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Foreign.

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But I have a prophetic word
for you today.

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How many of you know whenever
you want to hear the voice of the

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Lord, all you got to do is
open your Bible.

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All right?

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And I'm going to speak the
word of the Lord.

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And I am.

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I am just going to jump in,
and we're not going to.

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We're not going to waste any time.

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Are y' all ready for this?

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Okay, so we are in the month
of May, a divine timeline.

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And I believe that the Lord is
speaking, is breathing on his people.

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But I gotta talk to you about
a spiritual location, and it's a

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location called Ziklag.

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And sometimes you'll end up in
a place in your life where you expect

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blessing, but you see burning.

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You expect things to grow, but
they end up in ashes.

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And many of you are in a
prophetic ziglag.

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And what does this mean?

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It's a place where you have
these high hopes and these great

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expectations and these dreams
of what could happen.

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And yet, when you look around,
what you see with your physical eyes

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contradicts what is happening
in the physical realm.

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Tell your neighbor you're in ziglag.

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Put it in the comments right now.

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You probably don't even know
how to spell it.

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All right, But I want to speak
to this, and I've got to set the

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scene for you, because we get
married, and we just think marriage

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is gonna be so sweet.

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By the way, I wanna
congratulate all of our Men of Valor

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who are finally asking women
out on dates at our church.

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I can't tell all the ladies
and the children what happened at

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Men of Valor, but I
commissioned our men.

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I said, you need to wear cologne.

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You need to take a shower, you
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You need to get a timepiece.

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You need to go to the barber
and let them do whatever they need

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to do to you.

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And then I said, you need to
start asking the women of our church

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out on dates and being
chivalrous and opening doors and

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paying for dinner.

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And it has been brought to my
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campuses that the lovely
ladies are thrilled that they are

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eating for free right now on
dates by Men of Valor.

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I kid you not.

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I'm not satisfied, but I heard this.

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It could just be gossip, but I
heard somebody even post it on Instagram.

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It's a V1 love story.

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And I heard somebody else even
said, are you ready for our love

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to go v1.

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Listen, if you know, you know.

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And so I just wanted to say.

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The men have been released now.

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Men don't you dare mess this up.

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I told our pastors, I said,
number one, we gotta vet these relationships

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and we gotta see if we approve
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And I said, number two, expect
a wave of premarital counseling in

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the next year.

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But we have these expectations
for relationship, for marriages.

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We have expectations for
money, for finances.

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We have expectation for our
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We have expectation for our
years and how we're gonna plan the

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year.

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And oftentimes we end up in a ziglag.

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I want to frame this for you,
so open those bibles up to 1 Samuel,

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chapter 30.

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Open up to 1st Samuel, chapter 30.

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Have you ever had a Ziglag moment?

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You expected rest, but instead
you walked into ruin.

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You thought that you were
coming into peace, but instead you

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found smoke, ashes and loss.

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And some of you know what it
means to come home to.

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To a burned down season.

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To find out that your spouse
cheated on you.

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To find out that your kid just
got a diagnosis.

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To find out that your marriage
feels like it's falling apart.

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Your bank account looks like
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it.

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Anybody know what I'm talking about?

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Don't yell too loud over there.

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Come on.

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And so we have these zig lag experiences.

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And you could feel like that
the years of your life are wasted

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in sin, wasted in confusion,
or even in a sense of delay.

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But the good news is that
Ziglag is not the end of David's

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story.

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It was in the beginning of his story.

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And ziglag is not the end of
your story.

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It's the place where God
speaks a word that is getting ready

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to echo through history and
echo through through your lineage

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and echo through your ancestry.

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Because God can take a burned
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around into something else.

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And so we gotta get into the scriptures.

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Go to 1 Samuel, chapter 30.

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And then let's look at verses
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It says now, when David and
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day, the Amalekites had made a
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Ziglag.

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And they had overcome Ziglag
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And taken captive with the
women and all who were in it, both

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small and great, they killed
no one.

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But they carried them off and
they went their way.

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Come on.

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I'm here to tell you that your
dream didn't get killed.

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It was carried away by the enemy.

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Your marriage isn't done yet.

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It didn't get killed.

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It got carried away.

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Your children may look like
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but they were not killed.

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They were carried away.

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As a matter of fact, there's
good news right now.

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It might feel like loss, but
it was just stolen, not killed.

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I'm here to tell somebody that
Ziglag is not the end of the story.

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It is just a turning point
into what's next.

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If you'll get a revelation
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Wasn't killed, it was carried away.

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It wasn't killed.

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It was carried away.

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Your ministry wasn't killed.

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It was carried away.

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Your health wasn't killed.

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It was carried away.

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Your kids weren't killed.

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They were carried away.

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And David and his men came to
the city and they found it burned

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with fire and their wives and
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Then David and the people who
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and wept until they had no
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David.

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David's two.

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He had wives had been taken captive.

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Now, this is Old Testament.

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Don't get any ideas now.

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And Abigail.

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And the widow of Nabal and Carmel.

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And then David was greatly distressed.

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Listen.

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For the people spoke of
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Because all the people were
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sons and daughters.

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But David strengthened himself
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And David said to Abdhar, God, the.

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Priest, the son of Amalek,
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So Abiathar brought the ephod
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And David inquired of the
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Shall I overtake them?

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And he answered him, pursue,
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shall surely rescue.

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And then it says, and David recovered.

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All about to preach this message.

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I'm about to preach this message.

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We gotta rewind a little bit.

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So David is anointed to be
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so he's in the in between.

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How many of you are in the in
between right now?

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You've been given the
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It hasn't been fulfilled.

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You were the prophet came to
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were gonna be.

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But you have not become.

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We.

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We are in these moments.

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David now goes to Ziglag.

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And while he's in Ziglag, he
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His.

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His wife has been taken away.

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His children have been taken captive.

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I dare you to try to take Bella.

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I dare you to come after Everly.

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Any guy, any dad.

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Know what I'm talking about?

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I will come, and I will find you.

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And I.

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You know what I mean?

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So David shows up, and he's
assessing many of you are in a season

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of assessment right now.

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You're assessing your bank
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why you're always broke.

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You're assessing your children
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and why that they are.

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Some of them are unrighteous
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You're assessing your purpose
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but you don't have a calling.

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And you're doing this assessment.

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And David is looking around
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do something, but I've got to
go and inquire of God.

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How many of you know that you
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anymore?

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You've cried out to God and
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my life is like this.

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The tears have hit your pillow.

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But there's a difference
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asking God what to do for direction.

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And we need to shift from
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And some of us go from crisis.

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To crisis, from crying to crying.

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But the message that we get from.

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David is put on the ephod and
ask God, what shall I do?

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Give me prophetic direction.

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Give me the next step, God.

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And we move from crying and
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intercession.

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Put on the ephod.

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What is the ephod?

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It was the.

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It's literally like the high
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this.

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This vest with the precious
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significance.

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And it was almost as if David
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the Levites who are an
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And I need to begin to go
solicit God.

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And I'm not going to him to beg.

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I'm not going to him to cry.

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I'm going to him to get
direction for what I must do.

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Because the distance between
what God promised and where you are

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is called obedience.

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Y' all don't want to hear this.

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Stop calling it delay and
start calling it what it really is.

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Disobedience.

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The fire in your bank account
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was cursed.

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If you had gave 10%, then 100%.

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Would have been blessed.

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Don't call it delay in your finances.

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Call it disobedience.

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So what happens is we delay.

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Don't call it delay in relationships.

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Call it disobedience.

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How could you act in a single.

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Season full of lust and then expect.

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God to bless that with marriage?

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Stop.

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Oh, come on.

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I'm gonna preach mean today
till you get free.

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Stop calling it delay and
Start calling it what it is.

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It's disobedience.

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The distance between what God
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You.

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The way you close that
distance is by walking in one step

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of obedience at a time.

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Every time I get paid, I give.

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Every single time I go on a
date, I stay pure.

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Every single time.

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Oh, come on, somebody, God,
give me an opportunity to preach.

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God.

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Saying, when you don't even
pray, how you gonna preach God?

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I wanna write a book.

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He's like, you write more text
messages than you write prose.

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How can you publish a book
when all you publish was gossip?

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The distance between the
promise and where you are is obedience.

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Somebody shout this time I'll obey.

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Come on.

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This is not a pretty message, but.

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It's the message we need.

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Can I get an amen?

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So David's in ziglag and he's
not complaining to God.

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He's interceding.

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Stop complaining about your
kids to your friend and start interceding

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for your kids.

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We need some of.

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Some of y' all need to get.

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Those old school Pentecostal
grandmother vibes in your house.

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You know what I'm talking about?

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Some of you, you gotta learn
how to begin to pray like those who

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went before you.

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Anybody come from a heritage
of prayer warriors in your family,

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guess what?

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If they've died, grab the
mantle and become a prayer warrior.

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You know what I'm saying?

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So David begins to put on the ephod.

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Somebody needs to get a revelation.

