January 21, 2025 • 58 mins
Have you ever wondered how to navigate life's tumultuous changes while keeping your faith intact? Angela and I invite you to explore this journey with us on Daily Bread as we delve into the theme of "Adjustments." Through our 29-year marriage and personal stories, we share how divine timing and revelations have shaped our lives. Join us as we celebrate the beauty of God's timing, and discover how to stay anchored in spiritual foundations even when life feels like a tossed salad of uncertainties.
Embrace change as a stepping stone to growth and success. We uncover the necessity of emotional intelligence during life's transitions and how to balance comfort with the readiness for change. Drawing inspiration from the story of Joseph, we illustrate how challenges can elevate your spirit and purpose. By highlighting both personal and biblical insights, we encourage you to view life's negative transitions as hidden blessings, fostering a mindset shift toward adaptability and faith in the divine nature of life's cycles.
Through engaging discussions and scriptural reflections, we underscore the importance of trusting in God's plan, even amid trials. Discover how to turn pain into praise, understanding God's purpose in our lives. Anchored in scriptures like Jeremiah 29:11, we reassure you that God's plans are for our welfare and prosperity. Let this episode be your guide to embracing life's adjustments, fostering flexibility and growth in your spiritual journey, and offering hope and anticipation for what lies beyond current challenges.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, welcome everyone.
Welcome back to Daily Breadwith Dr Jarrell and Angela
Stokely.
It is good to be back in thestudio with you all today.
I've got we've got an amazingseries that we are in and in
2025, we need this series, thistopic so much.
So, critically, our topic isadjustments.
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How many of you out there arefacing adjustments, changes,
modifications, edits, reroutes,u-turns?
So many things are tossed up inthe air like a tossed salad,
like our relationships, our jobstatus, the stability of our
culture, politics, stability ofour culture, politics, community
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everything is up in the airfamily life.
But how do we stay grounded?
How do we stay bonded to thekingdom of God where, you know,
the scripture says everythingthat can be shaken will be
shaken, and so the Lord isshaking the earth.
Everyone can see that we'removing toward the end times and
it is critical and importantthat we have the principles, the
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foundation, getting back to thestrong roots of the word of God
, that we remain stable andblessed and prosperous in the
kingdom, affecting the culture,not the culture infecting the
kingdom.
So we are here today justexcited to bring you part three
of our series Adjustments.
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Come on in, angela, and welcomeour audience.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Hey everybody, again, so glad to be here, excited
once again to be sitting in thisseat, to be able to share
nuggets, encouragement,inspiration, the word of God and
be led by the spirit of God toshare what is necessary to help
build up the body of Christ inevery area.
Amen, and so we are excited tobe here.
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Thank you so much for tuning in.
We give God glory for you.
We give God glory.
I just felt this in the spirit.
I give God glory, we give Godglory for your testimony,
because you have a testimonyHallelujah.
And even after this, I'm justconvinced that your testimony is
going to be even greater, evenstronger and more powerful.
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So tell your testimony Amen andglory to God.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
Glad to be here, excited to getinto this topic today, because
I believe it's going to blessyour life.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It definitely is immensely, and I'm blessed
sitting across from you as usual.
And I get to look in that cutelittle face with the fun eyes.
It's so cute.
I praise God for this.
Thank you, we're coming up on29 years of marriage.
Everyone, good God, have mercy.
29 years of marriage, blessedto have been in a relationship
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with each other for 34 years.
Been knowing each other sincethe eighth grade, seventh,
seventh grade.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Come on in with that brain.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I like that brain power she got the brain power
she has the brain power.
Since we were 12 years old, weknew each other.
That's so wild.
We celebrate 29 years, february17th, of 2025.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Now let me meddle a little bit, because what hit me
and I don't want it to just passus by is that sometimes the
thing that God has for you couldbe right in front of you and
you don't even know it.
I know Right and so thatreality of really trusting God
when we think we can't trace Godcould really end up whereby God
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has placed the thing in frontof you.
You just not you have just notreceived revelation, revelation,
you don't have revelation andwhat it is that is so powerful.
That is so powerful, oh my god,because at 12 we we hadn't had
the revelation.
Yeah, even at what were we 16in the 10th grade?
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Um, we had that, that moment.
Clearly it was spiritual, wherewe just stopped and stared at
each other, didn't?
know why never said anything toeach other and just walked off
and again not realizing what'sin front of you, not
understanding it.
But God has to reveal it to youin time.
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And so, even now, as I'm sayingthis, I'm thinking about how
many things have have God, howmany things have God brought to
our mind, has got to shown us,have?
Has God?
Um, given us these moments andwe didn't quite understand them
then and we still don'tunderstand them to this day.
But yet there is a set time ofrevelation.
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That's a word.
There's a set time forrevelation of what God has in
store for you.
It's been in front of you thewhole time, you just couldn't
see it, you hadn't yet had therevelation of it.
That's so powerful, I knowright.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Okay.
That was good for me, that justblessed me, and that's how big
of a role God plays in oureveryday life, that he is our
navigator.
He is our unseen navigator.
He is charting the path andspeaking to our hearts and
giving revelation to guide usinto who we're supposed to be,
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the people we're supposed tomeet, where we're supposed to
work.
You can't say God doesn't loveus because he brought you and I
into the revelation that webelong to each other.
Yeah, he brought me into therevelation that you were my wife
.
Yeah, you know, even though Imissed it in the 12th grade, 12
years old missed it in the 10thgrade.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We don't miss it, but there's the set time, just
wasn't.
Then.
I feel like he gives us thosebreadcrumbs to reflect back on.
You know what I'm saying,because one of the first things
we talked about was you remember, when we were in the hallway?
We had that moment.
We didn't know what that meant.
You know what I'm saying, butit was once it was revealed
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that's my wife, that's myhusband, right?
Then it's like everything madesense that he had showed all
along, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You know what I mean?
Yeah, like wow, yeah, becausehow could we have understood
that then Right At 12.
Right, you know what I mean.
Yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, All right.
Well, let's get into this.
Let's get into this.
Thank you all for listening toour little back down memory lane
type situation.
Thank you all for listening inon that.
But, and also if you're lookingto grow in your purpose and
destiny, I want to advise you togo to JarrellStokelycom and get
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I do have another book comingout here in the next few months
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or so.
This book is based on a truestory of a guy by the name of
Overcomer, a young man by thename of Overcomer who, because
of God's grace in his life, heovercome all of these obstacles
to walk into his greatness, buthe never knew God's grace in his
life.
He overcome all of theseobstacles to walk into his
greatness, but he never knew Godwas there all alone.
So he was always asking thequestion where is God?
Why is this happening to me?
If you love me, why is this?
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But in the end, overcomer seesthat God was with him all the
time, through every tragedy, andso I want you to get your copy
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All right, we got all thelogistical stuff out of the way.
Father, we thank you so muchfor what you're about to do in
this part three of the seriesadjustments because, god, we are
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facing adjustments every dayand we want to know how to be
able to navigate this terrain bythe power of your Holy Spirit.
We know that over the lastcouple of weeks, we've dealt
with God's sovereignty andcontrol in our lives, and now
today, father, we want you totake us deeper.
So anoint our ears to hear ourhearts, to sense and guide our
thoughts, lord, that we maypresent just a really solid
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teaching and a relevant,exciting word for your people to
continue to grow In Jesus' nameamen.
Adjustments Angela, are youfacing adjustments?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
right now, oh, absolutely, I feel like in every
area of my life, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Absolutely Wow.
I remember thinking back on thedefinition of adjustments.
I think we said it wasmodifications to endure or go
through the process ofmodification, changes,
redevelopments, reinvention,restructuring, just anywhere
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where there's a shift and amodification.
We then, in order to thrive,have to have some things in our
toolbox, some strategies in ourtoolkit that we are able to pull
from, that we have appliedenough enough that we are
skilled at using them tonavigate those changes and
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rearranging and altercationsthat we're going through in our
lives not altercation, butalternatives that we're facing
in our lives.
So, last or part one, part tworather, we dealt with God's
sovereignty and control, andProverbs 3, 5, and 6 was our
foundational scripture for thatteaching.
But we also looked at the lifeof Abraham and how Abraham had
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to leave the familiar for theunknown.
So if you didn't get a chanceto listen to adjustments part
two and you're dealing withleaving the familiar for the
unknown, maybe you feel likeyou've changed jobs, you're in a
new relationship, you havechanged states, you've been
living in a different city.
Your life, the comfort of yourlife and the structure of life
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has changed drastically.
You're now dealing withchildren, your circle, and
you're moving into the unknown,and you want to know how do I
navigate this adjustment.
Well, please go listen to parttwo of adjustments, because we
talked about God's sovereigntyand control.
When you leave the familiar forthe unknown, because sometimes
God will call you to do justthat.
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Yep, leave your familiar.
Lots of time, lots of times.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So today we are talking about embracing change
as part of God's plan.
Now y'all know one thing wehate and we're not all that good
at.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Is change Right?
Come on, somebody be real aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Especially change that we're not, we're not
initiating Right, yeah, yeah,change that we're not.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
We're not initiating, right, yeah, yeah, change that
we're not initiating.
So you have self-initiatedchange.
I talked about this in my book.
Uh, in this book, going to yourgreatness, you have
self-initiated change.
You have other initiated changeexternally and then you have
sovereign god initiated change.
So we're always going through achange.
It's just who is at the helm ofthat change and how do we
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navigate that changesuccessfully, when we come out
victorious, when we come out ontop, when we come out a winner,
rather than struggling throughthe process?
And one of the first thingsyou've got to do is be aware
that you're going through achange process, absolutely.
And how am I emotionally, asI'm going through this?
So we're talking aboutpracticing a good balance of
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emotional intelligence.
The first stage of change isawareness, but how are you
emotionally, as you aretransitioning to what you have
now become aware of that ishappening?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
in your life.
You know, I think it'simportant for us to tear down
some of the the walls I'll callthem walls that we've created
ourselves more often than notnot even intentionally ourselves
, more often than not, not evenintentionally.
And what I mean by that is, Ithink one of the reasons why
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we're so resistant to change,especially change we don't
initiate, is because we are inlove and infatuated with
regimens, because regimenscreate comfortability and we are
sometimes creatures.
Because we are creatures, ofhabit hands down and that's our
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happy place, more often than not, is when I'm I'm doing, I'm
operating in this, in this cycle.
I call it a cycle whereby Ifeel like I'm being my best self
because I've done this longenough.
I feel like I'm being my bestself because I've done this long
enough.
I could do it in my sleep and Igot the pattern down.
Pack creates thatcomfortability and, I think, a
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sense of confidence in myselfand I think that we create those
as if they are going to bethese consistent stables in our
life.
Yes, not realizing that this,this regimen, this cycle, this,
whatever, you know, whatever wewant to call it that we've
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created for ourselves is aeventually going to change.
