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Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Victory In The Midst Of Discomfort (Part 2)

December 9, 2024 | S

Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Victory In The Midst Of Discomfort (Part 2)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Victory In The Midst Of Discomfort (Part 2) | December 9, 2024
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  • Creflo dollar: sometimes he makes physical provisions or
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  • Might be in a situation where he's not removing the fire, but
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  • He will provide protection.
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  • And the whole time in the middle of discomfort, he will be
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  • Your helper.
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  • In the middle of discomfort, he will be your provider.
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  • And what happens when you come out of discomfort?
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  • Because he was jehovah jireh, not in the middle of your
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  • Comfort zone, but you got to know him as jehovah jireh in the
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  • Creflo: i mean, when taffi and i was in a meeting in, i think it
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  • Was dothan, alabama, where we stayed in that motel and you
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  • Could hear people walking.
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  • Now, we ain't stay in a motel because we was just flat broke.
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  • We stayed in the motel because that's all they had to stay.
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  • Taffi said, "we in a motel?"
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  • I said, "yeah, you can hear the noise outside, can't you?"
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  • The kind where you put the chair against the door so you have
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  • Enough time to grab something if somebody busts in.
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  • And it reminded us of our honeymoon when man, i ain't
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  • Never been nowhere.
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  • I was just scared i wasn't gonna have enough money to get us back
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  • Home and we stayed in this--
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  • They had the wrong reservation and it was our honeymoon, dude.
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  • You understand it.
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  • And they put us in a room.
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  • You remember those tv shows when they had the flashing light
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  • Right out the window and you could hear the bugs when they
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  • Hit the light?
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  • I ain't playing, y'all, and then it had twin beds in there.
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  • And so taffi and i called said, "it's our honeymoon night.
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  • We got two twin beds."
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  • She said, "may i make a suggestion?"
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  • And i said, "oh, here we go."
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  • She said, "just take the beds and push them together."
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  • So we decided to do what we believed.
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  • We decided let joy arise.
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  • Now, i know it sounds deep.
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  • But what else are we gonna do?
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  • We got a light flashing in there.
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  • We got a little sound system--bzzt, and then
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  • She talking about push the bed, push the bed.
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  • I don't know if we did it, but no, i don't think we did it.
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  • We just got on one bed and i think we turned--the drawers
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  • Were different colors and when we turned the faucet on it--the
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  • Air came out and it--tch tch tch tch.
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  • So we started laughing at the room.
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  • We couldn't do no--we just started laughing at the room.
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  • We start joning the room out.
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  • I said, "baby, you wanna look at one more thing, you see that
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  • Cord up there with the ceiling fan?
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  • I think that's thread."
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  • And we laughed the whole time.
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  • And the next day you talking about, if he can't steal your
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  • Joy, he can't keep your goods.
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  • The next day they called us down got us a premiere suite.
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  • All of the everything that went with it and everything and that
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  • Hotel means a lot to us.
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  • They're renovating it now.
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  • We wanna go by to make sure they don't forget that room that we
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  • Were staying in.
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  • But the purpose of the story i'm telling you here is that whether
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  • It was in that motel or that hotel or in south africa when i
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  • Was coming from one part of the country and she was, meet
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  • Me there.
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  • I said to her when i arrived from brazil to south africa, i
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  • Said, "you are my home.
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  • Not where we live at you are my home."
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  • You understand?
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  • Listen, that wasn't born out of a marriage that never had
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  • No arguments or out of a marriage that never had no
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  • Disagreement, that was born out of a marriage of, "i don't know
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  • If i can do this no more."
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  • And it grows and the holy spirit begins to take you and lead you
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  • Not by these little freaky principles that people are
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  • Telling you about why they're ignoring the fact that
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  • Discomfort played a role and had a purpose.
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  • And it's still scary sometimes because sometimes it gets
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  • So good.
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  • You're like, "lord, i don't want this to mess up.
