September 11, 2024 • 35 mins
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Today, we dive into Matthew 11:12 and discuss how everything God has for you is yours for the taking. Learn to recognize and embrace God's promises, which number over 8,000 in the Bible, including healing, financial stability, peace, and restful sleep.
Explore how to read and understand the Bible stories, like David and Goliath, and how they relate to your life. Discover the importance of daily scripture reading and how to ask God for understanding.
Understand that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8), and His promises never return void (Isaiah 55:11). Learn to approach God's throne with boldness and confidence (Hebrews 4:16), and stop praying begging prayers. Instead, command and rebuke with authority, as Jesus left us with the Holy Spirit and authority.
Recognize that there's a thief among us (John 10:10), but also remember that when the thief is caught, he must pay back sevenfold (Proverbs 6:31). Lean into your emotions, even anger, and direct it towards the real enemy. Take back what is rightfully yours and claim God's promises boldly.
Join the challenge to read the story of Jericho (Joshua 6) every day for a week and gain new insights daily. Visit the Wildfire Prayer NVT page on Instagram for powerful prayers and check out "Prayers That Work" by Pastor Kevin E. Ewing for more guidance.
Stay vigilant, persistent, and in covenant with God to experience His full blessings. Love y'all so much!
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Take it, take it, girl. It's yours for the taking. Have your authority.
Chin up, chest out. Shoulders back, babe.
You are beautifully and wonderfully made. Hey, girl, hey.
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Matthew 11, 12 reads, and from the time from John the Baptist,
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the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violence take it by force.
What does that mean? We're going to get into it. Everything that you want,
Everything that God has for you and everything that aligns itself with God's
promises is literally yours for the taking.
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So first thing I want you to recognize and pray on and meditate and do not forget,
even if you have to tell yourself four to 50 times a day, is that God has promises for you.
For you, for me, for your mom, for your dad, for everybody. God has promises for his children.
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So I had to take to the Google because I don't know everything there is to know about the Bible.
And although I've studied a lot and I've learned a lot, I understand that there
are certain things that God has for me.
There are certain things that entry-level Christians, like, you just know, right?
We know that by his stripes we are healed.
Now, anyone, even in Christianity, would be like, okay, if by his stripes we
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are healed, why are there diseases?
Why are people going through things? Why is there sickness? And that's a whole
nother video that we will debunk in a whole nother day.
So I want you to hit that subscribe button and I will touch on it just a tad bit in this video.
But you know that a promise from God is that healing is a promise,
right? By his stripes, we are healed.
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Healing is a promise. Now in the Bible, there are over 8,000 promises.
Yes, girly, 8,000 promises are in the Bible.
Even more. So over 8,000 promises. Healing is just one promise.
Financial stability is one promise.
What? Peace is one promise. Restful sleep is one promise. There are over 8,000
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of these promises in the Bible.
So the first thing is to understand God has promises for you.
He has over 8,000 promises for you. I honestly used to think that,
and it took me up until probably a couple weeks weeks ago that,
not even a couple of weeks, I want to say like this year, a couple of months
ago of me studying my Bible that I really thought that the Bible was just like,
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especially when it came to the Old Testament, a book that just talked about things that happened.
And I feel like the things that happened had nothing to do with me,
right? Like, girl, I'm not in a well.
I don't know about Jonah in the belly of the well child or Noah building an
ark. I'm not building an ark. like, what does this have to do with me?
I think I was really taking the Bible as face value and reading the stories
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of what was going on and not really examining what these things meant and how
these things can transfer to my life, right?
And so one of my favorite books, one of my favorite stories of the Bible,
actually, it kind of changes, okay?
Hannah's Vow, I feel like, is probably one one of my favorites now in this season that I'm in.
But a couple of months ago, I was obsessed with the story of David and Goliath.
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When I say obsessed, I read that story every day.
And don't worry, every video has homework because I would never leave y'all without a challenge.
But I read David and Goliath and I was just like, I knew the story from a child.
What is a little boy being a slingshot master have to do with me, right?
What is somebody fighting a giant have to do with me? But then I realized that
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when I started to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal certain things to me and I kept
meditating on the story, I realized that I too have a Goliath.
That Goliath might be your family not wanting salvation.
That Goliath might be that man that you are with. That Goliath might be the
job that is putting you down.
That Goliath might be financial troubles you're having.
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That Goliath might... There's so many Goliaths in our life, and there's so much
to take away from that story.
So I say all this to say, as you are reading your Bible, every day read your Bible.
When God says, give us this day our daily bread, right. He is feeding us daily.
We have to feed ourselves with the word daily. And I'm not just talking about one verse.
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I really challenge you, if you have the Bible app, and when a verse pops up,
click on read the entire chapter and read that entire chapter from that verse.
And then from then on, you can go into like putting out an hour of time to reading your Bible.
But sometimes I know when it comes to like a walk with faith,
there are people who go all in at once and that is a beautiful thing.
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But sometimes you have to take baby steps and I've realized that that is okay.
You have to celebrate the small victories before you made it to a hundred days
of sobriety. You have to start off with one day. You have to get to five days.
You have to get to 10 days.
So every Bible story has something to do with you.
When you read your Bible, before I even read my, before I even opened my Bible up.
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Because half the time, I don't even know what the Bible is saying,
child. Before I open my Bible up, I play worship music.
If I feel like I don't have time to pray worship music, I literally just say,
God, please help me understand your word. It is as simple as that.
God, I invite you. Please help me understand and comprehend your word.
Give me a new and refreshing word for me today while reading your word.
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As simple as that. Ask and you shall receive.
Moving on, Hebrews 13.8 states that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, we're talking real Bible here. I'm going to give you all these points,
but I'm also going to back it up with where's this found in the Bible because
I'm one of them girls. Girl, where'd you find that in the Bible?
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But yes, Hebrews 13.8 states that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
So if you're reading the Old Testament, and I understand some people try to
only stay in the New Testament because like Jesus is here.
It's like, okay, what does the Old Testament have to do with me?
But honestly and truly, it's like finding out.
I like to view it as dating because I feel like a lot of women talk about dating.
Dating is on like a lot of women's forefronts of their minds.
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It's just easy to have like an analogy for.
I feel like reading the Old Testament could be like when you get to know a guy
or even if you're finding friends in the new city, you kind of want to know
their background, right?
Even when you're applying for a job, They want to know your background.
Do you have experience in this industry?
Where did you go to school at? That's like reading the Old Testament.
You want to know the background of why and how Jesus got there.
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So as you're reading the Old Testament, yes, there are certain laws that we
don't have to do anymore because Jesus had died on the cross.
But at the grand scheme of things, God is still the same. The same God that
was striking folks dead is the same God.
So God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So remember that when you're
reading up on some of these promises, he's the same.
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Ain't nothing changed. The third thing when it comes to God's promises in this
category is that I've learned in my walk with faith that.
It is always yours for the taking. Now there are certain promises over the 8,000
promises that are clearly outlined in the Bible.
Health being one, financial stability being another, peace being one,
sleep being one, friends being one, community being one.
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There are so many promises that are outlined in the Bible that automatically
have your name on it when you are in covenant with God.