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It's time to put on the ephod.

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If you're prayerless, you're powerless.

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Put on the ephod.

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Come on.

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If you don't go to God, if you
go to man, you're gonna get man's

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results.

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But if you go to God, you get
God's results.

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So David begins to inquire
before the Lord.

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And this is what he says.

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Lord, am I to pursue them?

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Am I to try to get back
everything that was stolen?

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Am I to try to go and take and
kill everything that should have

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been killed?

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And this is what God says to him.

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I just read it to you in 1st
Samuel, chapter 30.

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God.

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Go get em, son.

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Lord, I'm tired of praying.

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Lord, I'm tired of giving.

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And it never comes back.

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Lord, I'm tired of helping
them, but they never help me.

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See, sometimes you'll let your
own flesh and your own human frailty

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and you'll let your own
tiredness disqualify you from the

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very command God's giving.

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But here's the thing.

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This is what David learned
against Goliath.

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And you see it over and over again.

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You don't kill an expert
warrior with just a sling and a stone.

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He understood something.

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They were focusing on
Goliath's strength.

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He was focusing on God's strength.

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See, he was not relying on his
strength, and he was not re.

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He was not calculating the
strength of his opposition.

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He was focusing on the
strength of God.

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See, God wants you to stop
saying I'm tired, and start saying,

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I'm willing.

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I'm able through you, God,
because the power of life and death

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is in your tongue.

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When you say you're tired, you
become more tired.

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But when you say, the joy of
the Lord is my strength, and greater.

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He that is in me than he.

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That is in the world.

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And it says, many are the
afflictions of the righteous, but

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God delivers them from them all.

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Somebody say all.

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So David said, God, if I go to
pursue those who have stolen from

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Ziglag, I must do it with your permission.

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Because if I have your
permission, I have your power.

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Oh, come on.

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Somebody ask the sons of Sceva what.

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Happens when you try to do
something without God's permission

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and try to access his power?

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See, they tried to cast demons
out without the permission of God,

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and they didn't have the power
of God and.

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Got their butt whooped.

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And some of us are like the
sons of Sceva.

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We try to start ministries
without God's permission, so those

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ministries lack his power.

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We try to start marriages
without God's permission, so those

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marriages lack the power.

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We.

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Oh, come on, somebody.

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I'm just trying to.

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So what happens is we must go
back to the beginning.

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We must say, God, where did I
go wrong?

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We've got to put on that ephod.

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We got to begin to ask permission.

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From God, because where
there's permission, there is.

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Where there's permission,
there is.

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I didn't go to New York.

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I was given permission to take it.

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That's why there's power that
flows through it.

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You know how many ministries
died on Long Island?

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And I'm standing in a soccer
stadium that community couldn't keep

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alive.

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But the power of God touched
it and said, you were building church

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and didn't even know it.

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When you get permission,
there's power.

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This is the sacred path.

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And David understood that.

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David went to the brook and he
chose five smooth stones.

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And God said, you're only
gonna need one.

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Because when you've got my permission.

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Are y' all learning something?

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Are y' all learning something?

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When you got my permission,
you've got my power.

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And you picked up five stones.

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But, son, you'll only need one.

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David knew that it wasn't his
fight if God gave him permission.

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It was God's fight.

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That's why the Devil messed up
when he messed with us.

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Because what he didn't
calculate is when we accepted Jesus,

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he stopped fighting us.

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And started fighting Jesus on
the inside of us.

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But Jesus whooped his butt
2,000 years ago.

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And I'm here to enforce the whooping.

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Come on, somebody.

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And I'm just going to remind
the Devil you're a defeated foe.

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I have been given permission
to access this power ephod.

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Intercession.

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Permission.

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Power.

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Are y' all being.

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Are my digital disciples being discipled?

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Are y' all being discipled?

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Are you with me?

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So then, let's continue.

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Ziglag, he says.

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Go fight.

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You've got it.

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But we got another problem.

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The bitter people of Ziglag
who started to blame David because

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they had lost.

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Isn't it just like in real
life how the people you help the

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most are the ones that will
turn on you in another season?

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Isn't it funny?

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I posted this list last week.

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It's like I looked in your cup
to see if you needed more.

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You looked into my cup to see
if I had more than you.

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We are not the same.

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When I looked into your cup,
it was to see if you needed more.

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But when you looked in my cup,
it was to see if I had more than

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you.

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We are not the same.

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David was a servant.

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David was fighting on their behalf.

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But in their own bitterness,
they turned on David.

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If you want to be a leader,
get used to the people that you.

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Save trying to stone you.

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This is what happened.

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They took rocks.

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And the Bible gives account
that they.

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Had made plans to literally
throw those stones and kill David.

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So David's got to dodge the javelin.

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Of a giant, then he's got to.

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Dodge the javelin of the king,
and now he's got to dodge the stones.

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Of the very people that he had
won battles for.

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If you want to be a leader,
get used to people throwing things

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at you at every direction.

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And it will sometimes be the
very people you help the most are

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going to flip the script in
their own bitterness and start to

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blame you for their loss.

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Victim mindset.

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Beware of people with victim mindsets.

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Beware of the people who blame
everybody else but themselves.

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See, this is Ziglag.

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Ziglag is a place where the
dreams and the hopes and the aspirations

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have burned down.

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And then right in when you're
in your lowest moment, and you think

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you're going to get
encouragement, you get a rock thrown

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at you by the person that you
helped in another battle.

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How many of you know what I'm
talking about?

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Come on.

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As soon as they get
successful, they burn down their

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day ones.

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As soon as they get into
another season.

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I heard somebody once say that
the first day that a blind man receives

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sight, he throws away the
stick that guided him the whole time.

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This is what it's like.

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You'll serve people with your life.

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You'll help them through every
season of their life, like that blind

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person's stick.

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And then the day they receive
sight, they discard the stick.

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This is what they did to David.

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As long as they benefited from
David, they were for David.

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But then when they experienced
loss, that bitterness turned against

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David.

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Let me just tell you, as long
as you're paying for people's dinners

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and their Uber eats, and as
long as you're helping them with

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their rent, and as long.

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Oh, come on, somebody.

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You know, the dog, the person
that feeds the most scraps from the

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table to the dog is the dog's favorite.

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And there's some people that
don't have a nature any.

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Any higher than a dog.

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And as long as you're giving,
giving, giving, they're your favorite,

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right?

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You're their favorite.

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But then you flip the script
and say, I actually need some help,

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too.

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And their loyalty goes with them.

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Come on.

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Does somebody know what I'm
talking about?

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This is what zig lag is like.

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It's like, wait a second.

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I thought that there was.

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This was covenant.

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I thought that you were going
to be here with me.

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That's why you better beware
who you.

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Cry to, because they'll
publish your tears in a private conversation.

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You better be careful who you
tell your secrets to, because if

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you're telling your secrets in
Ziglag, those secrets will.

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End up in other circles where there's.

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Monitoring spirits that
conspire against you.

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And they'll begin to open up a.

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Portal of hell as you become
their favorite subscription.

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Y' all ain't hearing me.

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I just.

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Let me just go preach this
down the street.

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They might receive it better
than my own church.

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I'm talking about these fake
people in Ziglag.

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Don't have a bad day, David,
in front of them.

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They're allowed to have a bad day.

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You're not allowed to have a
bad day on them.

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This is what David was going through.

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Now watch.

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I've already read 1st Samuel 30.

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I read you 20 verses.

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So I'm gonna exegete them a
little while.

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Is that all right?

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So what does David do?

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Step one, put on the ephod,
and then now I need permission for

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power.

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And you're gonna give me
direction for what to do next.

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Number two, what does he do?

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He encouraged himself in the Lord.

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Some of you, your greatest
weakness is no longer porn addiction.

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It's no longer alcohol.

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Oh, come on.

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It's no longer gossip.

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Your greatest addiction is the
need to feel understood.

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It's the need to feel
understood and seen.

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And more sin can flow from the
desire to be understood and seen

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than many of the addictions I
just mentioned.

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This is what the Lord's
dealing with.

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You're waiting for them to
encourage you.

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But David said, I'm gonna
encourage myself in the Lord.

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I'm gonna put that worship
song on, and I'm gonna begin to sing

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and begin to worship and
fortify my spirit and set an atmosphere

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around me.

505
00:22:18,740 --> 00:22:21,380
And I'm gonna begin to open up
the windows of heaven.

506
00:22:21,380 --> 00:22:22,180
See, here's the thing.

507
00:22:22,180 --> 00:22:22,940
Let me just tell you.

508
00:22:22,940 --> 00:22:23,660
Ain't it funny?

509
00:22:23,660 --> 00:22:27,580
Because when you used to go to
the club, you would put on a soundtrack

510
00:22:27,580 --> 00:22:28,620
and you know the songs.

511
00:22:28,620 --> 00:22:28,940
Come on.

512
00:22:28,940 --> 00:22:29,860
I ain't gonna sing them.

513
00:22:30,430 --> 00:22:30,950
I'm not gonna.

