Bishop T. D. Jakes - The Shechem Incident

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
When you allow them beginning to praise God and to
just worship Him in the most intimate and personal way
that you know how.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank Him for the ways he made to get you here.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Thank Him for the obstacles he moves so that you're
going to have this moment. Thank Him for the grace
over your life. Somebody give the Lord glory tonight. Somebody
honor Him while you're standing. Just take a moment and

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realize that as we worship God in this dome, and
we've come from every walk of life, some have driven,
mouths changed quickly. Some didn't change to be here tonight.

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The men are over in the Georgia World Congress Center.
Those that are not in that are not in here.
They're worshiping over there. The young people are in the
Phillips Arena, and the children are in Megaland and a
good square mile of Atlanta is covered with worshipers.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Lifting up the name of the log.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Let's just thank God that the kingdoms of this world
shall become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ.
While we were worshiping, we were joined not only by
the heavenly host and the presence of angels and the

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royal Diadem of Heaven. But I want you to know
that while we were worshiping, my wife just welcome the
God Channel who's joining us tonight along with Trinity Brought
Casting Network, the Miracle Channel, TCT World, Miracle Net.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's all going on in the house right now.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
People all over the world have stepped into Megafest here
in Atlanta, Georgia, where the spirit of the Lord is
moving in a supernatural way. And throughout the service, you
might see the screens go to different locations. One of
them might be the Smith State Prison in Glenville, Georgia,

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or Shelby County Correctional Center in Memphis, Tennessee, Logan Correctional
Center in Lincoln, Illinois.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
They're worshiping with us in Toronto, Canada. The Reverend Doctor
James is lifting up the Lord there in Toronto.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
We love you.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
You've got to pray for all of our guests and
friends celebrate the Lord with us tonight. Now, when I said,
let everything that have repraise the Lord, I'm not just
talking to the Georgia Dome, but I'm talking to the
Phillips Arena and the Georgia World Congress Center in Toronto, Canada,
and Smith State President, Shelby County Correctional and Logan County

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and all of the tvns and God TV and Miracle Channel, TCT,
Miracle Net. Let everything that have breath, praise ye the Lord. Hollelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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I'm happy to be here. You may be seated in
the presence of the Lord. What a privilege, want and
honor tonight. It is that the Lord has afforded us
an opportunity to assemble ourselves.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
I'm going to say, in.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
The House of the Lord.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
For I don't know what they built it to be,
but tonight. I don't know what is going to be
next month, But tonight, because the saints of God are
in here, this has become.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
The House of the Lord. Come on and give God
glory tonight. This is a sanctuary of praise, our habitation
of excellence, and God is just going to do so
many wonderful things.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
I'm just excited.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I don't really there are so many generals and sergeants
and lieutenants in here tonight. I don't want to take
a lot of time calling names. It's not out of disrespect.
It's just that if you start it, you can't stop it. Amen,

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But thank God for every one of you, all the
pastors and preachers and teachers and elders and ministers that
have come to be with us tonight.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
I'm just grateful to have you. I do want to
mention one of my.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Dear friends, is this first time being with us in
an assembly like this, And I just want to mention
Pastor John Hagy and.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
His wife Diane. Would you just help me appreciate them?
Would you stand tonight? Amen? Very very special friends of mine.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
God God is so good you're going to be hearing
from Him this week. And it's just so we're blessed
to have so many wonderful men and women of God.
If you don't get saved and here you just don't want.

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To be saved. We've got the teachers and the reachers,
and the preachers and the evangelists and the prayer ways.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
It's just a wonderful gathering of believers. I'm having a
good time already. How about you. I want you, if
you will, to get your Bibles as we prepare to
go to the.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Word of the Lord.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
And I want to challenge you to take full advantage
of this opportunity to get everything that you can. Over
the next few days, the men sleep fast, eat quick,
shout hard, take notes, receive everything you can because after
this you're coming into your kingdom. And I believe that

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this is going to be a preparatory meeting for God's
men and women. If he gets you ready for the
days to come and the things that He's going to
release in your life, you're going to see why you
had to go through what you had to go through
to get to where you're about to go.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
In the Kingdom of God. Somebody give God glory. I
want to look at two scriptures. I want you to
look at Genesis chapter forty nine, verse five through seven.
Genesis chapter forty nine, verse five through seven, and then

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I want you to look at Genesis chapter thirty four.
And we're going to read about thirteen verses of the
thirty fourth chapter of the Book of Genesis. Again, Genesis
chapter forty nine, verse five through seven, and Genesis chapter
thirty four, verse one through thirteen.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Hallelujah. It is my custom to stand for the reading
of the Word of God. I would ask you to
indulge me tonight out of respect.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
For His word.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
And the triumphant power that exists through the Word of
God itself again Genesis forty nine five through seven. And
then we're going to look at Genesis chapter number thirty four.

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I will read in your hearing Genesis forty nine five
through seven. I will read it in the Living Bible,
but you can follow along with your eyes and whatever
translation you may have. And then we will read the
thirty fourth chapter in concert. If you're watching from a

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fell in a prison, if you're watching in a chapel
in the prison, or in a church service around the world,
or in your living room, look in the Word of God.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
There's something in this word for you tonight.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Genesis forty nine five through seven says Simeon and LEVI
are two of a kind. They are men of violence
and injustice. They weren't right injustice you. It wasn't fair.