Now there are other promises that you get from God that are personal to you, right?
And you will only me know those promises when you get in proximity to God.
I remember I was going through my pastoral care at church and pastoral care
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is almost like you have a pastor guiding you and leading you into discipleship
and spiritual discernment and helping you out spiritually.
So it's sick. We got to talk about, but basically I was going through my past,
my pastoral care at church.
And I remember I was just like, I don't know if it's God telling me this.
Like I need confirmation.
I need need confirmation. I found myself asking God, can you confirm it's you?
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Is this you? Is this you? Is this you? Is this you? Is this you?
And I remember my pastor had told me, you don't need confirmation.
You need proximity. Because when you truly know somebody, you know their voice.
When you spend time with them a lot, you know them. Just like my best friend,
she knows me like the back of her hand.
I know her like the back of my hand. If somebody were to come up and said,
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your best friend said and did X, Y, and Z, I'm not just going to trust what
they're saying off the street because I know her.
If I heard my best friend screaming in a crowd, I know her voice because I've
been with her when we've walked through so much together.
So sometimes you don't need confirmation on certain promises or certain ways
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to move. You need proximity.
So there's two types of promises that you want to reach and you want to unlock.
The 8,000 plus promises already outlined for you in the Bible.
And then the additional promises God has for you specifically in your walk and
in your purpose. Now, these promises come down.
God's word does not return to him void. And it says this in Isaiah 55, 11.
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This is one of my favorite verses as well. If you're going through a pruning
season, or if you're going through a season of doubt, not season of doubt,
if you're hearing doubt, if you're feeling like a failure, if you're tired,
if you're weary, Isaiah 55, 11 is one of my favorite verses in the Bible because
it reminds you that his promises do not return to him void, and just like the
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rain falls down from the sky and ends up on the earth,
just like the snow falls down from the sky and ends up on the earth, so does God's promises.
Every time you see it rain or snow outside, I want you to look outside and remember,
oh my gosh, these are just like God's promises.
Every time it rains, anytime it rains, I feel so much better now because I know
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that, dang, your promises do not return to you.
You've never seen the rain go, well, I ain't raining no more and go back up to the sky.
No, it always comes down.
The last thing and promises that I want you all to know is that we don't have to beg God to be heard.
Why are you begging for something that's already yours?
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That's like you, that's almost like me going to work. Fine babe, like myself.
Going to work and they told me when I signed my contract, I get paid on the
1st and the 15th and the 14th come around. I'm like, please,
please, please, y'all, please make sure y'all pay me.
Please make sure y'all pay me. No, it's outlined in the contract.
I get paid on the 1st and I get paid on the 15th. I'm expected to be paid.
You know that you're going to be paid when you get paid, right?
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So why are you begging for things that are already yours? I found myself being spiritual weary.
And I was just so tired. And I literally found myself begging myself, like, God, please.
I was pleading to God, like, please, God, give me this. Please,
God, heal my body, please. I'm still experiencing pain.
Please, God, I'm still experiencing pain. Please hear my body.
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And all while the Holy Spirit's like, girl, it's already yours.
It's yours for the taking. begging it's already yours you don't need to beg
for things that are already yours and the proof of this is found in daniel you
can read the story of daniel daniel chapter 10 verse 12.
Daniel had fasted which we know that daniel's fast right daniel was fasting
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21 days on the first day of his fast daniel was praying the angel of the lord
came to him after his fast and was like hey hey, look, of course I'm paraphrasing.
Hey, look, I heard you the first day. Daniel 10, 12. Hey, I heard you the first day.
And it reads, I'm going to read the NIV version.
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Daniel 10, 12 reads, then he continued, do not be afraid, Daniel.
Since the first day you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself
before God, your words were heard and I have come to respond to them.
That is proof that God hears, God heard you the first time you said the prayer.
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It wasn't like, oh, I ain't going to answer. God heard you the first time.
And then the angel of the Lord continues on. It says, but the prince of Persia
kingdom resisted me 21 days.
Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me because I was detained
there with the king of Persia.
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So a demon resisted one of the angels of the Lord for 21 days.
God hears your prayers. Sometimes there are principalities and demonic forces that are resisting.
There's a spiritual battle going on every day.
There are demonic principalities and forces that might still kill and destroy
and delay by your hearing from God, just like it delayed Daniel and why he was hearing from God.
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Daniel was expecting to hear from God, but he didn't hear from God until 21 days after.
And the angel's telling him, hey, I was actually caught up there.
Another angel, Michael, had to come down and fight the king of Persia,
so I could come and give you this word. God heard you the first time, girl.
And the evidence of that is in the Bible.
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But you won't know that unless you read and study the Bible.
So when you're praying, don't pray and get weary like, oh my gosh,
I've been praying the same prayer. God hasn't heard me.
God hasn't heard me. It's not happening.
For example, I was experiencing eczema, flare up. My whole body was inflamed. I was burning.
I was in so much pain. I'm like, God, I've been praying for healing.
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Have you not heard me? This is day 20 of me.
I'm still in pain. It actually has gotten worse.
Have you not heard me? God hears you.
Sometimes there are things blocking you as to why you're not getting a response.
Now, in this instant, the angel of the Lord is telling Daniel what had blocked him.
A principality, a demonic principality had blocked him and hold him captive, held the angel captive.
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Now there might be reasons why your prayers are getting blocked and you might
not know. So that's when we cover all of our bases.
Now the second huge thing I want you to know when it comes to that it is yours
for the taking is not only that God gives you promises and everything in between
that, but God also lets you with authority.
So we We got 8,000 something promises. We also got authority because Jesus left.
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Jesus left this earth. I like to think Jesus left this earth because it was
too ghetto. He had a mission.
He did his mission. He did his assignment and what God put him down here for.
And so Jesus went back up to heaven and he left us down here.
You ever been left somewhere by your parents and they left you with like snacks
or they left you with extra food.
They left you with money to get something to eat.
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They left you with something to comfort you. God, Jesus left us with the Holy
Spirit and also with authority.
The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is the same spirit that lives in you and I.
And if you have to remind yourself, like, wait a second, the same spirit,
that spirit that raised Christ from the dead is in me.
I have authority to speak to whatever is delaying me, whatever is trying to
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stop me, whatever is trying to, obstacles trying to be in my way.
I have authority to speak to it through God because God granted me this authority
To receive God's promises and to take what is yours, you have to be in covenant with God.
If you're not in covenant with God, you don't get his promises.
That's just like when someone's family or someone who is very wealthy dies and
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they have a trust or they have a living will set up. If you're not part of the
will, you're not going to get nothing.
If you're not in that family, when Michael Jackson passed away,
that would be me expecting to get something from his estate.
Knowing that I'm not a Jackson. Listen, you get what I'm saying?
So if you're not in covenant and with family, if you're not in covenant with
God, you can't expect to get God's promise.
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God tells us to come to his throne boldly, not timid, not shy,
not defeated, not restless, not tired, not. Oh, my gosh.
I need X, Y, Z, please. He said, come to the throne boldly.
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Boldly. Evidence of this is in Hebrews 4.16.
