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verse one says this it says and a man of
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the house of Levi somebody say Levi
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those were the
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priests the the tribe that was
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responsible for carrying and preparing
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things of God the
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worshippers so the woman conceived the
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man of the house of Levi went and took
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as a wife a daughter of Levi so the
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woman conceived and bore a son and when
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she saw that he was a beautiful child
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she she hid him somebody say hide him
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for 3
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months but when she could no longer hide
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him she took an ark of bull rushes for
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him dabbed it with ashphalt and pitch
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and put the child in it and laid it in
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the reads by the river's bank and his
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sister stood a far off to know what
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would be done to him then the daughter
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of pharaoh came down to bathe at the
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river and her maidens walked along the
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river side and when she saw the ark
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among the Reeds she sent her May to get
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it and when she opened it she
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saw child and behold the
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baby
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wet so she had compassion on him and
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said this is one of the Hebrews children
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then his sister said to Pharaoh's
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daughter shall I go and call a nurse for
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you from the Hebrew women that she may
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nurse the child for you and Pharaoh's
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daughter said to her somebody say go go
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come on preach it with me somebody say
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go so the maiden went and called the
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child's mother sobody say the child's
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mother do I got any preachers in this
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room y'all like I don't know am I a
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preacher then Pharaoh's daughter said to
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her take this child away and nurse him
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for me did did
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this is a preacher is where you get in
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trouble because you know where you're
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going to end but you're just at the
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beginning and a good preacher can't give
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away the end at the beginning the
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problem is I'm not a good
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preacher I let my kids open their
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Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve because
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I'm so excited about what I got them and
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I might let you open this gift at the
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beginning of the message when we haven't
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even gotten to the end somebody said
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let's do it then Pharaoh's daughter said
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to her take your child
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away and nurse him for me and I
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will pay
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you Union
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Church when God is on your side he will
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make the enemy pay you for what was
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yours
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already I don't have a lot of preachers
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in this room but some of y'all there
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with me already when God is on your side
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he will make what was already yours and
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your responsibility he'll make the enemy
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pay for it he'll make the enemy care for
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it he'll make the enemy raise it educate
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it and then return it unto
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you things work
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together so the woman took the took her
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own
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child only God and nursed him that the
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child grew and she brought him to
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Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son
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so she called his
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name
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Moses saying because I drew him
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out of the
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water little did she
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know that before she she can draw him
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out a woman of Faith put
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him
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in I've got a message tonight entitled
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for you hidden in plain sight father God
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speak in a way that only you can in
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Jesus name we pray somebody
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shout amen and amen
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are there any
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parents in this
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room that are
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irritated about how
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privileged your children
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are one of the
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struggles of being a good
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provider is you provide for your
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children sometimes what you did not
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have and the battle or the struggle of
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that is what you did not have went into
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developing who you are your
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tenacity your spunk your
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creativity your ability to take a piece
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of paper and make an entire game out of
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it
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I don't understand how as soon as their
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iPad is
