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So I wanna challenge you, start off each morning

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saying, God, fire me up.

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God, light a fire within me.

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Make me a worshiper and a warrior.

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God, would you light a fire as I read your word?

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Paul in writing his son in the faith, Timothy,

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in his last will and testament before he's killed in Rome,

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he writes in 2 Timothy 1.7,

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for God has not given us a spirit of fear,

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but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

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This is the lionhearted man.

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This is the man that's fully alive.

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This is the man who has released the lion within

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and is walking in the things of God.

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He's full of power, love, and a sound mind.

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In the palace of his heart,

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that holy place is growing more passionately

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in love with Jesus.

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And so this is the lionhearted.

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When your heart has a palace of the new heart living within,

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and we're not walking in fear anymore,

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and that's huge to break the power of fear through courage,

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the courage of power, love, and a sound mind.

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So demons guard this palace,

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and we have to every day make a decision

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that we're gonna go after our lionhearted potential.

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We're gonna break through that.

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And so demons of lust and self-gratification,

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self-deception and shame

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is often what we come into the kingdom of God with.

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We carry that from the old life.

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We carry that from our old experiences

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where we weren't working with God.

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We're not walking with God.

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So I wanna talk about the blood qualities.

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I'm using that term blood

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because as I mentioned in the earlier episode,

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this is the effort, this is the agony,

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this is the fight that's involved

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in following God, going after him.

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And so we have this battle going on,

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and we fight, I'm gonna say this,

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we fight fire with fire, we fight blood with blood.

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And so it's a war, man.

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And each one of you men are in a war.

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It's a spiritual war to take you out.

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And that's why Jesus said,

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the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy,

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but I came to give you life

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and life that's more abundantly.

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And he put those two together as one,

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it's not one sentence, but it's like one thought

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that there is a enemy who's gonna steal, kill,

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and destroy everything that you have.

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Or you can go after life, life abundantly.

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So you can't get life abundant

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unless you're willing to take on the enemy.

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So that's the war that we're in.

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So what are the blood qualities?

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I think of three.

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I think of three qualities of a lion-hearted man.

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And this is not easy, you guys, it's actually really hard.

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And it takes effort every single day, but it's worth it.

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If you're gonna be successful at anything,

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if you're gonna be effective in anything in your life,

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it's gonna take a real effort on your part

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and willpower and God's power

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working together in partnership.

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So the first I would say is blood fire.

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This is a fire in your belly, it's a fire in your heart.

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Fired up because you love God.

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Fired up because you're loving God

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with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

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So there's a fire.

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Well, fire burns things.

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And so that's why I like to use the word fire here

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because fire comes from the heart

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and God has this man's heart.

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And I think it begins with getting up in the morning

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and getting fire from God by spending time in his word.

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I can't tell you how many pastors I know,

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how many leaders I know who do not even regularly

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spend time in seeking God through what we call around here

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PB&J, prayer, Bible, and journal.

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They just go right into their study

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or they go right into their Bible reading

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for maybe a talk they're gonna give

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or because they feel like they have to,

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but they're not really getting on fire.

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So I wanna challenge you,

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start off each morning saying, God, fire me up.

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God, light a fire within me.

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Make me a worshiper and a warrior.

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God, would you light a fire as I read your word?

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And then work your way through the scriptures.

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I mean, read a chapter at a time,

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maybe more than one chapter, but maybe take a book.

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Like right now, I'm in a time of fasting and prayer

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as I'm giving this message, day 19 of 21 day fast.

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and I've been going through the book of Daniel.

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So I've been digging into Daniel for various reasons

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and why God led me to Daniel.

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But God will lead you.

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And so you have a book of the Bible,

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you work your way through it.

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Then you have your journal right there.

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And you write in your journal

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what God's speaking to you about.

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My journal during this time of fasting and prayer

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is full of my prayers that I know,

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I know God's gonna answer.

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I know God's gonna answer each one of those prayers.

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Some of them are for the church, some are for the community

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and some are for my family, different members of our family

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that I'm praying.

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And there's something about fasting and prayer

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that releases the fire of God in a whole nother intensity,

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whole nother level.

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So you need bloody fire.

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You need blood fire in your life.

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You gotta ask for it.

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You gotta ask God to light that fire again in your life.

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As a matter of fact, I would argue

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that there's sometimes sin and strongholds in your life

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that need to be burned out.

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Not even just always decided,

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I'm not gonna do that anymore.

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I mean, that should be a part of it, a decision.

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But you have to burn them out.

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And what I mean by that is that there's fires of passion

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that are not good.

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There's fires of lust that are not good.

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Well, how are you gonna get rid of fire?

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We hit fire with fire.

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So you take a stronger flame to put out the smaller flame.

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So like we do campfires around our house.

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We have a big fire pit in the back

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and I have this propane tank with a hose

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that comes out of it.

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And then I light that thing with a spark

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and it's a flamethrower.