I'm going to read out to you all. It says, let us approach God's throne of grace
with confidence so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
This is the NIV version. So they changed that with confidence,
but confidence, boldness, so that we may receive mercy for our transgressions
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and the things that we've done, whether subconsciously or consciously,
to find grace to help us in our time of need. So go with confidence.
I know that my dad has money to feed me, right?
So just like my earthly father, and some people might not have earthly fathers
or earthly mothers, but you've been somewhere, you know that they had what they said they had.
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Like if I pull up to McDonald's, I know they have McDonald's fries.
I'm not asking for Chip to Life fries there.
I go boldly with confidence and say, hey, I want a large fry because I know y'all have it.
That is how you go to God, boldly with confidence.
Like God, hey, your word says X, Y, and Z.
And it also says through Isaiah 55, 11, it cannot return to you void.
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So I'm not experiencing the reality of that.
I repent for X, Y, and Z, and please guide me so that I experience your promises
and your full love and your peace.
And it's this thing that I've been
hearing that God always operates on his time, but he's always on time.
And I think, I don't know if it was Megan Ashley or Jackie Hill Perry that said
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this in their Heartly Initiated podcast or when they were guests on the Heartly Initiated podcast.
One of them, I don't know which one said it, was like, you know,
sometimes we hurt during our wait because we're like waiting,
waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting.
And we're like, oh my gosh, God, like you said that this would happen. When is it happening?
But when it ends up happening and it all comes together, no one's ever like,
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oh God, you were too late. Or oh my gosh, why did this happen then?
Isn't that odd? And I thought about that. I was like, dang, that's true.
Whenever I wait on something and God comes through, I'm never like,
well, I mean, I feel like it's too late.
I'm like, wow, this actually aligned how it was supposed to.
I actually did have to go here or meet that person or apply to this job or get
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denied to this job so that this happened, right?
I might've been more uncomfortable because of denial, but it ended up happening
when it was supposed to happen.
So God operates on his time, but he is also always on time.
Everything will always work out. And evidence of this as well,
when we talk about the Old Testament, when Abraham, God gave Abraham and Sarah
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that they were going to have a child, right?
They're like a hundred and something years old. So it's kind of like,
imagine God telling you, girl, like imagine the most outlandish thing God's telling you.
Again, I was reading this story, like this has nothing to do with me.
I'm not a hundred years old trying to have a child, but I'm realizing,
dang, how crazy does that promise seem? Like, yeah, you got to have a child.
And they're a hundred or something years old. So as they're waiting,
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waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, Sarah's getting older, getting more mature.
And you know, so is her womb. She, she's way past the childbearing age, right?
And in this wait, they decide to take matters in their own hands.
God still blesses that some way, somehow still turns it around and still delivers his promise.
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He still delivered a promise despite Abraham and his wife taking matters into their their own hands.
And not only did he deliver his promise, he still did in Abraham's lifetime.
God will deliver your promises, the promises that he has for you in your lifetime, in your lifetime.
God will rend the heavens and deliver promises in your lifetime.
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God operates on swift speed.
Where the spirit of the Lord is, nothing can stand against.
All things are possible. According to what was in Matthew 19,
26, I believe all things are possible with God.
All things. A woman having a baby at 100, possible.
You get in a director position and you only had one job before, possible.
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There is nothing that is impossible for God.
And he will deliver in your lifetime if you stay in it, stay true to him, and stay steadfast.
The last thing in the bucket of God giving you authority is that you have authority
to trample over anything that is not of God. Like, I mean, even before y'all
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seen the growth of my channel, y'all saw how ratchet and how angry I was.
I really, I'm not ratchet anymore, but I still have the same anger.
I just kind of transferred the anger to the real enemy, you know, saying himself.
So I transferred that anger to the real enemy.
Instead of fighting people, I know that I'm fighting principalities.
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And so God gives you authority to speak to whatever is bothering you.
If you are experiencing delay, you know that's not of God.
So you speak to it. I curse the spirit of delay in the name of Jesus.
And I welcome the spirit of adoption.
Every day I have gotten up and I said, I curse every time I get a job rejection,
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which is also God's protection as well.
But sometimes rejection is coming from demonic forces. I curse the spirit of
rejection, and I welcome the spirit of adoption in Jesus' name.
I curse the spirit of cancer in Jesus' name. I curse sickness in Jesus' name.
I curse disease in Jesus' name.
And I welcome healing in Jesus' name. So speak to it.
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Everything, and Tiffany Montgomery has said, like, the heaven is voice activated.
Whenever you see something happen in the Bible, somebody is speaking it out loud, right?
Because our words, everything in the Bible. The more I'm talking,
the more verses like I'm pulling from because in my head, I know that there's
power in the tongue. The power of the tongue is mighty.
So if we know that to say good things and to watch what we say,
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we also know that we can speak to whatever is not good.
I curse counterfeit men in the name of Jesus and I welcome my husband.
The third and final thing of taking what's yours is recognizing that there is
in fact a thief among us, girl.
There's a thief among us. There's a thief. He does come in the night,
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but sometimes he comes in the dead smack dab middle of the day.
There is the thief among us.
It's no surprise that some things are in fact a reality of the things that we have done.
Just like if you were to commit a crime, you go to prison.
That's not God's fault. He was a prison. He committed the crime.
However, God can and will always turn around whatever Satan meant for bad for
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good. But God has, I like to think of it as God has 50 million contingency plans.
Like, okay, Imani was supposed to do this. She didn't.
She didn't. She asked for forgiveness. She didn't do this. And so because she
didn't do X, Y, and Z, now she's...
Living, I don't know, maybe in a state she's not supposed to,
or maybe she's in a situation she's not supposed to be in because she didn't
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do what I told her to, right?
But God could turn it around. The reason why I said there's a thief among us
is because the Bible says that there's a thief among us.
According to John 10 10, we have a thief among us and the thief could have been
let in from my parents' sin, my parents' iniquity, my family's iniquity.
It also could have been let in from my Nicen, who knows?
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Sometimes thieves, sometimes other people let in thieves and the thieves get
to mess with you because you're not in right standing with God.
It's not funny, but that is literally the reality of it. The more I'm starting
to realize, dang, everything is literally spiritual.
Thieves could also be let in through witchcraft, voodoo, hoodoo,
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juju, whatever else the stuff is called these days as well.
These can be letting in with these practices of tarot cards,
yoga, doing things that are not of God and allowing other spirits in to just
take precedence and reign all over your life.
And I think the best analogy I have for this is like, I don't know if y'all
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ever watched Game of Thrones or y'all ever watched a show that somebody went
to like some type of a witch doctor or some type of fortune teller,
and they've always had to pay a price.
You know that saying? It's like, yeah, I mean, you could almost like a lot,
like you could get those wishes, but you have to pay a price.
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And so when you're operating in the spirit of God, God already paid the price.
And so we have blessings.
But if you're operating in witchcraft and tarot card readings and crystals and
numerology and voodoo and juju and you go into some back alley.
Oh yeah, I can make this happen. The person is not telling you that there is
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a price to be paid with that. Satan.
He collects. Satan is almost like the IRS.
He's going to collect his. And the only way that you can block Satan from collecting
is with the blood of Jesus.
