Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts - Walk It Out Wednesday Love Steps In

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, family, welcome to the house. We're so glad you're here,
and we are excited about this word that you are
getting ready to receive. It's going to bless you and
change your life. And when God speaks to you and
it resonates very deeply, and there's a promise maybe something
that you've been praying for it and believe in God
for I want you to sew a seed.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Absolutely whenever God meets me. I make it my personal
commitment to so a seed to build an altar. When
there's something in that message that you know the light
turns on, or it deals with something that you have
been struggling with. There is something about having this practical
manifestation of that response of what God just said to
you and for me, that comes when I sow a seed.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
We love you, God, bless you. Watch it to the
end and then share this message with somebody. It's going
to change your life and hopefully many others.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
And I'm really excited about the opportunity to revisit the
message that God gave me on Sunday. And I've got
questions and let's start with prayer. Holy Spirit. I need you,
I love you. I can do nothing without you, and
I can do anything with you.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
So meet me.

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God, give me wisdom, give me prophecy, give me revelation,
give me strategy. Help me to not be nervous, to
show up in authenticity, that I may serve these your
great people, God open their hearts, that the damn that
has kept your love from flowing would be removed in
Jesus' name, and that they would walk out of this
place with an overwhelming sense of your love, your peace,

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your presence constantly with them in Jesus' name, I pray.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Okay, So I haven't done a walk it out Wednesday before,
so I know it's very lose, very casual, and so
I brought my laptop because as I was looking at
some of the questions and I just scanned them, I
didn't get a chance to really dig into them. But
I got all of my studies software and my Bible
and my tools, and so we're gonna walk it out
together and get answers together.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
So I'm gonna give you a little recap of the
message just in case you weren't here.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
On Sunday.

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Sunday, I preached a message called Love Steps In, Love
Steps In, and the premise of this message began with
the reality that the human experience means that we are
you've heard it before, products of our environment, right, and
so our output. Who we become, our behaviors, our thoughts,

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our actions are often directly correlated to the environment in
which we grew up in.

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So when we.

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Start talking about wanting to change our output, wanting to
change how we show up in the world, we can't
just focus on I want to change the output without
first taking inventory of what created me.

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We talk about being made in the en of God.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Before I came to the faith of believing that I
was made in the image of God, I was made
in the image of a lot of things. If we
had testimony service in this room, some of us would
be honest enough to say, I've been made in the
image of shame. I've been made in the image of abandonment.
I've been made in the image of rejection. So to
come to a place where we say I believe I

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made in the image of God is a faith move.

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Oh, that's a faith move.

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It is a decision to believe that I was created
when before I formed you in your mother's room. As
a scripture in Jeremiah that we often quote. It is
to say, I believe that before I took my first breath,
that I started in heaven, and when I started in heaven,
that God breathed the breath of life inside of me
and said, I'm going to send you to Earth, and

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I want you to look just like me on earth.
That was the goal when he created humanity from the
dust of the earth.

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He says, I want you to look like me.

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I want you to be fruitful and to multiply and
to have dominion. That is God's design for humanity. We
were supposed to be made in the image of God.
And then we see Eve. You know, Sis was hungry
and she eats from the fruit, and then she gives

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the fruit to Adam and sin has.

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Entered the world.

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Why is it important for us to recognize the implications
of sin? And if you grew up in church like
I did, you know nobody wants to sin. Nobody wants
to sin, but we don't really talk about the issue
with sin. Sin creates separation between.

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Us and God.

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So I was made in the image of God, but
sin got in the way. Sometimes it wasn't even our
sin because we're born into a fallen world. Now now
someone else is sin God in the way. Generational sin
got in the way, and then I put my sin.

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In front of it.

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And then when I was made in the image of God,
there's this distance that keeps getting created.

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Because of sin.

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But love steps in when we enter into the New
Testament and we hear about this man named Jesus.

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John three point sixteen tells.

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Us, for God so loved the world that he gave
his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall
not perish. What part of them is perishing, The part
of them that was made in the image of God
is perishing. Their lives are perishing. But if they believe
in Jesus, they will be saved from perishing.

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They will have everlasting life. That means that I got
a home in heaven for sure.

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But also I have life here that I haven't tapped
into yet.

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Ooh, that feels good to me.

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There's a life here I haven't tapped into yet, because
I've been made in the image of all of the
things that happened to me, made in the image of
what my parents could or could not do, made in
the image of my industry. Some of us are working
in fields and industry where sometimes greeds, sometimes betrayal is
just the norm. And we look up and we have

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been made in the image of our industry instead of
being made in the image of God. But Jesus comes
in whosoever believes me. If you believe in Me, then
you shall not parshall have everlasting life. And so Jesus
say is they need a model, They need an example.
They need to understand what it looks like to be
made in the image of God, but navigating.

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The real world with real haters.

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And real temptation and real potential. I want to show
them how to do this. I want to show them
what their spirit needs to look like. I want to
show them what their language needs to look like. I
want to show them the heart posture they must possess
for real success.

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Oh goodness.

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So when I study scripture and I'm looking at the
life of Jesus, I'm looking at a model of how
I should be showing up in the world. Let's turn
to Matthew. I want to look at the beatitudes because
whenever I look at the beatitudes, I be having an attitude.
Because Baby, by time I get finished looking at what

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I'm supposed to be looking like.

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I struggle.

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I'm gonna start with you. I'm gonna start with forty
three Matthew five and forty three. And if you read
all of it, this is determined on the mount. There's
plenty of things here. So if we look at it
like Jesus is my example, this is what I'm supposed
to look like. This is how I'm supposed to show
up in the world, Matthew five.

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And forty three says, Jesus says this.

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You have heard that it was said you shall love
your neighbor and hate your enemy. How many have heard that?
That's in the culture right now. Love those who love you,
hate those who hate you. And we have accepted that
as truth. But Jesus says, I'm about to flip the
script on that. Instead of you loving those who love

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you and hating those who and hating your enemies, I
say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you,
do good to those who hate you, and pray for
those who spitefully use you.

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And persecute you. Pause.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Right there, I made in the image of God. Jesus
is my example.

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You're telling me that instead of going off on people huh.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
You're telling me, instead of holding people accountable for the
way that they did me, that I'm supposed to bless
them and not the way y'all say God bless people
in Texas. If you're watching online and you've never heard
a person from Texas say God bless you, you want
to make sure that you haven't offended them. People in
Textas will say bless your heart. They don't mean bless
your heart. They don't mean it like that. They mean

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get your heart out of here, for I have to
deal with your hearts. But Jesus is for real and
real life. I want you to be in a place
where you can bless those who curse you, where you're
not wishing that the same thing they did, of revenge
and karmen, all of these ways of the world that

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we use in our vendettas against other people, that we're
supposed to be in a place where we say bless
those who curse you. Our job is to be made
in the image of God. And what I was noticing
when I was studying for my message on Sunday, and
I'm gonna get to you the questions, but I just
want to lay this foundation for the message is that
many of us don't mind saying, you know what, I

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want the power of God. So I'm gonna study Jesus
because I want to know how to cast out devils.
And I want the wisdom and the authority of God.
So I'm gonna study Jesus so I can recognize how
to show up in powerful spaces. I want the intentionality
of God. So I'm gonna study Jesus to see how
Jesus was about his mission. I do not often hear

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people say I want to learn to love like God.

