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All right, okay, let's get started.

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Father God, we're so thankful for tonight.

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Thankful, Lord, that you help us to put our hearts

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into alignment with heaven.

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You have so many plans for us, so many purposes for us

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that we have yet to even think about living out.

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And so as we go forward tonight, Lord,

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I pray that you would restore supernatural hope

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in our future, that you would restore supernatural faith

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in the goodness that you are, the love that you are for us,

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that you would put our hearts into alignment

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with you like never before, in Jesus' name, amen.

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All right, so we are going to do an advanced

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heartwork session tonight around the idea of hope.

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I want you to raise your little avatar hand

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here in the group if you did the hope scale.

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You either redid it because we posted it

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in your group today, or you just have your score

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from the original time you did it, either is fine.

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Let's go ahead and get all of those hands up.

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I want to see, I want to see the hands.

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If you don't know how to, looks like a lot of you know

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how to put your hand up, go ahead.

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All right, everyone put your hands down.

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I think this is a better question.

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Put all of your hands down.

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I want to rob anyone of this very powerful session.

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All right, so put your hands down, Karen, Maggie,

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get your hands down there.

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All right, so now I want you to put your hand up

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if you have not done the hope scale.

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You do not have a score from your hope scale.

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You did not do this activation yet, this worksheet.

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Joanna, Cecilia, Bina, is that it, just three?

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Okay, so if you're answering yes to yes,

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I did not do this yet, I want you to leave here,

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and I want you to go over to your group to,

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if you're a man, go over to the mentorship.

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If you're a woman, go over to bride school,

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and tagged in the featured section

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is a worksheet called the hope scale.

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It will take you all of five minutes to do it, okay?

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And so I want you to go over there.

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You know, you don't have to print it out.

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All you have to do is just write down your numbers

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for each category on a piece of paper, add them up,

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get your final score, and come back over here.

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So if that's you, go do it right now, hurry up.

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We'll try to stall a little bit for you,

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so go ahead and go, go, go, go,

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because I don't want you to, like I said,

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rob yourself of this breakthrough.

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If you do this session without having done that first,

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it will change your results, so go do it.

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Come on, you're on the honor system.

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If you haven't done it, go do it.

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Go do it, Nanette, go do it.

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Go do it, y'all, go on.

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We'll wait for you.

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We'll try to wait for you, hurry up.

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Hurry up.

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Nanette, you have your hand up.

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So you either have your hand up because you didn't do it.

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Oh, you're gone.

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Okay, she disappeared.

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All right, guys, I just, I really,

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this is a very powerful session.

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It's a very supernatural session,

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and so I want to make sure that people

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are not robbing themselves of the results of it,

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and so I want you to go do that,

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and we'll just hang out here for two seconds

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and wait for them.

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I'm just going into the Bride School here

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to make sure it's very, very easy for them to find that,

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because the last thing we want is for people to be like,

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I went to do it, and I couldn't find it,

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because that would be super annoying too, right?

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All right, so there it is.

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Move to the left.

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Where did you say it was located?

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It is located in the Featured section of your group,

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so right there at the top.

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The top little toolbar of your group,

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that's where it's located.

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All right.

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Let's take a look here.

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We've got about 64 people on live.

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That's not very many in our community of hundreds and hundreds.

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So hopefully nobody is lost.

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I know it is a Monday night and some people have other commitments on Mondays.

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It's about 710.

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We'll give them about five minutes.

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Guys.

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We'll start at 715 here.

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We'll give about five minutes to finish that and get people back here.

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Let's take a look here.

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Does your score get off since I don't have kids and can't account for

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that number?

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I don't understand the question now. What do you mean?

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Does your score get off?

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I know unless that's a typo. I don't know what that means.

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Yeah, you guys, you don't have to have kids to,

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to rank the parenthood category.

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You know, what is your hope about parenthood,

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about having children of your own or about, you know,

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you being a mother or father.

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In this lifetime. That is what that is about.

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It's not about the children that you already have.

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It is about you as a parent. What is your hope for that?

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So go ahead and make sure that you fill in that spot too.

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I think I'm seeing a lot of people.

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I think I'm seeing a lot of people.

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I'm seeing a lot of people.

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I'm seeing a lot of people.

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I'm seeing a lot of people.

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So make sure that you fill in that too. No spots should be.

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Empty.

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Yeah. While we're waiting.

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If you guys want to go ahead and put your scores up.

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You want to put your score up in the.

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In the.

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In the chat here.

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And remember you guys, first of all, if you had a,

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if you had a perfect score of 40, you will be lying.

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You will be lying.

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And you will be lying.

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And you will be lying.

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You will be lying.

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And you will be lying.

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And you will be lying.

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And you will be lying.

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And you will be lying.

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I think that's a very,

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a very important part of our lives where, you know,

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we are struggling with really believing that good things are coming

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for us.

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Everybody at some level.

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And so we'll just do this exercise while we're waiting for people to

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get back. I think that would be really good is.

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I think that's a great idea.

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And I'm going to pause for a moment and say,

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I have a lot of hope in this area.

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It will never change and won't ever change that area of my life.

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And remember this, this, these areas of our lives are not exhaustive.

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There's more areas than just these that we've put here.

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Just these two, four, six, eight, 10 areas.

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There's obviously more areas that we could put there. Right.

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And I like, I think that.

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Yeah, there's, there's several areas that we could include,

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but these are just generalizations.

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These are just metrons of our life.

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So I have a lot of hope in this area. It might improve,

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but I'm not going to hold my breath.

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Three hopeful.

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This thing has a pulse. I'm cautiously optimistic.

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And then four, I'm full of hope. I'm overflowing with hope.

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It's amazing. It's successful. It's abundant.

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This area of my life.

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Now having read off all of those.

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I'm going to read off the last one.

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So this is the one area where you marked it a one.

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I'm just hopeless.

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I don't really see any change on the horizon.

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There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but it might be a train.

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It might be a train coming at me. I'm not sure, but it could be a train.

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Look at, okay.

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Lots of people have a one on this.

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Worksheet somewhere. Thank you for being honest.

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All right. Hands down.

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How many of you had at least one, two.

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You had a two on here.

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You're not holding your breath.

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Lots of people with some twos. All right. So how many of you.

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Go ahead and put your hands down.

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How many of you.

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Had at least one three.

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Things are looking up.

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Lots of people. Okay.

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Put your hands down.

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Let's take a look at this.

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On this worksheet.

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All right. So this proves what we learn in the heart work.

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And what is that?

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That just because you have one area of your life,

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that's completely messed up. It's tore up from the floor up.

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Does not mean that every area of your life.

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And why is that? We learned it.

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We learned it from our trauma.

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And the reason for that is,

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we consider hopeless.

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Those are the areas where we are believing the most lies

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because trauma doesn't just hurt us.

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It actually creates different versions of us.

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And it's not the trauma that's gonna keep you

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from living a full of hope life in that area.

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It's the lies that you believe because of the trauma

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that are gonna keep you from living

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that full of hope life in that area, right?

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And so you can have one area that's overflowing with hope.

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In fact, you're super successful,

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maybe in your finances, maybe in your career,

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maybe in your friendship relationships,

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but your romantic life is just a hot mess express.

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and you had an amazing romantic life.

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You had an amazing marriage.

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And then of course your spouse went on to heaven

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ahead of you, they changed addresses

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and you're full of hope for this area of your life

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because you already know how amazing it can be.

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You already know that.

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But maybe you're kind of hopeless about your finances

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because them passing away left you in a financial deficit

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and you don't know how to get out

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because maybe they were the breadwinner and you're not.

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And I don't know if I'm giving words of knowledge

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out right now, but that sounds pretty specific for somebody.

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And then there's other varying levels of hope

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with those middle two categories

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of shred of hope and hopeful.

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So you don't have to, just because you are hopeless

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in one area does not mean that your entire life

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is completely bereft of hope.

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It doesn't mean that.

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All right, so hopefully everybody's back.

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I'm full of hope that everybody is back here

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and ready to roll on tonight's bonus session.

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So I just recently spoke in New York City.

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I spoke at a singles conference there.

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And I think that you guys know that there's some areas,

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there's some regions of our country and of our world

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that were hit harder by 2020 and by pandemic,

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by quarantine, by lockdown, by the negative effects of COVID.

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And New York is one of those places.

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Now, I had never been to New York before 2020,

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so I can't really attest to what it was like before,

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but I will tell you as a prophet and as an empath

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and as someone who's very in tune

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to the spiritual atmospheres over places

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that there's a lot of hopelessness in New York City.

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There's a lot.

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And I feel like the Lord gave me a word of knowledge

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that a lot of that has to do with a place

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that was already pretty disconnected,

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that became very, very disconnected

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because of that whole year and a half of lockdown.

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And so God sent me there as his prophet to the single nation

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to begin to speak, not just revival over New York City

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in the area of family and relationships and marriage,

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but also the restoration of hope.

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And there have been other places as well

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that God has used me to do that.

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And that includes in this single nation.

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And so God gave me an amazing word about hope

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when I went and spoke at that conference

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at the beginning of June.

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And the Lord asked me to release this word

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several different places, including in our community.

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And so I know that you're gonna be

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very encouraged by tonight and supernaturally,

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you are going to receive hope back into your life

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in areas where you have lost it.

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So I wanna go ahead and dig into this

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cause we don't have a lot of time.

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We've burned about 18 minutes here.

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So we're gonna go ahead and jump in

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to what the Lord has for us tonight.

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Okay, so I'm gonna pray one more time

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now that we've went over this.

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Lord, I'm asking that you help us to open our eyes

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and open our ears and open our hearts

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and open our spirits to receive

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your supernatural words tonight,

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to help us reattach to the eternal things

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of faith, hope, and love,

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to help us to reattach to them, Lord,

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and anything that's standing in the way of that,

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any lies that we're believing,

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any circumstances that we're experiencing,

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that those things fall down like the idols that they are,

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and that you and your truth are the only things

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left standing at the end of this session.

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And that truth being that you are good

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and that you are for us and that life is for us

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and that anything that's happened has only happened for us.

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Let's release that Romans 8, 28 right now

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over each and every one of us.

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Everything working to our good.

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In Jesus name, let it be so, amen.

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All right.

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All right, all right.

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Okay, so we just kind of went over that worksheet

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and we'll revisit that a little bit in a little while,

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but we're gonna revisit another worksheet,

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Revealing for Healing.

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And so if you have that, if you have access to it,

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you can have it up later.

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I am gonna share my screen so that you can see it.

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So we'll all look at it together.

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So if you don't have it easily accessible, that's okay.

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Don't worry about it.

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So now I'm gonna trick you a little bit

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because God does love to trick us.

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Sometimes he has to in order to get us to see

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what it is that he really wants us to see.

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We think we're coming for one reason.

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and then we think we're doing pretty well.

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And then the Lord kind of flips the script a little bit.

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Maybe that's a better way to say instead of trick us,

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he flips the script.

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So God's gonna flip the script here right now.

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So while all of you that had some fours on your worksheet

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felt pretty good about yourself.

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Yeah, I'm feeling really good about that area of my life

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and I'm feeling really good about myself

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that I'm full of hope.

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And then a lot of times we probably felt pretty good

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about those threes and those twos as well.

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Hey, after everything that I've been through in this area,

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the fact that I'm at a level two, I'm doing good.

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And I'm not stealing that from you.

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I'm not taking that away from you.

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And then maybe even a level three,

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you're like, whoa, those threes are pretty good.

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I mean, that's really close.

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If we were in school right now, it would be a B, right?

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It's a B, Bs are good.

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How many of you were okay with Bs in school?

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You're like, hey, it's a B, I'm gonna take it.

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Some of you were like, I'll take a C.

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A C is passing, I like the C, C is good.

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And that's fine because Western education

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does not teach people the way they learn.

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Western education sucks.

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For those of you that are teachers,

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we pay you great honor right now

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because how difficult is it to be in a classroom

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and not be able to teach kids the way that they learn?

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That is hard, okay?

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Raise your hand if you just didn't like school that much

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because of that reason.

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Fell asleep in class, didn't do really well,

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but you're super smart, aren't you?

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You're super smart.

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But once again, it's not really grading people

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on the right things a lot of times.

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Okay, so feeling good about those Bs and even those Cs,

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some of you might even feel good

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about having that D, that hopeless.

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I don't really have any Fs on here.

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I think F would be completely something else.

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Like what's hope, right?

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But here's where I wanna flip the script.

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God wants us to be able to,

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and we've been created to be able to,

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beyond circumstances, live at level four.

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God wants you to be able to live at level four.

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And I'm gonna prove that to you tonight.

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And I believe there's gonna be a supernatural grace

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that's gonna come upon you to get some fours

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in some of these categories,

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regardless of whether your circumstances

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have shifted yet or not.

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Okay?

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So I'm going to go over these again,

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and I'm gonna give a new definition

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that's not off the worksheet.

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These are my definitions.

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Number four, instead of it's going amazing,

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it's successful and abundant.

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I'm gonna say this.

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Level four, and this is the level

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that God wants you to be able to live at.

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You're living full of hope,

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overcoming beyond circumstances.

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You're overflowing with anticipation and expectancy.

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Life is for you.

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God is with you.

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Your bags are packed at the door and you're ready to go.

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You're living.

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You're living on ready to go all the time.

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Level three.

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That's that hopeful level.

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This is how I'm gonna define that level now.

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Because remember, we wanna live at that level four level.

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And while this one seems good,

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you know, I'm cautiously optimistic.

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I wanna give you a different definition of your threes

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that are on your worksheet.

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Level three is where we begin

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to approach things with hesitancy.

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We start to guard our hope.

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We say things like, I hope that works out.

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I hope so.

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People say, hey, this is gonna happen.

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You say, I hope so.

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That would be nice.

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Man, that would be awesome.

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What are we doing there?

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We're not going all in.

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And the reason why is because we're guarding our hope now.

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We've been disappointed just enough

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that yeah, we still have a lot of hope

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for this area of our lives or just our lives in general.

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But now we're starting to guard it a little bit.

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We're starting to protect ourselves

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in case it doesn't work out the way we want it to, right?

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All right, level two.

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Over here, it's shred of hope.

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Here's the new definition for level two.

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This is the level where we begin to live

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according to what can be achieved in our own strength.

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We don't realize we're doing it,

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but we have lost faith

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that God is going to be with us in this area.

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So we start living very natural lives

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instead of supernatural lives.

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Instead of stretching supernaturally with Holy Spirit,

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we start striving in the flesh.

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It's at this level that I call plan B or plan me.

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And for some of you that are go-getters and you're doers,

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you can get a whole lot of crap done.

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You can.

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You can make a whole lot of stuff happen for yourself,

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but there's other people that are not doers.

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They're more thinkers, they're more beers,

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and they really struggle.

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If they get to a level two,

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they're gonna really struggle

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because nothing's gonna get done because...

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Plan me for them doesn't look really great because they're not type a,

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they're not kicking butts and taking names later.

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And for those of you that are feeling pretty good about yourself,

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because plan plan me kind of works out for you sometimes.

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I want to let you know that this is part of the reason why you're not living a

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supernatural life is part of the reason why,

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where you don't ask God for very much in life in general,

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because if you can't get it yourself, you just don't worry about it.

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This is actually a level of hopelessness and you don't realize it.

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So plan B or plan me starts forming at this stage.

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This is where we begin to orchestrate and build our lives around the idea that

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if these things are going to happen, because they're probably not going to happen,

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but if they do happen, I'm going to have to make it happen for myself.

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I'm going to have to take responsibility for my life. And for a lot of you,

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responsibility is just a fancy word for fear of disappointment.

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These places that you're taking responsibility for your life,

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and you're trying to make things happen for yourself.

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It's just a fancy word for disappointment.

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For those of you that are out there on those dating apps,

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working them like a job,

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you're trying to make something happen in your own strength.

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You're not leaning in. You're not brimming overflowing a supernatural hope.

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You're not, you're not meeting every opportunity with supernatural hope.

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You're out there trying to find a needle in a haystack and it is stealing your

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joy.

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And that's how you know that you're at one of these lesser levels of hope is

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when you just really hate what you're doing,

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but you're doing it because you think that you have to,

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because you think that that is your part to play. Okay.

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This is also the level, level two,

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where competition starts thriving a little bit,

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starts to thrive, start to try to be there first, got to be the first in line,

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start elbowing people out of the way.

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And this is where cynicism starts to be nurtured.

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Cynicism is a lot of things.

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I mean, cynics, you guys know what they are, right?

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They're the people that we can't, I have,

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I have a couple of people in my life privately,

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personally that are cynics and they're really hard to be around because anytime

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you say anything positive or hopeful, they are quick to meet you with the facts.

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They're quick, quick to meet you with, with, with whatever they think reality is.

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And then they'll say to you, they don't realize they're cynics.

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They think they're realists. They'll be like, well, you know, Jackie,

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I'm just a realist. And in my mind, I'm like,

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I'm not going to say anything out loud because I'm not going to get into a

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debate because that's a broken place of the heart.

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So at level two, this is where we become doubtful. We're not,

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we're not total doubters yet,

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but we're becoming doubtful of whether or not this area is even worth our

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time. I want you to be honest right now.

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And I want you to tell me whether or not there's some areas here where you've

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just given up because on these areas,

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because you just have never been successful in that area.

