Head On Collision

In This We Life We All Will Have Challenges To Face, So The Time Is Now For Us To Go To God So He can Help Us Face Them HEAD ON.......

Episode Transcript

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M hmmm, come up. Welcometo them, my man. It's the
hour where you didn't get some pairof change, not don't feel a power
already gotta dude, take one.I'll cheat the words of lights and food.

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Then he didn't get the vowel,help you stay focused, grun hard,
he wouldn't. They don't notice thisthe holy water. Who's gonna help
me post to make a paint andput it in emotion? They do the
most when you chose this for theones who I spoken? If you up
when you broken, Welcome to them, my man. It's the hour where
you didn't get some pair of change, not don't feel a power already got

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that, dude, take one.I'll choot the words of lightsome food,
Dan, he didn't get the vowel. Greetings, God's beautiful people, and
welcome to another exciting episode of theMic Minister Hour. I am your host.

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That's always the Mic Minister. Andas always, I counted the joy,
I count of the blessing. Icounted an honor to be with you
yet again. And another chapter ofthis thing that we call life, another
chapter of us getting closer to God, understanding his word better, understanding how
to apply it to our lives better, understanding ourselves better and hopefully understanding each
other better. But even if wedon't understand each other better, that give

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us more patience, more temperament,more under more, more of what we
need to understand each other. Sowe thank God on today. I thank
God for each and every one ofyou. I thank God for Him being
him. I think Jesus for beinga son. I think the Holy Ghost
for being a comforter. I thankeach everywhere one of you. Excuse my
little slippage, but I thank y'allfor being here with me. Yet again.

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I thank y'all from listening and tuningin. I thank y'all for keeping
your own lives, keeping your minds, keeping your hearts in Christ's hands.
Because I'm only here to as amessenger. I'm only here as a help.
But the Old Him at helps above, the ultimate Help, sits up
high and looks down low, theUltimate Help. If you call on him,
he will not ignore you. Ifyou call out his name, Seek
ye the Lord, why he maybe found, Call on him, why

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he may be near. Right nowwe need to call on God. We
need to seek God like never before. If you've been seeking God, seek
him harder. If you haven't beenseeking God, you need to start.
If you thought you seek Him enough, I'm here to tell you there's never
enough time of seeking God because everyday that you wake up, there's a
challenge. Every day that you wakeup, there's the devil trying to get
at you. Every day that youwake up, it's an opportunity for you
to do something for God. Soevery day we need to seek God to

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see what God wants us to dofor God to help us through every situation.
So every day that you're alive,God has something for you to do.
Every day that you're alive, you'regonna need God at some point to
get you through that day. Matterof fact, you need a God to
wake you up to get to theday. So you're definitely going to need
Him to get through the day.So we thank God that he doesn't count
a robbery when we fall short.He doesn't count a robbery when we ignore

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him. He doesn't count a robberywhen we like we don't want to be
obedient. That he's still he stillcomes and sees about us, he still
delivers us, he still keeps us, He still saves us, even when
we don't deserve it, So wethank God. We thank God. We
as man, we'd be quick totell somebody what they deserve. We'd be
quick to tell somebody enough is enough. We will be quick and tell me,

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hey, man, I ain't gonakeep doing this over and over.
We save that all the time withman, How many times could have God
said that to you? How manytimes should God have said that to you?
How many times have you been luckythat God didn't say it to you?
So the next time we say weare done, the next time we
act like we want to cut somebodyoff. The next time we act like

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we've had enough, we can't takeno more. Now. I'm not talking
about a new situations where somebody justmeans you bad and they continuously just do
wrong things. I ain't talking aboutthe people in our lives. Everybody's made
mistakes. Nobody is perfect. Idon't care how righteous, how good you
think you are. You've made amistake in your life. Somebody had to
forgive you. God to forgive you. But we are in a place now
where we want to hold people feetto the fire. We want to tell

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people and remind people of what theydid. And I'm not saying that they
should be excused or not held accountable. What I'm saying is, if you
already held them accountable, they alreadyapologized, they're already trying to move on.
Why are you still there? Itdidn't feel good when you was there,
So why are you staying at theplace that you don't want to be
at? It didn't make you feelgood, not only that you want to
stay there. So if you wantto stay there, that's on you.
But now you want to make iteverybody stay there with you. That's not

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fair to everybody else. Now andagain, we all make mistakes. When
you made a mistake and somebody neededto give you forgiveness, was you want
them to throw it back up inyour face every time they saw you,
every time you made another mistake,they throw that back up in your face?
Did you want people reminding you ofthe mistake that you made. Let's
be honest, let's not be hypocritical. What we want in life, we
don't always give. And that's justreal talk. And we start putting out

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in the atmosphere where we're looking toget back. Let's see what we do
is we'll put it out one ortwo times. We'll say we're gonna put
it out, and then when itdoesn't get re seprocated, then we use
that as an excuse not to putit out. Don't anymore. But God
didn't tell you, and they didn'tsaying the word that every time you put
our love you was gonna get loveback, and didn't tell you that if
you spoke peace that there was gonnaspeak peace back to you. That's not.