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It wasn't right. Oh my souls, stay away from them.
May I never be a party to their wicked plans.
For in their anger they murdered a man and maimed
oxen just for fun. Cursed be their anger, for it

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is fierce.

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And cruel.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Therefore I will statter their descendants throughout Israel. Can you say, man,
look at the thirty fourth chapter the Book of Genesis,
the thirty fourth chapter of the Book of Genesis, verse
number one through thirteen, And let us read together as

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a family out of the word of God. And Dinah,
the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went
out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem,
the son of Hammar, the Habite prince of the country,
saw her, he took her and lay with her and

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defouled her. And his soul clave unto Dinah, the daughter
of Jacob, and he loved the damsel and spake kindly
unto the damsel.

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And Shechem spake unto.

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His father Hammar, saying, get me this damsel to wife.
And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter.
Now his sons were with his cattle in the field,
and Jacob held his peace until they were come. And Hammer,
the father of Shechem, went unto Jacob to commune with him.

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And the sons of Jacob came out of the field
when they heard it. And the men were grieved, and
they were very wrong, because he had wrought folly in
Israel in line with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not
to be done.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
It wasn't right.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
And Hammer commune with them, saying, the soul of my
son Shechem longer for your daughter. I pray you give
her him to wife, and make ye marriages with us,
and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters
unto you, and ye shall dwell with us, and the

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land shall be before you dwell, and trade ye therein,
and get you possessions therein. And Shechem said, unto her
father and unto her brethren, let me.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Find grace in your eyes.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
And what ye shall say unto me, I will give,
ask me never so much dowry and gift. And I
will give a courting as ye shall say unto me,
But give me the damsel to wife. And the sons
of Jacob answered Shechem and Hammer his father deceitfully and said,

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because he had defoul Dinah their sister.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Can you say amen.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
For the next few moments, I just want to talk
to you from the subject remain standing.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Remain standing.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
We're going to pray, But for the next few moments,
I want to talk about the Shechem incident. Say that
with me, the Shechem incident one more time, the Shechem incident.
Let's pray, Father, in the name of Jesus, I would ask.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
You to use me tonight for your glory.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Hide my flesh behind the cross.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Tonight, I would ask you to speak in a supernatural way. Tonight,
give answers to somebody's dilemma. It is not important that
I be glorified. It is only important that you be glorified.
Establish your word in the life of your people. Tonight
somebody came looking for answers out of your word. Speak

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tonight as only you can do. I trust you now
I'm turning it over to you. Have your way in
this place. In the name of Jesus, we pray somebody say, amen,
you may be seated in the presence of the Lord.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
The Shechem incident.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
It is interesting when we read in the forty ninth
chapter of the Book of Genesis that as Jacob has
come to the end of his life about to die,
that he has gathered around the bed his sons that
he might dispense his final words to them before he
folds his legs in the bed and goes to the

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land of his father's. It is a father's final opportunity
to summarize the remaining grains of wisdom, to the intent
that his sons might understand their destiny and their purpose. Generally,

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in a moment like this, this is a time to
settle all accounts, to bring a sense of finality and
closure to disruptions and confus USANs, so that his sons
might have a sense of peace and destiny as it
relates to their purpose in the Kingdom of God. And yet,

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when we read about Jacob in the summary of his life,
we know that he is a man of God because
he fought death off long enough to bless his sons.
And the Bible said, and Israel sat up in the
bed and strengthened himself.

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And we know that God has been with him, that
there's been a great transformation in his life. Forever throughout
all eternity, God will be referred to as the God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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He is come into.

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Alignment with a divine order in his family.

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Now.

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Admittedly it took him a while to get there, but
he has finally evolved into a man of God. Admittedly,
there was a time that he was a ruffian.

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A scoundrel, a scout about.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
He was a kind of person that looked like he
was not going to flourish. After the tradition of his
father and grandfather. But it's amazing how the word of God,
if it is planted in your life, you may run
for a long time, but eventually it will snare you.
I apprehend you, and the righteous see that is down

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inside of you will eventually arise and bring you to
a place of fuition in God.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Jacob has developed.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
That tenacity and that prayer life, and that communion with God.
He has seen storms and tests and trials, famines and pestilence,
storms and crises. He has evolved into a man of wisdom.
That's all the more reason. It is shocking to me
that in the final summary of his life, when we

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hear him speak in the forty ninth chapter the Book
of Genesis, you can't help but notice a sense of
anger and frustration in his voice as he refuses to
release his sons from what they did. He speaks to
Simeon and Levi almost as if he were angry with them,

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and he brings up an incident out of their past
and calls him cruel and unjust, insensitive, and he says
that their descendants will be cursed over what we will
call tonight the Secon.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Incidents.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Now you must understand there are some things that we
can do, that we can kind of move along and
get over and go about our business. But there are
some principles that if you violate them, it will affect
you and your children and your children's children. There are
some things that you cannot violate. There are some walls

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that you cannot break down. And the Bible talks about
in the King James version that deals with how they
have dug down a wall. They've messed up some things
that Jacob says is irreparable, and they are in a
state where, even as he is dying, he's almost pointing
his finger at them. They're expecting a blessing, but he says,

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you're steel curse. Gasping for breath, heart pumping slowly, pulse,
getting weak, eyes rolling up in his head.

