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Good morning.

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Happy Supernatural Saturday, you all.

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It's so good to be here this morning.

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I am covering our Supernatural Saturday today.

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We have some awesome content.

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I hope you all are going to be challenged and blessed.

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Jackie and David are in New Jersey.

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If you all don't know, we have a singles conference there today.

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I think Gail's driving there.

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I saw her get all excited.

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Awesome.

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So as we get started this morning, I really want to pray for Jackie and David and the

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conference and all of those coming and going to that for them to receive, but also for

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protection for Jackie and David.

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If you all don't know, when we move forward, the enemy tries to resist, right, in all different

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kinds of ways.

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And so we want to lift them up during this time.

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So I'm going to start there today.

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And then I'll start to explain what we're going to be learning about on Supernatural

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Saturday today and where we're going to track.

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And I hope that you're going to just come fully expectant for God to speak to you right

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where you're at, not only in your journey regarding your spirit mate, but in your journey

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regarding your relationship with the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and how He

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wants to grow you in the spiritual gifts that Jackie started talking about a little more

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in depth last Saturday.

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So we're going to be tracking there.

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And I'll kind of tell more about what we're going to specifically talk about in regards

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to that.

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But I want to go ahead and pray, Father, thank you so much for this day, God.

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Thank you that it's a Supernatural Saturday because you're supernatural, God, and you

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are with us every moment, every day.

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The same power that rose Jesus from the dead is living in us.

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And we have the opportunity to walk in conjunction with that power, that spirit, the dunamis

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power that you sent for us to be able to be more than conquerors for those who are

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in Christ Jesus.

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That's your declaration.

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That's your prayer for us.

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So Lord, we thank you, God, that you would help us to come in no matter what we've been

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through, no matter even if we had a rough night of sleep or we're just not feeling it

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today.

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God, I thank you, God, that you meet us right in the midst of that.

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And you empower us, you equip us, you fill us with hope.

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You remove discouragement, despair, depression, oppression.

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As we shared the other night, the winter is gone, spring is upon us.

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Help us to partner with that truth today.

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Help us to hear what heaven has to say to us this morning and help us to remove.

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Yeah, Lord, you're the one that removes barriers and obstacles and anything that limits us

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from stepping into the divine plan and purpose that you have for our lives as individuals,

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as sons and daughters.

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So Lord, we just thank you in advance for preparing our hearts to receive from you.

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It's not about me.

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It's not about the person that delivers the word.

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It's about your spirit and your power and your truth flowing through us to those that

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hear.

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So help us to have ears to hear what your spirit is saying.

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We lift up Jackie and David to you right now.

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God, we thank you for their yes.

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We thank you, God, for everything that they have sacrificed, everything that they have

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endured to lead the movement to this place.

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But God, we thank you that you have more.

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Even as Brian and I went to this conference last week, God, it was good, great, greater

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that you've called us to do greater things.

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And we thank you, God, that that anointing and that mark and that plan is upon Jackie

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and David, their lives, their family.

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God, we thank you that you would just pour out.

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Yes, Lord.

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An abundance of faith, anointing, refreshing, of refilling, even as she's pouring out and

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David are pouring out at this conference.

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We thank you, God, that you would help them to release a now word, an in season word for

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those that are coming to this conference, God, that it would be a divine appointment.

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We believe that's already what it is, but God help those that are coming believe it

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for themselves.

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God, that they can leave this conference, not just having a moment and an experience,

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but they would become a part of the movement, the part of the movement of kingdom, families

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and marriages being birthed.

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Not that we just look for the spirit mate, but we experience divine revelation and healing

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and impartation from you in the process of seeking you first, Father.

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So Lord, we just thank you that you will just, yeah, Lord, prepare a table for Jackie and

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David in the presence of their enemies.

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Every assault of the enemy that he's tried or is trying to raise up against them.

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Even now, we thank you, God, that you would raise up a standard against him and you would

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cause him to flee seven ways.

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We declare it.

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We confess it.

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We thank you for it.

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In Jesus name, you all, it's going to be a good day.

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It's a great day to have to be great, to have a great day.

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Do you all know that we're a part of when we have a great day or not genuinely?

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I know.

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y'all have bad days. But from my perspective, I feel like my

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heart posture and my mindsets and my ability to continue to

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press in is what causes me to have a great day or not. We all

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encounter rough people, don't we? Right? Let's choose to have

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a great day today. So if you're just now joining us Hi, I'm here

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today surprise instead of Jackie, she and David are at the

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conference. And so we were chatting about what did we want

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to release today for Supernatural Saturday. And

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here's where we're going to be tracking if you did not hear

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last Saturday, Supernatural Saturday, I encourage you to

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listen to it. Y'all Jackie started talking about or I mean,

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she's talked about it before, but went deeper into spiritual

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gifts, and why they're important in this day and season more now

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than ever before. They've always been important. They were given

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to us to help us but also to equip the church. And she she

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really did an awesome job. It's it's amazing. And I believe it

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will really encourage you regarding the plans that God

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has for you regarding the gifts he wants to open up in your

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life. And some of you are already walking in spiritual

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gifts and all of the things but I want to encourage you just as

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I was praying that God in his word declared that Jesus said

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that we would do even greater things than he did. Can you

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imagine it? I mean, when you read the things that Jesus did

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when he was on the earth, and you just start meditating on

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those, and he's saying that we will do even greater things than

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he did. Well, how? How do we do that? Well, we start to equip

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and be equipped and stir up the gifts that God has placed within

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us. We cannot do greater things if we aren't walking in the

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spiritual gifts that he's provided for us to disciple

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other people to spread the gospel to, hey, create a kingdom

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family and marriage. Guess what, you need all the gifts of the

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spirit, you need the fruits of the spirit. And you need the

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gifts of the spirit to have healthy marriages and families.

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And then we've got to teach our kids. And you know, those that

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come behind us to also walk in these things. So we're not just

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learning for us, we're learning so that we can release it to

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other people as well. Maybe you're not a teacher, and that's

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okay. It can be one on one conversation that God uses you.

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And you're just sharing about what God's doing in you. And

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then as you're sharing your testimony, it's by the blood of

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the lamb and the word of our testimony, that that

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transformation happens, y'all. Do you know, one of the first

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things that God taught me how to do really early on, I was a baby

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Christian. And I didn't even know really what I was doing

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other than I was just excited about what God was doing in me.

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And I just started talking to somebody about it. This woman,

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I had moved to Cleveland, and I moved in with two women, I

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didn't know at all, kind of scary, but I did it. I just took

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a leap of faith. And neither one of them are Christians, y'all.

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At first, I was like, what have I gotten myself into? Because I

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was sitting in my room, y'all. And when I say this, I'm not,

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I'm not so great. So I'm just saying this is what God led me

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to do. I would go and sit in my room, and I would read my Bible

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and I would pray and I wouldn't go out with them. They would go

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out and party and they would come home and they'd be smashed.

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And I would hear them coming in at night. And God just said,

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keep praying for them. Not because I was better than them,

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but because God had a plan for them. So little by little, I

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would share with them. The one lady was, was Jewish, and she

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just kind of was kind of walled up, not super open, but she

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would let me talk to her. And y'all, I'm not saying that to

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point out and say that people that are Jewish can't believe

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that's not what I'm saying. But I'm just saying that's where she

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was at. Because everybody that has ears to hear what a spirit

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is saying will hear it. The other lady was more open and we

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would go walking and I would just be talking about what God

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was doing in my life. And I remember one day talking to her

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about, God was stirring up the gift of teaching in me. And he

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was telling me and he was nudging me to start a Bible

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study. And I was in a mentorship class at the time. And my mentor

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was like, yeah, go for it. And, and I was telling this woman

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about it, like, I don't even know where to start. Like, I've

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never taught anybody. I hardly know the Bible, but I know that

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God's teaching me stuff. But like, I don't even, I don't have

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anyone to teach the Bible study to. And you all just literally

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as simply as this, she said, what about me? I was like, Oh,

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okay. Well, would you, is that something you want to do? Yes,

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you all. My first Bible study I ever taught was with a woman

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that was an unbeliever completely. She would drink and

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smoke and all the things while we were doing Bible study. And

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guess what?

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did not condemn her for it. I let her do it. And I just taught her about Jesus. And I just taught

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her about what God was doing in me. And, you know, as a baby Christian, I hardly knew the word.

