says something that I don't

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have the strategy for But instead of holding

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it till I have one I go ahead and approach it

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like his glory is gonna meet me That's how that

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works And you will see God show up. Here's the

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problem. I tell believers all the time, if you

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are feeling overwhelmed in life, it's because

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you become a, you become a, what do they call

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them things? You become a storage center instead

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of a distribution center. Right that that many

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believers are storing what God says and that's

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why you haven't seen much motion That's why you're

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feeling overwhelmed. That's why you're feeling

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bogged down. You were designed to be a distribution

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center You have too much product on your shelves

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and not enough going out to dough, right? And

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it's delineating in value that if the product

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sits on the shelf it expires You got to write

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it off on your books is dead weight No, when

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the word comes in is just like fresh produce

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That when the word of god hits your life is fresh

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produce. We either cook it today Or we give it

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away because if you store it, it's just gonna

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spoil When god speaks we respond we don't strategize

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Boy, this just okay. Stay calm, bro Because there's

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certain things and we're gonna talk about it.

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Right? I say something if you if you Spent time

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around, you'll hear me say something. I'll say

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the experiment is over. And what am I saying?

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I'm saying that, you know, I've seen Christians

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be Christians for decades. This group, though,

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likes to experiment too much, messing with sacred

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truths, thinking that there's some new way. And

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it's ridiculous. And I am sick and tired. You

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sick and tired too, just tell the truth. Of watching

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believers getting a butt whooped over basic principles.

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What are we talking about? God speaks, we obey.

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I don't know when that got complicated, but it

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is now. He says, take your yoke up, take my yoke

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upon me because it's easy and the burdens are

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light. That lets me know if my walk of faith

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is heavy, I'm doing something wrong. I've learned

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that in the gym, in the gym that if my body starts

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to ache, it's because I'm doing the exercise

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wrong. I've straining where I should be lifting.

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Y 'all need to break that down. break that down

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i'm preaching but i am straining where i should

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be lifting i'm i'm using the wrong muscle in

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bad cases no muscle they yell at me all the time

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stop using your back you gotta use your hamstrings

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you gotta use your quads you can lift the weight

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but lifting it wrong will make it seem like you

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can't What are you saying that if you try to

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operate this life of faith the wrong way it will

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feel heavy if you are here hear me clearly if

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you are a believer and Faith feels heavy. You're

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doing it wrong You're doing it wrong if believing

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God feels like a chore you're doing it wrong

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We take great pleasure in placing our faith in

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Jesus Like God give me something big that's so

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big that all I can do is trust you for it. That's

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I love that space Show me something so impossible

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That I have no choice but to trust in you But

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I see believers nowadays God give me something

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I can manage. Well, when did that become? That's

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never been what it's been about All right, so

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boom, said that. He also told me this. And just,

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y 'all just received from the Lord today. I already

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see what he's doing. You gotta understand some

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things. And we're gonna talk a little bit about

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um sewing today because the basic thing that

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we've complicated it's simple y 'all know sewing

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and giving in the church is so simple and people

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have made it so complicated it's crazy it's not

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complicated at all But this is my point and I

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want to say this so you can hear but because

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many God I know many y 'all are dealing with

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very funny financial Situations and you got to

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understand this you are on what we call the children

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of Israel package They were so horrible of managing

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God's supply he just started supplying them daily

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Wasn't that he stopped supplying It just would

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only be enough for the day and in the ignorance

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They still tried to make a day supply last longer.

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And what did it do? It was spoiled Why because

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he was trying to get them to trust him with their

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finances with their supply with what they needed

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But they were so unwilling just to trust God

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That he wouldn't stop supplying and so that's

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why you ain't going hungry, but you ain't got

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enough You just survive it You own the children

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of Israel playing you haven't submitted Your

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financial plan to God and you're not trying to

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trust them with finances You trying to make finances

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what you trust in and so this can keep going

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on for as long as you wanted to go on Or you

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can finally say I trust God I Tell people all

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the time you y 'all know listen The only time

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you lack money is when you think it's supposed

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to go places God ain't ordained. And I try to

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tell you it's a simple principle that thing number

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two about money is anytime I'm planning for it

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to go further than God has, I'll always feel

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like you think you have a year supply. God knows

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you have a six month supply. So you feel short.

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Because you are trying to stretch something beyond

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where god thinks you're supposed to are planning

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for you supposed to so you don't lack You just

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think you have uh, you think you're supposed

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to go further than he's planning for it to go

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And I tell people all the time know what that

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is know what that is You think the last thing

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god did is the last thing he's going to do But

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you don't know that he has increased on your

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path You don't know that he is another re -up

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coming and so you because you don't trust god

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for a re -up You're trying to make something

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last longer than it's supposed to and that's

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what happened so now you feel as though you don't

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have enough because you don't believe that he

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has supply coming and he's like you're stressing

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for no reason because I know there's more on

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the way y 'all hear what I'm saying so you have

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a timing problem And so when I sit up here and

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say you are blessed you say no I'm not bad but

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I only got a they say you're supposed to have

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a three month reserve of your of your of your

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finances in the bank and financial security is

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when you have three months of your salary saved

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up just in case you get fired meanwhile God's

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like I'm gonna call you out of work into ministry

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in the next two months so it don't matter if

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they fire you in three months anyway it don't

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matter you do not we not on the same page y 'all

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hear what I'm saying So we start to worry about

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things God's not talking about cuz he's not concerned

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about what you concerned about Do you know what

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happens after all that worry and you come up

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here and say pastor? God has blessed my life

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and now you feel free again And I'm like, did

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you know you this the thing you could have felt

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this way the whole time You could have felt this

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way the whole time Y 'all rocking with me Thank

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y 'all. Now let's go. Greater glory. Greater

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glory. So we started this year on a journey in

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the book of Haggai. Y 'all remember that? And

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in that book, it's so strategic, right? The book

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is letting that church know that the latter glory

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shall be greater than the former glory of God's

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house. and i said guys god prophesied over this

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house that the latter will be greater than the

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former but like we always say great promise what's

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the path pastor y 'all just ask me the same question

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and he says we're gonna have to come out of many

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graves and then he's gonna turn them into glory

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But this there are some very specific things

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and I'm saying this because we in the last quarter

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of the year and I want to see all y 'all experience

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this ladder glory. So I'm gonna say some things

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very cutting straight y 'all see what I'm doing

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right now. Just go say them how they need to

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be said. Y 'all can fire me in two weeks after

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I finish this assignment. And I'm saying this

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because I've seen people do the opposite. of

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what is being described. From graves to glory,

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God is declaring new life, not new things. And

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many people are trying to do new things, not

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speaking life over the dead thing. And I'm telling

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you, God said, the dead, the grave is coming

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back to life. The things you thought was dead,

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he's not done with. And I see some of y 'all

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chasing new things. No, no, there's no blessing

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on the new thing. There's a blessing on the renewed

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thing. And I want you to see this, that this

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is not God's pattern. That God used to have the

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same type of attitude a lot of Christians have.

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If I don't like it, just destroy it. That's what

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he did to the people. Then he made a promise

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I'm not destroying what I don't like no more

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I'm gonna send resurrection of life to the things.

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That's what's always supposed to be that same

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divine order works in our life That people kind

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of understand a renewed thing is always stronger

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than a new thing Why here hear me out because

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there's this principle that we live by called

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seed time harvest any new thing is new seed so

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it's gonna take watering time for harvest so

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I'm not saying don't do new things I'm saying

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understand the kingdom process that you are doing

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a new thing trying to answer present problems

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that's not how the process works present problems

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should be answered by former seed If I need a

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harvest, I got to look where I've been planted.

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This is basic. We've been chopping this up. That's

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basic. And so Satan has tried to get many of

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y 'all to live divided in this house. That's

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what we did here is home, because if he can get

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you to approve, you're starting over. There will

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still be seed time and harvest. Or you can speak

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life over the dead thing that's still in the

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ground. It's like a tree. We just need pruning.

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But it's already been verified that it can produce

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fruit. That's why it's hard for you to give up,

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because you've received fruit. And so because

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I've received fruit, I know it can produce fruit.

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It just ain't been pruned in a while. Fruit comes

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faster from a pruned tree than a freshly planted

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tree. Because we don't even know if this tree

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can survive the conditions yet. And I've seen

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many people plant themselves in conditions that

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aren't even made for who you are. It's only gonna

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be a matter of time for you got to go back to

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where you actually belong. I love my father He

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said trees can't buy roots How that's your boy

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y 'all talking to me I'm just trying to make

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it clear this morning You got to understand The

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last thing pastor Brian want to do is teach a

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sermon is called series called here is home Because

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I realize a lot of stress comes from telling

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people to stay where they committed to leave

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it And so if you ask it how prior pastor Brian

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feel if you feel like leaving go But that's not

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a shepherd And it ain't my job to push my preference

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over God's work This is his house, not my house.

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So he get to pick who sit in the chairs. If you

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ever notice, I don't get to stand at the front

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door and say, you can't come in, you can't come

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in. No, I just have to work with who God brings

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to the door. But I know that Satan's been after

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many of y 'all's harvest. But that's why we've

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been on this journey. And this is a really pivotal

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turning point. Because here's the truth, right?