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A cold sweat on his brow.

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Death has reached out with her cold fingers and attached
herself to his lungs, and the air is escaping his body,
and in the final moments before he takes his flight
from time and to eternity, he says, you're still cursed.

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What an embarrassing moment for them, surrounded by all of
their brothers. What a moment of disdain. What a moment
of despair. This is their father's final words. And you
have to wonder in your what happened in the Shackem
incident that Jacob, even when he is old, is still
pointing his crooked finger at them and saying you're still

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wrong and you'll never get the blessing that you should
have gotten because God remembers the.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Shack Em incident. You see this.

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This is an interesting issue because this issue centers, as
we read in the text the thirty fourth chapter, it
centers around a young lady named Dinah, who is one
of Jacob's daughters. And it is interesting because according to
the patriarchal tradition of the times, the blessings.

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Are commended primarily to sons as opposed to daughters. And
yet these boys are denied their blessing over something they
did to a girl, to a sister, to a woman,
the way they treated her.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
What went down and shake him.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
God is still holding against him because.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
God does watch how you treat other people.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh, I know that's not popular because we think that
as long as we praise Him, we can be mean
and hateful to other people. But God does care how
you treat her other people.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
It's not just an Old Testament principle. It's not just
something that's housing the pentituck before appropriate blood was sprinkled.
But all the way over into the New Testament, God
warns us about how we treat one another. He warns
us that we have love one toward another. He warns
us even as husbands, how we treat our wives.

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God does watch over his not just his sons, but
he also watches over his daughters.

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I know people don't like.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
To admit that, but God will watch over his daughters
just like he does his sons. If you don't believe it,
ask Moses about the daughters of Zelopha had and when
the women came to him and said, we don't see
why we shouldn't receive the blessing just like the men,
even though we are women. And it was so confusing

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to Moses because it was inappropriate for these radical women
to ask to be blessed like a man, that even
Moses had to get down on his knees and say, God,
what do I do with these radical women that insist
that you're there? God too, God opened his mouth and
cleared his throat and said, the woman is right I

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want every woman in here to holler, God will bless
me too.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
I'm not replacing men, but I'm standing right beside you
and saying that God will bless me too. The blessing
of the Lord is going to fall tonight. I don't
know who I'm preaching to tonight, but I feel like God.

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Is going to release some things in your heart and
in your spirit tonight, break some curses over your life,
and get you ready for what He wants to do
in you. Shake somebody and say this curse must be broken.
I never knew too much about curses and things like that.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
I didn't know a whole lot about that sort of thing,
primarily because I grew up in a neighborhood where they
didn't talk about cursing people. They talked a lot about
cussing people that they didn't say a whole lot about
cursing them. And as I begin to learn about curses,

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I've concluded I really don't want neither one, but I
would rather you cuss.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Me, then curse me.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
You can curse me and never cuss and oh you
curse me when you speak to my destiny and speak
negativity over my future You curse me when you tell
me I'll never be anything. You curse me when you
say I'll never have anything. You curse me when you
tell me to go sit in the back of the
bus and shut up. You curse me when you tell

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me to stay in my place. It's not my places,
it's a place you want me to stay in. Y'all,
don't here when I'm saying to you.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
And it's a terrible thing to live with a curse
over your life.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Think about it a minute. This thing with Dinah doesn't
really start with her. The Bible talks about Dinah begin
to move and to wander around shuckelm. But before we
talk about the young lady, I want to reach back.
I've talked a little bit about her father, but I
want to talk a little bit about her mother. Dinah

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is the daughter of Lea. She grew up in the
house with Lea. You remember Leah. Leah was Jacob's wife,
the first woman that he married. Not the woman he wanted,
but the woman he married. Not the woman he was
in love with, but the woman he married. Not the

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woman that he wished for, crave for long to be around,
Not the woman that he was so desirous of that.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
He said, I worked fourteen years to get this woman.
Leah was the consolation prize. She was the booby prize.
She was the trick, She was the toy.

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She was the result of conniving Laban's opportunistic attitude. Leah
was what he sent to Jacob's bed, and Jacob didn't
know who she was until in the morning. The Bible
said that in the morning he saw it was Leah.
In the King James version, it describes Leah as being
tender eyed. When I first read read that, I thought

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they were saying she had beautiful eyes. But when I
got in the translation admitt that she was tangled eyed.
She was yeah, my grandmother was saying she was cock eyed.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
And she she was not. She was not particularly beautiful.
She was she was not filipsuis. She was not lovely,
she was not sensual.

