Andrew Wommack - Don't Limit God

January 14, 2025 | S25:E10

God told Andrew he was limiting Him by his small thinking & the results of taking the limits off of God.

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Andrew Wommack: Gospel Truth | Andrew Wommack - Don't Limit God | January 14, 2025
  • Countdown
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  • Music
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  • >> welcome to gospel truth
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  • With andrew wommack.
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  • Celebrating 25 years of sharing
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  • God's unconditional love
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  • And grace on television.
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  • And now here's andrew.
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  • >> welcome to our tuesday's
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  • Broadcast of the gospel truth.
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  • Today i'm sharing with you one
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  • Of the most important things
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  • That god has ever shown me. and
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  • That is that i was limiting god
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  • By my small thinking. and this
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  • Is not just unique to me. i
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  • Think that every one of us tends
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  • To just do things in our own
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  • Strength and power, and just
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  • Believe for what we can do on
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  • Our own. but man, our life needs
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  • To be supernatural. if our
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  • Life isn't supernatural, it's
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  • Superficial. and so, i'm just
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  • Trying to encourage everyone to
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  • Believe bigger. i've got a lot
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  • Of material to just try and
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  • Share with you, and get
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  • You to start believing bigger
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  • Because i believe that god has
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  • Something big for every one of
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  • Us. maybe not big in the sense
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  • Us. maybe not big in the sense that the whole world is going to
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  • That the whole world is going to know about it, but in your
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  • Know about it, but in your world, in your realm of
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  • World, in your realm of influence, god wants to do
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  • Influence, god wants to do things through you and make a
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  • Things through you and make a difference. and i think most of
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  • Difference. and i think most of us just limit him by thinking
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  • Us just limit him by thinking small. so again, my testimony is
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  • Small. so again, my testimony is that i had been in ministry
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  • That i had been in ministry since 1968, but in january the
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  • Since 1968, but in january the 31st, 2002, a number of things
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  • 31st, 2002, a number of things converged, and the lord finally
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  • Converged, and the lord finally spoke to me and said i was
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  • Spoke to me and said i was limiting him by my small
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  • Limiting him by my small thinking. and yesterday i
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  • Thinking. and yesterday i shard... started sharing some of
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  • Shard... started sharing some of the reasons that i was limiting
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  • The reasons that i was limiting him. one of them was that our
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  • Him. one of them was that our ministry had grown to a place,
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  • Ministry had grown to a place, to where things were working. it
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  • To where things were working. it was working well, we were
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  • Was working well, we were growing, but we were growing at
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  • Growing, but we were growing at a snail's place, but it was
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  • A snail's place, but it was comfortable. and so you could
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  • Comfortable. and so you could just say that it was, you know,
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  • Just say that it was, you know, the fact i was lazy, and for
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  • The fact i was lazy, and for the first time... i'd been in
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  • The first time... i'd been in ministry for 32 years at that
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  • Ministry for 32 years at that time, and for the first time in
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  • Time, and for the first time in our whole ministry, things were
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  • Our whole ministry, things were working relatively easy, and i
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  • Working relatively easy, and i was just enjoying taking it
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  • Was just enjoying taking it easy. and the lord told me that
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  • Easy. and the lord told me that that's not what he had for me.
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  • That's not what he had for me. at the rate we were growing,
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  • At the rate we were growing, i'd have never been able to
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  • I'd have never been able to accomplish what god wanted me to
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  • Accomplish what god wanted me to do. you know, the lord showed me
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  • Do. you know, the lord showed me back in 1968 that i was supposed
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  • Back in 1968 that i was supposed to be reaching people all over
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  • To be reaching people all over the world, and within just a few
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  • The world, and within just a few years that matured to the point
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  • Years that matured to the point that i knew that i was supposed
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  • That i knew that i was supposed to be preaching, and i was
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  • To be preaching, and i was supposed to be having an impact
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  • Supposed to be having an impact worldwide. and yet, in 2002,
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  • Worldwide. and yet, in 2002, when the lord really spoke this
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  • When the lord really spoke this to me about how i was limiting
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  • To me about how i was limiting god, we were reaching only 3% of
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  • God, we were reaching only 3% of the u.s. population. and
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  • The u.s. population. and since that time, god has
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  • Since that time, god has increased us. now we can be...
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  • Our program is viewed
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  • In nine languages. it's
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  • All around the world, and we
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  • Have a potential of 6.5
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  • Billion people that can
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  • Watch this program today.
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  • I mean, that is a phenomenal
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  • I mean, that is a phenomenal growth. in the last 22
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  • Growth. in the last 22 years, we have grown a
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  • Years, we have grown a minimum of 60 times larger as
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  • Minimum of 60 times larger as far as the outreach and people
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  • Far as the outreach and people that we are reaching as what we
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  • That we are reaching as what we had done before, and we still
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  • Had done before, and we still are growing. we've got some of
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  • Are growing. we've got some of the biggest things we've ever
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  • The biggest things we've ever done, some of the greatest
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  • Done, some of the greatest potential, things are happening
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  • Potential, things are happening right now. so i'm saying those
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  • Right now. so i'm saying those things just to say that when god
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  • Things just to say that when god told me that i was limiting him
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  • Told me that i was limiting him by my small thinking, one of
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  • By my small thinking, one of the reasons was i was just
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  • The reasons was i was just comfortable. and then another
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  • Comfortable. and then another one was that, you know, when you
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  • One was that, you know, when you start stretching yourself and
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  • Start stretching yourself and expanding yourself, there is a
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  • Expanding yourself, there is a fear of failure. and i don't
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  • Fear of failure. and i don't think anybody likes to fail. and
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  • Think anybody likes to fail. and so most people are just playing
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  • So most people are just playing it too safe. we aren't taking
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  • It too safe. we aren't taking any risk. when you start
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  • Any risk. when you start believing god for something more
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  • Believing god for something more than what you've got, there is
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  • Than what you've got, there is always the risk of what happens
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  • Always the risk of what happens if i fail? and you know what,
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  • If i fail? and you know what, fear of failure is actually a
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  • Fear of failure is actually a reflection on your... man, i
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  • Reflection on your... man, i don't know how to say this. i'm
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  • Don't know how to say this. i'm trying to be kind, but i'm...