514
00:22:30,950 --> 00:22:34,750
I dare not pollute this pulpit
with the songs we all used to play

515
00:22:34,750 --> 00:22:36,990
on a Friday night before we
went out.

516
00:22:37,790 --> 00:22:38,230
Come on.

517
00:22:38,230 --> 00:22:39,790
Some of you are thinking of
right now, and you're.

518
00:22:39,790 --> 00:22:43,870
I see you listen.

519
00:22:44,430 --> 00:22:48,270
What you feed grows and what
you starve dies.

520
00:22:49,150 --> 00:22:53,870
So demons were collaboratively
setting an atmosphere where those

521
00:22:53,870 --> 00:22:57,890
songs would feed your flesh
because then it would empower your

522
00:22:57,890 --> 00:22:59,370
flesh to obey the flesh.

523
00:22:59,930 --> 00:23:01,410
Isn't it funny how you would end.

524
00:23:01,410 --> 00:23:04,890
Up listening to songs that
would talk about things that you

525
00:23:04,890 --> 00:23:05,810
do and it.

526
00:23:05,810 --> 00:23:07,530
Would actually be feeding your flesh.

527
00:23:07,530 --> 00:23:09,610
And you would go out and obey.

528
00:23:09,610 --> 00:23:12,970
And fulfill the very
narratives in those songs.

529
00:23:15,370 --> 00:23:18,810
This is why we must fill our
atmospheres with worship.

530
00:23:19,210 --> 00:23:22,650
Because if you feed your
spirit, you starve the flesh.

531
00:23:22,810 --> 00:23:26,650
And then when you leave your
place of abode, you will obey this.

532
00:23:26,650 --> 00:23:27,210
Oh, come on.

533
00:23:27,210 --> 00:23:28,470
I'm talking to somebody.

534
00:23:28,710 --> 00:23:33,710
Just like those filthy songs
became filthy desires that turn into

535
00:23:33,710 --> 00:23:38,470
filthy sins, righteous songs
turn into righteous desires that

536
00:23:38,470 --> 00:23:40,230
turn into righteous obedience.

537
00:23:40,390 --> 00:23:43,790
How many of you are going to
go on a journey with me of encouraging

538
00:23:43,790 --> 00:23:46,190
yourself instead of feeling
the need.

539
00:23:46,190 --> 00:23:48,470
To be understood by other people?

540
00:23:48,870 --> 00:23:51,750
God, you see me, God, you know me.

541
00:23:51,830 --> 00:23:55,340
As a matter of fact, you're
the only one who can even understand

542
00:23:55,660 --> 00:23:56,060
me.

543
00:23:56,060 --> 00:24:00,140
You were tempted in every way,
but never yielded to the temptation.

544
00:24:00,380 --> 00:24:01,980
You Suffered in every way.

545
00:24:02,060 --> 00:24:04,140
They didn't suffer like you suffered.

546
00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:06,140
So you know me, and you're suffering.

547
00:24:06,460 --> 00:24:07,060
Some of you.

548
00:24:07,060 --> 00:24:08,660
Instead of trying to get them to.

549
00:24:08,660 --> 00:24:11,820
Understand you, you need to
learn how to understand Christ.

550
00:24:14,140 --> 00:24:14,660
Come on.

551
00:24:14,660 --> 00:24:15,300
I'm helping you.

552
00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:16,220
Are y' all with me?

553
00:24:16,860 --> 00:24:18,540
I don't need to be understood.

554
00:24:18,860 --> 00:24:21,500
My aspiration is to understand
the Father.

555
00:24:23,380 --> 00:24:29,140
See David in the midst of them
throwing stones, says, I'm gonna

556
00:24:29,140 --> 00:24:30,100
encourage myself.

557
00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:32,420
Then what does David do?

558
00:24:32,420 --> 00:24:34,660
Lastly, I wanna show you this.

559
00:24:34,660 --> 00:24:35,460
It's so good.

560
00:24:36,180 --> 00:24:41,300
All of a sudden, David begins
to go out and he begins to fight.

561
00:24:41,780 --> 00:24:42,820
But here's the thing.

562
00:24:42,820 --> 00:24:44,980
He had to get honest about
what he lost.

563
00:24:46,580 --> 00:24:47,780
Somebody say, get real.

564
00:24:49,170 --> 00:24:50,930
It's time to be honest with
what we lost.

565
00:24:52,370 --> 00:24:55,890
David's men wept until they
had no strength to leave because

566
00:24:55,890 --> 00:24:58,370
they were getting honest with
what they lost.

567
00:24:59,170 --> 00:25:03,370
How many of you know that if
you ignore a feeling and suppress

568
00:25:03,370 --> 00:25:08,010
it, it increases like a crock
pot, and then eventually that lid

569
00:25:08,010 --> 00:25:11,010
blows off and it shows up in
another area of your life.

570
00:25:12,370 --> 00:25:14,610
Feelings do not dissipate.

571
00:25:15,420 --> 00:25:16,820
Feelings do not disappear.

572
00:25:16,820 --> 00:25:18,300
I'm talking to the men right now.

573
00:25:18,300 --> 00:25:24,300
I know, I know, I know, I know.

574
00:25:25,340 --> 00:25:26,380
Listen to me, men.

575
00:25:27,180 --> 00:25:30,380
Just because your daddy never
taught you what to do with your feelings

576
00:25:30,860 --> 00:25:32,700
doesn't mean it can't start
with you.

577
00:25:34,460 --> 00:25:37,100
The story isn't, and the women wept.

578
00:25:37,980 --> 00:25:39,820
First Samuel, chapter 30 is.

579
00:25:39,980 --> 00:25:45,820
And the mighty men who killed
other people and went out to battle,

580
00:25:45,820 --> 00:25:48,340
they wept until they had no
more strength.

581
00:25:48,740 --> 00:25:49,380
The men.

582
00:25:50,340 --> 00:25:53,700
So there's something to be
said about being in this place called.

583
00:25:53,780 --> 00:25:57,340
This prophetic place called
Ziglag, where you get the wisdom

584
00:25:57,340 --> 00:26:00,980
of, my feelings don't
dissipate and my feelings don't disappear.

585
00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:03,380
They actually relocate.

586
00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:05,420
They don't dissipate.

587
00:26:05,420 --> 00:26:06,500
They relocate.

588
00:26:07,380 --> 00:26:11,440
When you put your hand through
that wall, you know what it felt

589
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:11,720
like?

590
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:12,320
Anger.

591
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,320
But anger was not the origin.

592
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:19,520
Your feelings started as
rejection, as loss, as injustice.

593
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,040
And then it didn't dissipate.

594
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:26,080
It relocated from your heart
to your hand and through the wall.

595
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,520
And then when you punched the
hole through the wall, the feeling

596
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:30,240
didn't go away.

597
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:31,960
You actually increased it.

598
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,520
And you strengthened the
synapses in your mind that made something

599
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,200
inexcusable, excusable.

600
00:26:39,130 --> 00:26:42,490
When you were having rampant
sex with women and you were going

601
00:26:42,490 --> 00:26:46,650
out there, the feeling was
sexual, but that was the origin.

602
00:26:46,730 --> 00:26:48,250
It didn't start that way.

603
00:26:48,490 --> 00:26:50,570
The origin of it was something else.

604
00:26:50,570 --> 00:26:53,130
And I'm talking to the men
right now specifically.

605
00:26:53,290 --> 00:26:55,650
And what happens is those
feelings don't dissipate.

606
00:26:55,650 --> 00:26:56,730
They relocate.

607
00:26:57,370 --> 00:27:01,690
Because there's an emptiness
in you, there's a shame in you, there's

608
00:27:01,690 --> 00:27:03,050
an unworthiness in you.

609
00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:06,620
And because you didn't deal
with that feeling, that feeling is

610
00:27:06,620 --> 00:27:08,300
now dealing with your destiny.

611
00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:11,500
This is why we gotta get to
the root.

612
00:27:11,580 --> 00:27:14,540
This is why Jesus was friends
with sinners.

613
00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:18,860
He didn't sin with sinners,
but he was friends with sinners.

614
00:27:19,259 --> 00:27:21,980
Because the root was not prostitution.

615
00:27:22,620 --> 00:27:23,900
It was just the fruit.

616
00:27:25,180 --> 00:27:27,180
The root wasn't alcoholism.

617
00:27:27,660 --> 00:27:29,100
It was just the fruit.

618
00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:31,900
How many of you know Jesus
goes to the root?

619
00:27:32,460 --> 00:27:34,380
Can I take you to the root of Ziglag?

620
00:27:34,780 --> 00:27:37,260
How many biblical scholars do
we have at this church?

621
00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:42,380
If you know the narrative,
there was another king before David

622
00:27:42,380 --> 00:27:43,540
was to be anointed king.

623
00:27:43,540 --> 00:27:44,460
His name was Saul.

