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Living Covenant Conscious Financially Part 8 | From Want to, To the Means to | Pastor Trev Evans · Koinonia Christian Center

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God. Let's ride. Amen.
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Listen, happy Mother's Day to everybody
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and happy Mother's Day to my mother who
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is watching. We had to share her this
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Mother's Day as she went to go be with
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my older brother, but mama, I know you
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watching and Terry, you got her this
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year, but hopefully the Lord will let us
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have her next year. Amen. But listen, we
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are so uh thankful to be here today and
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I'm excited about the message today.
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I am because because you know as a as a
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preacher, as a minister, bishop's
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training me and getting me ready and uh
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I have experienced the uh conundrum
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that a preacher can bring in on a
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holiday like today.
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And that is because you're trying to
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figure out something to say that's going
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to help the mothers. And if you've been
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with us any amount of time, you know,
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over the last few weeks, Bishop has been
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teaching and leading us through a
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financial series. And so I said, "Lord,
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how in the world is this going to help
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the mothers?" And he said, "No, Trev,
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this will help the mothers." That's
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right. Stay right on the track. B say
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right on this track with this financial
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series because what a mother wants is
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for her child to be able to stand on
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their own two feet financially.
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What a mother wants is for her child to
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be able to provide for themselves and
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prepare for their own future. What a
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mother wants is for that child to be
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able to walk up to them every now and
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then and slip $20 in their hands and not
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ask for $20 for their phone bill.
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So staying on this track financially is
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helping mama.
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Somebody say happy Mother's Day. Happy
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Mother's Day.
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So with that being said, we will
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conclude our financial series today. And
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uh we have been talking about Bishop's
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been teaching on living covenant
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conscious financially. And today we want
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to talk uh from the thought you know we
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tend to remember thoughts. I want you to
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kind of pin this moving from want to to
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the means to.
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Moving from want to to the means to. We
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have been in this financial series.
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Bishop has been teaching us about
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covenant. We are covenant conscious all
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year long and we've been learning about
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being covenant conscious financially.
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And we know that a covenant is a binding
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oath or agreement between two parties
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that is cut by
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sacrifice, usually blood, but always
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something precious. And it has
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privileges and promises. It have rights
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and responsibilities. And the whole
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point of the covenant, it is intended to
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do a few things. It is intended uh to
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produce confidence,
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clarity, and carefulness.
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And not only is this covenant uh
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something that is supposed to impact our
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lives, but it's also supposed to impact
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our money. That this covenant is
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supposed to produce in us financial
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confidence,
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financial clarity, and financial
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carefulness.
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carefulness not just in how I live but
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also in what I'm looking for. Bishop
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gave us four words from the onset. She
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gave us attitude, alignment, awareness,
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and action. The first thing she said,
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Kanan, is that you and I must have an
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attitude shift that no matter what we've
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experienced here before, we need an
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attitude adjustment and realize that God
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wants us blessed.
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Yeah. You know, we've been we've been
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free. That's the reason he made us. It
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says, "Whom the Son sets free is free
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indeed. And we're not just to be free
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indeed, but we're also to be free in
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dough." That God wants us free in our
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money. That Pharaoh tried to talk the
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children of Israel into leaving their
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money, but they said, "We can't leave
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our money because we don't know how God
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wants to use us or who he wants to use
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us to bless."
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I have to have an attitude adjustment.
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God said in Deuteronomy 8:18, he said,
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"I've given you power to get wealth." I
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don't care if you had to scrape money to
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catch the bus to get here. You got to
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have an attitude adjustment and realize
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that God wants you blessed.
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I want us to make a confession real
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quick. I need you to repeat after me.
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Say, "Money is not my problem." Money is
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not my problem. Increase is my portion.
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Increase is my portion. You got to have
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an attitude adjustment. If you are just
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waiting to see it before you say it,
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you'll never see it. You need an
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attitude adjustment. Say, "Money is not
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my problem." Money is not my problem.
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Increase is my portion. I know you walk
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past a whole stack of bills on your way
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out the door to church, but declare,
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"Money is not my problem. Money is not
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my problem. Increase is my portion.
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Increase my We have to have an attitude
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adjustment.