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When Christ is no longer at the center, life

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grows heavy and we lose our rhythm. the Book

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of Haggai. If y 'all could, I'm trying to have

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an assignment to do so. It's in the Book of Haggai.

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I was gonna read the whole thing. Y 'all know

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how I do. But I'll paraphrase it for the sake

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of this moment. In the Book of Haggai, the people

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had forsaken what God had called them to do.

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And here was the problem. They struggle to connect.

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What was going on with their life with how they

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were handling spiritual matters? I need y 'all

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here. This is big. The story of Haggai is they

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did not connect what was going on in their life

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to how they were handling their spiritual life.

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They had got to the point that they thought they

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could live a good life while treating God's way

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bad They thought that they could Mishandle God's

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work in his assignment and still live a plentiful

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life And so a high guy stepped in to let them

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know of something that we should understand as

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people of God of something called divine alignment

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look at your neighbor say divine alignment that's

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not how pastor post said it y 'all saw how i

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just made it beautiful right you said divine

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alignment i said divine alignments it's a beautiful

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thing it's a beautiful thing that as believers

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we have access to something called divine alignment

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What does that mean? That means that how I succeed,

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prosper in life is never only directed to who

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I am and what I do. What divine alignment shows

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is that as long as I'm in line, my life is naturally,

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by fact of proximity, beautiful. I don't even

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have to stress or strain because I'm in the right

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place in the right space. I can be doing the

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wrong thing, but I'm in the right place in the

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right space. I'm aligned where God wants me.

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Then the blessing flows. The blessing flows.

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Y 'all rocking with me. The blessing flow It

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describes that it flows from the head down through

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the feet That everything that is attached shall

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be blessed And you gotta understand this because

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I have lived this in my life I Have lived the

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life far above what I have ever actually deserved

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But if there's one thing I knew is where I belong

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I've never in my life doubted where I belong

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and who I belong to and I want to say this to

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some parents Because I'm a product of legacy

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and I laugh sometimes because some people will

00:27:12.690 --> 00:27:14.789
come to me and tell me what legacy is. And I'm

00:27:14.789 --> 00:27:18.829
like, why wouldn't you just ask me? I can tell

00:27:18.829 --> 00:27:24.029
you what is fruitful. Now, considering my father

00:27:24.029 --> 00:27:28.390
is not here, I can tell you the exact thing that

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actually matters. And if you're wondering, you're

00:27:31.349 --> 00:27:36.750
right. We all know this. It ain't money. Money

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comes and go, my friend. Money is the prince

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of this world. It's the tool of the kingdom,

00:27:49.980 --> 00:27:54.559
but it's the prince of this world. We understand

00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:58.079
it as a tool, but we never, never see it as a

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Lord. Right? So, I tell you about time. My father

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and my mother, Raised me with such consistency

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Of where I belong and what I'm supposed to do

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that even in their absence, I'm still there Raise

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me in such a way that I have never questioned

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Who I am What I'm supposed to be doing and where

00:28:39.109 --> 00:28:44.589
I'm supposed to be Said the greatest gift my

00:28:44.589 --> 00:28:47.450
my mama could tell you my mama could testify

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They called me up who's in Atlanta in front of

00:28:50.230 --> 00:28:52.190
ministers and leaders conference. There's she

00:28:52.190 --> 00:28:54.049
asked me to come up there and talk to the people

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I looked at them in the newness of life Six months

00:29:00.250 --> 00:29:03.410
on the job as pastor, you know what I told them

00:29:03.410 --> 00:29:08.470
people I told them the truth Don't know what

00:29:08.470 --> 00:29:11.069
your first You should have seen the look on their

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faces Because they wasn't expecting to hear the

00:29:14.349 --> 00:29:17.750
truth because they seen a faithful pastor Pope

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Here's the thing When we got in the car sometimes

00:29:24.250 --> 00:29:27.529
he would talk about some things he liked that

00:29:27.529 --> 00:29:33.190
he saw at world changes This just him talking

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He didn't like everything There's some things

00:29:37.980 --> 00:29:40.059
happening right now that I know specifically

00:29:40.059 --> 00:29:46.759
he would be turning some tables over Sometimes

00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:49.359
I walk in I'd be like man if he was still here

00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:52.079
none of this would be going down right now Now

00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:53.680
I'm saying there's no in this is streaming and

00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:57.119
I'm supposed to be up there Next week might get

00:29:57.119 --> 00:29:58.779
in trouble for what I'm saying now, but it's

00:29:58.779 --> 00:30:04.759
the truth Pass the test might be like I heard

00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:09.019
what you were saying down there temple It was

00:30:09.019 --> 00:30:13.200
the truth So I said this to them. I'm just speaking

00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:15.000
the truth. My father had passed away I don't

00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:16.279
care nothing about what none of y 'all got to

00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:19.079
say. I'm gonna see listen. I'm gonna tell the

00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:23.019
truth I said to these folks that saw pastor Pope

00:30:23.019 --> 00:30:25.799
as the staple of faithfulness and consistency

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Y 'all know what I told him I'm said I'm I said

00:30:28.740 --> 00:30:32.680
I'm so glad That none of his frustrations made

00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:36.240
him leave here Because I would be surrounded

00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:43.369
by strangers right now They looked at me like

00:30:43.369 --> 00:30:49.309
he was frustrated They didn't even realize because

00:30:49.309 --> 00:30:51.910
of how he carried himself that there was many

00:30:51.910 --> 00:30:56.609
things he was mad about about the house And so

00:30:56.609 --> 00:30:58.950
I didn't realize I had shocked all their systems

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Because they thought that he liked everything

00:31:01.710 --> 00:31:04.430
that was happening And I sat up there day one

00:31:04.430 --> 00:31:06.309
of him not being in the room and say he ain't

00:31:06.309 --> 00:31:09.650
like a lot of this But i'm so glad that nothing

00:31:09.650 --> 00:31:15.299
he didn't like didn't cause him to go. Because

00:31:15.299 --> 00:31:21.920
had he left and uprooted not just himself, but

00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:26.740
us, I would be sitting in a room surrounded by

00:31:26.740 --> 00:31:32.900
people who do not know who I am. In the time

00:31:32.900 --> 00:31:41.309
I need the greatest clarity in my life. So I

00:31:41.309 --> 00:31:47.930
said that. Took my seat. Y 'all know what you

00:31:47.930 --> 00:31:49.269
do when you take your seat at the moment like

00:31:49.269 --> 00:31:50.970
that. I can't believe I let that stuff come out

00:31:50.970 --> 00:31:54.009
my mouth. How do I get out of this room without

00:31:54.009 --> 00:31:55.769
looking nobody in the face? You reviewing all

00:31:55.769 --> 00:31:59.210
your words like, bro, that was crazy. Can I get

00:31:59.210 --> 00:32:04.170
a second chance to clean some of that up? But

00:32:04.170 --> 00:32:10.230
then I watched. Just check this out. Compassion.

00:32:11.939 --> 00:32:15.440
formulates connection. That's why Jesus was always,

00:32:15.500 --> 00:32:17.119
y 'all need to write this stuff down, Jesus was

00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:20.500
always compassionate before he corrected. Compassion

00:32:20.500 --> 00:32:22.839
formulates connection. You can never look to

00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.279
be instrumental in a person's life you haven't

00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:27.880
formed a bridge of compassion with. And so because

00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:31.259
I was open, honest, and compassionate, I'm trying

00:32:31.259 --> 00:32:33.039
to teach y 'all how to get new life to your situation.

00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:35.680
That you're not gonna get new life, you can't

00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:38.470
speak to a grave that you still treat rude. You

00:32:38.470 --> 00:32:40.250
can't speak to something that's dead and treat

00:32:40.250 --> 00:32:42.410
it like it's dead. You can't speak to something

00:32:42.410 --> 00:32:45.009
that is not have life and treat it like you don't

00:32:45.009 --> 00:32:47.690
have life. You have to form a heart of compassion

00:32:47.690 --> 00:32:51.130
so connection can be formed. Compassion is a

00:32:51.130 --> 00:32:53.930
bridge for anointing to flow. So Jesus formed

00:32:53.930 --> 00:32:56.230
compassion. He never walked up and said, sin

00:32:56.230 --> 00:33:00.250
no more. He healed them. Then he said, sin no

00:33:00.250 --> 00:33:02.329
more. Y 'all going up to people like, don't do

00:33:02.329 --> 00:33:08.339
it no more. Well, brother, I'm hurt. It's not

00:33:08.339 --> 00:33:11.880
that I want to be rude, I'm hurt. People are

00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:21.920
hurt. And we, as people of faith, have the ability

00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:28.160
to see past their hurt, those rough waters, and

00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:33.519
look towards the horizon of new life and survive

00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:40.230
the bumpy water. So that compassion formed a

00:33:40.230 --> 00:33:43.750
connection. Next thing you know, I got the longest

00:33:43.750 --> 00:33:46.609
line in the room after service. Y 'all know after

00:33:46.609 --> 00:33:49.009
service is preached, whoever has the longest

00:33:49.009 --> 00:33:54.890
line gave the great word. I told y 'all I grew

00:33:54.890 --> 00:33:56.529
up in church my whole life. I know the patterns.

00:33:59.109 --> 00:34:01.829
If you want to know who really had that word,

00:34:02.210 --> 00:34:05.569
when service let out, they line up to the person.