And I think that in order forus to really get to the place
where we can start embracingchange better than maybe we have
, is be willing to tear downsome of those built-in processes
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, those built-in things thatreally cause us to keep
gravitating to comfort andresisting discomfort.
You know what I mean.
So when you were talking aboutthat, it just kind of hit me
like we sometimes we have torestart with reprogramming
ourselves.
You know what I mean.
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Like I want to get to the placewhere God, I don't always want
to be comfortable.
I want to learn how to becontent.
And then I still want to beable to walk through the valley
of the shadow of death and fearno evil, knowing that you are
with me, you're right in yourstep.
They compliment.
I still want to be able to do.
I want to do both.
You know what I'm saying.
Can for ourselves.
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Just say, quit leaning so somuch into this comfort place.
Yeah, that has been created asa result of these regimens and
this.
I got everything planned outall the time.
It's always the same onthursdays I eat the same thing,
on wednesdays I do the same, youknow, and because I feel like
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that then creates more, when we,when we don't work on breaking
that cycle, I think we setourselves up more for failure
with trying to accept and adjustto change.
Does that make sense?
Oh, absolutely, you know, Ithink.
I think it just kind kind of wehave to work on that internal
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thing.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, when you think about it, as we prepare to jump
into these scriptures we're notgoing to leave you without
scriptures and stuff we just laya foundation.
But when you really think aboutit, patterns and rhythms are
biblical.
They are also spiritual anddivine, because God put
everything in heaven and earthinto a pattern, absolutely.
He put it into a rhythmAbsolutely.
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That's why he says I think it'sin Ecclesiastes he says as long
as the earth remain, there willbe seed time and harvest,
summer and winter.
So things are.
God put the earth in a rotation, he put it in a pattern and he
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put it into a system.
Yeah, and he put, he put man'sauthority, dominance and
blessings and stuff intoauthority, into a rhythm and
into a system.
He created all these things andhe said now you have authority
and these things are going toobey you and you're going to
have authority over it, to obeyyou and you're going to have
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authority over it.
But the growth spot is when weput ourselves in the place where
we don't say this pattern hasto stay the same.
In other words, when we makeourselves open for pattern
changes.
See, just because something isgood doesn't mean it can't be
great, and sometimes God want tocome into your life and create
better.
Yeah, even when God, even Godhimself, when he created the
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heavens and earth, each day thathe created, he sat back and
said this is good, but he neversaid good couldn't be greater.
Right.
And so in our lives, we set uppatterns.
Patterns are good.
We develop good habits, wedevelop good patterns, and then
we develop bad habits and badpatterns, but it's nothing that
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says that your pattern that youhave, is not good.
The idea is how can thispattern be greater?
How can I modify, how can Iadjust and embrace what's
happening in my life to create abetter system at this present
time?
And that's the whole concept ofembracing, being willing to
make those adjustments, beingable to be pulled out of the box
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.
And that first stage of beingin the pattern is called
homeostasis.
It means we're in such apattern we can do things without
even thinking about it, and sothat's the first place God wants
to break up.
He wants us to think about whatwe're doing and how we need to
grow.
He wants to be focused on thechanges that he is developing
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and growing in us.
He wants us to see him movingin our lives, and in order to do
that, we have to have a spacein our system for God alone.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
We have to submit that system and say God, I'm in
a pattern of mission, I got thisgoing on, but I'm open for
anything you decide to doAbsolutely, because the end goal
I was sitting here as I waslistening to you, I remember
because the end goal of theadjustment oftentimes is the
better version of ourselves.
Right, you know, god knows whohe intended, who he created, who
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he ordained us to be.
We're trying to catch up, right, and the reality is is that
after every change, after everyadjustment, the goal is a better
version of ourselves that wehave not yet met, that looks
like Christ.
Oh my God, hallelujah, yep.
I'm going to stop right therebecause I could go on, but come
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on, I'm ready, because I felt apriest trying to come on,
because there's a version, and Isay this all the time there's a
version of ourselves that wehave not yet met.
Oh my God, there's a version ofourselves that we have not yet
met.
Oh my God, there's a version ofourselves that we have not yet
met.
And if I go into every season ofmy life realizing that at the
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end of this season that therewill be a version of me that I
didn't even know existed in me,I will better embrace the
adjustments that I probably donot like, these adjustments that
don't even feel good, be it awilderness, be it at a Red Sea,
with Pharaoh behind me.
Whatever it is, At the end ofthis good God, have mercy there
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will be a version of Angela thatAngela has never seen but that
aligns with the perfect will ofGod for who he saw me to be, who
he said I was, and thisadjustment is only a process to
bring that person out of me.
Right, god, a mercy.
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And so you know, every time wetalk about judgment, I can't
help but say this because italways takes me back to the
chiropractor adjustments.
Talk about adjustment?
I can't help but say thisbecause it always takes me back
to the chiropractor Adjustments.
Every time I hear that word, Igo chiropractor and the reality
is is when you go into thechiropractor for those of us for
the first time, you're scaredbecause you don't know what to
expect and you probably heardit's a lot of pain when we go
through things.
When people hear things likewhat we're talking about today,
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you could get a little nervous.
You could get a little scaredif you ain't never been through
anything.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I don't want any adjustments.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Exactly.
But when you talk to somebodywho's been through it already
and they say, yes, a littleuncomfortable, but you're going
to be better after, oh my God.
Oh my God, that was myexperience with a chiropractor.
Okay, yeah, it's going to hurtat first, but you're going to be
better.
You may go in with pain, butyou're going to come out with
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relief.
You may go in with maybe someneck issues or some shoulder
issues that's out of alignmentExactly.
That is impacting how you liveyour everyday, but once you
start getting these adjustments,they will help you to show up
better in your everyday life.
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Right, my God, right.
So at the end of all of this,the goal is the better version
of myself and just thinkingabout your example.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
sometimes, when you go into a chiropractor for the
first time because you've heardabout the body being out of
alignment, and not even knowingit.
When you go in for the firsttime, you know, and you go
through that process of.
So I heard intentionality, Iheard fear, but also heard
courage, because you wereintentional to go there.
So that means courage and fearcan exist in this, in this
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symbiotic kind of space.
They can exist in this samespace, you see, and still
achieve the goal.
And then I heard reward.
So you had intentionality, fear, courage and reward and pain
and reward, all in this samekind of process.
But when you go in for thatfirst time you don't even know
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stuff is out of alignment, untilafter you've gotten an
alignment and you feel betterand you say I don't even know
stuff is out of alignment, untilafter you've gotten an
alignment and you feel betterand you say I didn't even know
that was out of alignment.
That's how God works with us.
He's the chiropractor thatshows us things that are out of
alignment, that we didn't evenknow was out of alignment.
It's not until he comes in andtakes us through an adjustment,
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a career adjustment, arelational adjustment, a
personal development adjustment,a spiritual gift adjustment,
where he calls a new gift out ofus and we start operating in
you know the laying on of hands,or we start operating in the
gift of leadership, or we startoperating in servitude and we're
trying to figure it out.
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And then we step back afteroperating in it for a while and
say I didn't even know that Iwas that willing to do something
like that, or I didn't evenknow that was in me.
Well, god took you through anadjustment to show you something
that was disaligned about howyou saw yourself, and you didn't
even know it.
You thought everything was justfine.
That is so cool, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That is so cool.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, that is so good .
So let's look at.
How in the world do I deal withembracing change as part of
God's plan?
What happens when God startstaking me through things to
adjust me into more of theperson he's called me to be?
Let's look at it.
The first scripture I want tolook at is Ecclesiastes, chapter
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three and verse one, and itsays this there is a time for
everything.
So if you haven't lived outeverything you intend to live
out in your life, if you haven'tseen every blessing, every high
place, if you haven't walkedthrough every open door that
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you've been believing to walkthrough, if you haven't gone
through those things yet, yourtime is coming, because there's
a time for everything, there's atime of lack, but there's also
a time for profit.
There's a time to go throughsickness, but there's also a
time for healing.
He said there's a time foreverything and a season, and
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this is what you was talkingabout.
In our relationship, we hadn'tcome into the set time and a
season for every activity underthe heavens, and that tells me
that we can be in one season andgossip.
It's time to change and go toanother, and in order for that
to happen, I've got to bring anadjustment into your life and
you've got to be able to embraceit when God is doing it.
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A lot of times, when God istrying to do something new or
different that we have not seenor experienced, we fight back,
we kick, we scream, we rebel,and in 2025, you can't do that.
If you're going to come intowhat God has for you and
whenever you hear this message,you can't this teaching, you
cannot fight this time.
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If you're going to get to thethings that God has for you
quicker, become the person thatGod has for you in a more
healthy way, we have got to bewilling to say yes, lord, the
first time.
Oh, my God.
So here we see that change isthen inevitable, but each season
has a divine purpose.
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So, whatever season you comeinto in your life, god is your
creator.
He's your father.
He either permitted it or hedid it.
Yeah, so if you're going througha hard time right now, there is
a divine purpose for yourstruggle.
If you're going through asuccessful time right now,
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there's a divine purpose forthat success.
Not to just make you happy,right.
It's not to just give you onemore material possession,
absolutely.
It's not to just give youanother great measure of power,
but what is the purpose of that.
It's not to just give youanother great measure of power,
but what is the purpose of that?
So, in order to embrace wherewe are and the changes we go
through, we have to understand.
There's a divine purpose for it, absolutely.
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What about?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
that, angela, even when it looks ugly, absolutely
you know, I feel like a lot ofwhat we said really points to
that.
You know, because immediately Ithought about this phrase that I
think could be helpful for usall to hold on to, and that is
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after this, after this, my God,that's so powerful for me.
If we could just hold on tothat.
After this, after this, what,after this, I'm going to?
I'm going to be a version of methat I've never seen.
After this, I'm going toexperience God in a way that
I've never experienced God.
After this, I'm going to seemore clearly things that I was
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completely blinded to.
After this, I'm going to bemore flexible in my spirituality
and in my growth than I've everbeen over the last 20 years.
My spirituality and in mygrowth than I've ever been over
the last 20 years.
After this, oh, my God.
And I believe that in thisseason, or in any season,
whereby we're facing adjustments, facing the move of God that's
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shifting us and changing us andcausing us to do things that we
didn't even see coming, we havegot to.
I believe this phrase could beyour blessing after this,
because what does that signify?
That signifies that this is notgoing to be always.
That signifies that there is aset time for me to come about of
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this thing.
It's not for the rest of mylife, but it is, in fact, on
God's time clock, although Idon't know what it is.
There is going to be an end.
But after, this is where I canreally rejoice.
I'm going to rejoice in it.
But I'm really going to rejoicewhen I come out of it again,
because I'm going to see God ina way that I've never seen God
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before.
