Bishop TD Jakes - How to Deal With Everything Changing - Potter's Touch

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Holy things are not human things. Holy things are not
human things. And I think you're gonna get a blessing
out of this in your life and in your spirit.
Now I'm gonna pray that God open up your understanding.
Get a pin, get a peg, get your Bible, get
ready to seriously, get down. I'm not preaching. I'm not hoping.

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I'm not trying to get you excited. I'm not trying
to make you dance. I'm trying to get you rooted
and grounded in principles of truth that will help your life.
Holy things are not human things. Father, in the name
of Jesus, Open up the understanding of the person who says,
I can't remember and I can't retain. Open up the
understanding of the person who can't read their Bible on
their own and it doesn't make sense to this. Open

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up the understanding of the person who is grounded in
the Word of God but they're looking for a deeper
sense of revelation and truth. Open up the understanding of ministers, pastors, elders,
and leaders, so that we cannot only serve milk, but
we can serve the meat of the Word. In Jesus' name,
We pray. Shout amen, right you are, I don't care
if you got neighbors, shout it anyway. Okay, we're going

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to the Book of Genesis. That's where everything started. It's
called the Book of Beginnings. We're going to be in Genesis,
chapter fifteen, verse seven through eight. And as you're turning
to it, I want you to understand what I'm really
after is to set you into a deeper understanding of
the passover. That's what I'm really after, is a deeper
understanding of the passover. Because when you understand the passover better,

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you understand cavalry better. You understand the price that Christ
paid for your redemption, and why you paid it, and
how you paid it and what it meant. But I'm
starting all the way back in the book of Genesis,
and I really could go back to Genesis one to start,
but I'm going to go to Genesis fifteen because it
really starts getting good at Genesis fifteen. Because this section

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that I'm going to be talking about, I call it
the contract.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
People every day say, you know, I'm a friend to
do business with this one or that. When I'm afraid
to let somebody have a piece of my company, I'm
afreid to develop a partnership. I'm afreid to get a
deed of trust. I'm afraid to invest into a piece
of land. I'm afraid of doing this, that, and the other.
Don't be afraid get a contract, because when you get

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a contract, you have a legal document that lays out
for you clearly and specifically what you get, what they get,
how they get it, when they get it, what to
do if they's a dispute. All of that stuff should
be written out in the contract. And a handshaking the
wonderful thing, and a word of promise is nice. But

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the Bible says the giving of an oath or contract
is an end of all strife, and I hope to
get to it if I can't. Over in Hebrews, God said,
I noticed that the custom amongst men is the giving
of an oath is the end of all strife. And
I look for something to swear. By finding something, finding
no one greater than myself, I swear by myself that

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my word is true, that surely blessings I will bless you,
and multiplying I will multiply the think of that that
God would give you a contract, swearing that He's gonna
bless you. It's not just that you got his word
on it, you got his contract on it. He says,
I swear I'm going to bless you. I swear I'm
going to bless you. You might need to hear that tonight.

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If I don't go any further, God said, I swear
I'm going to bless you. And it goes all the
way back to God dealing with Abram in the Book
of Genesis, chapter fifteen. Abram is getting old. He's one
hundred years old when he has his son Isaac. He's
getting up in age, and there are some things that
God's going to do for him that he won't even
live to see. Regarding his descendants, and I believe that

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the blessing of the Lord are generational, that they passed
out from generation to generation. I believe I'm walking in
the blessing of my parents and my grandparents, particularly my grandfather,
of whom I'm named after, who was murdered at twenty
two years old. I was astounded when my uncle looked
at me and he said, I think God gave you
more life because he gave my father less. His father

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died in twenty two he was named after me, And
here I am sixty two and I was born on
the day that my grandfather was murdered. But God seems
to have a way of passing blessings down, and I
pray that the blessing of the Lord not only will
bless you, but it will pass on to your children
and to your children's children. Every decision you make is

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gonna have an effect for generations after your God. Positively
or negatively, they're gonna have an effect. My mother decided
she liked Western Virginia. My father was just supposed to
be there for a temporary job. My mother liked the
mountains and decided to stay. And I was born up
in those hills, and it affected how I came out.
It affected the trajectory of my life. So every decision,

