#S085 - Faith Looks A
Certain Way - (Part 2)
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Welcome to the Breath of Life.
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Television ministries broadcast
with Pastor Debleaire Snell.
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In today's episode, Pastor
Snell will continue with part
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two of the powerful message
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“Faith Looks A Certain Way.
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Now let's go deeper
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into the word of God.
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Not church.
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When I say that, I say
this not in an egotistical way
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where I'm just saying you
need to pay more attention to me
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when I preach. That's
not what I'm talking about.
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I'm saying we've
got to have greater
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spiritual capacity
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and greater attentiveness
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towards spiritual things
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because this is a thing I
need somebody to understand
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that the devil doesn't
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necessarily just
have to cancel your faith.
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If he can simply
distract your faith,
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see if he can keep
you looking over here.
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When God is moving
over there, He can keep
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you under bondage until
the day Jesus Christ comes.
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I you'll hear what
I'm saying to the church.
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I need somebody to understand
that the spiritual warfare
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is not just what you hear
in John King in verse ten.
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It's not just to
steal, kill and destroy,
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but a part of the
spiritual warfare.
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It is literally to
distract, to divert,
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to make sure that spiritual
you are scatterbrained.
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Matter of fact, can I
show you a couple of quotes
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that bless my life this week?
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I want you to see
this here on the screen.
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This here comes from the
book, The Great Controversy.
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Page 519.
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I need you to understand how
the spiritual warfare operates
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so that you understand
what it is you are up against.
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Great controversy.
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519 If it doesn't come
up, I'll read it for you.
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Satan will knows
that all whom he can lead
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to neglect, prayer and the
searching of the Scriptures
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will be overcome by his
attacks with his church.
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Therefore, he what invents
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every possible device to engross
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the mind.
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He knows as long as he
can keep you off your knees.
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And if you keep your Bible shut,
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and if he can keep you scrub
link to your eyes, burn out
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that he can
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keep you in a slave is bondage.
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I don't hear
what I'm saying today.
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Church So every
invention that's consuming
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devotional time has its path in.
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Are you hear what I'm saying?
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No, I ain't trying to be
diplomatic with this thing today
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because he knows if he
can keep you out of the word,
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he can keep you under
his spell all your days.
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You'll hear me today, Church.
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In fact, I want you to
look at this in the book.
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Early writings 266, where
the prophet of our church,
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one of the pioneers,
was given some insight
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into one of
Satan's board meetings.
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And I want you to see
what Satan told his aunts.
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Look at this.
Put it up. Put it up.
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Listen what he told the Imps
and the other fallen angels.
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He says, Go make the
possessors of land and money.
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Drop with cares.
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Are you all women in a church?
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If you can make them
place their affection
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upon these things,
we shall have them.
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Yet they may
profess what they please.
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Only make them
care more for money
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than for the
success of Christ's Kingdom
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or the spread of
the truths we hate.
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Present the world before them
in the most attractive light
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that they may our
love and idolize it
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as they gather
together for prayer
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in different places,
then we are in danger.
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Be very vigilant.
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Then. Cause over what?
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Distraction you can
destroy love for each other.
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Hold up every plausible excuse
so that those that have to those
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who have means let's
they hand it out battle
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every inch of
ground, make covetousness
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and love of earthly treasure
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the ruling trait
of their character.
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As long as these traits
rule salvation and grace.
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Stand back.
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Crowd all you can,
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all round them to attract them.
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And they will surely be ours.
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Are you all listening
to this preacher today?
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In other words, I need
you to get that sentence.
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Go is not just
to make you immoral.
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I need you to know
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that he don't have to get
you to smoke, crack or weed.
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He ain't got to get you
to have a woman on the side
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and a cigaret
under your car seat.
