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But can I just tell you, you
don't have a money problem.

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You have a flow blockage.

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You don't have a mental problem.

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You have a flow blockage.

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You see, the flow is there.

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The resources there, the
access is there.

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Everything you need, the
provision, the Holy Spirit, it's

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all there.

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But you've got a blockage.

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When Daniel was in Babylon,
exiled, he didn't have a prophetic

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problem because God had
already released the word.

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It's just that the Prince of
Persia, which, as we know was a ruling

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demonic spirit, was
atmospherically preventing that word

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from getting to Daniel.

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And then God had to send one
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to go under the name Michael.

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And Michael had to actually do
warfare to release the word that

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was already given.

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So sometimes you don't have
what God already gave you because

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in transit from God to you, it
got blocked.

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But I'm here, like a physical,
Michael, to do some warfare on your

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behalf, to remove some
blockages for you, to get to you.

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What God has for you.

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God's got something for you.

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Some of you, like God, give it
to me.

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God's like, I already released it.

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But the kingdom of heaven
suffers violent.

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But the violent take it by force.

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I already gave it to you.

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I gave you what you're asking
for, but you got to go out there

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and fight for it.

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Oh, I'm not afraid to fight
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Somebody say, I'm removing the blockage.

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I'm removing the blockage.

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See, before the new covenant,
God sent an angel to do the warfare.

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And then after the new
covenant of his blood, he commissioned

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you to do the warfare.

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That's why you have the full
armor of God.

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Because the first time Michael
did it, but this time, you're gonna

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do it.

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I got any fighters here?

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I got any spiritual assassins here?

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Do I got anybody?

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Like, I ain't no punk.

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I wasn't a punk in the street,
so I'm not gonna be a punk in the

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spirit.

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Come on, y'all, hear what I'm saying.

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I wasn't a punk in the streets.

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I'm not going to be a punk in
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Somebody's like, this pastor
is gangster.

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Okay, let me break the
scriptures down for you briefly.

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We're going to look at John,
chapter 7, verse 38 now, but let's

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unpack it.

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John, chapter 37, verse 38.

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Now, when you read the Bible,
if you read the Bible like you eat,

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sometimes you eat for hunger
and don't eat for taste.

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And so have you ever eaten
something and not even realized what

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it tasted like.

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So sometimes when people read
the Bible, they're reading it for

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hunger, not for taste.

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Ideally, you would do both.

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You know, you ever tell your
kids, chew your food.

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Chew your food.

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You ever see them?

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Okay, so we're gonna take a
moment and take a familiar passage,

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but give you an unfamiliar new revelation.

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Whoever believes in me, as the
scripture said, out of his heart.

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Whose heart?

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Yeah, he's talking about us.

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Will flow, not might, not.

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Maybe will flow rivers.

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Okay, let me ask you a question.

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Is it will flow a river, or is
it will flow rivers, plural?

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Okay, some of you right now,
your whole life, you've been quoting

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that sermon and have never
realized it's plural, not singular.

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Because when I say out of the
heart will flow rivers of living

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water, sometimes we think
about it as a river.

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I want you to see it as streams.

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Right now, rivers, plural.

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And I want to submit to you
the idea that it might be possible.

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Just like your physical body,
you don't have a vein.

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You have veins.

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You have rivers of blood.

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Y'all picking up on what I'm
putting down?

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You have rivers of blood.

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So it's not a blockage.

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Sometimes it's multiple
blockages that we have, multiple

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restriction that we have that
could be our undoing.

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And so I believe that there's
many rivers in your life, and the

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Lord wants to flow all those rivers.

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I've met people that can love
God but not love their spouse.

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None of them are here.

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Jules.

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We're good.

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Probably Miami campus.

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I got you Brooklyn.

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But I've met people that can
prophesy over my wife, but not their

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own.

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So one river is open, but one
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Oh, come on.

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I'm trying to talk to somebody.

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Or I know some people who can
serve God with their talent, and

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they can serve God with their
time, but they can never serve God

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with their treasure.

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So it's like, oh, I'm generous.

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I'll show up early and I'll
leave late, but don't you dare ask

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me to give my money.

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So two out of the three rivers
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Okay, Is this helping you?

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So rivers of living water.

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Now, I want to break this
down, because there are three things

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that block the flow of living water.

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Three things.

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Number one, for the note
takers, a hardened heart.

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A hardened heart blocks the
flow of water in your life.

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It blocks the flow of water in
your life.

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Now, I want to tell you a
story about a man named Nabal.

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Now, Nabal might have well
been a New Yorker.

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Here's what I like about Nabal.

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Nabal was a hard working man.

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Nabal would go out every day
and he would fight through traffic.

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Just stay with me.

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He would fight through traffic.

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He would commute to his job
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Nabal was a good man.

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He took care of his children,
he took care of his wife.

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I mean, Nabal was a Jets fan.

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Nabal, he liked the Knicks,
you know, he was definitely a Knicks

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guy.

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Not a Nets guy.

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Nabal, okay, they're not with
me here, but Nabal was a good man

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by everyone's account.

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But what happens is sometimes
the harder you work for yourself

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to provide for your family,
you can limit an understanding of

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the fullness of what God has.

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So sometimes it's not
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but you're so hardworking, you
might start saying things like, I'm

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gonna take care of my own, I'm
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All these people living off
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I work hard for what?

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I'm saying it to the wall.

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I work hard for myself.

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I ain't gonna pay their bills.

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Have you heard statements like that?

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What happens is usually those
things are the reflection of somebody

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who's saying, hey, I love people.

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I just really love my own people.

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I love people.

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I just love my own people.

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And it doesn't necessarily
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It just means there's levels
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And their family might know
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but the world knew them as the
most selfish.

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Because one river can be open,
one river can be blocked.

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So Nabal, in a lot of ways, is
an honorable man, but he dealt with

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something in his corazon.

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Am I saying that right?

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See, I'm getting ready for Wednesday.

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Okay, let me read the
Scriptures to you.

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And I thinned it out for the
sake of time.

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I'm just going to give you the
narrative so you can read and hear

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this with me.

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I want you to look at 1st
Samuel 25, verse 10.

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And Nabal answered, david's servants.

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Who's David?

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Who's the son of Jesse?

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Who does this fool think he is
up in here, huh?

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Who's this guy?

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That's literally the what he's saying.

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If you read the text, it's the
same attitude.

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Who's this guy?

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Who does this guy think he is?

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Who's this guy?

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Who's the son of Jesse?

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Who's David?

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There are many.

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I'm about to get in so much trouble.

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There's many servants these
days who are breaking away from their

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masters.

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Shall I Take my bread and my.

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My, my.

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Look.

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He says my three times.

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Shall I take my bread and my
water and my meat and give it to

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men from who?

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I don't know where they're from.

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Look at the text.

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I'm barely even adding to it.

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He says, it's my bread, my
water, and my meat.

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Here's the problem.

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When I first showed up to New
York, who does this guy think he

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is?

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Everybody's starting churches.

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He's probably lazy and doesn't
want to work.

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What?

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You want me to give my money
to you, bro?

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I would get up to do the
offering, and I would literally go

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home and there would already
be people on Facebook.

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Yeah, the dude took four
minutes to ask me for my money.

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Might as well mugged me.

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I'm like, well, as far as I'm
concerned, we are giving our money

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to God.

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But that mindset, who does
this church think they are?

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Oh, yeah, you go to V1, they
only want your money while they're

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sipping on a Bud Light that
they gave their money to a multinational

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company while they ordered
their Uber eats that's coming from

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another company while they
work for another company that takes

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advantage of other people
while their whole life is compromised.

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But heaven forbid you give
your money to the church, and then

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while they type in that on
Facebook, they go over and open up

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the lottery app and give to
the lottery for years.

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So they spent $300 on
meaningless stuff the day they told

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you they're mad cause you gave
$50 in an offering.

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What kind of spirit is that?

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Who does this guy think he is?

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That's.

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But Nabal did that to David.

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He literally did that to King David.

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And I'm trying to make light
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Nabal was an evil man.

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But I think what happened was
he wasn't understanding kingdom principles,

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and he didn't realize, you
can't hurt David because David is

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doing the will of Kingdom God.

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But you have an opportunity to
sow into David, and you will end

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up reaping more.

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And so you.

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You.

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You're.

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You're blocking yourself.

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Because what happened was
David was going to and doing all

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these military strategic
things, and he was conquering different

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armies for the Lord.

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David was not doing his own plan.

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He was doing God's will.

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But what happened was, while
he was in the journey of doing that,

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his men got hungry, his men
were tired, and David said, well,

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go ask Nabal to send his
supplies to me.

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So that way, all of these men
who are fighting for the people of

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Israel can be fed so we can go
do more warfare.

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So David wasn't asking, hey,
Nabal, we're going to all go on vacation.

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Can you lay out a buffet for
us and give us back massages while

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we're out laying down?

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What David was saying is, bro,
we're killing all the enemies of

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Israel right now, but we're hungry.

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Can you help feed us?

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And so in a lot of ways, when
I first showed up to New York, it's

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like I live in an apartment
the size of this stage.

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I make less than $50,000 a
year with a family of four, no health

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benefits.

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I cashed out my retirement and
I sold my four bedroom house with

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a half acre backyard to have
no parking spot in these streets.

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I'm not asking you for money
so I can be rich.

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I'm asking you to sow into
God's will so I can keep assassinating

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demons and making disciples
and lead the lost to the cross at

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any.

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And a lot of the feedback in
those days was like, who do you think

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you are?

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And you know what's sad is
some of those people left the church.

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And the thing is, I didn't suffer.

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V.1 church lodged another
campus and another one, and another

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one.

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And we filled a stadium and we
made a movie and the movie was in

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theaters three times.

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I didn't suffer.

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Why?

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Because the favor of God, it's
not on me.

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The favor of God is on his will.

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And if I do his will, the
favor starts splashing on me.

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And so the thing is, it's not
about who's right, it's about who's

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in the will, who's doing the
Lord's will.

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So I was like, I'm here to
lead as many people to the cross

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before I die.

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And I know that God will
provision that mission.

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And I'm not asking you to give
to me, but I'm asking you to give

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to the house of God.

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And I felt like when I would
go back to the story of Nabal, it

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would help me.

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But let me just tell you what
happened, because this is deep.

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This is deep.

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This is what it said.

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It says.

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But one of the young men told
Abigail, Nabal's wife, behold, David

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sent the messengers out to the
wilderness to greet your master.

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And he railed at him.

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He went off on him.

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This is first Samuel 25:14.

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Then Abigail made haste and
took 200 loaves and two skins of

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wine and five sheep already
prepared, and five season parched

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grain and hundred clusters of
raisins, and 200 cakes of figs and

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13 chopped cheeses and 12
Burger King.

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I'm just kidding.

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But she basically started
loading up with all the food because

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she realized, oh no, my
husband messed up.

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And how many wives feel like
they have to see in the spirit?

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For a carnal husband who can't
see in the spirit, Abigail knows

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exactly what it's like.

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Abigail had to fix a situation
that her testosterone driven, fleshly,

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carnal husband created because
he couldn't see that God was laying

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an opportunity in disguised as generosity.

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God was laying an opportunity
disguised as generosity, but the

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husband couldn't see it.

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And man, I want to talk to you
because I'm trying to honor you,

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not dishonor you.

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And I don't want you to be mad
at me.

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That's why I gave a very
thorough character description to

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Nabal that although I can't
prove it biblically, I have a pretty

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good context for.

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He clearly had a lot to give.

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The only way you have a lot to
give is if you earn a lot.

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So the guy was a hard worker.

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But can I tell you, in all my
years of pastoring, it has been more

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often than not statistically,
and this is my experience, it's been

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the woman wanting to be
generous and give to the local church,

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and it's been the husband
getting extremely angry and fighting

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the wife over it.

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And that same husband will go
and spend all kinds of money.

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And even if they don't spend
the money, sometimes they just feel

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like, I work so hard, I don't
want to see it go to that which is

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actually revealing that the
husband can't see in the spirit because

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there are eternal rewards.

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And so I believe that if we're
going to lead our wives, we must

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lead them.

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Because it's funny how you
tried to lead her into sex.