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  • Show me how to do this."
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  • And what's happening.
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  • The holy spirit is now changing both of you, working on both
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  • Of you.
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  • But that can't happen if you start playing these little
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  • Church games to try to impress people and not being real with
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  • Folks about the reality of what discomfort and how discomfort
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  • Played a role in your life.
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  • How pain played a role in your life, how you had to look back
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  • And realize, oh my god.
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  • I can't believe i did that.
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  • I shouldn't have done that.
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  • I left myself behind and especially a pastor.
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  • Here i am being this first lady or this pastor and i don't even
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  • Know what i'm doing.
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  • I'm 20 something years old and i'm married because i'm scared
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  • About what the church will say.
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  • If you're a single pastor and i ain't got no wife and so you're
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  • Doing the checklist and after you finish the checklist, 40
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  • Years been gone by and you're like, "what did we sacrifice
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  • Trying to keep church law?"
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  • I'm over it.
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  • We have the author of the perfection of the law living in
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  • Us, training us and showing us how to live.
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  • We have the character of the holy spirit living in us and we
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  • Keep ignoring him, pretending that he's not there, and we
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  • Search for somebody to give us the cheaper instead of the holy
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  • Ghost giving us the deeper and we keep choosing the cheaper
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  • Over the deeper.
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  • And so we live these fake lives.
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  • This is the way we go to church, go to church.
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  • Oh, here are our children they're perfect.
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  • Oh, it's our marriage. we never have arguments.
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  • We're perfect.
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  • Oh, our relationship with jesus.
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  • Oh, lord jesus, we love you. we're perfect.
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  • And that's hard to learn from when it's washed in deception
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  • And pretense.
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  • Don't be afraid to be the genuine you and run away from
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  • The cheap copy because it's cheap because it's not
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  • Genuinely you.
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  • Somebody--listen to me.
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  • Somebody is looking for the genuine you and they can't find
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  • It because you have dressed yourself up in the cheap copy.
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  • Some man is looking for that genuine person but you so busy
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  • Being the tiktok copy and he can't find you.
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  • Amen.
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  • 1 peter 5:8 and 10 says, "be sober, be vigilant; because your
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  • Adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about,
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  • Seeking whom he may devour."
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  • So there is a devil loose and that devil is trying to find
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  • Somebody that he can deceive.
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  • He's seeking whom he may devour.
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  • If he could devour everybody, he wouldn't have to seek whom he
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  • May devour.
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  • So i say over you, he can't devour you.
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  • He need to take that somewhere else because it ain't working up
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  • In here.
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  • He says, "whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the
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  • Same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren
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  • That are in the world.
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  • But the god of all grace, who hath called us into his eternal
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  • Glory by christ jesus, after that you have suffered a while."
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  • Here what he gonna do.
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  • He gonna make you perfect, he gonna stablish you, he's gonna
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  • Strengthen you, he gonna settle you.
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  • Look at verse 10 in the new living translation.
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  • Verse 10 in the new translation.
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  • He says, "in his kindness god called you to share in his
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  • Eternal glory by means of christ jesus."
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  • So after you have suffered a little while he will restore and
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  • Support and strengthen you and he will place you on a firm
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  • Foundation, amen.
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  • So there's purpose in that discomfort.
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  • There's purpose in all of the stuff life can bring to you.
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  • If you hang with god, you will get the benefit of the maturity
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  • That comes from it.
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  • Now, what happens sometimes is when discomfort comes, we worked
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  • Real hard to get back in the comfort zone.
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  • Listen to me now, discomfort comes, we work hard to get back
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  • In the comfort zone.
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  • And so what happens is, you know, i'm in discomfort.
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  • I'm just stressed.
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  • So we need comfort zone real quick.
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  • So let's go get drunk.
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  • You follow what i'm saying?
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  • So that's what satan will do.
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  • He will say, "all right, you wanna get comfort, you wanna get
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  • Comfortable real quick?