624
00:27:44,540 --> 00:27:49,260
And God explicitly gave a
command to Saul, go into Ziglag,

625
00:27:49,820 --> 00:27:53,500
kill everyone in Ziglag,
annihilate it.

626
00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:56,500
What Saul did was he dealt with.

627
00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:59,700
Partiality, and he only
eliminated some of it.

628
00:27:59,940 --> 00:28:00,500
So what?

629
00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:05,460
What Saul did not finish grew
and was inherited by David.

630
00:28:05,780 --> 00:28:11,099
Some of you had Saul dads,
Saul mothers that the Lord said deal

631
00:28:11,099 --> 00:28:12,580
with poverty and lack.

632
00:28:12,660 --> 00:28:16,380
And because they never dealt
with financial stewardship, it was

633
00:28:16,380 --> 00:28:17,380
handed to you.

634
00:28:17,620 --> 00:28:19,460
Some of you had mothers and fathers.

635
00:28:19,460 --> 00:28:23,470
Like Saul that the Lord said,
arrest, eradicate all of that adultery.

636
00:28:23,550 --> 00:28:28,270
But divorce multiplied in your
family, like Ziglag, the inhabitants

637
00:28:28,270 --> 00:28:30,670
of that land, they increase
over time.

638
00:28:30,670 --> 00:28:33,550
And you show up like David to
deal with Saul's problem.

639
00:28:33,710 --> 00:28:36,830
But here's the difference
between David and all the people

640
00:28:36,830 --> 00:28:37,470
around him.

641
00:28:37,550 --> 00:28:41,670
Instead of blaming Saul, he
encouraged himself in the Lord and

642
00:28:41,670 --> 00:28:46,350
said, I must be the first time
generational blood curse breaker.

643
00:28:46,350 --> 00:28:47,150
And you know what?

644
00:28:47,460 --> 00:28:51,420
I. I can't help that this
thing came to me, but I can help

645
00:28:51,420 --> 00:28:52,900
what I do about it.

646
00:28:52,980 --> 00:28:56,820
I can't help that it happened,
but I can help how I react.

647
00:28:57,060 --> 00:29:01,300
And you can keep blaming
society, you can keep blaming America,

648
00:29:01,380 --> 00:29:05,300
you can keep blaming politics,
you can keep blaming your neighbor,

649
00:29:05,380 --> 00:29:08,620
you can keep blaming your
school, you can keep blaming your

650
00:29:08,620 --> 00:29:08,900
region.

651
00:29:09,140 --> 00:29:13,100
Or you can encourage yourself
in the Lord and hear the word, word

652
00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:17,420
of the Lord saying, go, son,
and finish what Saul should have

653
00:29:17,420 --> 00:29:18,060
finished.

654
00:29:18,540 --> 00:29:21,340
I will empower you to do it.

655
00:29:21,420 --> 00:29:24,460
How many of you are going to
break those excuses with me?

656
00:29:24,700 --> 00:29:28,300
Shout unto God, give him a 30
second praise break.

657
00:29:28,380 --> 00:29:32,860
If you're done being a victim,
if you're done with that victim mindset,

658
00:29:34,380 --> 00:29:35,660
shout this with me.

659
00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:38,140
No more victims.

660
00:29:43,990 --> 00:29:46,390
Well, you know, it's expensive
on Long Island.

661
00:29:50,630 --> 00:29:52,870
Well, you know, there's no
good men out there.

662
00:29:55,030 --> 00:29:57,190
Well, you know, it never works
out for me.

663
00:29:58,230 --> 00:29:59,990
You know what I call that kind
of person.

664
00:30:01,030 --> 00:30:02,550
My answer is going to shock you.

665
00:30:03,030 --> 00:30:03,830
A prophet.

666
00:30:07,470 --> 00:30:08,190
A prophet.

667
00:30:08,670 --> 00:30:13,230
Because you will have what you
say you prophesied.

668
00:30:14,590 --> 00:30:17,070
You literally, Oh, I can't
afford anything.

669
00:30:17,310 --> 00:30:19,230
I can't afford anything.

670
00:30:19,230 --> 00:30:20,990
You just prophesied over yourself.

671
00:30:20,990 --> 00:30:23,470
And I'm just going to wait and
watch it come to pass.

672
00:30:25,950 --> 00:30:26,990
You're victim.

673
00:30:27,310 --> 00:30:29,710
As if the economy is happening
to you.

674
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,360
No, I'm the seed of Abraham.

675
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,280
I'm happening to the economy.

676
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,200
I know what the word of God
says about my finances.

677
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,160
His word supersedes the economy.

678
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,160
There's a heavenly economy.

679
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,240
It's not happening to me.

680
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,600
I'm happening to.

681
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,520
Well, you know, I can't force
my kids to go to church.

682
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,080
I can't force my kids to go to church.

683
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,360
You are a evil prophet.

684
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,799
The very first Bible that my
mother bought for me, she bought

685
00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:13,160
when I was 15 years old.

686
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,760
And in the back page she says,
mike, you are a preacher to the nations.

687
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,880
And as your mother, I gift you
this Bible Today in Christmas 1998.

688
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:25,480
And she began to break it down.

689
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,590
And my mother, she wrote a
prophetic letter.

690
00:31:28,590 --> 00:31:33,270
All of us are prophets, but
not all of us live in the world that

691
00:31:33,270 --> 00:31:34,070
we desire.

692
00:31:34,790 --> 00:31:38,070
But all of us live in the
world that we create with our words.

693
00:31:39,350 --> 00:31:45,670
And David said I could act
like a victim of Saul's lack of dealing

694
00:31:45,670 --> 00:31:46,710
with the problems.

695
00:31:47,270 --> 00:31:50,630
I could act like a victim
because all the people I worked the

696
00:31:50,630 --> 00:31:54,310
hardest for in my life are now
trying to kill me and take me out.

697
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,600
Or I could put on the ephod, I
can start the worship.

698
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,880
Remember, he was an expert
musician, so there are many times

699
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,120
in his life where he went back
to worship.

700
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,520
I can change the atmosphere
around me and in me.

701
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,040
If I can't change them, come
on, somebody.

702
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,480
I can't change them, but I can
change the atmosphere around me and

703
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:15,640
on the inside of me.

704
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,920
I can't control them because
that would be witchcraft.

705
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,080
But the gift of the spirit,
the fruit of the spirit spirit is

706
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:22,760
self control.

707
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,880
Some of y' all are just
Christian witches trying to control

708
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:26,680
everybody.

709
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:27,520
Oh, come on.

710
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,160
I'm talking to somebody right now.

711
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,000
But Lord, teach me how to control.

712
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,480
Me, because I am not a victim.

713
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,199
I'm going to encourage myself
in the Lord, and then I'm going back

714
00:32:37,199 --> 00:32:40,920
to Ziglag and I'm going to
confront that evil thing, and I'm

715
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,000
going to take back everything
that was stolen from me, because

716
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,480
the only thing I'm a victim to
is my disobedience.

717
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,080
Oh, I'm preaching this for
somebody right now.

718
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,440
I'm preaching this for
somebody, because it's liberating

719
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:59,400
when you stop blaming your
stepdad and you stop being a victim.

720
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,840
It's liberating when you break
free from.

721
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,920
All these excuses, because
then you realize, the only problem

722
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:06,720
I really have.

723
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,280
That's why we're obsessed with
cancel culture.

724
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,880
That's why we're obsessed with
heresy hunting, because it's so much

725
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,720
easier when you're a victim to
blame everybody else.

726
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:24,640
But guess what?

727
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,600
True discipleship happens when
you say to.

728
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:28,440
Oh, come on.

729
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:28,960
To live,.

730
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:33,920
To live.

731
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:38,160
And to die is.

732
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,530
See, what happens in the word is.

733
00:33:42,530 --> 00:33:47,250
You realize this is between me
and God, which is why David doesn't

734
00:33:47,250 --> 00:33:50,530
fight those who are fighting
him in his own camp.

735
00:33:50,850 --> 00:33:54,450
He goes to God, he puts on the
ephod, he begins to pray.

736
00:33:54,610 --> 00:33:57,210
He gets supernaturally
empowered, and he runs back.

737
00:33:57,210 --> 00:33:59,490
And I want to show you this as
I come to a close, because this is

738
00:33:59,490 --> 00:34:00,530
what you're about to do.

739
00:34:01,330 --> 00:34:02,850
This is what you're about to do.

740
00:34:03,490 --> 00:34:05,410
They found it, burned it with fire.

741
00:34:05,810 --> 00:34:07,970
Their wives and daughter are
taken captive.

742
00:34:08,740 --> 00:34:09,660
This is not cute.

743
00:34:09,660 --> 00:34:11,300
This is not Instagramable.

744
00:34:11,780 --> 00:34:12,980
Come on, how many of you.

745
00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:16,420
Sometimes your life will be a
wreck, but nobody can tell based

746
00:34:16,420 --> 00:34:17,460
on your social media.

747
00:34:18,820 --> 00:34:22,100
Come on, you're making zigzag
look like Disney.