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But if he can just
keep your focus diverted
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and what I'm saying
to us today, Church,
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is that we have to
have a spiritually focused
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approach and 2025, if
we're going to make it
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to the next level,
can the church say, man,
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this is one of the
things I believe, beloved,
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is that when you approach
every day, you got to understand
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that the enemy is
looking to take over your focus
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so that when it's time to pray,
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I got to have focus in my prayer
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so that when it's time
for me to get in the word
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that I can't
get in, the comforts
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of the bed snuggly and warm.
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But sometimes I got to go
to a cold part of the house
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and I got to sit down in
a hard chair where my mind
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can be stayed all the way
in on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I need some young person
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before you open up your
Bible and begin the scroll.
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You need to begin the Scriptures
because I need somebody
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to know that the
spirit of supplication
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is being destroyed by
the spirit of social media.
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The spirit of intercession is
laid on the altar of Instagram,
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and your time with
God is being consumed with
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all y'all mad today.
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Y'all want me to go out of town?
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But I'm going to stay right here
and preach to see y'all today.
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In other words,
friends, I need you to know
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that when it talks
about having a focused faith,
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it means when you
come into the house of God,
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you need to be selective
about who you sit next to.
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In other words, I can't
sit next to no Gossip Bunny.
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That ain't gonna do
nothing but complain
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about every
wrong note. Dismissed.
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I can't sit in the
back where I'm focusing on
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who's coming in
and who's going out.
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There is an anointing in
the first eight rows of the pews
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where you can see
nothing but the goodness of God.
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When it talks
about being focused,
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it means you
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need to be selective about
who's in your inner circle.
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If you're trying
to grow in faith,
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you can't surround yourself
with those that don't talk faith
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and those that don't want faith.
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I need some
people in my inner circle
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that know how to get a
prayer through, that know
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God can make a way that knows
the promises of the Word of God.
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Tasco reinforce
what I really believe
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and friends, if
you're going be focused,
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what you do at
the end of the day
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needs to complement what
you do at the start of the day.
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Now you're going to be
mad at me for a minute.
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The reason we take one
step forward and six steps back
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is because our evening activity
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conflicts with
our morning activity.
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Okay, so so we
start the day with living.
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Warner
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But we end the day
with the tea of gossip.
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Y'all, y'all not
hear me today? So.
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So we start the
day with sunshine.
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But we end the
day throwing shade.
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Y'all mighty quiet
in this house today.
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And what I'm saying to somebody
today is you got to make sure
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that what you consume
throughout the day reinforces
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the word, reinforces faith, and
it does not disassemble. It's
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your life must be
lived in the same direction.
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So I need you to know
that godliness is not hard.
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Godliness becomes
difficult when I try to plant
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conflicting seed
in the same soil.
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I don't hear
what I'm saying today.
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Church How many of us understand
that you can't kill your flesh
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and feed it at the same time?
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It's funny.
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Over the holidays
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we had a little
situation where we had,
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you know, some
aunts coming in to,
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you know, on the
little island in our kitchen.
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And it's crazy
because my wife taught my kids
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how to put together
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a little, little poison
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so that they would take
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the poison down to the
queen and kill the colony.
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But see, the problem with
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the kids is they would
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love to plant the poison,
but when they wasted something,
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they didn't want to clean it up.
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And see the problem
with you're bringing
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conflict to your
approach because you can't kill
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the ants while
feeding them at the same time,
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so that if you don't kill them,
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you can't just send
poison to the queen.
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You've got to
clean up the excess.
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And the me
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and the words of somebody is
you're trying to kill the flesh,
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but you're leaving remains for
the flesh to feed on every day.
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And you got to remove
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all the provision for your flesh
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so that you can become the man
or woman that God has ordained
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you to become.
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You are hear me today. Church
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faith has a certain look
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so you can tell what
people are believing for
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when you look at what
they position themselves
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to receive.
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So the word says this brother
has the faith to be healed.
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Bobby Now that's critical.
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Scholars, ma'am,
look at this, doing this,
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trying to figure out what it
is, what is it that Paul sees?