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But but isn't it funny how in spite of that,
Leah had the favor of God over her life.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
It's a funny thing about favor.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
God will give you favor when when you are hated
and ostracized. The Bible says something that when the Lord
saw how Leo was hated by Rachel that he opened
up her rule.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
And I know you all have never been hated, and
so you don't understand what I'm saying. But if there's
anybody in here who's ever lived in an environment where
you've been hated and mistreated and ostracized and alienated and
criticized and people snickered when you came in the room,
then you can see him passing notes and winking when
you're pass by talking about that's her and as she goes,

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that's him looking at him.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
He's the one over there. It's funny how you can
live in a hated situation and yet some kind of way,
God has a way of making it up to you.
I believe that God will do you some favors to
compensate for the rejection and how you've been ostracized.

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Some of you right now.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
The reason you are as blessed as you are is
because you have been hated like you've been hated and
if you hadn't a been. I'm gonna try to take
my time to night, but I think there are a
few folks in here that understand what I'm saying. It's
almost like the more people persecute you and the more

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they afflict you, the more God opens doors and makes
ways for you, and say, you might not like it,
but he steal my son. You may not like her,
but she's still my daughter. Anybody in here that had God,
do you some faith. In one way it was the

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best of time's.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
In Leo's life, and then another way it was the
worst of times in her life. It's amazing how things
can be good and bad simultaneously. When you look at
your life from one perspective, you say, I'm more blessed
than I've ever been in my life, and yet when
you think about certain other issues. Anybody ever had some
issues that when you think about certain other issues, you say,
oh God, what am.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
I going to do?

Speaker 2 (27:32):
This is the worst moment in my life.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Being a friend to a person like that, you would
think that your friend is schizophrenic because one moment they're
smiling and the happy, and the next moment they got
tears running down their faces. Folks don't want to be
bothered with you because they think you're crazy. And it's
not that you're crazy, it's just when you think about this,
it makes you want to laugh. When you think about that,
it makes you want to cry and it's a good

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day on this foot, but it's a bad day on
that foot.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
And when you look over here, you say, I'm blessed.
But when you look over here, you say I never
did find the love I was looking for. Him, He said, Lord,
I'd take you for the job, but I sure hate
the fact that they hate me on the job.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
You bless me?

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Well, I wonder anybody who's ever been trapped between two words.
Leah was so blessed of God that even Rachel, the
beautiful sucking wife that Jacob attached himself to, even Rachel

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was envious of how God blessed Leah.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Leah was blessed, but she wasn't free. They're the difference
between being.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Blessed and being free, the difference between having blessings and
enjoying the freedom that only comes from sealing up your
pass and moving away from your issue.

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They're the difference.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Between being able to buy a state and dig justice state.
That's the difference between being able to buy a big
bed and being able to sleep in the bed you
bought that, or y'all to understand what I'm saying, when
when you're not free, you can't enjoy the blessings because

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all you do is take the blessings and use the
blessing to try to prove to somebody else that see,
I am somebody. It's not about the fact that God
bless you with the car. You can't enjoy the car
for trying to drive past the neighborhood where you'll ex
live so he can see that you made it too.
You are to drive somewhere else, turn up the music,

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flip the air conditioning on HW, and enjoy the blessing
of the law. But when you're not free, Ah, but
somebody's gonna get free in here tonight. Turn somebody and
say I gotta get free.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
You don't just have to say it in the Georgia Dome.
You can say it in the prison. You can say
it in the cell block, you can say it in
the prison chapel. Because the kind of freedom that I'm
talking about doesn't have anything to do with bars and
cells and waters and police. I'm talking about free from
your past and your mistakes and your failure.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
You're only helping me. But I feel something in it
in the day.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Touch somebody say I gotta be free.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Oh, something's about to happen. I feel it in my soul.
I feel it in my spirit. I feel an unction
coming from the Lord. Something is about to happen in
this place. Somebody say, yes, the Lord opened up Lei's woman.

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She had a son named Rue, and she named him
Ruben because Ruben means he looked upon my affliction. She's
simply saying that maybe now the Lord has looked upon
my affliction, and and maybe now Jacob will will love me.

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But he didn't.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
So she had another son and called him Simeon, and
Simeon means the Lord has hurt me. And maybe when
he sees I produced two sons and she hadn't had
any sons, maybe maybe he'll he'll love me like.

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He loves her. But he didn't.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
And she had a third son named Levi, and Levi
means joying. She said, if I have three sons for him,
maybe he'll join with me and connect with.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
Me and we'll have it together. But but but he didn't.

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And she she had a fourth son named Judah, which
means now will I praise the Lord? She said, surely,
if I give him four sons, surely I'm gonna get
in that state where I finally.

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Get my praise on and have peace and deliverance and joy.
But she really didn't. She she had a son named
It's a car. He was the fifth son. Somebody say
the fifth son, and she said, maybe God has given
me my hire. Now this this boy, it's a car,
the fifth son. I want to take a moment and

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talk about how she got it's a car. See, by
the time she had had Judah, Jacob wasn't staying with
Leah at all. He was spending all of his time
over at.

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At Rachel's house.