And all I can think about rightnow is the children of Israel,
when they got on the other sideof the Red Sea.
Can you imagine how that Miriamsang a song, didn't she?
She sang a song because hadthey ever seen God in that way?
No, they had not.
But the moment that they walkedthrough the thing that was
challenging them because theywere at the Red, they were at
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the Red Sea, didn't know howthey were going to get across
they were.
Pharaoh was on the on the chasebehind them, hot on their heels
, and it's like okay, this looksover.
See, that was a season.
Ah, that was just a season.
God had a set time.
He knew he was gonna split thewaters.
He knew that he was gonna tellmoses boy, put the thing that's
in your hand over over themwaters so I can split them up
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for you.
And then you walk across.
Can you imagine seeing a seasplit and the ground you walk
across is dry and you get on theother side and see God drown
your enemies?
You ain't seen God.
You ain't never seen God likethat.
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It shifts you Right.
So, even when we have toexperience those tough times, if
we can get an after this in ourspirit, right, oh, my God, yeah
, after this, oh boy, i'm'mgonna be some kind of challenge
to the enemy because I'm gonnagrow in faith, I'm gonna grow in
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power, I'm gonna grow in belief, I'm gonna my prayer life going
to the next level.
You understand what I'm sayingmy prayer life going to the next
level.
And I'm gonna.
I'm gonna.
What word I want to use?
Slew.
How you, you slew.
Slew is past tense, right, slay?
That's the present tense.
I'm going to slay some demonsthat I ain't never slayed before
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.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Y'all done, brought out the Georgia peach in her.
This girl.
I don't know that I ain'tslayed before Y'all brought all
this word, brought all theGeorgia peach out of my
sweetheart.
Oh my God.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It's like I can see it.
If we can focus on that, theGod who allowed it, the guy who
sent it is the guy who controlsit.
Come on, it's the guy, oh,that's working my good in it,
right, even when I don'tunderstand it.
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He's the same guy that saved mein my mess.
So sure that he didn't sendthis Come on to end me.
Come on.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I'm just saying come on this, this is just seasonal,
so you apply that to you.
Have a child that is in theworld, that's out there in them
streets and that is living aculture that's so opposite of
the way you raised her and yousee the world beating her,
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pulverizing her.
It's got her world beating her,pulverizing her.
It's got her out of character.
She's getting in trouble.
Her life is on the lineregularly as she is out there
living.
However she's living, son ordaughter, that's a Red Sea
moment, god.
It doesn't look like this childis going to make it.
You must know and believe byfaith that there is going to be
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an after this.
You're going to have an afterthis moment and you've got to
see that child and believe andpray for that child to be on the
other side of that Red Sea,that y'all together will be
looking back at the trouble, thedrugs, the street life he or
she lived and watch God drown itin the new person he makes him
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or her to be.
Come on somebody.
You've got to know that that'sa big change to go through.
When you have children whodisrupt the comfortability, the
rhythm, the flow of your lifeand livelihood, your finances,
because of what is going on intheir lives.
How do we?
The way to embrace that kind ofchange is to love your child,
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care for your child, stick withthem through the hardest part of
it.
Don't let the devil have yourbaby.
Don't just put your child outthere because they was unruly.
Get them counseling, sit andtalk with them.
Go get them out of that crackhouse.
Go and get them from where heor she may be.
Go spend some time with them,meet them on their level.
If they out there clubbing, godown to the club right before it
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gets started and say can youcome just have a burger with me?
Can we come just talk for aminute?
You got to do what you got to do.
You might have to get a lawyer.
You might have to bail him outnine times out of jail.
Jail ain't going to make him nobetter, not in this society,
not in American prisons.
Ain't going to make your babyno better.
Listen, you might have to dowhat you have to do and that's a
big adjustment, but we have toembrace that.
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God allowed it and, by faith,with determination and
resilience, and bounce back andgrit and get some courage and
get some divine anger about youand say the devil ain't going to
have my baby.
I'm in the fight, I'm embracingthis change.
I'm not going to give upbecause that's a hard battle to
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be in.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
That's a hard battle to be in.
As I was listening to you, Ithought realistically a part of
what I heard you say is that weare to be to them, what he is to
us.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Come on grace he is to us.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
We are to be to them what he has been to us.
Yeah, he found us.
He found us just in the dirt.
He found us in the dirtiest ofsins.
He found us, See, and sometimesI think one of the dilemmas is
that we tend to forget where wecame from.
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We forget where God found us, weforget the things that we did
and we want to kind of, you know, snub our noses at our children
or these young people, and thereality is same, God, my God.
Snub our noses at our childrenor these young people, and the
reality is same.
God, my God, same God.
The same God that brought usout the club, the same God that
brought us up out of the sandand the dirt and all the stuff.
Same God has the same power todo the same thing for these
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babies in this day and time.
In this day and time.
And our responsibility you saidit beautifully, realistically
our responsibility is to be theGod that they see in the earth
until oh, I feel the Holy Ghostuntil they can grab a hold of
the God that's in the heavens.
We are to represent him.
We say we're Christians, we'resupposed to be ambassadors,
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we're supposed to livesacrificial, we're supposed to
go the extra miles because didnot Jesus do the same thing for
us?
Right, you know?
So yeah, it is uncomfortable,it is challenging, it is hard,
but if we start trying to takeon the mind of Christ, if we
start trying to take on thecharacteristics of Christ, then
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we will allow the power of theHoly Spirit to stretch us and
the pain and the pressure of thesituations to grow us Right,
because we have to remember thatwe are our children's guardian.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
That's right.
I like that you think aboutbeing a guardian.
We're their guardian, so weneed to get on guard.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
And we need to stay on guard and we need to be
guards, everything that's comingat them.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
We ought to be that guard, that defense, to help
fight it off.
We teach, we don't just fightfor them, we teach them how to
fight by them watching our fight.
Our fight is the good fight offaith.
We fight with spirit, we fightwith resources, we fight with
time and energy, but we aretheir guardian.
So when that change is cominginto our life, we have to
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embrace.
Hey, I'm in this thing.
This thing is thick, this thingis ugly.
This thing is pulling at mycomfort.
It's disrupting my family.
I got to get off work to go tocourt.
That's OK.
It's OK.
God, love me in my mess.
I'm going to love you in yours.
Where to fight at, where I needto be.
That's it when I need to be,because the devil you a lie,
You're not going to get my baby.
You're not.
Look, I didn't want it to myEbonics, my Cbonics and my
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Dbonics.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
See, I turned into a dowry.
Look, I didn't turn into a thug, I'm a straight hood.
Because what we have toremember when you, when you were
talking a little bit ago, is wehave to remember what did God
say.
What did God say about that,baby?
Yeah, what did God say aboutthis or that?
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What did God say?
And we have to learn how tostand up and profess, hold on to
God's word concerning oursituations of challenge and
change.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Embrace change as part of God's plan.
Here we go.
Let's look at another passageof scripture Jeremiah 29 and 11,
one of our favorites.
Now, this really has to help usembrace change.
When you know this Jeremiah 29and 11, when you make this a
part of the scriptures, that youlive by and not just quote it,
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see, you could tell the ones whojust quote it and those who
live by it.
Because the ones who just quoteit don't have no testimony.
They ain't came out on theother side of a straw because
they gave up in it, walked awayfrom God in it or didn't obey
because they knew it was goingto be hard.
But the ones with thetestimonies, they have a 29 and
11 prophetic word over them andthey walk in that word because,
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guess what?
I lived it out.
I know he got a plan for me.
Jeremiah 29, 11 says, for Iknow.
You see what I'm saying.
This is knowledge, this isexperiential.
Now you see what I'm saying.
This is knowledge, this isexperiential.
Now I know the plans God saidthat I have for you.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
God said I know I am the experience.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I am your experience.
I know the plan I have for youbecause I've already finished
the work.
So you're going through thischange, but I know it's seasonal
.
I know what I'm going to do inthis for you, for I know the
plan I have for you.
Declares the law.
So this is a declaration.
Like when a king makes adeclaration, it cannot be
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changed, it cannot be stopped.
You have to, you have to.
You can't be changed.
You have to write a newdeclaration to overdo the first
one.
So you can't just change thatdeclaration.
So can anybody change?
When God said I know the plan Ihave for you.
Declares the Lord plans forthis.
Scripture says welfare, oh myGod, that you may farewell.
That's provision.
Yeah, you know the plans forwelfare and not for evil, to
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give you a future and a hope.
Another version says I know theplan that I have for you, a
plan to prosper you a future anda hope.
Another version says I know theplan that I have for you, a
plan to prosper you.
Come on somebody, and to giveyou good and not evil, and to
render unto you an expected endthat God says, the end that I
had in mind.
So, no matter how we see it as aproblem, a curse, or I'm closed
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in, it's over for me.
We see periods where God hasput commas.
We see things being over anddone, where God said no, this is
seasonal, I'm bringing youthrough to another place.
So when you know God has a planfor you, you don't accept
loadable.
You don't accept lack.
You don't accept poverty.
You don't just accept thebrokenness.
You don't just accept being avictim.
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You don't just accept beingpoor.
You don't just accept being atthe bottom, because you know
that's not the kind of God weserve.
So it's important, when you'regoing through adjustments, tap
into God's plan.
You need to spend some timewith him you do, praying and
listening to God's instructionin that situation that you're in
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.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Amen.
You know, as you said, that Ithought about oftentimes, you
know, when we're going throughseasons of adjustments and a lot
of times it really translatesto brokenness.
We feel broken, we feel crushed, we feel a lot of different
things when we're going throughthings like that, and one of the
questions that we tend to askis God, if you love me, why
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would you do this?
If you love me, why would youallow this to happen in my life?
I've asked that question Lord,if you love me, or God I thought
I was your girl or you knowthose types of things why would
you allow certain things tohappen, allow certain things to
happen?
And the reality is, is as Ithink about, you know, when God
said this in Jeremiah I know theplans that I have for you.
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They're good, they're not evil,you know.
And when I think about that,the reality is and I say this
often, but it hit me a littlebit more right now, and that is
the thing is is that he knowsthe plans, he knows the methods,
he knows the methods that arenecessary for the plans that he
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has for us.
We don't, and because we don'tknow, we find out a lot of times
when it's happening.
That's when we find out, but itdoesn't really feel like a
method.
It feels more like okay, I'mabout to die, you know, or this
is, this is it.
But the reality is is because heknows the plans, then he knows
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the path right and he knows whatthe journey is going to look
like.
He knows where the bumpy spotsare we don't.
He knows where the potholes arewe, we don't.
And the reality is is that wehave to constantly work on
Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, and thatis trusting in the Lord, and so
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that our confession becomes ifthis is allowed, then God knew
it was going to come way beforeI ever knew Right, and because
he knew that he also, he, I knowthat he has plans for me.
He is the one that knows thoseplans.