And if you don't have that, or you're not feeding the blood of Jesus,
protecting yourself and getting in right standing with God, Satan gets rule,
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reign, and dominion over everything over the earth that does not have to do with God.
He gets to take firstborns, secondborns, jobs, health, stealth, plant diseases, delay.
He gets to take and just rule havoc.
One of my favorite verses, I'm going to read to y'all, John 10.10.
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John 10.10 states that the thief comes only to steal, to kill, and destroy.
I have come so that they may have a life and have it to the full.
So that's Jesus. Jesus came down so that we may have life, but the thief comes
to steal, kill, and destroy.
Back in the day, reading my Bible, I was just like, oh, okay,
Satan's coming to just kill people,
but not necessarily kill people kill destinies
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kill plans kill kill like family units
kill people get not being able to like get married or
not being able to afford certain stuff kill plans kill dreams kill anything
still but God came so that we may have like there's always a light at the end
of the tunnel but just know there's a thief among us take it but the good news
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is not Not only do we have Jesus,
not only just like when you steal something in real life, you either got to
give it back or pay jail time.
Guess what Satan has to do from stealing, killing, and destroying according to Proverbs 6.
I'm going to read it out to y'all. Proverbs 6 31.
Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it cost him all the wealth of his house.
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The thief among you, when the thief is caught, he gotta return sevenfold.
You know, when God pours out blessings and you start to reap the harvest of
what you are sowing, of your prayers, of your fasting, of your praising,
of your worshiping, of your being steadfast, and not saying it's going to be
perfect every time because we are human beings.
But when you start to get blessings, they start like coming in by an abundance.
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The good news, if there is a thief, you speak to that thief.
I curse the spirit of rejection and saying whatever you stole from me.
God says, according to Proverbs 6, was it 13, that you must return to me sevenfold.
I ran the angels. I loosed the angels of the heaven to get back what was stolen
from me in the name of Jesus.
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That's how you need it. That's how I want y'all, ladies, my girl gang,
to approach praying like it's already yours because it is.
So the last thing I'm going to leave with y'all are these these challenges from below.
I want y'all to write these down in your notes. I want y'all to remember this.
The first thing I want you to do is stop praying these begging prayers.
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Stop praying these begging prayers. Your prayers don't even have to be much,
but just stop praying like, oh God, please.
I mean, I'm hurting. I'm hurting a little.
Please, can you heal this, please? I haven't seen the healing.
No, it's already yours. Stop begging God for what he said was already yours.
In my head, I think Jesus is like, oh my goodness, didn't I just say that by
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his stripes she is healed?
Why is she like, what is going on? Have you little faith?
Stop praying these begging prayers. Approach God's throne boldly.
To get his mercy and his grace. And yes, when I say the only way you should
be begging is surrendering, of course, to God from like just having his grace
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and his mercy and forgiving us for all of our sins.
Yes, like the, oh God, please, I'm thanking you for forgiving me so much.
But anything that has to do with the promise that is already yours,
you don't have to beg for promises that are already yours.
So stop begging, have some authority, have some base in your voice when you're praying.
Command out loud your prayers. Speak to the things. Curse the things.
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Rebuke the things. Command out loud. God is omniscient and omnipresent, but Satan is not.
So if you're just saying it in your head, there are certain things.
There's a time, like Nikki says, a time to make hits and there's a time to diss.
There's certain times that you need to pray in your head, but there's certain
times you need to speak out loud.
If it's anything thing concerning the spirit that is not of God,
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you need to say this out loud so that Satan hears you.
Satan cannot hear your thoughts. He can plant thoughts, but he can't hear your thoughts.
You are safe in your mind. God hears your thoughts.
According to the Bible in Matthew 9, 4, according to the Bible,
Jesus can hear your thoughts.
So when it comes to certain things that I'm looking for clarity on,
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that is when I'm praying in my head. And sometimes my prayers sound like?
And I curse the spirit of rejection and the rest is in my head because God hears my thoughts.
God knows my heart. He hears my thoughts. If I'm seeking clarity,
I'm going to say it in my head to protect it from the evil one.
You don't know what type of voodoo, hootie, witchcraft or whatever people give
you gifts or whatever got stuff attached to it. So you have to be vigilant.
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The last thing I'm going to leave y'all with in the challenge and will also
be down below in the description box is I want you to read the story of Jericho in the Bible.
And I want you to read this story every day this week until the next time I post here on Wednesday.
So once a day for seven days, I want you to read this story over and over and over again.
You might be like, girl, I don't want to read this story every day.
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I don't care what you want to do. Read this story every day.
And I promise you every day, you will learn something new from this story.
You will find something new from this story.
And before you read the story of Jericho, it's going to be found in Joshua 6.
But before you read the story of Jericho, before you open up your Bible,
say, Say, hey, God, give me a new word today from this story.
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Help me understand what is my Jericho. What are the city walls in my life?
Every day you read the story, you'll be revealed something new.
And the last thing is I mentioned like my anger before.
Like lean into your anger. Anger is an emotion. It's not a sin to be angry. It's a sin.
Sin while being angry. But God gives us emotions.
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God can handle your little temper tantrums. It's okay to be upset.
I've told God I was upset before with him. I'm really angry.
I'm really hurt. I want to cry.
That is okay. It's okay to be angry, but you need to get angry at the thief that is among us too.
Take back what is yours. Claim what is already yours.
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Stolen, kill, and destroy. destroy guess what even
if the enemy kills something guess what god can resurrect it take back what
is yours get upset you need to get mad about this i get up like oh devil you're
not gonna what nicky's you know how nicky be like you ain't gonna play in my face not in my house,
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absolutely not and so last last note i'm leaving y'all with and it will also
be down in the description box.
If y'all need help with prayer, I freaking love this page.
May God bless whoever owns this page. But there's this page called Wildfire
Prayer NVT. I think it's short for movement.
Again, Wildfire Prayer NVT on Instagram.
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Baby, that woman or man, whoever owns that page, you got the prayers on lock.
Okay. So visit that page, say some of the prayers out loud.
It's okay I had sent this to my friend. She was like, should I just read this and say out loud?
Is that a prayer if it's not coming from? Yes, girl. Say it.
Read it out loud. Walk around your house and say those prayers.
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Also, there's another book called Prayers That Work by Pastor Kevin E. Ewing.
That is a really good book as well. And there's prayers in that book.
Also, you can just pray from your heart like God knows your heart.
But some things when it comes to prayer and speaking to things that are trying
to take from you, it really helps to back up with the word of God. Because what?
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Outline in Ephesians, the word of God is our sword of the spirit.
Sword. So just like I'm talking to y'all and in my head, I'm referencing,
wait, there's a Bible verse for that.
Wait, there's a Bible verse for that. Wait, there's a Bible.
You reference the same thing just like i used to bug my family and my dad for
money that he said he was gonna give me i'm like dad remember that twenty dollars
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you're saying he's gonna give me for lunch remember the school the money he
was gonna give me for chick-fil-a biscuits in the morning yeah but i said i
would give it to you yesterday yeah i'm just gonna remind you again,
i remind god all the time i know he forget but i still remind him there's actually
a story about that a woman i kept like bugging god it got to a point god was
like okay i'm gonna just give yeah Yeah, she's being persistent.