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dead
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life is
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over come on now anybody grew up in the
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days I just need a piece of paper I
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don't need nothing but a piece of paper
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I can make a table football out of a
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piece of paper I can ball it up and
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shoot it into a trash can and we could
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play a whole game of Hoops just with a
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piece of paper I can fold it into an
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airplane and we can have an entire
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competition just with the same PE are
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you mad because your iPad's dead and I
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look at my kids and I'm grateful because
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they have a great life and I provided a
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great life but I'm a little irritated
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I'm not going to lie it's kind of the
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same way you look at your youngest
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sibling come on now any older siblings
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in the
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room there's got to be a special
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blessing for us older siblings
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that came up when our parents were
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broke just trying to get it together so
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you got shoes two sizes too big and they
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told you just put some tissue paper in
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it just put some you you'll grow into it
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you'll grow into it then after you grew
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out of it that shoe got clean got
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painted and passed to the next sibling
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but then they came on to come up and now
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the youngest sibling get shoes that fit
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from day one what is
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that don't know what hand Downs are hamy
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who had the nerve to give the youngest
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an allowance you know what allowance was
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when I was growing up I allow
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you to sleep in my house and eat food
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out of my
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fridge so I'm I'm in this wrestle and
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I'm so glad that my children have a
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great mother because she protects them
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from
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me but every once in a while I just look
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at these privileged children and I'm
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like if you you only knew and I had a
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great life my my my parents were amazing
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and provided a great life but you know
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life life is life so I'll come home
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often and I get irritated because the
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children's bicycles are left out in the
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driveway and I'll just think
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back to when I was a
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child if I had left my Bic
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icle in the
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driveway now based on your childhood and
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where you grew up this story goes in
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three different
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directions some of y'all grew up in a
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house where they did not whoop
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children and that's why you ended up the
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way you
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are so your story ends when you left the
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bicycle in the driveway mom or dad got
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mad so you had time out
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I don't know what timeout is actually no
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we had timeout in our house timeout was
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the time you got to pull yourself back
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together that was timeout you timeout
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sounded something like
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this God bless
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you some of y'all grew up in a household
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where spoil spare the rod spoil the
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child and your parents said dumb stuff
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like this is going to hurt
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you or it's G to hurt me more than it
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hurts you and I'm like well give me the
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belt but in the neighborhood that I grew
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up in and it wasn't the hood it wasn't a
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rough neighborhood at all
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but if you left your bike in the
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driveway the story did not end with time
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out and it didn't end with a whoop it
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ended with some kid who was about n
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years older than
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you
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riding your
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bike right past your
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house and daring you to say
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something that's right got the spirit of
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generosity on my
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life I just told myself I gave it to him
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I gave it to him I I gave it to him cuz
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I don't want to go and ask for it back
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and I come home and the kids bikes are
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in the driveway and and we're not in a
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neighborhood where people steal but just
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something inside of me I want to steal
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their
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bikes I just want them to feel the pit
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that you feel when you come back to find
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your stuff when where you put it to
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realize someone took
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it because they need to understand if
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you've got something valuable in your
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life you don't leave it out for anybody