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  • Okay, so you know, you're depressed, let's smoke
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  • Some weed."
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  • So what is he trying to do?
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  • He's trying to say in your attempt to try to hurry and get
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  • In this comfort zone--in that comfort zone again, i'm gonna
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  • Use that desire to try to enslave you into something else.
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  • And it was not comfortable where you were and you're trying to
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  • Get back in the comfort zone, but i'm trying to get you to
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  • Experience the struggle without any hope of maturity
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  • And growing.
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  • So, be careful that you're not working real hard to run away
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  • From the discomfort that you'll take anything to try to get back
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  • In the comfort zone.
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  • "well, i was lonely.
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  • So i called up penelope."
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  • See, now that's gonna be, that's not, that ain't gonna be like
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  • What you want, that ain't what you want.
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  • And that's just comfortable for a minute and then the shame and
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  • The guilt and the condemnation and the struggle for life--don't
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  • Do that.
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  • So if discomfort is there, you're trusting in god, you're
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  • Trusting in his promises, you're trusting in his word.
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  • You're not just gonna let anything be used to hurry up to
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  • Usher you back into the comfort zone because you cannot mature
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  • And grow in the comfort zone.
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  • So don't try to hurry up and get to it.
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  • And there are a lot of people that do that.
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  • They just, "whatever i got to do to get back comfortable again."
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  • You ever heard this? you ever heard this?
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  • Sometimes you need to sit in your pain, your discomfort, your
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  • Challenge, your situation, trusting the holy spirit, not
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  • Just sitting there but trusting the holy spirit, he will bring
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  • Me out, he will strengthen me, he will put me on a
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  • Firm foundation.
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  • He will, he's got to be my trust.
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  • Not all of these other fleshy things that make me, may make me
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  • Give me a better feeling, but those feelings will deceive you.
  • 00:14:39.113 --> 00:14:43.051
  • They come and they go very quickly sometimes.
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  • Why didn't god just put the fire out in the fiery furnace?
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  • He's god, surely he could, he could have just showed up and
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  • With a small breath and the fires out.
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  • You ever thought about that? why didn't he do it?
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  • Because when we call on god, we want god to take it away.
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  • Why didn't god just take my cancer away?
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  • Why didn't he just take the shingles away, why?
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  • Why didn't he just remove the tumors, why?
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  • He's god.
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  • The problem with that is you're sitting there waiting for god to
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  • Take something away when he
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  • Wants to get in the discomfort
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  • Zone with you and use it as instructional purpose.
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  • So he didn't move the fire but the fourth man showed up in
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  • The fire.
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  • Watch [speaking in tongues].
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  • Because grace will provide
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  • In the midst of discomfort and the
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  • Stuff that could happen to you when you're in trouble, he ain't
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  • Letting that happen.
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  • Some people go through much more but not you.
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  • When the purpose is to mature you, he's gonna be there to make
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  • Sure nothing else mess with you.
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  • He will be provision in the middle of every fiery furnace
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  • You go through.
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  • Why didn't he just put all the lions to sleep?
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  • Why we got to sit up there being traumatized by hungry lions and
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  • I know i'm the meal?
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  • And so our prayer would be, "move the fire god.
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  • [speaking in tongues] move the fire."
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  • Our prayer would be, "oh god take away the lions.
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  • Kill the lions. lord, yeah, kill the lions."
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  • Oh god, remove the cancer.
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  • And see, ultimately, you will get the results of that but quit
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  • Trying to dictate to god how to do what he knows need to be done
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  • To prepare you for your assignment in life.
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  • As long as god will provide for me in the middle of that trial,
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  • I can go through it.
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  • Because listen, if it gets too tough, if it gets too tough
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  • Where i can't go through it, he promised that he'll make a way
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  • To escape it so i can bear it.
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  • What am i saying?
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  • You gotta learn how to trust him in the midst of discomfort.
