October 2, 2025 • 35 mins
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We push past delays and disappointments to show how discipleship, Scripture, and the right mindset turn detours into growth. We press into Philippians 3 and 2 Corinthians 4 to build resilience, maturity, and a forward posture through resistance and reset.
• staying on path when life swerves
• why prophecy cannot replace discipleship
• coaching as the missing link for growth
• Philippians 3:12–14 and the practice of pressing on
• common derailments and fast resets
• treasure in earthen vessels under pressure
• reframing affliction as preparation for glory
• enlarging capacity to reproduce and lead
• practical encouragement, prayer, and renewed focus
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SPEAKER_00 (00:03):
What's going on, everybody?
It's your boy, Pastor J.
Listen, if you're watching rightnow, I've got a word for you
that you're not going to want tomiss.
If you're watching me, it'sbecause you've got a destiny on
your life.
And if you've ever been on theright track, you've been moving
and grooving and shaking, andthen something interrupts you.
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You know, life is filled withdetours, but you don't want to
allow the detours to derail you.
God's got a destiny with yourname on it.
I want to show you how to avoidderailment in your life.
You're going to be blessed bythis.
I'm telling you, this is goingto be good because there's
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somebody right now.
You've been hitting someobstacles.
You're wondering why you'rehitting them.
Well, I've got a word for you.
Don't allow your detours toderail your life.
All that and more coming up onDimensions.
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How's everybody doing?
I am back, your host here,Pastor J.
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I like to say it in a differentorder, though.
Keep oiling your lamps, lovingyour heart, and sin and leaven
out of your life.
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I know people that work out toit, people that travel on the
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Some people go to bed at nightlistening to it, just getting
the word of God into theirspirit.
And that's what I want to do: speak to the issues of our day. (03:58):
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Speak what God has shared withme.
And thank God there are timesthat there isn't a whole lot
going on.
There's not a whole lot goingon.
I'm going to have a word for youjust to edify you and to pour
into your life.
And I believe one of the thingsthat God wants people to
understand right now, it is soimportant that you stay on path.
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Stay on path in this season.
Don't allow things that havehappened in your life to derail
you in this moment.
It is so vitally important thatyou understand that in this
season, in this hour, I believethere is so much at stake that
the times and seasons arechanging.
As a matter of fact, listen, ifyou're watching this in a couple
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of weeks from October 13th tothe 17th, I am going to be
hosting along with my beautifulwife, Pastor Tiffany, a whole
week at Cornerstone TelevisionNetwork, the Winds of Change
Telethon.
It is going to be off the chain.
We got speakers coming in fromall over the U.S.
We've got live praise andworship.
And I would love for you to comeand be a part of our live
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audience.
Yes, I'm talking to you.
Bring your friends, bringanybody that you can get, rustle
them up and come on out toCornerstone, hang out with us
live in the audience, hear theword of the Lord.
And the reason why I'm sayingthis is one of the scripture God
gave me is in the book ofDaniel.
And he talks about how Godchanges the times and the
seasons.
And I believe that we are in aseason right now where things
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are shifting and changing.
And we have got to adjustourselves with what it is that
thus saith the Lord.
Now, listen, I want you to gowith me to Philippians chapter
3, verse number 12.
Philippians chapter 3, I want tolook here at verse number 12.
And I want you to take a look atthis passage of scripture here,
because I know that this willbegin to speak to you.
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You know, one of the things Ifeel that we don't do enough of
is get into the word of God.
It is so important, ladies andgentlemen, that you are in the
word in this season.
Listen, when you're talking withpeople, ministering to people,
pouring into people, let me backup even a little bit further.
If you're not being discipled,we call it coaching.
If you're not being coached, ifyou're not being discipled, and
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you have never, I you don't knowhow many people I have talked to
that have been saved for years,people that are in leadership in
a church and have never beencoached, never been discipled.
You don't know how many people Ihave sat down with in my years
of ministry and found out thatmany people don't know some of
the most simple of truths in theword of God because nobody ever
walked with them.
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And if no one's ever walked withyou, how do you know you are
doing it correctly?
How do you know you're doing itthe right way?
I was talking to somebodyrecently about some things and I
asked them, give me yourtheological stance behind it.
And they said, uh, I reallydon't know.
And I said, Well, how do youknow that what you're doing is
correct?
How do you know you're doing itthe right way?
That's where coaching anddiscipleship comes in.
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Isn't it amazing that beforeJesus ever gave his disciples
the Holy Spirit and power andcalled them apostles, he spent
three and a half years teachingthem the kingdom.
God never gives you positions ofauthority and power, watch this,
without first teaching you theprinciples.
Having power without principlesis a dangerous place because
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therefore you'll use the powerand get off into all sorts of
craziness.
And it is so important that weunderstand the word of God.
We are in a day and an hourwhere deception is at an
all-time high.
It's at an all-time high.
I mean, people take one linefrom YouTube, one line from
Facebook, one scripture from oneperson.
They take it out of context,they run with it, develop a
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whole theological stance basedupon it, and get themselves off
into what I like to callgoofyville, where you start
making things up and peoplestart following.
Like I talk about Brother Josh.
Y'all got to go back and watchmy uh podcast about Brother Josh
and the 2025 rapture prophecy,which I mean, if you know any
little bit of Bible, you knowthat nothing that he said was
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true.
The only thing that he said wastrue, that Jesus is coming back.
But how he put it in thecontext, everything else he said
was completely false.
All you got to do is just knowthe Bible, and then you will not
be led astray.
It's very, very important thatyou are being discipled, and
discipleship helps you keep oilin your lamp, love in your
heart, sin 11 out of your life.
Many of you are plateauing rightnow because you don't have
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coaching in your life.
You don't have discipleship.
Some of you, you are doingministry, but you're burning out
life.
You're burning out in yourfamily, you're burning out in
your marriage, you're tired,you're weary, you're frustrated.
I believe there's people evenwatching right now that you
haven't even been taught how topray.
You say your prayers, but you'venever been taught how to pray.
Isn't it amazing?
You look in Luke chapter number11.
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The disciples asked Jesus, said,Lord, teach us to pray.
He said, While he was praying,there was something so
provocative about Jesus' prayerlife that his disciples said,
Hey, it's not like they didn'tknow about prayer.
They knew about prayer.
They were Jewish people, but yetstill they didn't know how to
pray like Jesus knew how topray.
And he spends, I love it.
In Matthew chapter 6 and in Lukechapter number 11, he talks
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about how to get answered prayerand how to operate in the spirit
of prayer.
Many people don't even know howto pray, and it's not that their
motives are bad.
It's not that they're badpeople, they love the Lord.
But listen, discipleship doesnot happen by accident.
It happens because you areintentional about it.
Don't get so busy, watch this,doing the work of the Lord that
you forget about the Lord of thework.
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Don't get so busy doing allthese other things that you
don't take the time to bedisciple.
Now I'm gonna mess you, messwith your theology right now.
Just because you are faithfuldoes not mean that you have
matured in your faith.
Just because somebody isfaithful and they've been in
ministry and they show up eachand every week, some people are
white knuckling their faith.
They're white knuckles, they'renot having any joy, they're not
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experiencing the presence ofGod, they're not experiencing it
in their homes.
They're just hoping on, holdingon, saying one day in the sweep
by and by, this is gonna feelbetter.
I'm gonna feel better, I'm gonnalook better.
You know, things are just gonnachange one day, and I'm I'm I'm
gonna overdose on prophecy.
And if I get enough propheticwords, maybe one day everything
will shift.
Ladies and gentlemen,discipleship cannot replace.