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Your job is not to worry aboutwhat the reciprocation or lack thereof is.
Your job is to do what Godput on your heart. That's our
job. If God told me tospeak in love, it's my job to
speak in love. It doesn't matterhow they speak back, because God didn't
go ask me how they speak back. He go asked me if I spoke
in love. So even if Ispoke in love and then I allow that
anger to get me to start speakingnegative back, I've just negated the love

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and obedience that I gave to God. So a lot of times we are
justifying and our wrongdoings, claiming thatwe did the right thing at the beginning,
but they didn't receive it. Sothat's why I went over here.
No excuse, No excuse, becauseif that was the case when they started
lying on Jesus, when they startedsaying false reports on Jesus. He could
have just went the other way andstopped doing what he needed to do,
and where would we be. Justfood for thought. As always alike again

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in until I get this other stuffstraightened out. So again, thank you

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and every one of you. Isalways always good to know that God's word
is going forth and his people arereceiving it and wanting it and thirst for
We should hunger and thirst for God'sword all the time. God's presence,
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something that can be in one ofthose episodes that will help you along this

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walk. We all need help,you know, I say all the time,
and I'll always practice this all thetime, but I know and I
tell people all the time. Jesuswas the most powerful man to ever walk
the face of the earth, andhe had twelve men that walked with him.
Now he didn't need any of thosemen to walk with him. Now,
part of that with the twelve thathe chose, it's because he used
with the world calls the dumb toconfound the wise. So when you looked

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at them, naturally you would lookand say, of these two, you
wouldn't look at them and say,all the east got to be there,
the twelfth greatest man. They're walkingwith Jesus. So it made it man
looked at the outside. You know, when David was being picked to be
a king. He was. Hewas the youngest of his brothers, and
at the time he was the onethat looked dusty. And when Jesse,
if I'm not mistaken, was sentand I think he's the son of Jesse.

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Excuse me. Where when the prophetwas sent in order to anoint the
king, and he saw all theother the prophets, all the brothers,
they had the statue and they lookwith man would look at as, oh,
that's the one. But when Davidcame in, God said this is
the one I want, and hesaid, don't look at the outer appearance
of the man. I know theheart. So a lot of times we're
looking at people that we feel onthe outside is prestigious and they look a

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certain way, but their heart isfar away from God. And there are
people that we look down to andwere like, oh, that little dingy
person that they can't be They can'tgive no, they can't redeem me,
they can't give me no word ofencouragement. But those the people that have
the sincere heart, because they haveno distractions in there. They have nothing
in the way to distract their attentionfrom God in that moment of their lives,
and it builds. So we lookand say, well, that person

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is at that place because something theydid. We don't know what situations happened,
But what we should be concerned aboutis the heart of people, not
the outside of people. Because thetruth of the matter is, when you
start looking at the outside of people, what you're doing is you're comparing and
you're judging, and that is notour job to do. Our job is
to look to help one another.Now, it says in the Word,
and it is true for those whowant to say, for my biblical scholars,

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ways they do the righteous judgment,Yes, the righteous judgment. So
the righteous judgment should be if aperson is speaking about God, is that
person, is that person living?Is that person really speaking the word righteous
judgment? If you see a persongoing to strand, you go to help
him, or you give him aword of encouragement to bring them back.
Righteous judgment. I'm talking about whatyou over there talking about who they are
and telling everybody and what they isand how far he is. You don't

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know, that's not righteous judgment.That's just you condemning someone in judgment.
There is a difference. So wethank God for that little tidbit. Again,
we thank God for everything that he'sdoing. I thank God sincerely for
how he's moving in my life.I pray that he's moving in yours,
and honestly, he is moving inyour life. The question is are you
acknowledging it? And now are youallowing him to have free course? That

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is the question that you have toask yourself. And if you're not doing
that, then you're missing out onthe benefits of allowing God to have to
have free course in your life orto be in your life. You know,
the truth of the matter is youcan have things, but if you
don't allow it to reach its fullpotential, you're missing out on what the
blessing is simple as that. Let'slook at each other ourselves. Are we

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where we need to be in life? Are we where we want to be
in life? Have we met ourfull potential? Until we tap in,
we won't meet our full potential.So we understand within ourselves that if we
don't tap in and pull those thingsout, we won't meet our full potential.
Surely, in God, if wedon't tap in, we won't meet

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our full potential. And the truthof the matter is God already knows your
full potential. He ain't waiting tosee it out of you. He needs
you to see it, so you'rethe one with the need. Not God.
He already knows what he put inyou. He wants you to be
able to see it so you canappreciate what He's put in you and also
at the most give him the glory. So that's our little talk further day.

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You know, we always have tohave our little conversation before we get
into what I came here to giveto God's people that God put on my
heart. And I thank God forwhat we're about to get into on today
because I'm gonna tell you straight upthis what I have for you today really
everything every word that God gives me, whether it be on this podcast,
whether it being Bible study, whetherit be a word that I give in
the church, I always apply thatword to myself first. And we should

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always apply the word to ourself first. When we read it, when we
acknowledge it, when we hear it, whatever the case may be, when
we see it, whatever the casemay be, we should always apply to
ourself a look for ways to applyto ourselves. There is no word that
God allows you to hear that there'snot content in that word that doesn't apply
to you. That it's just ifyou're saying that word don't apply to me,
you wasn't listening hard enough. BecauseI trust me, let me tell

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you what every word does. Everyword talks to a person where they used
to be to remind them not togo back there, and is talking to
them where they're at now to remindthem to hey, God is here,
I could get you out. Andfor the person that left there, it's
again I'm reminded they don't don't goback there, because we'll be saying where
that word it ain't for me,And then you find yourself the next week
right back in that place that youclaim the word wasn't for you. If

