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Cutting the Covenant of Worship | Bishop Rosie S. O’neal · Koinonia Christian Center

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  uh verse one says and the Sabbath was
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  passed Mary Magdalene and then some
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  other ladies mared and mother James
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  salom brought sweet spices so they could
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  come and anoint me in verse n now when
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  Jesus was risen early the first day of
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  the week he appeared first to Mary
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  Magdalene out of whom he cast Seven
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  Devils you like I said I didn't intend
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  to share on anything as I have been
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  consecrating and studying on Covenant
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  this year's theme is Covenant
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  conscious uh you you you have this is
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  going to be a great
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  year somebody better pick that up in the
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  Holy Ghost I said this going to be a
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  great
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  year now life always going to be life
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  and you understand what I'm saying but
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  that Pastor said that said when life
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  start life and God always been
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  Garden so you know people people
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  transition people go through challenges
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  life gets strange and what Pastor say
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  said what is it money is funny and
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  change is strange and people is are nuts
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  you understand what I'm saying but
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  through all of that God is going to
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  bless us with an incredible year and I
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  believe it is because as we delve into
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  the truth of
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  Covenant that we ain't you know Covenant
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  is this this and you know here I am
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  already this binding agreement between
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  two parties cut by sacrifice off in
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  blood that brings confidence Clarity
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  watch
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  now and
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  carefulness here it is again you'll hear
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  it all year long so if you don't write
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  it you going to make it confidence is a
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  covenant is a binding agreement between
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  two parties that is cut by sacrifice
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  which is often blood
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  BL okay that brings confidence Clarity
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  and
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  carefulness now here's the
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  thing today we want to talk about
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  cutting Covenant the Covenant of
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  worship I don't know if you've been
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  picking up on it but God has been
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  drawing us closer in worship he's been
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  calling us as individuals to become more
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  focused in our time with him yes and
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  because of that thank God for those
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  three
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  claps he let me know that he's going to
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  bless us in unusual
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  ways I I I I you just have to pick it up
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  if you can in the Holy Ghost here's the
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  thing that God is going to have a favor
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  on us that is unlike what we've
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  experienced before because there are
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  some things he reserves for those who've
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  cut Covenant to worship
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  that means that worship is not just
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  something that begins when the music
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  starts for me that means that there is a
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  covenant that I will cut with God
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  prayerfully you will cut with God today
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  well I'm going to say tonight I'm
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  focused there that he will cut with that
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  we will cut with him today that says God
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  I am going to enter into a binding
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  agreement with you that for the rest uh
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  I feel so oh my God I feel the Holy
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  Ghost for the rest of my life you can
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  know of assurity that I am going to both
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  declare and demonstrate my love
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  Allegiance obedience and submission
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  because I'm going to be one that
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  worshiped you I won't just give you the
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  note card but I will write you the
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  letter every time I get a chance I will
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  take time to give you the
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  worship this is personal remember praise
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  and worship or worship and praise or
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  whatever is not a it's not a female
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  thing it's not a male thing it is a
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  human thing when you acknowledge that
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  God is God and you are not it is he that
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  has made you and not you yourself come
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  on we are his people and the Sheep of
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  his pasture so God we enter into your