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I'm sorry, prophecy cannotreplace discipleship.
You have got to have peoplepouring into your life.
And I just need to take a minuteright here.
Every time I get on here, I hitthis prophetic flow right now.
There are some of you watchingright now that your next level
is hidden in coaching.
Your next level is hidden inbeing discipled.
It's not that you're a badperson.
It's not that discipleship isnot for people that are in
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crisis only.
It's not for those that are uhweak Christians.
It's for those that have come toChrist.
And if you've been in the churchfor 20 years, you've never been
discipled, you still need to bediscipled.
It doesn't mean you haven'tlearned things along the way,
but there are things you willget in one-on-one discipleship
that you will not get anywhereelse.
And there's some of youwatching, I can sense it in the
spirit right now.
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There's some of you watchingright now that you're saying,
Man, I just really want more.
You feel like your prayer lifeis empty, you feel like your
walk with God is empty, you feellike you're doing all of this
work, but you feel like, man,there should be more than what
I'm getting.
Because see, you can be anointedto do God's work, but you got to
remember discipleship issomething that's developed
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within you.
The gifts and callings of Godare without repentance.
You can go serve in thechildren's ministry, you can
serve as an usher, you can serveas a parking attendant, you
could serve as an executivepastor and still be lacking
things in your life becausenobody's walking with you and
pouring into you.
When is the last time somebodyprayed with you?
Not because you're in a crisis,not because you got stage four
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cancer diagnosis, not becauseyou're believing God for your
children to get saved, but justto invest into your life, just
to pour into you.
We all need that.
Pastors need it, leaders needit.
Doesn't matter who you are, weall need that in some capacity
in our life.
And many of you, you've gothearts for God, you're loving
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the Lord, and He knows that, butyour heart doesn't get bigger
until somebody pours into yourlife.
Discipleship is the way that youdo that.
And if you're looking for aplace to get discipled, you need
to come to another levelministries.
We are a place that we aredesigned to help you to live
heaven on earth.
I have a culture in our ministrynow that I am making sure every
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person that wants to grow anddevelop is personally developed
and growing.
I'm not gonna, I'm not the typeof person to say, hey, just find
a place to serve, get connectedin the ministry, and hopefully
one day you'll grow.
We have bypassed the ministersto build the ministry.
Instead of having pastors, wehave pharaohs.
I'm preaching right now.
We have pharaohs, and if yousay, What do you mean by that,
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Pastor J, read Exodus chapterone?
Exodus chapter one talks abouthow Pharaoh took the children of
Israel, God's chosen people, andhad them build for him cities,
pythons, and ramesses.
He had them build these multiplemultiple big buildings just for
him, which is what a lot ofpastors do.
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A lot of pastors don't reallycare about the people.
They care about their program,they care about their vision.
And all I want to do is get myvision done.
Find a place to get in there andget the vision while the people
are starving, while the peopleare hurting, while the people
are struggling.
God is tired of ministers usingpeople as prostitutes.
God is tired of pastors usingpeople, not caring about them,
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only caring about getting to thenext mission, getting to the
next thing.
The next thing is the people,ladies and gentlemen.
And the reason why we're notseeing the loss being won is
because the people are notmature enough in order to
duplicate.
They're not big enough, they'renot growing enough in order to
uh uh to uh grow and to developand to reproduce themselves.
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How do you tell when a person isold enough to uh be considered
uh uh uh getting into anadulthood or a teenager if they
hit a puberty level?
So you grow and they hit apuberty level and then they have
the ability to begin toreproduce.
The reason why churches don'treproduce is because we have
people that are in the church inmany years.
They've been there for 15, 20years, but they're still in the
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infant stages in their faith.
We haven't won anybody to theLord.
We're serving because that'swhat we are told to do, but we
haven't enlarged the capacity ofour heart.
We haven't enlarged our desirefor the things of God.
We're still struggling with theworld.
Do you know it is not God's willfor you to struggle with the
world?
Do you know that is a sign thatyou are not growing as a
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Christian if you're alwaysstruggling with the world?
It doesn't mean you never haveany battles when you first come.
But as you grow two, three,four, five years down the line,
you shouldn't continually bestruggling with the world.
You should eventually outgrowthose things.
You should get beyond where youare, but that doesn't happen
because you sit in a Sundaymorning service.
It doesn't happen just by comingon a Wednesday.
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It happens because somebodywalks alongside with you and
invests in your life and poursgrace into your life.
Grace is the building blocks ofyour spiritual man.
And you only get that throughone-on-one.
There's something that happened,not even small groups.
There's nothing wrong with smallgroups.
Small groups are great, butthere's something about
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one-on-one, somebody investinginto you, pouring into you,
walking with you.
I never grew as a pastor, Inever grew as a man, I never
grew as a husband, as a fatherin any area of my life until I
had somebody growing with me.
Somebody was developing me.
And I believe there are some ofyou watching right now that
you're wondering, where's mynext level at?
It is in the coaching, it is inthe discipleship.
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You need that in your life.
And God is tired of pharaohsbuilding pythons and rameses and
building these beautifulmonuments for their name.
And look at what I've built, andthis is my ministry, and using
the people as prostitutes to gettheir next assignment done and
not having a heart for thepeople that are there.
Ladies and gentlemen, if we growthe hearts of the people, the
Lord spoke this to me that manypeople are struggling with
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sicknesses, a lot of people arestruggling with doubt and
unbelief.
A lot of people are strugglingin their marriages, a lot of
people are struggling withselfishness, a lot of people are
struggling with just me, me, me,and me.
And we preached all this lawthen, but then there's no
discipleship with grace to causethem to grow and develop.
God wants your heart to enlarge,God wants your capacity to get
bigger.
And when somebody invests intoyou, that scripture in Isaiah
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10, verse 27 says, And in thatday his burden will be removed
and his yoke from off of yourneck, and the yoke will be
destroyed because of theanointing.
The symbolism behind that isthat you will be fed with the
anointing in such a way thateventually you will outgrow the
current yoke that you are in andsupernaturally hit a
breakthrough.
It's the only time in yourspiritual walk that you want to
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be overweight, if you will.
You want to get so fat in theanointing that you begin to
break through.
And that's what God is desiringto do in your life.
You say, Pastor Jay, what doesthis have to do with the
detours?
Everything.
Many times things happen in ourlives that are detours.
Now, watch this, stay with me.
But we don't know how to dealwith detours.
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Detours should not derail you.
If you get derailed because of adetour, it is because you're
underdeveloped in your spiritualwalk.
And coaching and discipleshiphelps you to be able to manage
detours.
You know, it's funny how whenyou have a detour, they are one
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of the most inconveniencingthings that can happen.
You put in your GPS, says you'regoing to be there in 23 minutes.
You hit a certain road, and thenwhat happens?
They have a detour.
Now, instead of 23 minutes, itcan become 35 minutes, it can be
40 minutes, it could be whateverit is, or something happens.
And what happens to a lot ofpeople, life begins to take its
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uh uh its toll on you becauselife happens.
You're you aren't always gonnahave everything go your way.
All lights aren't going to turngreen.
You're gonna hit sometimes, youknow how it is when you're
running through the streets, youhit every single red light.
Every once in a while you hitevery green, but there's gonna
be times you're gonna hit redlights.
There's times you're gonna getup and not understand there's a
detour.
You're gonna get ready to headto your job, and there's only
gonna be one lane instead of twoor three, and everybody's trying
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to merge to get in, and now theline's extra long.
What do you do in life when lifehits you with a detour?
The key is not to allow it toderail you.
