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So I'll read it, and theni'll talk two Timothy, chapter one and
verse four, greatly desired to seeTHEE, being mindful of thy tears,
that I may be filled with joy. Before he said that, he said,
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I thank God whom I serve.Notice now from my four fathers,
with pure conscience, that without ceasing, I have remembrance of THEE in my
prayers night and day. Not onlyis he praying for him, but there
is an emotion that's involved. Thereis a deep love, greatly desiring to
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see THEE, being mindful of thytears, that I may be filled with
joy. When I call to remembrancethe unfeigned fame that is in THEE,
which dwelt first in thy grandmother Loisand thy mother Eunice. And I am
persuaded that in THEE also, whereforeI put in remembrance that thou stir up
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the gift of God which is inTHEE, by the putting on of my
hands. For God hath not givenus the spirit of fear, but of
power, and of love and ofa sound mind. Be not thou therefore
ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner. But
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be thy partaker of the afflictions ofthe Gospel, according to the power of
God, who hath saved us andcalled us with an holy calling, not
according to our works, but accordingto his own purpose and grace, which
was given us in Christ Jesus beforethe world began. Can somebody say,
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Amen, I want you to lookat somebody did in the face like you're
angry with them. Tell them Iknow you've been going through some things,
but that doesn't stop anything. Lookat somebody else and say break out.
Amen, God bless you in thatyou may be seated in the presence of
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God. Without even without even viewingthe interaction between Paul in Timothy, without
seeing them together, one can easilyread the feeling and the emotion, and
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one can feel the connection between themsimply by assessing and understanding Paul's writing.
Not only are we looking now atthe technical presentation of scriptural doctrine, but
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we are feeling a spirit between Pauland Timothy. There's a spirit of love,
of affinity. It is a spiritof guarding of breadth, because Paul
realizes that here is a young manwho's gifted, but he is going to
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have to exhibit character in order tototally and completely fulfill the mission of gone.
I will not spend a lot oftime here, but it is significant
to all of us that we realizethat you can be gifted and still go
nowhere, because unless you have characterto go along with the gift, there
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is a great possibility that you willbe gifted and still not achieve. It
is here, then that Paul isfeeling this sense of affinity towards Timothy,
because he realizes if I am goingto give him the mantle, if I
am going to release to him thepower of the gospel, and anytime you
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have the power of the Gospel,you're going to run into great opposition because
anytime God has his hand on you, ooh, the devil is coming after
you. Oh, don't fool yourself. Don't fool yourself. Anytime you have
been gifted by God, the enemyis going to do his very best to
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destroy not the gift, because thegift he can't touch, but he'll destroy
the bearer of the gift, sothat he will not fulfill the purpose by
which God placed the gift in him. It is this, then, that
he's concerned about. If you noticehe sold him in verse eight, and
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I won't go back there. Thathe should not be ashamed of the testimony
of our Lord, but be apartaker of the of the Gospel according to
the power of God. Now thatseems just a little ambiguous to me.
I might not say it's contradictory,but it seems a little ambiguous because it
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raises a question, and that is, if he deals with the issue of
according to the power of God,he is not saying out of he is
not saying out other And I makeit plain. I can be a billionaire
and you came to me, andyou would come to me with a proposition,
and I would look at it andsay to you that I am going
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to give you something out of whatI have. And of course you get
excited. You tell everybody the billionairehas decided that he is going to give
you something out of what he has. And you come expecting a big check
and I turn around and give youtwenty five dollars, And of course disappointment
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is great. But I did notlie to you because I said to you,
I'm going to give you something outof what I have. Now,
if I say to you that I'mgoing to give you according to what I
have, now that is a wholeanother thing completely, because what I'm saying
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is that my total financial resource willbe placed at your back and called now
here is something that's difficult. Yes, it's difficult, because how is it
that I am a partaker of theaffliction of the Gospel and the power that
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I'm being presented with to partake ofthe affliction is according to the power of
God. Now here's how I feel. Since you have all that power,
why should I have any affliction?It would seem to me that if you
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are operating not out of I couldunderstand if you were going to throw me
just a few croms, then Iought to have some affliction. But if
you're operating in me according to yourpower, then why should there be any
affliction in the first place? Ithink oftentimes when we have come into the
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house of God, we have comeinto the house of God to be paid,
and we have forgotten that often timesthere is a cost to Christianity.