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  courts with Thanksgiving into your
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  presence with praise we come before
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  we're thankful unto you we bless your
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  name I Will Bless The Lord at all
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  times his praise shall continue this is
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  the Covenant he's calling us to cut with
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  him again it's this binding agreement
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  between two parties that is cut by
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  sacrifice amen folk too quick now oh
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  yeah yeah yeah yeah no no no no I this
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  thing is so serious it's kind of like if
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  you going to buy a real house you can
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  talk all day long what you going to buy
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  you ain't putting no money down ain't
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  nobody trying to hear nothing you got to
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  say they're not taking it off the market
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  until you have cut
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  working yeah you got to cut you got to
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  cut something there's got to be a cut
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  there got to be a sacrifice that se
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  seals the seriousness you say you have
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  it's a binding agreement between two
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  parties cut by sacrifice often blood
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  that brings these three things and boy
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  what a great time we going to have all
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  year long looking at the confidence that
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  the Covenant brings looking at
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  Clarity that's such a preaching point
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  and the carefulness that it works in us
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  God wants you as an individual not
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  y'all yeah he doesn't want just the
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  praise of everyone he wants the praise
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  of every one
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  you got to get
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  that cuz we say it but I don't know if
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  we really take it in I don't want to
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  rock to cry out for me right okay but
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  that means Church watch this that that
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  that means I have to be intentional that
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  I bless him for what he done for me that
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  I'm not just riding off the f f the the
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  fact that songs are being sung am I
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  singing the song and am I singing the
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  song to him under within the cont text
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  of my
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  life Psalm 95:6 says oh come let us bow
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  down and kneel before the Lord our maker
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  let's worship Him and bow down John 4:23
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  says God is seeking for worshippers so
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  last about two weeks ago God gave me a
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  lesson that talked about how he wants
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  our worship to be
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  purposeful and so we kind of looked at
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  it from the context of when we come to
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  church but it's really bigger than that
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  every day that I get up in the every day
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  that my eyes open and I know where I am
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  every day that my mind is aware that
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  this is another day that the Lord has
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  blessed me with every time I realize
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  that I'm in my right mind and I'm I'm
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  somewhere and I'm laying on even if it
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  ain't a bed if I'm laying on a couch if
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  I when I wake up in in the morning I
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  have to be purposeful that I will arise
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  and give him praise that God if you had
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  not given me this breath I would be gone
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  on but as long as I have breath in my
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  body I want to tell you thank
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  you that's
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  purposeful that's before I check the
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  phone that's before I answer
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  anybody that's before I say too much
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  even to B that's before anything take
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  place
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  God I want to tell you thank you I
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  purpose to praise you oh Lord I ain't
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  got to ask nobody what to do when I
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  realize I got life health and strength I
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  don't have to ask anybody what I need to
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  do when I get up and I can walk or I you
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  understand you say well what happened
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  when you couldn't walk when I had my
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  foot up in the air but I could at least
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  look at my foot y'all ain't talking to
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  me you're not talking to me no matter
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  what may be acting funny in my body
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  there are more parts that are doing well
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  that are going a wrong so I still want
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  to thank him oh God and I'm purposing
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  that do you understand what I mean why I
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  said that I mean like this thing is like
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  for real
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  serious and then he told us to make sure