748
00:34:25,940 --> 00:34:30,460
But it's something that we
gotta understand is that David was

749
00:34:30,460 --> 00:34:34,020
anointed to be king, but he
was learning how to become the king

750
00:34:34,020 --> 00:34:35,220
before he got the crown.

751
00:34:36,220 --> 00:34:40,060
See, the distance between your
destination and where you are is

752
00:34:40,060 --> 00:34:40,700
a process.

753
00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:43,020
It's a process of becoming.

754
00:34:43,580 --> 00:34:45,740
It's a process of stepping
fully in.

755
00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:51,980
And as he began to do that, I
want to read this last part to you.

756
00:34:53,820 --> 00:34:56,380
God said, if you do it, you'll
recover all.

757
00:34:56,380 --> 00:34:58,380
Somebody say that phrase,
recover all.

758
00:34:59,660 --> 00:35:00,060
Yeah.

759
00:35:00,060 --> 00:35:00,980
Say it one more time.

760
00:35:00,980 --> 00:35:01,900
Recover all.

761
00:35:03,510 --> 00:35:04,790
Recover all.

762
00:35:05,990 --> 00:35:07,270
That was the promise.

763
00:35:07,990 --> 00:35:11,190
Everything that was stolen,
everything that was taken.

764
00:35:11,750 --> 00:35:14,070
And so what have you lost in
this season?

765
00:35:14,230 --> 00:35:17,910
If you lost time, I believe
you can recover all.

766
00:35:18,550 --> 00:35:22,870
He's a God that will cancel
the curse of premature death and

767
00:35:22,870 --> 00:35:26,950
keep your heart pumping and
keep your lungs expanding and see

768
00:35:26,950 --> 00:35:28,290
you through to your destiny destination.

769
00:35:28,290 --> 00:35:31,970
How many of you believe if you
lost time, then to recover all means

770
00:35:31,970 --> 00:35:33,250
to get that time back.

771
00:35:33,650 --> 00:35:35,090
Does anybody believe that?

772
00:35:35,090 --> 00:35:35,450
He'll.

773
00:35:35,450 --> 00:35:35,810
Come on.

774
00:35:35,810 --> 00:35:36,850
He'll reverse it there.

775
00:35:37,170 --> 00:35:38,130
Recover all.

776
00:36:35,517 --> 00:36:37,357
Opportunities that slip.

777
00:36:37,357 --> 00:36:38,877
Some of us miss it.

778
00:36:38,957 --> 00:36:42,637
This is like the second
Passover in Israel's history.

779
00:36:43,117 --> 00:36:44,997
That second Passover was.

780
00:36:44,997 --> 00:36:46,517
We know that you may be sick.

781
00:36:46,517 --> 00:36:49,597
And maimed or traveling, but
there was a first Passover.

782
00:36:49,947 --> 00:36:51,787
But there's a second passover.

783
00:36:51,787 --> 00:36:53,827
May 1 as it fell this year.

784
00:36:53,827 --> 00:36:56,987
And it was almost as if God
said, you got it wrong.

785
00:36:57,067 --> 00:36:59,787
You responded to those
throwing stones at you.

786
00:36:59,947 --> 00:37:01,147
You did the wrong thing.

787
00:37:01,147 --> 00:37:02,587
You cursed with your tongue.

788
00:37:02,667 --> 00:37:04,427
That's what this sermon represents.

789
00:37:04,427 --> 00:37:06,187
It represents a second chance.

790
00:37:06,347 --> 00:37:08,507
I'm not saying these things to
condemn you.

791
00:37:08,507 --> 00:37:12,227
The only authority I have to
preach it is I've been the failed

792
00:37:12,227 --> 00:37:12,587
version.

793
00:37:12,587 --> 00:37:14,907
Of everything I've talked
about in this sermon.

794
00:37:14,987 --> 00:37:18,037
But how many of you know that
he makes his way mercies new every

795
00:37:18,037 --> 00:37:18,397
day?

796
00:37:18,557 --> 00:37:23,117
And you can go from being a
prophet of doom to a prophet of destiny.

797
00:37:23,197 --> 00:37:27,277
You can go from those who fail
in worship and those who rise up

798
00:37:27,277 --> 00:37:27,997
in worship.

799
00:37:28,077 --> 00:37:30,557
Every day he makes his mercies new.

800
00:37:30,557 --> 00:37:32,557
I don't care what you did yesterday.

801
00:37:32,716 --> 00:37:36,317
Yesterday is in the tomb and
tomorrow is in the womb.

802
00:37:36,637 --> 00:37:38,237
Today is all I've got.

803
00:37:38,317 --> 00:37:41,517
Is there anybody who will say,
today, I'll get it right.

804
00:37:41,597 --> 00:37:43,037
Today I'll prophesy.

805
00:37:43,397 --> 00:37:44,517
Today I'll worship.

806
00:37:44,677 --> 00:37:45,957
Today I'll sow.

807
00:37:46,037 --> 00:37:46,437
Today.

808
00:37:46,837 --> 00:37:48,597
This is what God wants to do.

809
00:37:48,757 --> 00:37:49,957
Recover all.

810
00:37:52,357 --> 00:37:54,357
Day by day by day.

811
00:37:54,437 --> 00:37:56,197
And then you begin to strengthen.

812
00:37:56,517 --> 00:38:01,717
David begins to go on this
journey, and it says that he gets

813
00:38:01,717 --> 00:38:04,517
it all back, which is incredible.

814
00:38:04,997 --> 00:38:08,037
But I want to show you this
last verse right here.

815
00:38:14,367 --> 00:38:14,887
Praise God.

816
00:38:14,887 --> 00:38:15,407
I feel it.

817
00:38:15,407 --> 00:38:16,527
I feel the anointing.

818
00:38:17,247 --> 00:38:20,767
I feel the anointing very strongly.

819
00:38:21,567 --> 00:38:25,407
Because this is one of those
sermons where you enter the sermon

820
00:38:25,407 --> 00:38:30,087
being one person and you come
out in 35 minutes being a completely

821
00:38:30,087 --> 00:38:30,727
different person.

822
00:38:30,727 --> 00:38:34,967
Does anybody feel that
identity shift that's happening right

823
00:38:34,967 --> 00:38:35,247
now?

824
00:38:37,417 --> 00:38:40,697
That's what I believe the Lord
is doing, is a shift in your identity.

825
00:38:48,697 --> 00:38:52,937
When I looked at Acts, I saw
the same pattern begin to unfold

826
00:38:53,497 --> 00:38:54,937
in Acts, chapter four.

827
00:38:55,097 --> 00:38:57,337
I want to show you a parallel
in the Scriptures.

828
00:38:57,897 --> 00:39:02,217
Because the Bible talks to
itself, they were also like David.

829
00:39:03,117 --> 00:39:04,957
They were experiencing persecution.

830
00:39:05,437 --> 00:39:08,917
People didn't understand as
the church was getting started, it

831
00:39:08,917 --> 00:39:09,597
was confusing.

832
00:39:09,597 --> 00:39:13,757
I'll be honest with you,
coming to V1 church, whether you're

833
00:39:13,757 --> 00:39:18,197
in Miami or Brooklyn or you're
a digital disciple online, as you

834
00:39:18,197 --> 00:39:22,597
go higher like a crab bucket,
those crabs are going to grab you

835
00:39:22,597 --> 00:39:23,677
and try to pull you down.

836
00:39:23,997 --> 00:39:25,677
Do y' all know what a crab
bucket is?

837
00:39:26,317 --> 00:39:30,767
You don't have to put a lid on
a bucket full of crabs because when

838
00:39:30,767 --> 00:39:34,327
one tries to climb out,
another crab will instinctually grab

839
00:39:34,327 --> 00:39:35,207
and pull it down.

840
00:39:35,607 --> 00:39:38,007
And many of us live in a crab bucket.

841
00:39:38,167 --> 00:39:41,087
And what that means is anytime
they see you go higher, they think

842
00:39:41,087 --> 00:39:42,647
it's their job to pull you down.

843
00:39:42,807 --> 00:39:44,807
They think it's their job to
humble you.

844
00:39:44,807 --> 00:39:48,087
Well, no, actually, humility
is why I'm going higher.

845
00:39:48,247 --> 00:39:50,847
I lowered myself and the Lord
is raising me up.

846
00:39:50,847 --> 00:39:52,727
And this is called the favor
of God.

847
00:39:52,727 --> 00:39:54,487
But what happens in a crab bucket.

848
00:39:54,637 --> 00:39:56,077
Is they'll try to pull you down.

849
00:39:56,877 --> 00:39:59,677
How many of you know V1 church
can't be a crab bucket?

850
00:40:00,397 --> 00:40:02,557
How many of you know we got to
push each other up?

851
00:40:02,877 --> 00:40:03,957
How many of you know if one.

852
00:40:03,957 --> 00:40:07,797
Of us figures out how to go
higher, we latch on and go with them.