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You all, I was learning as I was going. And so I want that to be the starting point today.

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We don't have to have arrived to be used by God to lead someone. We all are leading someone

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every day. So why not lead them to the best of our ability and share what God's done in us,

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is doing in us? How is he healing us? How is he transforming us? We are called to be hope

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bearers, light bearers, and to spread the gospel. The gospel is Jesus. Just talking about Jesus.

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If you ever pause and just say the name of Jesus and just kind of keep saying it,

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y'all, if the enemy is attacking you, guess what? In that moment, if you will just start saying

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Jesus and really mean it like Jesus, guess what? Darkness has to flee. It cannot stay

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when we declare Jesus over anything, the blood over anything. And that's why sometimes even in

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dreams, when the enemy attacks us, well, I don't know if y'all have ever had this happen, but I've

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had where my mouth, like I literally was trying to open it in the dream and say Jesus and I couldn't.

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This was a dream. This wasn't real life, but that has happened. And the reason that the enemy tries

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to do that is because he wants us to be afraid. Okay. So we're going to, we're going to talk about

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the opposite of fear today. We're going to talk about the gift of faith and y'all we're going to,

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we're going to talk about the difference between a measure of faith versus the spiritual gift of

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faith, because there's a difference. Every single one of us should be growing more and more and more

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in our faith every day, but there's a gift of faith that we can pursue that is a spiritual gift.

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And that we believe, Jackie and I believe that God wants to encourage all of you to start seeking

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more, that you can have endowment power from heaven to have a gift of faith for something,

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not just for yourself, but for the body of Christ, for God to release it through you.

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And we want to make sure that you understand this isn't about how good you are,

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ladies and gentlemen. It's not about, I did an awesome job, so therefore God is giving me

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something. It's not about that. It's about humbling ourself under the mighty hand of God, pursuing,

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and I'm going to talk about this more in depth later, but pursuing the Father who is the giver

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of all gifts. First and foremost, y'all return to our first love. For some of you, you might,

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you've known God for a long time and you might even believe in Jesus and the Holy Spirit,

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but you may never have fallen in love because of what you've been through in your life.

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Love with who? Well, love with the Father, love with Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit,

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like the amazing relationship that God sent Jesus to come and die on the cross to create that

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pathway to the Father through Him. He has more for us. If you're just now joining us,

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Good Greater is a conference that Brian and I just went to, and man, God was stirring things

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up in me about the greater life that He has for us. Y'all, I've been so blessed to be a part of

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so many things over the years and praying and prophesying over people, and I don't,

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it's not about me. It's just such a blessing to see what God is doing in the body,

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and then I get to be this little glimpse of that. Man, it's an honor. Do you view

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the gifts that you have and the ability that you have to bless someone else as an honor? Do you

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view your life and getting to be a part of this movement and community as an honor? Do y'all pay

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for it? Yes, we all, like I paid for it too, but y'all, it's a gift that God has given you in this

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season of your life. I'm not just saying that because I'm a part of the team. I'm saying that

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because I believe it. Do we view the season that we're in as a gift? Yeah, some of you are in a

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tough season right now. You're feeling disappointment, discouragement, oppression,

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all the things, but even in that, there is a gift in the center of it that we can unwrap and ask,

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God, what are you trying to teach me? What are you trying to give me? I don't believe you're

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trying to call. The father isn't the one that sends depression or discouragement. That's the devil,

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but in the midst of it, the father can say, hey, daughter, hey, son, I want to give you this gift

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in the middle of what you're going through because what you're going through isn't your final.

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destination, just like when Jesus the boat with the

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disciples and they were afraid of the waves and he woke up and

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he's like, why are you afraid?

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guess what it's because he knew where they were going.

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Jesus knew the destination.

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Do you know the destination?

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just a place or a person that you're going to arrive at but

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the heart posture your purpose the plan if you all remember

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from heart work and I even talked about this the other

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night for phase three and the men we we want to step further

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every day into the fullness of the original plan and purpose

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God had for us.

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Okay, so that's what we're in pursuit of and in pursuit of

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We want to stir up faith today.

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So last Saturday Jackie began teaching us about the spiritual

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gifts and and why we should pursue them.

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Why should we earn like why we should earnestly you guys

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earnestly means like fervor like passion like we have a drive

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and a hunger.

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It says that we should hunger and thirst for his righteousness

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and for the gifts.

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Well to hunger and thirst means you recognize that you're empty

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you recognize that you're empty without him not just the gifts.

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He's the vine were the branches.

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We can't do anything apart from him.

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the fruits of the spirit including the gifts of the

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Those are different things remember and then Sunday night

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her and David began activating the gift of prophecy.

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If you didn't hear that replay check it out.

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And so today we're going to talk about again just to make sure

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everybody's on the same page with us.

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We're all tracking together the gift of faith, but also

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distinguishing the difference between just having a measure

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of faith.

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I'm going to talk to you all also about the spirit.

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I'm sorry the measure of faith faith as a gift, you know, we

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have faith saving faith.

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That's how we come to know Jesus.

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gifts of faith and then seeking the giver and then we're going

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to talk about stirring up the spiritual gifts.

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So we got a lot of ground to cover.

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I'm going to try to talk really fast.

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I'm going to be probably like a fire hose today.

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Y'all.

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I'm just going to say I've got a lot of stuff to give to you.

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And so I hope it comes out with stories included.

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We'll see where God's going to stir up as we go.

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So I want to start with a fee.

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Yeah, excuse me Ephesians 2 8 through 9.

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I'm starting with faith as a gift of God the saving faith.

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This is how we all come as I was saying just a moment ago to the

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saving knowledge of Jesus Christ of who God the father is who

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the Holy Spirit is but most importantly receiving Jesus as

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our Savior Ephesians 2 8 through 9 says this for by grace you

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have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves.

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It is the gift of God.

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Not of works less any man should boast this verse highlights.

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The Salvation is by God's grace.

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Our Salvation is by God's grace.

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It is a gift of God for us to us and we receive it through

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faith through the hearing of the word.

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The Bible talks about that.

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Let us hear the word and then receive the truth that's in it.

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Y'all if we're not here in the word if we're not, you know, I

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know you all hear it through this community, but I hope

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you're spending time reading your Bible.

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Not just like Jackie said not just to read it but to read it

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to hear that fresh man of what does God want to give you today?

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Yeah, you can hear the word through me or through a pastor

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through anybody else but God wants to speak to you.

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You are his friend.

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What does he want to say to you personally that the scripture

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is Ephesians 2 8 through 9.

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Y'all we don't earn as I talked about a little bit ago.

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We don't earn this.

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Jesus the re I 100% believe and I've heard people preach this.

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I believe the reason that God the father ascended like Jesus

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on like a dove upon Jesus before he ever did anything.

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I really believe it's because God wanted to in that moment

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demonstrate that even through his own son remember to meet

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your up yourselves y'all even his own son.

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Was honored and loved and you know, this whole edification

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moment if you will publicly affirmation affirming him

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that this is my son and whom I'm well-pleased and Jesus

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hadn't done any miracles yet.

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He hadn't even gone out and started teaching yet.

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That's something that we need to remember at the core.

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No matter what.

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If you never did another thing for God, the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit,

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God's love for you would be the same. It's unconditional, without condition, without

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feeling like we're doing something good. But God in His goodness is like, man, I want you to be a

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part of this fun party. I want you to come and see the joy of our salvation. Not only the joy of our

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own salvation, but man, has anybody ever just, when someone gives their life to Christ and they

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get baptized, been at one of the churches where it's like, not just one, one baptism and salvation

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is amazing, but man, when you see it one after another, after another, there is this immense

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amount. Like I cry. I try not to cry, but I cry most of the time because my heart is just like,

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Jesus, yes, He's winning. He's winning. He's, He's saving people. He's leading people home

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into the family. And I've got new brothers and sisters in that, even if I never meet them

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personally, that makes my heart happy. And so if that's not something you feel, it's okay,

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but maybe pray for that. Pray that God would move on your heart in such a way

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that you would feel joy, immense joy, not only at people coming to know Jesus Christ, but hey,

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here we go. I'm going to add another thing into here. When your brothers and sisters meet their

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spirit mate, when your brothers and sisters get engaged, when your brothers and sisters get

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married and, and that we would shift out of this scarcity of, man, it's never going to happen for

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me. And the lies that the enemy tries to send you when you see someone else prospering. Y'all,

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I had to go through that. I had to, my, one of my good friends who wasn't even in this program

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got engaged and married before me. And I was kind of like, man, I had to battle jealousy and all the

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things, but guess what? In that process in humbling myself and admitting what I was feeling,

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God started talking to me and giving me a gift of faith to believe that I was a bride,

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not just to be activated by Jackie, but to actually shift into receiving the met,

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like the genuine heavenly gift of faith to believe in the impossible. Cause in that time,

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I thought it was impossible y'all for myself. I really did. But God had more for me. And I,

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the gift of faith that he gave me, y'all, I bought a wedding dress and I wasn't even dating

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someone. And he told me to do that because he wanted me to activate the gift of faith that he

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was about to pour into me. I didn't even have that gift of faith yet, but in that moment,

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doing those things, there were other things God led me to do in the same time. I started getting

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on super, or maybe I was leading a supernatural Saturday. I don't know, one of the prayer calls.