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  it's passionate don't nobody want no dry
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  worship if it's all that hold on to it
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  then that's how I would do it cuz you
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  know I can be a little shady a little
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  little petty Lael over here I can you
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  act like you don't want to give me
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  something and I you know my thing is
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  well you hold on to it baby I'm going be
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  all right which probably has more
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  attitude than needs to be but when it
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  comes to God I don't want him to ever
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  feel like I got an issue with giving him
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  praise I don't listen I don't want God
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  to ever see we confuse the verse in
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  Hebrews 13:15 that says by him therefore
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  let us offer the sacrifice of praise and
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  what we do is we get up and talk to me I
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  know you're tired I know youve been
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  through so much but give him a sacrif
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  that is not what that
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  means no no no no no that is not what
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  that
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  means no he's saying by him by Jesus
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  offer the sacrifice not the I don't want
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  to do what I'm going through so much but
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  here you go no offer the thing that now
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  replaces all the blood sacrifice in the
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  Old Testament because it ought not be
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  hard when you think of all that God has
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  done and when I think about everything I
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  didn't do that I said I would ain't got
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  no real people up through the middle
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  when when I think of all the ways I
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  failed God or messed up opportunities
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  and he still covered me he still kept me
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  he still blessed me he still
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  strengthened me it ain't hard at all to
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  tell him thank
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  [Applause]
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  you I wish I
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  would so I say I wish I would walk up in
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  the house he built for me sit on a chair
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  he he let me buy eat food he gave me to
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  eat and act like I don't want to say
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  thank
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  you I'm making a a a a
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  serious Covenant
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  agreement I don't know about everybody
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  else but you can look for big light girl
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  to be here giving you the glory I don't
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  care if they sing songs I don't like I
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  don't care how loud if it get that loud
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  stick tissue in my ear Jesus but I
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  intend to give you praise I'm not going
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  to let anything come between this cuz
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  this is a covenant not just a
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  promise didn't I just say something
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  doc I declared and de demonstrated love
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  Allegiance obedience and submission to
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  the Lord should be a covenant and that's
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  what God is looking for he wants to get
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  married
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  tonight God want to get married with
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  this
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  thing he want he wants a
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  covenant he wants something that says no
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  this is
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  permanent I'm not still trying to figure
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  it out no this is permanent I'm going to
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  be a
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  worshipper I'm going to be the person
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  that comes in purposefully passionately
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  watch this and offer personal worship
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  yes even in the day while they were
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  singing so there was a point and and
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  Pastor TR was leading us and he said you
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  write your letter to God now so you
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  can't just say you know my hallelujah or
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  whatever belongs to okay cool but what
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  is your Hallelujah based on so then I
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  start running down through my year thank
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  you Lord that when I thought my heart
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  was going to bust into two watching my
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  son and my daughter grieve over the baby
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  being go that you kept them and
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  strengthened them and kept my mind and
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  kept B and kept John I want see and
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  until you can talk through it oh Lord
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  see your Hallelujah is a note until you
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  attach what you've been through to it so
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  when I'm standing up there I'm telling
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  them the whole story that's why you
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  can't holler all through worship cuz
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  some stuff if you telling it personally
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  enough you can't say it that