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we're not careful. So even ifwe've been in the place, we came
out of that place, we stillgot to make sure we don't go back
to that place. And that's thatplace is God. So again, thank
God for all of that. Buton today, what God laid on my
heart to share with his people,and when I was searching for wanted to

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have a title for it, becauseof course I have to have these titles
to put the headings, and ofcourse it draws people and stuff of that
nature. Some I'm always act fromGoddess. Let what God give me something
practical I can use as a title. So let me give you this example
now in life, if you're drivingdown now, I'm from the south,

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so down in the country, youknow, so we have a lot of
what they called and I know youwe all have seen this two way highways,
and you know it's only it's twolanes. One lane is going north,
one's going south, whether it's eastor west, but it's two lanes.
And we understand that we might stayin our lane. If you find

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yourself in the other lane and thecar's coming, you definitely gonna get back
in your lane. If you're drivingin your lane and you see a car
in your lane, you're gonna swervearound that car. Because ultimately what we've
heard, well, you know,t bones are bad accidents. Any accidents
bad accidents. You could be rareend the t bone, those things.
But the thing that seems to bethe most dangerous and would be the less

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likelihood of survival is for you tohave a head on collision. And of
course, naturally we try to avoidhead on collisions everywhere in our life.
If you're walking and you're walking onthe sidewalk and somebody's walking towards you,
you wouldn't walk straight up to them, and y'all have a headbut a headbut

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collision you would go around. Ifwe're in the shopping and we're in the
supermarket and we're rolling out buggets andwe see somebody and we try to stop,
and you know you're coming at theend of the hour, and you
peek around the hole, hopefully thatyou don't hit it into nobody. Nobody
nowhere in life, with the exceptionmay be in contact spots, maybe wrestling
or something. Does anybody want tohave a head on collision? We are

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wired not to have head on collisionsnaturally. We are wired to go around
whatever that collision can be and tryto avoid it. But on today,
I want us to take a differentlook at head on collisions because what we
have done it is spiritual. Weare having challenges, and we are having
obstacles and things that the devil,and not only the devil, just life

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is putting in front of us.But the thing that we're doing, we
keep swerving around these challenges, Wekeep swerving around these obstacles, We keep
trying to jump or go under orask somebody to move, ask God to
move these obstacles, these challenges outthe way. But on today, God
needs us to understand that it's enoughof swerving and it's time to have a

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head on collision. I say again, it's time for us us to start
having some head on collisions. Now, I said spiritually. Didn't tell anybody
getting their car after they're listening tothis, crank their car up, go
find a highway, full lane highwayand they're going to in the States,
said you know what, I'm headingsouth, But Mike Minister said, I

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need to have a head on collisions. So I'm gonna turn and I'm a
head north straight into traffic and headon. That's not what I'm saying,
I said spiritually. So how MikeMinister, can we have these spiritual head
on collisions. Let me make itplain for you. Some things that God
tells us doesn't take or require profoundor prophetic speakings in terrible Some things are

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just straightforward. Now what I'm gonnado is tell you the secret straightforward.
Then we don't look at some scripturesto make it more practical. But the
truth of the matter is it's eitheryou're gonna go head on to these challenges
in life or you're gonna swerve around. Now I'll speak for me. There
are challenges that I had in mylife that I have right now that I

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am not up until this point whenI got this word in my system and
I was working on it. Butthis word solidifies for me. So I'm
telling you right now, before thisword, I was still struggling with Hey,
I need I got some challenge's,some things I need to meet head
on. But I understand seeing thenatural. When there's something blocking your path.

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If there's a tree that blocks thepath that you normally take, or
where where a storm comes in,a tornado or earthquake or something like that
knocks that stuff down, they havethey have construction crews. They have people
that come the city or whoever theycome in. They cut the tree,
or you move the tree. Youmight have a good Samaritan that comes and
move it so you could get around. So you know, you might have
to wait, but you will wait. I'm not talking about those times you
gotta wait for God to me.I'm talking about these times where that there

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is no help coming normally help it'sGod and God has given you what you
need it. So whatever is inthe way, whatever in your path,
you got to move it. Yougot to go at it head on,
and you got to move it outthe way. Now we are sitting,
I am sitting, you are sitting. We are sitting too long waiting for
somebody to come move the thing outof our path. And the thing,

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the funny thing is, we usedto wait for people to move things out
of our path. But right nowthere is something standing right in front of
your blessing. So we ain't ina path. You're not even on the
way anymore. You have come towhere your blessing is supposed to be,
where your breakthrough is, where Godwants you to go into the next level.
And there's something blocking the way.There is a challenge. There is
an obstacle that is blocking the way, and we're trying our best to move

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around it. We're trying our bestto go above it. We're trying our
best to go under it. We'retrying that. We're praying and praying to
God, God, please move thisobstacle out the way. Please, God,
I just need you to move this. And God is saying, no,
I need you to go head onand move it yourself. But are
we too scared? Are we toounbelieving? Or are we just too plain

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lazy to do? So? Let'slook at some scripture now so we can
see because while I'm while I askyou that it's rhetorical? Are we being
too lazy? Some things in life? We're just being too lazy, plain
and simple, there's no there's noway to sugar coat it. Sometimes we're

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just being too lazy. Laziness isa challenge. Are we Are we facing
laziness head on? Or are weusing excuses to be lazy? Just thought,
that's not the first scription I'm goinginto. Just thought, first thing