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We have no problem taking risks.

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I mean, many men, I mean,
women do it too.

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So don't get me wrong, I'm not
trying to be reverse sexist here,

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but I'm saying it's funny how
we will have unprotected sex and

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possibly get AIDS as a result
of it.

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We'll have unprotected sex,
exposing ourself to herpes.

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And we don't care in that
moment because of the instant gratification,

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we're willing to take the
greatest risks, but we can't do that

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financially.

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And a lot of it comes down to
one simple thing, is we have not

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been fathered to understand
that delayed gratification is how

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you produce investment, and
investment is how you produce wealth.

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And Wisdom attracts wealth,
and foolishness repels it.

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And what happens is when we go
into the instant, that's the carnal,

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that's the fleshly.

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I wanna feel this right now.

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I wanna do this right now.

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We've drank.

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Some of us guys, we would take
a risk where we drank so much alcohol,

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we could have died of alcohol poisoning.

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But we will not transfer that
risk taking into financial generosity

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to the local church.

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But what it goes to show you
is which kingdom you're operating

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in.

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The physical or the spiritual.

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Because when you move into the
spiritual, you break free from that

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and you start seeing in the spirit.

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And then you start leading in
all ways.

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And I think a powerful moment
that happens in every marriage is

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when the husband says, I led
you into fornication, but now I'm

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gonna lead you into generosity.

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I'm gonna lead you into covenant.

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I'm gonna lead you into.

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And I believe that our house,
the mint of valor of our house.

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And I want to prophesy over
each and every one of you are some

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of you are gonna be the first
man in your lineage to be completely

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whole in all things and
lacking in nothing.

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And you may have started
wrong, but you are gonna finish right.

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You may have started in a deficit.

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Your.

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Listen, my dad has been dead
for over a decade.

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I didn't inherit nothing.

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As a part of the divorce
decree, I was supposed to get money

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that literally got spent
before I got it.

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I didn't get nothing but kick.

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My name was deleted from the
obituary of my dad's death.

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Will you talk about the root
of rejection?

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You ain't going to tell me nothing.

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I have been rejected deeply.

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And I had to make up my mind,
you know, what?

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I might have to be like Abraham.

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Abraham was the first.

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There was no Mosaic Law.

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It was literally Abraham
saying, I don't know.

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I don't know what to do.

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I just know that I can't serve
the idols of my father.

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And I have to walk in this
different direction.

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And I don't know who I came to
talk to, but I'm looking for some

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men who will rise up like
Abraham and.

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And say, I may not have it all
figured out, but I know I'm not bending

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my knees to the idols of my forefathers.

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I'll walk in this different direction.

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I feel uncomfortable.

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I feel scared.

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I feel lost.

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But I also feel free.

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And that's why I say your
destiny is not going to be that.

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You're a nabal, mad at your
wife because she gave $50 when you

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used to snort 500 on a Friday night.

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You will not go down like Nabal.

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Come on.

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I'm fighting for your destiny.

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And do you feel loved, men?

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Do you feel loved?

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Okay, one guy in the back
went, now I do.

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He looked at me like this.

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You're right.

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You're all right.

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You're all right.

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I'll stay a little longer.

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He did like this.

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He did like this.

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You all right now.

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But we haven't been taught.

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We're a whole bunch of orphans
that were raised by orphans that

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were raised by orphans.

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We don't.

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I come from the culture of the poor.

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My mom raised us on food
stamps back in the day.

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There was no card.

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It was a book.

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And you tore the coupons out
of the book.

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I had never even seen no real
dollar bill till I was a teenager,

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started working for myself.

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Y'all don't know about that.

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And we went to the corner
store in South Chicago, got ourselves

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some limon, got ourself, all
the good stuff.

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That's how we lived.

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Hood rats eating government cheese.

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It comes in a block.

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And that cheese tastes good.

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I don't care who you are.

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Comes in a block.

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That's what I was raised on.

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Come on.

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That's how you get a physique
like this.

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Why are you laughing?

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Rejected me deeper on stage.

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But you think I'm joking, but
I'm trying.

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When I'm preaching on Sunday,
this pulpit is sacred because I've

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got to go back in time.

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And I'm not speaking to the 38
year old man in the seat.

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I'm speaking to the nine year
old boy in his heart.

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And I'm saying, you can.

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There's enough time.

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You can get it right.

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And I believe in you because
the Holy Spirit is in you and you

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can change.

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And I grieved for all these
years, I've been grieved as a pastor

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to see the men struggle.

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And this is the year.

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Our men are going all the way.

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I believe it.

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This is the year.

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And I'm preaching to myself.

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Cause there were years where I
said, oh, Julie, we don't need to

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tithe.

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And she said, yes, we do.

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And I was like Naboth
manifesting, but look how it ends.

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And in the morning, when the
wine had gone out of Naboth, his

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wife told him these things
that she had gone and given all this

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stuff.

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And then his heart died within him.

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So the heart died within him
and became as a stone.

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And then 10 years, 10 days
later, the Lord struck Nabal and

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he died.

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That's first Samuel, chapter
25, verse 36.

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So let me tell you, according
to the American Heart association,

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they.

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And this is crazy because
these are doctors and scientists,

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they say when you don't
forgive, when you hold all that bitterness

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and resentment in, they've
actually seen on a physiological

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body, it goes from your mind
into your veins and there's a hardening

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and a calcification that
happens and a stiffening of your

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actual arteries.

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And the number one killer in
America is what heart disease.

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And this is.

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It's not just our diet
physically, it's our diet spiritually.

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And so when you're holding
that, I mean, I told this story,

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I did that interview with Carl
Lentz a couple weeks ago, which many

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people are getting free about.

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And I'll never forget my first
day in counseling.

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I had developed full blown
alcoholism, destroyed my marriage,

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destroyed my life.

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And, you know, and I was
drinking a lot of alcohol every day,

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all day.

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And I was in that first
counseling session because I was

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basically like, I'm either
gonna kill myself or go to counseling.

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And you ever been like 1% alive?

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You're like, it's not 100%
dead, but I got 1% alive.

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I came out on my last thread
and I sat down in front of that dude

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and I'll never forget, I look
at this counselor and while he's

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talking to me, I had just paid money.

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I had just paid money to meet
with him.

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And at that time I had very
little money.

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And I remember being so angry
because it was like my dad had just

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recently died.

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That's really what started all this.

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That chaos was when my dad
died, it triggered me.

493
00:23:04,748 --> 00:23:08,468
I basically had like a
psychotic break, like a nervous breakdown.

494
00:23:08,644 --> 00:23:12,532
And all of a sudden I'm in
counseling and I'm looking at this

495
00:23:12,556 --> 00:23:17,604
man and I am filling with so
much rage because I'm like, nobody's

496
00:23:17,652 --> 00:23:19,780
ever cared about me my whole life.

497
00:23:19,820 --> 00:23:22,740
I mean, and I was like, and
now I have to give you money.

498
00:23:22,780 --> 00:23:24,616
I have to, I mean, to.

499
00:23:24,668 --> 00:23:25,488
To another man.

500
00:23:25,544 --> 00:23:26,960
I mean, I was enraged.

501
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,848
I wanted to destroy the whole
room because there was something,

502
00:23:30,904 --> 00:23:34,176
there was so much injustice
where I was like, all I've ever tried

503
00:23:34,208 --> 00:23:35,552
to be was a good man.

504
00:23:35,656 --> 00:23:37,392
And it doesn't add up.

505
00:23:37,496 --> 00:23:40,976
I went to college like they
told me to, and I don't get paid

506
00:23:41,008 --> 00:23:43,872
enough money and I have
student loan debt and I have to live

507
00:23:43,896 --> 00:23:44,544
in this stupid.

508
00:23:44,592 --> 00:23:48,080
I mean, I was going crazy and
I was like, and now I've got to give

509
00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:48,848
you my money.

510
00:23:48,904 --> 00:23:54,420
You M, A, F, B, D, every cuss
word, unloaded on this dude.

511
00:23:55,410 --> 00:23:59,162
And when I was done, he
literally never even moved.

512
00:23:59,226 --> 00:24:02,490
And I was up, ranting around
the room, pushing the furniture.

513
00:24:02,650 --> 00:24:06,106
I mean, imagine being in a
counseling office and a young Mike

514
00:24:06,138 --> 00:24:07,466
Signorelli's in the other room.

515
00:24:07,538 --> 00:24:09,590
And you think Legion is in there.

516
00:24:11,090 --> 00:24:13,002
I'm trying to accurately
portray it.

517
00:24:13,026 --> 00:24:15,850
And when I was all done and he
has his legs crossed, and the more

518
00:24:15,890 --> 00:24:18,230
calm he was, the more dicked
off I was.

519
00:24:19,660 --> 00:24:21,716
And all of a sudden he said,
are you done?

520
00:24:21,788 --> 00:24:23,120
I said, yeah, I'm done.

521
00:24:23,980 --> 00:24:27,760
And he said, okay, I don't
want you to ever pay me ever again.

522
00:24:28,620 --> 00:24:31,120
Because I didn't get into this
for money.

523
00:24:31,420 --> 00:24:34,436
And I will meet with you every
single week until you're completely

524
00:24:34,468 --> 00:24:34,708
free.

525
00:24:34,764 --> 00:24:37,732
And then I'll meet with you
after that, and I'll try to be for

526
00:24:37,756 --> 00:24:39,040
you what you didn't have.

527
00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:44,100
So you gotta understand, when
I came to New York, I came with that

528
00:24:44,140 --> 00:24:47,440
in my heart of saying, I wanna
be that for a group of men.

529
00:24:47,810 --> 00:24:50,714
Or I'll say, I'll meet you
here every week at this campus.

530
00:24:50,762 --> 00:24:51,786
I'll meet you in Miami.

531
00:24:51,818 --> 00:24:52,954
I'll meet you in Indiana.

532
00:24:53,002 --> 00:24:54,698
I'll meet you every week until
you get free.

533
00:24:54,754 --> 00:24:57,274
And if you don't ever give
money, I truly don't care.

534
00:24:57,362 --> 00:25:00,430
Cause it ain't gonna stop what
God is doing through this church.

535
00:25:01,250 --> 00:25:04,810
And there's something holy
about that, because you break an

536
00:25:04,850 --> 00:25:06,026
orphan spirit.

537
00:25:06,138 --> 00:25:07,802
And that's what that guy did.

538
00:25:07,906 --> 00:25:10,026
He broke an orphan spirit off
of me.

539
00:25:10,098 --> 00:25:12,186
And then, of course, I went on
this counseling journey.

540
00:25:12,218 --> 00:25:13,756
It was Christian counseling.

541
00:25:13,938 --> 00:25:17,272
And finally I got free from alcoholism.

542
00:25:17,336 --> 00:25:20,200
It was a major thing I never wanted.

543
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:24,136
How I knew it was different is
something changed in my taste.

544
00:25:24,328 --> 00:25:28,056
Like, I get sick, I get
nauseous thinking about drinking.

545
00:25:28,168 --> 00:25:29,752
I actually get nauseous.

546
00:25:29,896 --> 00:25:32,744
Which, as somebody who used to
be an alcoholic, that in and of itself

547
00:25:32,792 --> 00:25:34,472
is a crazy statement.

548
00:25:34,656 --> 00:25:36,456
Cause I was a connoisseur.

549
00:25:36,648 --> 00:25:40,264
To go from a connoisseur to
get nauseous thinking about it is

550
00:25:40,352 --> 00:25:41,420
the Holy Ghost.

551
00:25:41,730 --> 00:25:43,994
But it worked with this
counseling journey.

552
00:25:44,042 --> 00:25:46,138
Why did I spend so much time
on this?

553
00:25:46,274 --> 00:25:49,002
Let me just finish, because I
got a few more things to say, and

554
00:25:49,026 --> 00:25:49,910
then we're out.

555
00:25:51,330 --> 00:25:55,322
Nabal died because of a
hardened heart.

556
00:25:55,506 --> 00:25:59,786
What if I told you you've been
telling people that your dad died

557
00:25:59,818 --> 00:26:04,070
of alcoholism, but your dad
actually died of a hardened heart?