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Secondly, she said that we have to live
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in alignment.
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We cannot expect God to bless us when we
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are out of alignment with his word
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financially.
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I cannot believe for heaven's best and
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declare what the promises of God over my
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life if I am stealing from God.
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If I am robbing God, can I even say, "Oh
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Lord, I don't want to get in trouble."
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But but even the scripture in
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Philippians, we declare it but we have
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to declare it the right way. Paul says,
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"My God shall supply all your need
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according to his riches and glory." But
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he was declaring that over people who
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has sown into his life.
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Those who were in alignment and sewing
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into his life, he was declaring that
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blessing over. You can't declare that
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blessing if you're not in that in that
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level of alignment.
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I feel it now. The joy just went out the
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room. Yeah, it did. I felt it.
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But but Bishop teaches us we can't
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change without truth.
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We can't change without truth. So I want
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to declare that over my life. I need to
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get in alignment with the promise.
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So I have to have an attitude
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adjustment. I have to have an alignment
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in my life. And I just want to park here
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for just a moment because we also have
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to have an awareness.
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We have to be aware that the world has a
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plan.
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We have to be aware that the world has a
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plan. And and not only must we be aware
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of their plan, we must be aware of our
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own plan.
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Now, Bishop gave us first of all, she
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gave us some scriptures the first week
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that she wanted us to highlight in our
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Bibles. You can find the the scriptures.
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Uh you go to kccfamily.com, click on
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resources, and you can find those
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scriptures. Get those scriptures
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highlighted in your Bible.
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No. See, see, see this this this is why
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I'm I'm so thankful for this opportunity
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because Paul told Timothy in first, he
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told Timothy in 1 Timothy chapter 4, he
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said, "You're a good minister if you put
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the people in remembrance of what
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they've already been taught." Amen.
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And so I want you to make sure that you
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go and get those scriptures and
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highlight them in your Bible and read
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over them. That's what she told us to do
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the first week of the financial series.
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Then she came back and she told us that
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we were made for it and that we need to
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be in a have an awareness of not only
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the world's plan, but we have to have a
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plan of our own. Now, y'all sent my
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pastor into an emotional abyss last week
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cuz she asked, "Who did your financial
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plan?" And she said, "Only 15 hands went
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up.
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We trying to get her to hold on to
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December 14th, but I declare y'all
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almost pushed her to May."
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But but but the reason is the reason why
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she wants you to do that and to get the
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spending plan in place is because the
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spending plan is the key to turn this
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thing around financially.
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You underline the scriptures. You pray.
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You sow seed. You give. You're supposed
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to do those things. But if you and I
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don't have a plan for our money, if we
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don't tell the money where to go, we'll
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spend all of our time wondering where it
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went.
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How many of you have ever got paid on
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Friday and looked up on Monday and
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didn't look like Friday ever came?
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That's just because we didn't have a
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plan for our money.
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We we we have to have a plan. We have to
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take some time to tell it where to go so
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we don't spend all of our time wondering
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where it went. Catch this. When you have
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a spending plan, just let me get through
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this. When you have a spending plan,
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it'll do a couple of things. Number one,
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it will remove many of the money fights
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from your marriage.
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No, it will remove many of the money
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fights in your marriage because you want
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to do one thing, she wants to do
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another. Nobody has talked and so
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consequently we have conflict.
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And so instead of us talking, we choose
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quiet over real peace. That's right.
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You take your check and you go that way
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and I'm going to take my check and I'mma
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go this way.
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But if we're going to ever have the real
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synergy and energy that God has designed
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for marriage, you want to do it
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together. Can I tell you, you are much
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better together than you ever could be
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apart.
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Can I tell you that you can do more than
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just make babies when you get together?
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You can put some devils on the run
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financially if you would just get
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together.
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Yes, it calls for compromise. Kesha, I
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see you back there.
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You and my my my barber raised a sharp
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rust.
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You all are a picture of what you can
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move when you get together.
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Scotty and Hope, I see y'all over there.
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You two are a picture of what you can do
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when you get together. No, it's not
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easy.
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Cuz she got her way and I got mine.