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we have to look at when itcomes to challenges, Challenges are gonna come.
They are gonna come, whether youwant them to or not. Some
challenges come that are self induce.Sometimes we make obstacles bigger than what they
are. Sometimes challenge. Some challengeswe have come because of the path that
we choose to take. But whetheryou choose to take God's path or man's
path or your own path, youshould take God's path. But even on

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Cod's path, there's gonna be trumble. Jesus came, who was God's son,
and he met so much trouble tillthey killed them. So we're not
going to see any trouble. We'renot going to have any challenges. How
did you get to second grade withoutgetting the first grade knowledge? How did
you build on that? How didyou know to build in third grade off

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of what you learned in first andsecond? If you didn't firstly go through
the challenges of first and second,you can't get to the next level without
going past the challenge that's on thelevel you're on now. We play video
games, in sports, you havea challenge. There's always a challenge to
get to the next level. Youjust don't get pushed to the next level.
You gotta go through obstacles. Yougotta get challenges out the way.
So the question is are we facingthem all? We haven't hit on collisions

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with the challenges. First scripture,don't want to look at James running two
says my brethren, count it alljoy when you fall into diverse temptations first
and fomones. This is what wedo when it challenge come. Oh woe

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is me? God? Oh God, God is a challenge. Another thing
we do when the challenge is coming, like when we need to get where
we need to get why this,Why is this happening to me? God?
Why I got up and through somuch? God I had been through
this, God up through that.Gud just tied the point. Through these
things. There's a couple of truthsthat we gotta look at it that,

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Yes, nobody likes facing challenges.Challenges aren't pleasant. But when we was
in the world and our friends sawpeople of the world said you can't do
that. They was telling you youcouldn't do it, you took it as
a challenge and you went head onand showed them. Oh you told me

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I can't do this, I'm gonnashow you what I can and I'm gonna
do everything in my power. Idon't care if it sleepless nights. I'm
gonna do this thing. I'm gonnameet it head on, and I'm gonna
show you that I can't do it. I accept the challenge. You wasn't
even given one. Somebody just hada little bit of leaf in you.
But you took that as a challengeand you said, I'll be darned if
you're gonna challenge my gangster, I'mgonna show you. And that's what we

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do. Then we take on thishead on challenge that wasn't even presented,
and we drive ourselves crazy trying toprove the people that we were what they
said we wasn't. You would headon challenge to prove huh. But I
said that to say, we knowwhen challenges come, and we know how
to have the mindset on how toface them head on in the world,

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But soon as a spiritual challenge comestowards us, we act as if we're
surprised. What God. I gainedmy life to you God. The world
hates God, the world is disrespectingGod. And you went out in the
world and said, hey, Ilove God. I am proclaiming God.
God is my savior. I willdo anything for him. And you expected
the world to just say, Okay, all right, Manel, you live

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God. I'm not going bother whatyou think it's gonna happen. You're gonna
see challenges that you've ever seen before. Ask anybody that follows God. You
thought the devil was bothering, Youthought your life was crazy. You thought
you were seeing crazy. They waitto you it finally make up in your
mind that you're gonna follow God wholeheartedly, that you're gonna leave the world behind.
Wait till you tell those friends,I can't go out with y'alling them,
Or you thought it was a challengejust to get them to call you

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back. Wait now, wait tillyou tell them you're not going anymore.
You thought it was a challenge ofthem getting dressed on time, Wait till
you need them. When you tellthem you're not going anymore, they'll find
they'll find fault with you. Allof a sudden, you was the best
friend that they had, But nowall of a sudden you were dirt.
But don't find it surprising when youhave these challenges. Why should you?
The Bible was filled with people whohad to be challenge in order to get

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to their place. The Israelites werebrought out of Egypt challenging, went through
forty years challenging to get to thepromise that God had for them. So
all the challenges, we look atthem. We want to look at the
outcome. But every outcome, everygodly outcome, had a worldly or devilish
challenge that was along the way tothe outcome. So don't be surprised when

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you see these challenges. If weembrace the challenges instead of acting surprised,
then we would go about it,or we would have a different mentality on
running head on and facing it.Next scripture I would like to look at
is Isaiah the forty first chapter inthe thirteenth verse, and it says for

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I the Lord, thy God willhold thy right hand, saying unto thee,
fear not, I will help thee. We will be praying to God,
asking God, God, where areyou God? We spend so much
time with challenges, talking about thechallenge, talking about how the challenge make

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us feel, talking about who they'rein the challenge, Who ain't there in
the challenge, why the challenge came? Whatever a challenges. You can't beat
it by talking. You can't beatit by worrying. You can't beat it
by standing there looking at it.It ain't gonna move, That's why it's
there. How quickly do we forgetwho was on our side? How quickly

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do we forget who has our back? If we really, really, really,
really really believe the scripture where itsays for I the Lord that God
will hold our right hand, hI think of we are God's children,
that we say so, we saywe are God's children. So I put
myself in the mind state of achild, umbled myself to a child and

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thought about if I was going througha situation in life and somebody was or
something was bothering me, or therewas there was a situation that I couldn't
take control up, and I wenthome and my father. We know what
Dad's representing this world. That's whyI say it, dad'sn't necessary. But
imagine your father, God holding yourright hand. Going back to that challenge.