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to
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steal if it really is valuable you put
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it in a place where thieves can't take
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it and I'd like to submit to you Union
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Church that many of us have learned this
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principle in one area but we have not
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learned this principle in another
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area we've learned to keep your wallet
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where people can't see come on anybody
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raised those type of houses talk don't
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be counting your money all out for
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everybody to see you you paying cash
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you're like hold on
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what's I don't need you to see how much
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I got I ain't trying to tempt
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you come on now some of y'all you put
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your car in your garage
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and you still lock your car even though
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it's in your garage I don't know they
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might be able to get the garage door
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open just in case I'm make sure my car
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is locked come on where my ladies at you
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big got that big old duffel bag of a
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purse which if you're never going to
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take it out the car why'd you bring it
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out the house but you got your purse you
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got your change of clothes you got your
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heels you got your Flats you got your
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whole big jug of water you got a whole
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life in that purse and then you're just
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I'm I'm just running in here I don't
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want to take my purse so what do you do
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don't leave it in the sea come on you
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Pop the
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trunk drop my purse in the trunk close
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the trunk why because I don't know who
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going be walking by my car and look
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through my illegal
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tents and possibly be able to see that
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there's something in we know how not to
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leave things that we
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value out just for some random Thief to
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take and I'd like to MIT to you then why
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do we leave our
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hope why do we leave our
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faith
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out could it be that we do not know that
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there is a
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thief and his number one goal is to
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steal your hope
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could it be that we are giving more time
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energy and attention to protecting our
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money not realizing your money is not
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the most valuable thing you
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possess your hope is the most valuable
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thing that you possess actually you lose
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money just have hope if you've got hope
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money is close
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behind but if I lose my hope
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I can't get anything Bible says this in
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Hebrews chap 11 vers1
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now
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Faith Can I give it to you in a way
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you've never seen it before is made up
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of y'all hanging with me told you I'm
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taking you to the deep
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end now Faith is the substance
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of can I mess with you so why if I lose
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my hope I can't even have
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faith because faith is just a bunch of
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Hope squeezed together says now Faith is
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the substance of things hoped for and
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the evidence of
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Things Not
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Seen what's hope hope is the internal
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belief that I won't be dealing with this
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forever
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hope is the internal belief that I won't
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be stuck here
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forever hope is the internal belief that
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this situation will turn around and the
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Bible says if it's a Godly hope that
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hope turns into Faith because it's not
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just a hey things are going to get
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better it's a hold on God is going to
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make this better and without hope I'm
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not even turning to
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God at all verse six says this but
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without faith it's impossible to please
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him for he who comes to God must believe
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that he is and that he is a rewarder of
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those who
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diligently seek him there was this woman
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in the Bible I'll bet you
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you any amount of
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money you ain't never heard of her ain't
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never heard a message preach about her
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her name is
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yaked El your neighbor say you ever
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heard of
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yaked she said
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no I know
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Deborah I know
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Ruth I know Esther I know Mary I know
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Elizabeth
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never heard of yaka
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bed Pastor is that how you pronounce