00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:07.940
So that man had two, his word was all right.

00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:10.840
That person got five, he went heavy. This person,

00:34:11.019 --> 00:34:14.119
they have, they selling books, t -shirts, the

00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:16.719
line out the door. No, that person had a word.

00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:22.119
I looked around and pastors are coming up to

00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:31.179
me. Thank you. That's right where I was. That

00:34:31.179 --> 00:34:35.920
was right where I was too. Just. honest y 'all

00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:43.000
like how about a truthful church just honest

00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:50.599
for once can we just my god tell the truth it's

00:34:50.599 --> 00:34:54.980
okay because we're we don't look at the wavy

00:34:54.980 --> 00:34:59.360
waters below us we look at the horizon beyond

00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:05.449
us and we declare greater glory Greater glory.

00:35:05.550 --> 00:35:08.190
Y 'all know what that means? That means better

00:35:08.190 --> 00:35:13.449
than it's ever been. That God is not just renewing

00:35:13.449 --> 00:35:16.889
it to where it was. He's renewing it beyond where

00:35:16.889 --> 00:35:19.949
you ever thought it could be. I'm talking to

00:35:19.949 --> 00:35:23.070
that thing that you think is dead right now.

00:35:23.269 --> 00:35:29.510
And I'm prophesying over it. Greater glory. I

00:35:29.510 --> 00:35:31.489
need you to really think about that thing right

00:35:31.489 --> 00:35:35.179
now in your head. If it's your business, your

00:35:35.179 --> 00:35:38.739
marriage, your kids, your relationships, hear

00:35:38.739 --> 00:35:44.699
me out. Declare greater glory over it. In faith,

00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:49.980
God is going to do what only he can do. he's

00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:53.139
asking me to be a bridge of compassion to look

00:35:53.139 --> 00:35:56.599
past my present animosity and see the horizon

00:35:56.599 --> 00:36:00.199
of his glory and Allow myself to be more attracted

00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:03.099
to what he can do that I'm no longer yielded

00:36:03.099 --> 00:36:06.900
to what any person can do that I'm so Fixed on

00:36:06.900 --> 00:36:10.059
what God can do that. I don't even care what

00:36:10.059 --> 00:36:13.980
people do no more I can get so bold that I can

00:36:13.980 --> 00:36:17.690
declare that people aren't even my problem I

00:36:17.690 --> 00:36:22.090
serve a God who sees me, who knows me. He called

00:36:22.090 --> 00:36:25.710
me out of darkness. He's anointed me. He's appointed

00:36:25.710 --> 00:36:30.650
me. He's called me. And if this is my seed, let

00:36:30.650 --> 00:36:34.690
it part. Y 'all hear what I'm saying? That maybe

00:36:34.690 --> 00:36:37.909
this is your season. You are Moses. You're speaking

00:36:37.909 --> 00:36:40.789
to something you can't see happen. You're trying

00:36:40.789 --> 00:36:43.329
to run away from the situation and you need to

00:36:43.329 --> 00:36:45.610
put your staff in the ground and declare for

00:36:45.610 --> 00:36:49.420
the seed to split. right here, right now, God's

00:36:49.420 --> 00:36:55.300
gonna do it. Y 'all shout it with me, God is

00:36:55.300 --> 00:37:00.360
gonna do it. I'm not running. Once you become

00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:02.159
a runner, you might as well be a track star.

00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.099
You all hear what I'm saying? Once you become

00:37:07.099 --> 00:37:10.960
a runner, you are a runner. Once you fold, you'll

00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:13.940
always fold. It's like a crease in a fresh pair

00:37:13.940 --> 00:37:17.739
of shoes. This is why we don't like people stepping

00:37:17.739 --> 00:37:19.920
on our shoes. What's wrong with these youth?

00:37:20.059 --> 00:37:21.920
No one can step on their shoes because once you

00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:29.039
crease them It's it it's cooked Might as well

00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:35.570
might as well do do the yard with these Because

00:37:35.570 --> 00:37:38.570
no matter what you say if your fresh ones have

00:37:38.570 --> 00:37:41.130
a crease going across the front of them those

00:37:41.130 --> 00:37:43.650
ain't fresh ones I don't care if you got them

00:37:43.650 --> 00:37:46.250
today if you walked out the store and someone

00:37:46.250 --> 00:37:48.369
crease the furthest first you need to go back

00:37:48.369 --> 00:37:51.329
in and buy a new set Because they will never

00:37:51.329 --> 00:37:56.389
be What it was Y 'all hear what I'm saying. I'm

00:37:56.389 --> 00:37:59.190
saying this for a reason because you keep thinking

00:37:59.190 --> 00:38:02.869
it's gonna get better by quitting And you need

00:38:02.869 --> 00:38:06.170
to understand, nothing gets better by quitting.

00:38:10.550 --> 00:38:13.969
You know what happens when believers quit? I'ma

00:38:13.969 --> 00:38:16.170
keep it straight with y 'all. Y 'all wanna hear

00:38:16.170 --> 00:38:19.369
some straight stuff? Thank you. Your witness

00:38:19.369 --> 00:38:25.750
is hurt. Everything about you loses a degree

00:38:25.750 --> 00:38:32.760
of integrity. Anything you quit. No, I hear that

00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:38.000
but you need to hear that today If you quit understand

00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:45.000
this your witness is hindered Some people ask

00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.500
me this I must say this put this where you want

00:38:47.500 --> 00:38:50.400
to put this I carry my convictions you carry

00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:52.599
your convictions I'm trying to tell you ain't

00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:54.900
nothing heavy about this in my life people ask

00:38:54.900 --> 00:38:57.199
me all the time. They asked me this stupid question

00:38:57.199 --> 00:39:06.349
stupid question Yeah, that's how it sounded to

00:39:06.349 --> 00:39:22.389
me. Do you drink? We're in the Bible. Show me

00:39:22.389 --> 00:39:27.489
in the Bible where it says we can't drink. And

00:39:27.489 --> 00:39:30.969
I'm like, why are you even asking this? Y 'all

00:39:30.969 --> 00:39:34.570
want to hear something? I never answer that question.

00:39:34.889 --> 00:39:38.610
Based upon what's in the word. I always answered

00:39:38.610 --> 00:39:44.809
the question based upon my conviction Why because

00:39:44.809 --> 00:39:49.750
if you Carry the same assignment we should have

00:39:49.750 --> 00:39:53.070
similar convictions But if you don't carry my

00:39:53.070 --> 00:39:55.030
assignment your convictions not going to be the

00:39:55.030 --> 00:40:00.630
same Y 'all hear what I'm saying that that that

00:40:00.630 --> 00:40:03.550
the Bible Right. See, here's the thing. Here's

00:40:03.550 --> 00:40:06.389
the great glory of being new covenant believers.

00:40:06.710 --> 00:40:09.449
We have this thing called the Holy Spirit. The

00:40:09.449 --> 00:40:11.750
Holy Spirit took what was written and gave life

00:40:11.750 --> 00:40:14.369
to it. Because anytime you conform to the letter

00:40:14.369 --> 00:40:17.510
without the Spirit, you produce death. So it's

00:40:17.510 --> 00:40:20.010
never about what the text is just saying. It's

00:40:20.010 --> 00:40:22.190
about what the Spirit says to me about the text.

00:40:23.010 --> 00:40:25.469
And so I don't respond to the question by telling

00:40:25.469 --> 00:40:27.809
you the text. I respond to the question by telling

00:40:27.809 --> 00:40:30.539
you what the Spirit has told me. About the text

00:40:30.539 --> 00:40:33.900
because the letter kill it and the spirit brings

00:40:33.900 --> 00:40:37.760
life but to help y 'all out Yes, you can drink

00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:42.860
All things are permissible they're just not profitable

00:40:42.860 --> 00:40:47.179
you gotta ask yourself is it profitable for my

00:40:47.179 --> 00:40:50.960
life Now there are restrictions. You shouldn't

00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:54.780
be getting drunk You shouldn't be getting drunk

00:40:59.500 --> 00:41:03.739
But y 'all know just keep it 100 Keep it 100

00:41:03.739 --> 00:41:05.800
right now in this room for once in your life.

00:41:05.860 --> 00:41:10.780
Tell the truth If you walked into a bar and see

00:41:10.780 --> 00:41:14.980
me sitting there Taking them back You trying

00:41:14.980 --> 00:41:17.099
to tell me my witness wouldn't go down a little

00:41:17.099 --> 00:41:21.219
That's what I'm saying. Just tell the truth.

00:41:21.619 --> 00:41:25.579
That's why for me It's not permissible. No, I

00:41:25.579 --> 00:41:28.699
do not drink. Why? So that when I see somebody

00:41:28.699 --> 00:41:32.219
struggling with alcohol, I can look them in the

00:41:32.219 --> 00:41:39.119
face and say, you can live without it. That's

00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:41.880
my whole conviction. That may not be your assignment,

00:41:43.059 --> 00:41:45.820
but it puts on my assignment. I need to make

00:41:45.820 --> 00:41:47.920
sure that I can look people in the face with

00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:53.980
integrity. Say you ain't got to do it. Somebody

00:41:53.980 --> 00:41:56.219
be asking me about custom. No, I don't cut why

00:41:56.219 --> 00:41:58.579
because there's people that their whole vocabulary

00:41:58.579 --> 00:42:01.760
has been chained to profanity and They think

00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:04.500
need to know that there's a spirit that can clean

00:42:04.500 --> 00:42:10.219
your mouth out, too Now that may not be Profitable

00:42:10.219 --> 00:42:13.880
for your calling you may watch y 'all watch me.