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  • Trying to be kind, but i'm... this is the way it was with me.
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  • This is the way it was with me. it was a fear... it was a
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  • It was a fear... it was a reflection on my lack of
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  • Reflection on my lack of relationship with god.
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  • The scripture says in 1 john,
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  • The scripture says in 1 john, chapter 4, verse 18, that
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  • Chapter 4, verse 18, that perfect love casts out fear. if
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  • Perfect love casts out fear. if you have fear, then you haven't
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  • You have fear, then you haven't been perfected in love. so if
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  • You're afraid, you know that god
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  • You're afraid, you know that god wants you to take a risk.
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  • Wants you to take a risk. maybe he wants you to start a
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  • Maybe he wants you to start a business. maybe he wants you to
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  • Business. maybe he wants you to reach out in your community and
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  • Reach out in your community and start doing something and making
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  • Start doing something and making a difference. maybe he wants you
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  • A difference. maybe he wants you to go talk to a neighbor or, you
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  • To go talk to a neighbor or, you know, on and on you could go
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  • Know, on and on you could go with all of these things. and if
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  • With all of these things. and if you have a fear of rejection, a
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  • You have a fear of rejection, a fear of, you know, it may not
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  • Fear of, you know, it may not work out and stuff, then you...
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  • Work out and stuff, then you... your love isn't perfect. perfect
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  • Your love isn't perfect. perfect love will cast out fear. if you
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  • Love will cast out fear. if you get to where you love god more
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  • Get to where you love god more than you love yourself, and more
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  • Than you love yourself, and more than you love what people think
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  • Than you love what people think about you, it will embolden you
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  • About you, it will embolden you to go out and to take risk, and
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  • To go out and to take risk, and to step out and to do what god
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  • To step out and to do what god has put in your heart. you know,
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  • Has put in your heart. you know, my testimony is that i was an
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  • My testimony is that i was an introvert, and i had trouble
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  • Introvert, and i had trouble talking to a person that i
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  • Talking to a person that i hadn't already established
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  • Hadn't already established relationship with. you know, if
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  • Relationship with. you know, if it was a family member or if it
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  • It was a family member or if it was a close friend or somebody
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  • Was a close friend or somebody that i had years of relationship
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  • That i had years of relationship with, i was okay. but a
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  • With, i was okay. but a stranger, man, i just couldn't
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  • Stranger, man, i just couldn't talk. to talk in front of people
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  • Talk. to talk in front of people like i'm doing today with a
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  • Like i'm doing today with a potential of 6.5 billion people
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  • Potential of 6.5 billion people watching, it was absolutely
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  • Watching, it was absolutely impossible until i had that
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  • Impossible until i had that encounter with the lord, and i
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  • Encounter with the lord, and i fell in love with god. and you
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  • Fell in love with god. and you know what, i got to where i
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  • Know what, i got to where i loved god and his acceptance
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  • Loved god and his acceptance more than i feared the
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  • More than i feared the rejection of people. and that's
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  • Rejection of people. and that's what timidity is. it's really
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  • What timidity is. it's really self-centeredness. it's you
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  • Self-centeredness. it's you thinking about yourself, and you
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  • Thinking about yourself, and you just are afraid to share because
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  • Just are afraid to share because you may not say it right, you
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  • You may not say it right, you might make a mistake and
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  • Might make a mistake and somebody might ridicule you or
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  • Somebody might ridicule you or say something. you know, again,
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  • Say something. you know, again, i can say that from conviction
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  • I can say that from conviction because that's the way that i
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  • Because that's the way that i was. i was an introvert. and
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  • Was. i was an introvert. and what i was thinking was, what if
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  • What i was thinking was, what if i, you know, say something
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  • I, you know, say something wrong? and it was all about me.
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  • Wrong? and it was all about me. when i first got started in
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  • When i first got started in ministry, i struggled with this
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  • Ministry, i struggled with this for probably the first two years
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  • For probably the first two years that i was preaching and
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  • That i was preaching and ministering to people, and i
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  • Ministering to people, and i had a man come up to me one
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  • Had a man come up to me one time and he walked up after i'd
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  • Time and he walked up after i'd ministered, and he said, you
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  • Ministered, and he said, you have some good things to share.
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  • Have some good things to share. and he said, if you ever got to
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  • And he said, if you ever got to where you were more concerned
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  • Where you were more concerned about them than you are about
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  • About them than you are about yourself and what they
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  • Yourself and what they think about you, you could be a
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  • Think about you, you could be a blessing. i mean, man, that was
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  • Blessing. i mean, man, that was like a dagger in my heart, but
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  • Like a dagger in my heart, but it was the truth, and i knew it
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  • It was the truth, and i knew it was the truth. and that was
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  • Was the truth. and that was exactly what was hindering me
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  • Exactly what was hindering me from getting things out was
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  • From getting things out was because i was so concerned is...
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  • Because i was so concerned is... about what is everybody going to
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  • About what is everybody going to think about me? am i going to
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  • Think about me? am i going to come off good? is it going to
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  • Come off good? is it going to work well? see, you... perfect
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  • Work well? see, you... perfect love will cast that fear out.
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  • Love will cast that fear out. and when i just began to start
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  • And when i just began to start really receiving the love of
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  • Really receiving the love of god, now i expose myself, i take
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  • God, now i expose myself, i take risk, i get up there and start
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  • Risk, i get up there and start speaking, and i just do it
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  • Speaking, and i just do it because i love god, and i love
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  • Because i love god, and i love you more than i love myself. and
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  • You more than i love myself. and even though i still stumble
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  • Even though i still stumble around somewhat and don't do
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  • Around somewhat and don't do everything right, you know, god
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  • Everything right, you know, god never had anybody who's truly
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  • Never had anybody who's truly qualified working for him yet.
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  • Qualified working for him yet. god used a donkey when it came
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  • God used a donkey when it came to balaam and stuff. if god
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  • To balaam and stuff. if god could use a donkey, he can use
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  • Could use a donkey, he can use me, and so i just start sharing,
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  • Me, and so i just start sharing, and i'm more concerned... the
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  • And i'm more concerned... the perfect love of god has cast the
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  • Perfect love of god has cast the fear of men and what people
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  • Fear of men and what people think about me, out of me.