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Jesus on the cross and he says, forgive them, Father,
for they know not what they do.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Man. And so this message for me, especially coming off
with Pet's message where he talked about the love of
many growing cold, was me really trying to take the
time to examine what happens in our love, where it
goes cold, where it waxes cold, what happens to our love?
And so I use the example of Peter and Jesus

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comes up to Peter, and Jesus.

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Says to Peter, do you love me? And he says, yes,
I love.

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You, know I love you. He goes tend to my sheep,
feed my sheep, and that word that Jesus is using,
that word a gope that is translated love most of
us know is agape love. But I want to show
you the translation in the Greek. They're gonna put it
on the screen for me. The translation in the Greek
of the word love is coming up.

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Boom shacko laca. It says.

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That definition of love is affection or benevolence, especially a
love feast, charity, dear love. That means that when Jesus
is saying do you love me?

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Do you have affection? Do you have benevolence.

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There's a word that was actually highlighted in the text
that I sent.

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If you could pull it up.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's from a root word that means I can pull
it up on my phone if you guys don't have it.
I literally sent this on my way in, and I
know our team may not. They put it in a
graphic because if you would have seen what I sent over,
it didn't look nearly as professional and beautiful.

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But I love the Potter's House because they do things
so well.

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Amen. Okay, I'm pulling it up. This why I have
my laptop up here. Okay, So it comes from a
Greek word to love or to be love. So Jesus
is asking Peter, can you be love? And when you
hear anyone talk about a gode love they're talking, they
say it's unconditional love. And what I noticed in studying

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for this text is that unconditional love sometimes when we
use this, it's like, can you love someone without any conditions?
Where they can do whatever and you're still able to
love them? And I want to say this, loving someone
and having boundaries are two different things.

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I want to be clear about that.

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Jesus loved Peter, but when Peter started trying to keep
him from going to the cross, he says, get behind me, Satan,
for you are mindful of the things of men, not
the things of God. You can love someone and still
have boundaries. As a matter of fact, sometimes the only
way that you can love someone unconditionally is if you
have boundaries. I want to love you good, So we

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need distance. And so he asked him over and over
again about this a godfe love, and he finally gets
to a point where he takes on a different definition
of that word love, which means filea, which is a
brotherly love of more like connection. And it spoke to
me that God will meet us where we are, whatever
our definition currently is right. Because everyone has a different

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definition of love. I believe that's why it's so difficult
for us to come to a place of agreement on
what it means to re experience God's love.

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And to give love.

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My father and I were talking today and he was
talking about for him, love was provision and protection, and
I felt like love was present. So when he wasn't present,
I didn't think that he loved me the way that
I needed to be loved. But because love has different expressions,
if we're going to experience God's love, we have to
recognize that God's love has different expressions in different seasons.

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Oh.

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Sometimes God's love is him providing for you, and sometimes
God's love is him comforting you.

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If you look at the beginning.

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Of Matthew five, it says, Blessed are those who mourn,
for they shall be comforted. Sometimes the love of God
is comforting you. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst
for righteouness, for they shall be Sometimes God's love is
him filling you up. And so the question is never
does God love me? The question is God, how am.

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I experiencing your love.

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In this season, Oh Man, when Peter, Jesus tells Peter
that Satan has asked for him to me love is like,
if say't ask about me, you don't know me.

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You know what I'm saying. Jesus like, but that's not
what he says.

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He says, I've prayed for you that your faith wouldn't
fail you. So sometimes love is saving you, but sometimes
love is preparing you before you walk into the storm.
Sometimes love stops the storm. Sometimes love tells you to
be steady in the storm because the storm can't cease.
And I want you to know that this is what

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I have come to believe about God. That God does
not allow us to go through laws or separation or
pain that he cannot in some way restore. And this
goes back to that definition of restoration. Sometimes it's not
getting the things back right. Restoration is my soul being restored,

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my spirit being restored. God doesn't allow things to happen
to me where his presence, his spirit, and his love
can't restore me. So that's like a little bit of
a recap of the message. But you can go back
on Sunday and check it, or go back on YouTube
and check it out if you'd like to. But the
first question I got was from Genevieve, and Genevieve wants

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to know how to change my input if the only
thing that was put in me is all negative. Okay,
I know, because everybody's here and we just get to
know each other that nobody wants to admit that. That's
kind of part of their little question as well. But
if you just put up a church finger for me,
just so I know we in the right. Can anyone

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relate to Genevieve's question?

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Amen?

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Okay, that is something that many of us want to know.
If my environment hasn't been healthy, if I have, I
haven't been exposed to healthy definitions of love, divine definitions
of love. How do I change my input? This is
where I go back to this belief, this faith that
I was made in the image of God. The reason

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why you need faith to believe this is because when
you worship, when you study, when you're in scripture, you
are changing your input.

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Fem a help coming.

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If the only time you experience the presence of God
is when you're in a room like this, you are
missing out on the fullness of God.

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What God does in this.

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Room is just a morsel of what God can do
throughout your life. The presence of God is never far
away from us. It's never just somewhere where we have
to go and access it. It is an awareness that
we must possess, and when we bring ourselves into the
consciousness of this is an awareness that I am constant

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in the presence of God. But I'm also in the
presence of my doubt. I'm in the presence of my fear,
me in the person of my exiet. Worship is when
I make the decision to only focus on.

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The presence of God.

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And when I make a decision to only focus on
the presence of God, I am already beginning to change
my input. If you think worship is just singing the songs,
you're missing it. You can worship with no music, you
can worship with no microphones, you can worship with no instruments.

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It is when I focus my heart and my mind on.

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The goodness of God where I begin to exalt Him
and to elevate his name and to recognize who He is.
That you put the sea, the fish in the sea,
and the stars in the sky, and yet you put
air in my lungs.

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God I worship you.

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You are a waymaker. You've made a way out of Note.
This is my worship. Worships got to come out of
your mouth, and I want to take it even further.

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Worship should come from your own language.

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You don't have to borrow anybody else's words to worship.

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Give God what you have.

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It may not be an old school church mother, it
may not be something that's gonna win a Grammy, but
if it is.

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From the sincerity of your heart, your way of.

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Saying God, I know who you are. I know that
you're great. I know that you're mighty. I know that
you do miracles. I know who you are, and I
worship who you are. I bow down at your throne.

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There is nobody like you. Lord. I searched all over.
I went to bars and relate.

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I mean I really searched all over, and yet you
were still there. I worship you, I acknowledge you. I
love you, and you love me back.

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How could you love me back? Of all the things
I did?

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You know the thoughts in my head aren't always your
and you still love me. You still want to do
life with me.

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God.