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You you got God holding your handand you're about to go to this
challenge. It ain't even a challengeany matter of fact. You doesn't stop
worrying about what the challenge doing.And you you're like, WHOA, I
got God with me. Now doyou understand what's about to happen? How
did you act when that bigger brotheror that father figure, that male figure
in your life came and you know, oh, my father's coming. Imagine

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just earthly, so all the morethat earthly father, that earthly dad,
or that male figure only had butso much power. Ain't but so much
they can do. They didn't haveunlimited resources, they didn't own that earth.
They didn't even own the area whereyou was at. But imagine,

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imagine if you would believe and standon the fact that God has your hand.
When you look at those challenges welook at, we say God got
us. When people talk about us, we say God got us. Or
we claim God got us. Whenpeople leave us, we claim we don't
need nobody but God. But assoon as the challenge come, where is
that God that you was talking about? Why you're not bringing him to the
battle? M M. Next scripturePsalms, the twenty seventh chapter in the

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first verse, and it says,the Lord is my Light and my salvation.
Whom shall I fear? The Lordis the strength of my life.
Of whom shall I be afraid?Who who can challenge me along the walk,

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this godly walk that I am on. When God has sent me,
when God has chose me, whenGod has prepped me, when God has
redeemed me. Why are we allowingpeople to be more of an obstacle than
what they need to be. Thecrazy thing is, we will complain are

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we will say people. Now,Now, I'm a pastor and I'm gonna
say this. It is challenging.It is challenging to be a pastor because
you have a group of people thatGod has put you over that you have
to watch over, you pray overand you you're going to bring the best
out of him. But these peopleare going through stuff. Some people are
depressed, some people are lazy,some people are controlling. Some people just

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don't want to line up. Somepeople are disobedient, some people are are
lost, some people don't know howto come around. There's a lot going
on. So it's challenging. ButI am not the one that's facing the
challenge physically, naturally, I am. But it's the God in me,
the God through me, the Godaround me, the God that leads me,

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that's facing the challenge. I amthe mouthpiece. I am merely.
A matter of fact, we knowon every job, every job, we
quote unquote respect whoever your manager is, your quote unquote respect him. When
I said, quote un quote,yeah, you respect them enough because you
know you can't be crazy just goingthere. You're gonna lose your job.

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But let me tell you that respectis only to a default to a place.
How I know that bitter manager almostmy whole adult life. Another thing
I do know when people get tiredof whoever's over them, when they don't
want to listen, or they feelsome kind of way towards them, they're
gonna go over their head as apastor, you easily, and you're supposed
to go over my head to God. You pull to trust God first and

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then come to me. But inthe natural, we know, we know
we don't fail our manager, yourmanage to start talking crazy to you.
People start talking crazy on a job, giveing like, I don't have to
take this. You either gonna quitor you're gonna call HR. But what
you ain't gonna do is just takethat. It's challenging what they're saying to
you. Yeah, it may makeyou a little anxious, may make you
feel uncomfortable. What you decide isI am not gonna take this. I

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don't have to take this. Soyou go head on and let them know
you're gonna treat me better. Sowe're be in life and God sends us
somewhere. God said, I wantto bless you. I want to I
want to make more of what youhave if I want to enlarge your territory.
And we come across people people,you know, the crazy thing is
we are fearing not the person.A lot of times we're just fearing what

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they might say. We're just fearinghow they might feel, why they don't
have what God put in you.They don't have the vision that God gave
you in first and foremost the secondthe second. That we give our selves
to the fear or the anxiousness ofthe people that we come across, we

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have taken away the respect and thereverence for the power that God has in
our lives. So my question toyou in this point, do you want
to be a judgment day and haveto explain to God that God, I
know you're powerful. I believe youare powerful, but I believe the fear
that I had was more powerful thanyou. Next scripture, I would like

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to look cat because it ties intowhat I'm saying first Peter five and seven,
simple casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.
How often do we do that?See, we have misconstrued what that scripture
is saying. We have fooled ourselvesinto believing casting your cares on God means

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I'm just gonna be complaining. I'mcasting. I'm just telling you God,
this is the cares. I haven'tcare about this, care about that new,
new new. Some of the thingsthat you're trying to cast on God
is not even a care, It'sa one. It is trivial. It
is worldly. It is something thatis not even not even important to where
you're going. That friend not callingyou in five days or two weeks,

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it's not important to where God wantsyou to go. But if you care
so much about that, if it'sbothering you so much, what you should
be saying is God, help me, God to where the kids of the
world doesn't overtake the peace and whatyou have for me. God, allow
me to run at the kids ofthe world head on, so I could

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understand I need to get them outof my way, so I could walk
in the peace that surpasses all understanding. Peace that God gives you surpasses your
understanding. That means you're understanding ofthe cares that you're carrying. So if
you cast them on God, whencasting means I give them to God.
When you cast your rode into thewater, that means you throw it in

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there and you wait, you waituntil you get a bite. That's when
you pull it back. What we'redoing this, we're casting it. We're
throwing it out there, pulling thebacking out there, pulling the back,
throwing out there, pulling it back. I'm not there pulling the back,
throwing out there. You ain't gottime for no bike to come. And
then what we do is we gettired of arm, get tired of throwing,
pulling, throwing, pulling, throwingand pulling, throwing and pulling,

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And then we won't blame God orthat God wasn't there, God saying you
never came, You didn't wait,you wasn't patient enough. You're so busy
looking at the situation you want meto move. We didn't come to God
in a microwave fashion thirty seconds.It took years. It took prayer,
It took fasting, took a lotto patience, took forgiveness, wash rants,