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  • Think about me, out of me. i'm not saying that i do it
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  • I'm not saying that i do it perfectly. i'm still in process,
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  • Perfectly. i'm still in process, but man, i've seen a lot of
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  • But man, i've seen a lot of victory in this area. so one of
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  • Victory in this area. so one of the things that was holding me
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  • The things that was holding me back was just, you know, i'd...
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  • Back was just, you know, i'd... i had a fear of failure. god...
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  • I had a fear of failure. god... we were now at a place where we
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  • We were now at a place where we were reaching 3% of the u.s.
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  • Were reaching 3% of the u.s. population, this was back in
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  • Population, this was back in 2002. and if i start stretching
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  • 2002. and if i start stretching and trying to reach all of
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  • And trying to reach all of the population, if i started
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  • The population, if i started reaching out beyond the united
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  • Reaching out beyond the united states and reach around the
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  • States and reach around the world, man, we could fail. but
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  • World, man, we could fail. but the lord just spoke to me that
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  • The lord just spoke to me that that perfect love would cast out
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  • That perfect love would cast out fear. and he showed me that i
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  • Fear. and he showed me that i needed to take steps of faith in
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  • Needed to take steps of faith in that direction and trust
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  • That direction and trust him. and, man, it has
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  • Him. and, man, it has proven to be true. now we
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  • Are in nine languages
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  • All over the world, and
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  • Man, god is just doing great
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  • Things. i think it's... we have
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  • Offices in 22 countries and
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  • We're still growing, and we've
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  • Got, i think, 53 bible schools
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  • Scattered around the
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  • World. and it is phenomenal
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  • The difference that
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  • It made when i began to
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  • It made when i began to start taking the limits off of
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  • Start taking the limits off of god. what is it that god wants
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  • God. what is it that god wants you to do? and i can promise
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  • You to do? and i can promise you, every person watching this,
  • 00:08:33.769 --> 00:08:35.171
  • You, every person watching this, there is something more that god
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  • There is something more that god is wanting to accomplish in your
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  • Is wanting to accomplish in your life than what you're doing.
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  • Life than what you're doing. none of us have reached the
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  • None of us have reached the pinnacle. none of us have
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  • Pinnacle. none of us have totally tapped all of the power
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  • Totally tapped all of the power and the ability of god to flow
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  • And the ability of god to flow through us and to do something
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  • Through us and to do something and to touch other people's
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  • And to touch other people's lives. and so, you've got to sit
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  • Lives. and so, you've got to sit down and, and analyze, you know,
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  • Down and, and analyze, you know, am i really doing everything
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  • Am i really doing everything that god wants me to do? and i
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  • That god wants me to do? and i believe that god would show
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  • Believe that god would show every single person some other
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  • Every single person some other way that you can reach out and
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  • Way that you can reach out and touch people and be a blessing,
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  • Touch people and be a blessing, some way that god could
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  • Some way that god could use you. so i had... i was just
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  • Use you. so i had... i was just comfortable where i was. i had
  • 00:09:11.641 --> 00:09:13.142
  • Comfortable where i was. i had a fear of failure. and then
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  • A fear of failure. and then another thing that was hindering
  • 00:09:14.944 --> 00:09:16.112
  • Another thing that was hindering me was a fear of persecution.
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  • And you know, this, this is real
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  • And you know, this, this is real closely related, fear of failure
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  • Closely related, fear of failure and fear of persecution. but in
  • 00:09:24.420 --> 00:09:26.288
  • And fear of persecution. but in the ministry, i'm sharing with
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  • The ministry, i'm sharing with you what god did with me, and
  • 00:09:28.190 --> 00:09:29.792
  • You what god did with me, and you may have to interpret this a
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  • You may have to interpret this a little bit to apply it to your
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  • Little bit to apply it to your life. but boy, in the ministry,
  • 00:09:32.528 --> 00:09:34.430
  • Life. but boy, in the ministry, i tell you, you just get
  • 00:09:34.497 --> 00:09:36.399
  • I tell you, you just get criticized. i've got people that
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  • Criticized. i've got people that write blogs about me. i've had
  • 00:09:39.101 --> 00:09:40.970
  • Write blogs about me. i've had over a thousand blogs that i've
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  • Over a thousand blogs that i've had my staff tell me that people
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  • Had my staff tell me that people have written about what a
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  • Have written about what a terrible person i am. i've got
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  • Terrible person i am. i've got one guy that he just lives to
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  • One guy that he just lives to try and destroy my life. we've
  • 00:09:49.979 --> 00:09:51.447
  • Try and destroy my life. we've got people in our local area
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  • Got people in our local area here that have rented a local
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  • Here that have rented a local thing, and they have meetings
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  • Thing, and they have meetings every once in a while just to
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  • Every once in a while just to have people come and talk about
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  • Have people come and talk about what a terrible person, and they
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  • What a terrible person, and they get any person that has ever had
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  • Get any person that has ever had any gripe or complaint with me,
  • 00:10:03.325 --> 00:10:05.561
  • Any gripe or complaint with me, and they will have them come and
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  • And they will have them come and they just trash me. and you know
  • 00:10:06.962 --> 00:10:08.664
  • They just trash me. and you know what, i don't like that. if you
  • 00:10:08.731 --> 00:10:10.800
  • What, i don't like that. if you like persecution, something's
  • 00:10:10.866 --> 00:10:13.703
  • Like persecution, something's wrong with you because god made
  • 00:10:13.769 --> 00:10:16.138
  • Wrong with you because god made us for fellowship. i believe
  • 00:10:16.205 --> 00:10:17.573
  • Us for fellowship. i believe there's something inside of
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  • There's something inside of every person that would like to
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  • Every person that would like to be liked. and so, if you start
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  • Be liked. and so, if you start stepping out, and if you start
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  • Stepping out, and if you start doing things and reaching out
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  • Doing things and reaching out beyond yourself and going
  • 00:10:27.450 --> 00:10:28.884
  • Beyond yourself and going beyond your comfort level, i can
  • 00:10:28.951 --> 00:10:31.153
  • Beyond your comfort level, i can guarantee you there's going
  • 00:10:31.220 --> 00:10:32.154
  • Guarantee you there's going to be some persecution.