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I worship you, I bow down in humility. You would
want to be in relationship with someone as imperfect as me.
I worship you, and I want to be who I
am in worship all the time. When I'm in worship.

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I don't feel anxiety when I'm in worship. I've had
moments where I felt like I don't know if I
should be here or now. When I'm in worship, those
thoughts can't follow me into worship, and for some of
us it may just be a ten minute break. But
you got to notice, who do I become in worship?

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What bothers me, what conversations can exist in my worship.

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That's who I want to be.

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All of the time, and so I change my input
to match my output.

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So maybe you didn't.

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Maybe you weren't raised in environments where people showed you
good things, where morals and ethics were a part of
the conversation.

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You are not at a deficit.

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Because the Lord will meet you wherever you are, and
if we do.

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This thing right, we'll all end up in the right place.
You know what I mean.

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It doesn't matter where you start, It matters how you finish.
I think Bishop says that all the time. It doesn't
matter where you start your worship accelerates you. Your worship
heals you, Your worship transforms you. One of the scriptures
I used in Second Corinthians talks about how we are
being transformed into the same image as Jesus being transformed

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from glory to glory to glory because we look at
him as if beholding a mirror. So worship is when
I look at God, I look at Jesus, and I
allow what I see to transform me.

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Oh hallelujah.

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My worth, my identity, my idea of love's transformed.

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I'm able to forgive things.

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I never thought I could forgive when I get in worship,
because God reminds me of how He has forgiven me. So,
if you want to change your input, and let me
tell you something, maybe the only thing you saw was
negativity growing up.

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I am telling you the way.

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So many of us just get on autopilot and we
just get to going and going and going. Some of
us are input changes and we don't even realize it.
I wish I had a really good analogy, but I'm
just thinking about, Oh Lord, snow TVs. When you remember
where we had to buy antennas on the television. Y'all
don't want to talk to me today because y'all got

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Hulu and Netflix. But I remember when you went and
put that TV and the man ten is on top
of the TV. Why was y'all putting foil on top
of Who told y'all? Let me tell you, y'all been
in steam a long time. Because who told y'all that
foil was going? It was already silver. What was the
foil gonna do something?

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I don't know?

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And then you would put it on the auto scanner
to see what channels would come up. Then you move
it again to put it on the auto scanner because
you know Channel four should have shown up. It must
be something moved the foil. That's what it's like.

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When we're going through life.

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Sometimes it's like sometimes our input is changing because we're
so busy in the motion of things that I started
off making God my atmosphere. I started off wanting to
be like Jesus. And now I just got stuck, or
I got hurt, or I experienced some type of trauma,
and now I've moved, I've shifted. We're walking with Jesus,

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we're not arriving, and because we're walking with Jesus, you
begin to thank God for conviction, because conviction lets me
know I changed my input. Conviction lets me know I
got off track. Conviction lets me know that I'm doing

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somebody else's work. I'm no longer doing the work of
the Lord. And so we need conviction. Lord, search my
heart because I could think I am okay.

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And I could be absolutely wrong.

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Your faith, your energy, your creativity, your mind could be
hijacked and you not even know it. So if we
are not in relationship with God, where we're making sure
that I've got the right focus, I've got the right mentality,
I've got the right desires, then we could end up
off track and not knowing it. But God is so
good and so gracious that he gives us another chance

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to get on track.

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Okay.

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The next question is from Tatiana. Taitiana wants to know
what can I do to truly change as a person.

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I keep trying.

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I even thought I changed, but after a little while,
I end up going back to being the same. I
think this goes back to keeping God in front of us.
Help me to say it real, good Lord, that it's
not just a religious routine that.

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We're in relationship.

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If we find ourselves in the same situation over and
over again, to ask God to help me to understand
how I keep making this same choice. That means somewhere
in there there's a default setting. And when I feel afraid,
when I feel judged, when I feel this, I do
that God helped me to understand the pattern that exists

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in my life that makes me shift my focus from
being centered around you. And now I'm producing outcomes that
I no longer agree with or no longer want in
my spirit. So if you really want to change as
a person and you keep trying, I want you to
know that there's nothing wrong with you. Because sometimes if
you grew up like I did and you just couldn't
get right, was it the movie life can't get right?

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You gotta can't get right? Spirit on you.

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Everyone's had it, can't get right, spirend on them that
don't let these folks for you. Everybody at one point
in their life has had it. Can't get right. Spread,
I just can't get right. Sometimes you gotta ask God
help me to lose the desire for this thing that
I know is breaking me. You want to get right,
but you still love it, and you can't get right

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if you still love it. But if you say, God,
help me break my heart for what breaks yours. God,
I want deliverance from this thing. You gotta recognize that
that pattern is a war against your identity, that that
pattern is a war against what God wants to do
in your life. That that pattern is quite literally something

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the enemy has planted in your life. And I want
to break covenant with the thing that feels good but
breaks me. When it's all said and done, I don't
want to love you anymore. I don't want to do this.
I don't need an escape anymore. I want to be
like God, and.

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You gotta be real about where you are. God. I
still like it. God, I still love it.

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But God, I want you more than I want that.
So help me to begin to shift my focus. We
talk about that scripture if my people who are called
by my name will humble themselves, But it says you
got to turn from your wicked ways. Sometimes we're asking
for our pattern to change, but we aren't turning.

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The turning is your job. The turning is your job.

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So God, what do I need to turn away from?
How do I need to be transformed? Where do I
need the power of God to break this stronghold? In
my mind, and don't be afraid to ask someone to
pray with you, because can I tell you another thing?

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And I know not everyone has the relationships for this,
so if you don't have it, this is something for
you and God to work out. But there is sometimes
this spirit of pride that keeps us bound. And there
is beauty I'm gonna say it, and accountability and saying

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I can't beat this devil on my own, but where
two or three are gathered, he'll be in the mist.
And I've been trying to beat it by myself. But
I'm asking if someone else can touch and agree with me,
that this stronghold will be broken, that this chain will
be broken off of my mind, that I will be
set free and delivering. If that's you, I want you

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to just pop up. You want someone to touch and
agree with you? Touch and agree.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Come on, somebody, now, we in a room full of believers.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Y'all could wait for me to get to the person
who stood up, or y'all could start touching and agreeing
with them right now. I believe that the curse is broken.
I believe that the stronghold is destroyed. Take a minute
and really touch and agree with them. They want deliverance,
They want the power of God to help them be
free for real. I want you to take ten seconds

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and pray in your own way that the presence of
God would invade their heart and their mind, that they
would begin to experience the freedom that God has for them.
That in the name of Jesus, every stronghold that has
kept them bound, every stronghold that has them repeating patterns.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Will be broken in the name of Jesus.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
And if you have faith, I want you to ask
God for instantaneous deliverance right now in the name of Jesus.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
If you don't know what to pray, just say Jesus.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Because you know what.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Jesus knows how to fix it. Jesus knows how to
cure it. Jesus knows how to break it. Jesus knows
exactly what happened and exactly how to get on the
other side. In the name of Jesus, I am touching
and agreeing that the will of God for your life
will come forth. In the name of Jesus, I am
touching and agreeing that no weapon formed against you will prosper.