I just have to be a participantin the process so that
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everything that he intends forme to get out of this, I, in
fact, will get out of it.
You know what I'm saying, andsometimes I think that because
of the pain, sometimes the painof it speaks so much louder than
us taking time to learn whatthis process came to do, and I
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think there is a shift that hasto happen there and I think the
quicker we shift there, thequicker we embrace Yep.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Yep, you're right, that whole pain, the pendulum,
yeah, really, you know, to methe pendulum swings between pain
and praise, yes, and thevelocity in the middle is praise
, yeah, you know that energy inthe middle of pain and pray,
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pain, and, really, the process,the praise is in the middle.
Because if I see that goingthrough through pain, if you
stop praising god, yeah, youwon't swing on into the process.
Yeah, but when you do praisegod, you that pain, you'll go
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from pain to process and processthe pain and pain to process
the process until you come outof that thing, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
and you know, if we don't, if we don't, if we don't
praise God, we really praisepain.
That's right.
Yeah, we really end up praisingpain.
You know, we really end uppraising pain because we start
talking about how bad we feeland that begins to be on this
loop.
We put it on a loop and we'reconstantly talking about the
pain of it.
We're constantly talking abouthow bad it hurt us.
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We're constantly talking aboutthe situation, all of it being
focused on the pain of it and no, no time, no focus on the
praise.
You know what I mean.
So if we don't praise God inthose situations, we will
automatically default to praiseand pain.
And the other piece of what Iwas saying I'm glad the Holy
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Spirit brought it back is thatthe scripture tells us that his
ways are not our ways, right,and his thoughts are higher.
Yeah, so when we know that hehas the plan or he knows the
plan, the reality, we don't knowthe method he does Right.
And sometimes when we, when wego through, we feel like this
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method was really not necessary,guy, this method feels very
harsh, come on.
But he, because, because ourthinking is not the same, on the
same level, right, so we'regonna think, well, you could
have done it this way.
He's like no, I know exactlywhat I'm doing, my thoughts are
higher than yours, so I knowwhat you needed, right for the
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time and the season of what itis that I'm doing in your life
right now and what I know isrequired to get you to the other
side Wow.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Let's look at someone then in the scripture who had
to embrace that God, and I'llmake sure I want to say this
correctly he had to embracechange as a part of God's plan.
This person and he had to do itover and over and over and over
, which shows me we never canget stagnant or get to a
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finished part in our developmentwhere we say, okay, that's it,
I don't have to change anymore,I don't have to embrace this
anymore.
God, why are you doing this?
Aren't I not who you want me tobe?
God said I still have some moreto do.
So let's look at Joseph,because to me, when we look at
Joseph's life, okay, joseph wentfrom privileged to pit because
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he was the privileged son, hewas the chosen one.
He was the chosen one, he wasthe chosen one.
We're going to be about another.
Let's do just give me about 10more minutes, y'all.
Okay, he went from privilege topit, right, because he was the
privileged son.
He was the son of favor, he hadthe coat of many colors.
His father, jacob, loved himand he showed it by giving him
the coat of many colors and thefavor that he had.
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And he was Jacob's son of hisold age and he was the chosen of
his brothers.
And then God came and gives himthese dreams that he's going to
be elevated.
This is all favor.
So he goes from privilege topit because his brothers at one
point throw him in the pitbecause they hate him, because
of the favor, because he's adreamer.
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And then once he gets in thispit he goes from pit to kind of
like prominence, because he isthen sold into slavery.
But he ends up being, you know,in control at Potiphar's house,
right.
So he's at Potiphar's house andhe's in control.
He's gone from this pit now tothis prominence.
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And then he goes fromprominence to prison because
Potiphar's wife tries to sleepwith him.
And now the prominence that heonce had this success, he's now
in jail.
So he goes from prominence toprison and then he gets in
prison and, oh my God, he goesfrom prison to power, because he
comes out of that prison andnow he is not he's, he's far
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beyond, you know, the potter'shouse.
He's second in command in egypt, right under pharaoh, right.
So he goes through thisvacillation from mountain to
valley, mountain to valley, andit's all god's doing, and this
is how we know it's all God'sdoing In Genesis, chapter 50 and
verse 20,.
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Joseph says this to his brothersafter he is reunited with them,
after they did what they did tohim, and they come to try to
get grain.
And they have to come to Egyptto get grain or else they're
going to die and starve.
They come to him and he finallysays to them you intended to
harm me Genesis 50 and verse 20.
But God intended it for good,to accomplish what is now being
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done the saving of many lives.
So Joseph literally says herewhat you thought you were in
control of by putting me in thepit.
God intended for me to gothrough that adjustment.
I had it going on at the cribwith my dad, but God's intention
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was to take me out of thatcomfort zone, out of that place
of provision, out of that placeof protection.
I was the man.
God had a plan to pull me outof that and put me in what I
thought was the worst that mybrothers beat me up and throw me
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in this muddy hole.
But that pain of that pit, yeah,and that assault by his
brothers, yeah, had a greaterpurpose.
Unimaginable, my God.
The pain that he endured was tosave every life in Egypt and
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every known country in the worldat that time, because only
Egypt had the grain.
The pain of your life is biggerthan you think.
That boy said God did that.
Here's his words.
He says you intended to harm me, but God intended.
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He said God has an intent inthe negative transitions and
adjustments that we have toembrace.
That negative in our eyes.
You said it.
He doesn't see things the waywe see them.
To our eyes that was negative.
To God, that was so good.
Him being in that pit was sogood.
Being in that prison was sogood, because in the prison was
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the only way that he met thebaker and the butler who had
gotten thrown in prison with him.
The blessing is no matter whereJoseph went.
He had favor.
The blessing for you is nomatter whether you up or down,
the favor is still on you.
And when Joseph was in thatprison he ran that prison.
So when the butler and thebaker came in there they had to
meet Joseph to get theirprovisions.
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Come on somebody To get theirwork assignment.
And so then they, as theyengaged in conversation, they
had dreams.
Joseph interpreted those dreamsand told them when you get out,
don't forget me.
One of them got out of theprison.
I think it was the butler thatgot out of the prison, but the
baker ended up being beheaded.
I think the butler got out andgot back in the king's good
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favor.
And when the king had a dream,come on, the butler said I know
a God that's running the jail.
He's a Hebrew Name, joseph.
Let's go get him out of prisonso he can interpret your dream.
Yeah, oh, my God, yeah.
So he had to get in that prisonto get to Pharaoh, absolutely.
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Without getting in that prison,he wouldn't have never met the
butler to get him to thepresident so that he could
become the vice president.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
Come on, let me just.
Let me just break it down, man.
So you know what I heard inthat that's blessing me over
here and I, you know, kind ofgot me caught up a little bit is
um, every adjustment is foryour elevation.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
That is so true.
It's for your purpose elevation.
It's for your spiritualelevation.
It's for your wisdom elevation.
It's for your maturityelevation.
Go ahead, go ahead.
It's for your elevation.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
That's it, that's it Period, that's it.
That's all I had.
If that thing hit me likeperiod, you understand?
That is the message, that's allI had.
Everything hit me like period,period.
You understand?
That is the message.
Wow, that is the message.
Every adjustment is for yourelevation.
Does it feel like it whenyou're going through it though?
Oh, no, absolutely not, itdoesn't.
That's why it's necessary forus to know that it is God,
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because when I, as I'm listeningand I'm thinking about Joseph's
life, and as I was listening toyou, god's intent for him was
elevation.
If we can hold on to that, okay.
When we are in these seasons ofadjustments, this is necessary
for elevation.
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Okay.
No matter what the elevationlooks like, it is necessary for
elevation.
No matter what the elevationlooks like, it is God's intent
for us to be elevated.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
I'm going to give a spiritual definition of
elevation that nobody's everheard before.
You ain't never heard elevationdefined like this.
Elevation is being molded onthe potter's wheel into the
vessel you were born to be.
That's it.
Joseph was on the potter'swheel into the vessel you were
born to be.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
That's it, that's it.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Joseph was on the potter's wheel, absolutely Going
through all that crafting andshaping, and the potter's hand
is on the clay and the clay ison the potter's hand.
The mud is all on his hands andthe hands is all in the clay.
But it's elevation.
Every form and shape of thevessel, the top of the neck, the
skinny, the bottom of the face,this round, all of it, putting
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it in the fire, all of it iselevation to become the vessel
of honor, power, glory of word,the lawyer, the doctor, the
advocate the engineer thebusiness owner, the fashionista,
the social media influencer,the politician, you're nothing,
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but your whole life is anelevation into the vessel that
he called you to be, which thatgoes back to how we even started
, when we started talking, andelevation is painful.
Speaker 2 (53:28):
It's that continual evolution of, of, of, of coming
into who you didn't even knowyou were.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
Joseph had a dream about greatness but had no idea
that he was.
They call him the Prince ofEgypt.
They call him the governor, youknow, of Egypt.
He call him the governor ofEgypt.
He was second in command, youcould say in Western terms he
was the vice president of thecountry, but he was the resource
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of life to the world,absolutely, because there was a
famine in the world and he wasthe only one Absolutely
Governing the grain, yep.
Pharaoh said go ahead, I'm done,you do whatever you want.
I know who you are, yep, andthat's what you got to
understand.
The final destination and realmthat God has for you is waiting
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on you and knows who you are.
Yeah, the power, influence, thepower.
You know people, the powermovements, the power stages, the
power platforms.
They all the power.
You know people, the powermovements, the power stages, the
power platforms.
They all know who you are.
But you've got to embrace thosechanges in order to get there.
It's been amazing having thistime with y'all talking about
Joseph and talking aboutembracing change as part of
God's plan.
I'm going to say this.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
Because this is good you said they know who you are.
Because this is good, you saidthey know who you are.
The thing is, sometimes we'redelayed in knowing who we are.
Speaker 1 (54:54):
Oh, I stayed in that place.
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
You know what I'm saying.
That pain will make youquestion who you are.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
That suffering will make you question who you are.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
Oh my God, just hold on I was getting ready to say,
but after this, after this Justhang in there.
Speaker 1 (55:10):
Oh, that's so good.
Whoever's listening.
This is for you, my God.
We teach to a certain peoplewho God has sent us to.
Whoever you are, embrace thatchange, hold on, hang on, stay
with God, stay in thosedisciplines that you know is
going to get you through.
Grow into the process, embracethat change, get in there and
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give it your absolute best andknow that God is sovereign and
in control.
And you have to know thatsometimes God is making
adjustments in your life for aseason to bring you into your
after this.
That's the best way to closethis he's bringing you into your
after this, as Angela hasspoken.
He's bringing you in, that's thebest way to close this.
He's bringing you into yourafter this, as Angela has spoken
, he's bringing you, and thatwas prophetic.
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So this prophetic word is goingout to somebody right now.