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And I got on in a white dress with my bride sash on. Cause God was like, not only give this,

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get this for yourself, but give it to people. And so I hope that you're hearing that today as

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well. All right. We're going to keep going regarding the saving faith. I'm getting ahead

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of myself. I start getting excited, you all, and it just starts coming out. So I hope I don't

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confuse anybody. I'll try to come back and recenter before we keep going. Romans 10, 17 says this.

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So then faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ. So that's what I

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was talking about earlier. We've got to be around people that speak the truth. We got to hear it.

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We got to receive it, but not only hear it from other people, we got to read the word and hear

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the Holy Spirit speaking to us. Before you read the word, you all, I want to encourage you.

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You know, I used to do this all the time. I remember somebody taught me this, so I can't

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take credit for it, but maybe it was even Joyce Meyer. It's so interesting how many similarities

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Jackie and I have. Joyce Meyer was one of my first mentors. I grew up in my faith listening

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to her all the time. I'm so grateful for her life, for her testimony, for her word, the things that

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she releases. But when we sit down and pray and just say, God, I'm about to read your word and

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I want to hear you through it. Help me to hear what heaven has to say to me today.

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We might not always feel it, you all, and we might not even recognize we're getting revelation.

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Sometimes I do that and I feel like it's just a wall. Why? Because the devil's trying to resist

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the word that God's wanting to give me. And then other times, y'all, I'm reading the word

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and I'm not kidding. I'm like, oh my gosh, that's speaking to me. Oh my gosh, that's,

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I'm highlighting and I'm making notes and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is something I was praying

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about. And, and God's just like talking to me and, and oh, like I've read this scripture before,

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but man, it's saying something new to me today. So we gotta, we gotta read the word and ask God

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to help us perceive it, to understand it, to study the Greek, to study the Hebrew. If you don't know

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how to do that, y'all, let's just have, let's just ask, ask somebody that does to teach you.

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That's how I had to do it. Somebody taught me how to pray. Somebody taught me how to study the

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That's one of the biggest things I see in our Christian culture today is, you know,

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because we get everything instant, microwave, we go through drive-thrus and we've got food,

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we've got all this stuff so fast that we are losing our ability to apply what we are learning.

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And we want everybody to spoon-feed us.

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And I'm not judging.

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I'm not trying to create shame.

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I'm just saying I see it all around us.

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Even in our community, we provide so much content.

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I know there's a lot, you all.

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I know there is.

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But here's the thing, go back and keep studying it.

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Keep listening to it.

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Keep letting the truth, you know, come in and invade the places and spaces.

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do you all know that in certain seasons, if we are super wounded, we can only retain so

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much in that season?

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So when you came into this program, if you came in really fragmented, like this was the

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first healing journey you've been through, it's okay if it takes you longer to meet your

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spirit mate, because here's the thing, you can only receive so much at a time.

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Sponges, if they're full of water, can't receive a lot more water.

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But if that sponge is kind of squeezed out in that new season, guess what?

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It's ready to receive more.

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So the more that you heal and go, that's like that releasing of what's already in there,

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the stuff that God never intended to be in your sponge, so to speak.

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He's trying to get that stuff out of you, not pressing you to hurt you, but to grow

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you, to heal you so that you can receive more.

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Y'all, I've been saved for over 20, I don't know, 1998, y'all do the math, I've been saved

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that long, 26, 27, 28 years.

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So I've been journeying this thing for a long time.

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So the things that I understand and see are so different than when I first came to know

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the Lord.

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I look at the Father so differently now.

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So here we go, gift of faith as a spiritual gift is this.

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We want to understand that, I'm sorry, nope, scratch that, we're doing measure of faith.

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I got to talk about that next, because here's the thing, we have saving faith.

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And then the Bible declares that we have a measure of faith.

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So again, as we're going, which is why I was kind of talking about that just a minute ago

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in my own walk, we're absorbing more as we go, as we're healing, we're able to retain

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more and hopefully we're growing.

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And this was from Joyce Meyer, at least the first time I ever heard it, maybe somebody

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else said it before her, but from glory to glory.

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Hopefully we're growing step by step by step, even in our faith and the ability to believe

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that God is good, that we can trust Him, that He will defend us and He's gone before us

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into every situation.

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So sorry, you all, I'm going to say, oh yeah, Romans 10, 17 was the one I already read for

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saving faith.

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So measure of faith is Romans 3, that's where I'm going next.

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And it says this, for by the grace given to me, I say to every one of you, do not think

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of yourself more highly than you ought to, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment

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in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.

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So God distributes faith to us according to the measure of our ability to receive it.

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So that's why I talked about the sponge.

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It's okay if you are still growing and maybe you all, when I say this, you know, the Bible

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talks about in the beginning, you know, we're babies in our faith.

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We're babies in our understanding and babies need milk and they need easy food.

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And then as we grow, hopefully we're starting to, you know, eat the food that's a little

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more developed.

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Maybe as we keep growing, hopefully we're about to eat some steaks, some meat, some

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heavier stuff, but understand that it's okay, whatever season you're in, don't let the devil

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come in and start getting you to compare yourself to other people's faith journeys, looking

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at leaders.

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Like the reason I mentioned how long I've been saved is because I think some of you

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in this community, you're looking at people that are leaders in this community, even preachers

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and pastors and, and you're comparing yourself to them.

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When some of you are new believers, don't feel shame or condemnation or guilt because

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you're not where someone else is yet.

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You're where you are because that's your journey that you're on.

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So, let God lead you right where you're at.

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So, what is the measure of faith?

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The measure of faith is the faith,

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it's referring to the faith that every believer possesses

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that enables them to live the Christian life.

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So, beyond receiving Jesus Christ,

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that we would continue in our faith,

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that is enabled by the measure of faith

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that we have received.

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The measure of faith also is our ability

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to understand God's word.

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That's why, again, as we grow as Christians,

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we move from babies to toddlers to middle high,

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think about the progression even of the physical realm

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that we went through and all the things

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that we've hopefully learned along the way.

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Some of us maybe even now, I don't know about you all,

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but I remember being even in my high 30s, young 40s,

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feeling like, man, I still feel like a little girl

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in this area and I need to grow up here

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because of the things I went through,

460
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you know, a lot of harm and a lot of things that happened,

461
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they caused me to be stunted in some areas

462
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until I was healed enough to grow and mature in that area

463
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because I started seeing, wait a minute,

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oh, that's not what God says or thinks about me,

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this is what God says or thinks about me

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and my value and how he wants to use me.

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He doesn't just want me to be out here crushing it

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and serving him, he wants me, man,

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he likes to spend time with me as his daughter,

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he just cares about me apart from anything I can do for him.

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The measure of faith is also what helps us trust

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in his promises, so here's the thing,

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if you're struggling to trust in his promises,

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remember from the heart work, that's gonna signal you

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to an area where you need healing.

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The healing partners with us growing in our faith.

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Some of you maybe even felt like you were really far along

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and then stuff happened and you felt like

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you still love the Lord, you've been journeying with him,

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but you just feel like there's been a disconnect.

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I wanna encourage you, don't receive any shame

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or guilt or condemnation, just understand

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that you can begin again now.

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Today can be the day of a new beginning

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and a reckoning with yourself and saying,

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Lord, I need you, there's that song, Lord, I need you.