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  • It says in 2 timothy, chapter
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  • It says in 2 timothy, chapter 3, verse 12, yea, all those
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  • 3, verse 12, yea, all those who will live godly in
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  • Who will live godly in christ jesus shall suffer
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  • Christ jesus shall suffer persecution. the only
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  • People who are not being
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  • People who are not being persecuted are ungodly people.
  • 00:10:44.667 --> 00:10:47.770
  • Persecuted are ungodly people. if you live a godly life, you
  • 00:10:47.837 --> 00:10:50.339
  • If you live a godly life, you are going to have criticism come
  • 00:10:50.406 --> 00:10:52.374
  • Are going to have criticism come at you. you are going to have
  • 00:10:52.441 --> 00:10:53.843
  • At you. you are going to have people criticize you. that's
  • 00:10:53.909 --> 00:10:56.245
  • People criticize you. that's just the way that it is. and so,
  • 00:10:56.312 --> 00:10:58.914
  • Just the way that it is. and so, the only people that never bump
  • 00:10:58.981 --> 00:11:00.683
  • The only people that never bump into the devil are people that
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  • Into the devil are people that are headed in the same
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  • Are headed in the same direction. but if you turn
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  • Direction. but if you turn around and start moving against
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  • Around and start moving against our culture and against the
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  • Our culture and against the ungodliness, and if you start
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  • Ungodliness, and if you start stepping out and letting god
  • 00:11:09.692 --> 00:11:11.794
  • Stepping out and letting god flow through you, there is going
  • 00:11:11.861 --> 00:11:13.529
  • Flow through you, there is going to be persecution. jesus said,
  • 00:11:13.596 --> 00:11:16.499
  • To be persecution. jesus said, that if they called the master
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  • That if they called the master of the house beelzebub, then
  • 00:11:18.167 --> 00:11:19.802
  • Of the house beelzebub, then what do you think they're going
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  • What do you think they're going to call you? jesus said that
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  • To call you? jesus said that you're supposed to shout and
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  • You're supposed to shout and leap for joy when people
  • 00:11:24.273 --> 00:11:25.775
  • Leap for joy when people persecute you. and the example
  • 00:11:25.841 --> 00:11:28.144
  • Persecute you. and the example in scripture is that every
  • 00:11:28.210 --> 00:11:29.779
  • In scripture is that every single apostle was persecuted,
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  • Single apostle was persecuted, and all of them were martyred
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  • And all of them were martyred except for john. and they tried
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  • Except for john. and they tried to kill john, but tradition has
  • 00:11:36.452 --> 00:11:38.587
  • To kill john, but tradition has it that he was cast into boiling
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  • It that he was cast into boiling oil, and he survived that. and
  • 00:11:41.056 --> 00:11:43.559
  • Oil, and he survived that. and he actually wound up dying of
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  • He actually wound up dying of old age, over 100 years old. but
  • 00:11:45.227 --> 00:11:47.530
  • Old age, over 100 years old. but he's the only one of the twelve
  • 00:11:47.596 --> 00:11:49.165
  • He's the only one of the twelve apostles that didn't die a
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  • Apostles that didn't die a martyr's death. of course, judas
  • 00:11:51.367 --> 00:11:53.102
  • Martyr's death. of course, judas hung himself, but o... out of
  • 00:11:53.169 --> 00:11:54.370
  • Hung himself, but o... out of the eleven that were left, all
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  • The eleven that were left, all of them, ten, died a martyr's
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  • Of them, ten, died a martyr's death. and persecution is just
  • 00:11:59.608 --> 00:12:01.811
  • Death. and persecution is just part of it. and i tell you, if
  • 00:12:01.877 --> 00:12:03.679
  • Part of it. and i tell you, if you are more worried about what
  • 00:12:03.746 --> 00:12:06.115
  • You are more worried about what people are going to say about
  • 00:12:06.182 --> 00:12:07.583
  • People are going to say about you than you are what god says
  • 00:12:07.650 --> 00:12:09.552
  • You than you are what god says about you, that is not a good
  • 00:12:09.618 --> 00:12:11.754
  • About you, that is not a good place to be. i can relate to it.
  • 00:12:11.821 --> 00:12:14.557
  • Place to be. i can relate to it. i understand it. i've had to
  • 00:12:14.623 --> 00:12:16.192
  • I understand it. i've had to deal with this myself. i still
  • 00:12:16.258 --> 00:12:17.860
  • Deal with this myself. i still deal with it. i don't like it.
  • 00:12:17.927 --> 00:12:19.395
  • Deal with it. i don't like it. but you know what, i've learned
  • 00:12:19.461 --> 00:12:20.696
  • But you know what, i've learned how to cast my care about it
  • 00:12:20.763 --> 00:12:22.865
  • How to cast my care about it over on the lord. so this was
  • 00:12:22.932 --> 00:12:24.600
  • Over on the lord. so this was one of the major things that was
  • 00:12:24.667 --> 00:12:26.769
  • One of the major things that was holding me back because i knew
  • 00:12:26.836 --> 00:12:28.771
  • Holding me back because i knew that with increased outreach and
  • 00:12:28.838 --> 00:12:30.773
  • That with increased outreach and reaching more people, there
  • 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:32.041
  • Reaching more people, there was going to be increased
  • 00:12:32.107 --> 00:12:33.275
  • Was going to be increased persecution, and i just didn't
  • 00:12:33.342 --> 00:12:34.810
  • Persecution, and i just didn't want it. and so, sometimes
  • 00:12:34.877 --> 00:12:36.712
  • Want it. and so, sometimes people are afraid to stand up.
  • 00:12:36.779 --> 00:12:39.381
  • People are afraid to stand up. they're afraid to speak out in
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  • They're afraid to speak out in their, you know, their parent
  • 00:12:41.550 --> 00:12:43.519
  • Their, you know, their parent teachers association, they're
  • 00:12:43.586 --> 00:12:45.120
  • Teachers association, they're afraid to stand up when it comes
  • 00:12:45.187 --> 00:12:47.323
  • Afraid to stand up when it comes to their children education,
  • 00:12:47.389 --> 00:12:48.757
  • To their children education, they're afraid to stand up in
  • 00:12:48.824 --> 00:12:50.125
  • They're afraid to stand up in just neighborhood meetings,
  • 00:12:50.192 --> 00:12:52.027
  • Just neighborhood meetings, they're afraid to reach out to
  • 00:12:52.094 --> 00:12:53.495
  • They're afraid to reach out to their neighbors, and on and on.