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So for us they say,
Well, maybe the man is focused,
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but man, the second
thing that perhaps they sees
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is at a certain
point, this man positions
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himself
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to be here.
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So Paul is preaching
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at me and Paul is
getting jiggy with this psalm.
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I mean, he's going
Genesis to Revelation.
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And I love because at some point
what this man with crippled
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feet begins to do is he
begins to position himself
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in preemptively
of what Paul says.
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I'm still not here yet.
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So what this cripple man does
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at some point is he
takes a lame left leg
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and stabilizes it
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and ties down his handle
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so that when the
command is given,
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he's getting ready to move
and he takes a cripple right leg
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and positions it
and stabilizes it
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so that when the command
comes, he's ready to move.
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He ties up his hand to
strap so he doesn't trip.
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When it's time for him to
walk, he doesn't take his mat
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and put it in front of
him, but he takes his mat
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and cast it out of sight
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because he's getting in position
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to see the miracle take place.
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Now, friends of mine, I
need somebody to hear this
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because there is a difference
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between wanting
the blessing of God
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and being ready for
the blessing of God.
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Because when I
simply want it is simply
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an intellectual acknowledgment
that what I desire
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will be profitable
and beneficial to me.
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But there's a
difference between wanting get
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and being ready for it.
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Wanting it just means I
have desire, but be ready
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means I've got in
position and prepared myself
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to receive what I'm desiring.
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See friends of mine.
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Some of us.
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All we have is desire, but
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we don't never put ourselves
in position to receive nothing.
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We don't have a
posture ourselves.
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There is no
sense of anticipation
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that governs our behaviors.
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We run around like good
luck wishing upon a star,
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rubbing a lamp,
rabbit's foot carrying
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black eye on New
Year's Day kind of believers
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where we are
hoping for good luck,
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not believing for
the promises of God.
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So this is see what
real faith looks like
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because you know what?
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Real faith don't need it.
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Don't need no proof.
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Okay, let me say
it, y'all know this are
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real faith.
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Doesn't need proof.
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All it needs is the certainty
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that God sent it.
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See, is just kind of like this.
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There are times
where the weather man
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will come on during the
day and say it's going to rain.
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Now some of us
won't get an umbrella
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until they see rain.
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But if you believe what he said,
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even when there are no clouds
in the sky, you still pack
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and umbrella and a raincoat
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because you trust what he said.
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You know that the
showers are coming.
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And what I'm
declaring to somebody this year
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is that rain is about to fall.
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Showers are blessings.
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Showers are blessings.
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We need mercy.
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Jobs around us are falling.
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But for the
showers, we plead and stop
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waiting for clouds
to get your rain gear.
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Carry it when the sun is out.
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Carry it when no
clouds are in the sky.
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Because if God said it's
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it must come to pass.
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And what I'm saying to
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somebody today is you've
got to get yourself in position
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to receive what
you are praying for.
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So dear somebody who's
saying, I want a big leap
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in my mental health,
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but you got to position yourself
to sit down with somebody
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who can help you along
the way, somebody saying,
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I want a position that you're
praying for big financially,
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but you need to get somebody
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to help you manage the
overflow without waste.
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There is somebody there saying,
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I want to leap
into being a spouse,
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but you need to
position yourself,
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learn how to forgive,
learn how to communicate,
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learn how to fix something,
how to build something.
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I hear what I'm saying.
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You ain't pregnant but
paint so nursery already
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and trust that if God spoke it
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is going to come to pass
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and see somebody
also looking at me crazy
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because you don't really
believe in positioning yourself.
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Can I take you to
the word real quick?
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Psalms 81 in verse ten
speaks to this very truth.
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Psalms eight, don't
wait for it on the screen.
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Open your Bible
today. Psalms 81,
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highlight it and write it
down some 81 in verse ten.
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Look at what the word says.
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Listen to what
God said to Israel.