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we're going to be talking aboutRuth and all of the adjustments
that she went through, to theglory of God.
God bless you.
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Father, bless our listeningaudience.
I pray this word has touchedthem and the teaching touched
them in a special way.
I pray that they would embracethe changes that they're facing
and they'll walk through it withpower, authority and praise to
your holy name.
We thank you for this hour andthis time, in Jesus name, amen.
We'll see you next time on DailyBread.
All right, welcome everyone.
Welcome back to Daily Breadwith Dr Jarrell and Angela
Stokely.
It is good to be back in thestudio with you all today.
I've got we've got an amazingseries that we are in and in
2025, we need this series, thistopic so much.
So, critically, our topic isadjustments.
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How many of you out there arefacing adjustments, changes,
modifications, edits, reroutes,u-turns?
So many things are tossed up inthe air like a tossed salad,
like our relationships, our jobstatus, the stability of our
culture, politics, stability ofour culture, politics, community
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everything is up in the airfamily life.
But how do we stay grounded?
How do we stay bonded to thekingdom of God where, you know,
the scripture says everythingthat can be shaken will be
shaken, and so the Lord isshaking the earth.
Everyone can see that we'removing toward the end times and
it is critical and importantthat we have the principles, the
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foundation, getting back to thestrong roots of the word of God
, that we remain stable andblessed and prosperous in the
kingdom, affecting the culture,not the culture infecting the
kingdom.
So we are here today justexcited to bring you part three
of our series Adjustments.
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Come on in, angela, and welcomeour audience.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Hey everybody, again, so glad to be here, excited
once again to be sitting in thisseat, to be able to share
nuggets, encouragement,inspiration, the word of God and
be led by the spirit of God toshare what is necessary to help
build up the body of Christ inevery area.
Amen, and so we are excited tobe here.
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Thank you so much for tuning in.
We give God glory for you.
We give God glory.
I just felt this in the spirit.
I give God glory, we give Godglory for your testimony,
because you have a testimonyHallelujah.
And even after this, I'm justconvinced that your testimony is
going to be even greater, evenstronger and more powerful.
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So tell your testimony Amen andglory to God.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
Glad to be here, excited to getinto this topic today, because
I believe it's going to blessyour life.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It definitely is immensely, and I'm blessed
sitting across from you as usual.
And I get to look in that cutelittle face with the fun eyes.
It's so cute.
I praise God for this.
Thank you, we're coming up on29 years of marriage.
Everyone, good God, have mercy.
29 years of marriage, blessedto have been in a relationship
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with each other for 34 years.
Been knowing each other sincethe eighth grade, seventh,
seventh grade.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Come on in with that brain.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I like that brain power she got the brain power
she has the brain power.
Since we were 12 years old, weknew each other.
That's so wild.
We celebrate 29 years, february17th, of 2025.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Now let me meddle a little bit, because what hit me
and I don't want it to just passus by is that sometimes the
thing that God has for you couldbe right in front of you and
you don't even know it.
I know Right and so thatreality of really trusting God
when we think we can't trace Godcould really end up whereby God
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has placed the thing in frontof you.
You just not you have just notreceived revelation, revelation,
you don't have revelation andwhat it is that is so powerful.
That is so powerful, oh my god,because at 12 we we hadn't had
the revelation.
Yeah, even at what were we 16in the 10th grade?
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Um, we had that, that moment.
Clearly it was spiritual, wherewe just stopped and stared at
each other, didn't?
know why never said anything toeach other and just walked off
and again not realizing what'sin front of you, not
understanding it.
But God has to reveal it to youin time.
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And so, even now, as I'm sayingthis, I'm thinking about how
many things have have God, howmany things have God brought to
our mind, has got to shown us,have?
Has God?
Um, given us these moments andwe didn't quite understand them
then and we still don'tunderstand them to this day.
But yet there is a set time ofrevelation.
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That's a word.
There's a set time forrevelation of what God has in
store for you.
It's been in front of you thewhole time, you just couldn't
see it, you hadn't yet had therevelation of it.
That's so powerful, I knowright.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Okay.
That was good for me, that justblessed me, and that's how big
of a role God plays in oureveryday life, that he is our
navigator.
He is our unseen navigator.
He is charting the path andspeaking to our hearts and
giving revelation to guide usinto who we're supposed to be,
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the people we're supposed tomeet, where we're supposed to
work.
You can't say God doesn't loveus because he brought you and I
into the revelation that webelong to each other.
Yeah, he brought me into therevelation that you were my wife
.
Yeah, you know, even though Imissed it in the 12th grade, 12
years old missed it in the 10thgrade.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We don't miss it, but there's the set time, just
wasn't.
Then.
I feel like he gives us thosebreadcrumbs to reflect back on.
You know what I'm saying,because one of the first things
we talked about was you remember, when we were in the hallway?
We had that moment.
We didn't know what that meant.
You know what I'm saying, butit was once it was revealed
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that's my wife, that's myhusband, right?
Then it's like everything madesense that he had showed all
along, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You know what I mean?
Yeah, like wow, yeah, becausehow could we have understood
that then Right At 12.
Right, you know what I mean.
Yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, All right.
Well, let's get into this.
Let's get into this.
Thank you all for listening toour little back down memory lane
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to walk into his greatness, buthe never knew God's grace in his
life.
He overcome all of theseobstacles to walk into his
greatness, but he never knew Godwas there all alone.
So he was always asking thequestion where is God?
Why is this happening to me?
If you love me, why is this?
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Father, we thank you so muchfor what you're about to do in
this part three of the seriesadjustments because, god, we are
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facing adjustments every dayand we want to know how to be
able to navigate this terrain bythe power of your Holy Spirit.
We know that over the lastcouple of weeks, we've dealt
with God's sovereignty andcontrol in our lives, and now
today, father, we want you totake us deeper.
So anoint our ears to hear ourhearts, to sense and guide our
thoughts, lord, that we maypresent just a really solid
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teaching and a relevant,exciting word for your people to
continue to grow In Jesus' nameamen.
Adjustments Angela, are youfacing adjustments?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
right now, oh, absolutely, I feel like in every
area of my life, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Absolutely Wow.
I remember thinking back on thedefinition of adjustments.
I think we said it wasmodifications to endure or go
through the process ofmodification, changes,
redevelopments, reinvention,restructuring, just anywhere
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where there's a shift and amodification.
We then, in order to thrive,have to have some things in our
toolbox, some strategies in ourtoolkit that we are able to pull
from, that we have appliedenough enough that we are
skilled at using them tonavigate those changes and
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rearranging and altercationsthat we're going through in our
lives not altercation, butalternatives that we're facing
in our lives.
So, last or part one, part tworather, we dealt with God's
sovereignty and control, andProverbs 3, 5, and 6 was our
foundational scripture for thatteaching.
But we also looked at the lifeof Abraham and how Abraham had
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to leave the familiar for theunknown.
So if you didn't get a chanceto listen to adjustments part
two and you're dealing withleaving the familiar for the
unknown, maybe you feel likeyou've changed jobs, you're in a
new relationship, you havechanged states, you've been
living in a different city.
Your life, the comfort of yourlife and the structure of life
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has changed drastically.
You're now dealing withchildren, your circle, and
you're moving into the unknown,and you want to know how do I
navigate this adjustment.
Well, please go listen to parttwo of adjustments, because we
talked about God's sovereigntyand control.
When you leave the familiar forthe unknown, because sometimes
God will call you to do justthat.
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Yep, leave your familiar.
Lots of time, lots of times.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So today we are talking about embracing change
as part of God's plan.
Now y'all know one thing wehate and we're not all that good
at.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Is change Right?
Come on, somebody be real aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Especially change that we're not, we're not
initiating Right, yeah, yeah,change that we're not.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
We're not initiating, right, yeah, yeah, change that
we're not initiating.
So you have self-initiatedchange.
I talked about this in my book.
Uh, in this book, going to yourgreatness, you have
self-initiated change.
You have other initiated changeexternally and then you have
sovereign god initiated change.
So we're always going through achange.
It's just who is at the helm ofthat change and how do we
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navigate that changesuccessfully, when we come out
victorious, when we come out ontop, when we come out a winner,
rather than struggling throughthe process?
And one of the first thingsyou've got to do is be aware
that you're going through achange process, absolutely.
And how am I emotionally, asI'm going through this?
So we're talking aboutpracticing a good balance of
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emotional intelligence.
The first stage of change isawareness, but how are you
emotionally, as you aretransitioning to what you have
now become aware of that ishappening?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
in your life.
You know, I think it'simportant for us to tear down
some of the the walls I'll callthem walls that we've created
ourselves more often than notnot even intentionally ourselves
, more often than not, not evenintentionally.
And what I mean by that is, Ithink one of the reasons why
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we're so resistant to change,especially change we don't
initiate, is because we are inlove and infatuated with
regimens, because regimenscreate comfortability and we are
sometimes creatures.
Because we are creatures, ofhabit hands down and that's our
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happy place, more often than not, is when I'm I'm doing, I'm
operating in this, in this cycle.
I call it a cycle whereby Ifeel like I'm being my best self
because I've done this longenough.
I feel like I'm being my bestself because I've done this long
enough.
I could do it in my sleep and Igot the pattern down.
Pack creates thatcomfortability and, I think, a
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sense of confidence in myselfand I think that we create those
as if they are going to bethese consistent stables in our
life.
Yes, not realizing that this,this regimen, this cycle, this,
whatever, you know, whatever wewant to call it that we've
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created for ourselves is aeventually going to change.
And I think that in order forus to really get to the place
where we can start embracingchange better than maybe we have
, is be willing to tear downsome of those built-in processes
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, those built-in things thatreally cause us to keep
gravitating to comfort andresisting discomfort.
You know what I mean.
So when you were talking aboutthat, it just kind of hit me
like we sometimes we have torestart with reprogramming
ourselves.
You know what I mean.
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Like I want to get to the placewhere God, I don't always want
to be comfortable.
I want to learn how to becontent.
And then I still want to beable to walk through the valley
of the shadow of death and fearno evil, knowing that you are
with me, you're right in yourstep.
They compliment.
I still want to be able to do.
I want to do both.
You know what I'm saying.
Can for ourselves.
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Just say, quit leaning so somuch into this comfort place.
Yeah, that has been created asa result of these regimens and
this.
I got everything planned outall the time.
It's always the same onthursdays I eat the same thing,
on wednesdays I do the same, youknow, and because I feel like
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that then creates more, when we,when we don't work on breaking
that cycle, I think we setourselves up more for failure
with trying to accept and adjustto change.
Does that make sense?
Oh, absolutely, you know, Ithink.
I think it just kind kind of wehave to work on that internal
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thing.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, when you think about it, as we prepare to jump
into these scriptures we're notgoing to leave you without
scriptures and stuff we just laya foundation.
But when you really think aboutit, patterns and rhythms are
biblical.