  • 00:12:53.562 --> 00:12:55.231
  • Their neighbors, and on and on. what that is, that's a fear of
  • 00:12:55.297 --> 00:12:57.733
  • What that is, that's a fear of being rejected. and again, god
  • 00:12:57.800 --> 00:13:01.337
  • Being rejected. and again, god didn't make us for rejection,
  • 00:13:01.403 --> 00:13:02.872
  • Didn't make us for rejection, but we live in a fallen world.
  • 00:13:02.938 --> 00:13:05.207
  • But we live in a fallen world. and for you to accomplish and to
  • 00:13:05.274 --> 00:13:06.942
  • And for you to accomplish and to reach the goals that god has for
  • 00:13:07.009 --> 00:13:09.678
  • Reach the goals that god has for you, you're going to have to get
  • 00:13:09.745 --> 00:13:11.347
  • You, you're going to have to get past this fear of people. and
  • 00:13:11.413 --> 00:13:14.717
  • Past this fear of people. and again, i've used this scripture,
  • 00:13:14.783 --> 00:13:16.218
  • Again, i've used this scripture, but let me turn over here and
  • 00:13:16.285 --> 00:13:17.219
  • But let me turn over here and read this to you, because
  • 00:13:17.286 --> 00:13:18.153
  • Read this to you, because i'm not sure i quoted it
  • 00:13:18.220 --> 00:13:19.955
  • I'm not sure i quoted it exactly the way it should be.
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  • But in 1 john, chapter
  • 00:13:21.457 --> 00:13:23.659
  • But in 1 john, chapter 4, and in verse 17, it
  • 00:13:23.726 --> 00:13:25.728
  • 4, and in verse 17, it says, herein is our love
  • 00:13:25.794 --> 00:13:26.862
  • Says, herein is our love made perfect, that we may have
  • 00:13:26.929 --> 00:13:28.898
  • Made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment.
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  • Boldness in the day of judgment. notice that it's linking
  • 00:13:31.033 --> 00:13:32.334
  • Notice that it's linking boldness, or in the
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  • Context of what we've
  • 00:13:34.003 --> 00:13:35.104
  • Context of what we've been talking about, your
  • 00:13:35.170 --> 00:13:35.905
  • Been talking about, your ability to overcome the
  • 00:13:35.971 --> 00:13:37.573
  • Ability to overcome the fear of persecution, fear
  • 00:13:37.640 --> 00:13:39.141
  • Fear of persecution, fear of rejection, you get
  • 00:13:39.208 --> 00:13:40.843
  • Of rejection, you get boldness through love.
  • 00:13:40.910 --> 00:13:42.611
  • Herein is our love made
  • 00:13:42.678 --> 00:13:44.280
  • Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have
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  • Perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment:
  • 00:13:45.681 --> 00:13:47.583
  • Boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in
  • 00:13:47.650 --> 00:13:50.252
  • Because as he is, so are we in this world. and then verse 18
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  • This world. and then verse 18 says, there is no fear in love;
  • 00:13:52.755 --> 00:13:55.925
  • Says, there is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear:
  • 00:13:55.991 --> 00:13:58.193
  • But perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. he
  • 00:13:58.260 --> 00:14:00.663
  • Because fear has torment. he that feareth is not made perfect
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  • That feareth is not made perfect in love. so you know, the
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  • Antidote to being fearful
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  • Antidote to being fearful of rejection, fearful of
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  • Of rejection, fearful of persecution, is you just draw
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  • Persecution, is you just draw so close to the lord that it
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  • So close to the lord that it doesn't matter what other people
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  • Doesn't matter what other people think about you. man, that's a
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  • Think about you. man, that's a simple statement to make. but
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  • Simple statement to make. but thi... this is hard to do. most
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  • Thi... this is hard to do. most people are really more into the
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  • People are really more into the physical realm, into this what
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  • Physical realm, into this what you can see, taste, hear and
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  • You can see, taste, hear and smell and feel than they
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  • Smell and feel than they are into their spiritual
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  • Are into their spiritual relationship with god. it takes
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  • Relationship with god. it takes faith to relate to god. it
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  • Faith to relate to god. it fake... takes faith to recognize
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  • Fake... takes faith to recognize how much god loves you, and that
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  • How much god loves you, and that god's got your back, and that
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  • God's got your back, and that god's going to take care of you.
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  • God's going to take care of you. and so, because of that, most
  • 00:14:43.439 --> 00:14:44.807
  • And so, because of that, most people honestly are more in tune
  • 00:14:44.873 --> 00:14:47.509
  • People honestly are more in tune with people and their rejection
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  • With people and their rejection than they are with god and his
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  • Than they are with god and his acceptance. but the antidote
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  • Acceptance. but the antidote to persecution and fear of
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  • To persecution and fear of rejection is just that you draw
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  • Rejection is just that you draw so close to the lord, you are
  • 00:14:58.754 --> 00:15:00.389
  • So close to the lord, you are feeling so much acceptance and
  • 00:15:00.456 --> 00:15:03.459
  • Feeling so much acceptance and love and joy and peace from god,
  • 00:15:03.525 --> 00:15:06.862
  • Love and joy and peace from god, that it just overwhelms any
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  • That it just overwhelms any rejection that would come from
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  • Rejection that would come from people. you know, one time after
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  • People. you know, one time after i ministered, i remember a man
  • 00:15:12.768 --> 00:15:14.370
  • I ministered, i remember a man walking up to me, and i mean, he
  • 00:15:14.436 --> 00:15:16.138
  • Walking up to me, and i mean, he was just reading me the riot act
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  • Was just reading me the riot act and telling me all of the things
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  • And telling me all of the things that i did wrong. and you know
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  • That i did wrong. and you know what, some of those things he
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  • What, some of those things he was saying were wrong. i
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  • Was saying were wrong. i probably didn't do everything
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  • Probably didn't do everything right. but anyway, this guy was
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  • Right. but anyway, this guy was just reading me the riot act and
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  • Just reading me the riot act and let me have it. and right in the
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  • Let me have it. and right in the middle of it, i just stopped
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  • Middle of it, i just stopped him, and i said, who died and
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  • Him, and i said, who died and made you god? and he just looked
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  • Made you god? and he just looked at me like, what are you saying?