558
00:26:04,610 --> 00:26:08,444
What if you think you've been
telling people your dad died of suicide,

559
00:26:08,492 --> 00:26:11,020
but your dad actually died of
a hardened heart?

560
00:26:11,140 --> 00:26:12,940
You know how you get a hard heart?

561
00:26:13,060 --> 00:26:14,560
It's called a callous.

562
00:26:15,140 --> 00:26:18,012
I'm not going to let anybody
hurt me.

563
00:26:18,196 --> 00:26:21,196
So if I protect me, nobody can
hurt me.

564
00:26:21,348 --> 00:26:25,436
If I don't let myself join
this church, this church can't hurt

565
00:26:25,468 --> 00:26:25,852
me.

566
00:26:25,956 --> 00:26:29,964
If I don't let myself, like
Mike, Mike can't disappoint me.

567
00:26:30,052 --> 00:26:34,194
If I don't let myself get my
expectations up, then nobody.

568
00:26:34,242 --> 00:26:36,354
I'm speaking into something
deep right now.

569
00:26:36,442 --> 00:26:40,818
But see, the only thing that
happens is a calloused heart turns

570
00:26:40,834 --> 00:26:42,226
into a hardened heart.

571
00:26:42,378 --> 00:26:45,390
A hardened heart turns into a
dead heart.

572
00:26:46,010 --> 00:26:48,070
And that's what happened with Naboth.

573
00:26:48,570 --> 00:26:50,866
David didn't need his stuff.

574
00:26:51,058 --> 00:26:52,658
And let me just give you the
other story.

575
00:26:52,714 --> 00:26:56,290
One of the favorite ways I
exegete the scriptures is I like

576
00:26:56,330 --> 00:26:58,642
to do fiction, Christian fiction.

577
00:26:58,786 --> 00:27:02,206
So, for example, I've done
this many, many times on stage.

578
00:27:02,318 --> 00:27:03,678
I'm not gonna do it today.

579
00:27:03,814 --> 00:27:09,470
But imagine if Judas believed
that the cross was for him too, and

580
00:27:09,510 --> 00:27:11,486
accepted the redemption of the blood.

581
00:27:11,598 --> 00:27:14,766
And in Acts, chapter two,
instead of Peter preaching the sermon,

582
00:27:14,798 --> 00:27:15,890
it was Judas.

583
00:27:16,550 --> 00:27:18,890
How much more powerful would
that have been?

584
00:27:19,190 --> 00:27:23,370
I'm the one who sold him out,
but all of you sell them out too.

585
00:27:23,830 --> 00:27:26,922
And the freedom was for me,
and the freedom is for you.

586
00:27:27,046 --> 00:27:30,898
I mean, I've thought about
Judas preaching instead of Peter,

587
00:27:30,914 --> 00:27:33,190
and I think it would have been
a better sermon.

588
00:27:34,170 --> 00:27:36,002
That's all Christian fiction.

589
00:27:36,146 --> 00:27:37,442
But think about Nabal.

590
00:27:37,506 --> 00:27:40,210
Now, Nabal never gives to David.

591
00:27:40,370 --> 00:27:43,954
His heart is hardened when he
hears that his wife gave his stuff

592
00:27:44,082 --> 00:27:44,802
to David.

593
00:27:44,866 --> 00:27:47,922
And then he dies literally 10
days later.

594
00:27:48,026 --> 00:27:49,586
Let's do the other story.

595
00:27:49,738 --> 00:27:51,474
David is not king yet.

596
00:27:51,562 --> 00:27:53,956
Saul is king while this
story's happening.

597
00:27:54,138 --> 00:27:57,840
So David's doing these
exploits and he hears that Nabal

598
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,984
has given as much stuff as
possible, even to the detriment of

599
00:28:01,992 --> 00:28:04,640
his own family, potentially
having reserves.

600
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:05,392
And just.

601
00:28:05,496 --> 00:28:09,520
Nabal blessed the army under
David and sent everything he had.

602
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,624
And then all of a sudden, in
the years to come, David becomes

603
00:28:12,672 --> 00:28:13,040
king.

604
00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:15,180
And now David owns everything.

605
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,860
What do you think happens to Nabal?

606
00:28:19,330 --> 00:28:20,990
What do you think happens?

607
00:28:21,410 --> 00:28:25,610
Nabal's minding his business,
watching the jets, just got home

608
00:28:25,650 --> 00:28:29,866
from fighting through traffic,
getting ready to watch the Knicks

609
00:28:29,898 --> 00:28:32,266
game, and all of a sudden he
gets a call.

610
00:28:32,418 --> 00:28:33,562
It's David.

611
00:28:33,706 --> 00:28:36,218
I haven't forgotten what
you've done for me.

612
00:28:36,354 --> 00:28:38,030
Come meet me in the palace.

613
00:28:38,770 --> 00:28:41,930
And then all of a sudden,
Nabal gets to come back to his kids.

614
00:28:42,010 --> 00:28:42,650
Kids.

615
00:28:42,810 --> 00:28:47,734
I had an opportunity I got
asked to give to David when David

616
00:28:47,782 --> 00:28:48,678
was not king.

617
00:28:48,774 --> 00:28:50,022
Oh, I didn't wanna do it.

618
00:28:50,046 --> 00:28:51,350
I was so scared.

619
00:28:51,510 --> 00:28:55,478
Do you know our rent in
Jerusalem was $3,000 a month that

620
00:28:55,534 --> 00:28:56,130
time.

621
00:28:56,430 --> 00:28:56,902
Come on.

622
00:28:56,926 --> 00:28:58,210
I'm trying to help you.

623
00:28:59,630 --> 00:29:03,222
But I gave it because I
believed in what God was doing.

624
00:29:03,406 --> 00:29:06,886
And now, all of a sudden, it's
come back to us a hundredfold.

625
00:29:07,078 --> 00:29:09,942
See, there's always a crossroads.

626
00:29:10,086 --> 00:29:13,028
Many of you are in that
crossroads right now.

627
00:29:13,174 --> 00:29:16,216
Some of you at every campus
are listening to me and the whole

628
00:29:16,248 --> 00:29:16,488
service.

629
00:29:16,544 --> 00:29:17,768
You're saying, I don't like him.

630
00:29:17,824 --> 00:29:18,968
I don't agree with him.

631
00:29:19,024 --> 00:29:20,648
I don't believe anything he's saying.

632
00:29:20,704 --> 00:29:23,340
I can't wait for this to be
over and I'm gonna leave.

633
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,216
And that's okay, because
that's your choice.

634
00:29:26,408 --> 00:29:27,980
We all get a choice.

635
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:29,736
But guess what?

636
00:29:29,888 --> 00:29:34,520
In the future, you won't get a
choice for the repercussions of the

637
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,580
decision that you made wrong today.

638
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,048
But let me give you hope.

639
00:29:39,184 --> 00:29:44,280
The hope is sometimes you make
a decision today that ends up being

640
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,120
something you reap tomorrow.

641
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,696
And sometimes when your
children come to you and say, dad,

642
00:29:48,728 --> 00:29:49,704
I don't understand.

643
00:29:49,872 --> 00:29:52,024
No one like our family lives
like this.

644
00:29:52,112 --> 00:29:54,744
No one like our family has
this joy, this peace.

645
00:29:54,792 --> 00:29:55,800
What is the difference?

646
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:56,872
Oh, let me tell you.

647
00:29:56,896 --> 00:29:59,272
When I was in another season,
I made that decision.

648
00:29:59,376 --> 00:30:02,460
And I'm reaping off of what I sowed.

649
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,700
Don't be like Nabal.

650
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,820
Don't be like Nabal.

651
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,400
With the last few minutes,
there's two more things.

652
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,568
I wanted to spend most of my
time there because I think that's

653
00:30:19,584 --> 00:30:20,496
the most important.

654
00:30:20,648 --> 00:30:22,820
But number two is very simple.

655
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,340
Closed hands will block living water.

656
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,840
Closed hands will block living water.

657
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,650
In Second Kings, chapter four,
you actually see that there is this

658
00:30:33,690 --> 00:30:36,562
widow, and she was in a
financial crisis.

659
00:30:36,706 --> 00:30:39,922
As a matter of fact, she
couldn't pay the debt that she owed.

660
00:30:40,066 --> 00:30:40,658
Oh, man.

661
00:30:40,714 --> 00:30:43,346
I know what it's like to be
under debilitating debt.

662
00:30:43,458 --> 00:30:45,906
I know what it's like to
overextend yourself.

663
00:30:46,018 --> 00:30:49,442
But let me just tell you,
sometimes in America, we don't understand

664
00:30:49,546 --> 00:30:51,442
how deep the consequences go.

665
00:30:51,546 --> 00:30:52,994
And I'm just like Sallie Mae.

666
00:30:53,042 --> 00:30:54,482
You ain't getting your money.

667
00:30:54,666 --> 00:30:55,634
I tell you what.

668
00:30:55,722 --> 00:30:56,754
Sallie Mae's calling.

669
00:30:56,802 --> 00:30:58,738
Sally, I broke up with you a
long time ago.

670
00:30:58,794 --> 00:30:59,450
Sally.

671
00:30:59,570 --> 00:31:00,218
Sally.

672
00:31:00,314 --> 00:31:01,750
I'll be dead by the time.

673
00:31:02,050 --> 00:31:03,350
You know how it is.

674
00:31:03,810 --> 00:31:04,234
Yeah.

675
00:31:04,282 --> 00:31:05,110
Come on.

676
00:31:05,570 --> 00:31:06,762
Casting that demon out.

677
00:31:06,786 --> 00:31:07,210
What's your name?

678
00:31:07,250 --> 00:31:08,190
Sally.

679
00:31:09,730 --> 00:31:12,298
Some of you know, if you're
not laughing, it's because you're

680
00:31:12,314 --> 00:31:13,430
freer than us.

681
00:31:13,810 --> 00:31:17,242
If you don't know who she is,
you're freer than us.

682
00:31:17,426 --> 00:31:19,226
But why do I say that?

683
00:31:19,378 --> 00:31:23,434
Because the consequences of
not paying this debt for this woman

684
00:31:23,602 --> 00:31:26,990
was that her children were
going to be taken into slavery.

685
00:31:27,990 --> 00:31:30,830
So she's faced with this
impossible situation.

686
00:31:30,990 --> 00:31:35,182
I cannot pay this debt, and
because of that, my children are

687
00:31:35,206 --> 00:31:36,782
going to go into slavery.

688
00:31:36,926 --> 00:31:39,966
And she comes to Elijah, the prophet.

689
00:31:40,158 --> 00:31:41,886
Prophet, please.

690
00:31:42,038 --> 00:31:43,086
You know God.

691
00:31:43,198 --> 00:31:44,990
You know how the spiritual works.

692
00:31:45,070 --> 00:31:46,286
I don't understand it.

693
00:31:46,358 --> 00:31:47,598
Tell me what to do.

694
00:31:47,734 --> 00:31:48,830
And this is what he says.

695
00:31:48,870 --> 00:31:50,730
I want to read the Scriptures
to you.

696
00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:52,222
Now.

697
00:31:52,246 --> 00:31:55,470
The wife of one of the sons of
the prophets cried to Elijah, your

698
00:31:55,510 --> 00:31:56,866
servant, my husband.

699
00:31:57,038 --> 00:31:59,418
My husband's dead, so she's a widow.

700
00:31:59,514 --> 00:32:01,866
And you know that your servant
feared the Lord.

701
00:32:01,898 --> 00:32:03,578
In other words, my husband
feared the Lord.

702
00:32:03,594 --> 00:32:04,842
But now I'm on my own.

703
00:32:04,946 --> 00:32:08,138
For those of you who are
single mothers, I want you to read

704
00:32:08,194 --> 00:32:10,282
2nd Kings, chapter 4, verse 1.

705
00:32:10,386 --> 00:32:13,802
Because you see a single
mother reaching out to the prophet,

706
00:32:13,866 --> 00:32:16,826
saying, I don't have a husband
and my kids are going to get sold

707
00:32:16,858 --> 00:32:17,514
into slavery.

708
00:32:17,562 --> 00:32:18,842
I don't know what to do.

709
00:32:18,946 --> 00:32:20,730
I feel the anointing on this.