And I want you to see somethinghere.
Philippians chapter three.
Philippians chapter three andverse number 12 through 14.
I finally got to my passagehere.
This is for somebody today.
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See, coaching helps you to beable to understand, to manage,
and to be able to appropriatedetours the correct way.
Most people in their walks, whenthey hit a detour, they derail,
which means you when you have acertain goal and a destiny
you're trying to get to, youyou're you're trying to get
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there and the devil throws adetour.
Some people get derailed.
What do I mean by that?
Give you an example of a detour.
You're you're going to church,and then all of a sudden your
car breaks down and you can'tget to church.
And all of a sudden a week or sogoes by.
And then now you have a detour.
Well, what do I do with that?
Some people they miss oneSunday, turns into two Sunday,
to three Sunday, to fourSundays, and then they got to
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re-give their life back toChrist.
Some people, maybe it's with abudget.
Maybe something happens and youbreak your budget.
Instead of getting back in lineand redoing it, now what
happens?
You go through and you say,Well, I'm just complete and I
throw everything out the window.
They don't throw the bathwaterout, they throw the baby out
too.
What's another example?
Maybe you missed a date nightbecause the kids got sick.
So then what happens the nextweek?
You don't have another datenight.
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And before you know it, it'sfive weeks and you haven't had a
date night.
Maybe you had sometimes lifehappens, is my point, but you've
got to learn to get back ontrack.
And here's a scripture that willhelp you with that.
You maybe you're trying to loseweight and all of a sudden you
break your diet, or maybe you goto a party and say, I'm gonna
have some cake.
And if you're like me, man, youget a piece of cake.
Sometimes a piece of cake canturn into a whole cake.
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Well, the key is you got tolearn how to, even though it's a
detour, don't derail.
Don't go completely off the hookjust because one little thing
happened.
Maybe you missed a day ofworking out, maybe you missed a
few days.
One of your kids got sick, andso you missed your workout.
Maybe you got sick.
Well, that means you got tolearn to not derail.
You've got to make sure you getback on track.
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Where are you right now?
Is there an area that you'vedetoured that the devil's trying
to get you to derail?
Or maybe you've derailed and nowyou're hearing this and you know
you need to get back on thetrack.
Look at what it says here inPhilippians 3 and verse number
12.
Not that I've already attainedor I'm already perfect, but I
press on.
Come on, somebody type that inthe chat.
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I press on.
You think about a bench presswhen you're under resistance and
strain.
Now, watch this.
Sometimes God allows detours andresistance in your life.
Watch this, to develop you, todevelop the intestinal
fortitude, to develop your will,to develop your faith, to
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develop your strength.
Watch this, because it's notabout the destination, it's
about what you become on thejourney.
So sometimes when he takes youon that journey, he's actually
developing things in you.
Now, watch that.
How do you handle detours?
Get the mind of Christ.
Find out why the detour isthere.
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Don't get discouraged, don't getangry.
James chapter one says, thewrath of God or the wrath of man
does not produce therighteousness of God.
So there's no sense gettingangry because it happened, but
all things, come on, somebody.
Romans 8 28, all things worktogether for your good to them
that are called according to hispurpose.
So everything works for you.
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You are troubles, CEO, andtrials and tribulations work for
you.
You've got to get the mind ofChrist and figure out why this
is happening.
Sometimes when detours happen,God is actually using it to
develop something in you.
So then when you get now, watchthis.
When you get to where you'regoing, you will have the
strength, you will have thefaith, you will have the wisdom,
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you will have the understandingfor where you're about to go.
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
That's the reason why you can'tderail.
You can't look at the detour asif it took God by surprise.
The detour might have taken youby surprise, but it didn't take
God by surprise.
And you got to get the mind ofChrist and get back on track.
Can somebody type that in thechat for me?
Get back on track.
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Come on, somebody.
Get back on track.
Whoever's listening to this andwatching this, God's saying, get
back on track.
Get back with what he gave you.
Don't drop everything becausethings went wrong.
Maybe somebody hurt yourfeelings and maybe somebody did
something to you.
How many more times are yougonna be derailed?
You're just gonna get all theway off the track because
somebody did something to you.
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Stay the course, stay the path.
We used to sing a song back inthe day.
My soul has been anchored in theLord.
Who's that for right now?
You've got to have your soul,your mind, your will, and your
emotions anchored in the Lord.
You have to get to a point thateven though the storms may come,
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the winds may blow, the breakersmay dash, uh, you know, what
does it say?
Uh, I will not faint because heholds me fast.
My soul has been anchored in theLord.
Look at this here.
Not that I've already tamed, butI press on.
Somebody say I press on, that Imay lay hold of that for which
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Christ Jesus has laid hold ofme.
When you get a detour, press onbecause something's being
developed in your life.
Some people, when they go toworkout, they got them little
old weights, but it's and it'snot if you start with small
weights, that doesn't matter.
The key is, is it a workout foryou?
If you're not sweating, ifyou're not feeling that burn,
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nothing's developing.
But when you are having to pressand you're having to push, my
good God Almighty, do youunderstand that a new anointing
comes forth out of your spiritwhen you learn how to press in
Jesus' name?
When you learn how to press on,something gets birthed in your
spirit.
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Ideas come, creativity comes.
Some of you are shortchangingyourself because every single
time a detour hits, you derail.
Instead of pressing and gettingback on track and doing what
God's called you to do, youthrow your hands up, you quit,
not understanding that thebreakthrough, the miracle, the
birthing, the new anointingcomes.
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Come on, somebody, in the press.
When you get detoured, you'vegot to press.
You may have to go a little bitlonger, but you are becoming
something in the press.
My good God.
Look at this, brethren.
I don't count myself to haveapprehended, but one thing I do,
forget those things which arebehind and reaching forward to
those things which are ahead.
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Somebody needs to hear thistoday.
There are things that are aheadof you right now that the
devil's saying the detour needsto be a derailment.
I'm here to tell you, don't bederailed just because you have a
detour.
Press on.
Look at what he says here.
I forget those things which arebehind.
I'm reaching forward to thosethings which are ahead.
Do you understand?
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There are forward and ahead.
Ahead and forward.
Forward and ahead.
Not behind.
Keep going forward.
Some of you are too easilydistracted.
One little thing doesn't go yourway, the whole thing falls
apart.
You've got to develop theintestinal fortitude to not be
distracted.
You've got to develop thestrength to stay focused.
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Even in the midst of detours,even in the midst of hardships,
can God trust you to stay thecourse?
Look what he says in verse 14.
I press toward the mark or thegoal for the prize of the upward
call.
Look at this here.
Look at these words.
Press forward ahead.
My good God Almighty.
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Upward.
Look at that.
That's all forward trajectories.
Press towards upward, the prize,forward, reaching.
All those things are ahead ofyou, not behind you.
Don't allow the detour to derailyou in this season.
Now let me show you what happensto you in those times.
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Go with me, if you would, to 2Corinthians chapter number 4.
My good God, I feel theanointing of the Holy Ghost
right now.
Somebody's going to get abreakthrough because listen, I'm
realizing something.
The reason why a lot of peopledon't get healing, the reason
why people don't getdeliverance, the reason why
people don't get their prayersanswered, the reason why people
plateau in their lives.
The reason why people becomespectators of the blessing and
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not participators of theblessing is because it's listen
to me.
It's not seeking God for whatyou get.
You seek God for what youbecome.
What are you becoming in theprocess?
Detours are all about God.
It's funny.
God says, I'm not going to takeyou the short way.