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Oh, how I need you, every day I need you.

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That song is just that general reminder again

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that he's the vine, we're the branches,

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we can't do anything apart from him.

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How do we receive the measure of faith, you all?

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It's basically God deals to each one of us

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a measure of faith, so again, it's not something we earn,

494
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it's not something we achieve, it's a gift.

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And as we keep growing, we get more gifts,

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we get more faith, we grow, we get more food to eat.

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Then the purpose of the measure of faith is this,

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the measure of faith allows believers

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to think with sober judgment,

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that just means with clear minds, you all,

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understanding our place in the body of Christ,

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that we would also avoid pride

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and overestimation of ourselves.

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What does that mean?

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That means that we wouldn't think more highly

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of ourselves than we ought to,

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which is what Romans 12, three talks about.

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Humble, humble, humble ourselves.

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The last will be first.

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Does that mean you can't have the gifts too?

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Does that mean God's gonna withhold his promises from you

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and just bless everybody else?

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No, but you all, it's like what I was saying earlier,

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celebrating other people when they get their wins,

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guess what?

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That's kind of that moment of like, the last will be first.

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You can celebrate someone else's blessing

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and that doesn't diminish your ability

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to receive a blessing.

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It doesn't mean that you're missing out

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because someone else has gotten something.

522
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Doesn't mean that God doesn't love you

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or he doesn't see you or any of those things.

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And if the enemy is saying that to you,

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it's because he's trying to get you to partner

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with fear versus faith.

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The measure of faith also helps us, excuse me, grow,

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hopefully as I've been talking about

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and in our time with the Lord,

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spending time with him, prayer, living in obedience.

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Obedience is better than sacrifice is what scripture says.

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So where is God asking you in this season

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to grow in your faith and be obedient?

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One step every day.

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That's something I talk about all the time.

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What's, God, what's one thing you want me to do today

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to move my life forward in you?

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Not for my spirit mate, but in you, Father.

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And guess what?

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The spirit mate as we.

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do these things as we keep walking and praying and believing and growing in our faith. The spirit

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mate, as we talk about in this community, it's the cherry on top. It's the extra blessing,

543
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the and then some that comes into our life because we're walking towards all the things that God is

544
00:35:16.560 --> 00:35:22.480
showing us every day. Is God showing you today to walk in the measure of faith, to forgive someone,

545
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to believe for reconciliation, to go out and exercise your physical body because your physical

546
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body needs health. It needs healing. You know, what is that measure of faith today for you?

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All right, we're going to keep going. Faith in that scripture, Romans 12, 3 is this, where it

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says, accordance with the faith God has distributed to us. It's really just the conviction of truth,

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our belief. So in that moment, in this day, you know, what is it that you believe?

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There's a song again, y'all, sometimes these things come up. I can't remember the name of

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the song, but in whose report will you believe? Will you believe the report of the Lord? And,

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and that song used to be really famous years ago when I used to lead youth group and I'm,

553
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I'm a lot older now. And so I don't know how old it is, but like that song used to minister to me

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so much because the enemy was trying to convince me of things that weren't true.

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And so I had to really work on taking every thought captive very, very much. The mind is

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a battlefield. If the, if the enemy can get our minds, our minds are connected to our hearts.

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Remember, we can be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Well, that's with the healing in

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our hearts, right? So as that stuff gets cleared out, we have more ability to believe and have

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faith and trust the father more. Now let's talk about spiritual gifts of faith. I don't know the

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name of the song. Sorry, y'all just go on Google and type in whose report will you believe? Will

561
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you believe the report of the Lord or something like that? I, and that might even be wrong,

562
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but just type that in and see what y'all find. Hopefully you'll find the right song, but if not

563
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just use discernment and what comes up. Cause there's some crazy stuff that comes up sometimes.

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All right. Um, we're going to read, uh, Romans 12, nine. Let me find my notes here. You all,

565
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here we go. 12. No, no. I'm going to start in first Corinthians 12, seven. Sorry, y'all. I'm

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keen. I'm getting, getting things in front of them. Yeah. Ron cannoli. That sounds about right. Ruth

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first Corinthians, 12, seven. And then I'm going to read first Corinthians 12, nine. I'm reading

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two scriptures now to each one. The manifestation of the spirit is given for the common good.

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This verse is suggesting that the gift of faith, like other spiritual gifts is given to us for the

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benefit of the church and building up and edifying the body of Christ. So we're not just trying to

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get gifts to get gifts. You all it's so that we can be empowered and receive endowment from heaven

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to grow the kingdom, to invest in the people that God sends into our lives.

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So the next thing says, first Corinthians 12, nine to another faith by the same spirit. Cause

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if you read the in-between scripture there, it's talking about all the other gifts of the spirit.

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And then it goes into, to another faith by the same spirit. This is where it's designated as

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an actual gift of the spirit. This is where it's saying, okay, Hey, the gift of faith comes through

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the power of the Holy spirit. And the one, the Holy spirit is the one that gives us that ability.

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He's the one that gives it to us that wills it to us. But Hey, guess what? We got to ask for it.

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Sometimes we just get impartation. Okay. Let's that is true. Sometimes when we just receive

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Jesus, that stuff's already there. And we receive these impartation of giftings and we start

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operating in them pretty quickly. But here's the thing. We got to cultivate gifts. We've got to,

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if we don't already have it, if, well, we already have it, but if we haven't started up,

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if we haven't activated, if we haven't been working on it, walking in it, all the things,

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then we're not utilizing the tool that's in our tool belt. How many people have a toolkit in your

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00:39:21.120 --> 00:39:27.520
home? You went and you bought a toolkit. You got all these tools. And guess what? How many of them

586
00:39:27.520 --> 00:39:34.560
do we use? Typically some water too. Now, if you're a big builder, you might use more of your

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tools, but I'm using this as an example, because this is the reality. When we get saved, we're

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given a toolbox and it's full of the fruits of the spirit and it's full of the gifts of the spirit.

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But we don't always know how to use the tools that have been given to us. And we don't always

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know that they're available to us. And we don't always know how to start walking in them and all

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of the things. What kind of gifts am I referring to? I'm today.

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Today I'm focusing on the gift of faith.

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That's what we're talking about.

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And we're basically, I've been trying to lay the groundwork so that y'all understand the

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difference between daily having faith versus a supernatural gift of faith.

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The impartation and infilling of the Holy Spirit and it manifesting through a gift of

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faith.

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And we're going to talk about what that looks like and all of the things.

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So what is the gift of faith?

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The gift of faith is this, a specific supernatural ability given to believers to discern God's

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will and his purpose with extraordinary confidence, often involving a sense of assurance about

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God's future plans.

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So you all, sometimes when I used to lead faith Friday, I would just feel like this

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supernatural belief in faith for people to receive financial blessing.

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Sometimes I would feel this like, man, I just feel like God's saying he wants to heal people

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of arthritis or what those are.

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Those are gifts of healing, but also gifts of faith.

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And God is activating and speaking to me from heaven.

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And there's not, this isn't just me, God, he does, God does this with a lot of people,

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but I'm just trying to give you actual examples for those of you that are like, well, what

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does this even look like in real day, real time?

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And we're going to talk a little bit about some of the people in the Bible.

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I'm not going to go in depth in that because we're already at 1040 and I won't have time

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for that, but I'm going to give you all homework, some reading to do so that you can grow in

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your understanding of that for yourself.

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But that's what it is.

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It's literally a supernatural heavenly perspective that you're receiving for a situation, for

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a person, you know, maybe you're praying for something and all of a sudden God is, is speaking

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to you like, like he did me when we were going through, Brian had gotten reappointed

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to a church.

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We were in Indiana.

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And when he showed me that church in that moment, I was like, no, not just because I

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was resistant you all, but that church and that situation did not align with what God

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had been telling Brian and I, God had been telling us that he was moving us forward.

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And that place is soon, literally, as soon as I looked at it and heard about it, it was

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backwards.

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It was going backwards.

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And so I knew, no, did I still go look at that church with Brian?

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Yes, we did.

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We walked it out.

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But here's the thing the next day after we, he got that reappointment as I'm praying and

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I'm crying because I'm like, God, I don't understand.

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00:42:38.020 --> 00:42:41.460
You said you're taking us forward and this place looks backwards.

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What is happening right now?

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And I saw this, this is the prophetic gift.