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  [Applause]
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  loud I start saying God and thank you I
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  had the surgery on my foot I wish I
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  hadn't had it didn't do what I wanted it
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  to do and it still hurts but you know
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  what God I want to thank you cuzz I can
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  still walk on this foot so my H that's
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  what when I'm saying hallelujah I'm
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  saying thank you that you're keeping me
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  with joy even though I've had some
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  disappointments I've had some regrets I
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  want to thank you that you understanding
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  what I'm saying it's
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  personal and then it's prophetic because
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  it's based on who I know him to be by
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  Revelation not the way I see the
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  situation right
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  now God wants us to cut a covenant of
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  worship that that you
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  individually make the
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  commitment to worship him every day and
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  see the thing about a covenant is oh I
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  wasn't going to talk on it oh see it
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  gives you Clarity too see I wasn't going
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  to go through this cuz this all next
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  year but it gives you Clarity see when
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  you're in a covenant you don't have to
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  keep see situational ethics I'm doing
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  way too much situational ethics are when
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  you wait until you get in situations and
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  try to feel your way through what you
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  going to do a covenant says while I'm
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  thinking clearly and ain't no other
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  influence I have made a permanent
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  decision about what my behavior is going
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  to look like no matter what happens so
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  that when I get in the Heat of the
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  Moment I don't have to recheck what I'm
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  going to do come here three Hebrew boy
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  that's why they said we're not careful
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  to answer you in this matter cuz we
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  already made a covenant with our God on
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  how we were going to handle this so you
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  can cut the fire up if you want to it
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  ain't going to change my praise cuz I'm
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  not promising to praise them I'm cutting
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  a
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  covenant prach
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  [Music]
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  [Applause]
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  y we're introduced to Mary
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  Magdalene in Luke chapter 8 we find out
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  that she's a
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  woman that had been demon possessed a
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  woman from magdala the western shore of
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  Galilee
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  I like her I like her a
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  lot she had a covenant I don't know when
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  she cut the Covenant I don't know when
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  she did but I know she did because her
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  Covenant see if I if I well I'mma
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  worship God okay what do you do then
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  when he don't seem to be doing nothing
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  for you if any of that changes it it
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  ain't a
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  covenant come on here okay but we jump
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  ahead to the marriage if if you say you
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  going to be there and then one of you
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  get
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  sick what did you make a
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  covenant or was it just a loose casual
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  commitment but a covenant says it's
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  lifelong and it's binding and it doesn't
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  even oh you're doing too much there's a
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  there's a bilateral Covenant and there's
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  a unilateral Covenant the bilateral
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  Covenant says we both have
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  responsibilities so we will cut this
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  Covenant we will both walk through the
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  sacrifice we will walk through the blood
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  or sacrifice and we will declare that we
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  will uphold our part you'll be happy to
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  note on this New Year's Eve at noon
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  you'll be happy to know that there are
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  some covenants in Scripture that are not
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  bilateral on that God actually made
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  watch this a actually made some
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  covenants with us that were unilateral
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  where we had no part to play in it at
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  all where he just said I'mma Be Good to
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  you no matter what where he said oh
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  didn't he say it no he said no I'mma put
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  a rainbow in the sky to tell you I ain't
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  going to never destroy the Earth again
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  not because y'all won't get trifling
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  again but I just decided that in myself