He was I'm going to take you thelong way and give it to you a
little of time because it's notwhat you get, it's what you
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become.
Watch this.
And what you become determineswhat you will get in your walk.
And that's the reason whycoaching is so important.
Discipleship is so important.
Because somebody type that inthe chat.
Discipleship is important.
It is so important in your lifethat you understand that.
It's what you become.
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And if you don't have the rightpeople in your life, if you
don't have somebody pouring intoyou when you hit these detours,
when you hit these certainthings, you can derail them.
Watch this in the name of God,but it not be God.
You will say, it isn't God'swill.
I need to get out of this.
I need to leave it alone.
Not understanding, you need topress.
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And that's where discipleshipcomes in.
It helps you to discern and tounderstand and to appropriate
detours that they work for you.
So then what you become is whoGod called you to be.
And when you become the imageand likeness of Jesus Christ, as
a result of that, you get yourinheritance in Jesus' name.
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This is good preaching, ladiesand gentlemen.
Now look at this here.
Second Corinthians chapter 4.
I want you to see this.
Verse number seven.
This is so powerful.
But we have this treasure inearthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may beof God and not of us.
Can you type that in the chat?
There is a treasure in me.
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You are facing hardships anddifficulties and detours because
the purpose of the detour, watchthis, is to extract or to place
a demand upon the treasurethat's within you.
You'll never know what's in youuntil you are faced with
resistance of what's in front ofyou.
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You have to press through what'sin front of you to unlock what's
within you.
My good God Almighty, stopquitting every time things get
hard.
It's like when you start workingout, it starts burning, you drop
the weight.
No, that's when you're gettingthe most out of it.
No pain, no gain.
It's what you become.
And when you become the imageand likeness of Jesus, see some
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of us, as soon as somethinghappens, as soon as something
happens, we go right back to ourold ways.
We go right back to our oldself.
We go right back to our oldhabits.
We go right back to our oldthings.
Stay the course.
Something is being birthed inand out of your life.
Why?
There is a treasure within you.
Let me show you what I mean.
And how the treasure bringssomething out of you.
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Look at this.
We have this treasure, verse 7,in earthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may beof God and not of us.
My good Lord Almighty.
I got to make sure y'all getthis right now.
You got to understand thispassage here will supernaturally
transform your life.
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You will never be the sameperson if you catch this
revelation of what I'm talkingabout right now.
This will change everythingwithin you.
I want you to catch this rightnow.
I want you to see this, and Iwant you to write it down, and I
want you to meditate upon itbecause when you understand
there's a treasure within you,look at verse number eight is
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what happens as a result.
We are hard pressed.
On every side, yet not crushed.
We are perplexed, but not indespair.
That means our minds areperplexed, but man, I don't fall
the way to despair.
I'm pressed, but it's not enoughwhere it's gonna crush me.
I'm persecuted, but it's notbecause I'm forsaken.
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Because sometimes we caninterpret our persecution as if,
well, why where's God at?
We're struck down, but we're notdestroyed.
It means I might have a setback,I might have a detour.
All of these hard pressed can bea detour, perplexed be a detour.
Persecuted could be a detour.
Struck down could be a detour.
He's letting us know all of thisis because of what's within us.
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Ladies and gentlemen, if we canbegin to understand, when we hit
certain storms, God wants us totap into the treasure that's
within us.
Look at verse 10.
Always caring about in the bodythe dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life of Jesus might bemade manifest in our body.
So verse 12 says, So death isworking in us, but life in you.
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Now look at this.
I want you to jump down to verse16.
I'm almost done.
I got to get out of here.
I didn't realize what time itwas.
Therefore, we do not lose heart,because you're not in this
because there's something wrongwith you.
You're in it because something'sright.
But that's why I want you to goback and listen to what I shared
yesterday.
God said, the storms you arefacing, the things you are
facing, it is a validating,watch this, an activating and a
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validating storm.
What does it mean?
There are new things within youthat God wants you to activate.
And when the storm comes and youactivate, it's going to validate
the new level and the newplatform that God has on you.
Therefore, we don't lose heart.
Why?
Because we understand this.
Even though our outward man isbeing hit and we're going
through these things, ouroutward man is perishing.
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The inward man is being renewedday by day.
Look at verse 17.
For our light affliction, cansomebody say a light affliction?
Can you type that in there?
This is just a light affliction.
It's just a light test.
It's for just a moment and it'sworking for us.
My good God.
A far more exceeding and eternalweight of glory.
And this is my favorite parthere.
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And if you don't get nothingelse, please catch this right
now.
Don't allow your detour toderail your destiny.
While we look not at the thingswhich are seen.
For the things which are seenare temporary.
The things that you are facingright now, let me prophesy and
encourage you, it's only a test.
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It's only temporary.
But we look at the things whichare not seen, for they are
eternal.
My God, Lord, I pray for everyperson listening and watching
right now that they would beginto change their perspective,
that they would begin to seewhat you see.
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Lord, they would begin to seehow it's working for them.
That, Lord, they would not lookat the outward things and
determine and discern them withthe natural eye.
But Lord, they would have themind of Christ and they would
see it the way that you see it.
And Lord, I thank you today thatwhen they see it your way, it
will work in their favor.
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And Lord, I thank you for whatthey are becoming, for who they
are becoming will inherit whatyou have for their lives.
My good God Almighty.
And I thank you that the rest ofthis year will be the best of
this year.
And I thank you that no matterwhat they are facing, it's
working for their good, and theyare becoming vessels of honor,
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fit for the master's use,prepared unto every good work.
Let them not lose heart, butLord, let them stand strong and
run in the anointing like neverbefore.
For you said, they that waitupon the Lord shall renew their
strength.
They will mount up with wingslike an eagle, they will run and
not be weary, and they will walkand not faint.
And Father, we thank you, givingyou all the praise, the honor,
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and all of the glory.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen, amen, amen.
Hallelujah.
I hope that you have beenblessed by this today.
You know, I want you tounderstand that God is with you.
I want you to understand, if youneed to go back and listen to
this again, do it.
Begin to get into some coaching,have some discipleship in your
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life, and understand, justbecause you have a detour, if
you can think the right wayabout it, don't let it derail
you.
You are becoming something inyour storm.
Draw from the word.
Keep with what God calls you todo.
Don't derail.
The detour just might be takingyou on a pass so God can form
some things in your life.
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Enjoy the journey because Godhas a way of making it up to
you.
And so I hope that you've beenblessed by today's broadcast.
And guess what?
Tomorrow, I'm going to be backhere again each and every single
time.
Monday through Friday, 8 30 p.m.
If you didn't get yesterday's,go back and listen to
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yesterday's and today's.
They go together.
It's going to help you.
You're coming into a new season.
There's a new anointing that'sbeing birthed out.
Don't you be discouraged.
Don't you be downt.
I know you might be facing somethings.
God is with you, and your bestdays are right upon you.
And I'll see you tomorrow, righthere on the front of the house.
What's going on, everybody?
It's your boy, Pastor J.
Listen, if you're watching rightnow, I've got a word for you
that you're not going to want tomiss.
If you're watching me, it'sbecause you've got a destiny on
your life.
And if you've ever been on theright track, you've been moving
and grooving and shaking, andthen something interrupts you.
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You know, life is filled withdetours, but you don't want to
allow the detours to derail you.
God's got a destiny with yourname on it.
I want to show you how to avoidderailment in your life.
You're going to be blessed bythis.
I'm telling you, this is goingto be good because there's
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somebody right now.
You've been hitting someobstacles.
You're wondering why you'rehitting them.
Well, I've got a word for you.