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But if you ever get together, if you can
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just do the work of talking through and
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working through and compromising and
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giving up a little just to get a little,
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you'll be That wasn't the way I was
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talking about that, but y'all
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It'll help that
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too. Oh, y'all ain't going. Y'all
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already know your coaching. It'll help
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that
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too. But if we can get together
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financially, it'll help remove some of
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the money fights, money problems in our
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marriage. Number two, it will remove
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much of the guilt, shame, and fear that
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may now be a part of buying necessary
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items. If we can get a financial plan,
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then I won't feel guil the guilt or the
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shame or the fear when I go to the
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grocery store. You know, Bishop preached
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about that on on on uh resurrection
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weekend about going to the grocery store
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and being at the register and you're not
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sure if you got enough and you sitting
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there pay you you praying while that
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little thing is spinning and you're just
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hoping that it's going to say approved.
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When you have a spending plan, you don't
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have to be nervous at that point because
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when I have spent when I have told my
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money where to go and I know I got $200
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for these groceries and it comes and I
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know I only have in my cart about 150.
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I'm not nervous.
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I'm just waiting.
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When it's spinning, I'm not I'm not
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nervous. Something must be wrong with
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your Wi-Fi cuz I did my budget and I
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know I got enough. Check your signal.
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It will remove much of the guilt, shame,
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and fear that comes when we we're buying
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necessary items. Number three, when we
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have a spending plan, when we walking it
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out, when we're we when we have the
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spending plan and we're operating by it,
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it's not just a document that's sitting
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on the table, but when I actually use it
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and live by it, it will show if you have
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overspending in an area.
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It will show overspending in an area.
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Solomon Solomon the Song of Solomon
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chapter 2 verse5 says catch the foxes
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the little foxes that spoil the vine.
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Can I tell you that the that spending
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plan will reveal where the money's
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going.
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Yeah. That spending plan will reveal.
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Now you might not want to look at it but
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we want to look at it through eyes of
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faith to see where this money is going.
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You have an idea now but once you start
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doing a spending plan you it'll be
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become crystal clear.
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Can you give me my next slide? What my
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slide where it says hold on give me the
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slide that says my
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outgo spending plan.
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It's critical for me to do a spending
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plan because it will reveal overspending
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in my life. And that is important
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because if my outgo is more than my
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income, then my upkeep will be my
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downfall.
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If my
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outgoing
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out is more than my income of what's
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coming in, then to keep that up will
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ultimately be my downfall.
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I I can't keep it up. And so doing a
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spending plan will show me the areas of
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where it is too high. Not for
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condemnation but so that I can change.
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It's not for me to feel bad but it is so
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that I can make the adjustment and so
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that I can become and do and be
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everything that God has called for me to
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be.
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Ah so we want to make sure that we do
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the spinning plan. The spending plan.
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What is that? That's simply giving every
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dollar a name. Some of it is named
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mortgage. Some of it is named rent. Some
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of his name groceries. Some of it is
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named gas. For some is named retirement.
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Yes sir. That's your word in the Some of
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it is retirement.
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Car insurance.
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Some of it some of you are at the place
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as Bishop always say everybody's not in
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debt. That's right. No. There's some
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people that I'm talking to right now.
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you have more money than you can shake a
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stick at. That's right. But this is for
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you as well because you want to tell
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your money where to go and be
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intentional with it and manage it
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properly. You've all you've already been
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doing it.
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You've already been doing you've been
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making headway and and making
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adjustments in your life. I want to
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encourage you to continue do that
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because at this point now you simply
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want to leave a legacy. Maybe that's
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what you want to do for the next
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generation. The spending plan helps us
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to do that.
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Boy, that's good. That's good.
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So, the spending plan is a tool to help
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you get to where it is you want to
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be. Now, I want to encourage you one
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more thing before I move on to action is
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that I don't want you to do this alone.
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Married people already have instant
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accountability.
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Amen. Cuz every time when I swipe that
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card, I got to come home, my God, and
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give an account.
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No. And and understand something. As a
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man, I'm not any less of a man.
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Oh Lord. Oh, I just love this. I'm not
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any less of a
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man. There are times in my life where I
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can get so excited with the debit card
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that I need to come and lay it on the
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dresser.