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it I know y'all wondering mind your
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business yab bed was this young
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woman the daughter of a
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pastor the line of
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Levi she got married
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and got
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pregnant all
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excited because she was bringing life
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into the
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world she was dreaming and wondering is
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it a boy is it a girl is he going to
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have my eyes is he going to have his
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nose what what color his hair going to
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be what what's the call of God on his
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life going to be what's his personality
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going to be she she's carrying this baby
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and she's dreaming about this
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baby then all of a sudden there's a
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knock at the
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door her husband opens the door and
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there's an Egyptian soldier at the door
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with a piece of paper hear ye hear ye an
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edict from Pharaoh the
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Supreme every Hebrew boy two years and
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under has been decreed to be
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executed upon
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birth anybody who does not comply will
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lose their life as
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well in
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a
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second all joy all all hope all
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excitement all vision for to sinks
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disappears
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instantly and for the next month after
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month after month she hears the
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screams the
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whales the distraught cries of Agony as
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woman after woman after woman as father
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after father after father watches their
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two-year-old executed
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and I don't know what it was I don't
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know if it was her faith in
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God or I don't know if it was resilience
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on the inside of her but in the midst of
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the agony in the midst of the screams in
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the midst of the yells something raised
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up inside of her where she said not
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me not my baby I don't care what the
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enemy says I don't don't care what the
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enemy does I don't care what the
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consequences are what God gave me is
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mine and I'm not even going to be swayed
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by who around me has lost what God gave
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them as for me in my house I am holding
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on to the promise that God made me I
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don't know who you are but somebody here
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needs to hear God is not concerned who
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lost what around you what he's promised
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you is yours and stop looking at what
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your daddy lost or what your mama lost
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stop worrying about what the neighbor
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across the street lost or the business
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across town lost if you would get a Hope
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on the inside of you that that promise
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that God gave me that miracle that he
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gave me that future that he gave me even
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if it's a dream even if it's a vision I
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am not letting it go Hebrews chapter
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10:35 says this therefore do not cast
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away your
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confidence which has great reward for
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you have need
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of somebody say
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endurance so that after you've done the
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will of God you may
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receive the promise somebody say
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endurance one more time somebody say
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endurance all right somebody say we're
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in grad school we're in grad school
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we're in grad school
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Christians that can't wait won't see
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anything from
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God Christians that can't wait and when
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I say wait I'm not talking about
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twiddling their thumbs I'm talking about
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Christians that can't hear a promise
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from God and then see everything in life
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point in the exact opposite of what God
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promised them and still have a
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resilience on the inside I don't care
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what I see I know what he say said and
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he is not like man he will not lie if he
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said it it will come to pass if you
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can't wait and hold on to your faith you
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won't see anything great come from God
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the Bible says in Psalm 105 and you
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heard me preach it many many times that
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the Bible says that before the word of
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the Lord came to pass that word tested
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Joseph there is a season of testing of
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can I hold on to my faith when there's
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nothing around me that I see that is
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producing what God Said is going to come
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into my life
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and Rachel can't get in trouble and I
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see Believers leave