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And so she she she got Reuben to pick some
fruit called mandrakes, and and and and and.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
And Rachel wanted some of the fruit. And so she said,
I'll tell you what. I'll give you the fruit that
my son picked if if, if you let Jacob. Y'all
can't handle this. Y'all, y'all are not old enough to understand.
Y'all don't understand desperation. Because you you got on your

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silk dress and your nice hats and your pumps and
your glory.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
And van building. You don't know anything. Desperation to make
you do things you said you would never do and
say things you would never say. And I know you
got to sit there and act like that. You never
compromise your own principles and done anything crazy. But there
are a few sisters up in the back road that
I'll tell you that that that love or mess up
your mind, make you act crazy and do ridiculous. Stop.

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The Bible says that Lei ran out to meet Jacob
when he got off work and said, you're coming to
my house tonight.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
We already worked it out.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
I hide you.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
For the evening. She had. It's a car.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
She paid the price, but she had it. And she
had Zebula and the sixth son. And the six son
means you're a good diary. Now that I've had six
sons made the one I'm married to will really be
married to me. Six sons, no love, lots of work,

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no acceptance. Then she has a daughter. She looked at her.
She said, I call her Dinah. No prophecy, no purpose,
no word over her life. She wasn't expecting much to come.

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This this baby was a girl. This a girl that
ain't gonna do anything for.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
The seventh child should have been the completion.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's Dinah. She walked away.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
It was this Dinah who was born out of the
bittered womb of a frustrated mother that begins to wander
because this dinner has no place to rest in her
own house. Her mother is distracted and preoccupied. Her mother's
got unresolved issues. And when you are reared in an

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environment where your parents are kind of y'all can't handle
this stuff, it's hard for you to rest and be
stable and be secure and hold it together. Oh, you
can look like you got it together, you can walk
like you got it together, you can spray for fillmore
and smile like you got it together.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
But when you're in an unstable enviirement, it affects your
ability to get it together. On one hand, she had
a mother who was just having babies, trying to cook
up with the father who was in love with somebody else,
and being her father his own issues. Dinah was in
a mess. Dinah was in a mess.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
I'm wondering if there's anybody in here who's ever been
dressed up but in a mess, driving the work, but
in a mess, going about your business.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
But in a mess, smiling and people good morning. But
you're in a mess, going through the motions, but you're
in a mess. I'm wondering if there's anybody in here,
that's had to live with the secret, an issue, a scar,
a problem. You waited till nobody was looking to cry
because you didn't want anybody to know that you were smiling,
but you really weren't happy. I'm wondering if there's anybody

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in here who's ever lived your life in a mess. Oh,
they are obvious messer, Sarah. People who are watching me
right now in prison, it's an obvious messer. People who
are watching me who are getting food stand for on
welfare there and an obvious messer. Have been through suicide,

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almost suicide victims, have been through a crisis, had nervous
breaking down. It's an obvious mess. But I'm gonna tell
on the rest of you. You goodn't looking sadity self
right since hold it in now foot.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Some of y'all all in a mess. I'm been here too.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Preachers in a mess, Evangelius and a mess. They book feel,
but down on the inside your step me still messed up,

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locked up in a crazy house, dealing with crazy folks.
Everybody in the house like they've lost their mind. Everybody
in the house is looking somewhere else, the place where
you are to be safe and be nurtured and be
stable was a crazy how. I know you can't hold
your hand up because you don't want nobody to know
that you grew up in a crazy how. Now that
you got your degree, you moved on passing. But behind

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all of that paperwork you pay from it. People think
you just shout because you emotional. You just shouting because
you just glad you didn't lose your mind. Anybody been
through what you've been through. Said a loss of mind
had tonight. If it had not been for the Lord

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that was on your side, you wouldn't be sitting up
yeah with your cute dress of job, job, job bright
good to somebody say you better prais him. You met
my sentiment act off cute that had, funny and self right.

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You are a praising until we can't smell your claud
cray until you shake down them pray side of your head.
You are a praiser. God brought you from. Somebody say Lord,

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don't let me look like where I came from. I'm
gonna try that again, said Lord, don't let me look
like where I came from.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
Give him some phrase. If you feel me, I.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Have to apologize to Dinah myself. I didn't treat Dinah
right either. I slammed it Dinah as a preacher. I
misrepresented Dinnah as a preacher. I didn't look at Dinah
deeply enough. I preached Dinnah, and I suggested things about
this girl that wasn't true.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
I thought that.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Dinah had gone tramp sing about in Shechem because she
was a slut. I thought she was looking for the
men of Shakeem. I thought she'd gotten out in the
street looking for a dape. I criticized her for wandering
out in Skeel because I didn't understand that when you
read the text, she didn't go into suck them looking

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for men. The Bible said she was looking for daughters.
She was looking for sisters. She was looking for women.
She was looking for connection. She's looking for mothering. She's
looking for nurturing. She's looking for affection. She's looking for
what Leo couldn't give us. She was looking for somebody
who would help her find her purpose at her destiny.
I'm wondering if that's anybody in here who was never

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such to find the missing link in your life, traveling effort.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Everywhere.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
She wasn't looking for dates. She was looking for leah,
for nurturing, for affection, for completion. Have you ever left
home looking for one thing.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
And ended up with something else?