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if you change churches, if you change jobs, if you
go back to school, if you accept Christ, all of
those things are gonna have an indirect or dire wrecked
outcome and effect on your family. In some way, it's
gonna shift him. If you get married again in some
way is gonna shift him. If you get divorced, in
some way, it's gonna shift them. And you need to

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keep that in mind that you're not just thinking for you,
you're not just living for you. You're not just giving
for you. You're giving for generations and generations to come again. Okay,
if you haven't found Genesis by now, I'm just gonna
pray for you. Genesis, chapter fifteen, verse seven through eighteen.
And he said, unto him being Abram, I am the

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Lord that brought thee out of error. The chal dens
to give thee this land to inherit it. And he said,
Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
Because he's an old man, he says, how do I
know that this is gonna stick? And he says, I
brought you out of er, which is Mesopotamia. It is
a more modern day Mesopotamia. And the interesting footnote there

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is that he's suddenly reminding Abram that he was a gentile,
and out of his lowings, God bursts the Jewish, the Hebrew,
and ultimately the Jewish nation out of the loins of
a man who's a gentile.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
There's a miracle right there.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
God calls those things that are not as tho they are,
because he has a power to make them become whatever
he said. So God starts a race out of the
loins of a man who was not that race, and
perpetuates that ethnicity, I should say, and brings it forward
as his chosen people. But he starts with a God
of Mesopotamian says, get thee out of that country and

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away from that kindred. I'm getting ready to do a
new thing in you. Glory to God. I don't know
who that's for, but sometimes God has to shift you,
to bless you, to get you out of territories and
get you in the new ground so you can start
and your descendants can be blessed. So he says, I
am the Lord that brought thee out of error of
the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to inherit it.

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And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that
I'll inherit it? And he said, unto him, take me
a heifer of three years old, and a she goat
of three years old, and a ram of three years old,
and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. And he
took unto him all these and divided them in the
midst and laid each piece one against another. But the

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birds divided.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
He not now.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
He took all of these animals. He had to go
gather them, he had to bring them. You have to
understand these animals have value. Abram lives in a bartering system.
It is not so much as they always deal with
gold or silver. Certainly didn't have cash or cash aps,
didn't have American Express or visa cards or things like that.

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But they used these goats and animals to trade for
things that they needed. For him to take them and
slay them open and lay them out before God was
a sacrifice. That many couldn't sell them, that many couldn't
make wool out of their coats, that many couldn't eat them.
He offered them up as a sacrifice before God. And
he split them open, and he took under him all

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these and divided them in the midst, and laid each
piece one against another. But the birds divided he not,
And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram
drove them away. And when the sun was going down,
a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and lo a horror

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of great darkness fell upon him, and he said, unto Abram,
God said, on Abram, know of a surety that thy
seed shall be a stranger in a land that is
not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict
them for four hundred years. And also that nation whom
they shall serve, will I judge, And afterwards shall they

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come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to
thy fathers in peace. Thou shalt be buried in a
good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall
come hither again. For the iniquity of the Amorites is
not yet full. And it came to pass that when
the sun went down and it was dark, behold a

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smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
And in the same day the Lord made a covenant
with Abram, saying, unto thy seed, have I given this
land from the rivers of Egypt, unto the great river
of the Euphrates. This is God entering into a contract

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with Abram. There's so much I want you to see
about this. There's a big hint that you begin to
understand about God. Number One, God is proactive, not reactive.
He has determined the end from the beginning. He's not
making up the script as he goes. He's not going
through the year and saying, wonder what I'm gonna do

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next year. I'm not sure about five years from now,
what's gonna happen four one hundred years from now. He's
already gotten the plan laid out. He's just sharing the
plan with Abram because Abram is getting old, and Abram
has seen part of the fulfillment of the promise, but
not all of the fulfillment of the promise. And he

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needs to know that God's work will last longer than him.
Now watch the language, because there's some hints in here
that are very important. Number One, in order for him
to get the secret of the future, he had to sacrifice.
Sacrifice is important. So God told him to take a
Heffer the three years old, a shigo the three years old,