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In the name of Jesus, I am touching and agreeed
that you were covered by the blood. You are not
covered by fear, you are not covered by suicidal thoughts,
you are not covered by anxiety. I believe the blood
of Jesus over your life. I ask God to put
a head of protection around your marriage, around your family,

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around your finances, in the name of Jesus, what you
couldn't do in your own strength. I'm asking for a
fresh outpouring up the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit flow like
never before, Holy Spirit released like never before. I believe it,
and I decreate. I believe it in our decreate. Now,

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if you believe God's already beginning to shift the soil
in this room, if you believe that God's already beginning
to s the atmosphere in this room, Let's take a
minute and take it to another level.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
Let's take it to another level, cause it's.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Gonna take the power of God to get it done.
It's gonna take the presence of God for there to
really be breakthrough. Let's take it to another level. And God,
while you're in the room, if there's anything in me
that doesn't.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Look like you.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
I give you full permission to break me out of
patterns of self sabotage, to break me out of patterns
of doubt, to break me out of patterns of rejection,
to break me out of patterns of abandonment. Watch if
you're changing your input, you better watch if.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
You're changing your input.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
And when you change your input, you better believe that
it's gonna change your output.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
You may walk out.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Of this room free. You may walk out of this
room with a new way of thinking. You may walk
kut of this room with a new way of believing.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
God of your Kelly shall flow rivers of living water,
says God. The river's flowing. The river's flowing. The river's flowing.
The river's flowing. The river's flowing. Stir up the.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Gift of God that's on the inside of you. The
river wants to flow in your life like never before.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
The river is flowing. The river is flowing, had Adam,
my secret, Sha, my secret of a river is flowing.
The river is flowing.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
And you shall be like a tree. You shall be
like a tree. God says, I'm gonna root you. I'm
gonna plant you, and you shall be like a tree,
no more being tossed to and fro. God says, I'm
gonna plant you in love.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
I'm gonna plant you in hope. I'm gonna plant you
in peace. I'm gonna plant you in grace. You shall
be like a tree.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
You may have never even saw any trees growing up,
but God says, I'll make you like what you never saw.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
You shall be like a tree.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
And your fruit, your fruit will remain when you let
God do the planting, your.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Fruit will remain. And at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
That's what Tatiyana is asking, is how do I get
to a place where my fruit remains. I gotta be planted,
and sometimes you need a little help getting planted. And
you don't have to do this on your own. You
want to talk about love stepping in. It's opening yourself

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up to the possibility that you were not meant to
figure it out on your own, that I may need
to come into places like this.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
That I You know, you can.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Experience the presence of God on your own, for sure,
But maybe there is something about being in a room
full of other believers that increases my faith, that helps
me to see that the same God that did it
for them can do it for me where I don't
have to do it on my own. Sometimes we miss
out on the way that God wants to allow love
to step into our lives because we insist.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
On doing things on our own.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Don't be afraid to say I need someone to touch
and agree with me. And like I said, if you're
in a season where you're like I don't have anybody,
then I want you to know the Presence will meet
you right where you are. And don't be afraid to
pray those if prayers. Sometimes our faith, we don't know

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if God will meet us where we are. I know
you met me then, but will you meet me here?
Don't be afraid to say, God, if you see me,
if you love me, if you hear me, yourself to me.
Be careful about just asking God to show up by
giving you something.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Just reveal yourself to me. I want to see you.
I want to know you.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
So I can know what's not you. The more you
get to know God, the more you know what's not God.
And I study the Bible because I want to know
what's God. He don't have a history of leaving people,

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He doesn't have a history of condemning and shaming people. Yes,
he holds us accountable. I'm not saying that we won't
have to go through a process of restoration.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
But even if I make my bed in hell, He's
with me. He don't leave me. He sees me to
the other side.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
So if the same God that was doing it in
that book thousands of years years ago, it's still showing
up in people's lives now that maybe I can trust
that He can meet.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Me where I am too.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Amen, Amen, Okay, let's see. I like this, I think,
don't hold on, Let's see because some of these I
feel like we're answering on accident, on purpose. How do
I make what God says about me the end all

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be all? Why doesn't it feel like enough? Because renewing
of our mind takes time. It is a process, and
I think the reason why some of us don't experience
that that planting is because we receive the word from God,
but we don't meditate on it day and night. We
receive the word from God, and then we want to
go out in our own strength without constantly being in

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relationship with God. But that renewing of our mind, it
is a process. And when we recognize that it's a process.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
It will be enough. One.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
I want you to realize that sanctification is a journey,
and that will stress you out because you'll get delivered.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
From one thing, child and God. It'll be like now
that you got that together. I haven't meaning to.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Tell you real raggedy when it comes to something else.
But it keeps us humble, and it keeps us dependent
on God. And so we have to lose out of
our mind the cultural expectation that we will arrive.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Oh, come on, somebody.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
There is a cultural expectation that if we get the degree,
if we get the marriage, if we get the bank account,
then we will arrive. And then we try to apply
that to our relationship with God. And we say, I
said the prayer salvation. Now I have arrived. But then
I'm still in battles and I'm still struggling. And then
we begin to worship and God helps us to overcome us.

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But then God reveals that maybe there's another issue in
our life. We have to learn the beauty of process.
That he begins to work with us and he completes
until the day of Jesus. That means this is going
to be an ongoing process.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Love is a journey. It is not a destination. If
any of you all.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Have had the privilege of having children, you know this firsthand.
You don't even have to have the privilege of having children,
if you have had the privilege of knowing people. Love
is a process, and if we're going to experience God's
love in our different states and conditions, then we have
to be willing to journey with the Lord. So be

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okay with this being a journey, that there may not
be no end all, be all, that there will be
a constant renewing, that there will be a constant God
revealing himself to you and you to him, and him
constantly changing and transforming the way that we show up
in the world. When she said getting God's presence in worship,

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when you say worship, do you mean playing gospel music?

Speaker 3 (38:04):
How do I worship? We talked about, girl.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
I hope you saw that, because worship is so beautiful
and it doesn't require the music. I mean, it's beautiful.
I thank God for our worship team because don't y'all
don't want me up here singing. But you know what,
the beauty of worship is not just when people can
sing right, because anybody can sing. We got people who

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sing everywhere, and they're not singing worship songs. And it's
not just picking the right songs, because there are all
types of songs. Worship leaders, when they are showing up
in the fullness of who they are called to be,
are inviting you to experience their worship. I wish I
think I said that the way I meant it.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
They're inviting you to view what their worship looks like,
and it just.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
So happens that God has given them a gift. But
I grew up going to higher ground all ways. The
bounding assemblies in Columbus, Ohio, and there would be people
who got up there to sing, and they wouldn't necessarily
be going to American Idol, not necessarily, but maybe the
anointing and glory would fall because their worship was an invitation.