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jobs that God never told them to leave
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that he actually designed to develop
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them but because they could only live by
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their five senses and it did not look
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like it was taking them God promised he
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would take them they removed themselves
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from a place of preparation because what
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was around them was able to steal their
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Hope come on now so what I want to do is
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I want to teach you how to protect your
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hope I'm going to teach you how not to
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leave your hope in the front
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driveway because there is a thief that
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is looking to steal the promise that God
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made you first thing is this write this
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down write this down his
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words protect my hope
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his words
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protect my
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hope it's wild how this young girl
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jacked oh by the way when you get around
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your next little connect group just drop
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jacked in there everybody gonna think
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you're real spiritual they be like who's
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that you don't know jackob bed that's
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that's Moses's mother why have you never
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read your
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Bible you learned it three days
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ago it says the first thing that she
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heard was the words of the enemy saying
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what God had promised her must be
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executed and as soon as she heard the
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words nobody was knocking on her door
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yet nobody even knew but as soon as she
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heard the words she instantly went into
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okay I've got to hide what I've got from
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what what was said now here's what it
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says it says she hid the baby in her
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house for three months now some of you
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guys have 14-year-old old 15 year olds
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and 17 year olds so you
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forgot what a six week old is
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like some of you have a
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two-year-old and as
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annoying as a 2-year-old
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is at two years old you forget what six
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weeks is like that's why you keep doing
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it
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again come on you ever had that second
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kid and you're like how did we forget
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why did we do this come on now you're in
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the delivery room never again we're done
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and two years later how did we get here
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because you keep
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forgetting what a six week old is like
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they cry they poop they sleep they
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cry they poop they
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sleep but not this
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child she couldn't let him him cry
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because if he cried somebody heard
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him she couldn't even let him
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whimper she had to go three months
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without that baby making a peep because
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if he made a peep somebody might hear
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and somebody might tell and she might
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lose the promise that God Made You you
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think you're sleep
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deprived could you imagine what those
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three months were like between her and
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her husband where no no no if the baby's
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sleepy you can't can't walk out of the
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room you you can't go to the grocery
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store you what I've got to be in such a
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position of anticipation that if my
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promise is uncomfortable in any manner
00:24:41
I've got to attend to it instantly
00:24:44
because if the wrong sound comes out it
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can actually
00:24:50
abort what God's promised me can I
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preach for a second that's how intensely
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you've got to cover the promis that
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God's made
00:24:59
you I've got to make sure that the word
00:25:02
that God has given me is not drowned out
00:25:05
by any word of the enemy and here's what
00:25:08
the enemy is going to do he is going to
00:25:10
constantly bombard you with words that
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are opposite what he promised
00:25:16
you come on now one of his favorite ways
00:25:20
to do it is by sending people in your
00:25:22
life that say the opposite of what God
00:25:24
told
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you and
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you know what I found I found they're
00:25:31
normally well-meaning
00:25:32
people the the en the Bible says the
00:25:34
enemy masquerades like an angel of Life
00:25:36
he's not going to send your
00:25:38
enemy to try to discourage you cuz you
00:25:42
don't even like them come on now tell
00:25:44
the truth you're in church you can't lie
00:25:46
there are certain people that just the
00:25:49
sight of their
00:25:53
face y'all laughing cuz you know I ain't
00:25:55
telling a lie soon as you see there I'm
00:25:58
not listening to One Word they got to
00:25:59
say Andy come on you got the face you
00:26:01
got the face they talking you're
00:26:05
like and it's in one ear out the N why
00:26:09
cuz I don't trust you I don't even like
00:26:11
you and I look at your life and I want
00:26:13
nothing to do
00:26:16
with but often times it's the
00:26:18
well-meaning
00:26:20
person the person that says hey I'm just
00:26:22
trying to be the Devil's
00:26:26
Advocate you know we say some really
00:26:28
dumb stuff why does the
00:26:31
devil need an
00:26:35
advocate well you know I just I just
00:26:39
don't want you to get
00:26:40
disappointed I just don't want you to
00:26:42
get your hopes
00:26:43
up you want me to get my hopes
00:26:46
down no I'm keep my keep my hope up and
00:26:52
these just random random man I'm
00:26:55
believing God for
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healing I'm believing even with you you