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a Ram of three years old, and eternal love, and
a young pigeon. And he took under him all these
and divided them in the midst and laid each piece
one against another. But the birds divided, he not, And
when the fowls came upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
It's very interesting there there are all these dead animals

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are spread out. This is a massacre. Three of this
and three of that, and three of the other. Twelve
different types of splitts, and then the two turtle doves.
He's laid them all out. Then the two pigeons, and
he didn't split the pigeons, he didn't split the turtle doves.
But everything else is split into it later. Can you
imagine the blood? Can you imagine the blood? These are

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living animals that have been sacrificed, split into separated one
from the other, leaving an owl in the middle. There's
blood absolutely everywhere. And so you see the birds coming down,
and the birds are coming. The fowls are coming down
on the carcass. He says, no doubt, vultures or some

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other type of carnivorous type bird is flying down, and
Abram is fanning them away all day long. He's fanning
them away. He's fanning them away like Rism. If you
remember Risma fanned away the buzzards from eating up her
sons who were hung in the Bible. He's fanning them

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away like that. But God puts him to sleep. Why
do I get out of that? Abram's working. Abram's working.
Abraham is a patriarch of faith. Abraham has stepped into
the grace of God. It will not be by works

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lest any man should boast. Abraham will not get to
brag about this and say had fanned all the fowls away,
they would have eating up this sacrifice. I wouldn't have
this contract with God. God put him to sleep, because
this battle belongs to God. Some of you are work
in real heart, trying to keep something together that you

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have to turn it over to God and let God
do it. I told some of our staff the other day,
I said, in these two months that we have been
shut down and we've been streaming online, it's been amazing
to see how much of what we were doing God
didn't need. God can do whatever he wants to do.
He can do it on camera. He can do it

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on the screen. He can do it in your house,
he can do it in the sanctuary. He can use you,
he cannot use you.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
He's God. He's still in control.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
And as much as we want to help, and as
much as we want to be a blessing, and as
much as we want to fan away all the buzzs
that are coming against what we perceive to be our work,
our labor, our house, our ministry, our job, our car,
our kids, it is vain. The Bible said for you
to rise up early and lay down late at night.

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The Lord giveth his beloved sleep. This battle is not yours.
It belongs to God. And Abraham went into a sleep.
But that is not what got me the most. It's
one thing to say that he went into a sleep
when the sun went down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram,
and low, a horror of a darkness fell upon him.

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It almost sounds like he's gone, like he's dead. I
mean a horror for the Bible to say it was
a deep sleep.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
And a horror, and a horror.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Fell upon him. And when he was completely out of
the way, that's when God took over and started talking
to him. Wow, when he couldn't hear, when he wasn't working,
when he wasn't swinging, God started talking. Are we too busy?

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Are we so busy fanning away the buzzers and protecting
ourselves and fainting off the fight the haters and responding
to the critics and doing this and doing that? And
if you said that, I heard that, We said, are
we too busy trying to do stuff?

Speaker 2 (14:58):
That if we would just rest in.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
The Lord, would he not speak to us and reveal
to us his plan? Rather than us protecting our sacrifice.
Sometimes we're so busy protecting what we got in it
that we don't even understand what God has for us.
This is not about what Abraham has in it. This
is about what God has for him. The cost of

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a mission was sacrifice. But he could not pay for
the word of God. He could not protect the word
of God. God put him to sleep so the blessing
would break out in his life. This is gonna get good.
And he said, Abram, know of a surety that thy
seed shall be a stranger in a land that is
not there. Now he starts out, telling Abram, I have

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given you this land, But after you're gone, somebody something's
gonna happen. You're gonna have to leave this land and
your children, your seed will be a stranger in a
land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and
they shall afflict them four hundred years. Listen very closely

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at these words. They're going to go through a period
of digression. Just because God is in your life, and
just because you have a covenant, and just because you
have a contract, just because God's given an oath doesn't
mean that you don't go through a period of digression,
but don't allow the digression to become so entrenched in