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  • At me like, what are you saying? i said, you aren't god. i don't
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  • I said, you aren't god. i don't have to have your approval. i
  • 00:15:41.363 --> 00:15:43.165
  • Have to have your approval. i don't care what you think. he
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  • Don't care what you think. he says, well, you should, and i
  • 00:15:44.333 --> 00:15:45.701
  • Says, well, you should, and i said, i don't. i don't care what
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  • Said, i don't. i don't care what you think. and some people are
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  • You think. and some people are just shocked like this because
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  • Just shocked like this because honestly, they are codependent
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  • Upon other people's acceptance
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  • Upon other people's acceptance and approval and, you know,
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  • And approval and, you know, validation of what they're
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  • Validation of what they're doing. this is what's behind all
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  • Doing. this is what's behind all of the homosexuals having these
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  • Of the homosexuals having these gay parades and all of these
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  • Gay parades and all of these kind of things. the scripture
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  • Kind of things. the scripture says in romans, chapter 1,
  • 00:16:09.558 --> 00:16:10.859
  • Says in romans, chapter 1, verses 18 through 20, that god
  • 00:16:10.926 --> 00:16:13.362
  • Verses 18 through 20, that god has revealed himself from heaven
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  • Has revealed himself from heaven against all ungodliness, all
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  • Against all ungodliness, all unrighteousness. there's an
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  • Unrighteousness. there's an intuitive knowledge in verse 19,
  • 00:16:18.634 --> 00:16:20.736
  • Intuitive knowledge in verse 19, it talks about. and then in
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  • It talks about. and then in verse 20, it says, we understand
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  • Verse 20, it says, we understand even his eternal power and
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  • Even his eternal power and godhead, so that we are without
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  • Godhead, so that we are without excuse. i don't care what people
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  • Excuse. i don't care what people say. i believe what the word of
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  • Say. i believe what the word of god says more than what people
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  • God says more than what people say, and people who are living a
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  • Say, and people who are living a homosexual life, all of this
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  • Homosexual life, all of this transgender stuff that's
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  • Transgender stuff that's happening, and on and on you
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  • Happening, and on and on you could go talking about adultery,
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  • Could go talking about adultery, lying, stealing, and on and on.
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  • Lying, stealing, and on and on. people may say that they have no
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  • People may say that they have no conviction about that, but
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  • Conviction about that, but that's not true. according to
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  • That's not true. according to romans 1:18 through 20, god has
  • 00:16:49.398 --> 00:16:52.901
  • Romans 1:18 through 20, god has revealed himself against all of
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  • Revealed himself against all of that unrighteousness. and you
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  • That unrighteousness. and you know the reason that they are
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  • Know the reason that they are having gay parades and that they
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  • Having gay parades and that they have a gay pride month and all
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  • Have a gay pride month and all of this, it's because their own
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  • Of this, it's because their own heart is condemning them, and
  • 00:17:04.146 --> 00:17:06.148
  • Heart is condemning them, and they are seeking the acceptance
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  • They are seeking the acceptance and the validation of other
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  • And the validation of other people to validate and to take
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  • People to validate and to take away this feeling of shame and
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  • Away this feeling of shame and guilt that they have. that's
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  • Guilt that they have. that's what it's all about. i know that
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  • What it's all about. i know that there's a lot of people that
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  • There's a lot of people that will be upset with me over that
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  • Will be upset with me over that because our society has gone way
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  • Because our society has gone way beyond where god intended us to
  • 00:17:24.266 --> 00:17:26.435
  • Beyond where god intended us to be, and things, and anyway, i
  • 00:17:26.502 --> 00:17:28.070
  • Be, and things, and anyway, i don't... that's not my point.
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  • Don't... that's not my point. but my point is, see, that
  • 00:17:29.238 --> 00:17:30.639
  • But my point is, see, that everybody wants to be loved.
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  • Everybody wants to be loved. everybody wants to have
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  • Everybody wants to have everybody validate them and to
  • 00:17:34.176 --> 00:17:35.911
  • Everybody validate them and to say, oh, you're just awesome.
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  • And because of that, it causes a
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  • And because of that, it causes a fear of us stepping out and
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  • Fear of us stepping out and taking a strong stance for the
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  • Taking a strong stance for the lord and standing up in our city
  • 00:17:45.254 --> 00:17:48.190
  • Lord and standing up in our city council meetings and standing
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  • Council meetings and standing against something because people
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  • Against something because people are going to criticize you. i
  • 00:17:51.627 --> 00:17:53.562