00:26:59
know I know somebody that kind of just
00:27:02
they wrestled with it for the rest of
00:27:03
their
00:27:08
life you know what don't believe God
00:27:11
with me leave me
00:27:14
alone man I'm telling you I'm telling
00:27:16
you we're we're in a rough season in our
00:27:18
marriage and and but I'm believing that
00:27:19
we're God's going to knit our hearts
00:27:21
together we're we're going to we're
00:27:22
going to counseling we're working
00:27:23
through it's going we're going to get to
00:27:25
a great place you know sometimes God
00:27:28
just let you
00:27:34
suffer
00:27:38
click and and and you know what's
00:27:42
sometimes it it's not even that they
00:27:45
they they tell you opposite of what
00:27:46
you're they just ask a leading
00:27:50
question man God God's going to use me
00:27:53
in this
00:27:54
way are you sure that's not your dream
00:27:57
and
00:27:59
I mean just just pray about
00:28:03
it and what you don't know is this is a
00:28:06
voice from the enemy trying to steal the
00:28:09
word of hope that God gave you and you
00:28:12
weren't taught that I've got to stand
00:28:14
over this word stand over this and not
00:28:17
let one thing that is not the voice that
00:28:20
God spoke over the situation somebody
00:28:22
say tell the truth man the most negative
00:28:25
voices in my life are in my head and
00:28:27
never in somebody else's his
00:28:29
mouth like like like like like like tell
00:28:32
the truth and shame the devil if you if
00:28:34
you want to talk about your greatest
00:28:35
hater don't look on Instagram look in
00:28:37
the
00:28:40
mirror because nobody has ever told you
00:28:43
that you're not enough more than you
00:28:46
have nobody has ever told you that
00:28:48
they're ashamed of you more than you
00:28:50
have no one has ever told you why even
00:28:53
bother try more than you have and a lot
00:28:56
of us don't even realize I got to
00:28:58
protect my word even from my own
00:29:01
discouragement and my own negative
00:29:03
thoughts and my own practical thinking
00:29:06
and my own it's time to be mature and
00:29:08
it's time to be rasonable no no no no it
00:29:10
is time to be a man or woman of faith
00:29:13
and if God said it I believe it that
00:29:15
settles it 2 Corinthians chap 10:4 says
00:29:19
for the weapons of our Warfare are not
00:29:22
carnal But Mighty in God for pulling
00:29:25
down strongholds casting down
00:29:28
arguments and every High thing that
00:29:31
exalts itself against the knowledge of
00:29:34
God bringing
00:29:39
every come on now bring in every
00:29:43
hater no no no bringing every thought
00:29:47
into captivity to The Obedience of God
00:29:51
just because everybody else's baby got
00:29:53
thrown in the rivers doesn't mean your
00:29:54
needs to
00:29:55
be and what I find is there's there's a
00:29:58
lot of Believers that are not believing
00:30:00
for God's best for them because they're
00:30:02
looking at what's happening in other
00:30:04
people's
00:30:04
lives as if what is happening in
00:30:07
somebody else's life should be evidence
00:30:09
of what God can do in your life the god
00:30:12
that says no eye can see no ear has
00:30:13
heard no mind can conceive the god that
00:30:16
says if I did not spare my only child
00:30:18
how much will I not more freely give you
00:30:20
all things you think just because nobody
00:30:22
who came from the school that you came
00:30:24
from has ever become something that God
00:30:26
can't make you into something that
00:30:27
people have never seen you think just
00:30:29
because nobody in your family has ever
00:30:31
been used by God in a great way means
00:30:33
that God can't use you in a great way we
00:30:36
don't serve a God that looks at your
00:30:37
resume before he determines your future
00:30:40
we don't serve a God that looks at your
00:30:42
pedigree before he determines how much
00:30:44
he can use you there there there is no
00:30:46
nepotism in the kingdom of God there
00:30:48
there is no Legacy in the kingdom of God
00:30:51
there is you are my child called and set
00:30:53
apart and I know the plans that I have
00:30:56
for you to prosper you not to harm so
00:30:59
talk like
00:31:00
it I got to hurry up Proverbs 18:21
00:31:03
death and life are in the power of the
00:31:04
tongue and those who love it will eat
00:31:08
its
00:31:12
fruit for 2 Corinthians chapter 4: 13
00:31:16
and since we have the same Spirit of
00:31:20
Faith which is made up of Hope according
00:31:23
to what is written I believed therefore
00:31:26
I
00:31:28
I believed therefore I I believed
00:31:33
therefore I and we also believe and
00:31:37
therefore you don't speak you don't
00:31:41
believe don't tell me what you believe
00:31:43
just
00:31:45
talk all I all I got to do is hear you
00:31:49
talk come on now don't tell me what you
00:31:52
believe about your marriage just talk
00:31:53
about your
00:31:56
marriage don't tell me what you believe
00:31:58
about your teenager just talk about your
00:32:00
teenager don't tell me what you believe
00:32:02
about your job just talk about your job
00:32:04
and I can tell by the way you talk what
00:32:07
you
00:32:08
believe and the Bible says what comes
00:32:11
out of here is what I'm going to eat the
00:32:14
fruit
00:32:16
of what what what what if I just started
00:32:18
only saying what God
00:32:21
Said instead of what I
00:32:23
see oh this job is irritating stop it
00:32:28
it did he put you there or not is he
00:32:32
shaping you or not is he developing you
00:32:35
or not so how about in saying ah this is
00:32:38
irritating say ah God must be up to
00:32:41
something I'm telling you right now I
00:32:43
can't see it but I know how he works and
00:32:46
this pressure must be he's trying to
00:32:48
develop a diamond on the inside of me
00:32:51
and boy when it comes out it is going to
00:32:53
blow my mind
00:32:59
man they never see me or recognize me
00:33:01
stop
00:33:03
it God will put my name in the right
00:33:06
person's mouth my gifts will open the
00:33:08
right door for me when God opens a door
00:33:11
no man can shut it and if God shut the
00:33:13
door I don't want a man to open
00:33:16
in what if I just watched what I said
00:33:20
and protected it from what the enemy
00:33:22
wants and incubated what God said he's
00:33:25
going to produce the second thing is
00:33:27
this living open-handed preserves my
00:33:32
hope it says after the baby got three
00:33:34
months he was too big to
00:33:37
hide his his cries were too
00:33:40
unpredictable I I I could just picture
00:33:42
jaab bed walking around the house
00:33:44
talking all loud just in case he did
00:33:47
cry maybe my voice can drown
00:33:51
out what I don't want people to see and
00:33:53
know and hear but after a while it got
00:33:57
to the a place where she could do
00:33:59
nothing else to hide that baby and I
00:34:03
will tell you one of the most hopeless
00:34:05
moments in your life are when you've
00:34:07
tried everything you know how to try and
00:34:10
the situation still has not turned Ela
00:34:13
your neighbor be so sweet be so gentle
00:34:15
be just this little little nudge little
00:34:16
nudge and tell them you're about to grow
00:34:18
up you're about to grow up you're about
00:34:20
to grow up you're about to grow up come
00:34:21
on come on don't be mad don't be mad
00:34:23
don't be mad come on I'm preaching this
00:34:25
is where miracles happen come on the
00:34:27
point point of hopelessness is the
00:34:29
precipice of Miracles when you've come
00:34:32
to the end of yourself you've come just
00:34:34
to the beginning of who he is Fast
00:34:37
Forward about 90 years or so here is
00:34:40
grown Moses leading all of Israel out of
00:34:44
captivity the problem is Moses like his
00:34:47
mother came to a place where there was
00:34:49
nothing else that he could do he had led
00:34:52
them right up to a trap that he did not
00:34:55
even know here he is the red see in
00:34:58
front of him and the Egyptians behind
00:35:00
him the only problem is he was raised by
00:35:03
a woman who taught him what to do when
00:35:07
there's nothing else to do in Exodus
00:35:10
14:3 he said to the people don't be
00:35:13
afraid
00:35:15
stand and see the salvation of the Lord
00:35:19
which will accomplish for you today the
00:35:21
Egyptians whom you see today you shall
00:35:23
see again no more forever for the Lord
00:35:29
will fight for you and you shall hold
00:35:33
your
00:35:34
[Music]
00:35:36
peace she got to the place where she
00:35:38
couldn't keep the baby quiet any longer
00:35:41
but she knew who her God was so she made
00:35:44
a basket she wrapped it in pitch and
00:35:47
wrapped it in tar put the baby in the
00:35:50
basket sometimes you got to read the
00:35:52
Bible slowly because you're going to see
00:35:55
stuff that will blow your mind she took
00:35:58
her baby and put it in the exact same
00:36:01
river that other people's baby was being
00:36:04
drowned
00:36:05
[Music]