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your spirit that you believe that the digression is your destiny.
It might be a setback, but it's a set up
for a comeback. You have to understand that it might
be a setback, but it's a setup for a comeback.
Sometimes God has to give you a setback to redirect you,

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to shift you, to change you, to prepare you, or
it or those around you for what He's about to
do in your life. And that's how you prove that
He's Lord in your life, not just when things are
going up, but when things are going down. He said,
I'm gonna send your children into a land that is
not theirs. They're gonna be afflicted while they're there. They're

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gonna stay there, not for the weekend, not for a month,
not for a year. They're gonna be there four hundred years.
But afterwards they're gonna come out with great substance. Now
he doesn't name what land it is right in this
particular text, but he's talking about Egypt. Has to be
tought about Egypt, no question about it. Has to be
talking about Egypt. Abram goes to sleep literally right now,

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he sleep spiritually. Ultimately he's gonna be sleep dead, and
when he dies. He said, this is what's gonna happen
after you die, so that when you get ready to die,
you will already know how things are gonna go. Look
at God sharing secrets with Abram, and it's important for

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you to understand the power of those secrets. If you
go to Psalms twenty five one through fourteen. I'm gonna
come back to this in a minute. But if you
go to Psalms twenty five fourteen, the Bible says, a
secret of the Lord is with them that fear him,
and he shall show them his covenant. Do not know
when you fear that means be scared of means to

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reverence God. When you respect God, when you honor him,
he will let you know secrets. A secret of the
Lord is with them that fear him.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
He called Abram friend, He let Abram in.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
You remember in the Gospel of John chapter fifteen, when
God said his fourth I call you no longer service,
but I call you friends. For a servant knoweth not
what his master doeth. A servant knoweth not what his
master doeth. One of the signs that you know that
you're a friend of God is that he starts to
let you in on secrets, and he let Abraham in

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on a secret, because a secret of the Lord is
with them that fear him, and he'll show them his covenant.
That doesn't mean for you to tell everybody, because sometimes
when you tell people what God told you, they'll try
to kill you for it. Ask Joseph. They'll try to
destroy you for it. But that doesn't mean that God

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won't still bring it to pass in your life. But
you might save yourself being thrown in a pit and
spending some time in Potiphar's house, sold to the Midianites,
lied on put in jail, and you might be able
to go right to the palace if you didn't tell
all your business all the time. The secret. There's a
reason they call it a secret. The secret of the

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Lord is with him to fear him, and he should
show them his covenant. Let's go back to Genesis for
just a minute, and thou shalt go to thy fathers
in peace. Right after he told him that your great
great great great grandchildren are gonna come out of everything.
I took him through with great substance. And you need
to underline that verse, because God doesn't take you through
tough times, not for you to come out of it

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with nothing. If God sol fit to take you and
sojourn you in a strange place and make you subservient,
and take you through tests and trials, it means that
afterwards you're gonna come out with great substance. That's what
he promised them. And thou shall go to thy fathers
in peace. Thou should be buried in a good old age.

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But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again,
for the iniquity of the amirits is not yet full.
He said. In the fourth generation, they're gonna come back
into what you're in right now. So when Abra was
offering up that sacrifice, it wasn't just for him. It
was for his descendants. It was a deed of trust

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for this property. It was ownership, it was a contract,
it was an investment. And Abraham was setting his descendants
up there. Oh God, there's some things that God has
put in your spirit, visions, ideas, concepts, business companies that
are gonna set you your great great grandchildren up. I
just don't know who I'm talking to, but I believe

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I'm talking real good, right now. There are some moves
that you're making right now. It's bigger than you. It's
bigger than your retirement. It's bigger than when you get old.
It's bigger than the college's education for the kids. It's
changing the trajectory of your family. It's breaking generational curses.
It's turning things around in your life, lining things up

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so that they can function different. There's a reason God
moved you from where you were. There's a reason God
is shifting you from where you want it to be.
There's a reason God puts you in a new atmosphere,
exposed you to new ideas. It's not just about you,
it's not just about the paycheck. It's for your children
and for your children's children. Who knows if he'd ha

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stayed where he was, whether he'd have had any children
or not. Maybe they would have been killed, maybe they
would have been destroyed. When God does something, he doesn't
because it fits into his plan and into his purpose.
For we know that all things work together, all of
them work together for the good of them that love
the Lord, who are the called according to His purpose.