710
00:32:20,850 --> 00:32:24,872
And then he said, go outside,
borrow vessels.

711
00:32:24,936 --> 00:32:29,340
Somebody say, borrow, borrow
vessels from all your neighbors.

712
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,660
Empty vessels, and not too few.

713
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:38,008
Then go in and shut the door
behind yourself and your sons and

714
00:32:38,064 --> 00:32:39,720
pour into all these vessels.

715
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,620
And when one is full, set it aside.

716
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:48,008
See, sometimes you gotta shut
the door and get into the private,

717
00:32:48,144 --> 00:32:52,088
secret place to get into a
place where oil is produced.

718
00:32:52,264 --> 00:32:56,216
Sometimes you got to go see,
the prophet said, go get your vessels

719
00:32:56,248 --> 00:32:57,800
and then shut the door.

720
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,740
Somebody say, shut the door.

721
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,120
Right now you have a digital
door open called Instagram.

722
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,416
Shut that door and get your
butt in prayer.

723
00:33:07,608 --> 00:33:10,264
Some of you got a digital door
called YouTube.

724
00:33:10,312 --> 00:33:14,232
Open, shut the door and get
into the place where oil is produced.

725
00:33:14,376 --> 00:33:18,242
Some of you got a digital door
called calling all your friends to

726
00:33:18,266 --> 00:33:19,618
talk about your problem.

727
00:33:19,754 --> 00:33:23,138
If you want to solve your
problem, Shut the door and get into

728
00:33:23,194 --> 00:33:27,910
prayer and get off the phone,
shut the door.

729
00:33:28,490 --> 00:33:31,270
Then all of a sudden, she's
got these empty vessels.

730
00:33:32,970 --> 00:33:37,350
Oh, Lord, show your people
what you can do with empty vessels.

731
00:33:37,770 --> 00:33:41,590
See, the most important part
was in the preparation.

732
00:33:41,940 --> 00:33:43,680
Somebody say preparation?

733
00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:48,600
The most important part was in
the preparation because you understand

734
00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:52,092
that when the widow went to go
get the vessels.

735
00:33:52,156 --> 00:33:52,924
Julie.

736
00:33:53,052 --> 00:33:57,276
It looks stupid because when
you get vessels that are empty, I'm

737
00:33:57,308 --> 00:33:59,708
sure the neighbors were
talking about her.

738
00:33:59,844 --> 00:34:02,556
Oh, you know the single mom
that lives on our block?

739
00:34:02,668 --> 00:34:04,940
Oh, she asked me for an empty vessel.

740
00:34:05,020 --> 00:34:09,448
She actually thinks that that
miracle, miraculously oil is gonna

741
00:34:09,464 --> 00:34:11,112
be filled in this vessel.

742
00:34:11,176 --> 00:34:12,584
Oh, she's a lunatic.

743
00:34:12,712 --> 00:34:13,384
Oh, she.

744
00:34:13,472 --> 00:34:14,072
Oh, come on.

745
00:34:14,096 --> 00:34:15,896
I'm talking to some of the
women in this house.

746
00:34:15,968 --> 00:34:16,648
Oh, yeah.

747
00:34:16,744 --> 00:34:19,048
You know, she's going to this
church V1.

748
00:34:19,184 --> 00:34:21,020
She actually thinks God.

749
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,340
She actually thinks God's
gonna heal her body.

750
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,700
She actually thinks God's
gonna meet her need.

751
00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:34,104
See, sometimes when you go to
the neighbors and you ask the neighbors

752
00:34:34,152 --> 00:34:36,710
for help, all you're gonna get
is gossip.

753
00:34:36,870 --> 00:34:40,170
That's why the last step of
the preparation was, shut the door.

754
00:34:40,670 --> 00:34:42,090
Shut the door.

755
00:34:42,510 --> 00:34:44,730
This is a job for Jesus.

756
00:34:45,310 --> 00:34:46,294
Shut the door.

757
00:34:46,342 --> 00:34:48,502
This is a job for Jesus.

758
00:34:48,646 --> 00:34:50,934
I'll never forget my single mother.

759
00:34:51,062 --> 00:34:53,462
She played the piano like you
play the piano.

760
00:34:53,526 --> 00:34:55,990
And the Holy Ghost taught her
how to play the piano.

761
00:34:56,070 --> 00:34:59,686
And I remember we were on
welfare, peeling off those food stamps

762
00:34:59,718 --> 00:35:00,934
from that book, the coupons.

763
00:35:00,982 --> 00:35:02,360
My momma didn't have no money.

764
00:35:02,470 --> 00:35:02,788
She.

765
00:35:02,844 --> 00:35:03,252
She.

766
00:35:03,356 --> 00:35:07,476
My stepdad left, and she put a
sign on the wall that said, thank

767
00:35:07,508 --> 00:35:09,240
you, Lord, for my piano.

768
00:35:09,740 --> 00:35:11,400
That's an empty jar.

769
00:35:12,060 --> 00:35:13,604
That's an empty jar.

770
00:35:13,732 --> 00:35:17,476
I got somebody sitting in this
campus right now that I just released

771
00:35:17,508 --> 00:35:21,396
a vlog that showed how she got
blessed with a car and somebody gave

772
00:35:21,428 --> 00:35:22,320
her a car.

773
00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:24,756
See, this is an empty vessel.

774
00:35:24,948 --> 00:35:28,280
So what happens is, I feel the anointing.

775
00:35:28,940 --> 00:35:35,012
I love being surrounded by
widows who know how to gather empty

776
00:35:35,076 --> 00:35:35,540
vessels.

777
00:35:35,620 --> 00:35:38,420
Oh, those people are my kind
of people.

778
00:35:38,540 --> 00:35:40,916
I want to be surrounded by
those kind of people.

779
00:35:40,988 --> 00:35:44,980
And I remember my mom put on
that sign, thank you, Lord, for my

780
00:35:45,020 --> 00:35:45,812
piano.

781
00:35:45,956 --> 00:35:48,980
Well, somebody came over to
our house to install a new stove

782
00:35:49,060 --> 00:35:50,788
because we rented the house.

783
00:35:50,924 --> 00:35:54,452
And the guy who came over to
deliver that stove was a pastor of

784
00:35:54,476 --> 00:35:55,412
a local church.

785
00:35:55,556 --> 00:35:57,748
He asked her, what does this
sign mean?

786
00:35:57,884 --> 00:36:02,004
But what's funny is, just the
day before, my uncle, who's now passed,

787
00:36:02,132 --> 00:36:05,972
was in our house and literally
looked at that sign and ruthlessly

788
00:36:06,036 --> 00:36:09,684
made fun of my mother while he
was drinking beer and said, sandra,

789
00:36:09,732 --> 00:36:11,316
you're so stupid.

790
00:36:11,508 --> 00:36:14,212
Your husband left you because
you're stupid.

791
00:36:14,356 --> 00:36:17,044
Your husband left because
you're stupid, Sandra.

792
00:36:17,092 --> 00:36:19,460
I remember being so mad at him
for talking to my mom.

793
00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:20,628
But I was a little kid.

794
00:36:20,724 --> 00:36:22,362
I couldn't do nothing about it.

795
00:36:22,516 --> 00:36:24,910
God ain't gonna give you no piano.

796
00:36:25,070 --> 00:36:26,302
Well, you're stupid.

797
00:36:26,366 --> 00:36:28,222
I mean, he was going in on my mom.

798
00:36:28,326 --> 00:36:32,462
Then the next day, this pastor
who's actually working a job to install

799
00:36:32,526 --> 00:36:36,890
appliances, comes in our house
and says, what is this sign?

800
00:36:37,830 --> 00:36:39,342
And she says, well, I'm a Christian.

801
00:36:39,406 --> 00:36:41,694
I play the piano, but I don't
have a piano.

802
00:36:41,822 --> 00:36:43,646
This is before keyboards.

803
00:36:43,838 --> 00:36:45,850
That's how old we are around here.

804
00:36:46,310 --> 00:36:48,866
And she said, and I believe
that God's gonna give me a piano.

805
00:36:48,958 --> 00:36:50,790
And you Know what that pastor said?

806
00:36:51,650 --> 00:36:52,554
I'm a pastor.

807
00:36:52,602 --> 00:36:53,754
You don't know I'm a pastor.

808
00:36:53,802 --> 00:36:57,034
But I have an extra piano at
my church, and I'm going to go pick

809
00:36:57,042 --> 00:37:00,314
it up right now, and I'm going
to bring it back and I'm going to

810
00:37:00,322 --> 00:37:01,370
put it on that wall.

811
00:37:01,450 --> 00:37:05,706
And the very next day, that
day, my mom was playing that piano

812
00:37:05,738 --> 00:37:06,266
before the Lord.

813
00:37:06,298 --> 00:37:10,074
And I remember the worship
fill in our house, my mother's piano.

814
00:37:10,122 --> 00:37:11,546
But it was an empty vessel.

815
00:37:11,578 --> 00:37:14,150
She shut the door, she said,
God, I believe.

816
00:37:14,780 --> 00:37:15,620
And guess what?

817
00:37:15,660 --> 00:37:16,788
That pastor now watch.

818
00:37:16,844 --> 00:37:18,356
Watch the dominoes.

819
00:37:18,548 --> 00:37:22,276
That pastor was Hidasmo Eddie.

820
00:37:22,388 --> 00:37:26,436
That pastor Eddie, his name
was, and he was a Spanish pastor.

821
00:37:26,548 --> 00:37:30,132
And we joined his church, and
that's where my family went on our

822
00:37:30,156 --> 00:37:30,840
journey.

823
00:37:31,260 --> 00:37:34,516
And then my youth pastor
became Joey Miranda.

824
00:37:34,628 --> 00:37:38,484
And Joey Miranda mentored me,
and he raised me in the faith.

825
00:37:38,532 --> 00:37:41,444
And when I preached my first
sermon at 15 years old, it was Joey

826
00:37:41,492 --> 00:37:42,150
Miranda who was.

827
00:37:42,180 --> 00:37:43,234
Was there for it.

828
00:37:43,402 --> 00:37:45,634
So you see, the dominoes were dropping.

829
00:37:45,762 --> 00:37:48,706
But it started with my mom
being crazy enough to be like, God

830
00:37:48,738 --> 00:37:50,178
can give me a piano.

831
00:37:50,354 --> 00:37:55,202
See, by the way, in a few
months, Joey Miranda is coming to

832
00:37:55,226 --> 00:37:57,070
preach here in New York.

833
00:37:58,250 --> 00:38:00,162
And we're going to talk about heritage.

834
00:38:00,226 --> 00:38:01,922
We're going to talk about heritage.

835
00:38:02,066 --> 00:38:04,466
But you got to shut the door
and say, I believe.

836
00:38:04,538 --> 00:38:06,066
Here's my empty vessel.

837
00:38:06,178 --> 00:38:06,786
So what happens?

838
00:38:06,818 --> 00:38:07,848
She begin to pull.

839
00:38:07,994 --> 00:38:10,716
It would be like you coming to
me and saying, pastor Mike, I'm broke.

840
00:38:10,748 --> 00:38:11,564
What do I do?

841
00:38:11,652 --> 00:38:14,556
Go to Chase bank and open
seven accounts.

842
00:38:14,748 --> 00:38:16,572
I told you I was poor.

843
00:38:16,716 --> 00:38:18,188
I told you I didn't have
enough money.

844
00:38:18,244 --> 00:38:20,556
Yes, open seven bank accounts.

845
00:38:20,668 --> 00:38:24,860
The preparation is where the
miracle starts happening.

846
00:38:25,020 --> 00:38:28,172
The preparation is where the
miracle starts happening.

847
00:38:28,236 --> 00:38:29,644
You've got to prepare.

848
00:38:29,772 --> 00:38:32,684
So when you're giving in the
offering, every week, you're preparing

849
00:38:32,732 --> 00:38:33,404
for more.

850
00:38:33,492 --> 00:38:37,714
What you're saying is, God,
I'm getting used to giving.

851
00:38:37,842 --> 00:38:40,674
Because giving is not an action.

852
00:38:40,762 --> 00:38:42,338
It is an identity.

853
00:38:42,514 --> 00:38:44,066
Did you hear what I just said?