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Instead you put all of your energy and all of your investment into areas where

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you know that you can be successful,

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where you know you can live at that level for you start to kind of just let this

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stuff go that you're not good at the stuff that has not been happening for you

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in your life.

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And you start to really focus all your energy on where, you know, you can win.

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You know what I'm saying? You're like, I know I can win over here.

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And so I'm not going to worry about this over here.

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And so for some people that looks like putting all their time and effort and

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energy into their bodies, they got really nice bodies.

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They know how to work out.

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They know how to do their macros and all the things. And you know,

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they got muscles on muscles and they're defined and all the thing,

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all that stuff is going good for them.

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They're full of hope about their physical health because they're so good at that

515
00:23:57.800 --> 00:24:00.960
stuff, but their relationships are total train wreck.

516
00:24:02.080 --> 00:24:05.320
They're putting all their time and energy into this because they know that they

517
00:24:05.320 --> 00:24:09.280
can be successful here. But this other area,

518
00:24:09.280 --> 00:24:12.000
they don't put any time or effort into it because they just can't be,

519
00:24:12.520 --> 00:24:14.680
they haven't been able to be. And they've just given up.

520
00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:17.560
They become cynical about that area of their lives.

521
00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:21.360
Maybe it's finances that you put all your time and energy into,

522
00:24:21.360 --> 00:24:25.320
because you know that you know how to make money.

523
00:24:25.840 --> 00:24:27.520
You know how to be successful at your job.

524
00:24:27.760 --> 00:24:30.240
You just keep getting promoted and promoted and promoted and promoted because

525
00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:32.960
you're good at what you do. So the list can go on and on.

526
00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:35.400
Hopefully you guys are starting to understand

527
00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:41.880
what I'm talking about here. All right. Okay.

528
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And then we're getting down to number one on our worksheet. This is hopeless,

529
00:24:46.320 --> 00:24:48.600
but I want to give it an even bigger definition.

530
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And you guys,

531
00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:54.320
you can take notes or you don't have to take notes because remember this is

532
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available in replay.

533
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So you can just listen and just soak it in if that's what you want to do as

534
00:24:58.880 --> 00:24:59.720
well.

535
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:08.880
Okay, at number one, in this new definition that I believe Holy Spirit gave me hope, you're

536
00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:11.120
not just hopeless.

537
00:25:11.120 --> 00:25:15.120
You believe that hope is foolish and it's for fools.

538
00:25:15.120 --> 00:25:17.600
Hope is for fools.

539
00:25:17.600 --> 00:25:19.000
Life is what it is.

540
00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:20.000
Grow up.

541
00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:25.520
Not everything happens for everyone.

542
00:25:25.520 --> 00:25:29.440
You actually become an aggressive evangelist for hopelessness in that area.

543
00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:34.280
Do you see that?

544
00:25:34.280 --> 00:25:35.360
This is the area.

545
00:25:35.360 --> 00:25:43.120
This is that level where bitterness grows, where this is the level where jealousy thrives.

546
00:25:43.120 --> 00:25:49.560
Offense with God and with others is abundant at this level.

547
00:25:49.560 --> 00:25:52.560
I have a private client who's not old.

548
00:25:52.560 --> 00:25:53.560
She's really young.

549
00:25:53.560 --> 00:25:56.100
She's only like 30, 31 years old.

550
00:25:56.220 --> 00:26:00.420
I was applauding her because she has found a way to live without social media.

551
00:26:00.420 --> 00:26:02.460
I would love to live without social media.

552
00:26:02.460 --> 00:26:08.380
Obviously, I have social media because of what I do as a ministry and as a business.

553
00:26:08.380 --> 00:26:11.660
She's been able to live without social media for years now.

554
00:26:11.660 --> 00:26:16.820
I just thought that was incredible until she told me why.

555
00:26:16.820 --> 00:26:21.580
She told me that she lives without social media because she's living at this level one

556
00:26:21.580 --> 00:26:24.380
of hopelessness.

557
00:26:24.380 --> 00:26:29.140
She can't stand to see other people's lives on social media because it makes her feel

558
00:26:29.140 --> 00:26:35.000
so angry.

559
00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:39.020
She doesn't want to see her classmates and her friends from her hometown getting engaged

560
00:26:39.020 --> 00:26:41.080
or getting married or having babies.

561
00:26:41.080 --> 00:26:49.380
She doesn't want to see people thriving in areas where she has lost all hope for herself

562
00:26:49.380 --> 00:26:54.140
at such a young age, right?

563
00:26:54.900 --> 00:26:59.220
Please pay attention to the teaching right now and just really allow Holy Spirit to speak

564
00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:00.220
to you.

565
00:27:00.220 --> 00:27:03.180
There isn't any reason to be blowing up the chat feed with anything right now.

566
00:27:03.180 --> 00:27:09.180
I'm not discouraging you from confessing or contributing, but maybe write that down as

567
00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:14.180
you're listening and maybe post it later because right now I want you to really focus on what

568
00:27:14.180 --> 00:27:16.500
Holy Spirit wants to say to you.

569
00:27:16.500 --> 00:27:20.820
I want you to raise your hand if you will admit that you have felt that way before.

570
00:27:20.820 --> 00:27:23.860
It's very difficult being happy for others.

571
00:27:23.860 --> 00:27:29.300
Have felt just like you want to totally shut it all out.

572
00:27:29.300 --> 00:27:31.500
You don't want to deal with it anymore.

573
00:27:31.500 --> 00:27:34.700
Don't want to see it.

574
00:27:34.700 --> 00:27:39.900
Lots of people, lots and lots and lots of people and thoughts start coming up like why

575
00:27:39.900 --> 00:27:44.420
them and why not me and you know, they don't deserve that and why would God bless them

576
00:27:44.420 --> 00:27:45.420
that way?

577
00:27:45.420 --> 00:27:50.260
And then we start getting angry at God because we start seeing him as a God who healed some

578
00:27:50.260 --> 00:27:53.500
people and doesn't heal others, blesses some people and doesn't bless others.

579
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And you know, we've, you know, I can't tell you how many women specifically guys, I have

580
00:27:59.900 --> 00:28:04.340
heard maybe a few guys say this, but women that grew up in the church and they did everything

581
00:28:04.340 --> 00:28:05.340
right.

582
00:28:05.340 --> 00:28:08.820
You know, they were virgins until they got married and you know, they, they, in their

583
00:28:08.820 --> 00:28:12.420
minds they did everything there, they did everything God's way.

584
00:28:12.420 --> 00:28:18.580
And then they ended up either, you know, being broken up with right before the wedding started

585
00:28:18.620 --> 00:28:21.940
or they ended up marrying the person and then finding out that that person wasn't who they

586
00:28:21.940 --> 00:28:22.940
said they were.

587
00:28:22.940 --> 00:28:26.300
And you know, that, that person ended up divorcing them or cheating on them.

588
00:28:26.300 --> 00:28:34.380
It's just really, really, really difficult to deal with why.

589
00:28:34.380 --> 00:28:37.420
And that's why I posted that song in your groups the other day.

590
00:28:37.420 --> 00:28:40.620
I don't know if I posted it in the men's group, but I did post it in the bride school.

591
00:28:40.620 --> 00:28:45.820
It's by Corey Asbury and it's called kind.

592
00:28:45.820 --> 00:28:47.740
And it's a hard song to listen to.

593
00:28:47.740 --> 00:28:52.500
If you, if you have your hand up right now, cause it's going to speak to that, it's going

594
00:28:52.500 --> 00:28:57.940
to speak to the feelings that we have of, you know, if God's good, then why?

595
00:28:57.940 --> 00:29:00.340
And I think it's a really important song.

596
00:29:00.340 --> 00:29:01.340
I do.

597
00:29:01.340 --> 00:29:02.340
I think it's really important song.

598
00:29:02.340 --> 00:29:06.140
And I think that it will hit home for a lot of people.

599
00:29:06.140 --> 00:29:07.740
And I'm glad that Corey wrote it.

600
00:29:07.740 --> 00:29:08.740
Okay.

601
00:29:08.740 --> 00:29:14.020
Go ahead and put your hands down.

602
00:29:14.020 --> 00:29:17.580
So offense is really abundant at this level one.

603
00:29:17.580 --> 00:29:18.580
And let me tell you something.

604
00:29:18.580 --> 00:29:23.580
When you get to this level one, there's actually a spiritual blindness that comes at this stage.

605
00:29:23.580 --> 00:29:28.260
This stage of hopelessness actually has a spiritual blindness that prevents you from

606
00:29:28.260 --> 00:29:29.940
seeing God's hand on your life.

607
00:29:29.940 --> 00:29:36.420
It prevents you from seeing options and possibilities and opportunities and open doors.

608
00:29:36.420 --> 00:29:37.420
It's not that they're not there.

609
00:29:37.420 --> 00:29:40.040
You just can't see them anymore.

610
00:29:40.040 --> 00:29:44.360
Because of the hardness of heart that you have in this area.

611
00:29:44.360 --> 00:29:45.360
And I don't want you to feel discouraged.

612
00:29:45.360 --> 00:29:49.160
We're just going over this right now, but you know, by the end of tonight, you're, this

613
00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:52.440
isn't, you're going to have a heart of flesh again in this area, your heart's going to

614
00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:53.440
be softened.

615
00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:57.960
You're going to supernaturally be able to hope where you weren't be able to hope before.

616
00:29:57.960 --> 00:29:59.960
And hope is the building blocks of miracles.

617
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.800
she didn't know that. So, as I said at the beginning, God wants us to live at level four.

618
00:30:04.800 --> 00:30:07.760
He wants us to be able to live there. And why? Because we're overcomers.

619
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We have the ability to overcome any and all objections that come our way to living a life of

620
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:37.200
hope. 1 Peter 3.15. Sorry, guys, I didn't write this down. Okay.

621
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Okay. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for

622
00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:54.480
the hope that you have. Okay. I'm just paraphrasing that scripture. And you want to know why that

623
00:30:54.480 --> 00:31:00.720
scripture exists? Because hope is foreign to a world that's still aligning with a broken curse.

624
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:06.240
The curse is broken, you guys, from the finished work of Calvary. It is broken,

625
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:10.000
but there's a lot of people that are still aligning to it. And because we have free will,

626
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:18.960
we can do that. And so hope is foreign to a world that's aligning with a broken curse.

627
00:31:20.080 --> 00:31:25.680
And that is why this scripture is telling us that you will always need to be ready to explain your

628
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:34.400
hope. If you're living full of hope, you're going to have to explain yourself. Why are you so chipper?

629
00:31:36.800 --> 00:31:42.800
Why are you so chipper? Don't you know we're in a recession?

630
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:49.680
Why are you so happy? Why do you have a smile on your face?

631
00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:55.040
Why do you have peace? Why do you have joy? Why do you have hope?

632
00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:03.440
Just in case you guys didn't know this, as kingdom people that are pilgrims in the earth,

633
00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:10.480
we are not held accountable to the world or to its systems, which means we can opt out of

634
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:21.760
recession. We can. We can opt out of recession. God clearly showed us that example during the

635
00:32:21.760 --> 00:32:29.200
plagues of Egypt, where the Israelites were not experiencing the same things that the Egyptians

636
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:36.000
were experiencing. That juxtaposition was showing us very clearly what we can do if we are a kingdom

637
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:46.800
within a culture. Right? It's true. Okay. So our hope is in the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth,

638
00:32:46.800 --> 00:32:50.400
right? We can opt out of some of these things. So let's talk about hope. What does it do? It

639
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:55.120
rolls you out of bed in the morning. It puts a spring in your step. Hope is what keeps you

640
00:32:55.120 --> 00:33:01.760
taking in. People think faith is what keeps you going. It's not faith. It's hope. I'm going to

641
00:33:01.760 --> 00:33:07.280
show you why faith without hope is really actually kind of dangerous in a little while here. Okay.

642
00:33:09.360 --> 00:33:14.000
Actually, I mean, we'll show you the whole thing. You'll see it in a second. So hope rolls you out

643
00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:20.400
of bed. What people call faith, it can't happen without hope. And if you have what people call

644
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:24.400
faith and it didn't come from hope, then that's, what's dangerous. And we'll talk about it in a

645
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:27.920
second. So hope rolls you out of bed in the morning. Hope puts a spring in your step. Hope

646
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:34.320
keeps you taking imperfect action towards the dream of your heart and preparing for the good

647
00:33:34.320 --> 00:33:39.600
that's coming. The good that's coming one way or another, good things are coming for me. They're

648
00:33:39.600 --> 00:33:46.000
hunting me down. The hounds of heaven are hunting me down. They're going to find me. Goodness is

649
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:50.800
going to overtake me. The Psalmist said that goodness and mercy will pursue me all the days

650
00:33:50.800 --> 00:33:56.240
of my life. Right? That's what hope tells you. God is for me. Life is for me. The best is always

651
00:33:56.240 --> 00:34:04.400
yet to come. The story isn't over yet. That's hope talking. Hope keeps you out of the waiting

652
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:10.880
room of despair. There is no DMV in the kingdoms. You guys in the kingdom, we have talked about this

653
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:15.520
lots and lots of times you guys have been to the DMV, right? The department of motor vehicles.

654
00:34:15.520 --> 00:34:20.320
That is a very, very sad place. It's full of broken dreams. Smells like disappointment.

655
00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:26.400
It's a hard place to be. I don't have to go there anymore since COVID. Thank you for COVID in that

656
00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:32.080
way, because now you can just apply online for all your stickers and your registration. And you

657
00:34:32.080 --> 00:34:37.600
don't have to go to the DMV anymore, except like once every like four or five years, get your

658
00:34:37.600 --> 00:34:42.639
picture taken. So in the kingdom, if there isn't waiting rooms, what are there? What are there in

659
00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:48.800
the kingdom? If there's not waiting rooms, there's green rooms, staging rooms. You guys, basically,

660
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:54.480
most of this life is one big staging area, just in case you didn't know that. This entire earth

661
00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:59.440
timeline that you're living is one big staging area. So we have green rooms or staging areas

662
00:34:59.440 --> 00:34:59.760
where we're being.

663
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.060
prepped for something that God already intends to give us.

664
00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:04.540
He's maturing us.

665
00:35:04.680 --> 00:35:08.340
He's accelerating us so that we can receive so that we can sustain.

666
00:35:08.340 --> 00:35:10.300
God doesn't want any of us to be one hit wonders.

667
00:35:11.160 --> 00:35:12.260
What's a one hit wonder.

668
00:35:12.900 --> 00:35:16.180
Those are all the people that made one song that you absolutely love.

669
00:35:16.180 --> 00:35:17.340
And it was like an earworm.

670
00:35:17.340 --> 00:35:18.260
It was a total hit.

671
00:35:18.260 --> 00:35:21.380
It was incredible, but then you never heard from that band ever again.

672
00:35:21.380 --> 00:35:24.220
And you don't want to know why you never heard from him ever again, because

673
00:35:24.220 --> 00:35:29.640
those are bands that somehow got a hit that charted, but they didn't have

674
00:35:29.640 --> 00:35:34.320
managers, they didn't have good relationships with each other because

675
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:38.060
they hadn't been playing with each other in the clubs and in the highways and

676
00:35:38.060 --> 00:35:42.860
byways for years and years and years and years, they automatically accelerated

677
00:35:42.860 --> 00:35:44.900
to the top and they couldn't sustain being there.

678
00:35:44.900 --> 00:35:47.040
And so they failed

679
00:35:50.300 --> 00:35:55.380
because without the process, if you get the promise without the process,

680
00:35:55.380 --> 00:35:56.980
you will not be able to sustain it.

681
00:35:58.660 --> 00:35:59.300
You will not.

682
00:36:00.620 --> 00:36:01.820
You got to have the process.

683
00:36:02.620 --> 00:36:03.380
You have to have it.

684
00:36:03.660 --> 00:36:05.460
And that's why God doesn't want anyone hit wonders.

685
00:36:05.460 --> 00:36:08.740
So there's lots of staging rooms in our lives, lots of green rooms

686
00:36:08.740 --> 00:36:09.700
where we're being prepared.

687
00:36:09.940 --> 00:36:10.780
And then what is there?

688
00:36:10.820 --> 00:36:12.820
One other kind of room birthing rooms.

689
00:36:13.860 --> 00:36:14.460
What is that?

690
00:36:14.580 --> 00:36:18.340
We're being prepared in one place and we're being manifested in another place.

691
00:36:18.340 --> 00:36:22.020
There's birthing rooms when you, when it's time, time for you to go

692
00:36:22.020 --> 00:36:23.260
into that birthing stage.

693
00:36:23.500 --> 00:36:23.940
Okay.

694
00:36:24.300 --> 00:36:28.420
So process, remember, I just told you that every promise has a process

695
00:36:28.680 --> 00:36:33.960
attached to it and process that staging, that prep time of our lives in that

696
00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:39.960
area is usually where people start to lose hope and, you know, there's a lot

697
00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:43.920
of different reasons why you guys remember, I, I, I met Jesus in my twenties.

698
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:47.080
I didn't, wasn't raised in the church, but I got a lot of

699
00:36:47.080 --> 00:36:48.400
bad information in my twenties.

700
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:51.360
I was discipled by all different types of thinkings.

701
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:55.080
And I was, I was discipled by all different types of interpretation of

702
00:36:55.080 --> 00:36:57.880
scripture, and I'm just going to tell you right now that if you are young

703
00:36:57.900 --> 00:37:00.780
in your faith, it doesn't matter how old you are on the earth, but

704
00:37:00.780 --> 00:37:02.020
if you are young in your faith.