00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:16.480
Look at me close. You may be a head football

00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:23.840
coach Them heavy waters to navigate without profanity

00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:29.639
yo yo language you got to have some skill Y 'all

00:42:29.639 --> 00:42:33.239
laughing. Yeah, listen, this is real life there.

00:42:33.239 --> 00:42:37.159
There is a coach a part of our church He came

00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:40.880
to me with all sincerity and said past I've been

00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:45.000
asking God How can I motivate these kids without

00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:52.079
cussing? That's his prayer place of faith is

00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:54.679
to be able to motivate them without profanity.

00:42:54.980 --> 00:43:02.119
He's believing God. What are you being convicted

00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:08.719
of? I don't know pastor. Then go get with God.

00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:12.719
Spend some time in prayer. Separate yourself

00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:18.650
from this outside world and come out clear. Because

00:43:18.650 --> 00:43:22.250
a double -minded man is unstable in all of their

00:43:22.250 --> 00:43:25.789
ways and they cannot expect to exceed receive

00:43:25.789 --> 00:43:31.389
Anything from God church. This is not a game

00:43:31.389 --> 00:43:47.380
It's not a game Was speaking somebody other day

00:43:47.380 --> 00:43:49.460
and I just was like y 'all know one of my prayers

00:43:49.460 --> 00:43:55.219
now I've been praying God Give me the words to

00:43:55.219 --> 00:43:58.219
communicate to people that God's telling them.

00:43:58.219 --> 00:44:08.260
Well done Because they've mixed your expectations

00:44:08.260 --> 00:44:12.440
with this world's ambition and So they're trying

00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:16.380
to figure out why they're living so heavy because

00:44:16.380 --> 00:44:20.320
you're living a mixture you got God goals and

00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:23.559
your goals and as long as you're trying to live

00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:26.059
with both you're gonna fall short of the promise

00:44:26.059 --> 00:44:29.539
of peace that he gives because in one expectation

00:44:29.539 --> 00:44:31.960
you see yourself as fully sufficient in Christ

00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:34.239
but in other hours you're seeing that what the

00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:36.139
world says you should be and you're seeing yourself

00:44:36.139 --> 00:44:39.000
as less than you're double -minded about whose

00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:45.760
system you're in I can tell y 'all wearing thin

00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:51.099
now. You getting too close to home now pastor.

00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:56.960
That's the problem. And you can keep bouncing

00:44:56.960 --> 00:45:02.260
all over the place all you want. Or you can say,

00:45:03.719 --> 00:45:07.119
I've crucified this flesh. It's no longer I who

00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:09.920
live. But it's christ who lives inside of me

00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:13.300
and I present this body as a living sacrifice

00:45:13.300 --> 00:45:21.559
holy and acceptable and pleasing unto god That's

00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:26.699
it Wake up every day god, where am I supposed

00:45:26.699 --> 00:45:32.039
to die so you can live? There's every day you

00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:35.639
have an opportunity to die to yourself and live

00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:39.900
for god And many of us are failing the test because

00:45:39.900 --> 00:45:42.760
we're so used to being appetizer fed by this

00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:45.820
world. Not knowing that that substance is weak

00:45:45.820 --> 00:45:48.480
and fickle. They'll pat you on your back today

00:45:48.480 --> 00:45:51.280
and stab you in the front tomorrow. Hear what

00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:54.480
I just said? Pat on the back, y 'all used to

00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:56.480
stab in the back. No, these jokers stab you in

00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:58.699
the front nowadays. They will look you right

00:45:58.699 --> 00:46:01.800
in the eye. and do you dirty they only talk good

00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:04.099
about you when you can't see this is the world

00:46:04.099 --> 00:46:06.739
we live in today you go back in the room be like

00:46:06.739 --> 00:46:09.019
you know they love you no i don't because every

00:46:09.019 --> 00:46:12.880
time i see them all i see is disgrace you say

00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:15.880
they talk good about me when i leave why because

00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:18.420
we live in a world that hates honor it hates

00:46:18.420 --> 00:46:21.739
respect it hates to lift people up it hates to

00:46:21.739 --> 00:46:24.380
speak good about people they just hate it hate

00:46:24.380 --> 00:46:29.849
it hate it hate it So we live in a world that

00:46:29.849 --> 00:46:32.989
speaks bad to your face and good behind your

00:46:32.989 --> 00:46:39.630
back Don't know I ain't lying the truth that's

00:46:39.630 --> 00:46:46.650
what we got today, it's crazy out here I Don't

00:46:46.650 --> 00:46:48.469
realize why some y 'all want more of it just

00:46:48.469 --> 00:46:56.530
confuses me we got to go home Well, we're gonna

00:46:56.530 --> 00:46:58.090
keep going next week. That's all right with y

00:46:58.090 --> 00:47:05.289
'all Because this this is the assignment right?

00:47:06.590 --> 00:47:12.389
Okay, God how you want me to We're about to do

00:47:12.389 --> 00:47:18.210
something there's three things um When you look

00:47:18.210 --> 00:47:23.650
at the book of Haggai He called them back into

00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:29.019
Prioritizing things of the kingdom that he wanted

00:47:29.019 --> 00:47:38.340
them to realize that The weight you're carrying

00:47:38.340 --> 00:47:40.480
is a sign that Christ has been pushed from the

00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:45.059
center He wanted them to realize and you got

00:47:45.059 --> 00:47:48.480
to make this connection y 'all hear me out You

00:47:48.480 --> 00:47:54.230
think you lack ambition? No You lack alignment.

00:47:55.130 --> 00:47:57.969
You think you lack vision. No, you lack alignment.

00:47:58.250 --> 00:48:01.050
You think you like discipline. No, you lack alignment.

00:48:01.309 --> 00:48:03.929
You think you like all of these things that alignment

00:48:03.929 --> 00:48:15.190
actually fixes. I was speaking to this. Um, I

00:48:15.190 --> 00:48:18.409
can do this real quick right here, right? Speaking

00:48:18.409 --> 00:48:25.519
to this husband came to me. He's best. Tell me

00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:33.519
how I can be more faithful to my wife. Now, here's

00:48:33.519 --> 00:48:36.059
the thing. Sometimes when people ask me questions,

00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:39.400
there's other people standing around. In this

00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:42.380
case, this person, he said, Pastor, you was a

00:48:42.380 --> 00:48:46.460
bystander. You should just stay bystander. But

00:48:46.460 --> 00:48:50.679
the bystander started to go through ways in which

00:48:50.679 --> 00:48:55.159
you can become faithful again. Looked at the

00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:57.300
Boston and I said now I got to correct two people.

00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:02.360
I Looked at the bystanders. I Said all great

00:49:02.360 --> 00:49:06.619
points But none of them will work without the

00:49:06.619 --> 00:49:15.900
power of God That will become a weight In his

00:49:15.900 --> 00:49:18.719
life is actually the weight that's in his life

00:49:18.719 --> 00:49:27.219
you want to know why he's trying to attach discipline

00:49:27.219 --> 00:49:32.820
faithfulness from a desire and the Bible is very

00:49:32.820 --> 00:49:39.440
clear that is from a place of desire that's why

00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:45.159
God gives us the desires of our heart he's constantly

00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:48.159
in operation trying to rework the desires of

00:49:48.159 --> 00:49:50.280
our heart because many of us come to faith with

00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:52.440
desires that don't align with the kingdom so

00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:54.539
he has to do reconstruction of our heart they

00:49:54.539 --> 00:49:57.119
give us desires that align with what he wants

00:49:57.119 --> 00:50:01.480
what am I saying that God always works from a

00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:08.300
place of want to the good thing is God can also

00:50:08.300 --> 00:50:12.019
give you y 'all supposed to praise him right

00:50:12.019 --> 00:50:18.420
there So God always works from won't to but he

00:50:18.420 --> 00:50:22.340
don't wait for you to want to so that you won't

00:50:22.340 --> 00:50:28.579
to He actually plants want to in you I Will give

00:50:28.579 --> 00:50:33.980
you the power To do what is good pleasing and

00:50:33.980 --> 00:50:36.820
acceptable unto me. I'm y 'all skip y 'all here.

00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:40.780
We God this is the word 15 is 413. I believe

00:50:40.780 --> 00:50:43.860
it is right Leaves 413 y 'all put up on the screen.

00:50:44.019 --> 00:50:46.039
I'm stepping out in faith. I believe it's full

00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:50.219
13 Somebody look if it ain't just so why I'm

00:50:50.219 --> 00:50:52.760
doing this But God will give you the desires

00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:54.579
to do what is pleasing acceptable in the privilege

00:50:54.579 --> 00:50:57.900
of these Philippians 413 Y 'all looking at me.