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and repeat, do it all overfor us to come. So we
shouldn't be sitting here expecting God justto do things because we ask. Right
then, God needs you to grow. God needs you to see the situation.
God needs you to grow in thesituation. Stop asking God to just
take you out of situation. Movethe obstacle out the way. What are
you learning? What do you learnwhen you go to the gym and you
get a trainer. You didn't getthat trainer to lift the weight for you.
You got the trainer in order toshow you the correct way to lift

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the weight so you could build upyour strength. So why when God comes,
who's the ultimate trainer, we askingGod just to lift the weight and
wonder why we ain't got no muscles? Huh? Next scripture Romans eight in
twenty eight. And we know thatall things work together for good to them

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that love God, to them whoare the cold, according to His purpose.
When you freak out when you seechallenges, you forget that that obstacle
is there to help build you accordingto the purpose that God has for your
life. When we look at things, it says, see sometimes what you

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think can the gate which you know? M What do I mean by that?
How is that? Okay? Weknow that all things work together for
the good of them that love God. We know that if you know God,
you know anything about God, youknow all things work together for the

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good of those who are all toGod and according to its purpose. You
know that you shouldn't know that deepdown, your spirit man, you're even
your physical man, your natural manknows that. But it's when you start
thinking about the situation, is whenyou start thinking about what the challenge looks
like, how what you gotta doto go through it, you forget that

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you know that it's gonna work outfor your good. How do I know
that's the case, because when wesee challenges, if you know that it's
gonna work out for you a goodyou won't be thinking that you're gonna fail.
You won't be thinking anxious thoughts,you won't be thinking worry. Now,
when I said thinking, I didn'tsay the thought was it gonna come.
But if you follow that thought nowyou're thinking. You can't stop every

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thought from coming, but you couldstop yourself from thinking along that thought line.
So again, sometimes what you're thinkingnegates what you know. But we
should know, and you supposed toknow. And if you didn't, now
you know that all things work togetherfor the good of them that are called
to God and according to its purpose. So whatever that challenge is, I'm

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not talking about the challenge that youmade or the challenge now. The challenges
that are being put in front ofus that keep us away from God.
And we know what those things are. You gotta get on, you gotta
get with God and meet those thingshead on. There are things, there
are challenges that we have put inour life. I'm not talking about what
the world is made or man andmade. There are challenges that we have
put between us and God that weneed to face head on, and that

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requires self reflection, That requires selftruth, That requires getting off our spiritual
lazy behind and doing what we needto do. But again, if we
understand that and we don't forget whatwe know that we all know when the
challenge comes, we'll know that it'sgoing to work out for our good.

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Then we can embrace it and gothrough it with God instead of looking for
Man or somebody else to come helpus out. Because the truth of the
matter is, we claim we wantthis hell, but we we don't want
somebody to help us, right,But how many of us are walking around
and want to ask for help becausewe don't want somebody throw it back up
in our facem just thought next scriptureJohn sixteen and thirty three, And this

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is God, excuse me, thisis Jesus talking in this scripture. And
I like to point that out becauseit holds more weight for me, and
it should hold more way for youwhen it's Jesus talking. These things.
Have I spoken unto you that inme ye might have peace, in the
world, ye shall have tribulation.But be of good cheer. I have

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overcome the world Jesus did. Jesusnot just say in the world, ye
shall have tribulation. Tribulation means problems. Problems mean challenges, obstacles, tribulation.
Jesus told us we are gonna havetribulation. So, like I said

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at the beginning, you shouldn't findit surprising that challenges come. You shouldn't
be oh Lord, oh God.That's that's the funny thing. We see
the challenge, and the first thingwe say, oh my God, Oh
God. And that probably the onlytime you call on him. H You

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didn't call on him and say,oh God, what should I do?
Oh God? Can you help meget them right? Mind state, Yeah,
you should be calling on God,but you should be calling on God
in prayer to prepare you for whatyou need to do, instead of complaining
to God. Oh my God.But Jesus told us that we were going
to have a tribulation, so it'sone thing. So again, this is

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again why you shouldn't be surprised.You were already told that it was going
to happen, So why are weacting surprised. We were told, if
you're riding, do you happen tobe riding. Let's say you're in the
caravan. Somebody whoever was a frontyour third card in the caravan. The
group that's going wherever you're going.First car gets past this point, and

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that car says, a man,be comefing. I see it's a cop.
It's a roadblock. Ain't even aroadblock. It's a cop sitting on
the side checking speed. Okay,you don't pay attention to that. You
keep speeding after you were told thatthe challenge was ahead, and you get
caught and you get a ticket,You're gonna be mad at the person that
called you and told you what you'retripping phone You was forewarned. So some

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challenges. So when we see challengesin life, we act like, oh
my god, what is happening?What Jesus told you? You're gonna have
tribulation? But we stopped there whenhe said right after that, but be
of good chair. I have overcomethe world. So that means we have
someone on our side who has alreadyovercome any and everything that could come to

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you, who is your helper.So why would I be tripping when the
challenge comes? When I could beof good chair knowing that my father or
my brother has overcome the world,not only to acknowledge he's on my side,
your side, our side, butto drive that home. Luke one

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to thirty seven says, for withGod, nothing shall be impossible. Nothing
shall be impossible. So when whenyou say, but but God, h
this, but God, he saidnothing. He didn't say nothing but your
situation. He didn't say nothing,but he said nothing is impossible through him.