Don't allow your detours toderail your life.
All that and more coming up onDimensions.
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How's everybody doing?
I am back, your host here,Pastor J.
Anthony Gilbert, with anotherepisode of Dimensions.
And I love it here, ladies andgentlemen, because we're coming
at you at the very least everyweeknight, Monday through Friday
at 8:30 p.m.
for the express purpose ofhelping people keep love in
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their heart, keep oil in theirlamps, send and leaven out of
their life.
I like to say it in a differentorder, though.
Keep oiling your lamps, lovingyour heart, and sin and leaven
out of your life.
Preparing the body of Christ tobe the bride of Christ for the
return of Jesus Christ.
Every weeknight, 8:30 p.m.,Dementius is coming to you,
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speaking about the issues of theday, speaking about the
prophetic now, and any otherthing that God puts on our.
We've got guests coming on andall sorts of things that are
going to be a blessing to you.
Listen, if you missedyesterday's podcast, you need to
go back and listen to it.
God gave me a prophetic word.
As a matter of fact, I'm goingto try tonight to give you what
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I was going to give you lastnight, but God gave me a
prophetic word for you.
And I mean, it was powerful thatGod is changing seasons.
And man, there was just so muchto it.
You need to go back and check itout if you have missed it.
And so I need you to do me afavor right now: like,
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I believe people are looking fora word.
People want to find a placewhere they can be encouraged,
uplifted, find the truth ofGod's word, be edified and
operate in the flow of theSpirit.
That's what we do here atDimensions, get you to shift
from one dimension to the nextdimension by the Spirit of the
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So take a minute, like,subscribe, follow share.
Whether you're following us onYouTube, whether you're there on
Facebook, no matter where youare, take a moment right now, if
you would, and do that.
And lastly, I need you to do mea favor, download, download the
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Wherever podcasts are beingheld, we are there.
iHeartRadio, Spotify, we're oniTunes, we're in the Google
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don't do Android.
Uh I am an iTunes guy.
I'm a Mac guy.
You know what they say?
Once you go Mac, you never goback.
Come on, somebody.
So go ahead and get thatpodcast, and YouTube can be the
latest member of the Dimensionsfamily.
And Dimensions can go with youwherever you want.
I know people that work out toit, people that travel on the
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way to work.
Some people go to bed at nightlistening to it, just getting
the word of God into theirspirit.
And that's what I want to do: speak to the issues of our day. (03:58):
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Speak what God has shared withme.
And thank God there are timesthat there isn't a whole lot
going on.
There's not a whole lot goingon.
I'm going to have a word for youjust to edify you and to pour
into your life.
And I believe one of the thingsthat God wants people to
understand right now, it is soimportant that you stay on path.
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Stay on path in this season.
Don't allow things that havehappened in your life to derail
you in this moment.
It is so vitally important thatyou understand that in this
season, in this hour, I believethere is so much at stake that
the times and seasons arechanging.
As a matter of fact, listen, ifyou're watching this in a couple
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of weeks from October 13th tothe 17th, I am going to be
hosting along with my beautifulwife, Pastor Tiffany, a whole
week at Cornerstone TelevisionNetwork, the Winds of Change
Telethon.
It is going to be off the chain.
We got speakers coming in fromall over the U.S.
We've got live praise andworship.
And I would love for you to comeand be a part of our live
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audience.
Yes, I'm talking to you.
Bring your friends, bringanybody that you can get, rustle
them up and come on out toCornerstone, hang out with us
live in the audience, hear theword of the Lord.
And the reason why I'm sayingthis is one of the scripture God
gave me is in the book ofDaniel.
And he talks about how Godchanges the times and the
seasons.
And I believe that we are in aseason right now where things
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are shifting and changing.
And we have got to adjustourselves with what it is that
thus saith the Lord.
Now, listen, I want you to gowith me to Philippians chapter
3, verse number 12.
Philippians chapter 3, I want tolook here at verse number 12.
And I want you to take a look atthis passage of scripture here,
because I know that this willbegin to speak to you.
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You know, one of the things Ifeel that we don't do enough of
is get into the word of God.
It is so important, ladies andgentlemen, that you are in the
word in this season.
Listen, when you're talking withpeople, ministering to people,
pouring into people, let me backup even a little bit further.
If you're not being discipled,we call it coaching.
If you're not being coached, ifyou're not being discipled, and
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you have never, I you don't knowhow many people I have talked to
that have been saved for years,people that are in leadership in
a church and have never beencoached, never been discipled.
You don't know how many people Ihave sat down with in my years
of ministry and found out thatmany people don't know some of
the most simple of truths in theword of God because nobody ever
walked with them.
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And if no one's ever walked withyou, how do you know you are
doing it correctly?
How do you know you're doing itthe right way?
I was talking to somebodyrecently about some things and I
asked them, give me yourtheological stance behind it.
And they said, uh, I reallydon't know.
And I said, Well, how do youknow that what you're doing is
correct?
How do you know you're doing itthe right way?
That's where coaching anddiscipleship comes in.
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Isn't it amazing that beforeJesus ever gave his disciples
the Holy Spirit and power andcalled them apostles, he spent
three and a half years teachingthem the kingdom.
God never gives you positions ofauthority and power, watch this,
without first teaching you theprinciples.
Having power without principlesis a dangerous place because
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therefore you'll use the powerand get off into all sorts of
craziness.
And it is so important that weunderstand the word of God.
We are in a day and an hourwhere deception is at an
all-time high.
It's at an all-time high.
I mean, people take one linefrom YouTube, one line from
Facebook, one scripture from oneperson.
They take it out of context,they run with it, develop a
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whole theological stance basedupon it, and get themselves off
into what I like to callgoofyville, where you start
making things up and peoplestart following.
Like I talk about Brother Josh.
Y'all got to go back and watchmy uh podcast about Brother Josh
and the 2025 rapture prophecy,which I mean, if you know any
little bit of Bible, you knowthat nothing that he said was
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true.
The only thing that he said wastrue, that Jesus is coming back.
But how he put it in thecontext, everything else he said
was completely false.
All you got to do is just knowthe Bible, and then you will not
be led astray.
It's very, very important thatyou are being discipled, and
discipleship helps you keep oilin your lamp, love in your
heart, sin 11 out of your life.
Many of you are plateauing rightnow because you don't have
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coaching in your life.
You don't have discipleship.
Some of you, you are doingministry, but you're burning out
life.
You're burning out in yourfamily, you're burning out in
your marriage, you're tired,you're weary, you're frustrated.
I believe there's people evenwatching right now that you
haven't even been taught how topray.
You say your prayers, but you'venever been taught how to pray.
Isn't it amazing?
You look in Luke chapter number11.
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The disciples asked Jesus, said,Lord, teach us to pray.
He said, While he was praying,there was something so
provocative about Jesus' prayerlife that his disciples said,
Hey, it's not like they didn'tknow about prayer.
They knew about prayer.
They were Jewish people, but yetstill they didn't know how to
pray like Jesus knew how topray.
And he spends, I love it.
In Matthew chapter 6 and in Lukechapter number 11, he talks
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about how to get answered prayerand how to operate in the spirit
of prayer.
Many people don't even know howto pray, and it's not that their
motives are bad.
It's not that they're badpeople, they love the Lord.
But listen, discipleship doesnot happen by accident.
It happens because you areintentional about it.
Don't get so busy, watch this,doing the work of the Lord that
you forget about the Lord of thework.
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Don't get so busy doing allthese other things that you
don't take the time to bedisciple.
Now I'm gonna mess you, messwith your theology right now.