00:36:08
in how are you at the same location
00:36:13
where everybody else is experiencing
00:36:15
hopelessness and loss but for some
00:36:18
reason you are crazy enough to believe
00:36:22
that their location of loss could be my
00:36:24
location of Miracles why because she was
00:36:27
wasn't placing that baby in a water
00:36:30
river she was placing that baby in the
00:36:33
hand of almighty God she knew who the
00:36:36
river of God
00:36:42
was sometimes the greatest way you will
00:36:45
protect the promise that God has made
00:36:48
you
00:36:51
is can I can I preach for a second all
00:36:56
of you that are trying to fix your
00:37:00
marriage all of you that are overwhelmed
00:37:03
and frustrated with that
00:37:06
teenager can't get the career going the
00:37:08
job going this going that
00:37:11
going because the Bible says to trust in
00:37:15
the Lord with all your heart and lean
00:37:18
not on your own ability to fix things
00:37:22
out but in all your ways acknowledge Him
00:37:26
and He will will make your path straight
00:37:31
some of us our prayer life needs to
00:37:33
change from God tell me what to do to
00:37:36
God I'm done I've done everything I know
00:37:38
how to do but God I give this job to you
00:37:40
I give this body to you I give this
00:37:42
relationship to you I give this dream to
00:37:45
you I give this hope to you I give this
00:37:47
aspiration to you I give this ambition
00:37:50
to you God I am placing it
00:37:54
in your hands
00:37:58
somebody needs to hear this the longer
00:38:00
you try to force
00:38:02
it the longer you will never be able to
00:38:04
have
00:38:08
it
00:38:10
and there's some of us in
00:38:13
here some of us weird
00:38:16
crazy demented
00:38:21
folks we just a little aggressive you
00:38:24
know what I mean just El your neighbor
00:38:26
said calm down ch loud you
00:38:29
loud now some of
00:38:31
y'all we ain't talking to you cuz you
00:38:34
just
00:38:35
passive you just you won't fight for
00:38:38
nothing you just what will be will be
00:38:41
life is kicking your tail and you taking
00:38:43
it in the chin we ain't talking to you
00:38:45
but for some of us that don't like
00:38:48
know have never seen a problem that we
00:38:51
can't fix every closed door we kick it
00:38:54
before we pray
00:38:59
y'all know I'm crazy right anybody had
00:39:02
them crazy parents that would whoop you
00:39:03
while they
00:39:04
talk don't you ever do this
00:39:09
again as if I can hear
00:39:12
you some of us we think we're praying
00:39:17
and really we're trying to fix it in God
00:39:20
if you can get
00:39:30
she said God if you gave me this baby
00:39:33
it's your job to keep this
00:39:37
baby can I tell you how to be a person
00:39:39
of Faith but not a person of
00:39:42
anxiety because wherever faith is
00:39:45
anxiety is trying to get in as
00:39:47
well because the the the the problem
00:39:50
with being a dreamer is you instantly
00:39:53
feel like you must accomplish your
00:39:56
dream so now you're you're grinding and
00:39:59
you're pushing and you're straining and
00:40:01
you're leaning in because what was a
00:40:03
blessing to you for half a second what
00:40:05
overwhelmed you with joy when you found
00:40:08
out that you had purpose on your life
00:40:10
all of a sudden it is now the source of
00:40:12
stress and anxiety because someone lied
00:40:14
to you and told you you had to do it in
00:40:16
your own
00:40:17
strength as if he did not say in his
00:40:20
word in Thessalonians the one who called
00:40:23
you is faithful and he will will do it
00:40:28
some of us need God you began a good
00:40:30
work in
00:40:31
me and you will see it through the
00:40:35
good you know your career is
00:40:38
stuck anybody who hasn't had a promotion
00:40:41
at this point you're not going anywh no
00:40:44
no because it's not my
00:40:45
problem I'm going to be excellent I'm
00:40:48
going to be faithful I'm going to honor
00:40:50
God and then I'm going to take my job
00:40:52
and I'mma place it in the river of God
00:40:54
and I'm going trust him to do what only
00:40:57
he can do Sean you tell me you want to
00:41:01
end or you want to preach for 20 more
00:41:03
minutes they look like they done with me
00:41:06
go ahead play go ahead play go
00:41:08
ahead come on write this
00:41:12
down the third thing is
00:41:15
this Miracles will confirm my
00:41:18
hope y'all don't don't don't sleep on
00:41:22
Jack she ain't no
00:41:24
dummy hear me she knew where Pharaoh's
00:41:28
daughter
00:41:30
bathed no no no the Bible didn't say
00:41:32
that she put the baby in the
00:41:34
river the Bible said that she put the
00:41:36
baby in the
00:41:38
reads By The
00:41:40
River Why to make sure that that basket
00:41:42
doesn't float
00:41:44
away because I knew I I've got one
00:41:48
shot at one person the right person
00:41:50
seeing this and if the right person sees
00:41:55
this we're going to get compassion
00:41:58
takes the baby put the baby in the Reed
00:42:00
where Pharaoh's daughter bathes and then
00:42:02
she put her daughter
00:42:05
Miriam to watch and
00:42:07
see what
00:42:09
happened you know the story Pharaoh's
00:42:12
daughter comes down and bathes sees this
00:42:15
basket and sends an
00:42:17
attendant the attendant grabs the basket
00:42:19
and opens it up and I think the Holy
00:42:21
Spirit poked Moses right at the cry baby
00:42:25
[Music]
00:42:28
and that one cry in Pharaoh's daughter's
00:42:31
heart
00:42:34
melted some of you have lost your hope
00:42:36
because you don't know what to look
00:42:38
for you you're looking for the
00:42:42
miracle you don't need a miracle right
00:42:44
now you just need a
00:42:47
sign the Bible says don't Cast Away your
00:42:50
confidence you you're going to have to
00:42:52
have endurance how do I have endurance
00:42:55
ju just look for EIC
00:42:57
around
00:42:58
you that maybe just maybe God's involved
00:43:02
maybe just maybe this thing is about to
00:43:04
shift the Bible says in Deuteronomy
00:43:06
chapter 29:5 and I have led you 40 years
00:43:11
in the wilderness somebody say that's
00:43:13
too
00:43:14
long your clothes have not worn out
00:43:17
though and your sandals have not worn
00:43:20
out on your feet Israel was marching
00:43:23
around the Wilderness for 40 years on a
00:43:25
two we trip
00:43:27
and everything around them said it's
00:43:29
taking too long God's forgotten about us
00:43:33
it's not going to happen we're never
00:43:34
going to see it it it it's just all the
00:43:37
signs point to this won't H and here
00:43:40
comes Moses again you're looking at the
00:43:42
wrong thing you're looking at the wrong
00:43:43
thing do you think if God had abandoned
00:43:45
you that your shoes would still be as
00:43:48
brand new as they were 40 years ago do
00:43:50
you really think if God had abandoned
00:43:53
you your clothes that you've had for all
00:43:55
these decades would not have any holes
00:43:57
in it you haven't seen the
00:44:00
miracle but you're seeing
00:44:03
Miracles and it's evidence that all
00:44:06
around you God is saying I'm going to
00:44:10
bring my word to
00:44:11
pass and now we get to preach the end of
00:44:14
the message which we already preached at
00:44:17
the beginning of the message Pharaoh
00:44:20
takes this baby and says wow I'm going
00:44:23
to keep him for myself but I can't nurse
00:44:26
him
00:44:27
Here Comes Mary and Moses's sister
00:44:30
saying would you like me to find
00:44:33
somebody that can nurse this baby for
00:44:35
you and Pharaoh's daughter says yes I
00:44:38
would love to and Miriam takes Moses
00:44:42
back to his mother and his
00:44:45
mom cuz the wild thing about God is when
00:44:50
you put it in his hands he'll put it
00:44:52
back in your hands as long as you want
00:44:55
to hold on to it for yourself he'll let
00:44:57
you hold on to it but when you say God
00:45:00
use my marriage God use my job use my
00:45:03
skills use my relationships here I am
00:45:06
use me as soon as you give it to him
00:45:09
he'll it's Bible right give and it'll be
00:45:13
given back to you press
00:45:16
down she said not only do I need you to
00:45:19
nurse your son she didn't know that it
00:45:20
was his son nurse this B I'll pay
00:45:24
you she nursed him until he was ween and
00:45:27
then she gave them back to Pharaoh's
00:45:29
daughter somebody say a it sounds like
00:45:32
she lost the promise no no no no no her
00:45:36
son moved into the King's house and ate
00:45:40
the King's food and was educated with
00:45:43
all of the King's children and what the
00:45:46
king did not know is God was using him
00:45:51
to prepare his enemy to throw him into a
00:45:55
sea some of you feel like because you've
00:45:58
got enemies all around you you feel like
00:46:01
there's nothing but animosity and doubt
00:46:03
and fear all around you that you're
00:46:05
outside of the position that God has for
00:46:07
you and little did you know God put you
00:46:10
right where he needed you to be because