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That's what I'm praying for. I'm praying to be so
free in my worship that I'm not worried about how
it sounds to someone else. That my worship is just
so good that I think that anyone who catches it
could be swept into the presence of God. Oh, that
my worship could be the overflow for someone else. So no,
you don't necessarily need the songs you need. Worship is

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a heart posture. It's an awareness and an acknowledgement that
you have to practice. Practice your worship muscle.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
In the car.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
That's my favorite time to worship is I drop the
girls off at school and I get in the car
and that's my time to worship. And you have to
practice it because at first it may feel awkward in
foreign you know, maybe you only have done it in church,
or you've only had it with music, and you've only
had it with singers.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
But to practice what this worship look like.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Take ten minutes, take five minutes, take thirty it'll grow
because let me tell you something, the more that you
experience worship, the more that you want it. I have
to remember sometimes that were supposed to come up here
and do announcements and speak and stuff, because the glory
will hit this place and all I want to do
is just be in the presence of God. Nothing hurts there.
When I'm in the presence of God, everything is clear there.

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But you can practice worship to get that muscle strong,
and you might as well because we practice everything else.
We did everything else multiple times you try to worship.
One time you give up. You say worship is not
for me. But you didn't give up one time on
the one time when the people was doing what they
was doing and you was out there doing.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
What you did. If you caught it, you caught it.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
If you didn't, God bless you and come up here
and preach, because righteousness is your portion. But some of
us tried many things, many times, just to make sure
it wasn't good for us.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
You know, maybe time has changed things. Maybe.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Okay, so you might as well try and worship over
and over again. Okay, here we go. I think I
got time for a few more questions. Oh, I'm gonna
let Pet answer this when PT you ready, Because he
grew up in a Baptist church too, and that's not
my portion. Okay, he said I grew up This question says,
I grew up in a Baptist church. I do not
truly understand being holy and speaking in tongues. I want

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that in my life, but if I don't really understand
what it is, I don't really know what to do
to achieve that holiness. Come on, PT. Yes, I will
say this, Yes, can you give a round of applause. Oh,
Tristan had a microphone for you.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
You thank you.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Well. First of all, we thank God for the Baptist Church.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Let's just start there.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Many of us got our foundation, and if you don't
have a foundation, you ain't got nothing.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
So I'll start there.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Holiness is a really interesting thing that God says, be
holy for I am holy. So if God says be
holy for I am holy, let's talk about what he's
not saying. God has never had sin at all, completely sinny,
not even connected to sin in any type of way

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at all.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
So what he is not saying is be me.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
He's not saying be exactly like me, because that's impossible,
but he is saying to reach for a standard. He's
saying to pursue to be like me, to pursue holiness.
Now God, also Pastor Sarah, talked about process. God also

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understands the reality of process and the process of sanctification,
or the process of becoming.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
The Bible says.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
We are transformed by the renewing of our mind.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
As a man thinks, so is he.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
So there's a connection between how we think and who
we become.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
Notice he doesn't say do holy, he says be holy.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
So we're talking about a being, so as it relates
to you mentioned a couple of things you mentioned be holy,
So hopefully that gives some clarity there.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
And speaking in tongues. Speaking in tongues is different.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
We're talking about an expression of the spirit, which has.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
A number of benefits.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
One of the benefits is you can edify yourself by
praying in your heavenly language. I wish I had about
two hours with you ill really break it down. But
it's for edification. You want to be edified. And so
there are times when I don't know what to pray,
but I know I need something. There are times where

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I may, you know, it might be time to preach,
and and I've studied, and I have prepared, and I've
gone over my thought maps, but I need the Holy Ghost,
and so I'm edifying myself. So a lot of times
with tongues, it comes down.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
To why do you want tongues? Why do you want
to speak in tongues?

Speaker 1 (44:20):
You want to speak in tongues because you feel like
some sort of way that's going to validate who you
are spiritually, right, So forget about the fact that it
edifies you.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
Forget about the fact that when.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
You speak in tongues, you speak mysteries, and sometimes what
God wants to do in the spirit you don't you
don't know. But but there's a breakthrough in the mystery
of speaking in tongue. It's not that, it's I want
to be and that's that's my testimony.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
I want speak in tongue because I wanted to be spiritual.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
I want to be Watch this a Christian elite, because
only the Christian elite speak shah.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
And it never happened.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
And when I gave it up and I said, God,
you know what I want, everything that you have for me,
and I went to pray in English. I went to
pray on the level of my prayer, and I got
on my knees and opened my mouth to pray.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
And tongues flowed.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
So again, to be holy is about understanding that we're
called to become like our God, which necessitates a process worship.
As Pastor Sarah talked about getting the Word of God,
meditating on the Word so that your mind can be
renewed that which will bring about transformation, and tongues is

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an expression of the Holy Spirit. I believe that everyone
has who has the Holy Spirit, has the potential to speak, pray, sing.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
Worship in tongues. Your motivation has to be right.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Ask God for, ask Him for, ask Him why you.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
Should want it, and I believe we'll give it to you.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
A thank you, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Worse, I just landed and came here, and you're gonna
put me on stage with y'all.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
Keep the camera right up here.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Everyone on Zoom understands what it's like to have to
keep the camera up from here. One of the questions
that came through is how do I get my family
to hunger for God's love the way I do?

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Isn't this?

Speaker 2 (46:32):
I think everyone's question right is like God's doing something
in my life in my heart, but maybe it's not
showing up with the same strength that it's showing up
in the lives of other people. I want you to
know that making your mission to convert them maybe challenging.
When it took God to convert you nice, you know
what I mean. Sometimes we can become hyper fixated on

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they gotta get it, they got to get it, that
they got to get it. That we miss out on
the reality that God does things in his perfect timing
and in.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
His perfect will.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
However, I will say this, if you are in their life,
I believe that God has placed a light in their
life because they are in darkness. Whatever their darkness looks like.
So let your light shine brightly. If you want to
make them hungry, show up with God and in God
with so much beauty and so much love and so

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much power that they become curious about how you're showing
up the way that you do.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
How do you have that joy? How do you have
that peace? Didn't you just get bad news.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
I have an anchor in the Lord, and if you
want that anchor to it is available to you. If
you want to make other people hungry, Baby, set the table.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
If you want to.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Make people hungry, live a life that makes them hungry
for what you God, and unlike the world, we don't
have to gate keep. I will tell you in a
heartbeat that the grace of God is all my life.
That goodness and mercy was following me, and I finally
let it catch up with me. And now I look
ten years younger. I'm not stressed anymore. I got peace

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in the middle of the storm because I messed around
and allowed my yoke to become his yoke. And now
my burden feels easier than it actually is. Set the
table with your heart, Set the table with the way
that you show up, and let people become curious about
what God's doing in your life. The only reason why

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I say it to do it this way is because
I think if you're asking this question a lot of times,
your family already knows that you're in relationship with God
because we make it a point to let them know
that they send in and we don't agree.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
I would caution against.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Condemnation, judgment and being critical, and I would challenge you
to ask yourself what does loving kindness look like?