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  and that's the same God oh I feel like
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  preaching that said I'm going to be good
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  to you oh y'all didn't catch that you
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  missed it you missed it not based on
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  what you do but based on the fact that
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  he just good like that I want to thank
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  him for setting a covenant with me a
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  unilateral Covenant that's just based on
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  him and him alone come on Mary Magdalene
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  stop Mary
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  Magdalene she also entered into a
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  unilateral
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  Covenant which is what God is calling
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  for
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  tonight today
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  that our covenant not be based on what
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  he going to do right but I'mma Be A
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  worshipper don't make no difference
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  what I'm going be a
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  worshipper if it's cold
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  outside I'm a worshiper if they come
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  through with the check I need I'm a
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  worshiper if they come get the car I'm
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  still a worshiper if the doctor says we
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  can't find it no more
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  I'm a worshipper but if the doctor
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  shakes his head I'm still a worshipper
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  because I'm cutting the Covenant that
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  God you can depend on me to open my
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  mouth to lift my hands to focus on your
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  goodness and I mean no matter what
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  comes God wants us to cut Covenant let
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  me just be through here Mary
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  Magdalene cut a covenant to worship a
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  unilateral Covenant I know it was Tracy
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  because in Mark
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  15 I see her doing a few things in Mark
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  15 I noticed that her worship involved
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  watching if you read verse 40 and 41 I
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  think I got me somebody yeah if I read
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  verse 40 and not but should be reading
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  since I'm over time there were women
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  looking on a far off you see it yeah
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  there were women looking afar off among
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  whom was Mary Magdalene now bear in mind
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  that Mary Magdalene was at the
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  cross watch this and Jesus didn't say
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  nothing to
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  her how long can you
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  worship if he ain't said nothing in a
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  while I just need a few folk to be to
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  church today I don't know I see y'all
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  but can can L can we still worship him
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  when he's speaking to the folk around us
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  because Mary Magdalene was there and
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  Mary the mother of Jesus he talked to
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  the one beside Mary Magdalene but he
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  didn't talk to her but my Covenant ain't
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  based on whether he keep talking to me
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  Gwen my Covenant is he said all he
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  needed to say when he said for God so
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  loved the world that he gave his only
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  begotten son he ain't got to say nothing
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  else for my hands to stay in the oh Lord
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  okay I'm sorry I'm sorry I was thinking
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  it was
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  night but see her watching look at it
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  read 40 and 41
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  hurry yeah yeah there were also women
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  looking on a far off upon among whom was
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  Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of
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  James the Les and of Joseph salom who
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  also when he was in galile followed him
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  and ministered unto him they gave to him
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  and many other women which came up with
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  him unto Jerusalem she was watching her
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  worship involved watching now watch this
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  now watch this so we we went to lunch
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  yesterday uh me and and Pastor Christie
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  and Pastor Trev so we sitting there and
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  we had a an enthusiastic
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  Surfer and for those that don't know I'm
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  somewhere on that Spectrum for sure and
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  so a lot sometimes too much can over
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  stimulate
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  me and so he was just oh he was there
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  now he was there and but the Lord
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  brought him back up to me
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  today said because if somebody keeps
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  looking at your glass to see what you
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  got watch my mother J watch this now
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  keep staring you drop your fork they
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  looking uhhuh and then you getting ready
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  to take a bite your last bite and they
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  got their eyes near about half down your