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Nothing. So there is nothing thatyou can face that you're impossible of
overcoming with God. With God,I didn't say with your homeboys. I
didn't say what your ride or die. I didn't say with yourself. I
didn't say with with the therapist.Now I'm not saying that these people can't
come along and help. But ultimately, if you're not if God, if

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God is not at the head,then these people are just there. That's
right. I don't care how howmuch they've been through. I don't care
how studious they are. I don'tcare how many degrees they God. If
God is not in your situation,oh this situation ain't going It might it
might move for a minute, butit's coming back because you haven't taken God
to it head on and make surethat you have been relieved, redeemed,

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released from that challenge. Last scriptureI would like to leave with you on
today as a matter of fact,before I get to the last scripture,
I want to give a just ashort story on what it means or to

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drive home what I'm saying on meetingthings head on, because there's there's a
thought I want to also leave withyou as well before I get to the
last scripture. We have to bemindful, and I've been drilling, drilling
the point of understanding when we seechallenges and how we should take God and
utilize that for ourselves. We're God'speople and in the Word it tells us

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to help one another. So sometimeswe see each other going through challenges and
we come in and we want togive a helping hand. And there's nothing
wrong with that. But I tellpeople all the time, sometimes good results,
good intentions don't always lead to goodresults. So I'm saying that to
say when you see somebody facing challenges. Now some things. If you see
somebody on the side of the road, they got a flat tire, that's

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a challenge, and you can stopand help change the tire or give some
assistance that's different. That's you don'tneed to go to God for that,
or in these days in time youmight have said, quick prayer of God,
is it okay? Especially if it'sthat nicest people are a little on
the crazy side. But I'm sayingthose things are evident. But sometimes people
are going through things spiritually or thingsof that nature and God needs them to

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go through, and we as Godchildren, we will say, well,
it's a godly thing to go through, go and help and just pull them
out into a degree. That's that'sthe case. But the question is it
said in all things we should haveGod at the beginning. So even good,
bad and different, anything that wego to do we should confer or
we should you know, ask God, okay, God, is this the
time? Because you never know.And I'm saying that because sometimes in life,

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the challenges that we face, wego to other people to pull us
out when God wants to be theone to pull us out. Sometimes in
life we go to challenges we wantGod to move or we want somebody to
pull us out, But God needus to go through that challenge in order
to understand who we are. Forus to be pulled out of a place
that we were at for God topull out things that He needs us to
see. So understanding with challenges andgoing that thing's head on, make sure

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I want to make sure I putthe caveat out there. When you're going
into these head on collisions, I'msaying, do not go into this head
on collision unless God has told youto go and you're taking God with you.
Now, I'm not saying the nextchallenge you see, you just run
on. If it's a challenge thatyou know that God will already equip you
for and you could take care ofeverything, yeah, by all means yes,
But if you're if you're wait,I'm talking about those challenges that we're

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running from, the challenges that makeus anxious, the challenges that make us
weary. That's what I'm talking about. So those things you need to make
sure that you got God and Godsend you before you go ahead on reason
being. There's a story, justa short story I want to share with
you. There was a butterfly thatwas inside of its concoon. And we've

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all seen been in health class.You all know the process. You know
it's a calipella. Then it goesand it makes a cocoon and then after
a certain amount of time we've seeneven if you're go on YouTube, you
can watch the videos of real timeof them showing the butterfly coming out of
the cocoon, and we'll see thatthere's a little hole and that's how they
come from the process in order tobe a butterfly. So there was one

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day where on this tree there wasa cocoon when a little hole and the
butterfly was trying was starting to comeout this a little boy was walking,
you know, just outside and enjoyingoutside, and he walks by and he
happened us to notice it. Sohe stood there because it caught his attention,
and he noticed and he sees thatthe butterfly was fighting through the challenge
of getting out of the hole.Now, the hole that the butterfly was

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trying to get out of was verytiny, and it seemed that the butterfly
was struggling through this challenge. Hisobstacle seemed to be too big. And
the boy, in the kindness ofhis heart, he said, oh my
goodness, this butterfly struggling too hard. This challenge is too much for him.
So he takes out his little pocketknife that he carries with him everywhere,
and he decided that he would cutopen the whole of the cocoon to
help the butterfly get out easier.I'm here to help, that's what the

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boy thought. So he cuts thecocoon and the butterfly falls out of the
cocoona lands on the ground. Sohe's surprised because he expected the butterfly to
open up its wings and started tofly away, but the butterfly did not
do this. The butterfly was onthe ground and for the remainder of its
life, it just dragged and ittried to move its wings, but it

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could not, and it just draggeditself around on the ground. And eventually
the butterfly died, and the boywas heartbroken. And the boy was looking
and he didn't understand what happened.He tried to help, and it led
to the destruction of this butterfly.But what the little boy did not know,
and sometimes what we don't know,it's what's needed in the challenge with

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the little boy didn't know because he'sa young boy. He didn't get to
this part of science class. Wedidn't see this type of stuff. To
tell gree he probably first a secondhe just looking to help because he's been
taught to help. That's what he'sbeen taught. But what he did not
know is in the process, thenatural process of a butterfly's life, in
order for when that butterfly comes outof the cocoon, it has to fight
through that small hole that's in thecocoon in order to get the juices that's

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inside of that cocoon to go onits wings to cover its old body,
to give it the nutrients and thestrength that it needed in order to fly.
By cutting open that hole and makingit bigger, it made it not
have to go through the challenge ofgoing through that hole where the juices and
everything that it needed for the nextlevel to secrete its body in order for

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it to do what it needs todo. The butterfly needed to go through
that challenge in order to be thebeauty of what a butterfly is. But
sometimes we see people going through thingsthat our heartest in the right place,
and we want to cut them outof what they're going through. But God
needs them to struggle through that challengebecause they are coming out of a cocoon
into the butterfly that God wants themto be, so be mindful, not

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telling you not to help. I'mnot telling you to leave someone when you
see them in a challenge. WhatI'm saying is conferred with God. Don't
always be quick to rescue or savesomeone because we are not rescue, we
are helped, we are emt ButGod is the doctor h God is the
ultimate healer. We're just tools utilizedin the operation. Keep that in mind.