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Psalms 8110.
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He says, I am the Lord your God.
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He brought you out
of the land of Egypt.
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Notice what he says.
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Open your mouth.
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He says, Open your
mouth wide, then I'll feel it.
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So the level of your position
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is going to determine the
level of your perfect set.
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So it's just like
when you feed the baby,
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when they don't like the
proofs or the green carrots,
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they just open
them out like this.
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And really,
almost subconsciously
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you begin to determine
what you put on the spoon
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by how much they
open their mouth.
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But when you feed them
the bananas and the pears
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and the grapes,
they don't just open it
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like this, but they
open wide and point it.
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They mouths so you can fill it.
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And do I have any
sense that I'll get before
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God this morning and
say, God, right here,
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I'm open wide.
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I'm just not a lot open.
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I'm not most of the way
open, but I'm all the way open.
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I'm positioning myself
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to receive what
God has in store.
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Are you all with the
pastor today? Church The
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next thing I like
about this brother
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is that he doesn't ask
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What if it doesn't work?
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You don't ask, what if so, poor
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man, this thing is so good.
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He's he's.
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He just simply
declares to me, Yo, bro,
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rise.
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Stand up
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and start walking.
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Now what you do
see this last quote?
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Acts of the Apostles?
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181 I need you to
see how faith works.
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Paul commanded the cripple to
stand upright on his feet here
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for the supper had been
able to take a sitting posture.
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What?
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But now he instantly
obeyed Paul's command,
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and for the
first time in his life
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he stood on his feet.
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Now watch.
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This strength came with v
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f word of faith,
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and he who had
been crippled, leaped,
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and he walked, God, I
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see somebody.
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I'll sit and get it.
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Because the
problem is you still ready?
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Like they did at the
end of the chapter two.
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Dear five Paul
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But if you reading this
right, Paul does not healed
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the man.
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Paul simply
announces that God has removed
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the restriction that
was keeping him down.
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Oh, God,
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no, no.
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Paul didn't healing.
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Paul just wanted him to be aware
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that he has some agency
that he didn't always have. So.
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So notice when she says
she says, when the effort
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of faith is demonstrated, that's
when the miracle occurred.
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Okay, so we are
still missing it.
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So when Paul
tells him to stand up,
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there is no surge of energy
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in his legs.
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There is no heart
burning going from his toes
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up to his torsos and his thighs.
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No, I need to
understand when Paul speaks it,
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his legs are just as dead
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as before he speaks it.
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So the man can't
wait to feel something.
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Because if he's
waiting on a feeling,
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he would be waiting
until this very day.
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And even though he
ain't got no feeling,
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he still puts it into motion.
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See, the reason
some of us ain't going
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get nothing is you
still waiting on a feeling?
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You waiting on the
feeling of forgiveness
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You're waiting on the
feeling of reconciliation
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You're waiting on the
feeling of the Holy Ghost.
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But you got to stop
waiting on a feeling
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and start acting in the Word.
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Because once he obeys
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the word, that's when
muscles begin to move.
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That's when
ligaments begin to fire.
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That's when
nerves begin to shoot.
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Once he begins to act
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in the level of obedience.
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Now watch this curve
because I like this brother.
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Because, see,
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the one thing I like about
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the brother is he
doesn't spend his time asking,
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what if it don't work?
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CC Understand that most
cripples hold back in the day
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like the man at 73 or
the fucking Jesus time
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that when you were crippled.
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What you boss at the time
in order to avoid bedsores,
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is you lived with a mat.
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It was a soft place to sit
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or a soft place to land.
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Okay, yeah.
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You ought to get this.
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And it's funny
because, like, even two times,
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like cripple limbs were
in some you've seen unclean.
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So you covered them
with blankets and covers.
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But I like this brother, man.
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He he ain't got
no shame in his gay
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like he don't want nothing
to obstruct his movement.