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I'm going to just give her what she wants. Sometimes you got to be persistent
around certain things that are already not, you know, his promises.
So yeah, like remind God, be like, God, according to Isaiah 55,
11, your word don't return to you void.
And right now I'm not experiencing what I was supposed to.
So something's not right, God. Like, so yeah, go and grace y'all. I love y'all so much.
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Listen to it over again Again, be vigilant, y'all, because I know some days
are easy. Some days are hard. Like, stay in it.
Stay in it. Stay in it. Stay in it. And I love y'all so much.
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Chin up, chest out. Shoulders back, babe.
You are beautifully and wonderfully made. Hey, girl, hey.
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Matthew 11, 12 reads, and from the time from John the Baptist,
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the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violence take it by force.
What does that mean? We're going to get into it. Everything that you want,
Everything that God has for you and everything that aligns itself with God's
promises is literally yours for the taking.
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So first thing I want you to recognize and pray on and meditate and do not forget,
even if you have to tell yourself four to 50 times a day, is that God has promises for you.
For you, for me, for your mom, for your dad, for everybody. God has promises for his children.
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So I had to take to the Google because I don't know everything there is to know about the Bible.
And although I've studied a lot and I've learned a lot, I understand that there
are certain things that God has for me.
There are certain things that entry-level Christians, like, you just know, right?
We know that by his stripes we are healed.
Now, anyone, even in Christianity, would be like, okay, if by his stripes we
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are healed, why are there diseases?
Why are people going through things? Why is there sickness? And that's a whole
nother video that we will debunk in a whole nother day.
So I want you to hit that subscribe button and I will touch on it just a tad bit in this video.
But you know that a promise from God is that healing is a promise,
right? By his stripes, we are healed.
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Healing is a promise. Now in the Bible, there are over 8,000 promises.
Yes, girly, 8,000 promises are in the Bible.
Even more. So over 8,000 promises. Healing is just one promise.
Financial stability is one promise.
What? Peace is one promise. Restful sleep is one promise. There are over 8,000
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of these promises in the Bible.
So the first thing is to understand God has promises for you.
He has over 8,000 promises for you. I honestly used to think that,
and it took me up until probably a couple weeks weeks ago that,
not even a couple of weeks, I want to say like this year, a couple of months
ago of me studying my Bible that I really thought that the Bible was just like,
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especially when it came to the Old Testament, a book that just talked about things that happened.
And I feel like the things that happened had nothing to do with me,
right? Like, girl, I'm not in a well.
I don't know about Jonah in the belly of the well child or Noah building an
ark. I'm not building an ark. like, what does this have to do with me?
I think I was really taking the Bible as face value and reading the stories
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of what was going on and not really examining what these things meant and how
these things can transfer to my life, right?
And so one of my favorite books, one of my favorite stories of the Bible,
actually, it kind of changes, okay?
Hannah's Vow, I feel like, is probably one one of my favorites now in this season that I'm in.
But a couple of months ago, I was obsessed with the story of David and Goliath.
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When I say obsessed, I read that story every day.
And don't worry, every video has homework because I would never leave y'all without a challenge.
But I read David and Goliath and I was just like, I knew the story from a child.
What is a little boy being a slingshot master have to do with me, right?
What is somebody fighting a giant have to do with me? But then I realized that
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when I started to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal certain things to me and I kept
meditating on the story, I realized that I too have a Goliath.
That Goliath might be your family not wanting salvation.
That Goliath might be that man that you are with. That Goliath might be the
job that is putting you down.
That Goliath might be financial troubles you're having.
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That Goliath might... There's so many Goliaths in our life, and there's so much
to take away from that story.
So I say all this to say, as you are reading your Bible, every day read your Bible.
When God says, give us this day our daily bread, right. He is feeding us daily.
We have to feed ourselves with the word daily. And I'm not just talking about one verse.
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I really challenge you, if you have the Bible app, and when a verse pops up,
click on read the entire chapter and read that entire chapter from that verse.
And then from then on, you can go into like putting out an hour of time to reading your Bible.
But sometimes I know when it comes to like a walk with faith,
there are people who go all in at once and that is a beautiful thing.
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But sometimes you have to take baby steps and I've realized that that is okay.
You have to celebrate the small victories before you made it to a hundred days
of sobriety. You have to start off with one day. You have to get to five days.
You have to get to 10 days.
So every Bible story has something to do with you.
When you read your Bible, before I even read my, before I even opened my Bible up.
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Because half the time, I don't even know what the Bible is saying,
child. Before I open my Bible up, I play worship music.
If I feel like I don't have time to pray worship music, I literally just say,
God, please help me understand your word. It is as simple as that.
God, I invite you. Please help me understand and comprehend your word.
Give me a new and refreshing word for me today while reading your word.
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As simple as that. Ask and you shall receive.
Moving on, Hebrews 13.8 states that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, we're talking real Bible here. I'm going to give you all these points,
but I'm also going to back it up with where's this found in the Bible because
I'm one of them girls. Girl, where'd you find that in the Bible?
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But yes, Hebrews 13.8 states that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
So if you're reading the Old Testament, and I understand some people try to
only stay in the New Testament because like Jesus is here.
It's like, okay, what does the Old Testament have to do with me?
But honestly and truly, it's like finding out.
I like to view it as dating because I feel like a lot of women talk about dating.
Dating is on like a lot of women's forefronts of their minds.
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It's just easy to have like an analogy for.
I feel like reading the Old Testament could be like when you get to know a guy
or even if you're finding friends in the new city, you kind of want to know
their background, right?
Even when you're applying for a job, They want to know your background.
Do you have experience in this industry?
Where did you go to school at? That's like reading the Old Testament.
You want to know the background of why and how Jesus got there.
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So as you're reading the Old Testament, yes, there are certain laws that we
don't have to do anymore because Jesus had died on the cross.
But at the grand scheme of things, God is still the same. The same God that
was striking folks dead is the same God.
So God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So remember that when you're
reading up on some of these promises, he's the same.
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Ain't nothing changed. The third thing when it comes to God's promises in this
category is that I've learned in my walk with faith that.
It is always yours for the taking. Now there are certain promises over the 8,000
promises that are clearly outlined in the Bible.
Health being one, financial stability being another, peace being one,
sleep being one, friends being one, community being one.
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There are so many promises that are outlined in the Bible that automatically
have your name on it when you are in covenant with God.
Now there are other promises that you get from God that are personal to you, right?
And you will only me know those promises when you get in proximity to God.
I remember I was going through my pastoral care at church and pastoral care
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is almost like you have a pastor guiding you and leading you into discipleship
and spiritual discernment and helping you out spiritually.
So it's sick. We got to talk about, but basically I was going through my past,
my pastoral care at church.
And I remember I was just like, I don't know if it's God telling me this.
Like I need confirmation.
I need need confirmation. I found myself asking God, can you confirm it's you?
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Is this you? Is this you? Is this you? Is this you? Is this you?
And I remember my pastor had told me, you don't need confirmation.