They are also spiritual anddivine, because God put
everything in heaven and earthinto a pattern, absolutely.
He put it into a rhythmAbsolutely.
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That's why he says I think it'sin Ecclesiastes he says as long
as the earth remain, there willbe seed time and harvest,
summer and winter.
So things are.
God put the earth in a rotation, he put it in a pattern and he
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put it into a system.
Yeah, and he put, he put man'sauthority, dominance and
blessings and stuff intoauthority, into a rhythm and
into a system.
He created all these things andhe said now you have authority
and these things are going toobey you and you're going to
have authority over it, to obeyyou and you're going to have
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authority over it.
But the growth spot is when weput ourselves in the place where
we don't say this pattern hasto stay the same.
In other words, when we makeourselves open for pattern
changes.
See, just because something isgood doesn't mean it can't be
great, and sometimes God want tocome into your life and create
better.
Yeah, even when God, even Godhimself, when he created the
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heavens and earth, each day thathe created, he sat back and
said this is good, but he neversaid good couldn't be greater.
Right.
And so in our lives, we set uppatterns.
Patterns are good.
We develop good habits, wedevelop good patterns, and then
we develop bad habits and badpatterns, but it's nothing that
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says that your pattern that youhave, is not good.
The idea is how can thispattern be greater?
How can I modify, how can Iadjust and embrace what's
happening in my life to create abetter system at this present
time?
And that's the whole concept ofembracing, being willing to
make those adjustments, beingable to be pulled out of the box
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.
And that first stage of beingin the pattern is called
homeostasis.
It means we're in such apattern we can do things without
even thinking about it, and sothat's the first place God wants
to break up.
He wants us to think about whatwe're doing and how we need to
grow.
He wants to be focused on thechanges that he is developing
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and growing in us.
He wants us to see him movingin our lives, and in order to do
that, we have to have a spacein our system for God alone.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
We have to submit that system and say God, I'm in
a pattern of mission, I got thisgoing on, but I'm open for
anything you decide to doAbsolutely, because the end goal
I was sitting here as I waslistening to you, I remember
because the end goal of theadjustment oftentimes is the
better version of ourselves.
Right, you know, god knows whohe intended, who he created, who
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he ordained us to be.
We're trying to catch up, right, and the reality is is that
after every change, after everyadjustment, the goal is a better
version of ourselves that wehave not yet met, that looks
like Christ.
Oh my God, hallelujah, yep.
I'm going to stop right therebecause I could go on, but come
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on, I'm ready, because I felt apriest trying to come on,
because there's a version, and Isay this all the time there's a
version of ourselves that wehave not yet met.
Oh my God, there's a version ofourselves that we have not yet
met.
Oh my God, there's a version ofourselves that we have not yet
met.
And if I go into every season ofmy life realizing that at the
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end of this season that therewill be a version of me that I
didn't even know existed in me,I will better embrace the
adjustments that I probably donot like, these adjustments that
don't even feel good, be it awilderness, be it at a Red Sea,
with Pharaoh behind me.
Whatever it is, At the end ofthis good God, have mercy there
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will be a version of Angela thatAngela has never seen but that
aligns with the perfect will ofGod for who he saw me to be, who
he said I was, and thisadjustment is only a process to
bring that person out of me.
Right, god, a mercy.
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And so you know, every time wetalk about judgment, I can't
help but say this because italways takes me back to the
chiropractor adjustments.
Talk about adjustment?
I can't help but say thisbecause it always takes me back
to the chiropractor Adjustments.
Every time I hear that word, Igo chiropractor and the reality
is is when you go into thechiropractor for those of us for
the first time, you're scaredbecause you don't know what to
expect and you probably heardit's a lot of pain when we go
through things.
When people hear things likewhat we're talking about today,
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you could get a little nervous.
You could get a little scaredif you ain't never been through
anything.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I don't want any adjustments.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Exactly.
But when you talk to somebodywho's been through it already
and they say, yes, a littleuncomfortable, but you're going
to be better after, oh my God.
Oh my God, that was myexperience with a chiropractor.
Okay, yeah, it's going to hurtat first, but you're going to be
better.
You may go in with pain, butyou're going to come out with
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relief.
You may go in with maybe someneck issues or some shoulder
issues that's out of alignmentExactly.
That is impacting how you liveyour everyday, but once you
start getting these adjustments,they will help you to show up
better in your everyday life.
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Right, my God, right.
So at the end of all of this,the goal is the better version
of myself and just thinkingabout your example.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
sometimes, when you go into a chiropractor for the
first time because you've heardabout the body being out of
alignment, and not even knowingit.
When you go in for the firsttime, you know, and you go
through that process of.
So I heard intentionality, Iheard fear, but also heard
courage, because you wereintentional to go there.
So that means courage and fearcan exist in this, in this
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symbiotic kind of space.
They can exist in this samespace, you see, and still
achieve the goal.
And then I heard reward.
So you had intentionality, fear, courage and reward and pain
and reward, all in this samekind of process.
But when you go in for thatfirst time you don't even know
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stuff is out of alignment, untilafter you've gotten an
alignment and you feel betterand you say I don't even know
stuff is out of alignment, untilafter you've gotten an
alignment and you feel betterand you say I didn't even know
that was out of alignment.
That's how God works with us.
He's the chiropractor thatshows us things that are out of
alignment, that we didn't evenknow was out of alignment.
It's not until he comes in andtakes us through an adjustment,
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a career adjustment, arelational adjustment, a
personal development adjustment,a spiritual gift adjustment,
where he calls a new gift out ofus and we start operating in
you know the laying on of hands,or we start operating in the
gift of leadership, or we startoperating in servitude and we're
trying to figure it out.
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And then we step back afteroperating in it for a while and
say I didn't even know that Iwas that willing to do something
like that, or I didn't evenknow that was in me.
Well, god took you through anadjustment to show you something
that was disaligned about howyou saw yourself, and you didn't
even know it.
You thought everything was justfine.
That is so cool, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That is so cool.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, that is so good .
So let's look at.
How in the world do I deal withembracing change as part of
God's plan?
What happens when God startstaking me through things to
adjust me into more of theperson he's called me to be?
Let's look at it.
The first scripture I want tolook at is Ecclesiastes, chapter
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three and verse one, and itsays this there is a time for
everything.
So if you haven't lived outeverything you intend to live
out in your life, if you haven'tseen every blessing, every high
place, if you haven't walkedthrough every open door that
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you've been believing to walkthrough, if you haven't gone
through those things yet, yourtime is coming, because there's
a time for everything, there's atime of lack, but there's also
a time for profit.
There's a time to go throughsickness, but there's also a
time for healing.
He said there's a time foreverything and a season, and
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this is what you was talkingabout.
In our relationship, we hadn'tcome into the set time and a
season for every activity underthe heavens, and that tells me
that we can be in one season andgossip.
It's time to change and go toanother, and in order for that
to happen, I've got to bring anadjustment into your life and
you've got to be able to embraceit when God is doing it.
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A lot of times, when God istrying to do something new or
different that we have not seenor experienced, we fight back,
we kick, we scream, we rebel,and in 2025, you can't do that.
If you're going to come intowhat God has for you and
whenever you hear this message,you can't this teaching, you
cannot fight this time.
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If you're going to get to thethings that God has for you
quicker, become the person thatGod has for you in a more
healthy way, we have got to bewilling to say yes, lord, the
first time.
Oh, my God.
So here we see that change isthen inevitable, but each season
has a divine purpose.
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So, whatever season you comeinto in your life, god is your
creator.
He's your father.
He either permitted it or hedid it.
Yeah, so if you're going througha hard time right now, there is
a divine purpose for yourstruggle.
If you're going through asuccessful time right now,
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there's a divine purpose forthat success.
Not to just make you happy,right.
It's not to just give you onemore material possession,
absolutely.
It's not to just give youanother great measure of power,
but what is the purpose of that.
It's not to just give youanother great measure of power,
but what is the purpose of that?
So, in order to embrace wherewe are and the changes we go
through, we have to understand.
There's a divine purpose for it, absolutely.
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What about?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
that, angela, even when it looks ugly, absolutely
you know, I feel like a lot ofwhat we said really points to
that.
You know, because immediately Ithought about this phrase that I
think could be helpful for usall to hold on to, and that is
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after this, after this, my God,that's so powerful for me.
If we could just hold on tothat.
After this, after this, what,after this, I'm going to?
I'm going to be a version of methat I've never seen.
After this, I'm going toexperience God in a way that
I've never experienced God.
After this, I'm going to seemore clearly things that I was
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completely blinded to.
After this, I'm going to bemore flexible in my spirituality
and in my growth than I've everbeen over the last 20 years.
My spirituality and in mygrowth than I've ever been over
the last 20 years.
After this, oh, my God.
And I believe that in thisseason, or in any season,
whereby we're facing adjustments, facing the move of God that's
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shifting us and changing us andcausing us to do things that we
didn't even see coming, we havegot to.
I believe this phrase could beyour blessing after this,
because what does that signify?
That signifies that this is notgoing to be always.
That signifies that there is aset time for me to come about of
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this thing.
It's not for the rest of mylife, but it is, in fact, on
God's time clock, although Idon't know what it is.
There is going to be an end.
But after, this is where I canreally rejoice.
I'm going to rejoice in it.
But I'm really going to rejoicewhen I come out of it again,
because I'm going to see God ina way that I've never seen God
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before.
And all I can think about rightnow is the children of Israel,
when they got on the other sideof the Red Sea.
Can you imagine how that Miriamsang a song, didn't she?
She sang a song because hadthey ever seen God in that way?
No, they had not.
But the moment that they walkedthrough the thing that was
challenging them because theywere at the Red, they were at
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the Red Sea, didn't know howthey were going to get across
they were.
Pharaoh was on the on the chasebehind them, hot on their heels
, and it's like okay, this looksover.
See, that was a season.
Ah, that was just a season.
God had a set time.
He knew he was gonna split thewaters.
He knew that he was gonna tellmoses boy, put the thing that's
in your hand over over themwaters so I can split them up
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for you.
And then you walk across.
Can you imagine seeing a seasplit and the ground you walk
across is dry and you get on theother side and see God drown
your enemies?
You ain't seen God.
You ain't never seen God likethat.
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It shifts you Right.
So, even when we have toexperience those tough times, if
we can get an after this in ourspirit, right, oh, my God, yeah
, after this, oh boy, i'm'mgonna be some kind of challenge
to the enemy because I'm gonnagrow in faith, I'm gonna grow in
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power, I'm gonna grow in belief, I'm gonna my prayer life going
to the next level.
You understand what I'm sayingmy prayer life going to the next
level.
And I'm gonna.
I'm gonna.
What word I want to use?
Slew.
How you, you slew.
Slew is past tense, right, slay?
That's the present tense.