00:46:12
all things work together for the good of
00:46:15
those who are called according to his
00:46:17
purpose can I let you in on a little
00:46:19
secret the enemy thought he was crushing
00:46:22
you but really all he was doing was
00:46:24
preparing you the enemy thought he was
00:46:26
destroying ding you and little did he
00:46:28
know all he was doing is educating you
00:46:31
he thought the divorce would take you
00:46:34
out what he did not know is it would
00:46:36
build a resilience on the inside of you
00:46:39
that you needed to fulfill the destiny
00:46:42
that he has for you he thought the
00:46:44
depression would crush you and he had no
00:46:46
idea that that depression drove you into
00:46:50
the presence of God and taught you to
00:46:52
lean on God and not on your own
00:46:55
understandings he thought the rejection
00:46:58
would bankrupt you little did he know he
00:47:01
was teaching you to be confident in your
00:47:03
own self watch this God will take the
00:47:06
enemy and make the enemy prepare you for
00:47:09
your
00:47:12
destiny do not cast away your confidence
00:47:15
do not throw away your hope do not look
00:47:18
at your situation and think your
00:47:20
situation is an indication of what God
00:47:23
is getting ready to do in your life
00:47:24
because no eye has seen no ear has heard
00:47:28
no mind can conceive what God has in
00:47:31
store for you you've got 30 seconds to
00:47:36
find seven people and tell them I've got
00:47:38
my confidence back I've got my
00:47:40
confidence back come
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on tell somebody I've gotten my
00:47:45
confidence back come on Columbia tell
00:47:48
somebody I've gotten my hope
00:47:50
back come on tell somebody I've got my
00:47:53
vision
00:47:54
back come on somebody tell them I I've
00:47:56
got my fight back I've got my boldness
00:48:00
back I've got my courage
00:48:06
[Music]
00:48:13
back oh the enemy messed up letting you
00:48:16
in this room tonight the enemy messed up
00:48:19
letting you in this room tonight the
00:48:21
enemy messed up letting you in this room
00:48:24
tonight God said because you got in this
00:48:26
room I'mma give you your hope back I'mma
00:48:29
give you your fight back I'mma give you
00:48:31
your confidence back I'mma give you your
00:48:33
boldness back I'mma give you your faith
00:48:35
back I'm going to give you your dream
00:48:37
back can you take about 60 seconds and
00:48:40
can you thank God I'm getting my hope
00:48:42
back I'm getting my hope back I'm
00:48:45
getting my hope back I'm getting my
00:48:48
fight back I'm getting my dream back I'm
00:48:51
getting my confidence back
00:49:02
[Music]
00:49:09
watch those soundcast oh my soul put
00:49:12
your trust in God put your faith in God
00:49:18
[Music]
00:49:29
somebody needs to hear he said don't
00:49:32
grow
00:49:34
weary in well
00:49:36
doing it says in
00:49:40
due
00:49:44
season in Du
00:49:47
season in Duce
00:49:51
season indu
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season indu season
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IND du
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season some of us are like God I'll take
00:50:03
anything and God said no I only want to
00:50:05
give you the
00:50:06
best do season do SE if you don't have
00:50:11
it it ain't due
00:50:14
season if you don't have it it's not due
00:50:18
season and the worst thing you can do is
00:50:21
get your dream from God before due
00:50:24
season
00:50:30
I'm going to wait on
00:50:33
you I'm going to wait on
00:50:36
[Music]
00:50:38
you I tasted your
00:50:42
goodness trust in your
00:50:45
pro I'm going to wait on
00:50:48
[Music]
00:50:49
you I'm going to wait on
00:50:52
[Music]
00:50:54
you I tasted your
00:50:58
goodness trust in your
00:51:01
prise I'm going to wait on
00:51:06
you I'm going to wait on
00:51:09
[Music]
00:51:10
you I taste in your
00:51:15
goodness trust in your
00:51:17
[Music]
00:51:17
[Applause]
00:51:19
prise wait on the
00:51:23
Lord wait on the Lord
00:51:26
[Music]
00:51:28
he will renew your
00:51:31
strength so way I say on the
00:51:39
Lord on the
00:51:41
[Music]
00:51:43
Lord he will Ren your strength so wa
00:51:50
I wait on the Lord wait on the Lord
00:51:56
we on the
00:51:57
[Music]
00:51:59
Lord we will re your
00:52:04
strength way
00:52:10
I said I'm going to wait on
00:52:14
you I'm going to wait on you
00:52:19
Lord I tasted your
00:52:23
goodness I trust in your PR
00:52:27
[Music]
00:52:29
waai on
00:52:31
you I'm going to wait on
00:52:36
you I tasted your
00:52:40
good trust in
00:52:46
your come on right where you are can you
00:52:48
lift your
00:52:52
hands we're going to end in a second but
00:52:55
I don't want to rush this
00:53:08
moment just take a moment right where
00:53:10
you are and just talk to your
00:53:18
God some of you L to let God know I'm
00:53:21
getting my hope back today
00:53:26
some of you there's been areas of your
00:53:28
life that you've been so discouraged
00:53:30
about that you can't even pray about it
00:53:33
anymore you just assume because
00:53:35
everybody around you lost it that you're
00:53:37
going to lose it
00:53:40
to and this moment he's putting a
00:53:43
supernatural hope back in your
00:53:51
heart we had a pastor's conference in
00:53:53
July
00:53:56
about two weeks after the pastor's
00:53:58
conference somebody emailed the church
00:54:01
they Saidi told God that after that
00:54:03
conference I'm going home and I'm
00:54:04
putting in my
00:54:06
resignation because God can't use
00:54:08
me and they said as I was sitting in
00:54:11
this is a senior pastor of a church said
00:54:13
as I was sitting in that conference I
00:54:15
heard the spirit of God speak to me and
00:54:18
say don't quit don't throw in the towel
00:54:21
I've got great plans for your life and
00:54:23
they said I just want to let you know
00:54:25
I've got my fight back I've Got My Hope
00:54:27
back I've got my dream back I've got
00:54:29
vision for what God is getting ready to
00:54:31
do in my life I don't know who you are I
00:54:34
don't know where you are but I know that
00:54:36
there are people that walked in today
00:54:38
and you had already made up in your mind
00:54:40
you were getting ready to quit on
00:54:42
something that God had promised you take
00:54:45
a moment and do business with your
00:54:47
father and let him know I I'm taking
00:54:49
back my resignation I'm taking back my
00:54:52
my my my surrender to this situation I'm
00:54:55
not throwing the towel anymore I'm not
00:54:57
throwing away my confidence anymore I'm
00:55:00
not throwing my hope away anymore I'm
00:55:02
not throwing my dream away anymore in
00:55:04
this moment I choose to agree with what
00:55:08
you said over me and not what I'm seeing
00:55:10
in front of me some of you need to take
00:55:12
a moment and you need to put your baby
00:55:14
in the river you need to make a decision
00:55:17
with God I'm done trying to control it
00:55:19
I'm done trying to manipulate it I'm
00:55:21
done trying to kick the door in I'm
00:55:23
trying to done trying to find the right
00:55:25
person that can get me in there God I
00:55:27
put it in your hands right
00:55:29
now God I Surrender it to
00:55:33
[Music]
00:55:53
you I'm done preaching somebody say he's
00:55:56
done
00:55:57
but I'm going to give you the last verse
00:55:59
anyway Zechariah 9:1 says this that's
00:56:04
for you
00:56:05
also because of the blood can I say it
00:56:09
this way of Jesus on my
00:56:13
life I will set your prisoners
00:56:17
free from that waterless hopeless
00:56:21
pit return to the stronghold look at
00:56:25
this phrase you
00:56:27
prisoners of Hope even today I declare
00:56:32
that I will
00:56:35
restore double to you I decree and
00:56:40
declare to every single person that's
00:56:42
been waiting longer than you've wanted
00:56:45
to wait I decree and declare to every
00:56:48
single person that the enemy has done
00:56:50
everything he can to steal your hope to
00:56:53
steal your vision to steal your dream
00:56:56
Jesus said because of my blood on your
00:56:59
life because of my Covenant to you I
00:57:02
will restore double what the enemy stole
00:57:05
from you it's your job to stay
00:57:07
surrendered to hope it's your job to
00:57:10
remain a Prisoner of Hope is it your job
00:57:13
to say hope is going to be my for guard
00:57:16
and my rear guard hope is going to shake
00:57:18
my words hope is going to shape my
00:57:21
vision hope is going to shape who I am
00:57:24
and I will leave it in God's hand to
00:57:26
restore what the enemy Soul God we give
00:57:29
you the honor God we give you the glory
00:57:31
god we speak hope we speak faith we
00:57:34
speak breakthrough over every single
00:57:37
person's life we give you the glory we
00:57:39
give you the honor we give you the
00:57:41
praise in Jesus name we pray somebody
00:57:45
shout
00:57:47
amen and amen and amen God bless you
00:57:51
have a great night