You need proximity. Because when you truly know somebody, you know their voice.
When you spend time with them a lot, you know them. Just like my best friend,
she knows me like the back of her hand.
I know her like the back of my hand. If somebody were to come up and said,
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your best friend said and did X, Y, and Z, I'm not just going to trust what
they're saying off the street because I know her.
If I heard my best friend screaming in a crowd, I know her voice because I've
been with her when we've walked through so much together.
So sometimes you don't need confirmation on certain promises or certain ways
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to move. You need proximity.
So there's two types of promises that you want to reach and you want to unlock.
The 8,000 plus promises already outlined for you in the Bible.
And then the additional promises God has for you specifically in your walk and
in your purpose. Now, these promises come down.
God's word does not return to him void. And it says this in Isaiah 55, 11.
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This is one of my favorite verses as well. If you're going through a pruning
season, or if you're going through a season of doubt, not season of doubt,
if you're hearing doubt, if you're feeling like a failure, if you're tired,
if you're weary, Isaiah 55, 11 is one of my favorite verses in the Bible because
it reminds you that his promises do not return to him void, and just like the
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rain falls down from the sky and ends up on the earth,
just like the snow falls down from the sky and ends up on the earth, so does God's promises.
Every time you see it rain or snow outside, I want you to look outside and remember,
oh my gosh, these are just like God's promises.
Every time it rains, anytime it rains, I feel so much better now because I know
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that, dang, your promises do not return to you.
You've never seen the rain go, well, I ain't raining no more and go back up to the sky.
No, it always comes down.
The last thing and promises that I want you all to know is that we don't have to beg God to be heard.
Why are you begging for something that's already yours?
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That's like you, that's almost like me going to work. Fine babe, like myself.
Going to work and they told me when I signed my contract, I get paid on the
1st and the 15th and the 14th come around. I'm like, please,
please, please, y'all, please make sure y'all pay me.
Please make sure y'all pay me. No, it's outlined in the contract.
I get paid on the 1st and I get paid on the 15th. I'm expected to be paid.
You know that you're going to be paid when you get paid, right?
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So why are you begging for things that are already yours? I found myself being spiritual weary.
And I was just so tired. And I literally found myself begging myself, like, God, please.
I was pleading to God, like, please, God, give me this. Please,
God, heal my body, please. I'm still experiencing pain.
Please, God, I'm still experiencing pain. Please hear my body.
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And all while the Holy Spirit's like, girl, it's already yours.
It's yours for the taking. begging it's already yours you don't need to beg
for things that are already yours and the proof of this is found in daniel you
can read the story of daniel daniel chapter 10 verse 12.
Daniel had fasted which we know that daniel's fast right daniel was fasting
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21 days on the first day of his fast daniel was praying the angel of the lord
came to him after his fast and was like hey hey, look, of course I'm paraphrasing.
Hey, look, I heard you the first day. Daniel 10, 12. Hey, I heard you the first day.
And it reads, I'm going to read the NIV version.
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Daniel 10, 12 reads, then he continued, do not be afraid, Daniel.
Since the first day you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself
before God, your words were heard and I have come to respond to them.
That is proof that God hears, God heard you the first time you said the prayer.
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It wasn't like, oh, I ain't going to answer. God heard you the first time.
And then the angel of the Lord continues on. It says, but the prince of Persia
kingdom resisted me 21 days.
Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me because I was detained
there with the king of Persia.
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So a demon resisted one of the angels of the Lord for 21 days.
God hears your prayers. Sometimes there are principalities and demonic forces that are resisting.
There's a spiritual battle going on every day.
There are demonic principalities and forces that might still kill and destroy
and delay by your hearing from God, just like it delayed Daniel and why he was hearing from God.
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Daniel was expecting to hear from God, but he didn't hear from God until 21 days after.
And the angel's telling him, hey, I was actually caught up there.
Another angel, Michael, had to come down and fight the king of Persia,
so I could come and give you this word. God heard you the first time, girl.
And the evidence of that is in the Bible.
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But you won't know that unless you read and study the Bible.
So when you're praying, don't pray and get weary like, oh my gosh,
I've been praying the same prayer. God hasn't heard me.
God hasn't heard me. It's not happening.
For example, I was experiencing eczema, flare up. My whole body was inflamed. I was burning.
I was in so much pain. I'm like, God, I've been praying for healing.
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Have you not heard me? This is day 20 of me.
I'm still in pain. It actually has gotten worse.
Have you not heard me? God hears you.
Sometimes there are things blocking you as to why you're not getting a response.
Now, in this instant, the angel of the Lord is telling Daniel what had blocked him.
A principality, a demonic principality had blocked him and hold him captive, held the angel captive.
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Now there might be reasons why your prayers are getting blocked and you might
not know. So that's when we cover all of our bases.
Now the second huge thing I want you to know when it comes to that it is yours
for the taking is not only that God gives you promises and everything in between
that, but God also lets you with authority.
So we We got 8,000 something promises. We also got authority because Jesus left.
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Jesus left this earth. I like to think Jesus left this earth because it was
too ghetto. He had a mission.
He did his mission. He did his assignment and what God put him down here for.
And so Jesus went back up to heaven and he left us down here.
You ever been left somewhere by your parents and they left you with like snacks
or they left you with extra food.
They left you with money to get something to eat.
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They left you with something to comfort you. God, Jesus left us with the Holy
Spirit and also with authority.
The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is the same spirit that lives in you and I.
And if you have to remind yourself, like, wait a second, the same spirit,
that spirit that raised Christ from the dead is in me.
I have authority to speak to whatever is delaying me, whatever is trying to
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stop me, whatever is trying to, obstacles trying to be in my way.
I have authority to speak to it through God because God granted me this authority
To receive God's promises and to take what is yours, you have to be in covenant with God.
If you're not in covenant with God, you don't get his promises.
That's just like when someone's family or someone who is very wealthy dies and
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they have a trust or they have a living will set up. If you're not part of the
will, you're not going to get nothing.
If you're not in that family, when Michael Jackson passed away,
that would be me expecting to get something from his estate.
Knowing that I'm not a Jackson. Listen, you get what I'm saying?
So if you're not in covenant and with family, if you're not in covenant with
God, you can't expect to get God's promise.
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God tells us to come to his throne boldly, not timid, not shy,
not defeated, not restless, not tired, not. Oh, my gosh.
I need X, Y, Z, please. He said, come to the throne boldly.
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Boldly. Evidence of this is in Hebrews 4.16.
I'm going to read out to you all. It says, let us approach God's throne of grace
with confidence so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
This is the NIV version. So they changed that with confidence,
but confidence, boldness, so that we may receive mercy for our transgressions
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and the things that we've done, whether subconsciously or consciously,
to find grace to help us in our time of need. So go with confidence.
I know that my dad has money to feed me, right?
So just like my earthly father, and some people might not have earthly fathers
or earthly mothers, but you've been somewhere, you know that they had what they said they had.
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Like if I pull up to McDonald's, I know they have McDonald's fries.
I'm not asking for Chip to Life fries there.
I go boldly with confidence and say, hey, I want a large fry because I know y'all have it.
That is how you go to God, boldly with confidence.