And whenever God begins to move youinto places of spiritual power, the Devil's
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coming after you. And so youtake the negative negatively. You take the
negative positively because you understand that onceGod has gifted you, he has made
you a target. And when hemakes you a target, then he begins
to empower you according to his power, that you might participate in the affliction,
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which is natural to the Gospel,anytime you are gifted. That's why,
if you notice Paul, he doesn'tonly pray for folk who aren't making
it. He prays for folk whoeverhe identifies as a person that God has
his hand on. If you seea child with a gift, and you
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know God is in your child,you ought to pray every day for that
child. If you see somebody thatGod is hovering over and about to give
an anointing, you ought to pray. Don't only pray for the drug addict.
Don't only pray for the person inthe street. You ought to pray
for every person in the house ofGod that is a target because God has
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gifted them. Oh, I feelit here, the affility. You can
feel it because he understands that Satanwants this man to fear. And whenever
you have been in a fight,and I have found out that walking with
God is a perennial fight, thereare attacks on every side. And when
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you're in a fight, there isalways a dichotomy between fear and faith because
my senses, my sensual perception,picks up through my situations and my circumstance
that something real is against me,and I am expected in the middle of
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a real battle to reach into faithfor a God that I cannot see while
I'm looking at some real issues infront of me. The Greeks they looked
at fear as flight, and that'swhere we get the word phobus, and
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it means flight, and it indicatessomething which causes fear. It's something that
makes you phobic, and it bringsthe phobia to the point where you just
want to get away, want toget away, You just want to run
away from the circumstance, and itcauses you not to face the circumstance,
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but rather to escape from it.It's etymological root suggests that there is terror.
You were being terrified, and whatthe satom loves to do is to
cause terror, because once you arewalking by fear, you are not walking
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by faith, and so he raisesup certain ominous situations that causes you to
back up and causes you to reduceyour ability to move forward because you're afraid
of what is in front of youand what is around you. It doesn't
matter how gifted you are. Ifyou are not able to release that gift
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through the power of boldness, thegift just lies dormant in your system.
Not only is there phobus, butthe Greeds took it further. And it's
the word used in the text,and that's the word delia. And what
it denotes is a cowardice, it'sa timidity, and it's never used in
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a good sense. And here wenotice timothing. When he's mentioned Paul does
not mention a male figure in hislife. He mentions his grandmother and his
mother, which means that for themost part, and the truth of the
matter is their sisters. I hateto step on your toes tonight, but
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mothers have a tendency to smother.I guess maybe that's where this smother came
from. They have a tendency tocover their children, if anything like my
mother. I have an older brother, and Chris is about fifty eight or
so, and a mother still hasa room in the house for my older
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brother. I don't know why he'sstruggling over there in Paris. I don't
know why he just won't come home. Now. My father is the very
opposite if you will. He justwants you to get out of the house
as as quickly as you can.Don't you ever, don't you ever make
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a mistake and get up in mydad's house at twenty years old in twenty
five, and he'll ask you howold are you? How old are you?
And then he walks through the houseand he'll hit the cupboards and want
to know, did you put somegroceries up in here? And the unction
of the Holy Spirit will move onhim at about three a m. In
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the morning while you're trying to sleep, and he'll just have a compunction to
vacuum your room while see fathers tryto get you out of the house.
They don't want you hanging around,but mothers just want you around, just
oh, my little baby. Andso Paul sends that there was a development
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in Timothy that was lacking the therewas no real male figure in his life.
And that's why he used the worddeli yar, because the word deli
yar is a more of a spiritthan an act. It is the spirit
affair. It is a timidity thatmany of us have. We not only
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do we have munus circumstances to face, but we have this proclivity to be
timid anyway, some of us,and we straw back and we're not bold
enough to present ourselves even though we'regifted. And oftentimes folk with less gift
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but more boldness seems to move intoareenas that we should have long moved in.
I'm talking to somebody tonight, Ican hear a rat licking ice,
And oftentimes this tendency keeps us fromstepping into the door that God opens,
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because we have been developed in away where we have a draw that disposition
and we're timid about everything that weface. The Greeks took it further because
they understood that there was another wordthat meant caution, and this caution now
became a reverential caution because it understoodthe disposition of the power of God.
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In this sense, when Paul usesit, he's indicating that if you've got
to be afraid of anybody, thenyou ought to be afraid of God,
because if God is against you,there is no power in the universe that
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can change his action towards you.Ah. And so it's interesting how this
word fear has evolved in the senseof reverence, because now you have brought
me into a sense of fear,Saden. But if I'm going to bow
to anybody, I'm going to onlybow to God, because I understand he
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is the only power that I shouldever be afraid of. And if I've
got God on my side, asAsama says, whom shall I fear?