705
00:37:03.660 --> 00:37:05.420
You need to start studying things out.

706
00:37:05.420 --> 00:37:07.420
Please don't just take things at face value.

707
00:37:08.140 --> 00:37:11.080
A lot of times scripture can be the most discouraging thing.

708
00:37:11.080 --> 00:37:14.180
I can't tell you how many times when the word of God was twisted in

709
00:37:14.180 --> 00:37:15.540
a way that caused me to lose hope.

710
00:37:18.220 --> 00:37:18.860
That's right.

711
00:37:19.420 --> 00:37:26.420
The Bible was preached to me in a way that caused me to lose hope.

712
00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:30.920
Prophetic words were given to me in a way that caused me to lose hope.

713
00:37:33.560 --> 00:37:40.280
If you walk out of a spiritual community, discouraged and with less

714
00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:44.040
hope than you went in, something's not right, and I'm not talking that

715
00:37:44.040 --> 00:37:46.480
people are going to be padded, caking for Jesus, and they're just going to

716
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:48.920
tell you all the things that you want to hear, and they're going to tell

717
00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:51.240
you that you can have the promises with no process, because there

718
00:37:51.240 --> 00:37:52.240
are churches like that too.

719
00:37:52.240 --> 00:37:54.800
And guess what those churches or those spiritual communities

720
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:56.000
make you lose hope as well.

721
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:56.780
You want to know why?

722
00:37:56.780 --> 00:37:58.140
Because what they're saying is not true.

723
00:37:59.380 --> 00:38:03.420
And then when it doesn't happen, then you start to get super discouraged.

724
00:38:05.220 --> 00:38:08.300
Because you have this idea that whatever it is, that that's being

725
00:38:08.300 --> 00:38:11.340
promised to you, that God's about to do for you, you think it's going

726
00:38:11.340 --> 00:38:12.740
to happen in the next 24 hours.

727
00:38:12.740 --> 00:38:14.860
And then when it doesn't, you're like, what the heck?

728
00:38:16.500 --> 00:38:19.540
And so there's all different types of zigging and zagging and

729
00:38:19.540 --> 00:38:23.660
rollercoaster rides that happen as a result of bad spiritual teaching.

730
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:27.920
And so I really want to encourage you that if you're young in this, that

731
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:31.520
you need to get teachers around you that know how to rightly divide the

732
00:38:31.520 --> 00:38:36.320
word of God, and there's a lot of them.

733
00:38:36.640 --> 00:38:37.800
And I hope that I'm one of them.

734
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:41.120
I take teaching extremely seriously, you guys, and part of the reason

735
00:38:41.120 --> 00:38:44.360
why, and you guys, for those of you that done the hard work, you see

736
00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:47.840
at the very beginning of that course in the book, if you have the book,

737
00:38:48.420 --> 00:38:54.140
that's the reason why it exists because I needed God to show me how his

738
00:38:54.140 --> 00:38:56.700
word could actually manifest in my life.

739
00:38:57.100 --> 00:38:59.900
I was crazy enough to believe that his word was true and that his promises

740
00:38:59.900 --> 00:39:02.900
were true, but they weren't true in my life because they weren't happening.

741
00:39:03.220 --> 00:39:06.060
And so a lot of times we're not taught about the timeline of a

742
00:39:06.060 --> 00:39:08.000
promise, which is called process.

743
00:39:08.260 --> 00:39:11.780
And so every promise in our lives has a process to it.

744
00:39:11.780 --> 00:39:13.220
And process is not fun.

745
00:39:14.020 --> 00:39:14.860
It isn't fun.

746
00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:21.520
It isn't Jesus, Jesus had process because of the joy.

747
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:22.480
Okay.

748
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:26.160
Some translations even say hope because of the hope that was set before him.

749
00:39:26.200 --> 00:39:28.600
He endured the suffering of the cross.

750
00:39:30.240 --> 00:39:35.840
He endured that process of pain and suffering because he believed what was

751
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:39.680
coming, he believed in the promise.

752
00:39:40.100 --> 00:39:40.860
He didn't

753
00:39:42.780 --> 00:39:46.520
Isaiah 40 31 is one of the main scriptures where people talk to us

754
00:39:46.520 --> 00:39:50.940
about waiting and they, I can't, I, I mean, you guys, if I had a dollar

755
00:39:50.940 --> 00:39:54.220
for every time, a single son or daughter of God came to me and told

756
00:39:54.220 --> 00:39:58.100
me that I'm ordered to get a message from Jesus, who wondered how he

757
00:39:58.100 --> 00:39:59.260
was supposed to go about it?

758
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.560
me that the place where they've received the most discouragement about whether or not they will get

759
00:40:00.140 --> 00:40:02.900
No one was there for me.

760
00:40:04.460 --> 00:40:08.160
No one was there for me, unless the pastor died for a family or

761
00:40:04.560 --> 00:40:19.280
married is at their church. I would have at least probably about $325. Okay. Because that happens,

762
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.080
it happens. And you guys, I don't think people are doing it on purpose. I think that they

763
00:40:24.080 --> 00:40:28.880
actually are living at level one of hope for you to get married. They don't believe that you're

764
00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:33.600
going to get married. And so they want to help you not be disappointed by believing you are.

765
00:40:35.120 --> 00:40:39.280
And that can happen in other areas too. It's not just marriage. People don't believe for

766
00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:44.720
your breakthrough. You guys, I will never forget. I used to work at the homeless shelter as a,

767
00:40:44.720 --> 00:40:50.640
as like a kind of a social worker, um, when I was first, first meeting Jesus. So I met Jesus

768
00:40:50.640 --> 00:40:55.920
and then I went right into ministry. And so, um, I was working with trafficked women and

769
00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:59.440
homeless people and chemically dependent, mentally ill people, you know, I just like,

770
00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:04.000
and those were some of the most exciting times of my life, just so you know, but I will never forget

771
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:10.160
that I started bringing this woman from the homeless shelter to a church with me and she

772
00:41:10.160 --> 00:41:16.880
got radically saved. She got converted. Her name was Shelly Whitman, you know? And, um, she was

773
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:20.640
just incredible. She was super funny, but the reason why she was homeless is because she was

774
00:41:20.640 --> 00:41:25.440
an alcoholic and she would do really, really well. And then she would fall off and go back

775
00:41:25.520 --> 00:41:29.360
into alcoholism. And you guys, I don't mean just like regular alcoholism. I mean, like drunk on the

776
00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:34.480
street alcoholism. Right. And so she was doing really, really well. She was doing so well,

777
00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:39.040
you guys, that she was able to get custody of her daughter back because she had lost custody

778
00:41:39.040 --> 00:41:44.240
because of all these binges, all these drinking binges that she had gone on in the past. And so

779
00:41:44.240 --> 00:41:51.120
she got her daughter back and Shana and I, um, and Shana and Shelly and I, we became thick as thieves.

780
00:41:51.120 --> 00:41:56.160
That's her daughter's name. And her daughter was like 10 or 11 years old. And I was discipling her,

781
00:41:56.160 --> 00:42:02.640
even though I was new myself to the whole faith thing. But one day she went on a drinking binge.

782
00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:07.600
Her daughter called me. They lived really close to my apartment, called me and said, I need you to

783
00:42:07.600 --> 00:42:12.800
come over. And my mom never came home last night. And so I went over there and her mom wasn't there.

784
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:18.080
Her mom had gone on a binge on a bender and had never returned. And so I'm trying to figure out

785
00:42:18.080 --> 00:42:22.000
what to do right now, because I don't want to report her to the authorities. And she had been

786
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:27.680
doing so good for so long. Like we're talking like years good. Right. And so I took Shana to my house

787
00:42:27.680 --> 00:42:33.680
and I took care of her. And eventually her mom showed back up and, you know, started trying to

788
00:42:33.680 --> 00:42:38.400
deal with what can we do to help this never happen again. So I asked my pastor, I said all that to

789
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:43.680
say this and I'm not trying to throw them under the bus. You guys, no one's perfect, but I never

790
00:42:43.680 --> 00:42:48.400
forgot this as a young convert, because I asked my pastor, Hey, what do you think I should do about

791
00:42:48.400 --> 00:42:52.720
this? I need advice. What should I do about this situation? And this is literally what he said to

792
00:42:52.720 --> 00:42:58.320
me. He said, forget about the mom. He said, focus on the doctor daughter. He said, the mother's

793
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:08.800
hopeless. That's literally what I was told. Stop wasting your time and energy on the mother.

794
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:18.160
She's a lost cause focus on the kid. Dang. And you know what guys?

795
00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:26.160
So many of us, even though we haven't said those words out loud, we've thought that stuff

796
00:43:26.160 --> 00:43:29.920
about ourselves and other people we've thought that self's about even about ourselves.

797
00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:35.440
And so it's easy to sit in judgment of him and be like, man, what a jerk,

798
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:39.600
you know, but at the same time, we've thought this stuff about ourselves. We thought this stuff

799
00:43:39.600 --> 00:43:47.120
about these different areas of our lives. We have been that naysayer in our own lives and

800
00:43:47.120 --> 00:43:52.080
in the lives of other people, whether we just do it in our mind or we say it out loud. And

801
00:43:52.080 --> 00:43:56.480
y'all know it's true. I know I've done it. I've thought those thoughts about myself and about

802
00:43:56.480 --> 00:44:06.480
others. So it's important that we understand that everyone has a process. I wish I could tell you

803
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:10.720
what happened to Shelly. I lost, she did start doing good again. I lost track of her. I mean,

804
00:44:10.720 --> 00:44:15.600
this is 20 years ago. So that daughter of hers would be like 30 something years old.

805
00:44:17.680 --> 00:44:21.600
And I have no idea how they're doing. And I hope, I hope, I hope well,

806
00:44:21.600 --> 00:44:26.880
right? I believe, well, I'm going to, my hope is extended to that fact that they would be doing

807
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:34.320
well. So Isaiah 40, 31 talks about that waiting room that people think exists in the kingdom,

808
00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:39.920
but those who wait upon the Lord will gain new strength and renew their power. But the word

809
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:43.760
wait in that translation, because you guys remember the Bible's not written in English.

810
00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:50.320
And so a lot is a lost in translation. And when I say lost in translation, I mean like the meanings

811
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:58.240
of words. We have a lot of words in our language that aren't really the best interpretation from

812
00:44:58.240 --> 00:44:59.840
the actual original, and this is.

813
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.400
It's one of those, because when we think wait, we think, wait, we think waiting

814
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:07.840
rooms, we think I'm out of control to make this happen.

815
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:11.940
My only job is just to go wait and God may do it, or he may not do it.

816
00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:18.160
Um, but that word actually means to expect, look for and hope for.

817
00:45:19.300 --> 00:45:20.120
So what does it mean?

818
00:45:20.260 --> 00:45:22.460
It means to hopefully and expectantly prepare.

819
00:45:25.160 --> 00:45:29.780
That's what that word hope means to hopefully and expectantly prepare for

820
00:45:29.780 --> 00:45:37.060
what, for the goodness of God, when in the land of the living right now in this

821
00:45:37.060 --> 00:45:40.860
life, because all the things that you're hoping for, all the things that you're

822
00:45:40.860 --> 00:45:43.540
expectantly preparing for, you don't need them in heaven.

823
00:45:45.060 --> 00:45:50.180
So in the only sense that anything makes is that all the promises of God are for

824
00:45:50.180 --> 00:45:52.060
you and for your lineage and legacy.

825
00:45:52.060 --> 00:45:54.900
And for your generations, they're not for heaven someday.

826
00:45:55.740 --> 00:45:56.240
Okay.

827
00:45:56.240 --> 00:45:56.740
Okay.

828
00:45:59.720 --> 00:46:03.800
So in this process of preparation, and some of us are not preparing.

829
00:46:03.800 --> 00:46:04.840
We are simply waiting.

830
00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:05.520
We're over here.

831
00:46:05.520 --> 00:46:07.600
We're waiting and we're not waiting patiently.

832
00:46:08.720 --> 00:46:10.280
You guys have seen those people in line.

833
00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:13.120
They are certainly waiting, but they are not waiting patiently

834
00:46:13.640 --> 00:46:14.720
and they're not preparing.

835
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:17.520
One of the most frustrating things for me.

836
00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:23.280
When I'm in a line is that the people in front of me would not be ready to go by

837
00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:25.600
the time they get to the front of the line they're in front of me.

838
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:28.280
And it's like, they don't even know where they are.

839
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:31.320
What have you been doing this whole time that you've been standing in this line,

840
00:46:31.640 --> 00:46:35.640
waiting to order that food or waiting to do whatever it's like, they get to the

841
00:46:35.640 --> 00:46:36.800
front of the line, it's their turn.

842
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:38.200
And it's like, okay, what's your order?

843
00:46:38.200 --> 00:46:39.280
It's like, I don't know.

844
00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:40.040
What do you have?

845
00:46:40.240 --> 00:46:41.520
What are you talking about?

846
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:44.160
It's Taco Bell.

847
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:50.720
They have bread and cheese and sour cream and beef and chicken and all

848
00:46:50.720 --> 00:46:52.840
different types of scenarios.

849
00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:55.160
And that's all they have and beans.

850
00:46:56.480 --> 00:47:01.960
So choose one of the combinations of these five ingredients and move on.

851
00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:06.640
But this is what happens when we're just waiting and we can be waiting and not

852
00:47:06.640 --> 00:47:07.280
preparing.

853
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:10.280
And then we get to the front and we're like, I don't, I don't know.

854
00:47:10.640 --> 00:47:11.040
What do you mean?

855
00:47:11.040 --> 00:47:13.760
You don't know at the airport.

856
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:16.760
People are in the TSA line.

857
00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:17.920
I just traveled to Europe.

858
00:47:18.160 --> 00:47:19.440
They're in the TSA line.

859
00:47:19.640 --> 00:47:21.480
What are you in the TSA line for?

860
00:47:21.520 --> 00:47:23.120
You're going to have your ID checked.

861
00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:26.800
Then please explain to me why you waited for 45 minutes.

862
00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:30.840
And when you get up to the agent, you don't have your ID out.

863
00:47:31.120 --> 00:47:32.480
In fact, you don't know where it is.

864
00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:34.880
You're digging through your bag.

865
00:47:35.680 --> 00:47:36.000
Okay.

866
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:37.560
You're unpacking your suitcase.

867
00:47:37.640 --> 00:47:38.560
What are we doing?

868
00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:40.560
Did you not know what kind of line you're in?

869
00:47:41.600 --> 00:47:45.520
That's very frustrating, very frustrating because why?

870
00:47:45.520 --> 00:47:47.840
Because never be waiting.

871
00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:50.880
You guys, I say all that to say this don't ever be waiting.

872
00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:52.560
There's no such thing as waiting.

873
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:56.680
You should always be preparing with what with hopeful expectancy.

874
00:47:58.240 --> 00:47:58.720
All right.

875
00:47:59.400 --> 00:48:03.040
So anyway, this waiting process, this is where people start to erode their hope.

876
00:48:03.080 --> 00:48:04.920
And I know that sound, it makes me sound like a Karen.

877
00:48:05.240 --> 00:48:07.080
And for those of you that are named Karen, I'm so sorry.

878
00:48:07.200 --> 00:48:08.000
Shouldn't have said that.

879
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:12.840
Um, that makes me sound like whatever it is that people say that people that have

880
00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:14.680
no patience are called nowadays.

881
00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:19.080
Um, but at the same time, it isn't, it's just someone with common sense.

882
00:48:19.080 --> 00:48:20.240
That's a common sense thing.

883
00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:23.080
And sometimes common sense is not that common.

884
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.440
Um, but I think that we live in a generation where people are so used to just

885
00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:33.240
waiting all the time that they don't even think about being prepared in their weight.

886
00:48:33.600 --> 00:48:38.640
And so this is where we start to erode our hope ever so slowly and a lot of times.

887
00:48:39.120 --> 00:48:43.000
Unknowingly that is the, that is the point that I want to make with you.

888
00:48:43.520 --> 00:48:43.840
I know.

889
00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:44.440
I'm so sorry.

890
00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:50.200
Karen got, got into, uh, got into that cultural thing.

891
00:48:50.200 --> 00:48:51.000
Just got in my head.

892
00:48:51.240 --> 00:48:51.760
Sorry.

893
00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:52.840
It's terrible.

894
00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:53.960
I take it back.

895
00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:54.920
Karen's are amazing.

896
00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:55.840
It means pure.

897
00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:56.760
I agree with you.

898
00:48:56.840 --> 00:48:57.240
Okay.

899
00:48:57.680 --> 00:49:07.640
So, um, it erodes slowly and a lot of times unknowingly, you guys unknowingly.

900
00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:12.240
And so if you've lost hope in an area, it's important for you to allow Holy

901
00:49:12.240 --> 00:49:17.080
spirit to help you retrace your steps and see where it is that you lost it.

902
00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:19.920
If you had a lot of hope for something, and then all of a sudden you just

903
00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:23.200
realized you just don't really have any hope for that thing anymore.

904
00:49:23.520 --> 00:49:27.240
Ask Holy spirit to show you what was the straw that broke the camel's back.