Like God, hey, your word says X, Y, and Z.
And it also says through Isaiah 55, 11, it cannot return to you void.
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So I'm not experiencing the reality of that.
I repent for X, Y, and Z, and please guide me so that I experience your promises
and your full love and your peace.
And it's this thing that I've been
hearing that God always operates on his time, but he's always on time.
And I think, I don't know if it was Megan Ashley or Jackie Hill Perry that said
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this in their Heartly Initiated podcast or when they were guests on the Heartly Initiated podcast.
One of them, I don't know which one said it, was like, you know,
sometimes we hurt during our wait because we're like waiting,
waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting.
And we're like, oh my gosh, God, like you said that this would happen. When is it happening?
But when it ends up happening and it all comes together, no one's ever like,
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oh God, you were too late. Or oh my gosh, why did this happen then?
Isn't that odd? And I thought about that. I was like, dang, that's true.
Whenever I wait on something and God comes through, I'm never like,
well, I mean, I feel like it's too late.
I'm like, wow, this actually aligned how it was supposed to.
I actually did have to go here or meet that person or apply to this job or get
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denied to this job so that this happened, right?
I might've been more uncomfortable because of denial, but it ended up happening
when it was supposed to happen.
So God operates on his time, but he is also always on time.
Everything will always work out. And evidence of this as well,
when we talk about the Old Testament, when Abraham, God gave Abraham and Sarah
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that they were going to have a child, right?
They're like a hundred and something years old. So it's kind of like,
imagine God telling you, girl, like imagine the most outlandish thing God's telling you.
Again, I was reading this story, like this has nothing to do with me.
I'm not a hundred years old trying to have a child, but I'm realizing,
dang, how crazy does that promise seem? Like, yeah, you got to have a child.
And they're a hundred or something years old. So as they're waiting,
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waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, Sarah's getting older, getting more mature.
And you know, so is her womb. She, she's way past the childbearing age, right?
And in this wait, they decide to take matters in their own hands.
God still blesses that some way, somehow still turns it around and still delivers his promise.
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He still delivered a promise despite Abraham and his wife taking matters into their their own hands.
And not only did he deliver his promise, he still did in Abraham's lifetime.
God will deliver your promises, the promises that he has for you in your lifetime, in your lifetime.
God will rend the heavens and deliver promises in your lifetime.
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God operates on swift speed.
Where the spirit of the Lord is, nothing can stand against.
All things are possible. According to what was in Matthew 19,
26, I believe all things are possible with God.
All things. A woman having a baby at 100, possible.
You get in a director position and you only had one job before, possible.
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There is nothing that is impossible for God.
And he will deliver in your lifetime if you stay in it, stay true to him, and stay steadfast.
The last thing in the bucket of God giving you authority is that you have authority
to trample over anything that is not of God. Like, I mean, even before y'all
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seen the growth of my channel, y'all saw how ratchet and how angry I was.
I really, I'm not ratchet anymore, but I still have the same anger.
I just kind of transferred the anger to the real enemy, you know, saying himself.
So I transferred that anger to the real enemy.
Instead of fighting people, I know that I'm fighting principalities.
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And so God gives you authority to speak to whatever is bothering you.
If you are experiencing delay, you know that's not of God.
So you speak to it. I curse the spirit of delay in the name of Jesus.
And I welcome the spirit of adoption.
Every day I have gotten up and I said, I curse every time I get a job rejection,
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which is also God's protection as well.
But sometimes rejection is coming from demonic forces. I curse the spirit of
rejection, and I welcome the spirit of adoption in Jesus' name.
I curse the spirit of cancer in Jesus' name. I curse sickness in Jesus' name.
I curse disease in Jesus' name.
And I welcome healing in Jesus' name. So speak to it.
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Everything, and Tiffany Montgomery has said, like, the heaven is voice activated.
Whenever you see something happen in the Bible, somebody is speaking it out loud, right?
Because our words, everything in the Bible. The more I'm talking,
the more verses like I'm pulling from because in my head, I know that there's
power in the tongue. The power of the tongue is mighty.
So if we know that to say good things and to watch what we say,
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we also know that we can speak to whatever is not good.
I curse counterfeit men in the name of Jesus and I welcome my husband.
The third and final thing of taking what's yours is recognizing that there is
in fact a thief among us, girl.
There's a thief among us. There's a thief. He does come in the night,
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but sometimes he comes in the dead smack dab middle of the day.
There is the thief among us.
It's no surprise that some things are in fact a reality of the things that we have done.
Just like if you were to commit a crime, you go to prison.
That's not God's fault. He was a prison. He committed the crime.
However, God can and will always turn around whatever Satan meant for bad for
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good. But God has, I like to think of it as God has 50 million contingency plans.
Like, okay, Imani was supposed to do this. She didn't.
She didn't. She asked for forgiveness. She didn't do this. And so because she
didn't do X, Y, and Z, now she's...
Living, I don't know, maybe in a state she's not supposed to,
or maybe she's in a situation she's not supposed to be in because she didn't
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do what I told her to, right?
But God could turn it around. The reason why I said there's a thief among us
is because the Bible says that there's a thief among us.
According to John 10 10, we have a thief among us and the thief could have been
let in from my parents' sin, my parents' iniquity, my family's iniquity.
It also could have been let in from my Nicen, who knows?
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Sometimes thieves, sometimes other people let in thieves and the thieves get
to mess with you because you're not in right standing with God.
It's not funny, but that is literally the reality of it. The more I'm starting
to realize, dang, everything is literally spiritual.
Thieves could also be let in through witchcraft, voodoo, hoodoo,
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juju, whatever else the stuff is called these days as well.
These can be letting in with these practices of tarot cards,
yoga, doing things that are not of God and allowing other spirits in to just
take precedence and reign all over your life.
And I think the best analogy I have for this is like, I don't know if y'all
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ever watched Game of Thrones or y'all ever watched a show that somebody went
to like some type of a witch doctor or some type of fortune teller,
and they've always had to pay a price.
You know that saying? It's like, yeah, I mean, you could almost like a lot,
like you could get those wishes, but you have to pay a price.
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And so when you're operating in the spirit of God, God already paid the price.
And so we have blessings.
But if you're operating in witchcraft and tarot card readings and crystals and
numerology and voodoo and juju and you go into some back alley.
Oh yeah, I can make this happen. The person is not telling you that there is
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a price to be paid with that. Satan.
He collects. Satan is almost like the IRS.
He's going to collect his. And the only way that you can block Satan from collecting
is with the blood of Jesus.
And if you don't have that, or you're not feeding the blood of Jesus,
protecting yourself and getting in right standing with God, Satan gets rule,
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reign, and dominion over everything over the earth that does not have to do with God.
He gets to take firstborns, secondborns, jobs, health, stealth, plant diseases, delay.
He gets to take and just rule havoc.
One of my favorite verses, I'm going to read to y'all, John 10.10.
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John 10.10 states that the thief comes only to steal, to kill, and destroy.
I have come so that they may have a life and have it to the full.
So that's Jesus. Jesus came down so that we may have life, but the thief comes
to steal, kill, and destroy.