  • 00:18:08.456 --> 00:18:17.064
  • And some of you are in discomfort right now.
  • 00:18:17.064 --> 00:18:20.401
  • "i don't know where the money gonna come from for us to pay
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  • The bill on this house."
  • 00:18:24.672 --> 00:18:26.274
  • And that house has been a burden ever since you bought it.
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  • "oh lord, help us with the house."
  • 00:18:34.315 --> 00:18:36.817
  • He said "i am.
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  • I'm gonna make sure you lose it."
  • 00:18:42.256 --> 00:18:46.894
  • But you don't see that, do you?
  • 00:18:46.894 --> 00:18:48.696
  • "no, no. god ain't gonna be behind that."
  • 00:18:48.696 --> 00:18:52.300
  • "no, no, i'll provide for you while you losing this burden
  • 00:18:52.300 --> 00:18:58.005
  • Because i was trying to teach you about investments and i was
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  • Trying to teach you about management.
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  • I was trying to teach you about being a blessing to
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  • Somebody else.
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  • And yeah, i wanted you to get the house but not for you."
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  • That's why you got to get to know the holy ghost.
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  • So you can understand him from a non-law based perspective and
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  • Understand how he works.
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  • When you find yourself in discomfort, there are three ways
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  • That god extends his grace and discomfort.
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  • And number one, his presence is gonna be there.
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  • When your discomfort is present, this, look at all the people in
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  • The bible that were in discomfort, the presence of god
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  • Was there.
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  • Number two, the power.
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  • Grace is gonna make sure power is gonna be there.
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  • When we have no strength, god has more than enough strength
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  • For all of us.
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  • Paul said, "when i'm weak, that's when i'm strong."
  • 00:20:00.735 --> 00:20:03.704
  • So i can guarantee you he gonna be there.
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  • His power gonna be there in the middle of discomfort.
  • 00:20:07.208 --> 00:20:12.513
  • But here's the part that i'm trying to talk about.
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  • Provision, grace is gonna make sure provision is there.
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  • Even if god doesn't change our basic circumstances, he still
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  • Meets our needs in the midst of them.
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  • Sometimes he makes physical provisions or provides
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  • Protection for additional difficulty that you might be in
  • 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:37.705
  • A situation where he's not removing the fire, but he'll
  • 00:20:37.705 --> 00:20:41.409
  • Provide protection and the whole time in the middle of
  • 00:20:41.409 --> 00:20:47.581
  • Discomfort, he will be your helper.
  • 00:20:47.581 --> 00:20:51.052
  • In the middle of discomfort, he will be your provider.
  • 00:20:51.052 --> 00:20:57.558
  • And what happens when you come out of discomfort?
  • 00:20:57.558 --> 00:21:00.494
  • You know him better.
  • 00:21:00.494 --> 00:21:02.563
  • You trust him more.
  • 00:21:02.563 --> 00:21:05.066
  • Your faith is grown because he was jehovah jireh, not in the
  • 00:21:05.066 --> 00:21:09.904
  • Middle of your comfort zone.
  • 00:21:09.904 --> 00:21:12.673
  • But you got to know him as jehovah jireh in the middle of
  • 00:21:12.673 --> 00:21:16.143
  • Your fiery furnace.
  • 00:21:16.143 --> 00:21:18.779
  • Now people don't wanna hear that because we love coming to church
  • 00:21:18.779 --> 00:21:20.781
  • To hear fairy tales.
  • 00:21:20.781 --> 00:21:23.851
  • "if you ever get in a fiery furnace, god's gonna remove
  • 00:21:23.851 --> 00:21:28.923
  • That furnace."
  • 00:21:28.923 --> 00:21:30.257
  • No, he's not.
  • 00:21:30.257 --> 00:21:32.326
  • "if you ever find yourself in a lion's den, god gonna move those
  • 00:21:32.326 --> 00:21:40.434
  • Lions out of the den."