Just because you are faithfuldoes not mean that you have
matured in your faith.
Just because somebody isfaithful and they've been in
ministry and they show up eachand every week, some people are
white knuckling their faith.
They're white knuckles, they'renot having any joy, they're not
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experiencing the presence ofGod, they're not experiencing it
in their homes.
They're just hoping on, holdingon, saying one day in the sweep
by and by, this is gonna feelbetter.
I'm gonna feel better, I'm gonnalook better.
You know, things are just gonnachange one day, and I'm I'm I'm
gonna overdose on prophecy.
And if I get enough propheticwords, maybe one day everything
will shift.
Ladies and gentlemen,discipleship cannot replace.
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I'm sorry, prophecy cannotreplace discipleship.
You have got to have peoplepouring into your life.
And I just need to take a minuteright here.
Every time I get on here, I hitthis prophetic flow right now.
There are some of you watchingright now that your next level
is hidden in coaching.
Your next level is hidden inbeing discipled.
It's not that you're a badperson.
It's not that discipleship isnot for people that are in
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crisis only.
It's not for those that are uhweak Christians.
It's for those that have come toChrist.
And if you've been in the churchfor 20 years, you've never been
discipled, you still need to bediscipled.
It doesn't mean you haven'tlearned things along the way,
but there are things you willget in one-on-one discipleship
that you will not get anywhereelse.
And there's some of youwatching, I can sense it in the
spirit right now.
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There's some of you watchingright now that you're saying,
Man, I just really want more.
You feel like your prayer lifeis empty, you feel like your
walk with God is empty, you feellike you're doing all of this
work, but you feel like, man,there should be more than what
I'm getting.
Because see, you can be anointedto do God's work, but you got to
remember discipleship issomething that's developed
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within you.
The gifts and callings of Godare without repentance.
You can go serve in thechildren's ministry, you can
serve as an usher, you can serveas a parking attendant, you
could serve as an executivepastor and still be lacking
things in your life becausenobody's walking with you and
pouring into you.
When is the last time somebodyprayed with you?
Not because you're in a crisis,not because you got stage four
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cancer diagnosis, not becauseyou're believing God for your
children to get saved, but justto invest into your life, just
to pour into you.
We all need that.
Pastors need it, leaders needit.
Doesn't matter who you are, weall need that in some capacity
in our life.
And many of you, you've gothearts for God, you're loving
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the Lord, and He knows that, butyour heart doesn't get bigger
until somebody pours into yourlife.
Discipleship is the way that youdo that.
And if you're looking for aplace to get discipled, you need
to come to another levelministries.
We are a place that we aredesigned to help you to live
heaven on earth.
I have a culture in our ministrynow that I am making sure every
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person that wants to grow anddevelop is personally developed
and growing.
I'm not gonna, I'm not the typeof person to say, hey, just find
a place to serve, get connectedin the ministry, and hopefully
one day you'll grow.
We have bypassed the ministersto build the ministry.
Instead of having pastors, wehave pharaohs.
I'm preaching right now.
We have pharaohs, and if yousay, What do you mean by that,
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Pastor J, read Exodus chapterone?
Exodus chapter one talks abouthow Pharaoh took the children of
Israel, God's chosen people, andhad them build for him cities,
pythons, and ramesses.
He had them build these multiplemultiple big buildings just for
him, which is what a lot ofpastors do.
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A lot of pastors don't reallycare about the people.
They care about their program,they care about their vision.
And all I want to do is get myvision done.
Find a place to get in there andget the vision while the people
are starving, while the peopleare hurting, while the people
are struggling.
God is tired of ministers usingpeople as prostitutes.
God is tired of pastors usingpeople, not caring about them,
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only caring about getting to thenext mission, getting to the
next thing.
The next thing is the people,ladies and gentlemen.
And the reason why we're notseeing the loss being won is
because the people are notmature enough in order to
duplicate.
They're not big enough, they'renot growing enough in order to
uh uh to uh grow and to developand to reproduce themselves.
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How do you tell when a person isold enough to uh be considered
uh uh uh getting into anadulthood or a teenager if they
hit a puberty level?
So you grow and they hit apuberty level and then they have
the ability to begin toreproduce.
The reason why churches don'treproduce is because we have
people that are in the church inmany years.
They've been there for 15, 20years, but they're still in the
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infant stages in their faith.
We haven't won anybody to theLord.
We're serving because that'swhat we are told to do, but we
haven't enlarged the capacity ofour heart.
We haven't enlarged our desirefor the things of God.
We're still struggling with theworld.
Do you know it is not God's willfor you to struggle with the
world?
Do you know that is a sign thatyou are not growing as a
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Christian if you're alwaysstruggling with the world?
It doesn't mean you never haveany battles when you first come.
But as you grow two, three,four, five years down the line,
you shouldn't continually bestruggling with the world.
You should eventually outgrowthose things.
You should get beyond where youare, but that doesn't happen
because you sit in a Sundaymorning service.
It doesn't happen just by comingon a Wednesday.
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It happens because somebodywalks alongside with you and
invests in your life and poursgrace into your life.
Grace is the building blocks ofyour spiritual man.
And you only get that throughone-on-one.
There's something that happened,not even small groups.
There's nothing wrong with smallgroups.
Small groups are great, butthere's something about
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one-on-one, somebody investinginto you, pouring into you,
walking with you.
I never grew as a pastor, Inever grew as a man, I never
grew as a husband, as a fatherin any area of my life until I
had somebody growing with me.
Somebody was developing me.
And I believe there are some ofyou watching right now that
you're wondering, where's mynext level at?
It is in the coaching, it is inthe discipleship.
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You need that in your life.
And God is tired of pharaohsbuilding pythons and rameses and
building these beautifulmonuments for their name.
And look at what I've built, andthis is my ministry, and using
the people as prostitutes to gettheir next assignment done and
not having a heart for thepeople that are there.
Ladies and gentlemen, if we growthe hearts of the people, the
Lord spoke this to me that manypeople are struggling with
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sicknesses, a lot of people arestruggling with doubt and
unbelief.
A lot of people are strugglingin their marriages, a lot of
people are struggling withselfishness, a lot of people are
struggling with just me, me, me,and me.
And we preached all this lawthen, but then there's no
discipleship with grace to causethem to grow and develop.
God wants your heart to enlarge,God wants your capacity to get
bigger.
And when somebody invests intoyou, that scripture in Isaiah
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10, verse 27 says, And in thatday his burden will be removed
and his yoke from off of yourneck, and the yoke will be
destroyed because of theanointing.
The symbolism behind that isthat you will be fed with the
anointing in such a way thateventually you will outgrow the
current yoke that you are in andsupernaturally hit a
breakthrough.
It's the only time in yourspiritual walk that you want to
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be overweight, if you will.
You want to get so fat in theanointing that you begin to
break through.
And that's what God is desiringto do in your life.
You say, Pastor Jay, what doesthis have to do with the
detours?
Everything.
Many times things happen in ourlives that are detours.
Now, watch this, stay with me.
But we don't know how to dealwith detours.
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Detours should not derail you.
If you get derailed because of adetour, it is because you're
underdeveloped in your spiritualwalk.
And coaching and discipleshiphelps you to be able to manage
detours.
You know, it's funny how whenyou have a detour, they are one
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of the most inconveniencingthings that can happen.
You put in your GPS, says you'regoing to be there in 23 minutes.
You hit a certain road, and thenwhat happens?
They have a detour.
Now, instead of 23 minutes, itcan become 35 minutes, it can be
40 minutes, it could be whateverit is, or something happens.