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I'm going to kind of combine how God speaks to me and does this.

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Everybody's different.

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Y'all yours might be different, but I saw in my spirit, in my mind's eye, I saw a window

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open and then I heard God say to me, look for the window.

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Okay.

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Well, that's, that's the gift of the prophetic.

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God's talking to me as well as a word of wisdom and knowledge coming through.

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Well, then guess what?

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I had to activate that with faith.

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I had to pray every day, pray for that.

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And then I started asking God for the gift of faith to believe for the window, to look

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for that window.

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And then when it started happening, well, guess what it long before it happened, I perceived

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it in my spirit and received a gift of faith to supernaturally believe for something more

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because that's what God was already saying to us.

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And now we are in a church that is absolutely forward.

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Everything that God is doing, the supernatural that's being released, we've been, we've stepped

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into a season y'all literally in my entire life, I've never been in a season where I've

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received so much financial blessings.

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We went on a cruise last year.

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Someone paid for half of it.

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Just recently someone gave us, they heard we were spending time with family when Brian's

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daughter was coming in town.

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Somebody gave us a thousand dollars.

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I don't, we don't even know who it was just to go to Disney.

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Just our whole trip for Disney, at least the tickets was paid for by someone else.

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What I've never been in a season.

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Like it's just God's doing something supernatural.

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But long before we stepped into the season, God was giving me the gift of faith to believe

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for the supernatural in every area of our lives, provision, supernatural provision,

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not just with the church he was giving us, but with the finances and the provision going

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ahead of us and preparing.

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And then when we get here, we just get to receive it.

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So I hope that encourages some of you that are also going through some difficulties that

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God wants to give you more.

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He wants to increase and give you the gift of faith.

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Okay.

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How do we receive the gift of faith?

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Like other spiritual gifts, the gift of faith is giving.

675
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.440
given by God. Again, it's not something we can earn or like

676
00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:10.680
just desire, we just need to seek it. But we receive it just

677
00:45:10.680 --> 00:45:15.440
like a gift. Who's received a gift on their birthday? Anybody?

678
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How do we receive it? We let somebody give it to us. And then

679
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when they give it to us, what do we do? We open it. And then if

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00:45:24.560 --> 00:45:28.120
it's a toy or clothes, we do something with it, don't we?

681
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:32.760
Typically, we put it on, we wear it, if it's a toy, we're, you

682
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:35.280
know, doing something if you're kids, I'm kind of translating

683
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:38.900
there. But even like if, if it's a gift, and someone's, you know,

684
00:45:38.900 --> 00:45:42.460
giving me an experience, I love experience gifts, you all, I'm

685
00:45:42.460 --> 00:45:44.840
big on that I want to go experience something new. And

686
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:48.120
that's what I would rather get than any other gift. And so

687
00:45:48.120 --> 00:45:51.720
we're, I'm doing something with that gift. So we got it, we have

688
00:45:51.720 --> 00:45:56.560
to do the same thing with the gift of faith. We receive it, we

689
00:45:56.560 --> 00:46:01.920
open it up. Well, how do we open it up? Well, we pray. What

690
00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:06.640
does scripture say about it? We seek it out. And then we start

691
00:46:06.640 --> 00:46:09.920
putting it in practice, we put it on, we start activating it,

692
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:15.080
we start walking in it. I can definitely tell you that I, I

693
00:46:15.080 --> 00:46:20.340
know that God gave me the gift of faith long ago. But I

694
00:46:20.340 --> 00:46:24.880
absolutely 100% believe I'm walking in that gifting more

695
00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:29.640
now than ever. Do I think I've arrived in it? Absolutely not.

696
00:46:29.640 --> 00:46:34.620
Because I am not in heaven. We're not in heaven yet. So we

697
00:46:34.620 --> 00:46:37.960
receive a measure of faith, a measure of understanding a

698
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:40.960
measure of revelation about these gifts, and we walk in them

699
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:43.360
to the best of our ability. But like I said this the other

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night, I want upgrades every day, I want to walk in more

701
00:46:46.280 --> 00:46:49.200
faith in the gift of faith, not just having faith, but I want to

702
00:46:49.200 --> 00:46:52.040
receive supernatural faith for people when the hurricanes were

703
00:46:52.040 --> 00:46:57.560
coming to Florida last, last season, y'all. I'm praying and

704
00:46:57.560 --> 00:47:00.360
I'm praying and I'm not just praying because I live here. I'm

705
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:03.860
praying because it's breaking my heart how much fear people had

706
00:47:03.860 --> 00:47:07.160
because, you know, Fort Myers got hit by Hurricane Ian just a

707
00:47:07.160 --> 00:47:10.920
few years before and people were terrified. And I just started

708
00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:14.600
interceding and praying. And y'all, God started speaking to

709
00:47:14.600 --> 00:47:20.960
me about the faith he wanted me to have for this place. And what

710
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:24.080
he wanted me to pray and say and declare. And then he said

711
00:47:24.080 --> 00:47:28.480
this, go live on your Facebook page and declare it. Y'all think

712
00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:33.560
I was scared to do that? Anybody? I was. Because I was

713
00:47:33.560 --> 00:47:38.360
like, God, if I get on my Facebook page and declare this,

714
00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:41.720
here's reality, you all, even when I'm receiving the gift of

715
00:47:41.720 --> 00:47:45.040
faith to believe for something, you better believe the enemy is

716
00:47:45.040 --> 00:47:47.920
trying to make me afraid to declare that faith over you all

717
00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:53.400
or over somebody else over my own life. I was doing it afraid

718
00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:57.520
because my fear, the enemy was saying you, yeah, I'm gonna come

719
00:47:57.520 --> 00:48:00.200
in and do the opposite of what God's telling you. I'm just

720
00:48:00.200 --> 00:48:08.960
gonna wreck that place. I went on and I did it anyways. I did

721
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:11.680
because I thought, you know what, God, I want to partner

722
00:48:11.680 --> 00:48:15.120
with you. And I want to see what you're going to do. Now, was

723
00:48:15.120 --> 00:48:18.080
that the only time I was declaring that? Absolutely not.

724
00:48:18.080 --> 00:48:21.600
You all, I was continuing to partner with that gift of faith,

725
00:48:21.600 --> 00:48:25.520
that impartation of what God was going to do. I prayed so much,

726
00:48:25.680 --> 00:48:29.200
you all, that whole time, because God was telling me he

727
00:48:29.200 --> 00:48:32.880
was going to cause that to go back out to the sea. Now you

728
00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:35.520
all, I know that it's still landed and it's still impacted

729
00:48:35.520 --> 00:48:38.960
people. Don't think I'm not understanding that. But you all,

730
00:48:39.040 --> 00:48:44.720
even on the news, people were saying they don't know how, but

731
00:48:44.720 --> 00:48:48.720
it started, it did not hit them the way they thought it would.

732
00:48:49.080 --> 00:48:51.280
Y'all can go back and look at it. Am I saying it's just

733
00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:55.000
because of me? Absolutely not. I believe God was speaking to me

734
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:57.920
and other people all over the world. And he was imparting

735
00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:01.840
faith, the gift of faith to believe and intercede and see

736
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:06.400
something different happen. I believe that we're here to

737
00:49:06.400 --> 00:49:09.600
partner with God, receive the gift of faith for things.

738
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Characteristics that we can see are this. When we walk in the

739
00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:17.200
spiritual gift of faith, there's an unusual desire to

740
00:49:17.200 --> 00:49:24.320
accept God's promise at face value. So here's the thing. When

741
00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:29.040
we say believe for your spirit, mate, I hope you all are

742
00:49:29.040 --> 00:49:37.360
praying for them supernaturally before they come. Not just being

743
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:39.920
here, being like, I'm on dating apps. I'm getting mad. I'm

744
00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:43.840
getting frustrated. Y'all, I get it. I experience things too. I

745
00:49:44.080 --> 00:49:48.480
met some wrong people along the way, but here's the thing. When

746
00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:51.360
I started praying for my spirit, mate, this one day God

747
00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:59.440
said, pray for him to be healed. What? Well, okay, God.