  • 00:21:40.434 --> 00:21:41.902
  • But he might put them to sleep but they still gonna be there.
  • 00:21:41.902 --> 00:21:49.777
  • "if you got a crazy husband, then god's gonna make him like
  • 00:21:49.777 --> 00:21:55.649
  • An angel."
  • 00:21:55.649 --> 00:21:57.017
  • Now he'll be less crazy
  • 00:21:57.017 --> 00:22:05.793
  • Because he's trying to mature you too.
  • 00:22:05.793 --> 00:22:07.661
  • It ain't just one person. it ain't never just one.
  • 00:22:07.661 --> 00:22:12.166
  • It takes two to dance and you can't get mad at the floor
  • 00:22:12.166 --> 00:22:16.370
  • Because you can't dance.
  • 00:22:16.370 --> 00:22:25.546
  • This is real folks, this is real life and i apologize that i
  • 00:22:25.546 --> 00:22:32.887
  • Don't do a good job of lying through the pulpit so you can
  • 00:22:32.887 --> 00:22:36.390
  • Feel good about yourself.
  • 00:22:36.390 --> 00:22:38.859
  • But you got to grow and you got to mature and the baby stage got
  • 00:22:38.859 --> 00:22:43.831
  • To be over with at least one day, you know.
  • 00:22:43.831 --> 00:22:46.600
  • You can't still keep going around being mad at somebody
  • 00:22:46.600 --> 00:22:49.737
  • Holding ought against somebody unforgiving somebody,
  • 00:22:49.737 --> 00:22:52.807
  • Competitive jealousy with somebody.
  • 00:22:52.807 --> 00:22:55.109
  • You know, you ain't speaking to her.
  • 00:22:55.109 --> 00:22:56.510
  • He ain't speaking to you.
  • 00:22:56.510 --> 00:22:57.878
  • You know you sinning like you're crazy.
  • 00:22:57.878 --> 00:22:59.680
  • You're doing, you can't keep doing that.
  • 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:01.982
  • That's immaturity.
  • 00:23:01.982 --> 00:23:04.685
  • Playing church, being cool, acting like a fool.
  • 00:23:04.685 --> 00:23:12.059
  • I can't do that no more because jesus has been too good to me to
  • 00:23:12.059 --> 00:23:17.798
  • Sit up in the pulpit and lie to you so it will match all the
  • 00:23:17.798 --> 00:23:22.303
  • Other lies you have heard all your life.
  • 00:23:22.303 --> 00:23:25.306
  • I can't do that.
  • 00:23:25.306 --> 00:23:27.441
  • I mean at the risk of you leaving and never coming back.
  • 00:23:27.441 --> 00:23:29.910
  • At the risk of me preaching the blue chairs again.
  • 00:23:29.910 --> 00:23:32.313
  • At the risk of all of that stuff, i got to tell you the
  • 00:23:32.313 --> 00:23:37.051
  • Gospel truth on how this life should be lived.
  • 00:23:37.051 --> 00:23:45.259
  • It's not that hard folks really.
  • 00:23:48.929 --> 00:23:51.398
  • It's making your mind up to say, "i have a god that loves me.
  • 00:23:51.398 --> 00:23:56.604
  • He lives on the inside of me and i'm gonna trust him enough to
  • 00:23:56.604 --> 00:24:00.040
  • Walk with him while he teaches me how to live this life."
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  • Male announcer: did you know that jesus endured suffering for
  • 00:24:08.115 --> 00:24:11.352
  • Us so that he could be with us in our struggles?
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  • Grasping this truth is essential to not only receiving god's
  • 00:24:14.021 --> 00:24:18.459
  • Blessings, but holding on to them.
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  • He suffered so we can now have healing.
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  • He suffered so we can now be made righteous.
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  • He suffered because now we can be made whole.
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  • When stuff happens in your life, that's an opportunity for you
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  • To grow.
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  • That's an opportunity for you to get stronger and stronger
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