905
00:49:27.240 --> 00:49:33.640
What was the where, where, where did you unknowingly cause the erosion was

906
00:49:33.640 --> 00:49:41.880
happening, finally let go of your hope balloon where, where did that happen at?

907
00:49:43.560 --> 00:49:45.120
All the Karen's are ganging up on me.

908
00:49:45.120 --> 00:49:46.680
Y'all I'm so sorry.

909
00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:48.600
I really am.

910
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.080
When you say things like that, you never think about, Hey, that's somebody's name.

911
00:49:54.240 --> 00:49:55.560
So I apologize.

912
00:49:55.600 --> 00:49:56.880
Please forgive me.

913
00:49:57.880 --> 00:49:58.320
Okay.

914
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:10.000
All right.

915
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:29.000
So, unknowingly, our hope starts eroding and here's one of the reasons why it happens unknowingly sometimes we allow you guys we give permission to ourselves. We allow our hope to be attached to a certain timeline, or a specific outcome.

916
00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:32.000
And when that doesn't happen.

917
00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:38.000
We begin to entertain that even the tiniest seed of doubt and that's where the erosion starts to happen.

918
00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:48.000
We allow we allow our hope to be connected to a certain timeline a specific outcome.

919
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:51.000
That's what we do.

920
00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:53.000
That's what we do you guys.

921
00:50:53.000 --> 00:51:06.000
I've done it you've done it, go ahead and put some examples in the chat of where you've done that you allowed your hope for something, some area of your life, some situation to be connected to a specific outcome.

922
00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:15.000
And then when that thing did not happen the way that you expected it to it really took a hit in your hope you took a really big hit in your hope.

923
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:17.000
Anyone.

924
00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:21.000
I'll go ahead and let you guys put something up.

925
00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:26.000
Not getting married by 27 so good Joanne Thank you.

926
00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:28.000
Yes.

927
00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:36.000
You guys you're talking to someone on a dating app I know it's so simple but they're just amazing and wonderful and the conversation is going so good you get so excited they're the one I know it.

928
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:47.000
And then you, you show up in person to meet them and it's like, like, not anything of what you thought it was going to be like and then you're like,

929
00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:53.000
not getting married by 35 and having kids having a child by 30. Okay.

930
00:51:53.000 --> 00:52:00.000
Hope in medicine. Yeah, for those of you that have dealt with chronic illness and inflammation.

931
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:08.000
Yes, every single time there was a new thing that you were going to try it was like you got you get your hopes up at this time this is it this is it this is it.

932
00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:10.000
All right.

933
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:22.000
A lot of getting married and marrying general having children finances married by 30 a lot of you guys are putting stuff up. Okay.

934
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:26.000
And some of these things you guys are putting out the ships not sailed on this yet.

935
00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:32.000
You might not have gotten married by that certain age but you're, you know, you're still going to have a spirit mate I have all the supernatural hope for you.

936
00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:41.000
And some of you are saying like growing old with that person well, yeah, you can still grow old with them, you haven't grown old yet. So there's still time.

937
00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:43.000
Okay.

938
00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:47.000
All right.

939
00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:54.000
All right, so many good things hopefully you guys are seeing each other's responses to that so you know that you're not alone in some of those things okay.

940
00:52:55.000 --> 00:53:04.000
So we allow we are the ones that allow our hope to be defined by something that has to happen has to happen this way has happened by certain time.

941
00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:15.000
And then if that doesn't happen. We, a lot of times unknowingly start to entertain the tiniest seeds of doubt, and those things grow pretty quickly. By the way, the opposite of hope is doubt.

942
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:21.000
And this is how doubt is defined doubt is defined as uncertainty.

943
00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:37.000
You feel uncertain right because your hope was tied to a specific outcome it didn't happen and that's made you feel uncertain now because that's a tiny seed of doubt of uncertainty doubt is defined as uncertainty that now causes in action.

944
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:47.000
That's what will happen when you start losing hope, you'll have enough doubt enough uncertainty that will cause you not to not to take in perfect action anymore.

945
00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:56.000
God can't fail love can't fail but you're going to stop doing yours, you're going to stop expectantly preparing with hope you get it.

946
00:53:56.000 --> 00:54:08.000
Little by little you're going to Nelson Mandela said something it's my favorite quote if you never heard me say it then you must not know me very well, because I always say you will never prepare for set for anything, while secretly believing

947
00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:14.000
that it's not going to happen. Why is the word secret in there.

948
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:18.000
Because behavior follows identity.

949
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:32.000
You're not going to truly prepare for anything, while you're entertaining a seed of doubt and uncertainty that it's not going to happen. And sometimes that's a secret even from yourself.

950
00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:47.000
And if you want to find out where doubt lives in your heart, and in your life. All you have to do is find the areas where you're just really not taking any kind of expectant hopeful action anymore.

951
00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:56.000
So, this is the state of being you guys where we begin to do something called defer our hope.

952
00:54:56.000 --> 00:55:01.000
If you have anything else out of tonight please pay attention to what I'm going to say next.

953
00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:04.080
Now I know that there's a scripture and it's in Proverbs

954
00:55:04.080 --> 00:55:06.340
and a lot of people use it to explain

955
00:55:06.340 --> 00:55:08.360
why they're just not happy right now

956
00:55:08.360 --> 00:55:10.640
because things aren't going their way.

957
00:55:10.640 --> 00:55:12.460
Their hope was tied to a certain outcome

958
00:55:12.460 --> 00:55:13.880
and that thing didn't happen.

959
00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:16.840
And now my hope has been deferred

960
00:55:18.200 --> 00:55:20.060
and it's making me heart sick.

961
00:55:20.060 --> 00:55:21.400
Please be honest and raise your hand

962
00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:23.160
if you have said this before.

963
00:55:25.040 --> 00:55:27.160
If you have read that scripture

964
00:55:27.160 --> 00:55:28.560
and then you commiserate it with it,

965
00:55:28.560 --> 00:55:33.400
you're like, yes, yes, my hope, my hope has been deferred.

966
00:55:33.400 --> 00:55:37.680
And now, now my heart is broken.

967
00:55:37.680 --> 00:55:39.680
My heart is sick.

968
00:55:39.680 --> 00:55:41.120
Look at all those hands.

969
00:55:41.120 --> 00:55:42.400
So many people.

970
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:43.560
Okay, put them down.

971
00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:47.940
The problem with this scripture

972
00:55:47.940 --> 00:55:52.940
is that people do not understand what it is saying.

973
00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:55.680
And it is not saying what I just said.

974
00:55:56.680 --> 00:56:01.680
It is saying that when you, not God, defer your hope,

975
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:05.800
you make yourself heart sick.

976
00:56:08.040 --> 00:56:11.080
When you defer your hope,

977
00:56:11.080 --> 00:56:15.160
not when some circumstance or some outcome doesn't happen,

978
00:56:15.160 --> 00:56:17.040
not when God's holding out on you

979
00:56:17.040 --> 00:56:19.440
and not giving you what you've prayed for,

980
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:22.420
because trust me and let's be honest,

981
00:56:22.420 --> 00:56:25.040
when we quote that scripture,

982
00:56:25.040 --> 00:56:28.480
there's a little teeny tiny bit of us that's saying,

983
00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:31.200
you know, well, God didn't give me what I asked for,

984
00:56:31.200 --> 00:56:32.200
what I've been praying for,

985
00:56:32.200 --> 00:56:33.920
what I've been waiting for all this time.

986
00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:35.280
And so I'm heart sick.

987
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:37.240
But when that longing is fulfilled,

988
00:56:37.240 --> 00:56:38.600
it'll be a tree of life, right?

989
00:56:38.600 --> 00:56:39.800
So we try to make it better.

990
00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:40.800
But really what we're saying

991
00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:42.880
is we're accusing God of deferring our hope.

992
00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:44.640
We're accusing God of holding out on us.

993
00:56:44.640 --> 00:56:46.160
And it's easy to do you guys.

994
00:56:46.160 --> 00:56:48.320
And I'm not gonna make you admit that you've done it

995
00:56:48.320 --> 00:56:49.880
because I know you have.

996
00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:50.780
And so have I.

997
00:56:51.620 --> 00:56:54.100
I know you have, all right.

998
00:56:54.100 --> 00:56:55.940
But here's the funny thing about hope.

999
00:56:57.340 --> 00:56:58.840
It's not a fruit of the spirit.

1000
00:57:01.780 --> 00:57:03.780
It's actually one of the three things

1001
00:57:03.780 --> 00:57:08.060
that are eternal and constant and available always,

1002
00:57:08.060 --> 00:57:09.260
faith, hope, and love.

1003
00:57:11.340 --> 00:57:12.180
What?

1004
00:57:13.820 --> 00:57:14.660
Yes.

1005
00:57:17.500 --> 00:57:18.340
Yes.

1006
00:57:19.340 --> 00:57:20.460
Yes.

1007
00:57:21.420 --> 00:57:23.260
It is not something

1008
00:57:24.900 --> 00:57:27.180
that you have to cultivate.

1009
00:57:29.500 --> 00:57:32.420
It is something that you can simply have supernaturally

1010
00:57:32.420 --> 00:57:35.860
because these three things will remain,

1011
00:57:35.860 --> 00:57:37.500
faith, hope, and love.

1012
00:57:38.380 --> 00:57:42.060
That means when everything's over, you guys, all of it,

1013
00:57:42.060 --> 00:57:44.340
all the cray-cray, all of it's done.

1014
00:57:45.260 --> 00:57:47.100
Finally, this broken curse,

1015
00:57:47.180 --> 00:57:48.580
everybody will be in alignment.

1016
00:57:48.580 --> 00:57:50.020
Every tongue, every knee will bow.

1017
00:57:50.020 --> 00:57:51.140
Every tongue will confess.

1018
00:57:51.140 --> 00:57:54.900
All of it will be restored when that happens.

1019
00:57:54.900 --> 00:57:56.540
The only three things that will remain,

1020
00:57:56.540 --> 00:57:58.380
all the stuff that we're putting all our time and energy

1021
00:57:58.380 --> 00:57:59.340
with, it will be over.

1022
00:57:59.340 --> 00:58:00.180
It will be gone.

1023
00:58:00.180 --> 00:58:01.420
There will be no need for it,

1024
00:58:01.420 --> 00:58:04.580
but faith, hope, and love will remain.

1025
00:58:04.580 --> 00:58:07.260
So God is not holding out on you.

1026
00:58:08.260 --> 00:58:09.700
We defer our hope.

1027
00:58:09.700 --> 00:58:11.980
We defer it because we're believing lies.

1028
00:58:11.980 --> 00:58:13.540
We are looking at circumstances.

1029
00:58:13.540 --> 00:58:14.780
We got our eyes off Jesus.

1030
00:58:14.780 --> 00:58:15.980
I've done it a million times.

1031
00:58:15.980 --> 00:58:17.700
And so have you.

1032
00:58:17.700 --> 00:58:19.220
We start to entertain doubt.

1033
00:58:19.220 --> 00:58:20.860
We start to, we start to,

1034
00:58:20.860 --> 00:58:22.940
religion starts to put it on us.

1035
00:58:22.940 --> 00:58:25.580
We start to entertain doubt that we even deserve this thing.

1036
00:58:25.580 --> 00:58:28.420
And we have not punched our time clock enough.

1037
00:58:28.420 --> 00:58:30.700
You know, spiritually, we haven't done enough things

1038
00:58:30.700 --> 00:58:32.580
in order to earn a husband or a wife.

1039
00:58:34.180 --> 00:58:36.060
We haven't, because I'm using that as an example,

1040
00:58:36.060 --> 00:58:38.540
because all of you are here because you want a spirit mate.

1041
00:58:38.540 --> 00:58:40.620
But you can just, you can just fill in the blank

1042
00:58:40.620 --> 00:58:42.780
with whatever you want to.

1043
00:58:42.780 --> 00:58:44.140
And so we start deferring our hope

1044
00:58:44.140 --> 00:58:45.820
because we believe that we're unworthy.

1045
00:58:46.540 --> 00:58:48.100
We believe that we don't deserve whatever it is

1046
00:58:48.100 --> 00:58:49.180
that we've been waiting for.

1047
00:58:49.180 --> 00:58:50.620
And that's why God's not giving it to us

1048
00:58:50.620 --> 00:58:51.460
because we don't deserve it.

1049
00:58:51.460 --> 00:58:54.100
So we start to entertain those doubtful ideas.

1050
00:58:55.580 --> 00:58:57.060
And here's the newsflash

1051
00:58:57.060 --> 00:58:58.460
that all of you need to get ahold of.

1052
00:58:58.460 --> 00:59:01.980
You absolutely don't deserve it.

1053
00:59:01.980 --> 00:59:02.940
And you never will.

1054
00:59:03.940 --> 00:59:06.300
You don't deserve anything that God wants to give you.

1055
00:59:06.300 --> 00:59:08.700
And if you want to live an amazing,

1056
00:59:08.700 --> 00:59:11.300
incredible life on this earth,

1057
00:59:11.300 --> 00:59:13.180
then you need to get really comfortable

1058
00:59:13.180 --> 00:59:15.860
with receiving lots of stuff

1059
00:59:15.860 --> 00:59:17.740
that you absolutely don't deserve.

1060
00:59:21.420 --> 00:59:22.580
Absolutely.

1061
00:59:22.580 --> 00:59:24.580
Those people used to get on my last nerve, you guys,

1062
00:59:24.580 --> 00:59:26.700
because I was discipled by religious people.

1063
00:59:26.700 --> 00:59:28.100
And they started having me think,

1064
00:59:28.100 --> 00:59:30.500
even though I was converted by love

1065
00:59:30.500 --> 00:59:35.380
and converted by the supernatural power of the giver,

1066
00:59:36.540 --> 00:59:39.620
the ultimate giver, which is God,

1067
00:59:39.620 --> 00:59:40.820
these people had me believe in,

1068
00:59:40.820 --> 00:59:43.300
and I had to earn and merit and deserve everything

1069
00:59:43.300 --> 00:59:45.620
from that point forward after I started getting discipled.

1070
00:59:45.620 --> 00:59:47.020
Now, there were some good things I was taught,

1071
00:59:47.020 --> 00:59:49.300
and I'm very thankful for my discipleship.

1072
00:59:49.300 --> 00:59:50.820
Don't hear what I'm not saying.

1073
00:59:50.820 --> 00:59:54.220
But at the same time, I saw all kinds of people around me

1074
00:59:54.220 --> 00:59:56.060
that I knew were living bad lives,

1075
00:59:56.060 --> 00:59:57.460
and they were being blessed.

1076
00:59:59.020 --> 01:00:00.140
And I was like, what?

1077
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:05.000
What the what, what the what, what is happening, you know?

1078
01:00:08.080 --> 01:00:10.800
And I'm not talking about like sinners, like David,

1079
01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:12.880
you know, he sees the wicked prospering

1080
01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:14.320
and God's like, you don't see their end.

1081
01:00:14.320 --> 01:00:18.460
I'm talking about children of God that were not religious

1082
01:00:18.460 --> 01:00:20.640
and were willing to be perfectly imperfect

1083
01:00:20.640 --> 01:00:22.040
and still let God bless them

1084
01:00:22.040 --> 01:00:23.240
even though they didn't deserve it.

1085
01:00:23.240 --> 01:00:25.320
I'm not about those people.

1086
01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:28.440
And they were so infuriating to me

1087
01:00:28.440 --> 01:00:30.680
because I'd be in relationship with some of them

1088
01:00:30.680 --> 01:00:32.040
and they'd be like, yeah, well,

1089
01:00:32.040 --> 01:00:33.680
I'm just believing God for this thing.

1090
01:00:33.680 --> 01:00:35.560
And I'd think to myself, why?

1091
01:00:35.560 --> 01:00:36.600
You don't deserve that.

1092
01:00:36.600 --> 01:00:37.960
And then they get it.

1093
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:41.920
I'd be like, what, what's happening?

1094
01:00:43.520 --> 01:00:47.960
So glad that Pharisee Jackie no longer lives.

1095
01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:49.720
She is dead.

1096
01:00:49.720 --> 01:00:51.600
I'm no longer a Pharisee, y'all.

1097
01:00:51.600 --> 01:00:52.840
I didn't know any better.

1098
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:54.580
I was discipled to be a Pharisee.

1099
01:00:55.540 --> 01:00:59.140
And I wasn't good at it, you guys,

1100
01:00:59.140 --> 01:01:00.860
because I really just have a heart of grace.

1101
01:01:00.860 --> 01:01:01.820
And I always have.

1102
01:01:01.820 --> 01:01:03.780
And something deep inside of me always knew

1103
01:01:03.780 --> 01:01:06.300
that this cannot be this way.

1104
01:01:06.300 --> 01:01:08.100
It really, this cannot be correct,

1105
01:01:08.100 --> 01:01:11.460
which is why the hard work became a thing

1106
01:01:11.460 --> 01:01:12.980
because my life was so messed up

1107
01:01:12.980 --> 01:01:14.820
and I wasn't living in freedom in any area.

1108
01:01:14.820 --> 01:01:17.460
And then I was just like, God, what's going on?

1109
01:01:17.460 --> 01:01:20.340
Someone put rest in peace, Pharisee Jackie.

1110
01:01:20.340 --> 01:01:22.180
That's so good, Nora, I love it.

1111
01:01:22.180 --> 01:01:23.100
Love it.