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  throat while you trying to get that last
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  little bit that you done scraped up with
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  that bread they're nosy if all they
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  doing is
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  noticing but if they're watching like he
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  was watching he wasn't watching to see
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  how much of my drink I was drinking to
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  be nosy but he was watching so that if
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  it got too low he could run and go get
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  me some more I wish I had me somebody he
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  was watching to see if I drop my Fork
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  then he can run and go get me another
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  one there's a part of worship that means
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  you watch so you can serve I keep my
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  eyes open not so I can say how come they
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  not praising but in case the Lord want
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  me to walk up to them and encourage them
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  in the Lord I'm not looking around to
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  see honey they got pieces of paper all
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  over the floor you just knows it
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  but if I know this paper on the floor
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  and I run to go pick it up that's a part
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  of my worship I'm cutting a
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  covenant second thing I noticed I
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  thought was
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  significant was her Covenant of worship
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  her
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  unilateral Covenant of worship involved
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  waiting no it's right on down there look
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  at at verse 61 it's in the same chapter
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  she's waiting y'all know Joseph of
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  arthea had gone to beg the body of Jesus
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  huh so he said that we we want to be
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  able to have
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  it yes see this is part of my worship he
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  said we need the body of Jesus so he
• 22:49
  went and begged it so the Bible said
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  verse 61 what it say
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  Doc Lord yes oh okay what' I say oh I
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  done gone back to other chapters he was
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  sweet with it though he didn't even say
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  nothing that's cuz it's Matthew
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  2761 I could say you supposed to been in
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  the flow with me but chances are I
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  should just admit I didn't give you the
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  right
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  verse Matthew
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  2761 yeah yeah and then and there was
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  Mary de Magdalene There She is again now
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  he they done took a pause in the story
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  they took a pause in the story because
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  Joseph went to beg the body and then he
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  going to work on he wanted to do some
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  stuff she didn't go
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  home but I if you were reading it out of
• 23:42
  verse 61 especially out of the message
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  it says she stayed there and sat over
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  against
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  looking she didn't have to be
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  intricately involved in everything but
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  she still won't leave him
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  she was willing to wait on his
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  body I don't even know where God is at
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  times but I'm willing to wait on you I'm
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  willing to stay in my place I'm willing
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  to do what you told me
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  last cuz it's a part of my word this is
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  a covenant this ain't a how I feel about
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  it
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  thing she just waited
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  there you don't have to see him
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  moving God I ain't got to see you moving
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  I want you to go on and move now cuz I
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  can't worship and not be honest but what
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  I feel has nothing to do with the way I
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  function because my functioning posture
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  was set when we cut Covenant I cut a
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  sacrifice and made a covenant with you
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  to be a worshipper you saved me I'm
• 24:48
  going to worship you oh my god Worship
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  the Lord thy God him only shall you
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  serve oh I promise and Beyond promise I
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  cut Covenant she waited on him then if
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  you go back to Mark 16 it says verse one
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  they came to offer sweet spices third
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  thing I noticed in her worship was she
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  wrapped
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  him in worship and
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  spice tears and spices she wrapped him
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  she brought her personal stuff this is
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  what she brought what' I say this is
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  what she brought I it's one thing to try
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  to offer what you brought
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  right I got to offer what I bring she
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  brought her spices she brought her
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  spices that she had worked on that she
• 25:39
  had dealt with she had to bring her