00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:06.139
No one knows we all need Bible study Christ that

00:51:06.139 --> 00:51:08.860
gives me strength. No, it's not that one. Um

00:51:08.860 --> 00:51:14.730
Give me the power to do what is pleasing Where's

00:51:14.730 --> 00:51:19.150
that? Put it in Google Why are you trying to

00:51:19.150 --> 00:51:21.090
do on somebody just put it in Google God will

00:51:21.090 --> 00:51:24.610
give you the power to do what is pleasing Philip

00:51:24.610 --> 00:51:29.389
what is it? Fibliance 213 not for 13. I just

00:51:29.389 --> 00:51:32.329
got the two in the full wrong. I was close enough

00:51:32.329 --> 00:51:35.090
It's Philippians to 13 y 'all put Philippians

00:51:35.090 --> 00:51:36.949
to that. They ain't even put Philippians for

00:51:36.949 --> 00:51:38.349
I don't know about faith to see if they'll put

00:51:38.349 --> 00:51:42.780
to But if they flip is to 13 where it is 2 13

00:51:42.780 --> 00:51:48.639
not for Brian for it is God Who works in you

00:51:48.639 --> 00:51:54.519
both to will and to do for his good? Pleasure

00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:56.539
right that's new King James if they put in an

00:51:56.539 --> 00:51:59.480
LT you will see It gives a little different flavor

00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:01.760
that speaks more towards that piece So if y 'all

00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:03.800
could so they could see it right for it is God

00:52:03.800 --> 00:52:08.360
working in you giving you the desire and the

00:52:08.360 --> 00:52:12.090
power to do But please is you so who's working

00:52:12.090 --> 00:52:15.050
in you to give you want to? So you don't even

00:52:15.050 --> 00:52:18.349
have to want to and you'll start wanting to All

00:52:18.349 --> 00:52:21.670
you have to be is posture towards god if my heart

00:52:21.670 --> 00:52:24.010
is posture towards god. What do I posture myself?

00:52:24.190 --> 00:52:26.969
I'm gonna speak about it in a second, but you

00:52:26.969 --> 00:52:30.550
posture yourself towards god God then starts

00:52:30.550 --> 00:52:34.309
working in you to shift your desires into ones

00:52:34.309 --> 00:52:37.389
that are pleasing to him. So what am I saying?

00:52:37.389 --> 00:52:40.489
I'm saying that you can be fully hating whoever

00:52:40.489 --> 00:52:46.570
you hate but if you posture yourself before god

00:52:46.570 --> 00:52:51.550
he will take an authentic hate and turn it into

00:52:51.550 --> 00:52:57.590
a real love y 'all heard what i just said that's

00:52:57.590 --> 00:53:00.869
what i'm not trying to mask that they hate it

00:53:00.869 --> 00:53:05.769
that you do truth that's just be honest at this

00:53:05.769 --> 00:53:09.760
point you hate them But you've got to believe

00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:15.320
that there is a God who speaks life to dead things.

00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:19.179
Well, how does he do it? What's the path, Pastor

00:53:19.179 --> 00:53:22.940
Brian? Here's the path. Posture yourself before

00:53:22.940 --> 00:53:25.820
God. And as you posture yourself, he'll take

00:53:25.820 --> 00:53:28.840
that heart of stone and convert it into a heart

00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:32.079
of flesh. And the very person you couldn't stand,

00:53:32.460 --> 00:53:37.820
you'll begin to love. because you want to but

00:53:37.820 --> 00:53:41.559
God put the want to in you to want to so we're

00:53:41.559 --> 00:53:43.440
not even talking about this fake phony Christian

00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:46.639
love folks we talking about a real agape love

00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:54.400
will hit your heart you'll be more in love than

00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:58.659
you've ever been in your life and you know what

00:53:58.659 --> 00:54:03.420
that will do because everybody's senior know

00:54:03.420 --> 00:54:07.539
what it would do instead of decreasing your integrity

00:54:07.539 --> 00:54:11.159
for quitting your integrity will increase because

00:54:11.159 --> 00:54:14.119
you did what many don't think is possible and

00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:21.500
then god god will take that and bring you before

00:54:21.500 --> 00:54:26.920
great men because now you are a living witness

00:54:26.920 --> 00:54:34.579
to his power and his glory And he'll take your

00:54:34.579 --> 00:54:38.320
testimony and turn the whole world upside down

00:54:38.320 --> 00:54:42.940
with it. And he's not even asking you to want

00:54:42.940 --> 00:54:46.519
to. He's asking you to love him enough that you'll

00:54:46.519 --> 00:54:48.820
posture yourself before him so that he can do

00:54:48.820 --> 00:56:17.400
it for you. Take it in a moment Come on I want

00:56:17.400 --> 00:56:20.880
y 'all to hear this, man. This is not a game,

00:56:20.980 --> 00:56:26.719
man. This is... I can't tell you how much God

00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:42.260
wants this moment. And I'm gonna just take a

00:56:42.260 --> 00:56:44.519
moment just to share something. Moment of compassion.

00:56:44.579 --> 00:56:53.340
Can we just talk? I take this assignment so serious.

00:56:54.760 --> 00:57:03.599
The weight gets heavier at times. And I told,

00:57:04.659 --> 00:57:08.599
it's funny, I was riding around yesterday and

00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:10.519
I already had, I already had the word, the word's

00:57:10.519 --> 00:57:16.940
already in my heart. I called my mama. This is

00:57:16.940 --> 00:57:18.840
the first time this happened. When I say I called

00:57:18.840 --> 00:57:24.809
her, Four five times sent text messages and she

00:57:24.809 --> 00:57:33.130
responded none of them I Want y 'all here's I'm

00:57:33.130 --> 00:57:36.349
be honest with y 'all Because I know I need I

00:57:36.349 --> 00:57:40.550
need to take a break. I know that So that I can

00:57:40.550 --> 00:57:44.489
see clearly what God is wanting to do and So

00:57:44.489 --> 00:57:47.329
I called her up because my life is a life of

00:57:47.329 --> 00:57:53.440
alignment to ask her Could this be the last week

00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:58.559
I preach so I could just take two weeks off And

00:57:58.559 --> 00:58:03.119
I was asking her because I said God I see the

00:58:03.119 --> 00:58:08.280
assignment It's heavy Just give me the grace

00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:12.900
to do it all at one time. I Don't know if Brian

00:58:12.900 --> 00:58:19.280
can do three more weeks Can we talk? Not because

00:58:19.400 --> 00:58:26.420
don't know where I belong sometimes I see y 'all

00:58:26.420 --> 00:58:30.380
on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Thursdays days

00:58:30.380 --> 00:58:33.199
you're not in here and I literally get brought

00:58:33.199 --> 00:58:37.019
into intercession tears and just just it's a

00:58:37.019 --> 00:58:40.880
lot so I know well time rests are needed and

00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:43.239
I've been doing way too much recently for those

00:58:43.239 --> 00:58:45.119
y 'all don't don't know my nickname is mr. do

00:58:45.119 --> 00:58:50.460
the most and I do that she never answered the

00:58:50.460 --> 00:59:04.800
phone. God's plan. So sorry, God. We're gonna

00:59:04.800 --> 00:59:09.119
do it. Give me the strength, give me the power

00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:15.920
to do what you want to have done. So I committed

00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:21.300
to them three weeks. knowing that you locking

00:59:21.300 --> 00:59:24.539
in these next three weeks is going to change

00:59:24.539 --> 00:59:30.460
your life. What I'm trying to get you to see

00:59:30.460 --> 00:59:35.519
is we've stepped into a divine moment. God has

00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:39.099
extended the grace upon me so that he can extend

00:59:39.099 --> 00:59:48.000
the assignment so that his people can be transformed.

00:59:48.329 --> 00:59:55.289
from the inside out. And we go into 2027 like

00:59:55.289 --> 01:00:01.489
some bad -mama generals. But we finish this year

01:00:01.489 --> 01:00:07.449
watching every dead thing come to life. This

01:00:07.449 --> 01:00:13.389
is not a game. I'm not here because it's convenient.

01:00:14.730 --> 01:00:17.190
Truth be told, I could actually be somewhere

01:00:17.190 --> 01:00:22.130
else. Planning to be somewhere else. I know y

01:00:22.130 --> 01:00:23.409
'all don't want to hear your past to say that

01:00:23.409 --> 01:00:26.750
but that's the truth. I Love y 'all, but y 'all

01:00:26.750 --> 01:00:30.150
tried me sometimes a lot And I know when it's

01:00:30.150 --> 01:00:37.190
time to you're getting a little uh -uh But he's

01:00:37.190 --> 01:00:44.449
seen you he's heard you And he's anointed me

01:00:44.449 --> 01:00:53.889
to guide you so I'm here And I asked my mom to

01:00:53.889 --> 01:00:56.170
come up. She finally answered the phone this

01:00:56.170 --> 01:01:00.670
morning. And she was like, what's going on? I

01:01:00.670 --> 01:01:02.769
said, I already got my answer. This is what I

01:01:02.769 --> 01:01:07.070
need you to do. I said, God has shown me three

01:01:07.070 --> 01:01:12.550
spaces, three spaces that posture your heart

01:01:12.550 --> 01:01:17.809
towards him. And he told me to open up the altar.