  • Are going to criticize you. i can guarantee you, if you live a
  • 00:17:53.629 --> 00:17:55.063
  • Can guarantee you, if you live a godly life, you shall suffer
  • 00:17:55.130 --> 00:17:56.932
  • Godly life, you shall suffer persecution, 2 timothy 3:12. and
  • 00:17:56.999 --> 00:17:59.801
  • Persecution, 2 timothy 3:12. and because of that fear, it makes
  • 00:17:59.868 --> 00:18:01.503
  • Because of that fear, it makes people recoil. and so this was
  • 00:18:01.570 --> 00:18:03.605
  • People recoil. and so this was part of what was going on in my
  • 00:18:03.672 --> 00:18:05.207
  • Part of what was going on in my life. when the lord told me that
  • 00:18:05.274 --> 00:18:07.209
  • Life. when the lord told me that i needed to be more aggressive,
  • 00:18:07.276 --> 00:18:08.877
  • I needed to be more aggressive, i needed to take a risk, i need
  • 00:18:08.944 --> 00:18:10.812
  • I needed to take a risk, i need to step out, yes, there was a
  • 00:18:10.879 --> 00:18:12.114
  • To step out, yes, there was a fear of failure. yes, i was
  • 00:18:12.181 --> 00:18:14.049
  • Fear of failure. yes, i was going to get out of my comfort
  • 00:18:14.116 --> 00:18:15.350
  • Going to get out of my comfort zone, and i was going to start
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  • Zone, and i was going to start being... having potential stress
  • 00:18:17.586 --> 00:18:20.422
  • Being... having potential stress and things come, but i had
  • 00:18:20.489 --> 00:18:21.723
  • And things come, but i had learned how to cast my care over
  • 00:18:21.790 --> 00:18:23.258
  • Learned how to cast my care over on the lord. but one of the
  • 00:18:23.325 --> 00:18:24.726
  • On the lord. but one of the biggest things was i just was
  • 00:18:24.793 --> 00:18:26.128
  • Biggest things was i just was afraid of the persecution that
  • 00:18:26.195 --> 00:18:29.064
  • Afraid of the persecution that would come. and the lord had to
  • 00:18:29.131 --> 00:18:32.134
  • Would come. and the lord had to just reassure me that he loved
  • 00:18:32.201 --> 00:18:34.369
  • Just reassure me that he loved me, and if i would do what he
  • 00:18:34.436 --> 00:18:35.737
  • Me, and if i would do what he told me to do, that he was the
  • 00:18:35.804 --> 00:18:38.373
  • Told me to do, that he was the only one i had to please. and so
  • 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.410
  • Only one i had to please. and so i'm sharing these things with
  • 00:18:41.476 --> 00:18:42.544
  • I'm sharing these things with you. i'm exposing what was going
  • 00:18:42.611 --> 00:18:45.781
  • You. i'm exposing what was going on on the inside of me because i
  • 00:18:45.847 --> 00:18:47.282
  • On on the inside of me because i believe that all of you probably
  • 00:18:47.349 --> 00:18:48.817
  • Believe that all of you probably deal with the same type of
  • 00:18:48.884 --> 00:18:49.952
  • Deal with the same type of things. it may be on a different
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  • Things. it may be on a different level. and again, many of you
  • 00:18:51.353 --> 00:18:53.522
  • Level. and again, many of you aren't called to do what i'm
  • 00:18:53.589 --> 00:18:54.823
  • Aren't called to do what i'm doing, but you are called to
  • 00:18:54.890 --> 00:18:56.458
  • Doing, but you are called to somehow or another stretch
  • 00:18:56.525 --> 00:18:58.093
  • Somehow or another stretch yourself to believe god for
  • 00:18:58.160 --> 00:18:59.795
  • Yourself to believe god for more. god wants to be, be big in
  • 00:18:59.861 --> 00:19:04.099
  • More. god wants to be, be big in your life. he wants to enable
  • 00:19:04.166 --> 00:19:06.034
  • Your life. he wants to enable you to go beyond yourself. it
  • 00:19:06.101 --> 00:19:08.470
  • You to go beyond yourself. it may be nothing but going out to
  • 00:19:08.537 --> 00:19:10.105
  • May be nothing but going out to somebody and just putting
  • 00:19:10.172 --> 00:19:11.773
  • Somebody and just putting yourself at risk. like here they
  • 00:19:11.840 --> 00:19:13.542
  • Yourself at risk. like here they are sick, and you know that it's
  • 00:19:13.609 --> 00:19:15.644
  • Are sick, and you know that it's god's will for them to be well.
  • 00:19:15.711 --> 00:19:17.212
  • And he said, that if you lay
  • 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:18.347
  • And he said, that if you lay hands on the sick and they shall
  • 00:19:18.413 --> 00:19:19.748
  • Hands on the sick and they shall recover, and so you need to go
  • 00:19:19.815 --> 00:19:21.850
  • Up to these people, you need
  • 00:19:21.917 --> 00:19:22.918
  • Up to these people, you need to go up to the people in the
  • 00:19:22.985 --> 00:19:24.019
  • To go up to the people in the grocery store or your neighbors
  • 00:19:24.086 --> 00:19:26.121
  • Grocery store or your neighbors and say, i'll pray with you, and
  • 00:19:26.188 --> 00:19:27.689
  • And say, i'll pray with you, and i believe that god's going to
  • 00:19:27.756 --> 00:19:28.690
  • I believe that god's going to heal you. see, there's a lot of
  • 00:19:28.757 --> 00:19:30.459
  • Heal you. see, there's a lot of people that won't do that
  • 00:19:30.525 --> 00:19:31.593
  • People that won't do that because they're comfortable
  • 00:19:31.660 --> 00:19:32.828
  • Because they're comfortable where they are. they are afraid
  • 00:19:32.894 --> 00:19:34.963
  • Where they are. they are afraid that they may not see the
  • 00:19:35.030 --> 00:19:37.065
  • That they may not see the healing come to pass, they're
  • 00:19:37.132 --> 00:19:38.300
  • Healing come to pass, they're afraid of what people might say
  • 00:19:38.367 --> 00:19:39.968
  • Afraid of what people might say about them. those things hinder
  • 00:19:40.035 --> 00:19:42.070
  • About them. those things hinder us from stepping out and doing
  • 00:19:42.137 --> 00:19:44.940
  • Us from stepping out and doing what god called us to do. and i
  • 00:19:45.007 --> 00:19:46.508
  • What god called us to do. and i had to deal with every one of
  • 00:19:46.575 --> 00:19:48.110
  • Had to deal with every one of these things in my own personal
  • 00:19:48.176 --> 00:19:50.312
  • These things in my own personal life when god spoke to me. and,
  • 00:19:50.379 --> 00:19:54.683
  • Life when god spoke to me. and, you know, i've got something
  • 00:19:54.750 --> 00:19:56.051
  • You know, i've got something else. i'm not going to have time
  • 00:19:56.118 --> 00:19:57.586
  • Else. i'm not going to have time to go into great detail on this
  • 00:19:57.653 --> 00:19:59.154
  • To go into great detail on this today. i'll, i'll share it on my
  • 00:19:59.221 --> 00:20:00.789
  • Today. i'll, i'll share it on my program tomorrow, but you know,
  • 00:20:00.856 --> 00:20:02.958
  • Program tomorrow, but you know, another fear that was holding me
  • 00:20:03.025 --> 00:20:04.559
  • Another fear that was holding me back from just believing god and
  • 00:20:04.626 --> 00:20:06.361
  • Back from just believing god and going forward, there was a fear
  • 00:20:06.428 --> 00:20:09.031
  • Going forward, there was a fear of success, and most people
  • 00:20:09.097 --> 00:20:12.367
  • Of success, and most people don't relate to that. and they
  • 00:20:12.434 --> 00:20:13.535
  • Don't relate to that. and they think, man, i, i have no fear of
  • 00:20:13.602 --> 00:20:15.771
  • Think, man, i, i have no fear of success. i could handle all the
  • 00:20:15.837 --> 00:20:17.406
  • Success. i could handle all the success that god could give
  • 00:20:17.472 --> 00:20:18.907
  • Success that god could give me. but i'll share this in more
  • 00:20:18.974 --> 00:20:21.643
  • Me. but i'll share this in more detail on our program tomorrow.