854
00:38:44,218 --> 00:38:45,826
Giving is not an action.

855
00:38:45,978 --> 00:38:47,746
Giving is an identity.

856
00:38:47,938 --> 00:38:49,218
It's who I am.

857
00:38:49,354 --> 00:38:50,350
I give.

858
00:38:50,650 --> 00:38:53,090
And this is what the Lord's
doing as he's preparing.

859
00:38:53,170 --> 00:38:57,550
So I want you to clench your
fist like this and just hold it out

860
00:38:57,850 --> 00:38:58,498
like this.

861
00:38:58,554 --> 00:38:59,310
Like this.

862
00:39:00,580 --> 00:39:03,212
Right now you have some things.

863
00:39:03,316 --> 00:39:06,812
You have a car, you have an
apartment, a house.

864
00:39:06,916 --> 00:39:09,228
Across every location, just do
like this.

865
00:39:09,364 --> 00:39:11,724
You have kids, a spouse.

866
00:39:11,772 --> 00:39:12,284
You have.

867
00:39:12,372 --> 00:39:13,292
You all have stuff.

868
00:39:13,356 --> 00:39:16,732
Computers, laptops, phones.

869
00:39:16,796 --> 00:39:18,012
You all have stuff.

870
00:39:18,156 --> 00:39:23,100
But let me tell you, if you
keep your hand like this, you will

871
00:39:23,140 --> 00:39:25,000
only have what you have.

872
00:39:25,540 --> 00:39:26,840
Now Go like this.

873
00:39:27,620 --> 00:39:30,860
See, this is the process of freedom.

874
00:39:31,020 --> 00:39:32,876
This is the process of freedom.

875
00:39:32,988 --> 00:39:34,828
But let me tell you what the
Lord wants to do now.

876
00:39:34,884 --> 00:39:35,800
Go like this.

877
00:39:36,660 --> 00:39:38,640
This is the posture receiving.

878
00:39:39,060 --> 00:39:40,668
And if you're willing.

879
00:39:40,844 --> 00:39:42,044
If you're willing.

880
00:39:42,172 --> 00:39:46,540
See, the Bible says when you
let your life go, that's when you

881
00:39:46,580 --> 00:39:47,400
find it.

882
00:39:48,260 --> 00:39:49,756
Oh, I remember.

883
00:39:49,948 --> 00:39:52,360
I don't think you guys fully
get it.

884
00:39:53,710 --> 00:39:57,990
I went through so much abuse
and trauma that I overcompensated

885
00:39:58,070 --> 00:39:59,142
when I became an adult.

886
00:39:59,206 --> 00:40:01,302
I bought a house at 22 years old.

887
00:40:01,406 --> 00:40:05,446
And that house was an idol
because I said, nobody's gonna hurt

888
00:40:05,478 --> 00:40:06,118
me in this house.

889
00:40:06,174 --> 00:40:07,366
This is my house.

890
00:40:07,518 --> 00:40:08,598
This is my house.

891
00:40:08,654 --> 00:40:09,206
I'm safe.

892
00:40:09,238 --> 00:40:11,958
And I mean, it literally was
like an idol.

893
00:40:12,134 --> 00:40:16,982
So when the Lord says, mike,
move to New York and give and sell

894
00:40:17,006 --> 00:40:17,574
your house.

895
00:40:17,662 --> 00:40:17,916
I.

896
00:40:17,958 --> 00:40:22,016
I was like, no, God, no, the idol.

897
00:40:22,208 --> 00:40:26,896
But when I left go of the
idol, when I lost my life, that's

898
00:40:26,928 --> 00:40:32,464
when he says, I want to give
you your true life.

899
00:40:32,632 --> 00:40:37,488
And did you know that right
now in Valparaiso, Indiana, down

900
00:40:37,544 --> 00:40:42,860
the street from where I sold
my house, I now own another house.

901
00:40:44,690 --> 00:40:48,150
And in New York City, I own
another house.

902
00:40:49,410 --> 00:40:52,350
He will give you double for
your trouble.

903
00:40:53,010 --> 00:40:55,750
He's the God of more than enough.

904
00:40:56,130 --> 00:40:58,378
He's the God of overflow.

905
00:40:58,474 --> 00:41:02,378
Mike, if you let go of the
idol and you learn that under the

906
00:41:02,434 --> 00:41:04,682
shadow of my wings, you're safe.

907
00:41:04,746 --> 00:41:06,250
And no house saved you.

908
00:41:06,290 --> 00:41:07,754
But I saved you.

909
00:41:07,842 --> 00:41:11,448
If you'll learn that it's not
about how much you have, it's about

910
00:41:11,504 --> 00:41:15,624
how much you flow, Then I'll
flow the resources of the nations

911
00:41:15,672 --> 00:41:16,580
through you.

912
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,256
Oh, I feel the anointing.

913
00:41:19,448 --> 00:41:21,080
It's not about how much you have.

914
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,112
It's about how much you give.

915
00:41:23,296 --> 00:41:25,560
Last paralyzed tongue.

916
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,460
Would you stand to your feet
with me?

917
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:32,632
Come on.

918
00:41:32,656 --> 00:41:33,752
Across every location.

919
00:41:33,816 --> 00:41:35,220
Turn that piano up.

920
00:41:36,060 --> 00:41:38,480
There's a grace on the piano today.

921
00:41:43,340 --> 00:41:44,100
Yeah, Come on.

922
00:41:44,140 --> 00:41:45,560
It only was the blood.

923
00:41:45,980 --> 00:41:46,452
Come on.

924
00:41:46,476 --> 00:41:47,640
He's prophesying.

925
00:41:50,540 --> 00:41:51,012
Wow.

926
00:41:51,076 --> 00:41:51,840
Come on.

927
00:41:58,140 --> 00:42:03,040
We're removing the blockages
from our soul.

928
00:42:03,460 --> 00:42:06,080
We're about to take communion
in a few moments.

929
00:42:06,580 --> 00:42:10,240
But the last one that we've
got to deal with is a paralyzed tongue.

930
00:42:11,140 --> 00:42:15,596
There was this high ranking
military leader named Naaman in 2nd

931
00:42:15,668 --> 00:42:16,636
Kings 5.

932
00:42:16,788 --> 00:42:18,652
And Naaman was a bad dude.

933
00:42:18,716 --> 00:42:19,804
He was tough.

934
00:42:19,932 --> 00:42:23,196
But he had a hidden condition
called leprosy.

935
00:42:23,228 --> 00:42:24,748
It was a skin condition.

936
00:42:24,924 --> 00:42:28,680
Men, there are some things
that we can hide for a long time.

937
00:42:29,630 --> 00:42:32,570
Sometimes we have a hidden
condition called addiction.

938
00:42:33,070 --> 00:42:37,958
Sometimes we have a hidden
condition called lust and perversion.

939
00:42:38,134 --> 00:42:42,250
Sometimes we have a hidden
condition called Woundedness, shame,

940
00:42:42,910 --> 00:42:45,450
depression, anxiety.

941
00:42:46,110 --> 00:42:48,198
You can hide anxiety for a
long time.

942
00:42:48,254 --> 00:42:49,030
Trust me, I know.

943
00:42:49,070 --> 00:42:49,970
I had it.

944
00:42:51,070 --> 00:42:52,614
And he had leprosy.

945
00:42:52,742 --> 00:42:56,402
But eventually that leprosy
starts growing over your hands, and

946
00:42:56,426 --> 00:42:58,270
you can't put a shirt over it.

947
00:42:59,130 --> 00:43:01,630
Eventually it starts growing
up on your face.

948
00:43:02,090 --> 00:43:04,242
You can't hide it under your collar.

949
00:43:04,386 --> 00:43:09,282
See, I hid my drinking until
my drinking couldn't be hidden anymore.

950
00:43:09,426 --> 00:43:12,150
My wife was literally clearing.

951
00:43:13,770 --> 00:43:16,738
I'm so ashamed of it sometimes
when I think about it, because it's

952
00:43:16,754 --> 00:43:19,602
like, how could you get to the
point where she's getting in the

953
00:43:19,626 --> 00:43:22,162
car and there's beer cans everywhere?

954
00:43:22,306 --> 00:43:23,550
Y'all don't know.

955
00:43:25,770 --> 00:43:30,786
You try to hide it, but it'll
find you and it'll expose you.

956
00:43:30,938 --> 00:43:35,778
But the exposure is the first
step to freedom, because you can't.

957
00:43:35,874 --> 00:43:38,034
It's like sometimes it's gotta
come out.

958
00:43:38,202 --> 00:43:43,906
And so what happens is, you
know, this leprosy in Naaman gets

959
00:43:43,938 --> 00:43:46,322
exposed, and he's like, well,
I'm this mighty man.

960
00:43:46,346 --> 00:43:47,234
I'm a big bad dude.

961
00:43:47,282 --> 00:43:49,912
But I can't hide my physical condition.

962
00:43:49,976 --> 00:43:52,536
So he goes to Elisha, same person.

963
00:43:52,608 --> 00:43:55,064
The last woman went to same person.

964
00:43:55,232 --> 00:43:57,816
And Elijah does what prophets do.

965
00:43:57,968 --> 00:44:02,140
And prophets ask you to do the
thing that requires faith.

966
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:04,060
Say faith.

967
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:05,740
Faith.

968
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:09,180
They ask you to do the things
that require faith.

969
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,224
And so he says, okay, you
gotta go to the Jordan.

970
00:44:13,272 --> 00:44:14,984
And by the way, I've been in
the Jordan.

971
00:44:15,112 --> 00:44:18,712
As a matter of fact, I had a
friend that was in Israel with me

972
00:44:18,736 --> 00:44:22,824
on my last tour, and he had an
extreme gluten allergy.

973
00:44:22,952 --> 00:44:25,592
If he would have one morsel of
gluten, it would have put him in

974
00:44:25,616 --> 00:44:28,824
the bed with a debilitating
migraine for days.

975
00:44:28,992 --> 00:44:33,336
So he was completely gluten
free and had to be extremely regimented

976
00:44:33,448 --> 00:44:34,632
when he went into the river.

977
00:44:34,696 --> 00:44:37,640
He asked me in the River
Jordan to baptize him.

978
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,296
Soon as he came up out of the
water, he said, the Lord just freed

979
00:44:40,328 --> 00:44:43,148
me from my gluten intolerance
and I'm healed.

980
00:44:43,244 --> 00:44:45,772
And I said, bro, if you're
going to test that, that's on you

981
00:44:45,796 --> 00:44:47,964
and God, because I ain't going
to tend to you in the bed for the

982
00:44:47,972 --> 00:44:49,000
next three days.

983
00:44:49,540 --> 00:44:50,924
And we were joking.

984
00:44:51,052 --> 00:44:55,084
That guy started eating gluten
items with gluten that day.

985
00:44:55,172 --> 00:44:58,812
It has now been more than five
years, and he's never once had a

986
00:44:58,836 --> 00:45:02,028
sign or symptom of gluten
intolerance since then.

987
00:45:02,164 --> 00:45:04,240
And it happened in the River Jordan.

988
00:45:05,620 --> 00:45:09,912
But the prophet Elijah said, I
want you to go to Jordan, and I want

989
00:45:09,936 --> 00:45:11,288
you to dip seven times.

990
00:45:11,344 --> 00:45:12,100
How many?

991
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,940
Some miracles are instant,
some are progressive.

992
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,152
And the Lord is telling many
of you right now that I'm gonna bring

993
00:45:20,176 --> 00:45:23,560
you into a progressive miracle
because you're gonna have to dip

994
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:24,472
seven times.

995
00:45:24,576 --> 00:45:25,528
What does that mean?

996
00:45:25,584 --> 00:45:27,304
It's not gonna happen the
first time.

997
00:45:27,472 --> 00:45:30,152
First time I went to
counseling, I didn't come out be

998
00:45:30,176 --> 00:45:31,064
like, man, it's crazy.

999
00:45:31,112 --> 00:45:31,864
I'm sober.

1000
00:45:31,992 --> 00:45:34,742
I love my wife, I forgive my
father, and.

1001
00:45:34,776 --> 00:45:35,626
And I'm ready to rock.