01:01:18.409 --> 01:01:23.030
and to lay hands and declare greater glory over

01:01:23.030 --> 01:01:26.630
anybody who's ready to receive. And I need you

01:01:26.630 --> 01:01:30.449
to be with me to lay hands on God's people. We're

01:01:30.449 --> 01:01:33.610
going to do it this week over today's topic,

01:01:33.889 --> 01:01:37.269
next week over that topic, and the third week

01:01:37.269 --> 01:01:45.210
over that topic. And I know this is a streaming

01:01:45.210 --> 01:01:47.949
generation, but I'm asking you as your pastor.

01:01:48.199 --> 01:01:52.179
in one of these three weeks just show up home

01:01:52.179 --> 01:01:57.500
so that we can lay hands on you and we can go

01:01:57.500 --> 01:02:03.679
into this new life but thing number one and this

01:02:03.679 --> 01:02:06.940
is what i meant by sowing the bible tells us

01:02:06.940 --> 01:02:10.400
that where your treasure is your heart will be

01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:13.579
also you can't say that your heart is inclined

01:02:13.579 --> 01:02:17.679
towards god and not give towards god Here's the

01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:20.579
beautiful thing about being new covenant believers.

01:02:21.480 --> 01:02:23.980
Whatever he has purposed in your heart, so let

01:02:23.980 --> 01:02:27.539
him give. This ain't complicated. This ain't

01:02:27.539 --> 01:02:31.460
no test. This ain't no gimmick to get you to

01:02:31.460 --> 01:02:34.219
blah, blah, blah. And trust me, I'm the last

01:02:34.219 --> 01:02:36.719
pastor that likes talking about this stuff. Because

01:02:36.719 --> 01:02:39.300
I know how y 'all talk about people behind they

01:02:39.300 --> 01:02:41.219
back, not in front of they face about subjects

01:02:41.219 --> 01:02:47.340
like this. Y 'all heard I did. And I tell you,

01:02:47.480 --> 01:02:49.280
and this should not even be said, but I'll say

01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:55.019
it for today, just my one time. This is not about

01:02:55.019 --> 01:03:05.940
us. We lack nothing. Hear me out. Nothing. God,

01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:09.119
I was sharing with the men. Man, I'm about to

01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:11.059
bust up this time. But anyway, I was sharing

01:03:11.059 --> 01:03:13.199
with the men and I never actually share these

01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:14.679
stories because I know how y 'all feel about

01:03:14.679 --> 01:03:16.539
people sharing stories. I've been around y 'all

01:03:16.539 --> 01:03:20.179
this whole time, but I was trying to explain

01:03:20.179 --> 01:03:24.280
to people what my life has been like financially

01:03:24.280 --> 01:03:32.800
as a result of just choosing to serve God. Many

01:03:32.800 --> 01:03:38.920
people think my parents give me money. Now they

01:03:38.920 --> 01:03:44.280
do. Because they're good parents. But you are

01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:46.940
very much so in error if you think they gave

01:03:46.940 --> 01:03:55.039
me all my money. Wrong. Very wrong. Brian Poe

01:03:55.039 --> 01:04:00.440
has been a blessed man since time could even

01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:07.840
be connected. Greg, I'm talking six years old,

01:04:08.099 --> 01:04:12.019
seven years old, eight, God has... I can't even

01:04:12.019 --> 01:04:18.039
explain to you in words other than find home,

01:04:18.039 --> 01:04:25.059
submit yourself, believe that every day, this

01:04:25.059 --> 01:04:28.000
is what I tell myself, that every day I have

01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:32.239
an opportunity to give some good for God to bless.

01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:35.980
Let me make sure what I present is good. I go

01:04:35.980 --> 01:04:39.579
to bed and say to myself, God, you are the blester.

01:04:40.150 --> 01:04:43.889
Am the receiver I pray I presented something

01:04:43.889 --> 01:04:46.289
good for you to bless today. I'm talking about

01:04:46.289 --> 01:04:48.150
my servant I'm not just talking about money.

01:04:48.230 --> 01:04:50.550
I'm talking about money. I'm talking about my

01:04:50.550 --> 01:04:55.210
service to the Lord Walker Elliott's right. I'm

01:04:55.210 --> 01:04:56.369
talking about I'm just pointing at people have

01:04:56.369 --> 01:05:02.329
seen me since I was young he can testify No God

01:05:02.329 --> 01:05:06.989
has always been good Greg. He's always been good

01:05:06.989 --> 01:05:09.880
Listen And I'm telling you, it ain't never been

01:05:09.880 --> 01:05:13.139
that complicated. Well, let me give you example

01:05:13.139 --> 01:05:16.320
number one. This might be the only time I do

01:05:16.320 --> 01:05:20.199
this, so just so you can understand. And I tell

01:05:20.199 --> 01:05:22.579
it like this because I love to speak from graves

01:05:22.579 --> 01:05:25.800
to glory. Rashid is going to be finding me saying

01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:29.900
this, right? So one of my probably, I don't know,

01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:33.360
just biggest, but first of biggest. That's why

01:05:33.360 --> 01:05:35.280
I always say, God got another miracle in the

01:05:35.280 --> 01:05:37.239
way. That's because I'm not just saying that.

01:05:37.289 --> 01:05:44.389
fictitiously I'm telling you God has shown up

01:05:44.389 --> 01:05:50.110
and done things never saw it coming never saw

01:05:50.110 --> 01:05:52.750
it coming here we go check this out first moment

01:05:52.750 --> 01:05:56.849
right me and my wife we were two years married

01:05:56.849 --> 01:06:03.309
up until that point um man I was struggling with

01:06:03.309 --> 01:06:07.190
what it meant to be a financial provider as a

01:06:07.190 --> 01:06:11.429
husband to a wife. Truth. We all right with truth.

01:06:11.969 --> 01:06:13.510
Some y 'all don't like the truth. I'm not afraid

01:06:13.510 --> 01:06:15.929
of it. I was struggling with it. I was struggling

01:06:15.929 --> 01:06:18.710
with what I should do, shouldn't do too much,

01:06:18.730 --> 01:06:22.530
not too much. And I honestly settled in the space

01:06:22.530 --> 01:06:25.190
of saying, I just don't even want the argument.

01:06:25.849 --> 01:06:29.250
If everything burns down, let it burn down. God,

01:06:29.369 --> 01:06:35.980
I trust you. Guys. that was my flesh wanting

01:06:35.980 --> 01:06:40.980
not to be a Leader not to want to step in because

01:06:40.980 --> 01:06:42.900
honestly, there are some things I wanted to splurge

01:06:42.900 --> 01:06:45.579
on too. So I'm calling you out and I call myself

01:06:45.579 --> 01:06:49.300
out brother like a new pair of shoes I'm saying

01:06:49.300 --> 01:06:52.239
these points so you can connect with you and

01:06:52.239 --> 01:06:55.519
So I settled in a place that I don't feel like

01:06:55.519 --> 01:06:57.679
I've earned the right to say something. Although

01:06:57.679 --> 01:07:00.739
I know this is going bad Well, ladies and gentlemen,

01:07:01.059 --> 01:07:04.019
it didn't get better I'm serving I'm doing all

01:07:04.019 --> 01:07:06.639
the things all the things things is progressively

01:07:06.639 --> 01:07:08.860
getting worse and worse. I'm looking like had

01:07:08.860 --> 01:07:17.739
guy So I see going nowhere Got into situation

01:07:17.739 --> 01:07:21.480
So much so we were about to lose our house. So

01:07:21.480 --> 01:07:25.739
I said God make a way, you know, he said Forwards

01:07:25.739 --> 01:07:30.900
is backwards me and my wife left that house moved

01:07:30.900 --> 01:07:35.260
in with my parents. One of the most humbling

01:07:35.260 --> 01:07:38.559
moments of my life. My father said one thing

01:07:38.559 --> 01:07:41.280
to me, y 'all. All right. He said one thing to

01:07:41.280 --> 01:07:46.300
me says, Brian, you can come to my house. Y 'all

01:07:46.300 --> 01:07:48.760
was crazy. I never had this thought cross my

01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:51.400
mind. Talk about alignment. People have a lot.

01:07:51.400 --> 01:07:54.039
Y 'all hear what I'm about to say. Alignment

01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:58.519
order. He said, Brian, you can come stay in my

01:07:58.519 --> 01:08:04.289
house. After you ask her father if she can because

01:08:04.289 --> 01:08:07.190
you said on that altar that you was going to

01:08:07.190 --> 01:08:10.889
be the provider But now I am My father ain't

01:08:10.889 --> 01:08:15.309
hold no punches. I Said you right. I never considered

01:08:15.309 --> 01:08:20.810
that I should have to ask you order Alignment

01:08:20.810 --> 01:08:26.010
blessing so I took myself over to her daddy house

01:08:26.010 --> 01:08:34.659
and Asked his permission He says, Brian, I know

01:08:34.659 --> 01:08:38.720
God called you to be her husband. If this is

01:08:38.720 --> 01:08:42.020
what you were believing for them, you got my

01:08:42.020 --> 01:08:45.239
blessing. He was blown away. The question even

01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:47.220
came. It's not even part of this generation.

01:08:47.520 --> 01:08:53.340
These things we hide. Moving to the parents house.