Now? Trench the etymolologists He saidthis, he said, and I quote
that mingle fear and love, whichcombined constitutes the piety of man towards God.
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He says. The Old Testament placesits emphasis on fear, but the
New Testament places its emphasis on love. Though there was fear of God in
the saints now, there had tobe fear of God in the saints then,
but love was in the background.I'm scared of you because I know
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who you are. But I loveyou because you have removed anything that I
should be afraid of. I willnot run from the enemy, but I
will stand and face him and lethim know I am a child of the
King. Can I take it further? You see what Satan's ploy is is
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to cripple the mobility of the childof God. And how does he do
that? He he intimidates you byyour circumstances, and he intimidates by negative
character development. You think the devil'sgot you going through some stuff and it
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doesn't want it to stick. Hewants you to be scarred. That's his
tactic. His tactic is not justto put you through a series of negative
events. He wants the negative eventsto become a part of who you are,
so that you look over the historyof failure and the history of competition,
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and the history of intimidation, andthen you forecast that because of what
I've been through, I cannot achieveanything tomorrow. His tactic then is to
neutralize the power of the spirit bycontrolling the mental state of the vessel.
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Am I talking to anybody what hewants to do. Because he realizes that
the gift of God was given beforeGod cataboule through the earth in place,
before he put the foundation of theworld. He had chosen you. If
Satan is to mess with your gift, he has to go back into eternity
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and stop God from giving it toyou. That's why the gift of God
is without repentance, because God alreadyknew what you would do with the gift
when he gave it to you.That's why he doesn't take it back.
Now, people say, if youdon't use it, you lose it.
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That's a lie. The gift ofGod is without repentance. If you don't
use it, what will happen isyou will end up being in judgment for
having something from God you didn't use. When you discover your gifted, Satan
discovers you're gifted, and he knowshe can't stop your gift from functioning,
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so he decides to stop the vesselthat's got the gift. Ah, If
I can get you scared enough,you won't take that next that God puts
in your path. If I canget you scared enough and bring you through
enough situations that cause you fear,I can block your mental state so that
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your mind will not release your will. Can I preach to you like I
feel it? The reason God talksto us and teaches us is to bring
us into comprehension of what He hasdone in us. And comprehension leads to
apprehension because you have to apprehend whatyou comprehend. Once you apprehend, the
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mind then engages the will. BecauseSatan knows that once your will is engaged,
the battle is already over. Ifeel the Holy Ghost. Once your
will, I will bless the Lordat all all times. His praise shall
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continually be in my mouth. Hedoes not want your will to be engaged
because he keeps you flipping and flopping, because he brings fear into your life.
And when you get fearful, nowyou become double minded. And when
you become double minded, you cannotengage the will. And so the double
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minded man gets nothing from the Lord. Why, because he is unstable in
all of his ways. In orderto engage your will, you have to
be stable in the fact that theLord is on my side. And if
God is on my side, Ican look the devil in the face and
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say, I'm a shouting your face. I feel it here the prayer of
the Disciple, they said, Andnow Lord, behold their threatenings, and
drant unto thy servants, that withall boldness they may speak Thy word.
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Now, notice the now, thenow things in this present situation, I
need to pray in the middle ofnow things. When Satan begins to move
against me to bring up fear,I need to get on my knees and
call out to God in the middleof what's going on now. And when
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he said, drant. It's activeimperative. Urgency of the aris, active
imperative. It says, do itnow. While he's doing what he's doing,
You do what you do because thisis just a set up for revelatory
experience with the power of God.He's not challenging me, but he's challenge
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you. I wish you knew howto put it on God. I wish
you knew how to take it offyourself and give it to God and let
the Lord know. He's trying tostop me from praising you. And I
need you to get up here thenow. Intimidation designed to neutralize the power
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of their message, and it takesboldness to release it. You got to
be bold to open your mouth.Now here's the response. The place was
shaken. I feel holiness here.Anytime you get bold enough, you'll shake
up some stuff, because the HolyGhost shakes up stuff of God. And
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they were filled with the Holy Ghostand began to speak the word of God
with boldness. The devil's trying toshut your mouth. He's trying to steek
your praise. He's trying to causeyou to lose your energy and back up
when your order stand up because outof the abundance of the heart. The
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mouth speaketh. God did not giftyou to go get in a quarterer and
let everything fast you by. Buthe gifted you to step up and let
the world know that there is aGod inside of me. And the gift
that He has given me is givento overcome the things of the devil?