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So with that being said, whatI would like to do now and
now I know you say when youhear that story with the hang man,
poor little boy probably was trauma ties, and in that moment he might have
been, but I feel that hewould be all right. It was a
teaching. Some lessons in life arenot going to always be happy, but

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we have to learn them. AndI'm pretty sure what he learned was,
next time he saw a butterfly comingout, I'm not going to touch at
this time. I'm gonna stand andwatch. And I'm pretty sure that little
boy got an opportunity for that tohappen again. And this time he watched,
and I'm pretty sure this time hegot to see, with the challenge
and facing it head on, thatthe butterfly had to and when it got

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to fly. It took away thatheaviness he might have had from the last
time. But James first chapter andtwelve verse says, Blessed is the man
that endureth temptation, for when hehas tried, he shall receive the crown
of life, which the Lord hathpromised to them that love him. So

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I'd like to leave you with this. In that scripture, it doesn't talk
about challenges. It says temptation.But the next time we face a challenge,
we're gonna be tempted to run,We're gonna be tempted to quit,
We're gonna be tempted to complain.You might be tempted to give up.

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But the scripture clearly says Blessed isthe man that endureth temptation. So even
though that challenge tempts me to giveup, I'm gonna endure that. Even
though that challenge tempts me to beanxious, I'm gonna endure that. Even
though that challenge tempts me to notbelieve that God will bring me through it,

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I'm gonna fight that temptation because Blessedis the man that endures that temptation.
Because when I get through that,and I allow God to go through
me. I allow God to leadme, I allow God to god me.
I allow God to instruct me,and I follow his lead through that
temptation, and I go through itthose temptations. I face that challenge head
on with a head on collision.The power that God's gonna give me in

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that head on collision, the anointingthat God is gonna give me in that
head on collision. That obstacle,that challenge doesn't stand a chance, because
when I meet it head on,it's gonna move out my way. We
thank God for this word on today. I encourage each and every one of
you, whatever challenge you are facingin life, even if that challenge is

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yourself, go with God and faceit with a head on collision. Let
us pray, dear henly Father,We thank you God once again for being
who you are, our outfit,our mega. I'll deliver, our healer,
everything that we could think of ina positive life, everything that redeems

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us, everything that keeps us youare. We thank you God for allowing
us to see another day. Wethank you for another week, another two
weeks, another three weeks, howeverlong you allow us to see. God
We just thank you for everything thatyou do, the breath of life,
the activity of our limbs, thesound mind that we know, our names
when it's called God. We thankyou God for not forgetting about us,
not leaving us. Father. Wethank you God, because everything you do,

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Father, we know it's for ourgood. Everything you allow to happen
is for our good. Father.So the challenges that we come across in
life, allow us not to runfrom them, allow us not to be
afraid of them, allow us notto give them more power than you allow
us. To come to you,Father, humbly, Father, come to
you, seeking your knowledge, seekingyour wisdom, seeking the things that you
give us, in order to dothe things that you ask of us,
the things that you want of us, the things you require of us.

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I speak right now, Father toevery one in the sound of my voice.
Touch them in a miraculous way.Heal their minds, heal their hearts,
heal their bodies, if need be, Father, heal their spirits.
Right now, when the name ofJesus touch your children, Father, touch
everyone in the land. Touch themall, Father, touch every ministry,
including hours. Father. Right now, when the name of Jesus that we're
standing on your word, that we'regiving your word, Father, and that
we are living by your word.We thank you for everything that you're doing.

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We thank you for the seasons.We thank you for the son.
We thank you for the moon.We thank you for the heat, we
thank you for the rain. Wejust thank you, Father, even for
the things that we seem to beun thankful for the things we take for
granted. Father. I ask rightnow that we show a thanks to you
God. I thank you Father forthe challenges, because those challenges in life
or would help us build, wouldhelp us trusting you, would help us
show the faith is not in vain. So we thank you, We praise

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you most of all, God,we love you. I ask that you
continue to keep your people, continueto cover your people, continue to redeem
your people. It's in your sonJesus name that we pray. Amen and
amen. Remember God loves you,and so do I be blessed, Come

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up, welcome to them. Aman is the hour where you didn't get
some peel the power got to doit. Take one. I'll cheat the
words of lights and food. Thenhe didn't get the vowel. Help you
stay focused, ground hard. Hewhen they don't notice this is the only
water who's gonna help me post tomake complaining, But then most they do

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the most when you chose this forthe ones who I spoken. If you
thought when you broken, welcome tothem. My man, it's the hour
where you didn't get some pair ofchain. Not doesn't feel a power already.
Gotta dude, take one. I'llcheat the words of lights and food.
Dan, he didn't get the vowel