Speaker 3 (48:56):
Because that's the way that God's going to meet them.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
And if God's going to use you as the tool
that leads them, as the bridge that leads them to Him,
you at to look as much like God as you
want them to experience in God. There was one more,
and then I'm going to leave you guys with a
few scriptures that I think will help you on your
love journey. This question says, how do we walk in

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love each day? What does that look like? You know,
when I'm reading about the love of God in the
way that Jesus love shows up in my life, I
end up asking myself and bite sized pieces, what part
of my life doesn't align with what I just read.

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If you're taking notes, I want you to write that
down you're watching online, type it, Type it on the line,
as Bishop would say, type it on the line. What
part of my life doesn't align with what I just read?
And to be honest, there'll probably be many parts, right,
but let's take it one piece at a time. God,

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as it relates to forgiveness, as it relates to meekness, Lord,
I want to experience transformation in this area.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
And then I'm going to.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Ask you to pray this crazy prayer, and that is
to ask God to give you a chance to walk out,
come on, walk it out Wednesday his love in that area.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Now that's a crazy prayer because when you ask God to.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Give you a chance to show to love in the
way that he's able to forgive those who curse him,
and then you ask God for an opportunity to do that,
you may find yourself your default setting. You gotta remember
you got a default setting. But to say, you know, God,
I want you to give me a chance to exercise

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love in this way and then keep your heart open
for the opportunities that you've had throughout the day to
show up in God's love. We reverse engineer that to
go and assess your day at the end of the day, God,
was there anything I did today that didn't.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Reflect your love? And to apologize to correct.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
And when I say apologize, I don't mean the way
you say I'm sorry, Lord, I mean you may have
to go to someone and to demonstrate that level of humility,
because that's how serious you are about walking out that love,
that it's not just taking inner accountability in my relationship
with Lord. That my faith without works is dead. And

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if it's just something that stays between me and God
and never lives outside of me, then it'll.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
Never be my output.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
But if I really want to change my output, And
let me tell you something specifically for people in leadership,
whether you're leading your family, leading teams, that when you
demonstrate the humility that you want to see in your organization,
it gives other people permission to do the same in
your relationship. If that person has a problem apologizing and

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owning their stuff. Not that PT ever experienced that, but
hypothetically speaking, if he did, I had a problem with that,
and I would know I was wrong in my heart,
but saying it out of my mouth was just not
my ministry, you know what I mean? Because but all
of that was connected to my worth and my performance.

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And if I own this, does this mean you change
the way you feel about me? Does this mean I'm
less worthy? And so I had a difficult time owning
my stuff. But when I realized that, I want to
believe that I am more than my performance. I want
to believe that I can make a bad choice and
not be a bad person. I want to believe that.
And so if I truly believe that when I make

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a bad choice, I apolog because I believe that wasn't me.
I believe that I can be better than that. I
believe that I can do better than that. So walking
in love each day requires us to take an opportunity
to ask ourselves, how am I not showing up in love?
How can I show up in love differently? What boundaries
may I need in order to show up in love

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in that way? And so take that inventory. Either ask
God's study scripture, look at the way that Jesus shows up.
There's a few scriptures about love that I wanted to
give you anyway, But look at the way that Jesus
shows up and then ask yourself, you know this is
an area where I know I feel convicted. I know
that my life doesn't align with what is said in
this scripture, and God, I'm asking that you would give

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me deliverance in this area, and.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
God will do it.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
I don't want us to be so heavy on the
process part of our walk with the Lord that we
get to a place where where like, if I'm all,
if I'm always in process, what's the point, Because we
really do graduate. We graduate from one level of broken
and make God may reveal something else, but you can
have mastery over an area where you were once in bondage. Oh,

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you gotta believe this, that God can really deliver you.
I know there is no way in the world that
I would have ever felt like I could be up
here in this role after all that I have gone through,
after all the shame I dealt with, after all of
the identity issues that I possessed. I told myself I
absolutely will not. Then I got pneumonia after we got installed,

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and I said, I wish the devil would I know
that I am supposed to be in that position, and
I cannot be tricked out of it. I cannot experience
enough warfare to make me get off of my square.
The Lord really delivered me from shame. I'm not playing.
I tell my story and I don't cringe about who
I used.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
To be anymore.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
The Lord really delivered me from anger. The Lord really
delivered me from depression. The Lord really delivered me from anxiety.
And I talked to my thing therapists, but I believe
that God used my therapists.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
To really deliver me.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
So if you need to talk to the lady, please
call the lady so that you can actually get deliverance.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
But deliver rents is real church. If you don't hear
nothing else.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
I don't want you to allow the enemy to make
you believe that you gotta stay trapped forever. I don't
care how long you saw someone else be in bondage.
If you hunger and you thirst for righteousness, you will
be feeled. I dare you to get hungry for it.
It is not optional that you be holy to not
give yourself away out make it mandatory. I gotta get

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my heart right, I gotta get my mind right. I
cannot afford to stay addicted. I cannot afford to keep
lying and calling it people pleasing. I cannot afford to
keep manipulating. I cannot afford to keep playing it small.

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I want to be delivered. I want to walk in
real power. I want to walk in real authority.

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So before I ask God for power outside of me, God, let.

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Your power fall in me.

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Break down my walls, break down my strongholds, break down
my chain, my mentality. God fix me from the inside
out so that I can be fortified for the journey ahead.
I hear God saying, and this is a prophetic sound.
I hear God saying, for who you are called to
be in the earth, that it can't just be power

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coming through you. You gotta let power live inside of you.
You gotta know, without a shadow of a death, that
he does miracles, because he did one inside of you.

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You gotta know, without a shadow of it now that He.

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Is still delivering, because he did deliveran sin you. Because
when God releases you into that feel, into that family,
into that industry, you gotta have more than hopes and dreams.
You gotta have evidence that He that began to work
in me. I promise you he did a work in me.
I may not look like what I've been through. But

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if you can see the thoughts that used to live
in my head, and if you can see the shape
my soul used to be in, if you can see
what I used to loan for, if.

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You could see what I used to love for.

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But God did something on the inside of me.

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That changed me.

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I profercide right now, in the name of Jesus, that
where you have made covenant with a weaker version of
who you are, where you have made covenant with who
the enemy says you are, that the power of the
Living God would break that covenant.

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In the name of Jesus, I dare you to get
on the other side of the covenant. You've been acting
like it's optional.

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I hear God saying, insist on it, demands on it.
Let your actions line up with it, Let your words
line up with it.

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It's no longer optional for me.

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I gotta be saved, I gotta be righteous, I gotta
have my head on straight.

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I gotta do it.

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You know why, because the.

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World is depending on me to getting in position. Everything.
God's gonna do it the earth, He's gonna do it
for me. I want him to have full.

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Access to my testimony to my future, to my pression.

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I don't want to be ashamed anymore. I don't want
to be angry anymore.

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God, you can use anything, not just the things.