748
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.840
Start praying for him to be healed

749
00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:05.680
You know after I met Brian around the time that God led me to pray

750
00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:10.040
I didn't know who my spirit mate was then. He just said he's sick. He needs healing

751
00:50:11.120 --> 00:50:14.800
Y'all I found out Brian around that same time had to go to the hospital

752
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:17.400
He was really sick

753
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And he had to have you know, some stuff done and and I believe 100% that God was talking to me about Brian

754
00:50:26.560 --> 00:50:27.960
So

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Will you receive will you seek the gift of faith?

756
00:50:31.680 --> 00:50:36.280
It's also a sense of assurance that God is going to do something unusual

757
00:50:37.560 --> 00:50:45.440
Exciting, you know, one of our banner scriptures is that Amos 9 13 through 15, you know looking up with expectation

758
00:50:46.520 --> 00:50:52.480
We're believing we're looking up to heaven and we're saying I believe God you're gonna do something unusual and exciting

759
00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:57.240
And if we don't have that faith yet you all it's okay. I didn't have that faith in the beginning either

760
00:50:58.040 --> 00:51:00.040
Because I had been through so many

761
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:06.160
Hardships with men and relationships and I just felt like man. I just keep failing in this

762
00:51:06.160 --> 00:51:10.720
I don't understand why I can crush it and teach people I can crush it over here

763
00:51:10.720 --> 00:51:16.920
But I can't get this right and I don't know what is going on. Well, God started healing me. He started showing me I

764
00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:22.120
Had to learn how to set healthier boundaries. I had to learn to stop over sharing y'all

765
00:51:22.120 --> 00:51:25.400
we have to partner and walk in this stuff to every day and

766
00:51:26.160 --> 00:51:30.120
As I healed again, I grew in faith and I received an impartation

767
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:36.120
from heaven to supernaturally believe not only for my spirit mate, but y'all I used to

768
00:51:37.240 --> 00:51:39.240
struggle paycheck to paycheck

769
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And I didn't believe that's what God had for me I

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Didn't I was working for wealth management firm seeing people that had massive wealth and

771
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Thinking you know what? I don't know how I'm gonna get there God, but I believe you have that for me

772
00:51:56.040 --> 00:51:58.040
So, can you help me understand?

773
00:51:58.600 --> 00:52:04.560
Well, I needed to heal in my heart some heart postures and belief systems. I had about money. I

774
00:52:06.560 --> 00:52:08.880
Don't look at God is it as a vending machine?

775
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I

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Shifted and I believe he's my good daddy

777
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And my good dad

778
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Has gifts he wants to give me but he also wants me to to grow in my ability to steward

779
00:52:25.160 --> 00:52:27.240
Well what he's giving me

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Y'all I had to grow in my stewardship and heal in my limiting belief systems and poverty mindsets

781
00:52:35.200 --> 00:52:37.920
so that when I would receive the money I

782
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:45.760
Had be able to retain it and put it in investments and grow it the storehouse not just in my savings

783
00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:50.280
But the investments the storehouse growing and I'm not gonna get into what you should do

784
00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:53.840
Don't ask but I'm just saying that was part of my journey

785
00:52:55.280 --> 00:53:02.280
But I also needed to receive the gift of faith for God to shift my unbelief regarding finances

786
00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:05.040
Y'all I'm a big giver. I'm a big giver

787
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I love to give to people my spiritual daughters

788
00:53:07.680 --> 00:53:13.880
It wasn't just that I just spent my money on useless things and just was like being irresponsible

789
00:53:14.840 --> 00:53:16.040
but

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If my girls had a need it didn't matter if I did I was gonna get them groceries

791
00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:27.000
Cuz their dad wasn't going to the grocery store and my girls didn't have food freaking a what the heck I was mad

792
00:53:28.080 --> 00:53:31.160
So I'm gonna get him money. I'm gonna get him groceries. I'm gonna get him clothes

793
00:53:31.160 --> 00:53:34.000
I'm gonna get him whatever they needed, but I also

794
00:53:34.680 --> 00:53:37.320
Didn't want to be a bad steward of the rest of it

795
00:53:38.600 --> 00:53:39.680
so

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Keep going. I have seven minutes. I can't believe this. I got a hurry

797
00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:48.480
Purpose again is to build up the church and demonstrate God's power one of the other characteristics

798
00:53:48.480 --> 00:53:55.120
I don't want to forget this one of the other characteristics of the gift of faith is a deep knowledge of God's realness

799
00:53:55.840 --> 00:54:00.400
Because of his ability to intervene why because he loves us

800
00:54:01.640 --> 00:54:09.720
Sometimes he's intervening you all to protect us you you're mad at God right now some of you because God said no to somebody

801
00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:15.440
And you're still trying to hang on to that relationship and God's saying let it go

802
00:54:17.680 --> 00:54:22.400
Best thing I ever did was let go of that relationship with the girl's dad and then I was able to receive

803
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:26.560
What God had for me the best God had the best gift for me and Brian

804
00:54:28.080 --> 00:54:30.080
So incredible, okay

805
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:32.880
We're gonna keep going. How can we pursue the spiritual gifts?

806
00:54:33.520 --> 00:54:38.400
Including the gift of faith Matthew 7 7 through 12 says this

807
00:54:39.040 --> 00:54:41.680
Asking it will be given to you seek and you will find

808
00:54:41.920 --> 00:54:47.280
Knock and the door will be open to you for everyone who asked receives the one who seeks finds until the one who knocks the

809
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:49.280
Door will be opened

810
00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:52.320
Which of you if your son asked for bread will give him a stone

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Or if he asked for a fish will give him a snake if you then though you are evil know how to give him a stone

812
00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:00.400
You'll get a stone

813
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.600
good gifts to your children, how much more will your father in heaven give good gifts to those

814
00:55:02.480 --> 00:55:04.480
You'll get a stone

815
00:55:05.600 --> 00:55:12.480
who ask him? So in everything you do to others, what would you have them do to you? For this sums

816
00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:09.760
You'll get a stone

817
00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:13.280
You'll get a stone

818
00:55:12.480 --> 00:55:18.240
up the law of the prophets. And here's the thing you all, it's not just ask, seek, knock one time.

819
00:55:15.600 --> 00:55:17.600
You'll get a stone

820
00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:25.760
There's a scripture that also says keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking.

821
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Do y'all think I asked God for one time for the gifts of speaking in tongues? Nope. I asked

822
00:55:33.920 --> 00:55:40.720
all the time, every day. And y'all, it came when I went up to pray for someone else. I went to

823
00:55:40.720 --> 00:55:45.440
bless someone else and pray for them and all of a sudden, praise the Lord, I was able to receive

824
00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:53.600
that gift. But man, I sought that, I sought that daily, asking God, because I wanted to be filled

825
00:55:53.600 --> 00:55:57.360
with the Holy Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in tongues, because I did believe and

826
00:55:57.360 --> 00:56:03.200
I do believe that it empowers me to pray in ways that I, I just, it gets me out of the way and I

827
00:56:03.200 --> 00:56:08.480
can pray and intercede for things and just connect with the Father in a way that I don't even need

828
00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:14.400
to understand it or comprehend it. So yeah, I'm talking about another gift now, so hopefully I'm

829
00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:20.160
not confusing you, but I'm just saying what's coming up in my spirit. So here's how we also

830
00:56:21.120 --> 00:56:27.760
grow in the gift of faith or any gift. We ask, seek, knock, but how do we do that? How do we ask,

831
00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:35.040
seek, and knock? Well, we study scripture, we pray, we pray and ask God for it. And then I

832
00:56:35.040 --> 00:56:40.160
also wrote down, read books that help you grow in your understanding of these gifts. Y'all,

833
00:56:40.160 --> 00:56:45.840
I have read so many gifts on prophecy, because guess what? Over the years, I knew I had the gift

834
00:56:45.840 --> 00:56:51.520
of prophecy. Um, you know, not right away, but as I grew in the Lord, God started showing me

835
00:56:51.520 --> 00:56:55.840
things for people. I'd start praying for people and I'd see stuff. And it was weird sometimes,

836
00:56:55.840 --> 00:57:00.720
y'all, I'm just saying in the beginning, it was weird. And now I'm like, Whoa, this is so cool.

837
00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:05.760
Okay. Okay. I don't got to understand it, but God, I'm just going to release it and give it

838
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:11.120
and let you deal with the rest. And I just do my best. And have I failed along the way? Yeah.

839
00:57:11.120 --> 00:57:16.240
Sometimes I have a release stuff and people are like, yeah, no, nope. I'm not feeling that.