01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:59.800
I'll skip some of the pieces. Trying to think

01:08:59.800 --> 01:09:02.399
one of the important pieces to tell you we were

01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:05.579
planning to be there for a year Just to get an

01:09:05.579 --> 01:09:09.199
idea at that point time that house that we lived

01:09:09.199 --> 01:09:13.920
in we tried to sell it It was so upside down

01:09:13.920 --> 01:09:16.619
You know the real estate the thing that don't

01:09:16.619 --> 01:09:23.380
go bad ours went bad That we had no choice But

01:09:23.380 --> 01:09:26.760
to rent it To sell it we would have had to take

01:09:26.760 --> 01:09:30.399
something like $25 ,000 order to sell the home

01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:33.739
because it was that far and I know somebody why

01:09:33.739 --> 01:09:35.739
did you short sell it we didn't have time for

01:09:35.739 --> 01:09:39.979
none of these things emergency emergency y 'all

01:09:39.979 --> 01:09:45.199
know break I need something today I gotta tell

01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:47.279
y 'all y 'all know y 'all know I'm gonna tell

01:09:47.279 --> 01:09:49.159
you all this because just understand I understand

01:09:49.159 --> 01:09:51.180
where y 'all be sometime because I've been there

01:09:51.180 --> 01:09:53.840
before I literally was opening up the mail and

01:09:53.840 --> 01:09:55.500
hoping I would hit one of them sweepstakes like

01:09:55.500 --> 01:09:58.970
God one of these things got the hit Am I the

01:09:58.970 --> 01:10:01.550
only one that ever did that before? You know

01:10:01.550 --> 01:10:03.170
I'm saying we do the same stuff. That's what

01:10:03.170 --> 01:10:06.109
I'm saying. I was like God you can Be we got

01:10:06.109 --> 01:10:08.829
to you got to and I was trying to figure out

01:10:08.829 --> 01:10:14.050
hear me out how to Strategize myself out of a

01:10:14.050 --> 01:10:16.630
situation. God was trying to grow me through

01:10:16.630 --> 01:10:20.229
Praying for a miracle when when he was working

01:10:20.229 --> 01:10:31.300
on the miracle me So With and rented the house,

01:10:31.899 --> 01:10:36.439
but check this out. We actually had to add $400

01:10:36.439 --> 01:10:40.640
a month to the rent because the value of the

01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:42.680
rent didn't even cover the mortgage on the house.

01:10:44.560 --> 01:10:47.159
So now in my mind, I'm like, I'm paying for somebody

01:10:47.159 --> 01:10:49.220
else to live in my house. Like all types of stuff

01:10:49.220 --> 01:10:51.380
is going through my head, but I can't afford

01:10:51.380 --> 01:10:52.720
it. So it technically ain't mine. It belonged

01:10:52.720 --> 01:10:56.460
to the bank. I had to get real about some things.

01:10:57.860 --> 01:10:59.819
That's when God was getting me real about debt.

01:10:59.939 --> 01:11:03.680
He was like, no, no debt. He was getting that

01:11:03.680 --> 01:11:10.380
out of my system. But anyway Year one Was supposed

01:11:10.380 --> 01:11:13.579
to leave I I'll say that for the other time we

01:11:13.579 --> 01:11:15.859
wasted the money. It didn't work out things ain't

01:11:15.859 --> 01:11:17.880
go right I had to ask for another year got two

01:11:17.880 --> 01:11:24.119
years What y 'all to hear this this is where

01:11:24.119 --> 01:11:30.319
it gets good so two years passed Go to my father

01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:32.760
and mother which this is honestly this is like

01:11:32.760 --> 01:11:35.800
heartbreaking Me and Rashida had grown so close

01:11:35.800 --> 01:11:38.779
to them eating dinners together Breakfast is

01:11:38.779 --> 01:11:41.539
to spending more time we ever would have had

01:11:41.539 --> 01:11:45.300
So it's almost like man it's time for us to go

01:11:45.300 --> 01:11:49.739
We left we went and got well, I forgot the piece

01:11:49.739 --> 01:11:54.500
So we go back to sell the home Just to find out

01:11:54.500 --> 01:11:58.760
that the state of Florida has a provision to

01:11:58.760 --> 01:12:02.640
where if you rent a house out for two years was

01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:05.359
sustained that was sustained. It no longer counts

01:12:05.359 --> 01:12:08.199
against your debt to income ratio. We didn't

01:12:08.199 --> 01:12:12.159
know that. So we went to go sell a house so that

01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:13.979
we can afford another house and they told us

01:12:13.979 --> 01:12:15.880
you don't even have to sell that house to buy

01:12:15.880 --> 01:12:17.640
another house. There's been a rented there for

01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:19.920
two years. It's no longer counting against your

01:12:19.920 --> 01:12:22.300
debt to income because my the church wasn't paying

01:12:22.300 --> 01:12:25.619
me no more money in between there and then no

01:12:25.619 --> 01:12:29.039
new money. And so What are you saying, Pastor

01:12:29.039 --> 01:12:31.779
Brian? We went and got a townhome. The first

01:12:31.779 --> 01:12:37.159
day we walked to that townhome, we realized we

01:12:37.159 --> 01:12:40.960
multiple property owners. Y 'all heard what I

01:12:40.960 --> 01:12:43.699
just said. You hear the sequence? That we actually

01:12:43.699 --> 01:12:53.539
have a real estate portfolio. The scenario, we

01:12:53.539 --> 01:12:57.300
couldn't afford the house. turned into two years

01:12:57.300 --> 01:13:03.300
later Unbeknownst to us God was positioning us

01:13:03.300 --> 01:13:06.739
beyond what we had strategy for it Looked like

01:13:06.739 --> 01:13:10.300
our bad decisions has put us in a bad spot that

01:13:10.300 --> 01:13:14.020
ended up being a setup the whole time So we moved

01:13:14.020 --> 01:13:17.340
into the town home owning a whole nother home

01:13:17.340 --> 01:13:21.390
We lived in that town home for two months That's

01:13:21.390 --> 01:13:24.170
when my father passed away. That's when I realized

01:13:24.170 --> 01:13:31.930
God was training us unaware Darling hear me All

01:13:31.930 --> 01:13:34.109
of this was triggered because we couldn't afford

01:13:34.109 --> 01:13:37.170
a house and we left it But we couldn't even leave

01:13:37.170 --> 01:13:39.470
we tried to give it away and we couldn't because

01:13:39.470 --> 01:13:41.729
God knew one day I'm take that same thing that

01:13:41.729 --> 01:13:45.149
you hate It became a thorn in my side and I'm

01:13:45.149 --> 01:13:47.789
gonna take that same thing you hate and watch

01:13:47.789 --> 01:13:51.220
what I do with it So two years we stayed in this

01:13:51.220 --> 01:13:54.439
town home. Check this out. We went to now we're

01:13:54.439 --> 01:13:56.640
like, well, she's I want another home. We talking

01:13:56.640 --> 01:13:59.720
about three homes. I said, girl, that's crazy.

01:14:01.260 --> 01:14:02.920
I want y 'all know this is this is all before

01:14:02.920 --> 01:14:11.000
pastor. So let's sell that first rental since

01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:21.899
we got this. We sold. That first home. took home

01:14:21.899 --> 01:14:29.500
three times my salary I'm not I'm sharing this

01:14:29.500 --> 01:14:33.500
with you because a lot of y 'all are in situations

01:14:33.500 --> 01:14:40.060
that you don't realize when I say every situation

01:14:40.060 --> 01:14:45.039
is a setup for a miracle I'm not being figurative

01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:51.199
I'm saying I left a house in shame That four

01:14:51.199 --> 01:14:56.579
years later God turned to glory I Moved into

01:14:56.579 --> 01:14:59.439
my parents house to outsiders. It looked like

01:14:59.439 --> 01:15:02.739
shame to insiders. I realized it was our strategic

01:15:02.739 --> 01:15:14.579
training And that's happened time and time time

01:15:14.579 --> 01:15:20.800
again We stand for passive because I know that

01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:27.600
God's not a respective persons I Know that Valuing

01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:31.180
repositioning aligning yourself in three critical

01:15:31.180 --> 01:15:35.560
areas is all it takes that first one is sewing

01:15:35.560 --> 01:15:40.539
Why because it connects your heart Then when

01:15:40.539 --> 01:15:42.800
your heart is connected God can start surgery.

01:15:42.840 --> 01:15:45.659
You only all are asking for surgery with a disconnected

01:15:45.659 --> 01:15:48.680
heart but where your treasure is your heart is

01:15:48.680 --> 01:15:51.420
i know this is a tough truth but understand the

01:15:51.420 --> 01:15:54.859
blessing god ain't asking you to to make up some

01:15:54.859 --> 01:15:57.199
number i'm not knowing you never heard that shouted

01:15:57.199 --> 01:15:59.539
from this pulpit we do not believe in that we

01:15:59.539 --> 01:16:02.699
believe in cheerful givers whose heart is in

01:16:02.699 --> 01:16:05.779
their giving whatever god is placed on your heart

01:16:05.779 --> 01:16:08.100
you give in response to that then people come

01:16:08.100 --> 01:16:10.140
up to me and they be like well it's tithing still

01:16:10.140 --> 01:16:12.380
a thing if he placed in your heart to tithe it's

01:16:12.380 --> 01:16:21.270
a thing to you What is he telling you? I don't

01:16:21.270 --> 01:16:24.409
know consecrate yourself get away with god and

01:16:24.409 --> 01:16:26.850
you'll come out with a conviction that's for

01:16:26.850 --> 01:16:30.630
you But what you will never hear us do is demand

01:16:30.630 --> 01:16:34.409
anything above what you've heard god say But

01:16:34.409 --> 01:16:37.529
I can't escape the principle that he can't perform

01:16:37.529 --> 01:16:41.670
surgery with a disconnected heart That's not

01:16:41.670 --> 01:16:45.229
on me I didn't choose that y 'all rocking with

01:16:45.229 --> 01:16:47.560
me So I'm not saying this because we need money

01:16:47.560 --> 01:16:53.140
here. We don't need no money. But thank you.