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Have you ever left hall looking for love and people
just made assumptions about you and thought they knew what
you wired, labeled you and started rumors on you. Hell
know who you are, They don't know what you meant?
Have you ever stumbled around trying to find what she

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should have already had looking and shut them.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
She was looking and trying to find what she should
have found in the house.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
I said, she was trying to find what she should
have found.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
In the I have to apologize for her.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Because because the Bible says that when she came to Shechem,
the city was named after the prince Shechem, who was
the son of Hammel. And when she came down in Shechem,
she ran into the prince. Now he was from Shechem,

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he wasn't a part of her family or her house,
but he saw her and he slept with her. And
I have to apologize to brother Sheckham too, because because
I thought that he just brutalized her and raped her
and ostracized her. But no, no, no, that's not exactly how
it was. He did sleep with her. But the Bible

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said he fell in love with her. Oh, I know,
I know he fell in love with her, this strange,
broken girl who was looking for something. Maybe he needed
to be needed. I don't know, but whatever it was,

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he fell in love with Dinah, this this purposeless, wandering,
wilted woman. He fell in love with her, fell in
love with her and told his daddy said, I got
to have this woman.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
I warned her. It wasn't a fleeing.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
It wasn't It wasn't a midnight rendezvous. He said, I
want her to be my wife. He said, Donny, get
me this woman. I want to make her my wife.
The Bible said he loved her. He did for her
what her daddy didn't do for her mother. Y'all can't

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handle me tonight. I said he did for her what
her daddy to do for her mother. He had never
seen a man loved a woman who her mind. He
loved her, He loved her. She finally found where she fit. Now,

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I know I know what you're thinking. You're saying he
went about it wrong. It would have been all right
for him to sleep with her had he married her first.

Speaker 4 (45:29):
You're you're.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
You're right, he should have married her and damned slept
with her.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
You It wasn't.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Writers, it wasn't right. I can't make excuses for it.
It was it was out of order.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
It was wrong.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
It wasn't divine order. It wasn't right. And then the
Bible scholars.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Are saying she didn't have no business fooling with the
men to shock them.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
No way, she should have married somebody into her house.
Had I know it wasn't right.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
It wasn't right. It wasn't right. It wasn't right.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
It should have been in the house, but it wasn't right.
You see, sometimes God has to take you.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Outside of the house. I wish I had a diner in.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Here, somebody that God had to get you outside of
the box, had to get you out of your city,
away from your folks, away from the folks who knew
you when, away from the place where your thought. Have
you ever had God bless you in a strange place?
Some of y'all they didn't even want you to come
in its meaning body. God will take you out of

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your in finding it wasn't right.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
M h. It was.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
It wasn't right.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
It wasn't it wasn't right.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
For Rehair.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
The hooker.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
To lie about the spies. It wasn't right. It wasn't
right for Samuel to lie to Saw about why he
was looking for David to annoy him. It wasn't right.
It wasn't right for Judah to head to what Tasha.

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It wasn't right. It wasn't right for you to have
a baby out of wedlock.

Speaker 6 (48:20):
It wasn't right for.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
You end up in that situation that you had to
pray for months to.

Speaker 6 (48:26):
Get out of them. It wasn't right.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
And I know you got to sit there in that
holy seat with that sanctimonious look on your face, with
your holy Bible and your holy life, with your holy
glasses on, and that like everything you did was right.
But I want to blow a whistle on you today
some of the mess you got into. Where are the

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real folks in here? You don't have to tell them
what you did. But in touch stream he would saying
it wasn't right. Dah, you in the prison you do
it to touch of that say it wasn't right. It
wasn't some of that stuff you brought on yourself, it
wasn't right. No need didn't make an excuses and trying

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to rewrite the Bible and change the scriptures and fun
peel the card.

Speaker 6 (49:31):
It wasn't right.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
But I need to tell somebody that one of the
reasons I love the Lord, he said, God can take
up something that was wrong and.

Speaker 6 (50:06):
Slipping all the way around and lock.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
It turned out.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
I know you can't act let you know what I'm
talking about it, But somebody in here knows what it
is for God to take your mess and turn it
into a message. Spread around, right, fancy say turn it around?

Speaker 7 (50:27):
Lord.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
People think you're shouting over your car. You're not shoting
over your car. People think you're shining over your house.
You're not shining over your house. You're shouting because God
turned it around.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
They want to, right, But.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
See you all the sitting out here walking around free,
and you can act like you don't need this message.
But somebody's watching me in the prison right now. They
need to know the car and take something that's wrong
and turn it around and make it come out all right.
Let the witnesses holler yeah, shake somebody here like you

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gonna sing it off and say he tied my life around.

Speaker 5 (51:52):
He turned.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
My life around, He turned.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
My situation around, He turned my trending around. He tied
my finances around. I'm detired, my married around, de tied
my children around.

Speaker 5 (52:15):
Deep can.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
Slap somebody and say, turning around, Lord.

Speaker 7 (52:31):
H.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Somebody takes sixty seconds and praise God for a massive tenor.

Speaker 5 (53:18):
M hm.

Speaker 8 (53:22):
Hm.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
Prop inside of somebody and tell them that you ride
it for a turn around. They admitted for evil, but
Rome's gonna make it to you right.