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My pride can't be be bigger than the
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plan we have.
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No, I'm going to lay the card on the
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dress for a period of time till I get
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myself together and start eating that
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home and getting that down.
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I can't let my pride be bigger than the
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plan, than the goal, than the desire,
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than the dreams that we have. No, I'm
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gonna lay it down.
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Boy, that's good.
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So, I I I want don't don't do it alone.
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So married people, you already have that
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accountability. Singles,
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I want you to find somebody that you can
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trust and you can share with them what
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it is you're trying to do. Now, maybe
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you don't share your whole spending
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plan. You got to you got to navigate
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that and figure it out. But you need
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somebody in your life that you can
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bounce these things off of. And catch
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this, they need to be the kind of person
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who is willing to hurt your feelings.
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Yeah. No, you tell them that you on a
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spending plan and they come up and see
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you with your nails done, they going to
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ask you.
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Not in a mean way. But they're going to
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ask you, didn't you say you wanted to do
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this, this, and don't get mad with them.
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What they are doing is just being
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accountability for you and helping you
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to stay in alignment with what it is you
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said you want to do. Boy, this is good.
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So, so we have action. We had to make an
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attitude adjustment. Excuse me. We had
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an attitude. We have to be in alignment.
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We have awareness. And then on this past
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Wednesday night, our pastor talked about
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action. If you did not watch last
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Wednesday's Bible study, I need you to
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go watch it because she talked to us
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about taking action. And the first
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action that we need to take is that we
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need to look in. We need to look inward
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and find out what it is because money is
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all around us. That's right. That that
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was the whole premise of of Wednesday
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night is that money and resources are
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all around us and we have to take
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action. And the first action that we
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take is not going to ask somebody for
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something. The first action that we take
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is that we have to look in.
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What do I do? Well,
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that can help make me more money.
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What skills do I have? Yeah, some of you
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have an amazing
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voice and you could take that voice and
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start making money with your voice.
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And because you're used to your voice,
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you don't think anybody will pay you for
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it. But one of the biggest things I
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believe we got out of the Wednesday
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night is don't minimize what you have.
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If Bishop could have cut our head open
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and poured it in us, she would have.
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Don't minimize what you have. Don't
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minimize that skill you have. Don't
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minimize that ability that you have.
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You have something in you that can help
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you make money.
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What do I have in me? Not only should I
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look in, but Bishop said, "We need to
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look around."
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What is it that is around me that can
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help me make money?
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Oh, I can't put our business in the
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road. But somebody called me on Bible
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study was Wednesday. Somebody called me
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on
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Thursday and said,
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"Trey, I'm about to sell some stuff."
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Catch this. They didn't have to They
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didn't have to Oh, Lord. Thank you,
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Jesus. They didn't have to take the word
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and wait a whole week and fast and pray
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about it. Bishop preached the word on
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Wednesday. Thursday morning, they got up
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and they got some stuff together to
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sell. And by lunchtime, they sold three
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items.
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I know you can't I know you can't
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rejoice, but let me tell you, it was a
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single mom who's making adjustments in
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her life. And she said, "Trey, I just
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sold enough stuff to have money for my
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phone bill this month."
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Now, I know that's not a
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lot, but can I tell you, it's like she
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got a raise
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because instead of taking that $120 from
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her the income that she had, she found
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the money in her house.
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[Applause]
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Oh, she had another idea. I can't give
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this one
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away. But she had something in the house
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that she was using and she said, "I can
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use this for a business. Something that
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was already sitting there."
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Now, I need y'all to understand
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something that was already She didn't
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have to go out and buy another piece of
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machinery to start making money. She
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opened her eyes and started looking
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around at what was already here.
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You and I got to take action.
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Before we look out to ask anybody
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anything,
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look in,
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look around,
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and ask God, God, what do I have already
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that can help me move forward to what it
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is you're calling me to? What do I have
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that can help me be the person that you
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call? You've called me to be a help.
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You've called me to be a blessing.
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You've given me power to get wealth so
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that I could establish your covenant.
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What do I have in me? What do I have
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around me to do that?
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Huh? Now, I know you're asking, "Why did
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you take all that time for that review?"
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Amen. Cuz we need it.