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All things, the good and the bad, the shifting and
the uncertainty, and the discomfort and the emotional turmoil. It's
all gonna work together for the good of them that
love the Lord, who are the called accordingons purpose. I
hope you getting that in your spirit. I hope you
get in your spirit that God is up to something good.
I hope I can teach well enough to drive the

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dark clouds away over your life, and that ominous feeling
that you keep having when you lay down at night,
and that discomfort you have, and that indigestion and that anxiety,
and those rashes and that breathing disorder that keeps coming
from you. I hope that the faith of God's word
would give you the kind of confidence that it's gonna
work together for the good and for your children, and

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for your grandchildren and for your great great grandchildren. Oh
my God, you should see how many people are sitting
in this chair.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
It's one of this chair. Don't fall over in the flot.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
My father is sitting here, my mother is sitting here,
my grandparents are sitting here, my great great grandparents who
were slaves are all sitting here. I am the sum
total of all of them. The things that they fought
for I inherited. I reaped the blessings of the people
who went on before me, and so showed my children
and my children's children's children walking into new doors and

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dimensions only because we came first. And it's true about you.
You don't know that sometimes the enemy isn't fighting you
about you. He might be fighting you over what's gonna
happen in your daughter, in your son. He may be
fighting them over what they're about to inherit. The enemy
knows that God has a plan. God has a plan.

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This is a four hundred years strategy. Some of you
don't have a four day strategy. God has a four
hundred years strategy of how things are gonna work out.
Nothing surprised him. Oh, you don't know what happened to
me when I got into Egypt. Lord, it didn't go right.
It started out good. It was good for about the

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first thirty years, but then after that all hell broke
loose and we ended up in label.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
He knows all about it.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
But afterwards, afterwards, you're gonna come out with great substance.
Paul says, in this way, these light afflictions, which are
but for a moment, work for us a far more
exceeding weight of glory. For we look not at the
things that are seen. For the things that are seen
are temporal. The things that are not seeing are eternal.

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Let's go deeper with that. The things that are seen
are sensual. They appeal to our senses. I can see it,
I can smell it, I can hear it, I can
touch it. The things that we look not at the
things that are seen, For the things that are sensual
are temporal. The things that are spiritual, Aurie. So while

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you're praying about all this sensual stuff, God is bringing
about a spiritual thing that's going to outweigh every sensual thing.
There's a difference between sensual and sensual. Every sensual thing.
Everything your eyes have seen, your ears have heard, have
not even begin to imagine what God has in store
for them that love him. But it have been revealed

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unto us by his spirit. God's spirit has got a
plan in place for your life. Stop stressing, go to bed,
stop stressing, be at peace. God's got this. He put
Abram in a deep sleep. I want to go back
to that deep sleep. He put him in a deep
sleep to say I don't need you. I'm gonna do

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this without you. That means that this is a covenant,
but it's not a bilateral covenant, because a bilateral covenant
would be between two people. It is a unilateral covenant.
It is God in covenant with himself, and we become
the recipient of a covenant we had nothing to do with.
Abraham was sleep and God was still putting together promises

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for him and his children and his grandchildren. My wife
and I did his state planning. We did a whell.
We set a wheel in place. Or if something happens
to me and they say I didn't have a wheel,
they lied.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
I do.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
I have a will. I have a state planning. I
left things to my children, to my grandchildren, to my family.
But they weren't there. They weren't there when I made
the will. They weren't there when I made the decisions.
They didn't sign the wheel. I signed the wheel. They
become the recipients of a will that they weren't even

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there when it was ratified. That's what it means to
be an heir, an air of salvation and purchase of God.
You weren't there two thousand years ago when Christ was
crucified on the cross, but you inherited it. You're an
air of salvation. You've been by God, You've been born
of his spirit, You've been washed in his blood. This