840
00:57:16.240 --> 00:57:20.880
And I just don't have to, I just have to let that go and be like, Oh, okay. Sorry. Just toss that.

841
00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:27.120
So guess what? You can do that too. If you release a prophetic word, let that person know,

842
00:57:27.120 --> 00:57:32.160
Hey, if this doesn't resonate, just toss it. Don't take it personally. Cause sometimes it's

843
00:57:32.160 --> 00:57:39.680
also because they're not ready to receive it. That is true. Read books, grow in your understanding.

844
00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:46.000
I've read a lot of books on prayer. I've read a lot of books on intercession. I'm a big reader.

845
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:52.080
So if you're not a big reader, get the audio book. Y'all can do it. Don't just make excuses

846
00:57:52.080 --> 00:57:56.640
and say, Oh, I don't, I'm not a reader. I hear people say that all the time. Well, guess what?

847
00:57:56.640 --> 00:58:01.760
It's easy for you. Now you just get you to listen, work out, go on a walk, listen to stuff,

848
00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:08.080
let it absorb into your spirit. Let other people's journeys in this stuff, encourage your own journey,

849
00:58:08.080 --> 00:58:13.440
borrow faith from us as you grow, not only in your measure of faith, but the gift of faith

850
00:58:14.080 --> 00:58:21.200
or all any of the other gifts. Y'all I'm going to, I'm going to really emphasize something.

851
00:58:21.200 --> 00:58:25.920
Please listen. I know we've got two minutes. Please listen. This is one of the most important

852
00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:36.560
things I have to say to you today. Seek the giver of the gift first. The most important thing you

853
00:58:36.560 --> 00:58:44.720
can do to pursue a spiritual gift is to seek the one who gives the gifts first and foremost,

854
00:58:44.720 --> 00:58:52.560
always focus most on God's character and your relationship with him rather than solely the

855
00:58:52.560 --> 00:58:59.440
gifts that he can give to you. Now I'm not saying don't earnestly seek the gifts. I'm saying that

856
00:58:59.440 --> 00:59:07.440
my heart and my walk with the father has absolutely, the more I've grown in the understanding

857
00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:13.680
of who God is, his character, that has absolutely accelerated the release of the gifts that he's

858
00:59:13.680 --> 00:59:21.040
placed within me. So some of you that are struggling, you're like, I'm trying, I'm trying

859
00:59:21.040 --> 00:59:26.400
to walk in these gifts. I don't understand them or I want this gift or even as I prayed and sought

860
00:59:26.400 --> 00:59:32.240
the gift of the speaking in tongues, y'all guess what? I'm giving to you what my mentor gave to me.

861
00:59:32.240 --> 00:59:39.120
She like literally pounded into our minds, seek the giver first over and over and over. I heard

862
00:59:39.120 --> 00:59:45.600
that. And so I prayed all the time to understand God, who he like, God helped me to grow in the

863
00:59:45.600 --> 00:59:49.440
understanding of who you are as love. God helped me to grow in the understanding of who you are

864
00:59:49.440 --> 00:59:53.840
as good. God helped me to grow in the understanding of who you are as faithful and kind, all of the

865
00:59:53.840 --> 00:59:59.040
different characteristics of God. If you don't know the characteristics of God, start studying that

866
00:59:59.040 --> 00:59:59.920
as you are seeking.

867
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.240
to grow in the gifts, because they go well together.

868
01:00:05.200 --> 01:00:06.560
The last thing I'm gonna give you,

869
01:00:06.560 --> 01:00:08.240
oh, here are two scriptures, y'all can,

870
01:00:08.240 --> 01:00:11.560
I'm gonna give you two scriptures for seeking the giver.

871
01:00:11.560 --> 01:00:15.840
Philippians 4.17, I'm not gonna read them

872
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:17.600
because we don't have time, so check that out.

873
01:00:17.600 --> 01:00:21.500
Philippians 4.17, and then James 1.17.

874
01:00:21.500 --> 01:00:23.440
James 1.17 states, every good gift

875
01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:25.960
and every perfect gift is from above,

876
01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:28.120
coming down from the Father of lights,

877
01:00:28.160 --> 01:00:32.260
with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

878
01:00:32.260 --> 01:00:34.560
Y'all, everything comes from him.

879
01:00:34.560 --> 01:00:39.240
He's our source, he's the giver, he's the good daddy,

880
01:00:39.240 --> 01:00:41.680
who's excited to give you these gifts

881
01:00:41.680 --> 01:00:42.640
and let you unwrap them.

882
01:00:42.640 --> 01:00:44.340
Do you think he doesn't get excited

883
01:00:44.340 --> 01:00:45.640
when we walk in the gifts?

884
01:00:45.640 --> 01:00:47.200
Of course he does.

885
01:00:47.200 --> 01:00:49.000
Have you ever seen your kid open a gift

886
01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:51.520
or grow in some way, and you're just like,

887
01:00:51.520 --> 01:00:55.600
man, like you're just so happy to see them growing

888
01:00:55.600 --> 01:00:57.460
and walking in something new.

889
01:00:57.460 --> 01:01:00.340
That's how our good father feels

890
01:01:00.340 --> 01:01:02.400
when we open gifts and walk in them.

891
01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:05.820
The last thing I wanna give you is that the Bible says

892
01:01:05.820 --> 01:01:07.180
to stir up the gifts.

893
01:01:07.180 --> 01:01:12.060
So not only earnestly seek them, but to stir them up.

894
01:01:13.860 --> 01:01:18.860
2 Timothy 1.6 says this, for this reason,

895
01:01:19.200 --> 01:01:23.540
I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God,

896
01:01:23.540 --> 01:01:28.540
which is in you through Christ Jesus.

897
01:01:28.700 --> 01:01:32.100
None of this would be possible if Jesus hadn't come

898
01:01:33.140 --> 01:01:36.140
and died and went through everything he did

899
01:01:36.140 --> 01:01:38.200
on the cross for us.

900
01:01:38.200 --> 01:01:41.540
We can receive these things because Jesus Christ came

901
01:01:41.540 --> 01:01:42.460
and he died for us.

902
01:01:42.460 --> 01:01:44.100
And then when he ascended into heaven,

903
01:01:44.100 --> 01:01:45.680
he sent the Holy Spirit.

904
01:01:45.680 --> 01:01:47.860
Y'all go read the book of Acts.

905
01:01:47.860 --> 01:01:49.100
That's some of your homework this week.

906
01:01:49.100 --> 01:01:50.460
I wasn't planning to give that to you.

907
01:01:50.460 --> 01:01:52.020
I'm gonna give you two things.

908
01:01:53.540 --> 01:01:55.580
Read the book of Acts and read the book

909
01:01:55.580 --> 01:01:57.820
or the chapter of Hebrews 11.

910
01:02:02.660 --> 01:02:04.780
I want you to think about fanning the flame.

911
01:02:04.780 --> 01:02:07.660
If you think about if you've ever sat with a fire,

912
01:02:07.660 --> 01:02:09.060
you're on a bonfire with people

913
01:02:09.060 --> 01:02:10.220
and I know we're going a little over,

914
01:02:10.220 --> 01:02:13.620
but I'm almost finished about to land this plane.

915
01:02:13.620 --> 01:02:15.260
If you're sitting around a fire,

916
01:02:16.220 --> 01:02:20.140
sometimes the embers start to burn out, right?

917
01:02:20.140 --> 01:02:22.460
And the fire is starting to go low.

918
01:02:22.460 --> 01:02:26.060
Well, if you want that fire to continue, what do you do?

919
01:02:26.060 --> 01:02:29.100
You put more wood on it, you stoke the fire,

920
01:02:29.100 --> 01:02:30.100
you put the thing in there

921
01:02:30.100 --> 01:02:32.680
and you're kind of stirring up the embers.

922
01:02:32.680 --> 01:02:35.180
So that's what we have to do with the gifts.

923
01:02:35.180 --> 01:02:38.120
We've got to get in there and stir this stuff up.