And what happens to a lot ofpeople, life begins to take its
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uh uh its toll on you becauselife happens.
You're you aren't always gonnahave everything go your way.
All lights aren't going to turngreen.
You're gonna hit sometimes, youknow how it is when you're
running through the streets, youhit every single red light.
Every once in a while you hitevery green, but there's gonna
be times you're gonna hit redlights.
There's times you're gonna getup and not understand there's a
detour.
You're gonna get ready to headto your job, and there's only
gonna be one lane instead of twoor three, and everybody's trying
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to merge to get in, and now theline's extra long.
What do you do in life when lifehits you with a detour?
The key is not to allow it toderail you.
And I want you to see somethinghere.
Philippians chapter three.
Philippians chapter three andverse number 12 through 14.
I finally got to my passagehere.
This is for somebody today.
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See, coaching helps you to beable to understand, to manage,
and to be able to appropriatedetours the correct way.
Most people in their walks, whenthey hit a detour, they derail,
which means you when you have acertain goal and a destiny
you're trying to get to, youyou're you're trying to get
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there and the devil throws adetour.
Some people get derailed.
What do I mean by that?
Give you an example of a detour.
You're you're going to church,and then all of a sudden your
car breaks down and you can'tget to church.
And all of a sudden a week or sogoes by.
And then now you have a detour.
Well, what do I do with that?
Some people they miss oneSunday, turns into two Sunday,
to three Sunday, to fourSundays, and then they got to
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re-give their life back toChrist.
Some people, maybe it's with abudget.
Maybe something happens and youbreak your budget.
Instead of getting back in lineand redoing it, now what
happens?
You go through and you say,Well, I'm just complete and I
throw everything out the window.
They don't throw the bathwaterout, they throw the baby out
too.
What's another example?
Maybe you missed a date nightbecause the kids got sick.
So then what happens the nextweek?
You don't have another datenight.
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And before you know it, it'sfive weeks and you haven't had a
date night.
Maybe you had sometimes lifehappens, is my point, but you've
got to learn to get back ontrack.
And here's a scripture that willhelp you with that.
You maybe you're trying to loseweight and all of a sudden you
break your diet, or maybe you goto a party and say, I'm gonna
have some cake.
And if you're like me, man, youget a piece of cake.
Sometimes a piece of cake canturn into a whole cake.
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Well, the key is you got tolearn how to, even though it's a
detour, don't derail.
Don't go completely off the hookjust because one little thing
happened.
Maybe you missed a day ofworking out, maybe you missed a
few days.
One of your kids got sick, andso you missed your workout.
Maybe you got sick.
Well, that means you got tolearn to not derail.
You've got to make sure you getback on track.
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Where are you right now?
Is there an area that you'vedetoured that the devil's trying
to get you to derail?
Or maybe you've derailed and nowyou're hearing this and you know
you need to get back on thetrack.
Look at what it says here inPhilippians 3 and verse number
12.
Not that I've already attainedor I'm already perfect, but I
press on.
Come on, somebody type that inthe chat.
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I press on.
You think about a bench presswhen you're under resistance and
strain.
Now, watch this.
Sometimes God allows detours andresistance in your life.
Watch this, to develop you, todevelop the intestinal
fortitude, to develop your will,to develop your faith, to
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develop your strength.
Watch this, because it's notabout the destination, it's
about what you become on thejourney.
So sometimes when he takes youon that journey, he's actually
developing things in you.
Now, watch that.
How do you handle detours?
Get the mind of Christ.
Find out why the detour isthere.
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Don't get discouraged, don't getangry.
James chapter one says, thewrath of God or the wrath of man
does not produce therighteousness of God.
So there's no sense gettingangry because it happened, but
all things, come on, somebody.
Romans 8 28, all things worktogether for your good to them
that are called according to hispurpose.
So everything works for you.
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You are troubles, CEO, andtrials and tribulations work for
you.
You've got to get the mind ofChrist and figure out why this
is happening.
Sometimes when detours happen,God is actually using it to
develop something in you.
So then when you get now, watchthis.
When you get to where you'regoing, you will have the
strength, you will have thefaith, you will have the wisdom,
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you will have the understandingfor where you're about to go.
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
That's the reason why you can'tderail.
You can't look at the detour asif it took God by surprise.
The detour might have taken youby surprise, but it didn't take
God by surprise.
And you got to get the mind ofChrist and get back on track.
Can somebody type that in thechat for me?
Get back on track.
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Come on, somebody.
Get back on track.
Whoever's listening to this andwatching this, God's saying, get
back on track.
Get back with what he gave you.
Don't drop everything becausethings went wrong.
Maybe somebody hurt yourfeelings and maybe somebody did
something to you.
How many more times are yougonna be derailed?
You're just gonna get all theway off the track because
somebody did something to you.
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Stay the course, stay the path.
We used to sing a song back inthe day.
My soul has been anchored in theLord.
Who's that for right now?
You've got to have your soul,your mind, your will, and your
emotions anchored in the Lord.
You have to get to a point thateven though the storms may come,
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the winds may blow, the breakersmay dash, uh, you know, what
does it say?
Uh, I will not faint because heholds me fast.
My soul has been anchored in theLord.
Look at this here.
Not that I've already tamed, butI press on.
Somebody say I press on, that Imay lay hold of that for which
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Christ Jesus has laid hold ofme.
When you get a detour, press onbecause something's being
developed in your life.
Some people, when they go toworkout, they got them little
old weights, but it's and it'snot if you start with small
weights, that doesn't matter.
The key is, is it a workout foryou?
If you're not sweating, ifyou're not feeling that burn,
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nothing's developing.
But when you are having to pressand you're having to push, my
good God Almighty, do youunderstand that a new anointing
comes forth out of your spiritwhen you learn how to press in
Jesus' name?
When you learn how to press on,something gets birthed in your
spirit.
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Ideas come, creativity comes.
Some of you are shortchangingyourself because every single
time a detour hits, you derail.
Instead of pressing and gettingback on track and doing what
God's called you to do, youthrow your hands up, you quit,
not understanding that thebreakthrough, the miracle, the
birthing, the new anointingcomes.
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Come on, somebody, in the press.
When you get detoured, you'vegot to press.
You may have to go a little bitlonger, but you are becoming
something in the press.
My good God.
Look at this, brethren.
I don't count myself to haveapprehended, but one thing I do,
forget those things which arebehind and reaching forward to
those things which are ahead.
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Somebody needs to hear thistoday.
There are things that are aheadof you right now that the
devil's saying the detour needsto be a derailment.
I'm here to tell you, don't bederailed just because you have a
detour.
Press on.
Look at what he says here.
I forget those things which arebehind.
I'm reaching forward to thosethings which are ahead.
Do you understand?
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There are forward and ahead.
Ahead and forward.
Forward and ahead.
Not behind.
Keep going forward.
Some of you are too easilydistracted.
One little thing doesn't go yourway, the whole thing falls
apart.
You've got to develop theintestinal fortitude to not be
distracted.
You've got to develop thestrength to stay focused.
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Even in the midst of detours,even in the midst of hardships,
can God trust you to stay thecourse?
Look what he says in verse 14.
I press toward the mark or thegoal for the prize of the upward
call.
Look at this here.
Look at these words.
Press forward ahead.
My good God Almighty.
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Upward.
Look at that.
That's all forward trajectories.
Press towards upward, the prize,forward, reaching.
All those things are ahead ofyou, not behind you.
Don't allow the detour to derailyou in this season.
Now let me show you what happensto you in those times.