1002
00:45:35,658 --> 00:45:37,950
Jules, you wanna go to Disney
and celebrate?

1003
00:45:38,770 --> 00:45:40,666
Second time I went to counseling.

1004
00:45:40,778 --> 00:45:41,338
Same.

1005
00:45:41,474 --> 00:45:42,970
Third time, Fourth time.

1006
00:45:43,090 --> 00:45:45,710
See, some miracles are progressive.

1007
00:45:46,050 --> 00:45:46,790
Why?

1008
00:45:47,250 --> 00:45:49,270
Cause the Lord's humbling us.

1009
00:45:49,970 --> 00:45:52,314
Mike, go down in that water.

1010
00:45:52,482 --> 00:45:55,210
Matter of fact, can you
imagine how tough he felt under all

1011
00:45:55,250 --> 00:45:56,202
his armor?

1012
00:45:56,346 --> 00:45:58,602
He couldn't take the armor in
the water.

1013
00:45:58,786 --> 00:46:00,750
He had to strip down naked.

1014
00:46:01,820 --> 00:46:05,252
So sometimes you got to take
all that armor off and get down in

1015
00:46:05,276 --> 00:46:08,480
that water and make yourself a
fool for a little while.

1016
00:46:08,860 --> 00:46:11,252
You know, when you're getting
free from addiction, the first thing

1017
00:46:11,276 --> 00:46:13,520
they tell you is you have to
admit you have a problem.

1018
00:46:14,140 --> 00:46:17,316
I was clinically diagnosed
with alcoholism.

1019
00:46:17,508 --> 00:46:21,332
If I would have not done a
medically supervised detox, I would

1020
00:46:21,356 --> 00:46:23,476
have died like Amy Winehouse.

1021
00:46:23,668 --> 00:46:26,788
And I remember, at the height
of that experience, me saying, I'm

1022
00:46:26,804 --> 00:46:27,960
not an alcoholic.

1023
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,340
I was drunk when I said it.

1024
00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:33,540
This is how much denial we're in.

1025
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:35,260
Denial.

1026
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,968
And the guy remember saying,
mike, you are clinically diagnosable.

1027
00:46:39,064 --> 00:46:42,824
We have to take you through a
medical supervision to detox.

1028
00:46:42,872 --> 00:46:45,736
Of course, this was 15 plus
years ago.

1029
00:46:45,888 --> 00:46:48,744
But he's like, we have to take
you through a medical verification

1030
00:46:48,872 --> 00:46:51,256
of this process because you
could die.

1031
00:46:51,448 --> 00:46:54,740
And my body, I remember that
going through my body.

1032
00:46:55,340 --> 00:46:56,788
It was terrible.

1033
00:46:56,964 --> 00:46:57,880
Terrible.

1034
00:46:58,300 --> 00:47:02,340
But the thing was, I didn't
become an alcoholic instantly, and

1035
00:47:02,380 --> 00:47:05,000
I didn't break alcoholism instantly.

1036
00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:07,880
My miracle was in motion.

1037
00:47:08,220 --> 00:47:10,324
My miracle was in the movement.

1038
00:47:10,452 --> 00:47:11,124
My miracle.

1039
00:47:11,172 --> 00:47:11,940
So some of you.

1040
00:47:11,980 --> 00:47:13,700
God deliver me from lust.

1041
00:47:13,860 --> 00:47:17,108
I am delivering you one day at
a time.

1042
00:47:17,244 --> 00:47:19,012
God deliver me from greed.

1043
00:47:19,156 --> 00:47:22,452
I am delivering you every
single time you get paid.

1044
00:47:22,596 --> 00:47:23,572
God deliver me.

1045
00:47:23,596 --> 00:47:26,836
It's like, yes, I'm doing it
in motion.

1046
00:47:27,028 --> 00:47:28,484
It takes time.

1047
00:47:28,652 --> 00:47:30,788
God help me in my marriage.

1048
00:47:30,964 --> 00:47:34,240
I am every single day.

1049
00:47:34,700 --> 00:47:37,700
So what I love about Naaman
and I wanted to end this sermon on

1050
00:47:37,740 --> 00:47:41,076
encouragement is Naaman does it.

1051
00:47:41,148 --> 00:47:43,684
Even though he got mad, just
like the first guy.

1052
00:47:43,732 --> 00:47:44,484
Nabal.

1053
00:47:44,612 --> 00:47:47,160
Nabal and Naaman, two names
for your kids.

1054
00:47:50,180 --> 00:47:53,900
The first guy got mad and disobeyed.

1055
00:47:54,060 --> 00:47:57,084
The second guy got mad and obeyed.

1056
00:47:57,212 --> 00:48:00,700
See, the thing is, when God
calls you to do something Supernatural.

1057
00:48:00,780 --> 00:48:02,268
You're probably going to get mad.

1058
00:48:02,364 --> 00:48:04,380
The question is not about how
you feel.

1059
00:48:04,500 --> 00:48:06,108
It's about what you do.

1060
00:48:06,244 --> 00:48:08,860
And I know that God will
sometimes anger me.

1061
00:48:08,900 --> 00:48:09,676
Why God?

1062
00:48:09,788 --> 00:48:11,196
Why do you want me to do this?

1063
00:48:11,268 --> 00:48:11,612
God?

1064
00:48:11,676 --> 00:48:13,258
But I'm the second guy.

1065
00:48:13,364 --> 00:48:14,910
I'm the guy who obeys.

1066
00:48:14,990 --> 00:48:17,774
I'm the guy's like, I'm mad,
but I'm taking my armor off.

1067
00:48:17,862 --> 00:48:19,534
I'm mad, but I'm getting in
the water.

1068
00:48:19,622 --> 00:48:22,014
I'm mad because I didn't get
healed the first time.

1069
00:48:22,102 --> 00:48:24,654
I'm mad because I didn't get
healed the second time.

1070
00:48:24,742 --> 00:48:27,086
I'm mad because I didn't get
healed the third time.

1071
00:48:27,158 --> 00:48:31,570
And I'll do it the whole time,
mad, until I get my breakthrough.

1072
00:48:34,230 --> 00:48:38,850
I don't know who that's for,
but that's for somebody.

1073
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,180
Keep coming to church.

1074
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:42,920
Keep sowing.

1075
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,220
Keep tithing.

1076
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,312
Keep serving.

1077
00:48:46,456 --> 00:48:48,488
Keep loving your spouse.

1078
00:48:48,664 --> 00:48:50,060
Keep forgiving.

1079
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:51,672
You are doing it.

1080
00:48:51,696 --> 00:48:53,336
You're a legend in your family.

1081
00:48:53,408 --> 00:48:57,064
I'm telling you, the Lord's
already shown me my fate.

1082
00:48:57,192 --> 00:48:59,208
And I'm supposed to lead the breakers.

1083
00:48:59,304 --> 00:49:00,824
That's why I'm on planet Earth.

1084
00:49:00,872 --> 00:49:02,920
And I'm looking out at this
crowd in Brooklyn.

1085
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:04,904
I'm looking out at this crowd
in Indiana.

1086
00:49:04,952 --> 00:49:06,766
I'm looking out of this crowd
in Miami.

1087
00:49:06,798 --> 00:49:09,342
And you are the legend of your family.

1088
00:49:09,446 --> 00:49:11,690
And it hurts the most for you.

1089
00:49:14,470 --> 00:49:16,810
It hurts the most for you.

1090
00:49:17,590 --> 00:49:19,182
Congratulations.

1091
00:49:19,326 --> 00:49:21,010
You get to be the breaker.

1092
00:49:21,830 --> 00:49:22,318
Oh, yeah.

1093
00:49:22,334 --> 00:49:24,170
It'll be a lot easier for them.

1094
00:49:24,870 --> 00:49:25,886
But you're different.

1095
00:49:25,958 --> 00:49:27,118
You're the legend.

1096
00:49:27,294 --> 00:49:29,930
Nobody could tell Abraham
where to go.

1097
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:31,352
But guess what?

1098
00:49:31,376 --> 00:49:33,912
You're gonna have a
relationship with the Lord unlike

1099
00:49:33,976 --> 00:49:34,680
any other.

1100
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,260
Cause you're gonna have to.

1101
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,664
Oh, I feel something breaking
in the spirit.

1102
00:49:38,712 --> 00:49:39,864
We're about to take communion.

1103
00:49:39,912 --> 00:49:40,712
I feel.

1104
00:49:40,896 --> 00:49:42,380
I feel the flow.

1105
00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:45,700
Soften your heart.

1106
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:49,540
Soften your heart.

1107
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,740
Open your hands.

1108
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:56,328
The reason why there's I'm
shaking up here is because I've walked

1109
00:49:56,344 --> 00:49:57,480
this thing out myself.

1110
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,598
So I'm speaking from a realm
of authority.

1111
00:49:59,724 --> 00:50:02,874
This has been the hardest
thing I've ever had to do in my life.

1112
00:50:03,042 --> 00:50:04,874
And unparalyze your tongue.

1113
00:50:04,922 --> 00:50:07,190
In other words, start speaking life.

1114
00:50:09,810 --> 00:50:11,430
Start speaking life.

1115
00:50:13,250 --> 00:50:15,322
Here's what we're gonna fast from.

1116
00:50:15,506 --> 00:50:17,710
We're gonna fast from negativity.

1117
00:50:18,850 --> 00:50:22,378
Don't just fast from food and
not fast from negativity.

1118
00:50:22,554 --> 00:50:25,914
I want you to get your tongue
speaking and declaring the word of

1119
00:50:25,922 --> 00:50:26,584
the Lord.

1120
00:50:26,722 --> 00:50:28,732
Speaking affirmation, Speaking.

1121
00:50:28,796 --> 00:50:30,236
Declaration, speaking.

1122
00:50:30,348 --> 00:50:32,316
I can, I, will, I shall.

1123
00:50:32,428 --> 00:50:34,444
I can, I will, I shall.

1124
00:50:34,572 --> 00:50:36,348
I can, I, will, I, shall.

1125
00:50:36,444 --> 00:50:36,796
I.

1126
00:50:36,868 --> 00:50:39,680
There's you got to get your
tongue unparalyzed.

1127
00:50:40,260 --> 00:50:42,284
I can, I will, I shall.

1128
00:50:42,332 --> 00:50:44,080
I'm doing this thing, Lord.

1129
00:50:45,860 --> 00:50:47,916
These are the three things
we're about to do.

1130
00:50:47,988 --> 00:50:52,160
So take your communion cup,
get the wafer ready.

1131
00:50:56,750 --> 00:50:58,710
Turn that piano up a little
bit more.

1132
00:50:58,750 --> 00:51:01,574
Across every location, I just.

1133
00:51:01,662 --> 00:51:03,050
I feel a grace.

1134
00:51:06,670 --> 00:51:07,542
Some of you are like.

1135
00:51:07,566 --> 00:51:09,558
But I don't ever feel like I
fit in.

1136
00:51:09,694 --> 00:51:11,450
That is on purpose.

1137
00:51:12,510 --> 00:51:14,374
Stop trying to fit in.

1138
00:51:14,542 --> 00:51:15,590
You're an original.

1139
00:51:15,670 --> 00:51:17,210
You're not a duplicate.

1140
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,176
There is only one of you.

1141
00:51:20,248 --> 00:51:21,376
That's the point.

1142
00:51:21,528 --> 00:51:22,624
But there won't be.

1143
00:51:22,712 --> 00:51:24,992
But there won't be one for long.

1144
00:51:25,096 --> 00:51:28,660
Because you're about to
replicate what can't be duplicated.

1145
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:31,440
Yeah, there's only one of you.

1146
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:32,000
That's the point.

1147
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,020
But there's gonna be many
people who identify with you.

1148
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,220
Our church is rich.

1149
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:44,030
Rich in books, rich in songs,
Rich in businesses, rich.

1150
00:51:44,110 --> 00:51:45,342
Rich in events.

1151
00:51:45,486 --> 00:51:46,702
Our church is rich.

1152
00:51:46,766 --> 00:51:50,350
And my destiny is to get your
destiny unlocked.

1153
00:51:50,510 --> 00:51:53,454
I'm declaring under the sound
of my voice that you are going to

1154
00:51:53,462 --> 00:51:54,766
live in overflow.