924
01:02:38.120 --> 01:02:41.700
And hopefully today that's what this is doing in you,

925
01:02:41.700 --> 01:02:43.740
that it's stirring up this stuff in you,

926
01:02:43.740 --> 01:02:46.900
the desire to grow in your walk with the Lord

927
01:02:46.900 --> 01:02:48.780
and all that he wants to,

928
01:02:48.780 --> 01:02:50.540
not only has he already placed in you,

929
01:02:50.540 --> 01:02:53.480
but he wants to activate you in it and empower you

930
01:02:54.380 --> 01:02:58.300
to go and use the Holy Spirit that he sent to help you.

931
01:02:58.300 --> 01:03:00.980
He's our comforter, he's our counselor, he's our guide,

932
01:03:00.980 --> 01:03:02.700
he's our ever present help in time of trouble,

933
01:03:02.700 --> 01:03:05.460
but y'all he's also the one that empowers us.

934
01:03:06.340 --> 01:03:09.700
The same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead.

935
01:03:09.700 --> 01:03:11.260
If you are a believer in Christ,

936
01:03:11.260 --> 01:03:13.580
Jesus is living inside of you.

937
01:03:13.580 --> 01:03:15.220
Y'all think about that today.

938
01:03:15.740 --> 01:03:18.340
It rose Jesus from the dead.

939
01:03:18.340 --> 01:03:22.140
Do you not think he can't give you good gifts from heaven?

940
01:03:24.580 --> 01:03:26.100
Anything dead in your life right now,

941
01:03:26.100 --> 01:03:28.140
God can bring it back to life.

942
01:03:28.140 --> 01:03:29.620
Do you believe?

943
01:03:29.620 --> 01:03:31.020
I believe, help my unbelief.

944
01:03:31.020 --> 01:03:32.580
I talk about that all the time too.

945
01:03:32.580 --> 01:03:34.420
I believe, help my unbelief.

946
01:03:34.420 --> 01:03:36.620
So if you don't have a belief right now

947
01:03:36.620 --> 01:03:38.260
that you can walk in the gift of faith

948
01:03:38.260 --> 01:03:40.260
or any of the spiritual gifts,

949
01:03:40.260 --> 01:03:42.140
just be honest with the Lord

950
01:03:42.140 --> 01:03:43.620
about where you're going.

951
01:03:43.660 --> 01:03:46.380
Be honest with the Lord about where you're at.

952
01:03:46.380 --> 01:03:47.620
Man, I wanna believe in this,

953
01:03:47.620 --> 01:03:49.060
but man, I'm having a hard time

954
01:03:49.060 --> 01:03:51.220
because I don't even fully comprehend

955
01:03:51.220 --> 01:03:52.460
everything they're talking about.

956
01:03:52.460 --> 01:03:54.340
Whatever it is for you.

957
01:03:54.340 --> 01:03:56.020
Again, everybody's at a different place

958
01:03:56.020 --> 01:03:57.020
in their walk with the Lord

959
01:03:57.020 --> 01:03:58.740
that's a part of this community.

960
01:03:58.740 --> 01:04:01.660
Please do not look at other people and compare yourself.

961
01:04:01.660 --> 01:04:03.020
Be on your journey.

962
01:04:04.260 --> 01:04:06.220
Celebrate your wins.

963
01:04:06.220 --> 01:04:07.460
Celebrate with other people too,

964
01:04:07.460 --> 01:04:08.900
but some of y'all just really need

965
01:04:08.900 --> 01:04:12.300
to start celebrating yourself.

966
01:04:12.300 --> 01:04:14.500
We're gonna activate the gift of faith

967
01:04:14.500 --> 01:04:18.020
tomorrow night on Sunday activation.

968
01:04:18.020 --> 01:04:20.260
Please come and allow yourself

969
01:04:20.260 --> 01:04:22.420
to be activated in this gift of faith.

970
01:04:23.380 --> 01:04:24.580
Candy will be the one there,

971
01:04:24.580 --> 01:04:26.220
but she'll know what to do.

972
01:04:26.220 --> 01:04:27.180
And it's gonna be really good.

973
01:04:27.180 --> 01:04:28.100
Let me pray for us.

974
01:04:28.100 --> 01:04:30.060
Father, thank you.

975
01:04:30.060 --> 01:04:32.020
We covered a lot of ground this morning.

976
01:04:32.020 --> 01:04:34.780
Thank you, God, for the truth of your word,

977
01:04:35.740 --> 01:04:37.220
because your truth brings life.

978
01:04:37.220 --> 01:04:39.420
It brings freedom to those that hear it.

979
01:04:39.420 --> 01:04:40.700
It's by hearing your word

980
01:04:40.740 --> 01:04:43.460
that we can have that revelation of,

981
01:04:43.460 --> 01:04:44.780
God, you have more for us.

982
01:04:44.780 --> 01:04:46.140
Help us to hear what your spirit

983
01:04:46.140 --> 01:04:47.700
is saying to us through it.

984
01:04:47.700 --> 01:04:50.420
We just come against any shame, guilt, condemnation,

985
01:04:50.420 --> 01:04:53.500
any lies of the enemy that's even come against people

986
01:04:53.500 --> 01:04:55.460
during this call or those that would watch the replay.

987
01:04:55.460 --> 01:04:56.300
And we thank you, God,

988
01:04:56.300 --> 01:04:58.060
that you would just crush the enemy,

989
01:04:58.060 --> 01:04:59.660
that you would put them under our feet,

990
01:04:59.660 --> 01:05:00.500
but that we.

991
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:03.640
would take a posture of faith that would enable that,

992
01:05:03.640 --> 01:05:05.280
that we would step into the authority

993
01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:07.120
that you've already given us.

994
01:05:07.120 --> 01:05:09.520
God, that you have given us authority

995
01:05:09.520 --> 01:05:11.820
to take land and ground for you,

996
01:05:11.820 --> 01:05:15.240
not only in our own lives, but for the kingdom.

997
01:05:15.240 --> 01:05:17.660
Help us to not look at ourselves like grasshoppers,

998
01:05:17.660 --> 01:05:19.160
like the people in the Old Testament,

999
01:05:19.160 --> 01:05:20.720
but like Joshua and Caleb,

1000
01:05:20.720 --> 01:05:22.200
that were like, man, we can go in

1001
01:05:22.200 --> 01:05:25.480
and we can slay these giants and we can take the land

1002
01:05:25.480 --> 01:05:27.800
and we can live, not only take the land,

1003
01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:30.840
but live in the land that's flowing with milk and honey.

1004
01:05:30.840 --> 01:05:32.560
God, give us the gift of faith.

1005
01:05:32.560 --> 01:05:35.400
We ask you to stir up this gift in people today,

1006
01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:37.840
God, that they would begin to receive

1007
01:05:37.840 --> 01:05:40.160
not just a measure of faith, but the gift of faith,

1008
01:05:40.160 --> 01:05:43.560
supernatural impartation to believe for things,

1009
01:05:43.560 --> 01:05:45.160
God, that you're putting in their spirits,

1010
01:05:45.160 --> 01:05:46.400
not just things that they want,

1011
01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:49.920
but even things for the church, for people around them,

1012
01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:51.680
God, for people in their community

1013
01:05:51.680 --> 01:05:53.760
to reach people for Jesus Christ.

1014
01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:55.760
And we just thank you in advance for that.

1015
01:05:55.840 --> 01:05:58.000
In Jesus name, we love you all.

1016
01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:00.440
And we look forward to hearing about just,

1017
01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:02.960
things that this is doing in you, saying in you,

1018
01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:05.020
as you're working and practically

1019
01:06:05.020 --> 01:06:07.720
trying to implement the gifts, come in and talk about it.

1020
01:06:07.720 --> 01:06:09.640
Let's grow together.

1021
01:06:09.640 --> 01:06:10.720
That's what I used to have to do.

1022
01:06:10.720 --> 01:06:12.960
I used to go and talk to my mentors like,

1023
01:06:12.960 --> 01:06:15.000
hey, this is what's happening.

1024
01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:16.240
What do you think about this?

1025
01:06:16.240 --> 01:06:17.840
And this is what I'm experiencing,

1026
01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:22.280
or hey, I'm praying for this and I'm not receiving it.

1027
01:06:22.280 --> 01:06:23.400
What do I do?

1028
01:06:24.280 --> 01:06:25.400
All right, awesome.

1029
01:06:25.400 --> 01:06:26.540
Go and be great today.

1030
01:06:26.540 --> 01:06:27.380
We love you.

1031
01:06:27.380 --> 01:06:28.800
Have an amazing day, everyone.