1112
01:01:23.100 --> 01:01:26.260
Okay, back on track.

1113
01:01:26.260 --> 01:01:29.460
We defer it, we defer our hope

1114
01:01:29.460 --> 01:01:32.220
and it makes us heart sick, you guys.

1115
01:01:32.220 --> 01:01:34.500
And please listen to what I'm about to say next.

1116
01:01:34.500 --> 01:01:39.500
When we are heart sick, when our hearts are sick,

1117
01:01:39.620 --> 01:01:42.020
our hearts start looking for medication.

1118
01:01:44.780 --> 01:01:46.980
Sick hearts start looking for medication.

1119
01:01:48.700 --> 01:01:51.940
Plan me starts taking shape.

1120
01:01:51.940 --> 01:01:55.980
I didn't get what I wanted when I wanted it.

1121
01:01:55.980 --> 01:01:57.420
And if God isn't gonna give it to me,

1122
01:01:57.420 --> 01:01:59.100
I'm gonna go get it myself.

1123
01:02:00.300 --> 01:02:04.380
Or I'm gonna be really mean and abusive

1124
01:02:04.380 --> 01:02:07.980
and hurtful to myself until God feels sorry enough

1125
01:02:07.980 --> 01:02:09.820
for me to give it to me.

1126
01:02:09.820 --> 01:02:14.540
Oh, come on, you guys.

1127
01:02:15.980 --> 01:02:19.380
I have watched so many people drink poison

1128
01:02:21.940 --> 01:02:23.620
to try to get God's attention.

1129
01:02:25.820 --> 01:02:28.700
There are no trophies for trauma

1130
01:02:28.700 --> 01:02:30.700
and taking on a posture of victimhood,

1131
01:02:30.700 --> 01:02:32.660
you guys, will not give you victory.

1132
01:02:34.500 --> 01:02:37.940
Taking on a posture of victimhood will not get you victory.

1133
01:02:37.940 --> 01:02:39.860
I know this is always a really hard lesson

1134
01:02:39.860 --> 01:02:40.700
for people to learn.

1135
01:02:40.700 --> 01:02:42.260
It was hard for me to learn because you guys know

1136
01:02:42.260 --> 01:02:43.980
I came from a really complicated,

1137
01:02:43.980 --> 01:02:46.620
very abusive childhood, okay?

1138
01:02:46.620 --> 01:02:49.820
But God does not feel sorry for you.

1139
01:02:49.820 --> 01:02:52.820
God does not bless us based on need.

1140
01:02:52.820 --> 01:02:54.860
He blesses us based on faith.

1141
01:02:54.860 --> 01:02:57.620
And you will not ever have true faith without hope.

1142
01:03:01.420 --> 01:03:04.100
I'm very glad that God doesn't just bless based on need

1143
01:03:04.100 --> 01:03:05.700
because if that's the truth,

1144
01:03:05.700 --> 01:03:09.220
people in developing countries would have his full attention

1145
01:03:09.220 --> 01:03:12.100
and none of us would ever get his attention in America.

1146
01:03:13.780 --> 01:03:14.620
Amen?

1147
01:03:15.500 --> 01:03:16.620
It was based on need.

1148
01:03:16.620 --> 01:03:18.220
We would never get the attention of God

1149
01:03:18.220 --> 01:03:19.620
because there would always be someone

1150
01:03:19.620 --> 01:03:22.100
who's in more need than us, for sure.

1151
01:03:24.180 --> 01:03:26.540
There are people eating dirt cookies right now, y'all.

1152
01:03:26.540 --> 01:03:28.100
Seriously, okay?

1153
01:03:29.500 --> 01:03:32.140
All right, so when we defer our hope,

1154
01:03:32.140 --> 01:03:33.180
it makes us heart sick.

1155
01:03:33.180 --> 01:03:36.540
And when we are heart sick, we start looking for medication

1156
01:03:36.540 --> 01:03:39.020
and then plan me starts taking shape.

1157
01:03:39.020 --> 01:03:41.260
We start taking things into our own hands.

1158
01:03:41.260 --> 01:03:44.140
We try to solve one problem, we create 99 new problems.

1159
01:03:44.140 --> 01:03:45.540
That's what happens.

1160
01:03:45.580 --> 01:03:48.340
So what does the word defer really mean?

1161
01:03:48.340 --> 01:03:51.700
It means to put off to a later time or postpone.

1162
01:03:54.620 --> 01:03:57.820
Another synonym of defer is suspend.

1163
01:03:59.780 --> 01:04:01.020
This means what?

1164
01:04:01.020 --> 01:04:03.740
This means I'm waiting for more information

1165
01:04:03.740 --> 01:04:06.660
before making a final decision or taking action.

1166
01:04:08.660 --> 01:04:10.340
When you suspend something,

1167
01:04:10.340 --> 01:04:11.460
whether it's a cash register

1168
01:04:11.460 --> 01:04:12.980
that's suspending the transaction

1169
01:04:12.980 --> 01:04:14.540
because you forgot your wallet in your car

1170
01:04:14.540 --> 01:04:15.780
and now you gotta run out and get it.

1171
01:04:15.780 --> 01:04:16.860
What are they waiting for?

1172
01:04:16.860 --> 01:04:18.900
They're waiting for more information

1173
01:04:18.900 --> 01:04:21.180
before they make a decision or take action.

1174
01:04:21.180 --> 01:04:22.060
I don't know about you guys,

1175
01:04:22.060 --> 01:04:25.460
but I was suspended from school probably every other month.

1176
01:04:28.660 --> 01:04:29.500
I'm not kidding.

1177
01:04:29.500 --> 01:04:31.220
I was suspended from school all the time.

1178
01:04:31.220 --> 01:04:32.660
I was on three-day suspension.

1179
01:04:32.660 --> 01:04:34.740
Sometimes I was on in-school suspension.

1180
01:04:34.740 --> 01:04:37.060
Sometimes I was just on straight up suspension

1181
01:04:37.060 --> 01:04:38.620
while they decided what?

1182
01:04:38.620 --> 01:04:40.540
Whether or not they should expel me.

1183
01:04:42.140 --> 01:04:44.260
Suspension means that the people

1184
01:04:44.940 --> 01:04:45.780
that are making the decision

1185
01:04:45.780 --> 01:04:46.940
are trying to decide whether or not

1186
01:04:46.940 --> 01:04:50.260
they want to keep you in this class or in this thing.

1187
01:04:51.380 --> 01:04:56.380
I never got expelled, but I was suspended a lot.

1188
01:04:57.620 --> 01:04:59.980
So what do we do when we are deferring our?

1189
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:03.080
hope, suspending our hope, what are we doing?

1190
01:05:03.080 --> 01:05:05.000
We're waiting to have hope.

1191
01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:08.240
We're deferring it until there's evidence that it's safe

1192
01:05:08.240 --> 01:05:11.240
to get our hopes up about this thing again.

1193
01:05:11.240 --> 01:05:12.980
We wanna know, is it safe?

1194
01:05:14.840 --> 01:05:16.160
Am I gonna be disappointed?

1195
01:05:16.160 --> 01:05:17.300
I'm waiting for evidence

1196
01:05:17.300 --> 01:05:19.080
that I'm not gonna be disappointed again.

1197
01:05:19.080 --> 01:05:22.040
So I'm just gonna have level one or two of hope here

1198
01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:25.420
because I don't have enough evidence.

1199
01:05:25.420 --> 01:05:26.640
I don't have enough proof

1200
01:05:26.640 --> 01:05:28.480
that this time God's gonna deliver.

1201
01:05:30.640 --> 01:05:32.280
Is anyone hearing me out there?

1202
01:05:33.160 --> 01:05:35.080
Do you resonate?

1203
01:05:35.080 --> 01:05:36.680
Is it hitting home with you?

1204
01:05:38.920 --> 01:05:42.240
Do you know that this is you that I'm talking about?

1205
01:05:53.400 --> 01:05:54.240
Okay.

1206
01:05:56.560 --> 01:05:58.600
So the problem with this deferment, you guys,

1207
01:05:58.600 --> 01:05:59.840
or this suspension of hope,

1208
01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:03.840
instead of just having ridiculously beautiful lives

1209
01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:07.160
that glisten with hope, regardless of circumstances,

1210
01:06:07.160 --> 01:06:09.280
and that's really the building blocks of miracles,

1211
01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:11.760
instead of doing that, we defer our hope,

1212
01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:13.000
we suspend our hope,

1213
01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:15.120
and the problem with that is it makes us heart sick.

1214
01:06:15.120 --> 01:06:16.320
And then that broken heart

1215
01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:18.280
actually goes looking for medication.

1216
01:06:18.280 --> 01:06:20.280
That's how you get in situationships.

1217
01:06:20.280 --> 01:06:23.260
That's how you start settling for less than what you deserve

1218
01:06:23.260 --> 01:06:25.260
because when you're looking for medication,

1219
01:06:25.260 --> 01:06:27.900
something to fill the void right now

1220
01:06:27.900 --> 01:06:29.740
while you're waiting to see whether or not

1221
01:06:29.740 --> 01:06:33.060
anything's really ever gonna happen for you in this area,

1222
01:06:33.060 --> 01:06:35.300
you start to erode your hope even further

1223
01:06:35.300 --> 01:06:37.300
because it's a very slippery slope.

1224
01:06:37.300 --> 01:06:40.020
Psalm 43.5, this is the psalmist talking.

1225
01:06:40.020 --> 01:06:42.540
David, he's talking to his heart part.

1226
01:06:42.540 --> 01:06:44.660
The soul and heart are interchangeable in the word of God.

1227
01:06:44.660 --> 01:06:46.620
He's saying, hey, heart, hey, soul,

1228
01:06:46.620 --> 01:06:48.020
because it's that soul realm

1229
01:06:48.020 --> 01:06:50.460
where all the bad information is kept.

1230
01:06:50.460 --> 01:06:53.620
And hopelessness is rooted in bad information, okay?

1231
01:06:53.620 --> 01:06:56.580
So, hey, soul, why are you restless?

1232
01:06:56.580 --> 01:06:58.620
Why are you sick?

1233
01:06:58.620 --> 01:07:00.100
He's talking to his heart.

1234
01:07:00.100 --> 01:07:01.580
His heart is sick.

1235
01:07:01.580 --> 01:07:02.980
He's been believing bad information

1236
01:07:02.980 --> 01:07:04.220
and now he's losing hope,

1237
01:07:04.220 --> 01:07:07.120
but he's trying to rally himself and he's saying,

1238
01:07:08.340 --> 01:07:11.600
don't be restless, don't be sick, hope in God.

1239
01:07:12.540 --> 01:07:14.940
And I'm releasing that over you, brothers and sisters.

1240
01:07:14.940 --> 01:07:16.640
Don't be restless, don't be sick.

1241
01:07:17.580 --> 01:07:20.980
Don't be over here wasting your time

1242
01:07:20.980 --> 01:07:23.020
with things that are not gonna satisfy you

1243
01:07:23.420 --> 01:07:24.620
because you're going and looking for medication.

1244
01:07:24.620 --> 01:07:26.420
Please be in the right place at the right time

1245
01:07:26.420 --> 01:07:29.420
with the right heart, because God wants to bless you.

1246
01:07:29.420 --> 01:07:30.880
Don't be over here digging ditches

1247
01:07:30.880 --> 01:07:33.220
where it's not gonna rain just because you're bored,

1248
01:07:33.220 --> 01:07:35.100
because you feel like you've waited too long

1249
01:07:35.100 --> 01:07:36.460
for God to come through.

1250
01:07:38.520 --> 01:07:40.640
Yes, don't be numbing the pain.

1251
01:07:42.540 --> 01:07:45.540
Feel all the pain and then ask it why it's there.

1252
01:07:45.540 --> 01:07:47.860
Because if we're in pain during the waiting process,

1253
01:07:47.860 --> 01:07:50.360
usually that pain is because we feel like

1254
01:07:50.400 --> 01:07:54.800
we've been rejected, left out, left behind, forgotten.

1255
01:07:54.800 --> 01:07:56.880
That's why we're in pain.

1256
01:07:56.880 --> 01:07:58.240
And those are all lies.

1257
01:08:00.560 --> 01:08:02.920
If you knew something absolutely was gonna happen

1258
01:08:02.920 --> 01:08:04.800
and you knew it would be on a shadow of a doubt,

1259
01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:06.920
a hundred percent, a million percent,

1260
01:08:06.920 --> 01:08:09.200
you would not be full of pain.

1261
01:08:10.100 --> 01:08:12.720
You'd be full of anticipation and excitement.

1262
01:08:12.720 --> 01:08:14.820
You'd be decorating the walls.

1263
01:08:14.820 --> 01:08:16.479
Ladies, when the doctor told you

1264
01:08:16.479 --> 01:08:17.399
you were gonna have a baby,

1265
01:08:17.399 --> 01:08:19.760
you didn't sit around and worry about miscarriages

1266
01:08:20.120 --> 01:08:21.359
and whether or not you're really gonna have a baby.

1267
01:08:21.359 --> 01:08:23.520
You ran out from that doctor's office

1268
01:08:23.520 --> 01:08:25.359
and you went and bought little tiny clothes

1269
01:08:25.359 --> 01:08:26.840
and all kinds of furnishings.

1270
01:08:26.840 --> 01:08:28.560
And even though you weren't showing yet,

1271
01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:30.160
you couldn't wait to wear maternity clothes.

1272
01:08:30.160 --> 01:08:33.120
You wanted to just go all in

1273
01:08:33.120 --> 01:08:35.960
because you believed with all your heart

1274
01:08:35.960 --> 01:08:37.200
that nine months from now,

1275
01:08:37.200 --> 01:08:39.880
there's a baby coming home with you from the hospital.

1276
01:08:40.740 --> 01:08:43.640
You were excited at some level.

1277
01:08:47.859 --> 01:08:49.439
All right.

1278
01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:52.279
So let's ask God, we're not gonna defer our hope anymore.

1279
01:08:52.279 --> 01:08:53.640
You guys, the Psalmist said,

1280
01:08:53.640 --> 01:08:57.800
stop it heart, stop being sick, put your hope in God.

1281
01:08:57.800 --> 01:08:59.000
So let's not defer our hope.

1282
01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:00.600
Let's put it safely in the right place.

1283
01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:01.560
Let's activate it tonight.

1284
01:09:01.560 --> 01:09:03.460
Let's ask God to renew our hope

1285
01:09:03.460 --> 01:09:05.920
because here's the trajectory.

1286
01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:08.279
Here is the timeline of events.

1287
01:09:08.279 --> 01:09:12.800
Loss of hope leads to doubt, that leads to uncertainty,

1288
01:09:12.800 --> 01:09:15.880
that leads to inaction, that leads to unbelief,

1289
01:09:15.880 --> 01:09:18.500
that leads to dead religion.

1290
01:09:20.439 --> 01:09:22.279
And no one in here is gonna have a dead religion

1291
01:09:22.279 --> 01:09:23.960
on my watch, okay?

1292
01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:25.160
Because let me show you the scripture.

1293
01:09:25.160 --> 01:09:27.340
Faith without action is dead.

1294
01:09:28.439 --> 01:09:30.479
Who takes action?

1295
01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:32.920
Hope, hope takes action, doesn't it?

1296
01:09:33.880 --> 01:09:35.979
Hope is the one that takes action.

1297
01:09:37.359 --> 01:09:41.859
Hope is expectantly preparing and not waiting, right?

1298
01:09:43.240 --> 01:09:45.720
And so that means faith without hope is dead.

1299
01:09:45.720 --> 01:09:47.180
Faith without action is dead.

1300
01:09:47.180 --> 01:09:50.340
You will never take action if you don't have hope,

1301
01:09:50.340 --> 01:09:52.100
that things are gonna work out.

1302
01:09:53.140 --> 01:09:55.140
Because remember, the opposite of hope is doubt.

1303
01:09:55.140 --> 01:09:55.980
And what is doubt?

1304
01:09:55.980 --> 01:09:57.660
It's uncertainty that leads to inaction.

1305
01:09:57.660 --> 01:09:59.500
So faith without hope is dead.

1306
01:09:59.500 --> 01:10:00.320
Faith without.

1307
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:01.460
Hope is dead religion.

1308
01:10:02.900 --> 01:10:04.420
And we see it all the time, you guys,

1309
01:10:04.420 --> 01:10:06.780
powerless traditions that actually breed fear

1310
01:10:06.780 --> 01:10:08.340
and disconnection from God.

1311
01:10:08.340 --> 01:10:11.340
Going through the motion, powerless traditions

1312
01:10:11.340 --> 01:10:13.700
that nothing happens from them.

1313
01:10:13.700 --> 01:10:14.820
And what does it do?

1314
01:10:14.820 --> 01:10:17.900
It continues to reinforce the idea that you can be hopeless

1315
01:10:17.900 --> 01:10:20.580
because there ain't nothing good that's gonna happen.

1316
01:10:20.580 --> 01:10:22.620
All the good stuff happened long time ago,

1317
01:10:22.620 --> 01:10:24.220
2000 years ago on a cross

1318
01:10:24.220 --> 01:10:26.020
and nothing good is gonna happen now.

1319
01:10:26.020 --> 01:10:28.340
You just gotta wait to heaven to get there.