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Can I preach like I feel it? How much time do I have?
Do I have a few more minutes? You see? The power to overcome
the natural threatening is the supernatural thatis already in you, the natural ability
of the spirit you have been given. Can I say that again? The
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natural ability of the spirit is supernaturalto your situation. And this is contradistinctive
to Delia, because now I havethe spirit of power, the spirit of
love, and the spirit of asound mind. I feel something pushing me
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here. It's power controlled by love. And because I love you, I'll
give you the power that gives yourstrength over Satan. And this is what
leads to a sound mind. Yougot to be crazy if you think God
gave you a gift for Satan tocrush it. You got to be crazy
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if you backing up from a foethat has already been defeated. You've got
to be crazy if you think Godmade your situation to run you. God
made you to run your sit youwait, I feel some pushing me here.
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This sound mindedness. Then he isa self controlled thinker. No rush,
no hurry, I'm patient. CanI preach like I feel it?
Somebody bring me a chair. Yougot to learn how to wait it out,
you know, you got to learnhow to just sit it out,
because when God has fixed it foryou, you got to learn how to
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wait out your enemies. Yes,yes, doctor Marso. Yeah. I'll
be sitting right here till you liarsstop lying. I'll be sitting right here
till the main boss is fired.I'll be sitting right here till you get
out of my business. I'll besitting right here because I'm waiting you out.
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I'm waiting out every demon that hascome up my way here. I'm
waiting out every demonic power that's tryingto mess me up. I ain't going
nowhere. God bless me with thishouse. God bless me with this child.
God bless me with this gift.And the devil is alive. I'm
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a run. Take it. Ifyou can feel it in here, I
feel some ready go touch and sohere then is the eternal conflict, because
if your gift dominated and not selfdominated, then you'll move in the power
of your gift. This is notme, but it's God in me.
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I'm just a vessel that He's usingto promote his wheel, and I'm not
gonna sit here and let circumstance stopme from doing what God would have me
to do. Can I preach likeI feel it? You've got to overcome
the intimidation of character development, becausethe flesh is an absorbing sponge of all
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satanic, worldly, and situational intimidation. It is the flesh and your perception
that's got you feeling like you can'tmake it. You know you're gifted,
you know God has Lady's hand onyou. But it's that generation of negatives
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that has now got you feeling likeyou can't take the step. Because Mama
told you and Grandmama told you thatnobody in the family has ever become anything.
We have all been on welfare,none of us have been to college,
and nobody's got a degree. Well, I'll be the false. We
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might as well have church to mebe the first. Somebody's got to start
it somewhere, and it as wellbegin with me. I feel the Holy
Ghost. You can't allow yourself tobe a storage warehouse of all the negative
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stuff that Satan has put your way. That's why the Holy Ghost is a
breath. That's why he blows.It's from the nostrils of God. That's
why every now and then it wasthe sound of a rushing mighty wheel,
so he can blow away some ofthat garbage that has been stored up in
your negative development. You're not agarbage dump. You're not a place of
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manipulation or a place of negative control. That's why he talks about the quickening
spirit to cause to come alive andawakening. I have never experienced in the
place of manipulation, because Satan wantsto manipulate and control, and he wants
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to bring you to a place whereyou believe. You can't come out of
every circumstance that you're in. Andundoubtedly you got somebody in your life who
has the unmitigated gall and audacity tosay to you you can't be nothing without
me. You ought to look themin the face and tell them you must
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be God, because the only onecan't be anything without is gone. Himself.
If you stir up the gift,it'll give you a new vitality which
calls for engaging the wheel and takeyou into the sphere of the spirit.
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So you're walking in the supernatural releasethat has released you from the debt of
the natural. Have I told youto touch your neighbor yet, Well,
I'm getting ready to do it.Give somebody high fine and say you gotta
step out of the natural into thesupernatural, because you don't owe the flesh
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anything. I'm tired of being intimidatedby the wall and release the old comfortsure.
But God has to please something newthat I'm obligated to walk in the
power of what's new and forget thosethings which are behind. I feel like
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walking here. Give somebody high fiveand say I don't owe the ghetto anything.
I don't owe poverty anything. Idon't owe ignorance anything. I don't
oh being messed up anything. Idon't owe being sad anything. It's my
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time to break out and let hernever know. I've been through some stuff,
but that don't stop me anything.I don't owe a debt to pain
and to be confused all the timeand don't know whether I'm coming or going.