Speaker 5 (53:37):
You're right hard.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
I don't know who it is, but somebody's didn't run
it a time, your money around, your financing around, your
whole life around. You're trying to praise right now. Somebody
shining in the prison getting ready.

Speaker 8 (54:05):
Four turned around.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Somebody's shining in.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Your living world, getting.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Rady far turn around, breathed out, singing.

Speaker 7 (54:11):
Again on the bread.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
M m oh, I feel the annoying in here. Something's
about to happen in this place. Some somebody said something

(54:43):
about to happen in here tonight.

Speaker 8 (54:49):
H m hmm.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Cannot go deeper tonight, mm hmm. Sit down, let me
go deep. Uh who, my god, I feel a turn
around the spirit up the head, I said, my God,

(55:19):
I feel I turn around the spread up there. Somebody
came in here with some nuts on you, m.

Speaker 7 (55:48):
M.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
You see.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Is it out for you stopping me down? What I'm
interested in. I want you to get this because it's
at the point. What I'm interested in is the sixth verse.
It says in a hand more the father shake them
went out. I'm to shake them to commune with him. Hammer,

(57:05):
the father of Shepherd went out to commune with Jacob,
the father of Donald. And now I know what they
did wasn't right, but we gotta get them out of this.
And Hammer said, I'll tell you what we want. To

(57:29):
marry your daughter, and we'll give our sons and daughters
to marry your.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Sons and daughters. And what you all are looking for,
we already got.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
We've got the vineyards and the houses and the land
and the property, and y'all don't have to work.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
For none of it.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Just come in and receive it. And we're gonna give
it to you because we're happy about this union. And
Jacob said, I can't let my sons find out about this,
because they'll mess this up with their condor mind. They'll

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step in and get in God's way. Were about to
walk into a blessing. God's about to turn some messing
into some blessing. I wish somebody came here with some
mess on them so you'd understand who I'm talking to Today.

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God's about to give you beauty for Asher and all
the joy for morning in the garment to pray for
the spirit that help.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
God's about to.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
But Levi and sit in God in the middle of
the blessing.

Speaker 6 (59:04):
And messed it up.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
Because they thought they were doing God's service. When they
got through, it wasn't just that they had killed the
men of Shechem. They had stopped Dinah's blessing.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
From coming to.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
Pass in her life.

Speaker 3 (59:34):
And Jacob wasn't just angry because these boys had a
temper tantrum, but Jacob was angry because they were cruel
and they were unjust, unjust, unfair. Have you ever had
somebody to do something that sabotaged your blessing and hindered

(01:00:05):
you from getting something that should have been yours because
God decided to bless you without them. See, people get
an attitude when they can't take the claim for the
blessing that God gave you. But whoever I'm preaching to
God will bless you outside of the house. I want

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to tell somebody in this rumor You're about to get
a crazy blessing, a ridiculous blessing. And I know you
didn't get it when you thought you should have got it,
and you didn't get it from the people who should
have gave it to you, and everybody you thought loved
you turn them back on you. But God's got somebody else,

(01:01:00):
got a raiser. I want some people that's been in
spiritual warfare, been in a real battle, been up under
attacked by faith. I want you to get up and
praise God for a supernatural blessing. Touch of nighbors. Say

(01:01:57):
name the reason I'm shouting. It's gone. It's gonna bring
every curse off of my life and give me the
blessing I've been waiting on. I know the doble cet

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is too late, I know the demo cent is too old.
I know the demo set is not gonna happen, But
I can't to tell you the double lie. God's gonna
restore to you the year set, the Tangle words and
the Pober words and the look and sain't nothing. Give
me my praise right now? Where my folk that's been persecuted?

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Are you in here tonight?

Speaker 3 (01:03:44):
Let me tell you what the enemy tries to get
you to do when you're persecuted. He wants you to
sit up and look sad and get depressed and feel
sorry for yourself, because the enemy knows that if you
start praising.

Speaker 9 (01:04:02):
God, not when you get.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
Out, but right in the middle of your trouble, if
you're craving in spite of your problem, if you're craving
in spite of your situation, the dumb.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
Of those that God will I want some.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Folks that's been in the fight of your life to
give God a praise right now. What Dinah should have

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done was standing there in the middle of all of
her fields and all of her houses and all of
that long and say, Lord, I thank you for your messy.
I thank you for your blessing. Sir, I thank you
for your favor for when praisers gone. Let me show

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you something quickly, and I'll get out of your way.
The next time you are under attached, don't you say
when I get out, I'm gonna shout the victory.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
I'm gonna praise the Lord.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
I'm gonna give God the glory. No, no, no, stand
right in the middle of the mess, lift up your
eyes onto the heels for with come of your health.
Throw your hands up in there like you just don't care.
Man your back, hold your head up and shining. Touch

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a neighbors, say, neighbor, if you were just craving, you
won't have.

Speaker 6 (01:06:22):
To fight back.

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
The battle is not yours, it.

Speaker 6 (01:06:27):
Belongs to don You have got the prize right.