853
00:40:07,797 --> 00:40:09,917
And everybody crawls out of
the bucket.

854
00:40:10,077 --> 00:40:13,757
The reason why families stay
stuck is because when one person

855
00:40:13,757 --> 00:40:17,357
figures out how to make money,
the family go, oh, I guess you change

856
00:40:17,437 --> 00:40:17,837
now.

857
00:40:17,837 --> 00:40:19,677
I guess you think you're
better than us.

858
00:40:19,757 --> 00:40:21,197
No, I'm not better than you.

859
00:40:21,537 --> 00:40:23,057
But I'm not ignorant anymore.

860
00:40:23,057 --> 00:40:26,577
I see the template in the word
of God, and we can grow together.

861
00:40:26,817 --> 00:40:30,537
But a crab bucket doesn't need
a lid, because the people in the

862
00:40:30,537 --> 00:40:31,857
bucket are the lid.

863
00:40:33,137 --> 00:40:35,137
So how many of you want to
break free from that?

864
00:40:35,777 --> 00:40:40,417
Because in ziglag, David's
mighty men were the very ones that

865
00:40:40,417 --> 00:40:43,137
were the crab bucket lid
trying to pull David down.

866
00:40:43,457 --> 00:40:45,697
But David knew, don't fight them.

867
00:40:47,147 --> 00:40:48,667
Encourage yourself in the Lord.

868
00:40:49,227 --> 00:40:51,787
Because the gifts of God are
without repentance.

869
00:40:52,027 --> 00:40:54,667
And if he called you, he'll
commission you.

870
00:40:54,747 --> 00:40:57,307
And if he commissioned you,
he'll protect you.

871
00:40:57,387 --> 00:41:00,427
And when he protects you, you
arrive to that destination.

872
00:41:00,667 --> 00:41:03,947
David knew once I was
anointed, it's only a matter of time,

873
00:41:03,947 --> 00:41:06,347
if I stay obedient, that I'll
be appointed.

874
00:41:06,427 --> 00:41:07,747
So I ain't mad at you.

875
00:41:07,747 --> 00:41:09,947
Somebody say it with me all
around the world.

876
00:41:09,947 --> 00:41:11,227
I ain't mad at you.

877
00:41:12,427 --> 00:41:16,467
That's a hood way of saying, I
forgive you for wanting to stay stupid.

878
00:41:16,547 --> 00:41:19,827
I forgive you for fighting
Jesus on the inside of me.

879
00:41:19,827 --> 00:41:23,147
You think it's me versus you,
but it's you versus God.

880
00:41:23,147 --> 00:41:24,707
And I surrender to Him.

881
00:41:24,707 --> 00:41:26,307
Why don't you surrender, too?

882
00:41:26,387 --> 00:41:27,747
I ain't mad at you.

883
00:41:27,747 --> 00:41:31,427
I gotta keep going higher
because I know how to humble myself.

884
00:41:31,587 --> 00:41:34,787
But you can go with me if you
humble yourself too.

885
00:41:34,867 --> 00:41:36,147
I ain't mad at you.

886
00:41:36,307 --> 00:41:37,587
Somebody shouted.

887
00:41:37,587 --> 00:41:39,347
Put it in the comment section.

888
00:41:39,347 --> 00:41:40,787
I ain't mad at you.

889
00:41:42,777 --> 00:41:44,937
Because those feelings don't disappear.

890
00:41:45,337 --> 00:41:46,537
They relocate.

891
00:41:46,777 --> 00:41:49,417
So I'm going to forgive
because he forgave me.

892
00:41:49,577 --> 00:41:52,297
I'm going to release them
because he released me.

893
00:41:56,537 --> 00:41:58,057
I ain't mad at you.

894
00:41:59,497 --> 00:42:02,457
If you understood, you would
be serving him too.

895
00:42:03,897 --> 00:42:06,217
I once was blind, but now I'm found.

896
00:42:07,587 --> 00:42:10,347
I once was lost, but now I'm found.

897
00:42:10,347 --> 00:42:11,427
Come on, somebody.

898
00:42:11,907 --> 00:42:13,107
I Ain't mad at you.

899
00:42:13,827 --> 00:42:17,547
I remember one of the holiest
prayers of my life was when I was

900
00:42:17,547 --> 00:42:24,627
driving my 95 Ford Windstar,
yes, a van, 19 years old, driving

901
00:42:24,627 --> 00:42:28,467
a 200 mile journey from
northwest Indiana to Indiana University.

902
00:42:28,947 --> 00:42:30,107
And I'm driving the van.

903
00:42:30,107 --> 00:42:31,347
And the Lord gave me the revelation.

904
00:42:31,347 --> 00:42:34,277
He said, mike, do you want to
live your rest of your life like

905
00:42:34,277 --> 00:42:35,037
a victim?

906
00:42:35,437 --> 00:42:36,997
Do you want to be in ziglag?

907
00:42:36,997 --> 00:42:38,077
And he was this message.

908
00:42:38,077 --> 00:42:40,317
I remember, 19 years old, the
Lord teach me this.

909
00:42:40,717 --> 00:42:44,597
And he said, your dad was Saul
and your dad never conquered these

910
00:42:44,597 --> 00:42:44,957
things.

911
00:42:45,117 --> 00:42:47,757
But are you going to be mad at
your biological father?

912
00:42:48,397 --> 00:42:50,917
At the time, I had a pastor
who had failed.

913
00:42:50,917 --> 00:42:52,797
He said, are you going to be
mad at your pastor?

914
00:42:52,957 --> 00:42:56,037
Are you going to be a victim
of northwest Indiana, where there's

915
00:42:56,037 --> 00:43:00,177
gang violence and drugs at
8,094 and 65 is.

916
00:43:00,177 --> 00:43:00,977
What some of the.

917
00:43:00,977 --> 00:43:03,497
One of the biggest
intersections for the exchange of

918
00:43:03,497 --> 00:43:05,777
drugs in all of America
happened where I'm from.

919
00:43:06,177 --> 00:43:08,617
And, and, and I was raised in poverty.

920
00:43:08,617 --> 00:43:11,417
I remember at 19 years old,
the Lord spoke to me and said, Mike,

921
00:43:11,417 --> 00:43:12,577
are you going to be a victim?

922
00:43:12,657 --> 00:43:14,577
Are you going to learn how to
be victorious?

923
00:43:14,977 --> 00:43:17,297
And I said, God, I don't want
to be a victim.

924
00:43:17,297 --> 00:43:18,577
I want to be a victor.

925
00:43:18,897 --> 00:43:20,777
And you know what God told me then?

926
00:43:20,777 --> 00:43:23,057
Forgive everybody who failed you.

927
00:43:23,297 --> 00:43:25,697
Forgive everybody who, who
wronged you.

928
00:43:26,107 --> 00:43:26,867
Forgive for.

929
00:43:26,867 --> 00:43:31,347
And I mean, I'll tell you, my
car, that 95 Windstar, started to

930
00:43:31,347 --> 00:43:33,627
fill with the glory of God,
his presence.

931
00:43:33,627 --> 00:43:35,387
My glasses were fogging over.

932
00:43:35,547 --> 00:43:37,147
I started speaking in tongues.

933
00:43:37,227 --> 00:43:39,667
I had to turn that van off the
side of the road.

934
00:43:39,667 --> 00:43:43,147
And I began to beg God to
forgive those people that hurt me.

935
00:43:43,147 --> 00:43:43,467
Why?

936
00:43:43,867 --> 00:43:46,427
Because the Lord was getting
ready to take me higher.

937
00:43:46,667 --> 00:43:50,667
But he's got to remove some
baggage so that you can be buoyant

938
00:43:50,667 --> 00:43:51,467
to go up.

939
00:43:51,707 --> 00:43:55,607
Some of you are carrying some
baggage that God wants to loose you

940
00:43:55,607 --> 00:43:56,647
from right now.

941
00:43:56,887 --> 00:43:59,127
So jump up to your feet if
you're ready.

942
00:44:07,127 --> 00:44:08,007
Somebody say it.

943
00:44:08,007 --> 00:44:08,806
I'm ready.

944
00:44:09,687 --> 00:44:11,527
Come on, somebody say I'm ready.

945
00:44:12,567 --> 00:44:13,127
Come on.

946
00:44:13,127 --> 00:44:14,727
Remember God's faithfulness.

947
00:44:15,127 --> 00:44:19,777
You got to rehearse his past
victories to remind yourself that

948
00:44:19,777 --> 00:44:21,497
there will be future victories.

949
00:44:22,297 --> 00:44:23,497
You're sick in your body.

950
00:44:23,737 --> 00:44:25,097
Didn't he heal you before?

951
00:44:25,657 --> 00:44:26,537
You're broke.

952
00:44:26,617 --> 00:44:28,057
Didn't he bless you before?

953
00:44:28,457 --> 00:44:30,337
Come on, this is the way it is.

954
00:44:30,337 --> 00:44:33,417
I'm gonna remind myself of
what he's.