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But I
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believe that God wants us and he's been
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leading us and teaching us and talking
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to us to prepare us because we want to
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be the kind of people that move from
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want to to having the means to. Yes.
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See, what I love about this kind of
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church and being under this kind of
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leadership, you can't be here any length
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of time and not develop a heart of
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compassion for other people. If you are
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a cornerian, a part of your DNA is to
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want to help somebody along the way. A
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part of your DNA is to want to be a
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blessing to somebody on whatever level I
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can.
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Woo.
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I want to do that. It's a part of who I
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am.
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And I thank God for the want to. Can I
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just thank God for the want to for
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because there were times in my life
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where I didn't have the want to to do
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right.
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Oh, Re Randy, I wish I could just tell
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it. This jacket is nice. But you need to
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understand, I didn't always want to do
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right.
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I didn't I didn't always want to follow
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God. I didn't always want to serve God.
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I didn't want to always give God my all.
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I didn't want Oh, Lord. I don't know if
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I can be this real honest. Can I I
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didn't want I There was a time in my
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life I didn't want to put porn down.
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That's right.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't Some things I
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didn't want to do. That's right. Even
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when I knew the knew the reason why I
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should do it, I didn't have the want to
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on the inside. But I just want to thank
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God this morning for the want to. I want
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to thank God for the want
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to. Thank you. For the want to. For the
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want to to come to church. Woo.
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Shakanda. You hear what I'm telling you?
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Woo. I thank God for the want to.
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I thank God for the want to. Yeah.
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I can't skip too fast past that. Dre, I
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thank God for the want to.
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Hallelujah. Yes, sir.
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The want to.
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But can I tell you something? for the
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sake of what God wants to do in our
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lives, for the sake of how God wants to
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use us, is that we have to move past
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just the want to and follow the
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instructions we've been given in this
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series so that we can now have the means
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to
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[Applause]
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Luke chapter 10. It's a story of a
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Samaritan, the good Samaritan.
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And Jesus tells this parable because he
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has some people around him who are
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trying to finagle their way out of doing
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what it is they should do. That's a
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whole other story for a whole another
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day. But Jesus tells this parable about
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a Jewish man who fell among thieves. And
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the Bible said that he was stripped,
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he was beaten, and he was left half
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dead.
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He was left on the road. And then there
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comes this Levite that comes by. And the
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Bible says that they see the man laying
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there stripped, beaten, bloody, half
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dead. And the Levite not only passes by
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him, but gets on the other side of the
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road to get by him.
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I can't stay I can't stay there too
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long. Then the priest comes
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and the Bible says that the
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priest does the same thing.
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He sees him and he gets on the other
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side of the
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road and walks past him.
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But then here comes a Samaritan.
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The Bible says that first of all,
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culturally speaking, the Samaritan and
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the Jews didn't have any dealings with
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each other. Right? So for Jesus to put
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the Samaritan in such a good light was a
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whole Bible study in and of itself.
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So he has So you look at these two guys,
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the Levite and the priest, they had they
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didn't have the want to. Now this
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Samaritan who was supposed to be a half
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breed, didn't have no dealings with
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Jewish people. The Bible says he walks
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up on the beaten man,
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and he looks at him
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and the Bible says he has compassion on
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him.
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He has compassion on the man. Pause it
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right there. I just want to thank God
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for the want to.
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The priests went by, the Levite went by,
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but the Samaritan stopped and had
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compassion on him. He had a want to.
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Yes. But can I just tell
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you for the beaten man who was bloody
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and hurting, the want to is not enough.
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The want to. Now, I know you I know
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stretching your hands and praying it has
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its place.
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But Preston, at some point I got to get
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I got to get irritated with only having
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the want to.
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It has to bother me to only have just to
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want to. At some point, I want to make
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the adjustments in my life. I want to
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say no to myself for a period of time so
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that I can position myself
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to to not just have a want to, but have
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the means to. The Bible says that this
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Samaritan, catch this, went over, saw
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him, had compassion on him. Read your
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Bible. He said he poured out oil and
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wine,
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not to drink,
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but he poured it in his wound.
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It was used for medicinal purposes. He
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was there to help. He did more than pray
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for him. Now, prayer has its place.