I'm going to slay some demonsthat I ain't never slayed before
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.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Y'all done, brought out the Georgia peach in her.
This girl.
I don't know that I ain'tslayed before Y'all brought all
this word, brought all theGeorgia peach out of my
sweetheart.
Oh my God.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It's like I can see it.
If we can focus on that, theGod who allowed it, the guy who
sent it is the guy who controlsit.
Come on, it's the guy, oh,that's working my good in it,
right, even when I don'tunderstand it.
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He's the same guy that saved mein my mess.
So sure that he didn't sendthis Come on to end me.
Come on.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I'm just saying come on this, this is just seasonal,
so you apply that to you.
Have a child that is in theworld, that's out there in them
streets and that is living aculture that's so opposite of
the way you raised her and yousee the world beating her,
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pulverizing her.
It's got her world beating her,pulverizing her.
It's got her out of character.
She's getting in trouble.
Her life is on the lineregularly as she is out there
living.
However she's living, son ordaughter, that's a Red Sea
moment, god.
It doesn't look like this childis going to make it.
You must know and believe byfaith that there is going to be
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an after this.
You're going to have an afterthis moment and you've got to
see that child and believe andpray for that child to be on the
other side of that Red Sea,that y'all together will be
looking back at the trouble, thedrugs, the street life he or
she lived and watch God drown itin the new person he makes him
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or her to be.
Come on somebody.
You've got to know that that'sa big change to go through.
When you have children whodisrupt the comfortability, the
rhythm, the flow of your lifeand livelihood, your finances,
because of what is going on intheir lives.
How do we?
The way to embrace that kind ofchange is to love your child,
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care for your child, stick withthem through the hardest part of
it.
Don't let the devil have yourbaby.
Don't just put your child outthere because they was unruly.
Get them counseling, sit andtalk with them.
Go get them out of that crackhouse.
Go and get them from where heor she may be.
Go spend some time with them,meet them on their level.
If they out there clubbing, godown to the club right before it
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gets started and say can youcome just have a burger with me?
Can we come just talk for aminute?
You got to do what you got to do.
You might have to get a lawyer.
You might have to bail him outnine times out of jail.
Jail ain't going to make him nobetter, not in this society,
not in American prisons.
Ain't going to make your babyno better.
Listen, you might have to dowhat you have to do and that's a
big adjustment, but we have toembrace that.
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God allowed it and, by faith,with determination and
resilience, and bounce back andgrit and get some courage and
get some divine anger about youand say the devil ain't going to
have my baby.
I'm in the fight, I'm embracingthis change.
I'm not going to give upbecause that's a hard battle to
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be in.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
That's a hard battle to be in.
As I was listening to you, Ithought realistically a part of
what I heard you say is that weare to be to them, what he is to
us.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Come on grace he is to us.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
We are to be to them what he has been to us.
Yeah, he found us.
He found us just in the dirt.
He found us in the dirtiest ofsins.
He found us, See, and sometimesI think one of the dilemmas is
that we tend to forget where wecame from.
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We forget where God found us, weforget the things that we did
and we want to kind of, you know, snub our noses at our children
or these young people, and thereality is same, God, my God.
Snub our noses at our childrenor these young people, and the
reality is same.
God, my God, same God.
The same God that brought usout the club, the same God that
brought us up out of the sandand the dirt and all the stuff.
Same God has the same power todo the same thing for these
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babies in this day and time.
In this day and time.
And our responsibility you saidit beautifully, realistically
our responsibility is to be theGod that they see in the earth
until oh, I feel the Holy Ghostuntil they can grab a hold of
the God that's in the heavens.
We are to represent him.
We say we're Christians, we'resupposed to be ambassadors,
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we're supposed to livesacrificial, we're supposed to
go the extra miles because didnot Jesus do the same thing for
us?
Right, you know?
So yeah, it is uncomfortable,it is challenging, it is hard,
but if we start trying to takeon the mind of Christ, if we
start trying to take on thecharacteristics of Christ, then
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we will allow the power of theHoly Spirit to stretch us and
the pain and the pressure of thesituations to grow us Right,
because we have to remember thatwe are our children's guardian.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
That's right.
I like that you think aboutbeing a guardian.
We're their guardian, so weneed to get on guard.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
And we need to stay on guard and we need to be
guards, everything that's comingat them.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
We ought to be that guard, that defense, to help
fight it off.
We teach, we don't just fightfor them, we teach them how to
fight by them watching our fight.
Our fight is the good fight offaith.
We fight with spirit, we fightwith resources, we fight with
time and energy, but we aretheir guardian.
So when that change is cominginto our life, we have to
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embrace.
Hey, I'm in this thing.
This thing is thick, this thingis ugly.
This thing is pulling at mycomfort.
It's disrupting my family.
I got to get off work to go tocourt.
That's OK.
It's OK.
God, love me in my mess.
I'm going to love you in yours.
Where to fight at, where I needto be.
That's it when I need to be,because the devil you a lie,
You're not going to get my baby.
You're not.
Look, I didn't want it to myEbonics, my Cbonics and my
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Dbonics.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
See, I turned into a dowry.
Look, I didn't turn into a thug, I'm a straight hood.
Because what we have toremember when you, when you were
talking a little bit ago, is wehave to remember what did God
say.
What did God say about that,baby?
Yeah, what did God say aboutthis or that?
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What did God say?
And we have to learn how tostand up and profess, hold on to
God's word concerning oursituations of challenge and
change.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Embrace change as part of God's plan.
Here we go.
Let's look at another passageof scripture Jeremiah 29 and 11,
one of our favorites.
Now, this really has to help usembrace change.
When you know this Jeremiah 29and 11, when you make this a
part of the scriptures, that youlive by and not just quote it,
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see, you could tell the ones whojust quote it and those who
live by it.
Because the ones who just quoteit don't have no testimony.
They ain't came out on theother side of a straw because
they gave up in it, walked awayfrom God in it or didn't obey
because they knew it was goingto be hard.
But the ones with thetestimonies, they have a 29 and
11 prophetic word over them andthey walk in that word because,
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guess what?
I lived it out.
I know he got a plan for me.
Jeremiah 29, 11 says, for Iknow.
You see what I'm saying.
This is knowledge, this isexperiential.
Now you see what I'm saying.
This is knowledge, this isexperiential.
Now I know the plans God saidthat I have for you.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
God said I know I am the experience.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I am your experience.
I know the plan I have for youbecause I've already finished
the work.
So you're going through thischange, but I know it's seasonal
.
I know what I'm going to do inthis for you, for I know the
plan I have for you.
Declares the law.
So this is a declaration.
Like when a king makes adeclaration, it cannot be
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changed, it cannot be stopped.
You have to, you have to.
You can't be changed.
You have to write a newdeclaration to overdo the first
one.
So you can't just change thatdeclaration.
So can anybody change?
When God said I know the plan Ihave for you.
Declares the Lord plans forthis.
Scripture says welfare, oh myGod, that you may farewell.
That's provision.
Yeah, you know the plans forwelfare and not for evil, to
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give you a future and a hope.
Another version says I know theplan that I have for you, a
plan to prosper you a future anda hope.
Another version says I know theplan that I have for you, a
plan to prosper you.
Come on somebody, and to giveyou good and not evil, and to
render unto you an expected endthat God says, the end that I
had in mind.
So, no matter how we see it as aproblem, a curse, or I'm closed
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in, it's over for me.
We see periods where God hasput commas.
We see things being over anddone, where God said no, this is
seasonal, I'm bringing youthrough to another place.
So when you know God has a planfor you, you don't accept
loadable.
You don't accept lack.
You don't accept poverty.
You don't just accept thebrokenness.
You don't just accept being avictim.
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You don't just accept beingpoor.
You don't just accept being atthe bottom, because you know
that's not the kind of God weserve.
So it's important, when you'regoing through adjustments, tap
into God's plan.
You need to spend some timewith him you do, praying and
listening to God's instructionin that situation that you're in
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.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Amen.
You know, as you said, that Ithought about oftentimes, you
know, when we're going throughseasons of adjustments and a lot
of times it really translatesto brokenness.
We feel broken, we feel crushed, we feel a lot of different
things when we're going throughthings like that, and one of the
questions that we tend to askis God, if you love me, why
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would you do this?
If you love me, why would youallow this to happen in my life?
I've asked that question Lord,if you love me, or God I thought
I was your girl or you knowthose types of things why would
you allow certain things tohappen, allow certain things to
happen?
And the reality is, is as Ithink about, you know, when God
said this in Jeremiah I know theplans that I have for you.
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They're good, they're not evil,you know.
And when I think about that,the reality is and I say this
often, but it hit me a littlebit more right now, and that is
the thing is is that he knowsthe plans, he knows the methods,
he knows the methods that arenecessary for the plans that he
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has for us.
We don't, and because we don'tknow, we find out a lot of times
when it's happening.
That's when we find out, but itdoesn't really feel like a
method.
It feels more like okay, I'mabout to die, you know, or this
is, this is it.
But the reality is is because heknows the plans, then he knows
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the path right and he knows whatthe journey is going to look
like.
He knows where the bumpy spotsare we don't.
He knows where the potholes arewe, we don't.
And the reality is is that wehave to constantly work on
Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, and thatis trusting in the Lord, and so
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that our confession becomes ifthis is allowed, then God knew
it was going to come way beforeI ever knew Right, and because
he knew that he also, he, I knowthat he has plans for me.
He is the one that knows thoseplans.
I just have to be a participantin the process so that
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everything that he intends forme to get out of this, I, in
fact, will get out of it.
You know what I'm saying, andsometimes I think that because
of the pain, sometimes the painof it speaks so much louder than
us taking time to learn whatthis process came to do, and I
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think there is a shift that hasto happen there and I think the
quicker we shift there, thequicker we embrace Yep.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Yep, you're right, that whole pain, the pendulum,
yeah, really, you know, to methe pendulum swings between pain
and praise, yes, and thevelocity in the middle is praise
, yeah, you know that energy inthe middle of pain and pray,
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pain, and, really, the process,the praise is in the middle.
Because if I see that goingthrough through pain, if you
stop praising god, yeah, youwon't swing on into the process.
Yeah, but when you do praisegod, you that pain, you'll go
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from pain to process and processthe pain and pain to process
the process until you come outof that thing, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
and you know, if we don't, if we don't, if we don't
praise God, we really praisepain.
That's right.
Yeah, we really end up praisingpain.
You know, we really end uppraising pain because we start
talking about how bad we feeland that begins to be on this
loop.
We put it on a loop and we'reconstantly talking about the
pain of it.
We're constantly talking abouthow bad it hurt us.
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We're constantly talking aboutthe situation, all of it being
focused on the pain of it and no, no time, no focus on the
praise.
You know what I mean.
So if we don't praise God inthose situations, we will
automatically default to praiseand pain.