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So this flamethrower comes and I light the wood with that.

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Well, let's just imagine

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that there's just this little tiny little fire there.

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It's not gonna ever heat up the place.

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It's not gonna go anywhere.

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But I come in with the bigger fire.

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That bigger fire takes over that smaller fire.

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So in your life, you need a ferocious flaming forest fire

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of your heart for God to overwhelm those sinful fleshly

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other fires in your life.

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So first, have a blood fire eruption in your life.

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Ask God for that.

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Number two, blood purpose.

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This is a man with a clear vision

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or a clear purpose for his life.

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This means you're using your job,

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your marriage and your relationships toward a purpose.

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There's a purpose to your life.

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There's a purpose and a vision when you get up.

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The scriptures say without a vision, the people perish.

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Or another way that's in the Hebrew can be translated

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as without a vision, the people are unrestrained.

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So there's no guidance to our lives without a vision.

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So it's discovering your purpose.

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It's discovering your vision.

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I believe you need a job that's within that vision.

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You need a marriage within that vision.

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You need relationships within that vision.

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And so you have a purpose for this earth.

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You're put on this earth for a purpose, men.

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And one of the purposes is for you to be at a job

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and in your destiny, the money that you're making

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is under a clear purpose.

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And I believe the greatest purpose is to seek first

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the kingdom of God and his righteousness

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and all these things shall be added unto you.

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That's what Jesus said.

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So we need meaning.

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We need meaning and meaning guides our life

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and meaning only comes from God.

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And so to have a blood purpose means that you're going after

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and asking God for what your vision is.

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And I've been an archer different times in my life,

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hunted elk and deer with a bow.

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And when you're practicing,

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you've got a clear focus on the target.

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So you pull back that bow.

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You got a peep that looks through to these small pins

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that are on the compound bow.

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You line that up and you fire your arrow.

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Well, if you don't know how to line up the pins

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with the peep for the target of your life,

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you're just random, man.

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You're just wandering around, not clear what you're doing.

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So I want to challenge you to have a blood purpose.

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Ask God to give you purpose and vision.

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Find the bullseye.

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What's the bullseye for your life?

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It's huge that you get that.

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And so you've got to seek God for that.

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And God will show you.

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I'll speak to you, but it starts with seeking first the kingdom of God.

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So it's, again, it's prayer, Bible, journal.

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It's getting into God.

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It's getting into his word.

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It's being with other bloodstained allies, other men in your life that can also guide

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you, Christian men, to help you find your purpose.

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So blood fire, blood purpose, and then lastly, and this kind of ties it all up is blood discipline.

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Harness your fire, harness your vision through the ability to have delayed gratification

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in your life.

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And what I mean is to be able to wait on the gratification of even your purpose and the

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fire that you have because it's power and love in concert with each other through discipline.

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You're not, you're not supposed to be tame.

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You're supposed to be wild.

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You're supposed to be lion hearted.

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Well that has to be harnessed, that has to be controlled, and that harnessing, that control

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is called discipline in your life.

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And you're not a gelding.

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So a gelding is a castrated, emasculated horse.

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God's called you to be a racehorse, and a racehorse is a disciplined horse that knows

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the vision, knows the fire within, and can run the race that's set before them.

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And so that's what you got to have, and if you're not a very disciplined person, you're

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not going to go anywhere in your life.

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So discipline comes through accountability, accountability, best accountability is to

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yourself where you have intrinsic motivation, but some of you have grown up in an environment

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where you never had to be disciplined.

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So you may need extrinsic motivation.

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In other words, having others speak into your life to help you be disciplined, to get

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up early, spend time with the Lord, to show up to work early, to do your job, to lead

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others.

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In Hebrews, the writer of Hebrews says, therefore we also, since we're surrounded by so great

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a cloud of witnesses, in other words there's other people in our lives that we're accountable

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to, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us.

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So what that means is the discipline it takes, the fire it takes to move away from sin in

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our life, to not go where sin is, to renew our minds away from the sin that ensnares

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us and pulls us down.

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Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

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So God has set a race before you, men.

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You got to run that with endurance.

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It takes endurance.

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It's not a sprint, it's a marathon.

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Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

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So we don't look at ourselves, we don't look in the mirror and say, well, how am I doing?

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As much as we look to Jesus and say, that's my model, that's my mentor, that's the one

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I'm going after.

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I'm going to keep my eyes on Jesus.

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So that's how we have blood discipline in our lives.

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So I challenge you, men, that this can be done by anyone.

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And I think that a lot of times people who failed the most actually end up having the

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most success because they decide to change, they want to quit.

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And they don't quit.

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They keep fighting back.

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So I challenge you, men, to become a fiery, disciplined, caring, loving person through

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controlling your emotions and going after that life, the life that you care about.

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It's the life that you really want.

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And it's the lion-hearted man.

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It's the lion-hearted man.

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It's the lion-hearted man.

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