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I'm proud of.

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But God, use what the enemy cot, use what the
enemy tried to use against me.

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Use what the enemy tried.

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To use against me to go and get somebody who
looks like me out of the stairs up the enemy.

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Are you hungry for it for real?

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Because you gotta be hungry for it for real, because
if the enemy is about like a roaring lion seeking
who he can devour, it means the enemy is hungry
for something too. But you are hungry for hungry for
the things of God. And you can be bait, you

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can be pray, or you can be what the Lord
uses to raise up a standard. I'm telling you, being
apathetic will not work.

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It cannot be optional. It just won't work.

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There may have been a season in your life where
it could be optional.

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It's over these times.

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Come on, Look at the times people are passionate, but
they're not always passionate for the right things. And those
of us who don't trust what we carry, those of
us who don't trust that we can add value.

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Are sitting on the sidelines.

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We're sitting on the bench at a time we're supposed
to be in the game.

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Do you understand everywhere you are.

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Planted matters to God. It may not be where you
want to be, It may not be where you have
dreamed of. But right now, God says, I can use
where you are for what I want to see happen
in you and through you. So to resent where you are,

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to resent who you are, to think that you can't
be used places you in neutral But we got to
move forward. Come on, somebody, in order to establish the
Kingdom of Heaven. We got to move forward. And there's

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nobody who is doing it that can do it like you.
It doesn't matter how good they are. If you are
here on this earth, God says, there someone who can
establish the Kingdom of Heaven in a way that no
one else can do but you. So the question is,

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are you standing in the way of what God wants
to see happen in the earth. Are you letting the
idea that you're behind, that you're not good enough, that
you're not smart enough, stand in the way of what
God wants to do on the earth, or are you
going to be willing to do. And if you're a

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part of this ministry, whether you're here, you're watching online,
I believe that if you're a part of this room,
that what God is allowing you to witness is somebody
stepping into something that they don't know what it's going
to be. You understand, I don't know what it's going
to look like. I don't know if it'll be effective.

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But I really really trust God, and I trust that
God will take my effort, my two fish and five loaves,
that he will break it and bless it and multiply it.
What you have in your hand may not be enough
on your own, but if you trust God with it

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in that high school, with that family, with those students,
You're right, it may not be enough. I'm not gonna
sell you on this Instagram capt of you are enough.

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You're enough. You may not be enough.

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But with God, greater is he that is in you,
then he that is in the world, He will take
your not enough and turn it into more than enough.
And as long as you're counting what you do or
don't have, you're missing out on the opportunity to feed

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those that only you can feed. The whole point of
the message, and I believe that God translated it exactly
the way it needed to be translated for those who
needed to hear. The whole point of the message on
Sunday was not just the way that God's love steps in.
It's that we, as the love of God on earth,
should be stepping into places, stepping into territories, bearing the

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love of God with us everywhere we go.

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But I know that's not always easy.

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And I know life gets hard and life gets complicated,
and in the process of that, our love grows cold.

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But when we get.

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Into the presence of God, the Holy Spirit pours out
God's love into our hearts. But I do think there's
something about knowing that your cup is empty. But sometimes
we don't want to admit. But if we can't admit
our cup is empty, then the love of God can't

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be poured out into that empty space.

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And before we go, I want to pray with you.
Perhaps you're in.

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This room and there's an emptiness in you. Your love
feels like it's grown cold. Maybe you didn't know it
until you receive the language, but you're willing to admit that.

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You know what.

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I'm going to need God's love to do this thing
that in my own strength I don't have enough. My
husband always tells me before I'm getting ready to speak,
and he knows I get nervous and all other things,
and he says, Sarah, just pray that God feels you
with love for the people. Sometimes in the moments where

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we feel like we don't have what it takes, there's
something about being filled with god Love that gives us
the certainty, the steadiness that we need, the weight that
we need to show up in places that are intimidating.

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First, John four.

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Talks about perfect love casting out fear. So when I
start to feel afraid, I ask myself, how could perfect love,
the love that only comes from God, how could that
address what fear I currently have? What would it mean
to be affirmed in God's perfect love in the area
where I'm experiencing fear?

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And that changes me.

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If you're hearing, you just want us to pray with
you because you regularize that you're going to need God's
love for whatever your next is.

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I want you to just get as close to the
altar as you can.

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If you're hearing, you don't know, Jesus, I definitely want
you to come because You're made in the image of God,
but sin gets in the way.

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And when sin gets in the.

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Way, whether it's what we did, someone else's sin, someone
else's falling short, it blocks our view of being.

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Made in the image of God.

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And how can we become what we cannot see? But
Jesus came so that that obstructive view could be cleared.
And to be in relationship with Jesus is to say,
I want to look.

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Like you.

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Yes, I want to everlasting life. Yes I want to
go to Heaven. But more than anything, I want to
look like you on earth so that I can experience
life and life more abundantly.

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PT, will you come pray for me?

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Baby?

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I asked PT to pray because there's something about the
way that you love me that instantly reminded me of
the way that God loves me.

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And I know how much you.

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I love people too, But I really do feel like
one of the gifts God's given p T is love.
We joke about this all the time, but he really
loves himself. He does, and God's really had to reveal

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his love for me to me, and I've accepted it
and embraced it. And part of God's love for me
has certainly shown up in this person. And so I'm
just asking for the overflow of your love to touch
our brothers and sisters here.

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Just scup your hands like you're getting ready to receive
something from God.

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Let's callelujah God.

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Not only do you love us, your word says that
you are love.

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So to have you.

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Is to have true love, mydad, to tell my lies
and perfect love. Your word says that the one who
hasn't matured in love is the one who fears, because
this radical love, when we have a mature understanding of it,

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literally will cast out fear instantaneously. So Father, I thank
you that we are your children. Your thoughts for us
are only good. They're only good for you.

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Said for I know the thoughts.

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That I think toward you, thoughts of peace, peace.

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And not evil, to.

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Give you a future and a hope, and expect it
in so, Father, in the way that only you can do, reveal, manifest,
expose your children to that radical love that's unlike anything else.

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And I believe that the first sign of an encounter
with that love is deliverance from fear, and the second
sign is joy.

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I pray right now that you.

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Would release joy all over this house, all over this room,
Masha Braah, hallelujah. The evidence of freedom is joy. The
evidence of deliverance is joy. Hallelujah, the joy of our salvation,
the joy knowing that we are loved by Papa, and

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He's got plans for us, and they are good plans
and not evil.

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Plans to prosper us and not to harm us.

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We're breathing his air, meaning we're breathing his love. And
nothing will separate us from the love of God. Nothing nothing,
nothing that we have been through, nothing that we have done,
nothing that we have seen, is great enough, strong enough,

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my Sheepha, to separate us from your love. It's impossible,
because there's nothing great enough for strong enough to separate you,
to divide you, to cut you off.

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Even sin did not cut you off. Hallelujah.

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So Father, I pray, do what only you can do,
Do what words can't do.

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Even laying hands can't do.