955
00:44:33,417 --> 00:44:36,297
Done as proof of what he'll do again.

956
00:44:37,657 --> 00:44:39,257
Return to his presence.

957
00:44:39,737 --> 00:44:41,817
How many of you about to
change the channel?

958
00:44:41,817 --> 00:44:43,657
You're gonna change what you
Listen to.

959
00:44:43,917 --> 00:44:44,517
You're going to change.

960
00:44:44,517 --> 00:44:47,477
Some of you need to fall
asleep to the Bible app reading you

961
00:44:47,477 --> 00:44:49,997
the scriptures instead of
another podcast.

962
00:44:49,997 --> 00:44:51,157
How many of you are about to.

963
00:44:51,157 --> 00:44:54,837
Change what you feed so
something else grows and something

964
00:44:54,837 --> 00:44:55,597
else dies?

965
00:44:56,157 --> 00:44:59,437
How many of you are going to
receive specific direction?

966
00:44:59,677 --> 00:45:01,597
Lord, do you want me to pursue it?

967
00:45:01,757 --> 00:45:03,437
Lord, do you want me to do it?

968
00:45:04,237 --> 00:45:07,117
I'm not going to chase what
you don't tell me to chase.

969
00:45:09,687 --> 00:45:10,407
Are you ready?

970
00:45:11,207 --> 00:45:12,087
Are you ready?

971
00:45:12,887 --> 00:45:13,847
Are you ready?

972
00:45:14,247 --> 00:45:16,407
In the book of Acts, this is
what it says.

973
00:45:17,447 --> 00:45:18,567
Oh, it's so good.

974
00:45:19,287 --> 00:45:22,007
It says that they were
receiving persecution.

975
00:45:22,247 --> 00:45:23,767
This is Acts, chapter four.

976
00:45:24,887 --> 00:45:29,287
And as they were receiving
persecution, you know, Peter wanted

977
00:45:29,287 --> 00:45:31,287
to fight everybody because he
was hood.

978
00:45:32,327 --> 00:45:35,367
So, you know, Peter was like,
oh, Jesus ain't here to stop me this

979
00:45:35,367 --> 00:45:36,087
time, fool.

980
00:45:37,557 --> 00:45:38,677
You know what I'm talking about?

981
00:45:39,077 --> 00:45:40,997
These people were persecuting him.

982
00:45:41,077 --> 00:45:43,157
As a matter of fact, Peter
prayed for a guy.

983
00:45:43,557 --> 00:45:46,837
As a matter of fact, the guy
that Peter prayed for that was sick,

984
00:45:46,837 --> 00:45:51,877
that received a healing, had
actually been sick for over 30 years,

985
00:45:52,277 --> 00:45:55,597
which was longer than any
recorded sickness that Jesus healed

986
00:45:55,597 --> 00:45:56,277
in scripture.

987
00:45:56,997 --> 00:46:01,077
And everybody in Jerusalem
would have known the man that Jesus

988
00:46:01,077 --> 00:46:03,577
healed because they would have
passed him as he was begging for.

989
00:46:03,727 --> 00:46:04,367
For alms.

990
00:46:04,767 --> 00:46:08,207
So I was rereading the Book of
Acts this the last couple of weeks,

991
00:46:08,287 --> 00:46:08,887
and you.

992
00:46:08,887 --> 00:46:10,607
It's like you could hear
Peter's heart.

993
00:46:10,687 --> 00:46:14,007
He's talking to these
religious zealots that want to persecute

994
00:46:14,007 --> 00:46:14,287
him.

995
00:46:14,287 --> 00:46:16,047
And he's saying, but you know
this guy.

996
00:46:16,047 --> 00:46:19,567
Like, are you really going to
be mad that I helped this dude?

997
00:46:20,207 --> 00:46:20,567
You.

998
00:46:20,567 --> 00:46:22,447
All of us passed him and.

999
00:46:22,447 --> 00:46:24,247
And I was the first person to
pray for him.

1000
00:46:24,247 --> 00:46:24,927
He got healed.

1001
00:46:24,927 --> 00:46:25,887
That's what this is about.

1002
00:46:26,047 --> 00:46:29,367
How many of you have ever
frustrated by what they persecute

1003
00:46:29,367 --> 00:46:29,887
you for?

1004
00:46:30,287 --> 00:46:32,967
Like, you're really gonna get
mad that I go to church, but you

1005
00:46:32,967 --> 00:46:33,127
were.

1006
00:46:33,127 --> 00:46:34,687
Never mad when I went to the bar.

1007
00:46:34,927 --> 00:46:37,607
You're gonna get mad that I
give to the church, but you were

1008
00:46:37,607 --> 00:46:39,647
never mad when I bought us all dinner.

1009
00:46:39,647 --> 00:46:43,607
You're gonna be mad that I go
to to a Breakers night, but you weren't

1010
00:46:43,607 --> 00:46:47,207
mad when we went to Puerto
Rico and almost got sexually transmitted

1011
00:46:47,207 --> 00:46:48,327
diseases, you know?

1012
00:46:48,327 --> 00:46:48,687
Yeah.

1013
00:46:48,767 --> 00:46:50,127
Anybody know what I'm talking about?

1014
00:46:50,207 --> 00:46:52,447
You're gonna be mad at this,
but you don't understand.

1015
00:46:52,687 --> 00:46:56,127
And it's like Peter saying, is
this what we're really arguing about?

1016
00:46:56,207 --> 00:46:57,327
I healed the guy.

1017
00:46:57,327 --> 00:46:58,207
Nobody else could heal.

1018
00:46:58,357 --> 00:46:58,757
Heal.

1019
00:46:59,957 --> 00:47:01,877
It's like David and Ziglag.

1020
00:47:01,957 --> 00:47:06,357
Y' all gonna throw rocks at me
after I killed the Giant, it's.

1021
00:47:06,437 --> 00:47:09,197
They took your kids, they
stole your stuff.

1022
00:47:09,197 --> 00:47:10,437
You're gonna turn on me.

1023
00:47:11,397 --> 00:47:12,997
This is what it's like to be.

1024
00:47:13,397 --> 00:47:15,077
But there's only one way out.

1025
00:47:16,117 --> 00:47:18,197
This is what we're about to do
as a church.

1026
00:47:18,837 --> 00:47:19,717
Forgive them.

1027
00:47:20,597 --> 00:47:24,197
Put on your ephod, start
interceding and pray.

1028
00:47:24,907 --> 00:47:29,947
Change the direction of your
prophecy, and then go fight and recover

1029
00:47:30,427 --> 00:47:30,827
all.

1030
00:47:31,627 --> 00:47:32,267
And when.

1031
00:47:32,587 --> 00:47:32,987
Watch.

1032
00:47:32,987 --> 00:47:37,147
In Acts chapter four, Peter
comes out of that persecution.

1033
00:47:37,627 --> 00:47:39,387
And all of a sudden he was
like, wait a second.

1034
00:47:39,867 --> 00:47:41,387
Pentecost just happened.

1035
00:47:41,787 --> 00:47:45,147
And when the Holy Spirit came,
I was filled.

1036
00:47:45,307 --> 00:47:47,307
And when I was filled, I was empowered.

1037
00:47:47,787 --> 00:47:49,267
And that was not my power.

1038
00:47:49,267 --> 00:47:50,187
That was his power.

1039
00:47:50,187 --> 00:47:51,027
And I preached.

1040
00:47:51,027 --> 00:47:53,067
And over 3,000 were added in a day.

1041
00:47:53,497 --> 00:47:54,897
So it was almost as if he.

1042
00:47:54,897 --> 00:47:57,537
Had figured out this secret formula.

1043
00:47:57,537 --> 00:47:57,857
The.

1044
00:47:57,857 --> 00:47:59,177
The ways of the Spirit.

1045
00:47:59,337 --> 00:48:02,457
So Peter says in Acts 4, let's
get together again.

1046
00:48:02,617 --> 00:48:05,577
So they get together again,
and they reassembled.

1047
00:48:05,817 --> 00:48:07,977
And as they reassembled, the
Bible says.

1048
00:48:07,977 --> 00:48:09,177
They all begin to pray.

1049
00:48:09,577 --> 00:48:10,617
They begin to pray.

1050
00:48:16,617 --> 00:48:17,897
Have you ever been praying in the.

1051
00:48:17,897 --> 00:48:18,847
Spirit so long you're talking?

1052
00:48:18,997 --> 00:48:19,877
Tongues start to change.

1053
00:48:21,717 --> 00:48:23,157
Anybody know what I'm talking about?

1054
00:48:23,957 --> 00:48:24,837
Anybody know?

1055
00:48:25,557 --> 00:48:27,877
They begin to pray, they begin
to intercede.

1056
00:48:27,877 --> 00:48:31,357
Then all of a sudden, the
Bible says the place where they're

1057
00:48:31,357 --> 00:48:33,317
at begins to shake.

1058
00:48:33,477 --> 00:48:35,877
There's a shaking that begins
to take place.