1155
00:51:54,878 --> 00:51:59,182
And the books will be written,
and the songs will be written, and

1156
00:51:59,206 --> 00:52:00,622
the doors will be open.

1157
00:52:00,726 --> 00:52:02,574
Properties will be purchased.

1158
00:52:02,702 --> 00:52:06,302
Then, yes, you will not go to
the grave with it on the inside of

1159
00:52:06,326 --> 00:52:09,066
you dying because of stagnation.

1160
00:52:09,198 --> 00:52:10,290
But it will flow.

1161
00:52:10,370 --> 00:52:11,954
Rivers of living water.

1162
00:52:12,042 --> 00:52:13,586
Flow from our heart.

1163
00:52:13,738 --> 00:52:14,470
Rivers.

1164
00:52:14,810 --> 00:52:16,626
A river of finances.

1165
00:52:16,738 --> 00:52:18,386
A river of poetry.

1166
00:52:18,498 --> 00:52:19,938
A river of song.

1167
00:52:20,034 --> 00:52:21,282
A river of dancing.

1168
00:52:21,346 --> 00:52:23,430
We're opening up all the rivers.

1169
00:52:32,250 --> 00:52:35,700
Rivers of liver water.

1170
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,540
I'm unlocking the dam this month.

1171
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,140
I'm unlocking the dam this month.

1172
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,752
It may have been dammed up in
your family for six generations,

1173
00:52:49,896 --> 00:52:52,900
but we're breaking the damn
loose this month.

1174
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:54,780
Overflow.

1175
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:57,260
Overflow.

1176
00:52:58,240 --> 00:52:59,544
Oh, I feel it.

1177
00:52:59,632 --> 00:53:00,040
I got.

1178
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:01,220
Okay, hold on.

1179
00:53:02,910 --> 00:53:04,278
I gotta tell you this story.

1180
00:53:04,334 --> 00:53:06,230
I debated on whether or not I
should tell you.

1181
00:53:06,270 --> 00:53:06,998
We're gonna do community.

1182
00:53:07,054 --> 00:53:08,890
It's the best way to do communion.

1183
00:53:10,110 --> 00:53:12,566
You guys know Denise and Rick
Renner, right?

1184
00:53:12,718 --> 00:53:14,210
How amazing were they?

1185
00:53:15,150 --> 00:53:17,462
So Denise and Rick Renner were here.

1186
00:53:17,566 --> 00:53:19,718
You gotta understand this guy.

1187
00:53:19,814 --> 00:53:22,678
Internationally syndicated
Christian television.

1188
00:53:22,854 --> 00:53:25,462
Offices in over a dozen nations.

1189
00:53:25,606 --> 00:53:28,926
The first earned doctorate in
the entire country of Russia.

1190
00:53:29,078 --> 00:53:31,742
They're doing an approved
interpretation of the Bible called

1191
00:53:31,766 --> 00:53:32,770
the Riv.

1192
00:53:33,110 --> 00:53:37,294
People will preach out of his
interpretation of the Bible for generations

1193
00:53:37,342 --> 00:53:37,758
to come.

1194
00:53:37,814 --> 00:53:39,726
He's a living legend himself.

1195
00:53:39,918 --> 00:53:43,262
I spent all weekend and they
asked me every question under the

1196
00:53:43,286 --> 00:53:43,566
sun.

1197
00:53:43,638 --> 00:53:45,662
I told them about the sold out stadium.

1198
00:53:45,726 --> 00:53:46,350
We did.

1199
00:53:46,470 --> 00:53:49,038
I told him about the best
selling book I have.

1200
00:53:49,174 --> 00:53:53,134
I told him about the seven
locations, the seven campuses I planted.

1201
00:53:53,262 --> 00:53:56,582
I told Them about the movie I
made that was in theaters for, you

1202
00:53:56,606 --> 00:53:59,398
know, three times, 2,000
theaters plus.

1203
00:53:59,574 --> 00:54:03,862
And I thought I was telling
them how amazing God had been in

1204
00:54:03,886 --> 00:54:05,090
and through our lives.

1205
00:54:05,710 --> 00:54:06,678
But this is.

1206
00:54:06,734 --> 00:54:08,870
There's levels to this thing, y'all.

1207
00:54:09,030 --> 00:54:10,358
There's levels.

1208
00:54:10,534 --> 00:54:15,286
When we got to the end Sunday
night in Manhattan, Denise said,

1209
00:54:15,438 --> 00:54:18,710
hey, can I pray for you and
your wife before we leave, before

1210
00:54:18,750 --> 00:54:19,958
we part ways?

1211
00:54:20,134 --> 00:54:22,250
And she looks at me and she's
like, Mike.

1212
00:54:22,650 --> 00:54:25,714
And it was almost with the
demeanor of like, I've listened to

1213
00:54:25,722 --> 00:54:30,626
you all weekend and I truly
feel sorry for you because you think

1214
00:54:30,698 --> 00:54:34,098
too small and she's older in
her face.

1215
00:54:34,154 --> 00:54:35,474
She's been around the block.

1216
00:54:35,602 --> 00:54:41,794
And it was so shocking to me
because in my circles, I scare everybody

1217
00:54:41,842 --> 00:54:43,506
with how big I dream.

1218
00:54:43,698 --> 00:54:45,778
In my circles, I'm like.

1219
00:54:45,834 --> 00:54:49,392
I mean, even when I talk to
Vladimir, Isaiah Pagani, all those

1220
00:54:49,416 --> 00:54:51,552
guys, I mean, I'm the one
who's always scaring them.

1221
00:54:51,576 --> 00:54:53,232
Vlad, you need to go multi site.

1222
00:54:53,336 --> 00:54:54,880
I don't know if I can do that yet.

1223
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:56,320
No, Vlad, you can do it now.

1224
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:57,200
He's doing it.

1225
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,360
You know, Pagani, write that
book, do this.

1226
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,032
We're always pushing each
other, but I'm always the one in

1227
00:55:02,056 --> 00:55:03,600
the group that's dreaming the biggest.

1228
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,820
So you gotta understand, when
Denise came to me and said, mike,

1229
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,180
your mind, it's so limited.

1230
00:55:11,240 --> 00:55:12,820
You remember this moment?

1231
00:55:13,810 --> 00:55:14,538
I didn't even.

1232
00:55:14,594 --> 00:55:16,670
I was like, this is the
prophetic word.

1233
00:55:17,010 --> 00:55:21,338
Because it took somebody in a
whole nother realm of faith to see

1234
00:55:21,394 --> 00:55:25,070
that what I thought was big
was still limiting God.

1235
00:55:25,650 --> 00:55:28,906
So she said, I'm here on
assignment to lay my hand on you,

1236
00:55:28,978 --> 00:55:32,874
and I'm gonna break that small
thinking off of your mind.

1237
00:55:33,042 --> 00:55:38,090
She is the first person in my
entire life that has ever told me

1238
00:55:38,130 --> 00:55:39,344
I think small.

1239
00:55:39,482 --> 00:55:44,004
But that was a sign to me that
God was trying to say, mike, you're

1240
00:55:44,052 --> 00:55:48,116
acting like you're at the end,
but you're actually at the beginning.

1241
00:55:48,228 --> 00:55:51,172
And I'm going to do
exceedingly greater, more than you

1242
00:55:51,196 --> 00:55:51,620
can think.

1243
00:55:51,660 --> 00:55:53,124
And I didn't even see it.

1244
00:55:53,212 --> 00:55:56,640
I needed freedom last week and
didn't even see it.

1245
00:55:57,580 --> 00:56:01,316
So I don't care where you're
at, I'm going to be Denise Renner

1246
00:56:01,348 --> 00:56:02,400
for you today.

1247
00:56:02,940 --> 00:56:05,228
And I'm going to pray for your mind.

1248
00:56:05,404 --> 00:56:08,732
And I'm going to pray that
when we take communion, just like

1249
00:56:08,756 --> 00:56:12,988
when Jesus body was broken,
the blood had to pour out.

1250
00:56:13,124 --> 00:56:16,640
He couldn't give you a drop,
he had to give you a flow.

1251
00:56:19,860 --> 00:56:23,980
I pray that when we take
communion, the flow starts in Your

1252
00:56:24,020 --> 00:56:24,460
life.

1253
00:56:24,580 --> 00:56:27,756
And God breaks this small
thinking off of you like he's breaking

1254
00:56:27,788 --> 00:56:28,920
it off of me.

1255
00:56:29,380 --> 00:56:30,812
Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost.

1256
00:56:30,876 --> 00:56:34,550
Anybody else take this wafer?

1257
00:56:34,890 --> 00:56:36,802
I want you guys to repeat this
with me.

1258
00:56:36,826 --> 00:56:37,910
Heavenly Father.

1259
00:56:38,330 --> 00:56:38,802
Come on.

1260
00:56:38,826 --> 00:56:40,162
I can't hear you in Indiana.

1261
00:56:40,226 --> 00:56:47,490
Heavenly Father, this is your
body that was broken for me so that

1262
00:56:47,530 --> 00:56:55,218
your blood would flow for my
redemption, for my healing, for my

1263
00:56:55,274 --> 00:56:56,150
deliverance.

1264
00:56:56,650 --> 00:57:05,058
And now I offer my life to be
broken for the flow for what you

1265
00:57:05,114 --> 00:57:09,710
have, God to be done in the
earth through me.

1266
00:57:10,250 --> 00:57:16,690
And Father, I ask your will be
done on earth as it is in heaven.

1267
00:57:16,850 --> 00:57:17,730
Amen.

1268
00:57:17,890 --> 00:57:19,350
Let's take this wafer.

1269
00:57:20,650 --> 00:57:22,550
His body that was broken.

1270
00:57:27,220 --> 00:57:27,772
Come on.

1271
00:57:27,796 --> 00:57:28,960
It is finished.

1272
00:57:29,300 --> 00:57:32,400
And now let's take this cup
which represents the blood.

1273
00:57:37,140 --> 00:57:38,240
Oh, wow.

1274
00:57:41,540 --> 00:57:43,804
Now we're going to take 60 seconds.

1275
00:57:43,852 --> 00:57:46,700
I'm going to time it, and
we're going to allow the Lord to

1276
00:57:46,740 --> 00:57:48,120
minister to us.

1277
00:57:48,420 --> 00:57:51,520
Because you shifted now into
the flesh flow.

1278
00:57:52,580 --> 00:57:53,932
So across every location.

1279
00:57:53,996 --> 00:57:55,996
Let's reverence the Holy Spirit.

1280
00:57:56,188 --> 00:57:57,436
For 60 seconds.

1281
00:57:57,468 --> 00:57:59,436
We're going to reverence the
Holy Spirit.

1282
00:57:59,628 --> 00:58:04,892
So this is finding him in
stillness, finding him in this moment.

1283
00:58:05,036 --> 00:58:09,756
Because when you took
communion, it was an acknowledgment

1284
00:58:09,788 --> 00:58:11,520
of, yes, Lord, I receive.

1285
00:58:12,260 --> 00:58:13,920
You opened your hands.

1286
00:58:14,740 --> 00:58:19,212
When I had you confess, your
tongue was no longer paralyzed, and

1287
00:58:19,236 --> 00:58:20,668
you softened your heart.

1288
00:58:20,804 --> 00:58:22,440
So you did all three.

1289
00:58:23,140 --> 00:58:26,540
And so we're gonna take 60
seconds and just say, okay, Lord.

1290
00:58:26,700 --> 00:58:27,400
Now.

1291
00:58:27,940 --> 00:58:30,460
Now that there's no blockage, speak.

1292
00:58:30,620 --> 00:58:32,812
Now that there's no blockage, minister.

1293
00:58:32,996 --> 00:58:35,980
Now that there's no blockage, confirm.

1294
00:58:36,140 --> 00:58:40,524
And so we're gonna take 60
seconds and just listen to the music.

1295
00:58:40,612 --> 00:58:42,240
Listen to the voice of the Lord.

1296
00:58:42,740 --> 00:58:47,270
And I want you to take that
time right now.

1297
00:59:10,060 --> 00:59:10,800
Sa.

1298
00:59:46,870 --> 00:59:47,422
Come on.