Back in the day, reading my Bible, I was just like, oh, okay,
Satan's coming to just kill people,
but not necessarily kill people kill destinies
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kill plans kill kill like family units
kill people get not being able to like get married or
not being able to afford certain stuff kill plans kill dreams kill anything
still but God came so that we may have like there's always a light at the end
of the tunnel but just know there's a thief among us take it but the good news
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is not Not only do we have Jesus,
not only just like when you steal something in real life, you either got to
give it back or pay jail time.
Guess what Satan has to do from stealing, killing, and destroying according to Proverbs 6.
I'm going to read it out to y'all. Proverbs 6 31.
Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it cost him all the wealth of his house.
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The thief among you, when the thief is caught, he gotta return sevenfold.
You know, when God pours out blessings and you start to reap the harvest of
what you are sowing, of your prayers, of your fasting, of your praising,
of your worshiping, of your being steadfast, and not saying it's going to be
perfect every time because we are human beings.
But when you start to get blessings, they start like coming in by an abundance.
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The good news, if there is a thief, you speak to that thief.
I curse the spirit of rejection and saying whatever you stole from me.
God says, according to Proverbs 6, was it 13, that you must return to me sevenfold.
I ran the angels. I loosed the angels of the heaven to get back what was stolen
from me in the name of Jesus.
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That's how you need it. That's how I want y'all, ladies, my girl gang,
to approach praying like it's already yours because it is.
So the last thing I'm going to leave with y'all are these these challenges from below.
I want y'all to write these down in your notes. I want y'all to remember this.
The first thing I want you to do is stop praying these begging prayers.
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Stop praying these begging prayers. Your prayers don't even have to be much,
but just stop praying like, oh God, please.
I mean, I'm hurting. I'm hurting a little.
Please, can you heal this, please? I haven't seen the healing.
No, it's already yours. Stop begging God for what he said was already yours.
In my head, I think Jesus is like, oh my goodness, didn't I just say that by
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his stripes she is healed?
Why is she like, what is going on? Have you little faith?
Stop praying these begging prayers. Approach God's throne boldly.
To get his mercy and his grace. And yes, when I say the only way you should
be begging is surrendering, of course, to God from like just having his grace
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and his mercy and forgiving us for all of our sins.
Yes, like the, oh God, please, I'm thanking you for forgiving me so much.
But anything that has to do with the promise that is already yours,
you don't have to beg for promises that are already yours.
So stop begging, have some authority, have some base in your voice when you're praying.
Command out loud your prayers. Speak to the things. Curse the things.
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Rebuke the things. Command out loud. God is omniscient and omnipresent, but Satan is not.
So if you're just saying it in your head, there are certain things.
There's a time, like Nikki says, a time to make hits and there's a time to diss.
There's certain times that you need to pray in your head, but there's certain
times you need to speak out loud.
If it's anything thing concerning the spirit that is not of God,
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you need to say this out loud so that Satan hears you.
Satan cannot hear your thoughts. He can plant thoughts, but he can't hear your thoughts.
You are safe in your mind. God hears your thoughts.
According to the Bible in Matthew 9, 4, according to the Bible,
Jesus can hear your thoughts.
So when it comes to certain things that I'm looking for clarity on,
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that is when I'm praying in my head. And sometimes my prayers sound like?
And I curse the spirit of rejection and the rest is in my head because God hears my thoughts.
God knows my heart. He hears my thoughts. If I'm seeking clarity,
I'm going to say it in my head to protect it from the evil one.
You don't know what type of voodoo, hootie, witchcraft or whatever people give
you gifts or whatever got stuff attached to it. So you have to be vigilant.
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The last thing I'm going to leave y'all with in the challenge and will also
be down below in the description box is I want you to read the story of Jericho in the Bible.
And I want you to read this story every day this week until the next time I post here on Wednesday.
So once a day for seven days, I want you to read this story over and over and over again.
You might be like, girl, I don't want to read this story every day.
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I don't care what you want to do. Read this story every day.
And I promise you every day, you will learn something new from this story.
You will find something new from this story.
And before you read the story of Jericho, it's going to be found in Joshua 6.
But before you read the story of Jericho, before you open up your Bible,
say, Say, hey, God, give me a new word today from this story.
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Help me understand what is my Jericho. What are the city walls in my life?
Every day you read the story, you'll be revealed something new.
And the last thing is I mentioned like my anger before.
Like lean into your anger. Anger is an emotion. It's not a sin to be angry. It's a sin.
Sin while being angry. But God gives us emotions.
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God can handle your little temper tantrums. It's okay to be upset.
I've told God I was upset before with him. I'm really angry.
I'm really hurt. I want to cry.
That is okay. It's okay to be angry, but you need to get angry at the thief that is among us too.
Take back what is yours. Claim what is already yours.
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Stolen, kill, and destroy. destroy guess what even
if the enemy kills something guess what god can resurrect it take back what
is yours get upset you need to get mad about this i get up like oh devil you're
not gonna what nicky's you know how nicky be like you ain't gonna play in my face not in my house,
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absolutely not and so last last note i'm leaving y'all with and it will also
be down in the description box.
If y'all need help with prayer, I freaking love this page.
May God bless whoever owns this page. But there's this page called Wildfire
Prayer NVT. I think it's short for movement.
Again, Wildfire Prayer NVT on Instagram.
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Baby, that woman or man, whoever owns that page, you got the prayers on lock.
Okay. So visit that page, say some of the prayers out loud.
It's okay I had sent this to my friend. She was like, should I just read this and say out loud?
Is that a prayer if it's not coming from? Yes, girl. Say it.
Read it out loud. Walk around your house and say those prayers.
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Also, there's another book called Prayers That Work by Pastor Kevin E. Ewing.
That is a really good book as well. And there's prayers in that book.
Also, you can just pray from your heart like God knows your heart.
But some things when it comes to prayer and speaking to things that are trying
to take from you, it really helps to back up with the word of God. Because what?
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Outline in Ephesians, the word of God is our sword of the spirit.
Sword. So just like I'm talking to y'all and in my head, I'm referencing,
wait, there's a Bible verse for that.
Wait, there's a Bible verse for that. Wait, there's a Bible.
You reference the same thing just like i used to bug my family and my dad for
money that he said he was gonna give me i'm like dad remember that twenty dollars
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you're saying he's gonna give me for lunch remember the school the money he
was gonna give me for chick-fil-a biscuits in the morning yeah but i said i
would give it to you yesterday yeah i'm just gonna remind you again,
i remind god all the time i know he forget but i still remind him there's actually
a story about that a woman i kept like bugging god it got to a point god was
like okay i'm gonna just give yeah Yeah, she's being persistent.
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I'm going to just give her what she wants. Sometimes you got to be persistent
around certain things that are already not, you know, his promises.
So yeah, like remind God, be like, God, according to Isaiah 55,
11, your word don't return to you void.
And right now I'm not experiencing what I was supposed to.
So something's not right, God. Like, so yeah, go and grace y'all. I love y'all so much.
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Listen to it over again Again, be vigilant, y'all, because I know some days
are easy. Some days are hard. Like, stay in it.
Stay in it. Stay in it. Stay in it. And I love y'all so much.
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