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Reveal in the hearts and the minds and the depths
of the souls of your sons and daughters the truth
about how you feel about them.

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Now I do rebuke every.

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Lie I come against, and I cast down every thought
that would exhalt attempt to exalt itself against the knowledge
of the truth, the knowledge of Christ, who is the
evidence and the full expression of your love. Do it

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in this place, and I pray that we would never
those watching be a live stream, that we would never
question your love again.

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May Chabra, your.

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Word says that your love roots us and grounds us
in Ephesians three. Being rooted and grounded in love, may
be able to comprehend with all the saints. What is
the length and the depth and the height and the

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width to know the love of Christ, which passes all knowledge.

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That's our prayer. Release it in this house. Let it
settle some things.

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Let it give people vision again, and hope again, and
belief again, and expectation again, and faith again, and the.

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Sense of promise again. Let it arise.

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Let dead things, things that were dead because of the
lie about how you feel. May those things be resurrected
in the name of I feel the holy ghosts.

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May that little boy emerge.

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May that little girl emerge again, strong, victorious, free with
imagination and expectation and belief and faith.

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In Jesus' name.

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And Father, For those who are saying yes to you
for the first time, either here or watching via live stream. Hallelujah,
bless them.

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Wow. What a way to come to faith.

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In the revelation of God's love, not because I'm afraid,
not because I'm going down, but because my God loves me.
What a way to begin the relationship, because it ain't
nothing but a love affair that God started. So I
want all of you to repeat after me, Heavenly Father,

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I thank you for your love.

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I feel it. Heavenly Father. Thank you for the words
that you've spoken to me. I receive them. Heavenly Father.

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I uproot every lie that makes me believe, knowingly or unknowingly.

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That I am not loved by you. I rebuke that lie.

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You love me, You've always loved me, and you always will.
I receive that love. I'm worthy of that love. I
thank you for Jesus. Thank you for making him.

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Who had no sin.

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All of mine, all of my brokenness, all of my mistakes,
all of my fear, all of my insecurity, all of
my anxiety, all of my brokenness, all of my pain,
all of my wounds. You place in his body, nailed

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it to the cross and put it to death.

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And as he was raised up.

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Free and victorious.

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Because I am now in him. I'm raised up too,
and I'm letting go of everything that ain't me. I
leave it in the grave, and I ascend your heel.

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You're not finished with me, and you will.

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Do exceedingly abundantly above all that I can ask or imagine,
because you love me and you're just that good.

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Jesus' name.

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Amen, Amen, Amen. We're gonna worship.

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We're gonna live in the overflow of our worship teams
worship before we go. But I want to create a
space for us to take our tithes and offerings for tonight,
to really sew into what God did in this space.
There's instructions on the screen. We're gonna call this a
love offering. A love offering our way of showing gratitude

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for what God did in this space. If you felt
like God met you and had a word for you,
that met you right where you were, you feel like
this ministry is important. We're going to continue to work
at this ministry.

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I just want to.

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Make sure we sew into this. Oh you know what,
I can text from my computer. I'm gonna get in
on this as well. You know, yes, Oh, there it
is beautiful.

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Listen.

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I say it all the time here at the Potter's House.
We believe in cheerful giving. The y'all y'all must not
mean it or it's too late to be cheerful. We
believe in cheerful giving. Yeah, we give cheerfully because we
just recognize who God is and we're grateful that we

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get to be a part of what God is doing
in the earth and what God is.

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Doing in his kingdom. Instructions are on the screen.

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If you're watching online, I want to invite you to
be a part of this moment of acknowledgement. In scripture,
whenever there was an encounter with God that felt deeply personal,
they would build an altar to say God, I see you,
I hear you, I know what you did in this place.
And that's what this offering represents. It's our way of saying, God,

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you spoke to me, I hear you. I'm going to respond,
and in the area where you spoke to me, I'm
leaving and offering an alter because I believe that I'll
receive a harvest there. And there are practical reasons, right,
but for me, the heart posture behind my giving is
acknowledging the Lord in all of my ways.

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And when I experiencing one of.

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My ways changing because God sent a word, I sow
into that. And so if you're given, I want you
to standwich your seed. There are envelopes if you need
an envelope. While I'm preparing mine. Oh, my sound is
on my computer. While I'm preparing mine, I want the
men to make some noise. Yes, you know, they're having

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a prayer breakfast for the men on Saturday at nine am,
nine am to edify. Men's prayer breakfast is Saturday.

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At nine am.

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If you are a man in this room, I am
telling you an opportunity to have deeper connection and fellowship
with men. That's going to be an incredible opportunity on Saturday.
If you know a man and maybe he's not ready
to come to church, maybe he needs to get around
some like minded people. This is an incredible way to
just evangelize as they go on down to the Potter's house.

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And you know, you got to get them before football
season because the Man anointing lifts a little bit during
football season on Sunday, and so let him get in
community and get into the presence of the Lord, we're
going to take our seat and lift it to Heaven.
It's just as much a part of worship as singing
the songs and turning our heart focus God. Thank you,
Thank you for being God. Thank you for your consistency

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and for your provision. Thank You for the way that
this word met us in ways that we didn't even
know that we needed. Thank You for an opportunity to
be challenged in the way that we show up that
doesn't look like you. Even this seed, the sacrifice of
this seed is a representation of the way that we're
going to sacrifice our ways in our thoughts that don't

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align with you. We want every area of our life
to be in relationship with You, not the least of
which is our fight, Nancys. So Lord, take this seat
and do which only you can do. We're asking that
you would turn it into transformed lives. That you would
continue to build your church, to build this church in particular,
that you would continue to give us fresh ideas to

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reach the un housed, to reach those who are in
search of a deeper revelation of who you are.

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God.

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Continue to allow this house to be a house set
upon the hill. And as we sow into this house
and ask you to build this house. We asked that
you would look at our own take inventory of anything
that's in our lives and our homes that don't align
with you, and highlight it. Then give us the strength
to take action against that which is taking action against

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what you want to do in our lives. Thank you
God for this word and for this time of fellowship.
Build your church in Jesus's name.

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Amen.

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If you have an offering, you can pass it all
the way to the left. If you have an envelope,
rather pass it all the way to the left, to
the left, to the left. Our professional ministry technical are
standing by to pray and cover and collect that seed.
Once it gets all the way down to the left,
you can pass it into the buckets that are there.

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PMTs serve the people of God. We're going to worship
family before we go out to seal what God did.

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In this place.

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I want to challenge you in particular, if there's an
area where the Lord really highlighted like I haven't been
showing up in God's love or my love is grown cold,
to allow this worship to be just one last ceiling
moment in this atmosphere, but allow it to set the
tone for what you want your worship to look like.
When you leave out of here, when there is no music,

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when there aren't any singers, what do you want your
heart posture and your offering to look like. Because I
hear God saying that the atmosphere, the foundation that you
set in your heart from this worship experience is going
to be key to you stepping into whatever that area
of development is.

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That God highlighted for you. So it's worship family,