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is my story. This is my soul, praising my Savior
all the day long. Let me read on. And it
came to pass that when the sun went down and
it was dark, the hole of smoking furnace and a
burning lamb that passed between those pieces, that smoking furnace
and that burning lamb is God in covenant with himself.
It was the custom of the times that if we

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were to do a deed of trust, we would split
these animals, and you and I would walk through the
blood and swear that we were going to transfer the deed.
God walked through it by himself. Abraham becomes the recipient
of a covenant that he never walked through. Oh this
is heavy, but this is some good stuff. You have
to understand. Salvation is of the Lord. Healing is of

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the Lord, the blessing is of the Lord. Deliverances of
the Lord, increases of the Lord. You don't have anything
to do with it. Take all that air out of
your chest. Stop looking down your nose at people wherever
you got. You didn't do it yourself. God walked through this.
You became the recipient of something for which you did
not labor. I will give you houses you didn't build.

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I will give you vineyards that you didn't grow. You
can't take credit for the blessing. I am God, and
I am going to do it for you. In that
same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
unto thy seed, have I given this land from the
river of Egypt, unto the great river, the river you

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phratese And Abraham's going. You know why I sleep because
it's not by works less any man should boast. It
is by the grace of God through faith. That's why
I sleep. That's why God does things about you without you,

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so that you can't take credit for it. That's why
God didn't let it a rich uncle die and give
you the money. He couldn't take credit for it. That's
why God didn't want your friends to meet your needs
so that you get up and pray service and praise them.
This is God's doing. You have a covenant with God.

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A covenant is a contract. It's a contract. It's important
that you understand that you have a contract with God
that affects your children and your children's children. And Abram
will sleep. He wasn't fanning away buzzards. He didn't earn it,
he didn't work for it. He just received it. He

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is an heir. It is a unilateral contract of which
Abram is the recipient. That's why in the New Testament,
when you get in the New Testament and the apostles
are laying hands on people and they keep saying, receive
ye the holy ghosts, receive ye, the Holy ghost, Receive ye,
the Holy ghost. Because when you're in an error, all

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you have to do is re receive hallylujah. You don't
have to fan any buzzers, you don't have to beg
for it. You don't have to work for it. Receive you.
That's why when Jesus was walking around and he found
the lame Man, he said, wilt thou be made whole.
You don't have to work for it. All you have
to do is receive it. There are some things that
God wants you to receive, that your mind and your

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flesh and your will. He said, oh no, I'm not ready.
I don't deserve it. I didn't earn it. I didn't
work for it. I can't do that. I haven't been
trained for it. Da God didn't ask you anything about
your degree. He said, receive it, my God. If you
get that and I don't teach another word tonight, If

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you just get that and you never hear me again,
you could live the rest of your life off of
that word right there. Receive it. Receive it. Receive what
God has for you. Receive the blessing. Stop doubting and
stop questioning it, stop pushing people away. Receive it. Receive

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about of life. Receive peace, Receive joy, Receive wholeness. Receive
a sound mind. You don't have to earn it. Stop
trying to think yourself into it. Make yourself do it.
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. Just receive it.
You're the benefactor. You're the beneficiary of a covenant, the recipient.

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If something happens to me right now, my kids don't
know what I left to them. But the lawyer's gonna
call them on the phone and call them down to
the office and say, he left you this, and he
left you that, and he left that well to this
one and that to this one. All they have to
do is you got it, receive it. And when Jesus
died on the cross and usher it in the New Testament,

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which it's a new covenant. All you have to do
is receive it. Will you receive it? Will you receive
a better life for yourself? Will you receive it? Will
you receive joy and contentment and peace and power? Will

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you receive prosperity? Or do you think that's for them?
And that's for those people next door, and that's for
those people over there, and that's for those good people
over here, And that's for it.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
No no, no, no, no no no no no no.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Abraam, receive it. You sleep through it. I'm gonna give
it to you and to your children, to your crazy
great great grandchildren. They're gonna be the benefactors of something
that they didn't even hear the contract, but they're gonna
receive the benefit of it. That's what he's saying here.