01:16:53.340 --> 01:17:00.199
But we all need God. Y 'all rocking with me?

01:17:01.619 --> 01:17:06.220
All right. So if you receive something today.

01:17:17.339 --> 01:17:20.760
Told she was gonna do this part right calling

01:17:20.760 --> 01:17:24.840
you forth You guys can stand to your feet But

01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:29.119
God told me that today to lay hands on those

01:17:29.119 --> 01:17:34.140
who know that this word is for you like and We're

01:17:34.140 --> 01:17:38.439
laying hands to touch a green of faith That God

01:17:38.439 --> 01:17:40.939
is gonna do what he said. There's none. There's

01:17:40.939 --> 01:17:43.819
nothing more that happens other than a like me

01:17:43.819 --> 01:17:47.050
like when you get baptized It's a it's an outward

01:17:47.050 --> 01:17:49.909
expression of your what inward belief. So when

01:17:49.909 --> 01:17:52.430
someone lays hands on you It's not that power

01:17:52.430 --> 01:17:55.409
is coming from me to you. It's in that same symbolic

01:17:55.409 --> 01:17:58.189
form of a baptism We're touching and agreeing

01:17:58.189 --> 01:18:01.890
that as God said it it is so This is a point

01:18:01.890 --> 01:18:04.130
of agreement like touching the water in the baptism

01:18:04.130 --> 01:18:07.189
tub y 'all rocking with me It's like communion,

01:18:07.390 --> 01:18:09.630
right? It represents blood. It's not blood eating

01:18:09.630 --> 01:18:11.710
the bread. It's not body, but it is body There's

01:18:11.710 --> 01:18:15.420
things that we do as believers that are symbolic

01:18:15.420 --> 01:18:17.960
of the faith and trust we have. So when I say

01:18:17.960 --> 01:18:20.239
come up, it's not because you about to fall out,

01:18:20.359 --> 01:18:21.680
none of that stuff. It's just we're touching

01:18:21.680 --> 01:18:25.760
and agreeing that we serve a miracle working

01:18:25.760 --> 01:18:31.060
God. He's taking your story, my story from graves

01:18:31.060 --> 01:18:35.060
to glory. Y 'all shout it with me, new life.

01:18:37.180 --> 01:18:42.039
And so we're going to do this as we close out

01:18:42.039 --> 01:18:45.270
service. and so I'm saying at this time that

01:18:45.270 --> 01:18:49.149
um that will also receive today's offering so

01:18:49.149 --> 01:18:54.829
you can sew at this time and there's only one

01:18:54.829 --> 01:18:57.630
instruction God gave me for today when you guys

01:18:57.630 --> 01:19:02.289
sew and this is beautiful y 'all want to hear

01:19:02.289 --> 01:19:06.890
something that um craves the glory what does

01:19:06.890 --> 01:19:09.470
it mean there's many things we've done as a ministry

01:19:09.470 --> 01:19:13.739
that we have not done in a while that God still

01:19:13.739 --> 01:19:15.640
wants to do, wants to resurrect. There's things

01:19:15.640 --> 01:19:20.159
he's giving me assignment for, right? If there's

01:19:20.159 --> 01:19:22.840
something, hear what I'm saying, God, if there's

01:19:22.840 --> 01:19:27.079
something that we previously did that you are

01:19:27.079 --> 01:19:29.880
now spiritually missing, that we do no more,

01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:33.180
what God told me to do is to tell you to write

01:19:33.180 --> 01:19:38.439
it in the comment section of your seed. That

01:19:38.439 --> 01:19:41.170
way they'll send me the list. Once again, I don't

01:19:41.170 --> 01:19:42.810
know how much y 'all give, I don't look at people's

01:19:42.810 --> 01:19:45.029
giving, but they can send me a list of what you

01:19:45.029 --> 01:19:48.710
put in the comment. So if there's something we

01:19:48.710 --> 01:19:51.529
formally did that brought you life that we no

01:19:51.529 --> 01:19:54.869
longer do as a church, write it in the comment

01:19:54.869 --> 01:19:58.250
section of your seed. I'm gonna pray over that

01:19:58.250 --> 01:20:00.750
thing and see if God wants us to bring it back.

01:20:01.630 --> 01:20:09.979
Y 'all rocking with me. So electronic you can

01:20:09.979 --> 01:20:12.560
put it in there too. You can do it both electronic

01:20:12.560 --> 01:20:16.319
and in writing But the reason why it has to be

01:20:16.319 --> 01:20:18.239
connected to the seed because if there is no

01:20:18.239 --> 01:20:21.460
seed there can be no Harvest and I'm not gonna

01:20:21.460 --> 01:20:23.859
you ain't finna tell me to do something. You

01:20:23.859 --> 01:20:28.260
ain't even connected to in heart That's been

01:20:28.260 --> 01:20:31.720
part of the problem high expectation with low

01:20:31.720 --> 01:20:34.659
interaction Well, there's a lot of things we

01:20:34.659 --> 01:20:39.399
don't do because you stop doing what you do All

01:20:39.399 --> 01:20:46.439
right. So the seed lets me know that you're serious

01:20:46.439 --> 01:20:49.920
about what you're saying. You see what I'm saying?

01:20:50.760 --> 01:20:55.579
That's all I'm saying. Okay, just as Pastor Brian

01:20:55.579 --> 01:20:59.439
said, for those of you who want prayer, not necessarily

01:20:59.439 --> 01:21:01.439
prayer, agreement, we're going to ask you to

01:21:01.439 --> 01:21:03.699
please come forward. And one of the things that

01:21:03.699 --> 01:21:09.270
God shared with me is that this is an anchoring

01:21:09.270 --> 01:21:12.470
place. This is where you set your anchor. This

01:21:12.470 --> 01:21:16.250
is a place where you make a pivot point in your

01:21:16.250 --> 01:21:19.810
life. And you all remember the examples that

01:21:19.810 --> 01:21:23.270
Pastor Brian did. He was like, once you get to

01:21:23.270 --> 01:21:26.210
a certain point in basketball, he said, did you

01:21:26.210 --> 01:21:28.770
put your pivot foot down and you don't move from

01:21:28.770 --> 01:21:32.250
that you can you can extend from any position

01:21:32.250 --> 01:21:35.840
God can from your pivot point today. God can

01:21:35.840 --> 01:21:39.060
do anything, but you keep your pivot, your anchor

01:21:39.060 --> 01:21:51.359
on what has been said to you today. Amen. Because

01:21:51.359 --> 01:21:56.760
God didn't raise, bring those dry bones together

01:21:56.760 --> 01:22:02.100
because he just wanted to see. something exists

01:22:02.100 --> 01:22:05.100
but he brought them back to life put them back

01:22:05.100 --> 01:22:09.300
together again because there was an assignment

01:22:09.300 --> 01:22:14.359
ahead so bearing all those things in mind you're

01:22:14.359 --> 01:22:22.619
gonna what's the word gonna anchor yourself today

01:22:22.619 --> 01:22:26.960
and as Pastor Ryan said there's going to be opposition

01:22:26.960 --> 01:22:33.949
but don't move Don't move don't let go of your

01:22:33.949 --> 01:22:40.149
confession Hang on to it And I was gonna say

01:22:40.149 --> 01:22:47.609
like it's dear life Because it actually is It's

01:22:47.609 --> 01:22:50.649
almost like this is your resurrection day Amen.

01:22:51.090 --> 01:22:55.689
Amen. So we're just gonna lay hands on you And

01:22:55.689 --> 01:23:01.439
make that declaration that new life and greater

01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:06.300
glory, new life and greater glory, new life and

01:23:06.300 --> 01:23:11.300
greater glory, new life and greater glory. That's

01:23:11.300 --> 01:23:15.000
supposed to be your heart palpitation, new life

01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:21.020
and greater glory. Amen. Amen. And so we can

01:23:21.020 --> 01:23:24.420
say, as we do this, you guys are free to dismiss,

01:23:24.420 --> 01:23:26.539
right? But I want to say this too, that we don't

01:23:26.539 --> 01:23:29.699
want to just have this moment. We want to disciple

01:23:29.699 --> 01:23:32.760
you forward, right? Walk you through this in

01:23:32.760 --> 01:23:35.760
faith. And so if you haven't yet, you scan the

01:23:35.760 --> 01:23:38.779
code or scan it, or if you're already there,

01:23:39.100 --> 01:23:41.840
the discipleship training, you'll get this lined

01:23:41.840 --> 01:23:44.319
up. So we don't want you to just have this moment

01:23:44.319 --> 01:23:47.159
and walk away, but we want to disciple you forward

01:23:47.159 --> 01:23:49.279
in what this is. Amen? Amen.