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But catch this. This Samaritan had more
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than just a want to. He had the means
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to. He took oil and wine and poured it
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in the womb. The Bible said he bandaged
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him up. You got to have money for that.
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Amen. Not only did he minister to his
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womb and pouring oil and wine in it and
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and actually treated him medically, the
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Bible says then he picked him up.
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And I love how the Bible puts it,
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Trevor. It said he puts him on his own
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donkey.
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This is not a borrowed donkey. He had
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the resources that he needed to have his
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own donkey.
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He puts him on his own donkey.
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In the Bible
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day, having a donkey was not like having
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a Ferrari,
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but it was better than having a bus
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pass.
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He wasn't the wealthiest man, but he had
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done enough to position himself to move
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from want to to the means to.
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He poured oil and wine, bandaged them
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up, then put him on his own donkey.
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The Bible said, "Then he took him to an
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inn,
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to a hotel,
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put him up there, and gave the
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inkeeper to dinari."
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Now the dinari, one dinari was worth a
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whole day's
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wages. He gave him two
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dinari. So he had the money to medically
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treat him, had the money to give him a
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ride, and then had the money to give him
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a place to stay.
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If that wasn't enough,
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not only did he have the
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resources, thank you, bishop, but he
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also had the good credit cuz he told the
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inkeeper,
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"If he run up anything else before I get
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back, I'll pay you when I come back." If
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you and I can get in a position to do
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what it is God has called us to do and
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walk out these principles, not only will
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we have the money, but we'll have a good
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name.
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[Music]
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I want to
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move from just want to
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to having the means to. What does that
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mean? That means for a period of time,
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oh, I hear this all. If you live like no
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one else,
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then later you'll get to live like no
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one else.
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If for a period of time I'll be willing
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to put on the same black
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jeans and for a period of time, I'll be
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willing to to do less right now. so that
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I can do more later.
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If I'm just willing not to drive the
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latest right now, so that I can position
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myself that when God puts somebody in my
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path or on my heart, I can do. There
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ain't nothing wrong with prayer. We got
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to pray. But I could do more than pray.
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And can I just say this? Oh god. Yeah. I
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got time. Good. Can I just say this?
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When you have resources, you still have
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to be prayerful
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because you're not called to help
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everybody.
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I know. I know. I
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know. Catch this. Write this down.
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Givers have to have boundaries
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because takers don't have any
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[Applause]
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givers got to have boundaries.
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You got to have boundaries where you
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decide how I'm going to do this.
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Givers got to have boundaries cuz takers
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don't have any.
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So even in this
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what I want God to do. Yeah, I'm doing
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the action. I'm doing all the things
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that I've been taught to do so that I
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can be be
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positioned to do more than just want to
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do something. But I have the means to do
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something. But I have to I have to I
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have to still be conscious and aware and
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prayerful.
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And you got to be okay with that because
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sometimes people won't understand.
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Boy, I wish somebody would help me.
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People won't understand
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the boundaries that you have. The
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boundaries that you have to have.
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I'm going to give you one more thing and
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I'll be done on this.
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Sometimes people don't want what you
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give them. They want what you have.
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[Applause]
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I'm getting ready to go. I'm done. I'm
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getting ready to go to Greece.
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Sometimes people don't
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want what you give them. You trying to
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figure out why you giving and giving a
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boy. I feel like my mama now. You giving
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and giving and doing and doing and they
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still not satisfied.
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It's because they don't want what you've
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given them.
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Kirk, they want what you have.
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And you got to be okay with the
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boundaries that you put in place.
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God doggy.
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[Music]
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God wants to move us, y'all.
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He wants to move. That's his heart's
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desire is to move us from just wanting
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to
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do. He wants to move us to having the
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means to do.
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But you and I must take these things
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that Bishop has been teaching us and
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pouring into us and praying to God that
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we would start doing them so that we can
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move from just stretching our hands
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this way to stretching them this way.
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[Applause]
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God wants us to be the kind of
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people to fulfill what it is he's called
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us to do. He said, "I've given you power
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to get wealth,
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not to floss,
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not to show off,
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but so that you can fulfill my covenant
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in the earth." Let's pray.