But our owe the spirit of theLord the power to rise up in
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my circumstances and tell the Lord yougave it to the right one, because
I'm getting ready to use it.And I feel like preaching in here.
Give somebody high five and say,there's a new sheriff in town. This
is love under new management. I'mgetting ready to move in the power of
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the Holy Ghost. I'm not gonnakeep you up all night, but you
gotta kill the influence of what willultimately kill you. You got to break
down everything around you that's trying tomess with your mind. You gotta get
away from folk that's always negative andalways telling you what you can do.
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You gotta break away from folk that'salways got something to say about your past.
My past was not with Jesus,but my future will be with the
Lord, because you gotta change yourattitude and let the devil know. If
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you're gonna knock me out, thenknock me out. But I've got a
feeling you have already hit me withyour best punch and I'm still standing.
I feel like preaching to somebody.I feel like giving God the glory.
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That's why he said we haven't receivedthe spirit of a slave. I feel
like preaching here. Tell somebody,I'm not a slave, but I am
a son. I'm not under thelaw, but I'm under the spirit,
and the spirit has blown me up. Can I preach like a fell it?
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Shake your neighbour's hand like you're gonnashake it off, and said,
neighbor, stop trying to fit whereyou don't belong. God has moved you
to another level and you're trying tofit with folk you don't belong to.
Any time they start acting stranger,it's because it's time to break out.
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Break out a pondage, break outa comedy, break out of sandness,
break out a depression. I'm breakingout. I feel the Holy Goose and
I'm feeling like lifting him up.Give somebody high five, and said,
break out. I know you've beenthrough something. I know they talked about
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you. I know they said youcouldn't make it, But that don't stop
nothing. Your husband is gone,but that go stop nothing. You lost
your house, but tell the devilthat don't stop nothing. You lost your
best friend, but that ain't gonnastop me from moving to the next level.
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That ain't gonna stop me from tellingthe devil, get out of my
house. I feel the Holy ghost. Look at your own neighbor, say,
I see your tears, but itain't gonna stand nothing. I know
you've been hurt, but it ain'tgonna stand nothing. I know they've plied
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against you, try to destroy you. But you can tell him do what
you wanna do. But that won'tstop my annoy That Lord, stop my
joy, the wound, stop mypower. Loone, stop me from doorway
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the will of the Lord. Yeah, I feel like preaching in here.
Do I have somebody that's bold enoughto look their neighbor in the face and
says, suck it up and getup, suck it up and keep on
moving. Suck it up and letthe devil know I'm back. I'm bath.
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I'm still pull them in here.Break out. I feel like preaching
in here. Touch. Somebody said, break out, break out. You've
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been restricted months too long. You'vebeen the hell months too long. Touch
somebody's excuse me, I'm getting readyto break out, break out my finance,
break out, my spirit, breakout, my annoying, break out,
my power. Break Yeah mm hmmm, rag rag mhm. For God
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has not given your spirit of things? Look at somebody and say you're too
gifted to be broke. Hm,You're too gifted for somebody to treat you
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like a piece of trash, bragup, too gifted to accept what everybody
says when you know what God hasmade seidens trying to control you my negative
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intimidation. God has sent a wordto you tonight, shake yourself, get
back in the race, and letthe circumstance know. I found out who
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I am, and I've discovered whatI have. And when the who you
are comes together with what you have, sh I'm closing. I want you
to take one person by both handsand to that person in here. God
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designed and mapped your life, andSatan wants you to detour. I'd rather
go down a rough road that's goingsomewhere than an easy road that is a
dead end. And now all youhave to do is engage your will,
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because once that will is engaged,there is no stopping you. I will,
I will, I will, Iwill do your will. I will
be who you'd have me to be. I will overcome these tears, I
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will overcome these obstacles. I will, I will, I will because I've
grasped the power that lies within me, squeeze one hand. What sever things
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we bind on earth abound in heaven, whatever things we loose on earth.
He's talking about the Gospel, butI'd like to accommodate the text and use
it for prayer. Right now,squeeze one hand, Lord, in the
name of Jesus, I bind fear, A bind, oppression, a bind
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low self esteem. I bind everythought of failure, and I claim victory.
Right now, squeeze other hand.I loose and fresh anointing. I
loose a spirit of victory. Iloose palmer use financial prosperity, I lose
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spiritual determination. I lose this giftin the name of Jesus, and I
declare youre to be blassed. Iloose those hands and give God the prayse
break out, breg out. Thatain't gonna stop nothing, w that's not
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gonna stop a thing for those hesleeves