1320
01:10:28.360 --> 01:10:29.720
Ephesians 3.20 says,

1321
01:10:29.720 --> 01:10:31.520
to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly

1322
01:10:31.520 --> 01:10:33.400
above all we can ask, think, or imagine

1323
01:10:33.400 --> 01:10:36.800
by the power that works in us.

1324
01:10:36.800 --> 01:10:37.640
The power of what?

1325
01:10:37.640 --> 01:10:39.800
The eternal things, faith, hope, and love.

1326
01:10:39.800 --> 01:10:42.520
The Holy Spirit, the eternal things.

1327
01:10:42.520 --> 01:10:43.360
Why?

1328
01:10:43.360 --> 01:10:44.880
Because he can only do exceedingly abundantly

1329
01:10:44.880 --> 01:10:47.360
through the power that works in us.

1330
01:10:47.360 --> 01:10:50.780
Faith is trust in what God already did for us,

1331
01:10:51.680 --> 01:10:55.060
but hope is trust in what he's still yet to do.

1332
01:10:56.040 --> 01:10:58.840
Faith is trust in what's already done.

1333
01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:02.600
Hope is trust in what's going to happen.

1334
01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:03.440
Through what?

1335
01:11:03.440 --> 01:11:04.440
Through you.

1336
01:11:04.440 --> 01:11:05.860
Because God is always doing a new thing.

1337
01:11:05.860 --> 01:11:06.700
Is it already done?

1338
01:11:06.700 --> 01:11:07.520
Yes.

1339
01:11:07.520 --> 01:11:08.360
Is it yet to come?

1340
01:11:08.360 --> 01:11:09.360
Yes.

1341
01:11:09.360 --> 01:11:10.720
He's the author and finisher.

1342
01:11:10.720 --> 01:11:11.760
He's the beginning and end.

1343
01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:13.160
He's the Alpha and the Omega.

1344
01:11:14.080 --> 01:11:17.060
But the middle, the middle is you and your hope.

1345
01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:21.880
The middle is you and your hope.

1346
01:11:22.860 --> 01:11:27.180
Author, finisher, Alpha, Omega, start, end.

1347
01:11:27.180 --> 01:11:29.940
Middle, you and your hope.

1348
01:11:34.660 --> 01:11:35.620
Yeah, soak in it.

1349
01:11:35.620 --> 01:11:38.440
Listen to the replay as many times as you need to.

1350
01:11:38.440 --> 01:11:40.380
Guys, I used to get my nails done at this place

1351
01:11:40.380 --> 01:11:41.900
that was owned by Buddhists

1352
01:11:41.900 --> 01:11:44.300
and they had these little Buddha statues everywhere.

1353
01:11:44.300 --> 01:11:46.540
And up at the front, they had a Buddha statue

1354
01:11:46.540 --> 01:11:48.020
that always had food in front of him.

1355
01:11:48.020 --> 01:11:49.420
And I went there to get my nails done

1356
01:11:49.420 --> 01:11:51.720
and this Buddha statue had a little plate

1357
01:11:51.720 --> 01:11:55.080
of McDonald's French fries sitting in front of him.

1358
01:11:56.800 --> 01:11:58.380
Somebody forgot the food offering

1359
01:11:58.380 --> 01:12:00.640
and then they had to just kind of mail it in, right?

1360
01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:02.080
And so she's doing my nails

1361
01:12:02.080 --> 01:12:03.720
and I'm not trying to be an arrogant Christian.

1362
01:12:03.720 --> 01:12:04.940
I was a young believer

1363
01:12:04.940 --> 01:12:07.720
and I really honestly wanted to understand their process.

1364
01:12:07.720 --> 01:12:10.120
And I just said, hey, she spoke pretty good English.

1365
01:12:10.120 --> 01:12:12.240
And I just said, hey, what's up with the French fries

1366
01:12:12.240 --> 01:12:13.700
in front of the Buddha?

1367
01:12:13.700 --> 01:12:15.240
And she said, oh, that's a food offering.

1368
01:12:15.240 --> 01:12:17.960
And I was like, okay, well, I'm going to ask you a question.

1369
01:12:17.960 --> 01:12:20.820
Does Buddha ever eat the food that you give him?

1370
01:12:22.100 --> 01:12:24.420
And she started laughing at me,

1371
01:12:24.420 --> 01:12:27.180
like not like in my face, but like with me,

1372
01:12:27.180 --> 01:12:30.700
like just funny, like realizing how ridiculous it was

1373
01:12:30.700 --> 01:12:33.780
to put the fries in front of the Buddha, right?

1374
01:12:33.780 --> 01:12:35.700
And you guys, that's what we look like

1375
01:12:35.700 --> 01:12:38.000
when we live our lives with faith and no hope.

1376
01:12:40.220 --> 01:12:41.380
We do all kinds of stuff

1377
01:12:41.380 --> 01:12:43.820
that we expect no true outcome from.

1378
01:12:43.820 --> 01:12:45.260
They put those fries in front of the Buddha

1379
01:12:45.260 --> 01:12:48.040
knowing dang well that that little fat statue

1380
01:12:48.040 --> 01:12:50.160
was not going to eat those fries.

1381
01:12:52.040 --> 01:12:53.280
But why did they do it?

1382
01:12:53.280 --> 01:12:54.280
Dead religion.

1383
01:12:56.280 --> 01:12:57.320
And instead of judging them,

1384
01:12:57.320 --> 01:12:58.520
we need to look at our own lives

1385
01:12:58.520 --> 01:13:00.160
and to really ask ourselves

1386
01:13:00.160 --> 01:13:03.020
how much of what I'm doing is dead religion.

1387
01:13:03.020 --> 01:13:05.280
I'm just going through the motions.

1388
01:13:05.280 --> 01:13:07.920
I don't truly expect anything in my life to change

1389
01:13:07.920 --> 01:13:10.160
in these areas of where I'm doing this stuff.

1390
01:13:11.160 --> 01:13:12.340
I'm just going to tell you,

1391
01:13:12.340 --> 01:13:13.980
if you're a broke and you have been broke

1392
01:13:13.980 --> 01:13:16.500
for a really long time, but you pay your tithes,

1393
01:13:16.500 --> 01:13:17.580
maybe you should stop.

1394
01:13:19.340 --> 01:13:22.420
Because perhaps you're doing that for the wrong reasons.

1395
01:13:22.420 --> 01:13:24.180
Maybe that's dead religion for you.

1396
01:13:25.740 --> 01:13:28.020
Maybe you should consider asking God

1397
01:13:28.020 --> 01:13:31.380
to give you a revelation of his provision

1398
01:13:31.380 --> 01:13:34.260
and also of you being blessed to be a blessing.

1399
01:13:36.020 --> 01:13:37.660
I don't know who that's for, but.

1400
01:13:41.140 --> 01:13:42.820
I don't usually say stuff like that.

1401
01:13:42.820 --> 01:13:47.820
I don't try to meddle in people's religious ideas.

1402
01:13:49.300 --> 01:13:50.900
I ain't trying to meddle.

1403
01:13:50.900 --> 01:13:52.780
But I'm just going to say what I'm saying.

1404
01:13:52.780 --> 01:13:54.740
Because if you're doing something over and over

1405
01:13:54.740 --> 01:13:56.020
and over and over again,

1406
01:13:56.020 --> 01:13:59.220
and the thing that the Bible says is supposed to happen

1407
01:13:59.220 --> 01:14:00.540
is not happening,

1408
01:14:00.540 --> 01:14:02.300
then you might want to think about

1409
01:14:02.300 --> 01:14:03.780
why you're doing that thing.

1410
01:14:05.980 --> 01:14:07.420
That's all.

1411
01:14:07.420 --> 01:14:08.820
That's all I'm going to say.

1412
01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:09.840
Okay?

1413
01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:11.320
Because I'm not against anything.

1414
01:14:11.320 --> 01:14:13.120
If something is done with trust in the Lord

1415
01:14:13.120 --> 01:14:14.360
and it's done with hope,

1416
01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:17.120
because hopes are the building blocks of faith.

1417
01:14:17.120 --> 01:14:18.840
Let's read this scripture.

1418
01:14:18.840 --> 01:14:21.920
Faith is the evidence of things hoped for.

1419
01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:23.240
It's the evidence of it.

1420
01:14:24.200 --> 01:14:27.160
Things that are hoped for and still yet unseen.

1421
01:14:27.160 --> 01:14:27.980
What does that mean?

1422
01:14:27.980 --> 01:14:30.480
That means that you can't have true faith without hope.

1423
01:14:32.200 --> 01:14:34.520
It's the building blocks of faith.

1424
01:14:34.520 --> 01:14:36.440
And that is why we have so many marriage miracles

1425
01:14:36.440 --> 01:14:38.200
in this group, because I have supernatural hope

1426
01:14:38.220 --> 01:14:39.540
for your love story.

1427
01:14:39.540 --> 01:14:40.860
And if you don't have any,

1428
01:14:40.860 --> 01:14:42.220
I've been allowing you to borrow mine.

1429
01:14:42.220 --> 01:14:45.220
But after tonight, I believe you're going to have your own.

1430
01:14:46.540 --> 01:14:47.820
Jeremiah 29, 11 says,

1431
01:14:47.820 --> 01:14:51.140
I know the plans, once again, plural plans,

1432
01:14:51.140 --> 01:14:53.580
not just one plan, more than one plan.

1433
01:14:53.580 --> 01:14:54.900
Thank goodness.

1434
01:14:54.900 --> 01:14:56.740
I know the plans.

1435
01:14:56.740 --> 01:14:57.900
They are mine, not yours.

1436
01:14:57.900 --> 01:14:58.740
That's what God's saying.

1437
01:14:58.740 --> 01:14:59.560
They're not your plans.

1438
01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:00.400
It's not planned.

1439
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:02.440
Plan B or Plan Me, it's Plan Him.

1440
01:15:04.800 --> 01:15:07.080
I know the plans, they're mine, not yours.

1441
01:15:07.080 --> 01:15:08.160
And there's more of them

1442
01:15:08.160 --> 01:15:10.320
than the ones that you already screwed up.

1443
01:15:10.320 --> 01:15:11.680
And what are they plans for?

1444
01:15:11.680 --> 01:15:14.520
They're plans to give you, come on, y'all say it with me,

1445
01:15:14.520 --> 01:15:17.900
hope and a future.

1446
01:15:18.800 --> 01:15:19.640
What does that mean?

1447
01:15:19.640 --> 01:15:21.080
That means hope is tied to your future.

1448
01:15:21.080 --> 01:15:22.040
If you want a good future,

1449
01:15:22.040 --> 01:15:23.080
then you're gonna have to have hope.

1450
01:15:23.080 --> 01:15:24.560
And another translation says,

1451
01:15:24.560 --> 01:15:27.880
to give you a future full of hope.

1452
01:15:27.880 --> 01:15:29.440
And yet another translation says,

1453
01:15:29.440 --> 01:15:32.000
to give you the future that you're hoping for.

1454
01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:35.440
Come on, get excited about that.

1455
01:15:35.440 --> 01:15:37.320
What future are you hoping for?

1456
01:15:37.320 --> 01:15:38.800
Because he says that his plan

1457
01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:41.000
is to give you the future that you're hoping for.

1458
01:15:41.000 --> 01:15:44.120
So is it possible that your future

1459
01:15:44.120 --> 01:15:46.360
being huge and big and amazing

1460
01:15:46.360 --> 01:15:50.680
is tied to whatever you're hoping for?

1461
01:15:51.860 --> 01:15:53.280
What are you hoping for?

1462
01:15:54.200 --> 01:15:55.760
This is a good enough reason than any

1463
01:15:55.760 --> 01:15:57.880
to go ahead and get your hopes up.

1464
01:15:57.960 --> 01:16:00.440
If your future that God wants to give you

1465
01:16:00.440 --> 01:16:02.360
is tied to what you're hoping for,

1466
01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:05.560
some of you aren't hoping for much.

1467
01:16:06.480 --> 01:16:08.480
You're not hoping for much.

1468
01:16:08.480 --> 01:16:10.000
I've seen your Jesus cares boards

1469
01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:12.240
and you're not hoping for much.

1470
01:16:12.240 --> 01:16:14.680
And the reason why is because you're guarding your hope.

1471
01:16:14.680 --> 01:16:17.520
You're protecting yourself from disappointment.

1472
01:16:17.520 --> 01:16:19.960
Stop it, stop it.

1473
01:16:21.840 --> 01:16:23.460
You either win or you win.

1474
01:16:23.460 --> 01:16:25.180
You're either up or you're getting up.

1475
01:16:25.180 --> 01:16:27.440
Stop protecting yourself from disappointment.

1476
01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:31.360
If God doesn't give you your dream,

1477
01:16:31.360 --> 01:16:33.680
it's because it was too small.

1478
01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:35.720
He's never gonna give you less than what you're asking for.

1479
01:16:35.720 --> 01:16:38.200
He's always gonna give you more than what you're asking for

1480
01:16:38.200 --> 01:16:39.280
and different than what you're asking.

1481
01:16:39.280 --> 01:16:41.360
So some of you guys, you don't realize it,

1482
01:16:41.360 --> 01:16:43.000
but you signed up to receive the best thing

1483
01:16:43.000 --> 01:16:45.400
that you never knew you ever even wanted.

1484
01:16:45.400 --> 01:16:46.240
And that's why you're here.

1485
01:16:46.240 --> 01:16:47.360
You're here to get out of your own way

1486
01:16:47.360 --> 01:16:48.480
and get out of God's way

1487
01:16:48.480 --> 01:16:50.660
because what you've been hoping for is really pathetic.

1488
01:16:50.660 --> 01:16:51.780
No offense, I'm sorry.

1489
01:16:51.780 --> 01:16:52.760
It just really is.

1490
01:16:52.760 --> 01:16:55.040
And God wants to give you so much better

1491
01:16:55.040 --> 01:16:58.040
because he doesn't just understand who you are now,

1492
01:16:58.040 --> 01:16:59.920
he understands who you are later.

1493
01:16:59.920 --> 01:17:03.900
And he knows that if you knew who you truly were later,

1494
01:17:03.900 --> 01:17:06.280
you would not be asking for that pathetic thing.

1495
01:17:06.280 --> 01:17:09.760
And so he, because he is God,

1496
01:17:09.760 --> 01:17:11.700
is aligning you to something else.

1497
01:17:11.700 --> 01:17:15.000
But what you've thought is that he just forgot about you

1498
01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:17.460
in some preparation room somewhere.

1499
01:17:18.520 --> 01:17:20.520
And he didn't, he's not.

1500
01:17:20.520 --> 01:17:22.080
All those ships that you think sailed

1501
01:17:22.080 --> 01:17:23.620
from the port without you,

1502
01:17:23.620 --> 01:17:25.540
all of them are coming back.

1503
01:17:25.540 --> 01:17:27.220
They're coming back into port.

1504
01:17:27.220 --> 01:17:28.400
You're ready to get on them.

1505
01:17:28.400 --> 01:17:29.640
You have the tools.

1506
01:17:29.640 --> 01:17:32.300
You have what it is that you need to go.

1507
01:17:32.300 --> 01:17:33.960
And so what we're gonna do now, you guys,

1508
01:17:33.960 --> 01:17:36.820
is we're gonna go after our lost hope.

1509
01:17:36.820 --> 01:17:39.260
And that includes our mantles, our giftings, our callings.

1510
01:17:39.260 --> 01:17:40.460
We're gonna go after it.

1511
01:17:41.460 --> 01:17:43.140
Okay, so I'm gonna get to the revealing for healing.

1512
01:17:43.140 --> 01:17:44.020
It's our last part.

1513
01:17:44.020 --> 01:17:45.900
For those of you who need to go to bed, bedtime.

1514
01:17:45.900 --> 01:17:47.120
All right, this is it.

1515
01:17:47.120 --> 01:17:50.100
I'm gonna go ahead and share this screen with you.

1516
01:17:54.620 --> 01:17:56.780
Can you all see this?

1517
01:17:58.100 --> 01:17:59.140
Can everyone see it?

1518
01:18:04.660 --> 01:18:05.500
Yes.

1519
01:18:08.100 --> 01:18:09.980
All right, I don't know why is it,

1520
01:18:09.980 --> 01:18:11.460
why is it so small for me?

1521
01:18:14.340 --> 01:18:15.180
Stop share.

1522
01:18:15.180 --> 01:18:16.780
Let me try something else, hold on.

1523
01:18:20.820 --> 01:18:22.140
It's weird.

1524
01:18:22.220 --> 01:18:23.740
Okay.

1525
01:18:40.820 --> 01:18:42.320
Okay, let's try it again.

1526
01:18:43.300 --> 01:18:44.140
Let me see.

1527
01:18:53.140 --> 01:18:55.740
Can you guys see it?

1528
01:18:55.740 --> 01:18:57.140
Cause it's so little for me.

1529
01:19:00.140 --> 01:19:01.260
Is it big for you?

1530
01:19:02.740 --> 01:19:04.200
It was bigger before.

1531
01:19:05.180 --> 01:19:06.540
Okay.

1532
01:19:06.540 --> 01:19:07.660
Right.

1533
01:19:07.660 --> 01:19:08.500
Thank you.

1534
01:19:08.500 --> 01:19:11.340
Maybe if you hit the green button, it'll make it bigger.

1535
01:19:13.220 --> 01:19:14.500
I did do that.

1536
01:19:14.500 --> 01:19:15.340
Okay.