  • 00:20:21.710 --> 00:20:23.779
  • Detail on our program tomorrow. but did you know david, it was
  • 00:20:23.845 --> 00:20:25.981
  • But did you know david, it was when he reached his goals and he
  • 00:20:26.048 --> 00:20:28.150
  • When he reached his goals and he was now comfortable and things
  • 00:20:28.216 --> 00:20:30.018
  • Was now comfortable and things were going good that david quit
  • 00:20:30.085 --> 00:20:32.321
  • Were going good that david quit seeking the lord, and he wound
  • 00:20:32.387 --> 00:20:34.589
  • Seeking the lord, and he wound up falling into sin with
  • 00:20:34.656 --> 00:20:36.024
  • Up falling into sin with bathsheba and wound up killing
  • 00:20:36.091 --> 00:20:38.060
  • Bathsheba and wound up killing her husband. i believe that more
  • 00:20:38.126 --> 00:20:40.228
  • Her husband. i believe that more people are ruined through
  • 00:20:40.295 --> 00:20:41.663
  • People are ruined through success than they ever are
  • 00:20:41.730 --> 00:20:43.965
  • Success than they ever are through hardship, because in
  • 00:20:44.032 --> 00:20:45.834
  • Through hardship, because in success, people cuen... tend to
  • 00:20:45.901 --> 00:20:48.003
  • Success, people cuen... tend to quit depending upon the lord,
  • 00:20:48.070 --> 00:20:50.272
  • Quit depending upon the lord, and they get to thinking, that
  • 00:20:50.339 --> 00:20:51.540
  • And they get to thinking, that man, i've achieved a level of
  • 00:20:51.606 --> 00:20:53.342
  • Man, i've achieved a level of success, and again, they get
  • 00:20:53.408 --> 00:20:54.676
  • Success, and again, they get comfortable and they just sit
  • 00:20:54.743 --> 00:20:55.977
  • Comfortable and they just sit down and they don't want to
  • 00:20:56.044 --> 00:20:57.579
  • Down and they don't want to stretch themself and they
  • 00:20:57.646 --> 00:20:59.314
  • Stretch themself and they quit seeking god. they aren't as
  • 00:20:59.381 --> 00:21:01.316
  • Quit seeking god. they aren't as dependent upon god as they were
  • 00:21:01.383 --> 00:21:04.586
  • Dependent upon god as they were when things were in a crisis
  • 00:21:04.653 --> 00:21:06.621
  • When things were in a crisis situation. and so, i really saw
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  • Situation. and so, i really saw that success has ruined more
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  • That success has ruined more people and ruined more people's
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  • People and ruined more people's relationship with god than
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  • Relationship with god than hardship and failure ever had.
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  • Hardship and failure ever had. and i knew that if the lord
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  • And i knew that if the lord started giving me a greater
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  • Started giving me a greater influence and accomplishing the
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  • Influence and accomplishing the vision that he had already put
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  • Vision that he had already put in my heart, i knew that there
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  • In my heart, i knew that there was going to be a tendency to
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  • Was going to be a tendency to get lifted up in pride and get
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  • Get lifted up in pride and get to where i didn't depend upon
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  • To where i didn't depend upon god the way i did before. and
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  • God the way i did before. and man, i hated the thought of
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  • Man, i hated the thought of that, and so i had to deal with
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  • That, and so i had to deal with that. i'll share more on that
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  • That. i'll share more on that tomorrow. and i've got some
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  • Tomorrow. and i've got some other great things to share.
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  • Once i got past these things that were holding me back,
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  • That were holding me back, then how did i begin to start
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  • Then how did i begin to start believing god and expanding and
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  • Believing god and expanding and seeing things happen in my life?
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  • >> am i a mistake?
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  • >> why do i still deal
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  • With depression?
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  • >> why does life
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  • Feel meaningless?
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  • >> have i wasted my soul?
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  • Is it too late for me?
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  • >> have i blown it?
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  • >> god's people are destroyed
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  • >> michael was born in 2003, a
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  • Healthy baby, but right after
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  • Probably the first month or two,
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  • We started seeing rashes. by the
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  • Time he was a year old, we had
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  • Gotten him diagnosed. he was
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  • Allergic to gluten, eggs, dairy,
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  • Nuts. then the asthma started
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  • When he was about two
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  • Or three years old.
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  • >> we had gone to the
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  • Doctor and he told him, this
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  • Is something that he's never
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  • Going to grow out of. this is
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  • Something you're going to have
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  • To learn to deal with the rest
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  • Of your life. so we prayed
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  • Together for what i think is the
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  • First time in our marriage, and
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  • The two of us just prayed and
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  • Said, god, what are we missing?
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  • >> at this moment a neighbor
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  • Invited them to a healing night.
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  • >> we took michael up and
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  • He got prayed for.
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  • >> we went home and with
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  • The approach of, well,
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  • Michael, either the word is true
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  • Or it's not. either by
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  • Jesus's stripes you are
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  • Healed or you're not.
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  • >> you're healed now, so
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  • Here's some pizza. i don't know
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  • If it was 20 minutes or an hour
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  • Later. heaven brings michael
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  • Into me and he's covered from
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  • Head to toe in hives and he
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  • Can't breathe. i just started
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  • Reading scriptures over him,
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  • Isaiah 53 and first peter 2:24,
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  • And i watched the hives
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  • Disappear from that boy's body.
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  • >> it was bit by bit, and we
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  • Really had to ease into it just
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  • Because it was everything
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  • Against i'd ever been taught. it
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  • Just took a few months until
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  • Michael was completely free of
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  • All symptoms where he could eat
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  • Anything he wanted to and just
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  • Walk in that healing.
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  • >> our lives have been
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  • Completely changed. now
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  • It's normal for me and
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  • My brothers to go and play
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  • Soccer with friends. i didn't
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  • Think that that would become
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  • Normal for me ever.
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