And the other piece of what Iwas saying I'm glad the Holy
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Spirit brought it back is thatthe scripture tells us that his
ways are not our ways, right,and his thoughts are higher.
Yeah, so when we know that hehas the plan or he knows the
plan, the reality, we don't knowthe method he does Right.
And sometimes when we, when wego through, we feel like this
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method was really not necessary,guy, this method feels very
harsh, come on.
But he, because, because ourthinking is not the same, on the
same level, right, so we'regonna think, well, you could
have done it this way.
He's like no, I know exactlywhat I'm doing, my thoughts are
higher than yours, so I knowwhat you needed, right for the
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time and the season of what itis that I'm doing in your life
right now and what I know isrequired to get you to the other
side Wow.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Let's look at someone then in the scripture who had
to embrace that God, and I'llmake sure I want to say this
correctly he had to embracechange as a part of God's plan.
This person and he had to do itover and over and over and over
, which shows me we never canget stagnant or get to a
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finished part in our developmentwhere we say, okay, that's it,
I don't have to change anymore,I don't have to embrace this
anymore.
God, why are you doing this?
Aren't I not who you want me tobe?
God said I still have some moreto do.
So let's look at Joseph,because to me, when we look at
Joseph's life, okay, joseph wentfrom privileged to pit because
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he was the privileged son, hewas the chosen one.
He was the chosen one, he wasthe chosen one.
We're going to be about another.
Let's do just give me about 10more minutes, y'all.
Okay, he went from privilege topit, right, because he was the
privileged son.
He was the son of favor, he hadthe coat of many colors.
His father, jacob, loved himand he showed it by giving him
the coat of many colors and thefavor that he had.
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And he was Jacob's son of hisold age and he was the chosen of
his brothers.
And then God came and gives himthese dreams that he's going to
be elevated.
This is all favor.
So he goes from privilege topit because his brothers at one
point throw him in the pitbecause they hate him, because
of the favor, because he's adreamer.
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And then once he gets in thispit he goes from pit to kind of
like prominence, because he isthen sold into slavery.
But he ends up being, you know,in control at Potiphar's house,
right.
So he's at Potiphar's house andhe's in control.
He's gone from this pit now tothis prominence.
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And then he goes fromprominence to prison because
Potiphar's wife tries to sleepwith him.
And now the prominence that heonce had this success, he's now
in jail.
So he goes from prominence toprison and then he gets in
prison and, oh my God, he goesfrom prison to power, because he
comes out of that prison andnow he is not he's, he's far
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beyond, you know, the potter'shouse.
He's second in command in egypt, right under pharaoh, right.
So he goes through thisvacillation from mountain to
valley, mountain to valley, andit's all god's doing, and this
is how we know it's all God'sdoing In Genesis, chapter 50 and
verse 20,.
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Joseph says this to his brothersafter he is reunited with them,
after they did what they did tohim, and they come to try to
get grain.
And they have to come to Egyptto get grain or else they're
going to die and starve.
They come to him and he finallysays to them you intended to
harm me Genesis 50 and verse 20.
But God intended it for good,to accomplish what is now being
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done the saving of many lives.
So Joseph literally says herewhat you thought you were in
control of by putting me in thepit.
God intended for me to gothrough that adjustment.
I had it going on at the cribwith my dad, but God's intention
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was to take me out of thatcomfort zone, out of that place
of provision, out of that placeof protection.
I was the man.
God had a plan to pull me outof that and put me in what I
thought was the worst that mybrothers beat me up and throw me
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in this muddy hole.
But that pain of that pit, yeah,and that assault by his
brothers, yeah, had a greaterpurpose.
Unimaginable, my God.
The pain that he endured was tosave every life in Egypt and
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every known country in the worldat that time, because only
Egypt had the grain.
The pain of your life is biggerthan you think.
That boy said God did that.
Here's his words.
He says you intended to harm me, but God intended.
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He said God has an intent inthe negative transitions and
adjustments that we have toembrace.
That negative in our eyes.
You said it.
He doesn't see things the waywe see them.
To our eyes that was negative.
To God, that was so good.
Him being in that pit was sogood.
Being in that prison was sogood, because in the prison was
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the only way that he met thebaker and the butler who had
gotten thrown in prison with him.
The blessing is no matter whereJoseph went.
He had favor.
The blessing for you is nomatter whether you up or down,
the favor is still on you.
And when Joseph was in thatprison he ran that prison.
So when the butler and thebaker came in there they had to
meet Joseph to get theirprovisions.
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Come on somebody To get theirwork assignment.
And so then they, as theyengaged in conversation, they
had dreams.
Joseph interpreted those dreamsand told them when you get out,
don't forget me.
One of them got out of theprison.
I think it was the butler thatgot out of the prison, but the
baker ended up being beheaded.
I think the butler got out andgot back in the king's good
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favor.
And when the king had a dream,come on, the butler said I know
a God that's running the jail.
He's a Hebrew Name, joseph.
Let's go get him out of prisonso he can interpret your dream.
Yeah, oh, my God, yeah.
So he had to get in that prisonto get to Pharaoh, absolutely.
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Without getting in that prison,he wouldn't have never met the
butler to get him to thepresident so that he could
become the vice president.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
Come on, let me just.
Let me just break it down, man.
So you know what I heard inthat that's blessing me over
here and I, you know, kind ofgot me caught up a little bit is
um, every adjustment is foryour elevation.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
That is so true.
It's for your purpose elevation.
It's for your spiritualelevation.
It's for your wisdom elevation.
It's for your maturityelevation.
Go ahead, go ahead.
It's for your elevation.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
That's it, that's it Period, that's it.
That's all I had.
If that thing hit me likeperiod, you understand?
That is the message, that's allI had.
Everything hit me like period,period.
You understand?
That is the message.
Wow, that is the message.
Every adjustment is for yourelevation.
Does it feel like it whenyou're going through it though?
Oh, no, absolutely not, itdoesn't.
That's why it's necessary forus to know that it is God,
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because when I, as I'm listeningand I'm thinking about Joseph's
life, and as I was listening toyou, god's intent for him was
elevation.
If we can hold on to that, okay.
When we are in these seasons ofadjustments, this is necessary
for elevation.
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Okay.
No matter what the elevationlooks like, it is necessary for
elevation.
No matter what the elevationlooks like, it is God's intent
for us to be elevated.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
I'm going to give a spiritual definition of
elevation that nobody's everheard before.
You ain't never heard elevationdefined like this.
Elevation is being molded onthe potter's wheel into the
vessel you were born to be.
That's it.
Joseph was on the potter'swheel into the vessel you were
born to be.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
That's it, that's it.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Joseph was on the potter's wheel, absolutely Going
through all that crafting andshaping, and the potter's hand
is on the clay and the clay ison the potter's hand.
The mud is all on his hands andthe hands is all in the clay.
But it's elevation.
Every form and shape of thevessel, the top of the neck, the
skinny, the bottom of the face,this round, all of it, putting
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it in the fire, all of it iselevation to become the vessel
of honor, power, glory of word,the lawyer, the doctor, the
advocate the engineer thebusiness owner, the fashionista,
the social media influencer,the politician, you're nothing,
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but your whole life is anelevation into the vessel that
he called you to be, which thatgoes back to how we even started
, when we started talking, andelevation is painful.
Speaker 2 (53:28):
It's that continual evolution of, of, of, of coming
into who you didn't even knowyou were.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
Joseph had a dream about greatness but had no idea
that he was.
They call him the Prince ofEgypt.
They call him the governor, youknow, of Egypt.
He call him the governor ofEgypt.
He was second in command, youcould say in Western terms he
was the vice president of thecountry, but he was the resource
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of life to the world,absolutely, because there was a
famine in the world and he wasthe only one Absolutely
Governing the grain, yep.
Pharaoh said go ahead, I'm done,you do whatever you want.
I know who you are, yep, andthat's what you got to
understand.
The final destination and realmthat God has for you is waiting
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on you and knows who you are.
Yeah, the power, influence, thepower.
You know people, the powermovements, the power stages, the
power platforms.
They all the power.
You know people, the powermovements, the power stages, the
power platforms.
They all know who you are.
But you've got to embrace thosechanges in order to get there.
It's been amazing having thistime with y'all talking about
Joseph and talking aboutembracing change as part of
God's plan.
I'm going to say this.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
Because this is good you said they know who you are.
Because this is good, you saidthey know who you are.
The thing is, sometimes we'redelayed in knowing who we are.
Speaker 1 (54:54):
Oh, I stayed in that place.
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
You know what I'm saying.
That pain will make youquestion who you are.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
That suffering will make you question who you are.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
Oh my God, just hold on I was getting ready to say,
but after this, after this Justhang in there.
Speaker 1 (55:10):
Oh, that's so good.
Whoever's listening.
This is for you, my God.
We teach to a certain peoplewho God has sent us to.
Whoever you are, embrace thatchange, hold on, hang on, stay
with God, stay in thosedisciplines that you know is
going to get you through.
Grow into the process, embracethat change, get in there and
(55:31):
give it your absolute best andknow that God is sovereign and
in control.
And you have to know thatsometimes God is making
adjustments in your life for aseason to bring you into your
after this.
That's the best way to closethis he's bringing you into your
after this, as Angela hasspoken.
He's bringing you in, that's thebest way to close this.
He's bringing you into yourafter this, as Angela has spoken
, he's bringing you, and thatwas prophetic.
(55:52):
So this prophetic word is goingout to somebody right now.
God is bringing you into yourafter this.
So embrace your season, becauseyour next looks amazing, your
next looks awesome, your next iswonderful, your next is
exceedingly, abundantly aboveanything that you would ask or
think.
Thank you for spending this timewith us.
We got to go, but listen,before I go one more time, let
(56:15):
me thank you for listening andbeing a part of our following
audience.
We love you.
We thank you.
God bless you so much.
Please continue to support usby sowing your time, by
listening to us and, of course,your monetary seat, so we could
stay on the air and keep doingthis.
In order to stay here, we haveto have supporters.
There's no way we can keepdoing it without supporters.
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You can also don't forget.
Right now, I have on my God isable hat in blue and white navy,
blue, light blue and white.
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I have on my God is ablesweatshirt and I'm looking fly
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Don't just look around, listen.
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the kingdom in the process.
That's officialglorygearcom.
It's been good.
This is part three of theteaching adjustments.
Oh, my God, don't miss out onpart four, because in part four
we're going to be talking aboutRuth and all of the adjustments
that she went through, to theglory of God.
God bless you.
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Let me give you a quick prayer.
Father, bless our listeningaudience.
I pray this word has touchedthem and the teaching touched
them in a special way.
I pray that they would embracethe changes that they're facing
and they'll walk through it withpower, authority and praise to
your holy name.
We thank you for this hour andthis time, in Jesus name, amen.
We'll see you next time on DailyBread.
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