1059
00:48:36,037 --> 00:48:38,517
How many of you know that when
the people of God get together and

1060
00:48:38,517 --> 00:48:41,357
pray, it'll shake the
foundation of Manhattan.

1061
00:48:41,357 --> 00:48:43,597
It'll shake the foundation of
New Jersey.

1062
00:48:43,597 --> 00:48:44,917
It'll shake the foundation.

1063
00:48:45,207 --> 00:48:45,767
Some of you.

1064
00:48:45,767 --> 00:48:48,087
It'll shake the snakes off of
your children.

1065
00:48:48,087 --> 00:48:51,527
In the spirit realm, it'll
shake the chains off of your mind.

1066
00:48:51,607 --> 00:48:54,247
It'll shake something loose
off your bank account.

1067
00:48:54,487 --> 00:48:58,087
Does anybody believe that when
the people of God pray and we come

1068
00:48:58,087 --> 00:48:59,527
together, there's a shaking?

1069
00:48:59,607 --> 00:49:03,767
Like, did it just happen in
Acts Chapter four, or does it always

1070
00:49:03,847 --> 00:49:06,567
happen when we act like Acts
Chapter four?

1071
00:49:06,567 --> 00:49:09,367
Who's ready for a shaking when
we pray?

1072
00:49:10,247 --> 00:49:10,807
Shaking.

1073
00:49:11,977 --> 00:49:14,137
So they begin to pray, and
there's a shaking.

1074
00:49:14,137 --> 00:49:15,737
And then all of a sudden, the.

1075
00:49:15,737 --> 00:49:18,937
Holy Spirit fills and they're
empowered again.

1076
00:49:20,217 --> 00:49:21,257
I know your problem.

1077
00:49:22,057 --> 00:49:24,817
Your problem is you're more
filled with Dunkin Donuts than you

1078
00:49:24,817 --> 00:49:25,897
are the Holy Spirit.

1079
00:49:26,297 --> 00:49:28,977
Your problem is you're more
filled with Starbucks than you are

1080
00:49:28,977 --> 00:49:29,897
the Holy Spirit.

1081
00:49:30,137 --> 00:49:30,937
Oh, come on.

1082
00:49:35,097 --> 00:49:37,897
You're more filled with
Tiktoks than you are scriptures.

1083
00:49:38,137 --> 00:49:41,097
You're more filled with
Instagram than you are the Holy Spirit.

1084
00:49:41,097 --> 00:49:43,767
But if my people who are called.

1085
00:49:43,847 --> 00:49:48,487
By my name will humble
themselves and begin to cry out,

1086
00:49:48,727 --> 00:49:50,487
I will Hear from heaven.

1087
00:49:50,487 --> 00:49:55,127
I will respond and I will heal
their land.

1088
00:49:55,607 --> 00:49:57,207
It's about dominion.

1089
00:49:57,207 --> 00:50:00,487
And the key word in dominion
is domain.

1090
00:50:00,807 --> 00:50:02,487
Devil, this is my house.

1091
00:50:02,807 --> 00:50:04,647
This is my ziglag.

1092
00:50:04,727 --> 00:50:06,567
This does not belong to you.

1093
00:50:06,727 --> 00:50:08,007
That's my wife.

1094
00:50:08,247 --> 00:50:09,157
Those are my children.

1095
00:50:09,467 --> 00:50:09,707
Children.

1096
00:50:10,027 --> 00:50:11,707
I'm recovering all.

1097
00:50:11,787 --> 00:50:14,707
And this is not even the only
thing in the equation.

1098
00:50:14,707 --> 00:50:16,747
That's not mine is my strength.

1099
00:50:16,907 --> 00:50:20,347
It's his strength to take back
what's mine.

1100
00:50:22,107 --> 00:50:22,987
Are you ready?

1101
00:50:26,187 --> 00:50:27,627
Okay, here's what I want to do.

1102
00:50:27,787 --> 00:50:30,747
Let's get the worship teams
ready at every campus right now.

1103
00:50:31,307 --> 00:50:33,347
Global online, get ready to
rock with me.

1104
00:50:33,347 --> 00:50:34,547
We're going to rock the foundations.

1105
00:50:34,547 --> 00:50:36,427
We're going to shake Canada
right now.

1106
00:50:36,977 --> 00:50:39,217
We're gonna shake Southern
California right now.

1107
00:50:39,217 --> 00:50:40,017
Come on, Dan.

1108
00:50:40,337 --> 00:50:41,137
We're gonna shake.

1109
00:50:41,137 --> 00:50:42,337
Y' all ready to shake?

1110
00:50:42,577 --> 00:50:43,777
Are you ready to shake?

1111
00:50:44,097 --> 00:50:45,377
So here's what we're gonna do.

1112
00:50:45,537 --> 00:50:50,137
We're gonna take 90 seconds
across the entire world right now

1113
00:50:50,137 --> 00:50:53,097
in every campus, and we're
gonna put on the ephod.

1114
00:50:53,097 --> 00:50:54,377
Tell your neighbor, push them.

1115
00:50:54,377 --> 00:50:54,857
Tell them.

1116
00:50:54,857 --> 00:50:55,777
Put on the ephod.

1117
00:50:55,777 --> 00:50:56,377
It's time now.

1118
00:50:56,377 --> 00:50:57,377
We're about to do this.

1119
00:50:57,777 --> 00:50:58,897
Yep, yep, yep.

1120
00:50:58,977 --> 00:51:00,657
We're about to put on the ephod.

1121
00:51:00,737 --> 00:51:03,897
And we're about to shake the
very ground we're in right now.

1122
00:51:03,897 --> 00:51:06,737
How many of you wanna shake
Long island with me right now?

1123
00:51:06,897 --> 00:51:09,517
How many of you wan with me
right now?

1124
00:51:09,597 --> 00:51:11,357
Come on, we're gonna shake it
right now.

1125
00:51:11,437 --> 00:51:13,277
Let's lift up the music right now.

1126
00:51:13,277 --> 00:51:15,437
If you want to lift your
hands, lift your hands.

1127
00:51:15,597 --> 00:51:17,197
Take a few moments right now.

1128
00:51:17,197 --> 00:51:18,877
Whatever you're believing God for.

1129
00:51:19,677 --> 00:51:22,957
Salt water and fresh water
can't come out of the same spring.

1130
00:51:23,197 --> 00:51:25,117
How many of you are making a commitment?

1131
00:51:25,117 --> 00:51:28,317
From this moment on, fresh
water is going to come out of my

1132
00:51:28,317 --> 00:51:28,717
mouth.

1133
00:51:28,717 --> 00:51:30,477
I'm going to speak the word of God.

1134
00:51:30,477 --> 00:51:32,317
I'm going to prophesy his way.

1135
00:51:32,397 --> 00:51:33,757
Come on, let's shake the ground.

1136
00:51:33,837 --> 00:51:35,437
I'm going to pray with you
right now.

1137
00:51:35,517 --> 00:51:36,797
Lift up your voices.

1138
00:51:36,957 --> 00:51:37,677
Gen Z.

1139
00:51:37,917 --> 00:51:39,037
Lift up your voice.

1140
00:51:39,117 --> 00:51:39,997
Gen Alph.

1141
00:51:40,377 --> 00:51:41,257
Lift up your voice.

1142
00:51:41,337 --> 00:51:42,777
Come on, every generation.

1143
00:51:43,257 --> 00:51:45,497
Let's shake the ground that
we're on right now.

1144
00:51:45,817 --> 00:51:46,377
Come on.

1145
00:51:46,377 --> 00:51:47,257
Begin to pray.

1146
00:51:50,537 --> 00:51:50,897
Yeah.

1147
00:51:50,897 --> 00:51:51,297
Come on.

1148
00:51:51,297 --> 00:51:52,377
Use your own words.

1149
00:51:53,177 --> 00:51:53,657
Come on.

1150
00:51:53,657 --> 00:51:54,457
From your belly.

1151
00:51:54,457 --> 00:51:55,337
Begin to pray.

1152
00:51:55,737 --> 00:51:56,697
Begin to pray.

1153
00:51:57,257 --> 00:51:58,217
Begin to pray.

1154
00:52:10,457 --> 00:52:12,127
Some of you need to begin to prophesy.

1155
00:52:13,557 --> 00:52:14,837
I will recover all.

1156
00:52:16,037 --> 00:52:17,717
I'm going to recover my health.

1157
00:52:18,357 --> 00:52:20,997
I'm going to recover my finances.

1158
00:52:21,477 --> 00:52:23,237
I'm going to recover my family.

1159
00:52:24,037 --> 00:52:25,397
This is your mandate.

1160
00:52:25,957 --> 00:52:27,557
I will recover all.

1161
00:52:28,917 --> 00:52:30,517
I will recover all.

1162
00:52:31,557 --> 00:52:35,877
Some of you are going to
recover your youth Recover your time

1163
00:52:37,237 --> 00:53:14,717
I will recover all oh, oh, oh, Sam.