1537
01:19:17.620 --> 01:19:18.460
Is it big now?

1538
01:19:20.020 --> 01:19:21.180
Is it big?

1539
01:19:21.260 --> 01:19:22.340
Yes.

1540
01:19:22.340 --> 01:19:23.340
Yes.

1541
01:19:23.340 --> 01:19:24.180
All right.

1542
01:19:24.180 --> 01:19:26.700
So you guys, you can use this revealing for healing cycle

1543
01:19:26.700 --> 01:19:28.820
for any negative emotions, okay?

1544
01:19:28.820 --> 01:19:30.660
Any negative emotions, you can put them,

1545
01:19:30.660 --> 01:19:31.820
you can plug them into this

1546
01:19:31.820 --> 01:19:32.860
and you can get to the root of them.

1547
01:19:32.860 --> 01:19:35.540
You can get to God's truth about them, okay?

1548
01:19:35.540 --> 01:19:38.060
All right, but what I want you guys to do is a homework

1549
01:19:38.060 --> 01:19:39.660
and men you'll do it in your mentorship group

1550
01:19:39.660 --> 01:19:41.420
and women do it in your bride school group.

1551
01:19:41.420 --> 01:19:44.500
I want you to plug the negative emotion of hopelessness

1552
01:19:45.700 --> 01:19:47.660
into the pink circle.

1553
01:19:47.660 --> 01:19:50.140
And then I want you to ask Holy Spirit to show you

1554
01:19:50.140 --> 01:19:54.100
where you started losing hope for that area of your life.

1555
01:19:54.100 --> 01:19:56.340
So hopelessness about whatever,

1556
01:19:56.340 --> 01:19:59.340
plug it in the pink area, the pink bubble,

1557
01:19:59.340 --> 01:20:00.180
and then.

1558
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:04.880
Let Holy Spirit show you the painful memories, the trauma stories, all the different things

1559
01:20:04.880 --> 01:20:11.280
that have been attached to you losing hope in that area. And then I want you to ask for the

1560
01:20:11.280 --> 01:20:16.080
lies that are behind those stories. So it's going to go to a painful memory of some sort.

1561
01:20:16.080 --> 01:20:19.920
And then the story that you've been telling yourself about that memory, about that experience,

1562
01:20:19.920 --> 01:20:24.960
about that situation. And then that story is full of lies. So what lies are you believing

1563
01:20:25.040 --> 01:20:32.400
about your ability to be successful going forward in whatever that area is.

1564
01:20:32.400 --> 01:20:36.960
And then when you see the lies, ask Holy Spirit to help you within the word of God,

1565
01:20:36.960 --> 01:20:43.600
find the truth within his, not just the agape, not just the logos word, but also the agape word.

1566
01:20:43.600 --> 01:20:48.560
Ask him to give you words. Some of you are afraid of promises. You're afraid to even let God talk

1567
01:20:48.560 --> 01:20:53.280
to you because before when you thought he talked to you, the things that you thought he said to

1568
01:20:53.280 --> 01:20:57.760
you didn't happen. Well, the story's not over yet. And sometimes some of the things that you

1569
01:20:57.760 --> 01:21:02.480
thought he said, you have a little bit out of balance, but that's okay. Because God knows that

1570
01:21:02.480 --> 01:21:06.960
you are receiving those things with a pure heart. Those are pure whispers of your heart that you

1571
01:21:06.960 --> 01:21:10.560
believed that he was telling you that they were going to happen. Cause here's what happens with

1572
01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:15.040
promises. We'll hear God say something. And then we start adding onto it. It's like the telephone

1573
01:21:15.040 --> 01:21:20.320
game. Every time we think about that, we start adding our own, you know, things to it.

1574
01:21:20.720 --> 01:21:26.560
And that's what gets us in trouble. So go back down to the pure strip downward. And a lot of

1575
01:21:26.560 --> 01:21:30.240
times we add stuff to it because it doesn't make a lot of sense to us. And so we try to make it

1576
01:21:30.240 --> 01:21:35.280
make sense with our human reasoning. And we start adding on things that we wish that it meant.

1577
01:21:35.280 --> 01:21:41.040
Don't do that. Don't do that. If it doesn't make sense now, it can make sense later. You don't need

1578
01:21:41.040 --> 01:21:44.960
to add your human reasoning to it because this is where you get disappointed and this is where

1579
01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:50.400
you get messed up. Okay. So this is the homework, take the hopelessness that you feel about a

1580
01:21:50.400 --> 01:21:55.760
certain part of your life, find the painful memory, find the trauma story, find the lies,

1581
01:21:55.760 --> 01:22:00.160
and then let God reveal the truth. All right. All right.

1582
01:22:04.960 --> 01:22:10.560
Sorry. I had to sneeze. Okay. All right. You guys have a good time tonight. I know it was a little,

1583
01:22:11.120 --> 01:22:16.960
you know, it was tight, but it was right. As the preachers say it was, and it will change your life.

1584
01:22:16.960 --> 01:22:23.040
It will because your supernatural hope wants to rise up spring up. Oh, well, close your eyes right

1585
01:22:23.040 --> 01:22:30.240
now. Spring up. Oh, well spring up. Oh, well spring up spring up. Well of hope. Anything that's capped

1586
01:22:30.240 --> 01:22:37.120
that well, I just speak to it right now. Remove yourself, move out of the way, all the lies,

1587
01:22:37.120 --> 01:22:43.360
move out of the way, all the lies, all the disappointments, all the circumstances.

1588
01:22:44.480 --> 01:22:48.720
We command those things to get off your hope right now so that they can spring up.

1589
01:22:49.280 --> 01:22:54.400
We just declare that right now. I hear the Lord saying that as you do this work, as you come to

1590
01:22:54.400 --> 01:22:59.520
me and you ask me where the hope went, where the mantles, where the giftings went, where the

1591
01:22:59.520 --> 01:23:04.880
promises went. When you come to me to renew the promises that I've given you, I am going to give

1592
01:23:04.880 --> 01:23:09.200
you revelation. I'm going to give you wisdom. I'm going to give you hope. I'm going to give you joy,

1593
01:23:09.200 --> 01:23:13.040
all the things that you lost in the process. I'm going to give you back. And I'm not just going to

1594
01:23:13.040 --> 01:23:18.000
give it back to you in small portions. I'm going to give it back to you, pressed down, shaken

1595
01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:23.520
together and running over. I just declare that right now. I thank you for it, Lord. We declare

1596
01:23:23.520 --> 01:23:29.040
it right now. We declare it right now. Some people have lost their hope from inherited trauma. Like

1597
01:23:29.040 --> 01:23:34.480
there hasn't been any hope in your family line in certain areas for a really, really, really long

1598
01:23:34.480 --> 01:23:38.640
time. In fact, every time you say anything to your family about getting married, people just laugh.

1599
01:23:38.640 --> 01:23:42.400
Nobody in your family is married. Everybody's divorced or everybody never got married in the

1600
01:23:42.400 --> 01:23:47.760
first place. And they just have no hope for that for you because that has been stolen from the

1601
01:23:47.760 --> 01:23:52.800
generations. And God wants you to know that you are a kinsmen redeemer. Your marriage is a kingdom

1602
01:23:52.800 --> 01:23:58.080
alliance and you are going to restore in your family line, marriage and family. So we declare

1603
01:23:58.080 --> 01:24:03.440
that over you right now. God, we thank you for that right now. Some of you are so hopeless about your

1604
01:24:03.440 --> 01:24:07.920
finances. Some of you have failed businesses. God said, it's time to try again. You're going to get

1605
01:24:07.920 --> 01:24:12.320
your hope up. Things are going to change. They're going to shift. They're going to shift. They're

1606
01:24:12.320 --> 01:24:17.120
going to shift. They're going to shift. They are. They're going to shift. Hope shifts the car. Hope

1607
01:24:17.120 --> 01:24:22.880
puts things in gear. Hope creates the faith that brings the miracles. That is what happens. Father,

1608
01:24:22.880 --> 01:24:27.360
we thank you. We thank you, Lord, that people's finances are going to come alive. People are going

1609
01:24:27.360 --> 01:24:33.920
to stop going through dead rituals of religion when it comes to their finances. And they're going

1610
01:24:33.920 --> 01:24:40.400
to start investing and they're going to start sowing because your word says, my word will not

1611
01:24:40.400 --> 01:24:47.600
be mocked. Where you sow, you will also reap. And so I just declare over your children right now

1612
01:24:47.600 --> 01:24:52.160
that those that have sowed will be expecting a harvest. They will be expecting a harvest. They

1613
01:24:52.160 --> 01:24:58.640
will not believe any longer that sowing can continue without there being some sort of harvest

1614
01:24:58.640 --> 01:24:59.920
time. And so, Lord, we thank you.

1615
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:00.840
Thank you, God.

1616
01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:02.480
We thank you that the laws of the universe

1617
01:25:02.480 --> 01:25:04.040
that you have set in motion,

1618
01:25:04.040 --> 01:25:07.720
say that we cannot sow without also reaping.

1619
01:25:07.720 --> 01:25:08.840
And so right now, Father,

1620
01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:10.160
show them what's ripe in their life.

1621
01:25:10.160 --> 01:25:11.520
Show them what's ripe in their life.

1622
01:25:11.520 --> 01:25:14.080
What's ripe, what's ripe, what's ripe.

1623
01:25:14.080 --> 01:25:15.440
What harvest fields are ripe

1624
01:25:15.440 --> 01:25:16.960
where they have sown in the past,

1625
01:25:16.960 --> 01:25:18.780
into people, into ministries.

1626
01:25:18.780 --> 01:25:20.180
What is ripe in their lives?

1627
01:25:21.180 --> 01:25:23.880
Those God that have faithfully tied, Lord,

1628
01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:27.440
those that have believed that word to be your truth, Lord,

1629
01:25:27.440 --> 01:25:28.960
that you would open the windows of heaven

1630
01:25:28.960 --> 01:25:30.720
and pour out upon them a blessing

1631
01:25:30.720 --> 01:25:32.120
that they could not contain.

1632
01:25:32.120 --> 01:25:34.920
God, I declare right now that no longer

1633
01:25:34.920 --> 01:25:37.920
will their harvest be devoured by religion.

1634
01:25:37.920 --> 01:25:41.320
No longer will their harvest be devoured by religion.

1635
01:25:41.320 --> 01:25:43.560
We curse the polymer worm and the canker worm

1636
01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:44.860
and the locust right now, God,

1637
01:25:44.860 --> 01:25:47.320
and we declare, Joel, too, over these people

1638
01:25:47.320 --> 01:25:51.240
that they will receive the harvest, God,

1639
01:25:51.240 --> 01:25:52.600
that you have given them.

1640
01:25:53.880 --> 01:25:55.600
You will receive, they will receive the harvest

1641
01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:57.700
that you've already given them, God.

1642
01:25:57.700 --> 01:25:59.860
Hopelessness and blindness have come upon them,

1643
01:25:59.860 --> 01:26:01.460
but right now, God, their eyes are opening

1644
01:26:01.460 --> 01:26:04.140
and they're gonna start seeing the blessings.

1645
01:26:04.140 --> 01:26:06.740
They're gonna start seeing the ripe fields of harvest

1646
01:26:06.740 --> 01:26:09.260
where they can go and they can eat

1647
01:26:09.260 --> 01:26:10.620
because you give bread to the eater

1648
01:26:10.620 --> 01:26:12.020
and you give seed to the sower, Lord,

1649
01:26:12.020 --> 01:26:13.060
and we declare that right now.

1650
01:26:13.060 --> 01:26:14.000
We declare your word.

1651
01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:15.900
Your word is true.

1652
01:26:15.900 --> 01:26:17.580
It will not return void.

1653
01:26:17.580 --> 01:26:19.100
Everything that you set it out to do

1654
01:26:19.100 --> 01:26:21.860
when you spoke it at the beginning of time

1655
01:26:21.860 --> 01:26:22.980
is still in motion.

1656
01:26:22.980 --> 01:26:24.080
It's still in motion.

1657
01:26:24.080 --> 01:26:26.140
You guys, nothing has yet to come.

1658
01:26:26.140 --> 01:26:27.380
It's all already here.

1659
01:26:28.060 --> 01:26:29.540
And so, Lord, we just declare that right now,

1660
01:26:29.540 --> 01:26:32.100
that everything that you spoke at the beginning, Lord,

1661
01:26:32.100 --> 01:26:36.020
is now in process and we're in process, Lord,

1662
01:26:36.020 --> 01:26:38.980
with an expected outcome, like Jeremiah 29, 11 says,

1663
01:26:38.980 --> 01:26:40.740
the plans that you have for us,

1664
01:26:40.740 --> 01:26:42.700
the purposes that you have for us,

1665
01:26:42.700 --> 01:26:44.500
they cannot be thwarted, Lord,

1666
01:26:44.500 --> 01:26:47.620
to give us the future, Lord, that we have hoped for.

1667
01:26:47.620 --> 01:26:49.220
And so, God, we just thank you for that.

1668
01:26:49.220 --> 01:26:50.100
We thank you for that.

1669
01:26:50.100 --> 01:26:51.060
We step into that.

1670
01:26:51.060 --> 01:26:52.260
We grab ahold of that.

1671
01:26:52.260 --> 01:26:54.820
Come on, y'all, we grab ahold of that.

1672
01:26:54.820 --> 01:26:55.940
We grab ahold of that.

1673
01:26:55.940 --> 01:26:57.860
We thank you for it, Lord.

1674
01:26:57.860 --> 01:26:59.020
We thank you for it, Lord.

1675
01:26:59.020 --> 01:27:01.380
You guys, the only appropriate response

1676
01:27:01.380 --> 01:27:04.300
to tonight's teaching is just praise and worship,

1677
01:27:04.300 --> 01:27:07.140
just worshiping the Lord because he's not forgotten us.

1678
01:27:07.140 --> 01:27:08.780
He has not forsaken us.

1679
01:27:08.780 --> 01:27:10.660
He has not left us out.

1680
01:27:10.660 --> 01:27:13.140
In fact, coming out of agreement with all the ideas

1681
01:27:13.140 --> 01:27:15.300
that we've been rejected, that we've been left out,

1682
01:27:15.300 --> 01:27:16.340
that we've been left behind,

1683
01:27:16.340 --> 01:27:17.340
just coming out of agreement

1684
01:27:17.340 --> 01:27:20.180
with all of those voices of hopelessness and doubt

1685
01:27:20.180 --> 01:27:24.380
and coming into agreement with radical belief

1686
01:27:24.380 --> 01:27:26.580
and action called hope.

1687
01:27:27.620 --> 01:27:29.620
Yes, Lord, we thank you for it, God.

1688
01:27:29.620 --> 01:27:31.020
We thank you for it, God.

1689
01:27:31.900 --> 01:27:35.100
Yes, yes, people are already getting freedom tonight.

1690
01:27:35.100 --> 01:27:37.100
If you gotta go, we understand you can come back

1691
01:27:37.100 --> 01:27:38.820
and watch the rest of the replay,

1692
01:27:38.820 --> 01:27:39.660
but we're just gonna stay here

1693
01:27:39.660 --> 01:27:41.020
and minister for a few more minutes

1694
01:27:41.020 --> 01:27:42.020
because people are beginning

1695
01:27:42.020 --> 01:27:45.740
to feel supernatural expectation coming upon them,

1696
01:27:45.740 --> 01:27:48.700
supernatural expectation coming upon them.

1697
01:27:48.700 --> 01:27:50.540
There are people right now

1698
01:27:50.540 --> 01:27:53.060
that are experiencing the promises of God

1699
01:27:53.060 --> 01:27:55.220
leaping in their womb, men and women.

1700
01:27:55.220 --> 01:27:56.580
You don't gotta have a womb.

1701
01:27:56.580 --> 01:27:59.140
Men and women leaping in their womb right now,

1702
01:27:59.140 --> 01:28:01.220
feeling that expectancy.

1703
01:28:01.220 --> 01:28:03.060
They're being impregnated right now.

1704
01:28:03.060 --> 01:28:05.860
The Bible says that when we delight in the Lord,

1705
01:28:05.860 --> 01:28:07.260
that word is consummate.

1706
01:28:07.260 --> 01:28:09.780
When we have intimate time with the Lord

1707
01:28:09.780 --> 01:28:11.380
like we are having right now,

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he actually impregnates us with the desires in our heart.

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He impregnates us.

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He does, he puts inside of us,

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01:28:19.060 --> 01:28:21.780
he plants within us the desires,

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his desires in our heart.

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So when we release our desires right now,

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01:28:25.900 --> 01:28:27.380
the things that we've been waiting for,

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01:28:27.380 --> 01:28:30.620
that we feel so hopeless about that are not from you,

1716
01:28:30.620 --> 01:28:32.340
there are things that you don't want for us

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01:28:32.340 --> 01:28:34.660
because there's so much less than what you have for us.

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01:28:34.660 --> 01:28:35.940
We release those things.

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We release those false promises right now.

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We do, we release those false promises.

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01:28:41.620 --> 01:28:44.220
And we ask God that you would impregnate our hearts anew,

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01:28:44.220 --> 01:28:46.660
that you would implant in our hearts anew

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01:28:46.660 --> 01:28:49.860
your plans and purposes for us,

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01:28:49.860 --> 01:28:52.980
your ideas for us.

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01:28:52.980 --> 01:28:54.820
Yes, we're receiving it.