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He's saying, I'm gonna give you such a blessing that
it's too big for you to receive. It's gonna have
to pass down to your descendants. Can you imagine God
giving you a blessing so big that you didn't have
room to receive it, and it had to pass down
to your descendants. And despite all the trouble they went
through and inspite all the tr you went through, God

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still brought it to pass. Doesn't that make you want
to jump up and shout? Doesn't that make you want
to say, I am the Seed of Abraham. Doesn't that
make you want to rejoice in the God of your salvation?
It does if you receive it. It doesn't if you
don't believe it. It doesn't do a thing for you.
If you don't believe it. It won't lift you up

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one hour. If you don't believe it, you can click
me right off. If you don't believe it, you can
go on to watch TV. If you don't believe it,
you can walk away from the screen if you don't
believe it. But if you believe it, and if you
receive it, the stuff I'm talking about, it's the stuff
that makes champions and makes kings, and makes warriors and
makes people victorious. If you receive it, it's yours. Abraham

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woke up rich. He woke up to everything. He woke
up to land that wasn't his before. He woke up
with a clear blueprint for his destiny. He woke up
with it. And sometimes I think that's better than stuff.
He woke up with an understanding it all. Not getting
get an understanding. To wake up with an understanding is

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a big deal, because his life is crazy and it's
weird and strange. Stuff happens, and sometimes you don't know
what's gonna happen next, and that uncertainty is stressful. But
Abraham didn't wake up with no uncertainty. He woke up
with the surety. He woke up with an assurance. He
woke up with an understanding. Nothing good or bad surprised

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him because he had been with God. If you've been
with God, he'll let you know some things. He'll let
you know. There's some parents out there. You already know
some things your children are gonna go through. You already
know it. You can see it coming down the track.
Hadn't happened yet, but you already know it. You look
at your grandkid, lot Hoody, Booty's so cute, little blessed

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little heart. But you already can tell certain little things already,
you already know it. Abraham woke up with a knowing.
Oh God, let me have a knowing. Let me have
an understanding. Let me have a sense of what you
have in store for me, so I don't waste time
in years and decades of my life fanning away stuff

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that don't matter. Avram was busy fanning away things that
had nothing to do with his destiny. Not one of
those fowls he was swinging at could stop the Covenant
of God from coming to pass. And I want you
to hear me today, because sometimes we're putting our energy

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in the wrong place. We're so busy trying to fan
away what doesn't matter that we miss what does matter.
And God said, go to bed, not only go to bed,
go to sleep, not only go to sleep, go to
a deep sleep. Because I don't need your talent. I
don't need your skill. I don't need your friends, I
don't need your contact. I don't need your degree, I

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don't need your education. I don't need anything you thought
I needed to bless you. When I get ready to
bless you, I will bless you anyway. I cannot tell
you how many people came up who could sing better
than other people, who became world renowned singers. And I
hear them singing and doing the albums and doing projects

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in our post stage, and everybody's screaming, and there's I
know people back her frying fish in the back of
a church would sing you under the table, And I say, Lord,
how did you put her on stage? And this woman
back here frying? This catfish could sing the paint off
the wall. And the answer is this not by might
nor by power, but it's by my spirit, say of

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the Lord, I bring up one and I take down another.
It's not your talent, it's not your intellect, it's not
your pedigree, your background, it's none of that. It is
the sovereignty of God. That's what controls the whole thing.
And God is made a covenant, and he'll make bad

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sound good. He'll make weak sound strong. He'll make poor
look rich. When God gets ready to bless you, he'll
change the ear of the hearer the eyes of the beholder.
When God's got something for you, he'll make them choose
you because He's sovereigned. Will you receive it? Will you
receive it right now? Can you receive it in the

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middle of a pandemic? Can you receive it without a job?
Can you receive it without a husband? Can you receive
it without a wife? Can you receive it without credentials?
Can you receive it without any times of it? Can
you just receive it? Can you just wake up and
receive it. Can you wake up and receive it without
arguing and saying, Lord, i'm gonna need some proof and
i'm gonna need some times, and I need no Can

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you just

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Receive it