Speaker 9 (01:06:33):
Down, get it the prise, raven, raven, pray the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
Pray, pray, pray, prayen braving.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
No, you ain't got a praisant.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
If thinking praising in the prison in a uniform, in
a sound, I know you are to behaveor to death.
God reach out they hands on seven people say you

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are blessed. You are blessed, Queen, you are blessed. You
are blessing. You're blessed in the city, You're blessed in
the field. You're blessed in your right, You're blessed in
your down city. You're love said, you're coming here, your.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
Bl blass, blass y'all, blass, y'all.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
Bless Find them sending people and touch them again, and
tell them your enemy is a curse. Your enemy is
a curse. High street, LEVI high street, senator, damn curse.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
I hand them Ald is on you.

Speaker 8 (01:08:52):
Joy Joy, Josh, Josh, Josh Yesh Yosh, Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
Yes, yes, Joe's a cousin Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
There's a cousin.

Speaker 6 (01:09:12):
Jop Joe.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Look at the nigger, say give me some rose. I'm
look give God some praise. Tonight, I'm gonna break him
a curse and seize my blessing. Oh but your baby
get my cried.

Speaker 5 (01:09:56):
I die a bla.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
She told needed to know how to recurse the curse.
I need a father the four. I want to refrons
the counts tonight. Tell your hand over there, tell your name.
I'll get ready to refronts this touch from the next
sixty second. I wanted a brave God until you refronts
Afric time.

Speaker 5 (01:11:15):
And John.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
Fifty son.

Speaker 5 (01:11:24):
Full this sun.

Speaker 8 (01:11:33):
When man.

Speaker 6 (01:11:38):
And seven.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
Fine gray none bla.

Speaker 5 (01:11:56):
Die die anything.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
Now I realized why Jacob was so angry with Levi
and Simeon. Levi and Simeon did not believe that God
could take something that was wrong and turn it around
and make it turn out right.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
But Jacob knew.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
That God could take something that started out wrong and
make it turn out right. Because Jacob started out wrong
and God turned him around and made it turn out right.
And if you've ever been wrong and seen God turn

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you around and make it turn out right, you hate
to see anybody come up in jodd somebody that God
is still working.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
On.

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
There's somebody in this room right now. You've gotten yourself
in a mess.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Everyone standing, I want you to join hands with somebody
all over the building. Leave no one untouched, no walking,
no foolishness. I don't know who's touching you. But somebody
on your road has experienced the mercy of God. They

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might not want to own up to it right now
because they're really important and stuff right now.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
But somebody on your pew.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
Has had their life turned around, and.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
They know that if God could turn them around, he
can turn your round. No, you don't want nobody to
know it's you, But if you remember experience the grace
of God, just squeeze somebody's hand as a signal it's me.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
It's me.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
It's me, it's me, it's me. God can save in
the prison. God can save the crackhead. God can save
the liar of the back bite of the dope dealer.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
It don't matter who it is, because there's some folks
in here that know that if it were not for
God's mercy.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
God can reach right in that prison and save tonight
and deliver and filled with the Holy Spirit. And yes,
he can even bring them out of there. Squeeze their hand.
If you're a witness, Lord, they're folks who are watching

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us on television who need a miracle.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
They're watching all over the world. They need a breakthrough.
If it's not them, it's their son. If it's not
the son, it's the daughter. Some mama, some Daddy's been
standing in the gap like Hammer and Jacob, saying, tie
it around for my children.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
I know I didn't do everything right when I was
raising them, but tie it around.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Turn it around, Turn it around.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
The enemy is trying to destroy their blessing.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
Turn it around.

Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
Before Levi and Sime and mess it up. Turn it around.
Squeeze that hand. Father.

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
Don't let one person watching me. Whether they're in Canada
or Africa and Europe Australia, it doesn't matter where they're
watching right now, South America, from la to New York,
from Maine, the Portugal. God touch by your spirit, from

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the balcony to the front row, from the east to
the west and north to the south. Even the person
who will hear this message on the tape and the
video tied it around before we have a Shechem incident.

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Turn it around before Simeon and Levi.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
Can destroy Lord.

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
There's a backslider in this house tonight, and this is
the night that's written in the books of heaven for
them to come to you. There's a sinner listening, got
this message, and tonight is tonight, been there to come
to you. You.

Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
There are some things You've ordained to turn around in
their life. Some of them never got what they should
have gotten when they should have gotten it. They were
not nurtured, they were not reared, they were not loved,
they were not hell.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
They would not touch like Dinna.

Speaker 3 (01:20:04):
They've had a wandering spirit from thing to thing, from
place to place, from woman to woman, from the man.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
Stop the wandering tonight. Stop the wandering before they are destroyed.
Stop the wandering Holy Spirit. Break down every barrier and
every wall that would stop them from coming to Christ.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
Set them free tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
Go in the prison, save in the Saint Saron. Go
in that living room, in that kitchen, in that dining room.
Turn that dining room tail off into an altar. Set
I'm free tonight, I thank you for miracles. Work a

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miracle in here tonight in Jesus' name. Amen. Now, this
is what I want. No clapping, no clapping. Look right
this way, open up the owl. This is what I
want right now,