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01:28:54.820 --> 01:28:56.580
We're delighting with you right now

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01:28:56.580 --> 01:29:01.580
so that we can receive the desire for you in our hearts,

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01:29:01.580 --> 01:29:02.460
but not just for you,

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01:29:02.460 --> 01:29:06.340
but for the things that you have and want for us right now.

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Some of you are gonna come away from tonight

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01:29:07.980 --> 01:29:10.540
and you're gonna want things you've never wanted before.

1732
01:29:10.540 --> 01:29:13.180
Your tastes and things are gonna start changing.

1733
01:29:13.180 --> 01:29:14.980
You're gonna start wanting to go after things.

1734
01:29:14.980 --> 01:29:16.620
You're gonna all of a sudden have a desire

1735
01:29:16.620 --> 01:29:18.340
to do something that you've never thought of

1736
01:29:18.340 --> 01:29:19.500
ever before in your life.

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Why is that?

1738
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Because right now God is implanting in your heart

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01:29:23.500 --> 01:29:25.820
his desire for you,

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01:29:25.820 --> 01:29:27.300
not your desire for yourself

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01:29:27.300 --> 01:29:28.580
based on what your parents wanted

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or based on what you thought you had to do

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01:29:30.140 --> 01:29:33.500
to prove yourself or based on some old archaic word

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01:29:33.500 --> 01:29:34.500
you received from the Lord

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that you totally took out of context.

1746
01:29:36.820 --> 01:29:38.900
And now you've been zigging and zagging and digging

1747
01:29:38.900 --> 01:29:40.300
whether it's not gonna rain.

1748
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God wants to take that from you.

1749
01:29:41.940 --> 01:29:44.300
And he wants to give you a real,

1750
01:29:44.300 --> 01:29:47.780
a real promise that he's going to fulfill

1751
01:29:47.780 --> 01:29:50.860
in accelerated time, in accelerated time,

1752
01:29:50.860 --> 01:29:52.900
because you're gonna finally be in alignment.

1753
01:29:52.900 --> 01:29:55.260
Everything's gonna happen as a result of divine alignment.

1754
01:29:55.260 --> 01:29:57.300
You're finally gonna be in alignment

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01:29:57.300 --> 01:29:59.060
like you've never been before,

1756
01:29:59.060 --> 01:29:59.900
never ever been.

1757
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before. Come on, come on, let's go. Come on, you guys grab a

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01:30:04.400 --> 01:30:07.320
hold, grab a hold, grab a hold, grab a hold, grab a hold. Yes,

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yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes. And amen. Come on. Come on. Yes,

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Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Clean us out. God, take all those old

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01:30:19.880 --> 01:30:24.640
rotten promises. Just do some just do some housekeeping in our

1762
01:30:24.640 --> 01:30:27.720
hearts right now. God just remove those we give them to you

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right now. We don't need them anymore. We don't want them

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anymore. They've caused us nothing but frustration. They've

1765
01:30:33.320 --> 01:30:36.080
actually contributed to our hopelessness. God, we ask that

1766
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you would take them from us right now. And we ask that you

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would implant in us a new impregnate our hearts and new in

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this moment right now with a new desire, your desires for us,

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God, your plans and purposes for us, Lord, your ideas for our

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01:30:50.480 --> 01:30:54.080
lives, God, right now, God, we just receive that right now we

1771
01:30:54.080 --> 01:30:58.660
receive it, we believe it. We receive it and believe it. Come

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01:30:58.780 --> 01:31:01.420
on, we receive it and believe it. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes,

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01:31:01.420 --> 01:31:05.700
Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Some of you guys, you're

1774
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never will I ever fall into the ground right now. You believe

1775
01:31:09.500 --> 01:31:12.100
that God told you specific things about your future love

1776
01:31:12.100 --> 01:31:15.020
story. And it was really just you trying to keep yourself

1777
01:31:15.020 --> 01:31:18.240
safe. And so now you don't even pay attention. You don't even

1778
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get excited about situations or opportunities that don't fully

1779
01:31:22.420 --> 01:31:25.700
fit completely what you think God said about your future love

1780
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story. And God said, please give that to me. You're in your

1781
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own way. And you're in my way. Please give it to me. Just let

1782
01:31:31.140 --> 01:31:34.580
go, let go, let go, let go, let go, let go, let go. You can let

1783
01:31:34.580 --> 01:31:37.380
go. You can let go. You don't have to try to keep yourself

1784
01:31:37.380 --> 01:31:39.620
safe with that idea of what this is going to look like. Let it

1785
01:31:39.620 --> 01:31:42.100
go. Let it go. Let it go. I've been trying to bring you

1786
01:31:42.100 --> 01:31:45.340
something completely different, almost opposite of what you've

1787
01:31:45.340 --> 01:31:48.660
been believing for, because it's so much better for you. So much

1788
01:31:48.660 --> 01:31:50.820
better for you. You're going to love it so much more because I

1789
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know you better than you know yourself says the Lord. I know

1790
01:31:53.860 --> 01:31:56.660
you better than you know yourself says the Lord. Trust me.

1791
01:31:56.820 --> 01:32:00.940
I created you. I created you. I know you better than you know

1792
01:32:00.940 --> 01:32:04.420
yourself. I created the real you and I know what the real you

1793
01:32:04.420 --> 01:32:09.140
needs to feel satisfied and feel fulfilled. Trust me. Let go, let

1794
01:32:09.140 --> 01:32:15.780
go, let go, let go. Come on y'all. Let go. Let go. Yes. Let

1795
01:32:15.780 --> 01:32:21.820
go. Let go. Let go. How do we let go? Yes. How do we let go?

1796
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You just say, God, I'm willing to let go. Give me the grace to

1797
01:32:25.340 --> 01:32:28.780
let go. I'm willing to let go, Lord. I'm willing to let go

1798
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right now. I'm willing to surrender to you. Teach me, show

1799
01:32:31.540 --> 01:32:34.860
me, heal me, grow me. I'm willing, Lord. Help me to let

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go. Give me the grace to let go in this moment to let go. Yes,

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Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. I can do nothing without you. You

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01:32:44.260 --> 01:32:46.820
are the vine. I'm just a branch. I'm just a branch. I'm just a

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01:32:46.820 --> 01:32:51.460
branch. I'm just a branch. I'm just a branch. I desire to

1804
01:32:51.460 --> 01:32:54.260
reconnect to you and not to myself. I don't want plan me

1805
01:32:54.260 --> 01:32:57.020
anymore. I don't want plan B anymore. I want you. I want your

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01:32:57.020 --> 01:33:01.700
plan, your plans. Your plans for me are full of hope. Your plans

1807
01:33:01.700 --> 01:33:05.460
for me are full of hope, God. They're good. They're good

1808
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plans, full of hope. Yes, Jesus. Yes, Jesus. I connect to you.

1809
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Anything that's not of you, anything that you haven't

1810
01:33:13.380 --> 01:33:17.260
wanted for me, anything that's inferior and not worthy of my

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01:33:17.260 --> 01:33:21.260
one and only life, help me let go of it right now. You don't

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01:33:21.260 --> 01:33:23.700
even have to tell me what it is, but if you want to, I'm

1813
01:33:23.700 --> 01:33:26.620
listening, but otherwise I just let go of it right now. Just go

1814
01:33:26.620 --> 01:33:30.060
ahead and remove it. Prune me, prune me, prune me, prune me,

1815
01:33:30.100 --> 01:33:33.740
prune me, cut it off. Anything that I've made of my own hands,

1816
01:33:33.900 --> 01:33:36.980
anything that I've created with my own intellect, anything that

1817
01:33:36.980 --> 01:33:40.380
I've been believing for that's so beneath me, I just let it go

1818
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right now. I let it go right now. Whatever it is, I don't

1819
01:33:44.660 --> 01:33:47.740
even need to know. Whatever it is, whatever it is, I just let

1820
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it go. I let it go. The only thing that I want to have

1821
01:33:50.540 --> 01:33:53.580
remained in my life from this moment forward and from this

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night forward is whatever you are renewing in my spirit right

1823
01:33:56.580 --> 01:33:59.460
now. Whatever you are impregnating and implanting in my

1824
01:33:59.460 --> 01:34:04.340
heart right now. I just team up with the prophets and with the

1825
01:34:04.340 --> 01:34:07.540
psalmist right now and I say, created me a clean heart, oh

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Lord. Created me a clean heart, oh Lord. Renew in me a right

1827
01:34:13.180 --> 01:34:16.660
spirit, a righteous spirit that comes into alignment with your

1828
01:34:16.660 --> 01:34:20.660
big and beautiful plans for my life. Yes, Lord, purge me with

1829
01:34:20.660 --> 01:34:25.420
it. Purge me Lord, purge me with hyssop. Prune me, prune me, wash

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01:34:25.420 --> 01:34:30.060
me. Wash me clean of all this chaos and all this confusion,

1831
01:34:30.060 --> 01:34:34.420
Lord. Wash me clean of it, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Come on,

1832
01:34:34.420 --> 01:34:39.820
you guys. Come on. His plans are better than yours. They just

1833
01:34:39.820 --> 01:34:44.540
are. They're so much better. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

1834
01:34:44.540 --> 01:34:49.620
Yes, Lord. 88 people on the call right now. 88 people left. Yes.

1835
01:34:49.660 --> 01:34:52.660
Double new beginnings. Double, double, double, double, double,

1836
01:34:52.660 --> 01:34:56.740
double, double. Yes, Lord. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. We

1837
01:34:56.740 --> 01:34:59.620
just released that, God. We released that.

1838
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release multiple new beginnings over people's lives and multiple areas of their lives, Lord.

1839
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Don't just renew God, but restore. Let there be restitution that's released. Restitution

1840
01:35:09.920 --> 01:35:20.240
that is released over your sons and daughters. Yes, God. Yes, God. Yes, God. Yes, God. Yes,

1841
01:35:20.240 --> 01:35:25.360
God. God doesn't want to just restore you from the hurt that you've gone through. He also wants

1842
01:35:25.360 --> 01:35:33.360
to repay you for what has been lost and stolen. He wants to repay you. Yes.

1843
01:35:36.800 --> 01:35:45.760
Restoration is great. Restitution is better. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. They go together.

1844
01:35:45.760 --> 01:35:51.360
We want restoration, but we don't want things just restored to their original state. We want

1845
01:35:51.360 --> 01:35:59.760
the interest of what has been lost, don't we? Yes, we do. We want the time that's been lost.

1846
01:36:01.120 --> 01:36:04.800
We want the resources that have been lost. We want the favor that's been lost,

1847
01:36:06.080 --> 01:36:10.000
the hope and joy that's been lost. We want it all back. Come on. We're going to get in

1848
01:36:10.000 --> 01:36:14.480
with Thai tribute right now. I want it all back. Come on. You know that song?

1849
01:36:15.120 --> 01:36:18.320
If you don't, you should Google it and you should sing it over yourself. After you get

1850
01:36:18.400 --> 01:36:24.480
this call. That's old school gospel right there. I want it all back. Everything. Everything.

1851
01:36:24.480 --> 01:36:34.560
Everything. Yes. Yes, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Y'all. I just went straight up

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01:36:34.560 --> 01:36:41.520
evangelical on you guys. I just went Pentecostal on you, but you do want it all back for sure.

1853
01:36:41.520 --> 01:36:46.400
No doubt. So, Lord, we just thank you. We thank you for your love. We thank you for your goodness

1854
01:36:46.400 --> 01:36:50.960
tonight, Lord. We thank you, God, that this is not hype, that this is real and it is true.

1855
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And if we will partner with it, we will have it. Some of you are still, you're just so scared to

1856
01:36:56.480 --> 01:37:01.760
hope in what's happening right now because you've been so hurt by the prophetic and by that

1857
01:37:01.760 --> 01:37:06.640
supernatural. Okay. And here is what I want to tell you about the prophetic.

1858
01:37:06.640 --> 01:37:14.720
It ain't prophetic if it don't come true. All right. It's not. Back in the olden days,

1859
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the way that they judged a prophet is, is if what you said came true, they didn't kill you.

1860
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And if it didn't, they did. I'm going to tell you right now, you don't have to be afraid of the

1861
01:37:28.000 --> 01:37:32.720
prophetic because the truth of it is, is that it's only God if it comes to pass, but you have

1862
01:37:32.720 --> 01:37:43.680
to partner with it first. You have to partner with it first, you guys. Yes. A hundred percent.

1863
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Someone said they love the mug. All right, you guys, I believe, I believe, I believe.

1864
01:37:51.120 --> 01:37:56.480
For those of you that are having a hard time believing right now, do exactly what the centurion

1865
01:37:56.480 --> 01:38:03.440
said. Say, I believe are the man with the son. Oh, what a beautiful, what a beautiful scripture

1866
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reference. Let's press into that right now as we're, as we're ending, there was a man that had

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a son that had been really tormented for a really long time. Go look up this Bible story. His son

1868
01:38:13.840 --> 01:38:19.600
had been tormented for a really long time. And this father had watched his son going through all

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01:38:19.600 --> 01:38:25.680
this demonic stuff over and over and over again. Right. And when God came, he said, you know,

1870
01:38:25.680 --> 01:38:32.000
when Jesus came, he said, you know, do you believe? And he said, I believe help my unbelief.

1871
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Why did he say that? Cause he said, I wouldn't be here basically. If I didn't believe in y'all

1872
01:38:39.040 --> 01:38:44.880
wouldn't be here. If you didn't have some level of hope left, some level of belief yet left.

1873
01:38:45.520 --> 01:38:49.760
But when you have gotten your hopes up so many times that something is going to happen,

1874
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cause I'm sure that that man had taken his, his child to the religious leaders of the day. He'd

1875
01:38:54.560 --> 01:38:58.720
probably taken his child to doctors. He probably took his child to exorcist. He probably took his

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01:38:58.720 --> 01:39:03.840
child to anything and everything he could. And then when he brought him to Jesus, because he

1877
01:39:03.840 --> 01:39:10.800
probably heard about who Jesus was and what Jesus could do. He did it because he did have belief,

1878
01:39:12.240 --> 01:39:17.840
but he also had some unbelief in there as well. And so if that's where you're living right now,

1879
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I just want to let you know that you're in good company because that man got his miracle.

1880
01:39:21.600 --> 01:39:26.800
And I believe you're going to get your miracles as well, but just be honest with God, say, God,

1881
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I believe I want you to help my unbelief. What does that mean there? That means I want you to,

1882
01:39:35.680 --> 01:39:41.920
I want you to turn my unbelief. Don't judge me because I have some unbelief. I'm being

1883
01:39:41.920 --> 01:39:47.200
transparent with you, Lord. I can't hide anything from you. You know, you know, my heart,

1884
01:39:47.760 --> 01:39:51.680
there's some hard places where I've been hurt over and over and over and over and over and over and

1885
01:39:51.680 --> 01:39:56.880
over again, but I'm giving you access to that place right now. I'm telling you, I believe,

1886
01:39:56.880 --> 01:39:59.840
but I need you to help that hard place. I need you to help that unbelief hard.

1887
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:04.400
place right there. I need you to soften it. I need you to show me your goodness. I need

1888
01:40:04.400 --> 01:40:10.320
you to give me favor. I need you to heal me, heal me, show me, teach me, show me, heal

1889
01:40:10.320 --> 01:40:16.480
me, grow me. I need you to do it, Lord. I need you to do it. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Come

1890
01:40:16.480 --> 01:40:20.960
on. Some of you, that's your, if you raise your hand, if that's where you are right now,

1891
01:40:20.960 --> 01:40:24.640
this all sounds well and good, but you've just been too burnt by the, by the spiritual

1892
01:40:24.640 --> 01:40:31.040
before you've gotten all excited. Okay. That's your prayer then you guys, for those of you

1893
01:40:31.040 --> 01:40:39.240
that are raising your hand right now, that's your prayer. That's it. That's it. Ask God

1894
01:40:39.240 --> 01:40:48.480
to help you to have the release that you need. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Just pray

1895
01:40:48.480 --> 01:40:55.000
over all of these right now. We release your goodness. Jesus name. We release your favor.

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God show them your goodness, Lord. Let them taste and see that you are good. Let it be.

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I want to hear testimonies, you guys, and I want to see homework. So I want you to do

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01:41:03.240 --> 01:41:08.600
this. And then I want to hear testimonies of how your hope is increased, how you have

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01:41:08.600 --> 01:41:12.200
a spring in your step, how you're rolling out of bed, how you're taking imperfect action

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01:41:12.200 --> 01:41:17.760
again in these areas, how you're seeing fruit in places where you've sown, where you thought

1901
01:41:17.760 --> 01:41:21.920
there was a dry, barren wasteland. And now you're beginning to see that the fields are

1902
01:41:21.920 --> 01:41:27.240
actually ripe to harvest. And you're beginning to be able to, to get some of the things that

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01:41:27.240 --> 01:41:34.520
you have been going in. All right. I love you guys. I'm rooting for you. I'm the head

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01:41:34.520 --> 01:41:39.200
cheerleader of your love story of your lineage of your legacy. I believe I released my hope

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01:41:39.200 --> 01:41:44.160
upon you. Um, while yours is being cultivated while it is not being cultivated by while

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01:41:44.160 --> 01:41:49.160
it's being restored. Um, I released that. I released it. I released it. I released it.

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All right. Have an amazing night.