1299
00:59:47,446 --> 00:59:48,930
That was just one minute.

1300
00:59:50,950 --> 00:59:53,610
The Lord is so proud of you.

1301
00:59:55,030 --> 00:59:55,838
Oh, yes.

1302
00:59:55,934 --> 00:59:57,450
So proud of you.

1303
00:59:58,870 --> 01:00:00,570
So proud of you.

1304
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:05,672
Oh, Lord, how long am I going
to be alone when you allow me to

1305
01:00:05,696 --> 01:00:10,072
be your whole portion, oh,
Lord, how long am I going to be in

1306
01:00:10,096 --> 01:00:15,980
lack until you overcome this
fear of finances and trust me fully,

1307
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:21,640
oh, Lord, how long am I going
to be confused until you shut the

1308
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:25,100
door and let me speak what
only I can speak?

1309
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:27,064
Yes, yes.

1310
01:00:27,112 --> 01:00:30,518
This is the time that he's
ordained for you.

1311
01:00:30,574 --> 01:00:31,686
The time in your life.

1312
01:00:31,758 --> 01:00:36,970
A healing time, A time of
restoration, time of renewal.

1313
01:00:38,110 --> 01:00:40,198
Let them dress those wounds.

1314
01:00:40,374 --> 01:00:42,130
Let them stitch you up.

1315
01:00:42,750 --> 01:00:45,530
Let them bring you to that
hyperbaric chamber.

1316
01:00:46,590 --> 01:00:47,670
Time of healing.

1317
01:00:47,750 --> 01:00:48,890
Time of healing.

1318
01:00:49,230 --> 01:00:50,570
Time of healing.

1319
01:00:50,990 --> 01:00:53,170
Oh, your feathers will grow back.

1320
01:00:53,550 --> 01:00:56,104
Oh, your beak will grow back stronger.

1321
01:00:56,302 --> 01:00:58,160
Oh, yes, you'll Fly again.

1322
01:00:58,860 --> 01:01:00,800
Oh, yes, you'll preach again.

1323
01:01:01,100 --> 01:01:03,012
Oh yes, you'll teach again.

1324
01:01:03,196 --> 01:01:05,492
Oh yes, you'll lead worship again.

1325
01:01:05,676 --> 01:01:07,684
Oh yes, you'll write again.

1326
01:01:07,852 --> 01:01:10,676
Oh yes, you'll say poetry again.

1327
01:01:10,828 --> 01:01:12,708
Oh, yes, you'll sing again.

1328
01:01:12,844 --> 01:01:14,804
Oh, yes, you'll dance again.

1329
01:01:14,972 --> 01:01:16,516
Oh, yes, you'll do it again.

1330
01:01:16,588 --> 01:01:22,362
But the Lord says, I brought
you here to make you complete in

1331
01:01:22,386 --> 01:01:27,930
the area of sonship, to make
you complete in the area of being

1332
01:01:27,970 --> 01:01:28,910
a daughter.

1333
01:01:29,490 --> 01:01:35,514
To burn some things down and
then finally rebuild the waste places

1334
01:01:35,562 --> 01:01:36,910
of your foundation.

1335
01:01:37,890 --> 01:01:40,570
Some of you say, God, I feel
like a beginner.

1336
01:01:40,730 --> 01:01:43,866
And the Lord says, I'm taking
you back to the beginning.

1337
01:01:44,058 --> 01:01:45,994
Oh, Lord, I feel like a rookie.

1338
01:01:46,122 --> 01:01:49,926
Lord says, I brought you to a
place of humility because I'm gonna

1339
01:01:49,958 --> 01:01:53,170
strengthen every place that's
been brought low.

1340
01:01:53,950 --> 01:01:57,090
Clear the rubble of your past
life away.

1341
01:01:57,630 --> 01:01:59,690
Yes, you've been through a demolition.

1342
01:02:00,030 --> 01:02:02,518
Yes, you've been through a
time of demolition.

1343
01:02:02,694 --> 01:02:05,478
But the Lord is clearing the
rubble of your last.

1344
01:02:05,534 --> 01:02:07,830
Some of you have been like,
but there's still remnants of it.

1345
01:02:07,870 --> 01:02:11,398
Lord, I still talk a certain
way every once in a while.

1346
01:02:11,534 --> 01:02:12,550
I still do things.

1347
01:02:12,590 --> 01:02:13,702
There's remnants of it.

1348
01:02:13,726 --> 01:02:16,082
But the Lord says, I'm
clearing the remnants, rest of it

1349
01:02:16,106 --> 01:02:16,670
away.

1350
01:02:17,210 --> 01:02:20,390
And then I'm going to rebuild
the foundations.

1351
01:02:20,970 --> 01:02:24,150
And then upon these
foundations that I'm rebuilding,

1352
01:02:25,210 --> 01:02:28,530
I will begin to build that
which I have prophesied through my

1353
01:02:28,570 --> 01:02:29,350
prophets.

1354
01:02:30,650 --> 01:02:37,554
Oh, for many of you said,
lord, but I thought your prophet

1355
01:02:37,682 --> 01:02:39,270
prophesied accurately.

1356
01:02:39,690 --> 01:02:44,828
But Lord, I thought that I
dreamt in a dream that you've given

1357
01:02:44,884 --> 01:02:45,436
me.

1358
01:02:45,588 --> 01:02:49,708
But I hear the Lord saying,
but they spoke of what they saw after

1359
01:02:49,764 --> 01:02:50,880
the foundation.

1360
01:02:51,780 --> 01:02:55,360
And now I'll go back and
finish the foundation.

1361
01:02:56,020 --> 01:02:59,360
So then that which was spoken
can be built.

1362
01:03:13,470 --> 01:03:15,650
This is revival, by the way.

1363
01:03:16,350 --> 01:03:17,654
This is revival.

1364
01:03:17,782 --> 01:03:19,238
You're about to flow.

1365
01:03:19,414 --> 01:03:20,998
You're about to flow.

1366
01:03:21,174 --> 01:03:22,758
You're about to flow.

1367
01:03:22,934 --> 01:03:24,566
You're about to flow.

1368
01:03:24,758 --> 01:03:26,390
You're about to flow.

1369
01:03:26,550 --> 01:03:27,942
This is revival.

1370
01:03:28,086 --> 01:03:29,530
You're about to flow.

1371
01:03:30,830 --> 01:03:33,942
It's funny because the Lord
showed me that even the most skeptical

1372
01:03:34,006 --> 01:03:36,662
people of our church are
actually starting to get swept into

1373
01:03:36,686 --> 01:03:39,294
the presence he's showing.

1374
01:03:39,342 --> 01:03:42,210
Even the most skeptical people
are like, I'm about to blow.

1375
01:03:44,470 --> 01:03:45,870
I'm about to believe it.

1376
01:03:45,910 --> 01:03:48,606
Somebody say in their heart, I
can hear your thoughts.

1377
01:03:48,718 --> 01:03:51,726
I somebody, I'm hearing many
people saying, I'm about to believe

1378
01:03:51,798 --> 01:03:52,814
this preacher.

1379
01:03:52,942 --> 01:03:54,190
I'm about to believe it.

1380
01:03:54,230 --> 01:03:56,494
Yes, yes, you're about to believe.

1381
01:03:56,582 --> 01:03:59,182
There's faith that's coming
upon you right now.

1382
01:03:59,286 --> 01:04:00,942
This is not hype.

1383
01:04:01,086 --> 01:04:02,500
This Is hope.

1384
01:04:02,670 --> 01:04:03,288
Hope is.

1385
01:04:03,344 --> 01:04:07,100
I expect the promises of God
to be fulfilled.

1386
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:20,952
You know, yesterday I was on a
walk and while I was walking, the

1387
01:04:20,976 --> 01:04:21,912
Lord was speaking to me.

1388
01:04:21,936 --> 01:04:24,920
And anybody, the Holy Ghost
just talks to you at random times.

1389
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:27,742
You're like, why don't you
talk to me when I want you to?

1390
01:04:27,896 --> 01:04:31,042
But then when I don't want you
to, you're always on me.

1391
01:04:31,226 --> 01:04:34,162
So the Holy Spirit's talking
to me and he said, mike, you're a

1392
01:04:34,186 --> 01:04:37,230
man of great faith, but you do
not have hope.

1393
01:04:38,170 --> 01:04:39,550
And I said, what?

1394
01:04:40,490 --> 01:04:43,950
I said, lord, isn't that the
same thing, faith and hope?

1395
01:04:44,410 --> 01:04:46,270
He says, no, look it up.

1396
01:04:46,650 --> 01:04:48,066
So I start looking it up.

1397
01:04:48,138 --> 01:04:49,026
Watch this.

1398
01:04:49,178 --> 01:04:55,876
Faith is when you actually
believe in the promises of God, but

1399
01:04:55,948 --> 01:05:01,188
hope is when you allow
yourself to expect them to come to

1400
01:05:01,244 --> 01:05:01,840
pass.

1401
01:05:03,500 --> 01:05:07,760
And many of you have had
faith, but you don't have hope.

1402
01:05:08,620 --> 01:05:12,640
You believe in the promises of
God, maybe even for other people,

1403
01:05:12,940 --> 01:05:16,840
but you are not expecting them
to come to pass for yourself.

1404
01:05:17,340 --> 01:05:21,316
And even as the father of this
house, if I'm getting my butt whooped,

1405
01:05:21,348 --> 01:05:23,120
you're all getting a whooping
with me.

1406
01:05:23,260 --> 01:05:26,840
We have been operating in
great faith, but not operating in

1407
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:27,848
great hope.

1408
01:05:27,984 --> 01:05:32,728
But I speak to the north, to
the south, to the east and the west.

1409
01:05:32,864 --> 01:05:35,960
That V1 church will rise up
with hope.

1410
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:41,288
And we will put our hope in
the Lord and we will be in expectation

1411
01:05:41,464 --> 01:05:45,016
of every single one of his
promises coming to pass.

1412
01:05:45,168 --> 01:05:49,270
Lord, I expect you to do what
you said you were going to do.

1413
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:50,810
Come on, who wants hope?

1414
01:05:50,930 --> 01:05:52,362
Come on, let's grow together.

1415
01:05:52,466 --> 01:06:00,122
Lord, I pray for all of us
who, all of us former orphans who

1416
01:06:00,146 --> 01:06:05,930
have constantly had our
expectations broken, who have constantly

1417
01:06:06,010 --> 01:06:10,602
had our hearts broken, Lord,
that we would not be hardened in

1418
01:06:10,626 --> 01:06:15,168
our hearts, but that we would
expect again like children.

1419
01:06:15,354 --> 01:06:20,080
Now I understand the word that
says, unless you become like a child

1420
01:06:20,700 --> 01:06:26,080
because children have not had
their expectations broken yet.

1421
01:06:27,500 --> 01:06:32,388
So, Lord, I pray over my
church, every single one of these

1422
01:06:32,444 --> 01:06:37,012
precious ones, Lord, that they
would become like children again

1423
01:06:37,196 --> 01:06:41,976
and that they would go back
before their expectations were broken

1424
01:06:42,118 --> 01:06:46,080
and they would begin to
operate within the realm of hope.

1425
01:06:47,660 --> 01:06:52,420
Wouldn't it be just like you,
God, to raise up a people of hope

1426
01:06:52,540 --> 01:06:57,028
in the hardest places of the
United States where the most people

1427
01:06:57,084 --> 01:07:00,708
are hopeless, we are the most
hope filled.

1428
01:07:00,884 --> 01:07:05,844
Wouldn't it be just like you,
Jesus, to do it in Miami, to do it

1429
01:07:05,852 --> 01:07:09,396
in Brooklyn, in Manhattan and
Long island, in northwest Indiana,

1430
01:07:09,508 --> 01:07:11,520
in some of the most hopeless places?

1431
01:07:11,550 --> 01:07:14,812
Places is where you would
bring the most hope filled people.

1432
01:07:14,916 --> 01:07:17,640
But it's gotta it's gotta flow
through us.

1433
01:07:20,180 --> 01:07:24,380
If you want to come into
agreement with this, would you say,

1434
01:07:24,420 --> 01:07:38,990
God, let it be so that I would
flow in Jesus name, sa.