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This brother
thought aside, his cover,
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his robe, he got
ass all on his knees,
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because I know that
dark black will crack.
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Do I have a
witness in the other day?
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Right.
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I see.
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The thing I like about this
brother is he is not worried
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about what they think.
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If it don't work.
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See, some of us will never
step because you so worried
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about what somebody is going
to say if it don't come to pass,
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if it don't work out and
if it don't come together.
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And the thing I
like about the brother
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is that once he
obeys the command,
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he doesn't ask
somebody for a cane,
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he doesn't ask
nobody for a yorker,
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and he doesn't lay
the mat in front of him
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in the event that he falls,
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he's got a soft place to
land because when you act
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on the Word of God, you
don't need a backup plan.
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You don't need a
contingency plan.
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You don't need a plan b.
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C the reason we
never know God's plan
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is we're so busy and
loyal to our backup plan.
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We always worried about
what if it don't work out?
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What if it fails? What
if it doesn't come to pass?
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What if God
doesn't hear my prayer?
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You will never
know what could be.
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If you're always
asking What if it does not
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come to pass?
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Are you out here
in the world today?
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You're in some point.
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You've just got to
start acting in faith.
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So you got to start
writing the book before you find
00:24:30.90\00:24:33.44
a publisher.
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You got to start
writing the music.
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Before you find a record
producer, let's discuss why
00:24:36.67\00:24:40.48
you got to start the ministry
before you find the money.
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Like at some point
you got to stop asking
00:24:44.48\00:24:46.58
what ifs and just saying God.
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What did you say to me?
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This thing got even better
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because you know what Paul said.
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Money, noise,
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all Paul said
00:25:06.10\00:25:08.67
was stand up
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now, church.
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It would have been enough of
a miracle if he just stood up.
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Hey, that's
shouting right there.
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If he just stands up on two
feet, that ain't never worked.
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But you know what I
like about the brother
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is that he doesn't let
caution smother his faith.
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Okay, so come and sit. Says
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that before you
jump up out of your seat.
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What he
should've did was test it.
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That right leg first
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to make sure it's
work and common sense says
00:25:55.38\00:25:58.09
test the left leg.
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Second to make sure it's work.
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And common sense
says wiggle your hips
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to make sure they're firing.
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But the thing I
like about this brother
00:26:08.66\00:26:11.00
is he ain't got no
common sense with his faith.
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He doesn't test the waters.
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He doesn't test his legs.
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He doesn't walk.
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Before he ran and
after he learned to run,
00:26:23.45\00:26:27.08
then you had to
learn how to leap.
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But the brother
doesn't start with a step.
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He doesn't start with a run.
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But the Bible
says that he starts
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not with a step.
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Cause it's not a step.
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Yeah, it's not a stand.
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Yeah. I declare
00:26:47.90\00:26:50.57
in the name of Jesus
00:26:51.54\00:26:53.91
that yes, I live here now
00:26:54.54\00:26:58.21
I have a I love this brother.
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He's saying you ain't always
00:27:05.65\00:27:07.86
got to go the
conventional around
00:27:08.62\00:27:10.63
you ain't always
got to wait in line.
00:27:11.49\00:27:13.53
Sometimes God
says, Forget the process
00:27:14.40\00:27:17.27
and I'm gonna
let you take a lead
00:27:18.10\00:27:20.14
in Jesus name.
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Can somebody say
I'ma take a spiritual leap
00:27:23.64\00:27:27.11
of faith?
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Leap, oh, forgiveness, leap.
00:27:28.94\00:27:32.78
And
professionally and financially
00:27:32.81\00:27:36.69
and socially.
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Get off of your feet
00:27:39.92\00:27:42.39
and take a leap
00:27:42.42\00:27:45.06
in Jesus name,
00:27:45.49\00:27:47.93
my, don't wait for a step.
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Don't wait for a stand.
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You just got to take a leap.
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(Breath Of
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