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Go with me, if you would, to 2Corinthians chapter number 4.
My good God, I feel theanointing of the Holy Ghost
right now.
Somebody's going to get abreakthrough because listen, I'm
realizing something.
The reason why a lot of peopledon't get healing, the reason
why people don't getdeliverance, the reason why
people don't get their prayersanswered, the reason why people
plateau in their lives.
The reason why people becomespectators of the blessing and
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not participators of theblessing is because it's listen
to me.
It's not seeking God for whatyou get.
You seek God for what youbecome.
What are you becoming in theprocess?
Detours are all about God.
It's funny.
God says, I'm not going to takeyou the short way.
He was I'm going to take you thelong way and give it to you a
little of time because it's notwhat you get, it's what you
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become.
Watch this.
And what you become determineswhat you will get in your walk.
And that's the reason whycoaching is so important.
Discipleship is so important.
Because somebody type that inthe chat.
Discipleship is important.
It is so important in your lifethat you understand that.
It's what you become.
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And if you don't have the rightpeople in your life, if you
don't have somebody pouring intoyou when you hit these detours,
when you hit these certainthings, you can derail them.
Watch this in the name of God,but it not be God.
You will say, it isn't God'swill.
I need to get out of this.
I need to leave it alone.
Not understanding, you need topress.
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And that's where discipleshipcomes in.
It helps you to discern and tounderstand and to appropriate
detours that they work for you.
So then what you become is whoGod called you to be.
And when you become the imageand likeness of Jesus Christ, as
a result of that, you get yourinheritance in Jesus' name.
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This is good preaching, ladiesand gentlemen.
Now look at this here.
Second Corinthians chapter 4.
I want you to see this.
Verse number seven.
This is so powerful.
But we have this treasure inearthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may beof God and not of us.
Can you type that in the chat?
There is a treasure in me.
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You are facing hardships anddifficulties and detours because
the purpose of the detour, watchthis, is to extract or to place
a demand upon the treasurethat's within you.
You'll never know what's in youuntil you are faced with
resistance of what's in front ofyou.
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You have to press through what'sin front of you to unlock what's
within you.
My good God Almighty, stopquitting every time things get
hard.
It's like when you start workingout, it starts burning, you drop
the weight.
No, that's when you're gettingthe most out of it.
No pain, no gain.
It's what you become.
And when you become the imageand likeness of Jesus, see some
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of us, as soon as somethinghappens, as soon as something
happens, we go right back to ourold ways.
We go right back to our oldself.
We go right back to our oldhabits.
We go right back to our oldthings.
Stay the course.
Something is being birthed inand out of your life.
Why?
There is a treasure within you.
Let me show you what I mean.
And how the treasure bringssomething out of you.
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Look at this.
We have this treasure, verse 7,in earthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may beof God and not of us.
My good Lord Almighty.
I got to make sure y'all getthis right now.
You got to understand thispassage here will supernaturally
transform your life.
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You will never be the sameperson if you catch this
revelation of what I'm talkingabout right now.
This will change everythingwithin you.
I want you to catch this rightnow.
I want you to see this, and Iwant you to write it down, and I
want you to meditate upon itbecause when you understand
there's a treasure within you,look at verse number eight is
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what happens as a result.
We are hard pressed.
On every side, yet not crushed.
We are perplexed, but not indespair.
That means our minds areperplexed, but man, I don't fall
the way to despair.
I'm pressed, but it's not enoughwhere it's gonna crush me.
I'm persecuted, but it's notbecause I'm forsaken.
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Because sometimes we caninterpret our persecution as if,
well, why where's God at?
We're struck down, but we're notdestroyed.
It means I might have a setback,I might have a detour.
All of these hard pressed can bea detour, perplexed be a detour.
Persecuted could be a detour.
Struck down could be a detour.
He's letting us know all of thisis because of what's within us.
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Ladies and gentlemen, if we canbegin to understand, when we hit
certain storms, God wants us totap into the treasure that's
within us.
Look at verse 10.
Always caring about in the bodythe dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life of Jesus might bemade manifest in our body.
So verse 12 says, So death isworking in us, but life in you.
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Now look at this.
I want you to jump down to verse16.
I'm almost done.
I got to get out of here.
I didn't realize what time itwas.
Therefore, we do not lose heart,because you're not in this
because there's something wrongwith you.
You're in it because something'sright.
But that's why I want you to goback and listen to what I shared
yesterday.
God said, the storms you arefacing, the things you are
facing, it is a validating,watch this, an activating and a
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validating storm.
What does it mean?
There are new things within youthat God wants you to activate.
And when the storm comes and youactivate, it's going to validate
the new level and the newplatform that God has on you.
Therefore, we don't lose heart.
Why?
Because we understand this.
Even though our outward man isbeing hit and we're going
through these things, ouroutward man is perishing.
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The inward man is being renewedday by day.
Look at verse 17.
For our light affliction, cansomebody say a light affliction?
Can you type that in there?
This is just a light affliction.
It's just a light test.
It's for just a moment and it'sworking for us.
My good God.
A far more exceeding and eternalweight of glory.
And this is my favorite parthere.
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And if you don't get nothingelse, please catch this right
now.
Don't allow your detour toderail your destiny.
While we look not at the thingswhich are seen.
For the things which are seenare temporary.
The things that you are facingright now, let me prophesy and
encourage you, it's only a test.
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It's only temporary.
But we look at the things whichare not seen, for they are
eternal.
My God, Lord, I pray for everyperson listening and watching
right now that they would beginto change their perspective,
that they would begin to seewhat you see.
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Lord, they would begin to seehow it's working for them.
That, Lord, they would not lookat the outward things and
determine and discern them withthe natural eye.
But Lord, they would have themind of Christ and they would
see it the way that you see it.
And Lord, I thank you today thatwhen they see it your way, it
will work in their favor.
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And Lord, I thank you for whatthey are becoming, for who they
are becoming will inherit whatyou have for their lives.
My good God Almighty.
And I thank you that the rest ofthis year will be the best of
this year.
And I thank you that no matterwhat they are facing, it's
working for their good, and theyare becoming vessels of honor,
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fit for the master's use,prepared unto every good work.
Let them not lose heart, butLord, let them stand strong and
run in the anointing like neverbefore.
For you said, they that waitupon the Lord shall renew their
strength.
They will mount up with wingslike an eagle, they will run and
not be weary, and they will walkand not faint.
And Father, we thank you, givingyou all the praise, the honor,
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and all of the glory.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen, amen, amen.
Hallelujah.
I hope that you have beenblessed by this today.
You know, I want you tounderstand that God is with you.
I want you to understand, if youneed to go back and listen to
this again, do it.
Begin to get into some coaching,have some discipleship in your
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life, and understand, justbecause you have a detour, if
you can think the right wayabout it, don't let it derail
you.
You are becoming something inyour storm.
Draw from the word.
Keep with what God calls you todo.
Don't derail.
The detour just might be takingyou on a pass so God can form
some things in your life.
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Enjoy the journey because Godhas a way of making it up to
you.
And so I hope that you've beenblessed by today's broadcast.
And guess what?
Tomorrow, I'm going to be backhere again each and every single
time.
Monday through Friday, 8 30 p.m.
If you didn't get yesterday's,go back and listen to
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yesterday's and today's.
They go together.
It's going to help you.
You're coming into a new season.
There's a new anointing that'sbeing birthed out.
Don't you be discouraged.
Don't you be downt.
I know you might be facing somethings.
God is with you, and your bestdays are right upon you.
And I'll see you tomorrow, righthere on the front of the house.
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