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  spices from her testimony am
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  amen you don't what the song say you
• 25:48
  don't know my
• 25:49
  story you don't know the stuff I've been
• 25:52
  through you don't know the nights I
• 25:54
  battled things you don't know the
• 25:56
  mornings I had to deal with failure in
• 25:58
  my face you don't understand no that I
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  know them so when I come here I ain't
• 26:03
  trying to ride what you do I ain't
• 26:06
  trying to jump in behind yours I'm
• 26:08
  bringing my own spices now you need to
• 26:11
  understand how real this is because
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  Joseph had already wrapped him read your
• 26:17
  Bible but you're wrapping him don't mean
• 26:19
  he don't want my
• 26:21
  spices you're rapping him okay y ain't
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  going to have church with me your dance
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  don't mean I don't need my dance your
• 26:28
  Hallelujah don't mean I shouldn't give
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  mine you can't give him mine I got to
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  bring my own
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  spices because here's the thing my heart
• 26:41
  shifts when it's personal and his heart
• 26:45
  shifts I started to bring y'all the
• 26:47
  picture of me and TJ at at the
• 26:51
  wedding he told me we were going to
• 26:53
  dance to this song I said we going to
• 26:56
  dance that's okay dance Bishop it's okay
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  so I had on my little burgundy dress and
• 27:03
  stuff they told me the colors and so I'm
• 27:05
  trying to do my thing right I want to
• 27:07
  look good and you know and so we were
• 27:10
  going to dance so even when we walked in
• 27:13
  cuz I told them my both my boys y'all
• 27:15
  going to walk me in the church I don't
• 27:16
  want no random Usher no no offense to my
• 27:19
  ushers you understand what I'm saying no
• 27:21
  I'm the one that had you oh no I've been
• 27:24
  the number one woman in your life your
• 27:26
  whole life you going to walk me up to a
• 27:28
  and sit me down to help me remember that
• 27:31
  I'm no longer number one and I need
• 27:33
  visual
• 27:35
  reminders right so we're walking in
• 27:38
  we're just grinning and laughing and we
• 27:41
  go through the ceremony now I didn't
• 27:42
  never I hadn't been to a I hadn't been
• 27:45
  to a reception in probably 30 years so I
• 27:47
  thought they only last about an
• 27:53
  hour cuz back in our day you ain't want
• 27:55
  to have no long reception I don't care
• 27:58
  about none of y'all I've been I've been
• 27:59
  a virgin a long time I'm ready to go y
• 28:04
  sorry for bringing that in anyway
• 28:06
  so we get ready to dance and so we're
• 28:10
  still just laughing he said come on I
• 28:12
  okay so we're dancing and I was good I
• 28:16
  knew the song he had told me the song so
• 28:18
  I had listen to it mama you know
• 28:20
  something something something something
• 28:22
  and I was fine until he pulled back and
• 28:26
  started singing it to me
• 28:30
  wasn't I fine I was fine the whole time
• 28:32
  but when he pulled up and said mom
• 28:34
  you're the key to my heart when I tell
• 28:36
  you I all but threw up right there on
• 28:39
  the dance
• 28:40
  floor because it was I heard the song
• 28:43
  and was
• 28:45
  dancing but when he shifted to
• 28:49
  intentionally make me
• 28:51
  feel what was being
• 28:53
  sung it touched me in a way I didn't
• 28:57
  even know was crying it hit that fast
• 29:01
  and God said it's the same with
• 29:04
  you DeMarcus and the praise team can
• 29:07
  sing their faces off but it ain't till
• 29:11
  you put the song in your mind and try to
• 29:15
  sing it that God feels it like
• 29:20
  that I just want to tell you there's a
• 29:24
  covenant here's the last thing I want
• 29:26
  you to understand
• 29:30
  I'm going to skip on the way
• 29:32
  out because this is a what kind of cant
• 29:37
  a unilateral it's a what unal that mean
• 29:40
  this I'm Not My Worship ain't based on
• 29:42
  anything he does no I'm just cutting
• 29:45
  this Covenant I got you I'm just cutting
• 29:47
  this Covenant cuz he's
• 29:49
  God okay but then how about he going to
• 29:53
  haul off and bless me
• 29:55
  anyway anyway I'll show it to to you in
• 29:58
  Mark
• 29:59
  16:9 and I'm
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  done my reward for being faithful to my
• 30:06
  Covenant to worship is I get to witness
• 30:09
  his power
• 30:11
  first y'all ain't ready y'all ain't
• 30:14
  ready read read read read Mark
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  16:9 preachers please take this
• 30:20
  somewhere and preach this come on now
• 30:22
  when Jesus was risen early the first day
• 30:24
  of the week what he do doc when Jesus
• 30:25
  was risen the early first day of the
• 30:27
  week uhhuh what he appeared first W he
• 30:29
  wait he
• 30:30
  wait he what he appeared who did he
• 30:34
  appear first to not Peter not the water
• 30:37
  Walker no not Matthew who was so deep
• 30:39
  could count everything all that stuff
• 30:41
  not John the Beloved who kept his head
• 30:43
  who he appeared to First you mean it
• 30:45
  won't none it wasn't Thomas who got it
• 30:47
  count of together wasn't none of them
• 30:49
  who it get to First y'all Mary you
• 30:52
  sitting you think people don't notice
• 30:53
  you you ain't got to worry about nobody
• 30:55
  noticing you H let him notice you come
• 30:58
  on let me get back here with my Philip
• 30:59
  sisters I ain't got to worry you ain't
• 31:01
  got to understand my worship you ain't
• 31:03
  got to appreciate how long I dance you
• 31:06
  can laugh at the way I do it it don't
• 31:08
  make a lick a difference because if I
• 31:11
  warm his heart you know what he going to
• 31:13
  do he going to appear to
• 31:14
  me God said I'm getting ready to do
• 31:17
  something in worshippers lives I'm
• 31:19
  getting ready to bless you in ways you
• 31:21
  going to see my power first you going to
• 31:24
  see my glory god said I'm going let you
• 31:27
  with witness the fact that you can have
• 31:29
  a favor on you that makes no sense at
• 31:33
  all they're going to say how'd you get
• 31:35
  it because I made a covenant to worship
• 31:39
  God a ain't ain't ain't going to
• 31:41
  holl I'm
• 31:44
  through if that don't do something to
• 31:46
  your
• 31:50
  soul he appeared to the one that had
• 31:54
  Seven Devils
• 32:00
  first folk will still be talking about
• 32:02
  your past and God will be showing you
• 32:05
  his
• 32:06
  power good God
• 32:08
  hey say
• 32:11
  that but it's a covenant this all the
• 32:15
  Lord want me to share with you today
• 32:17
  it's a covenant it ain't an in and out
• 32:20
  up and down Sometimes some no no
• 32:24
  no when I got on my knees this morning I
• 32:27
  said Lord you have kept me holy this
• 32:29
  year see y'all don't know enough about
• 32:31
  how to thank God for that stuff cuz you
• 32:33
  ain't never been messy I thank God for
• 32:34
  y'all are
• 32:35
  amazing I said God you kept me holy not
• 32:38
  just my lifestyle cuz that that wasn't
• 32:41
  as big an issue but you kept my heart
• 32:44
  holy when I could have easily went
• 32:48
  astray thank God for that prayer do you
• 32:51
  kept my heart and you let me be tested
• 32:55
  to see
• 32:57
  yes if while all of those things were
• 33:00
  being said and attacks whether I could
• 33:03
  stay focused now I did have a couple
• 33:12
  moments but I'm talking to him about it
• 33:14
  this morning and I said God I cut a
• 33:18
  covenant with
• 33:19
  you and I you know I've I've Got My
• 33:22
  Sacrifice I said God I cut a covenant I
• 33:25
  need you to know and I want to mark it
• 33:27
  down
• 33:28
  down I've always tried to praise you and
• 33:31
  tried to worship hold n
• 33:33
  yall I'm making a covenant you can
• 33:36
  always expect to see
• 33:39
  me giving you the
• 33:42
  glory I'm cutting a covenant for it to
• 33:45
  be purposeful and passionate you know
• 33:48
  what I'm saying and it ain't even going
• 33:49
  to be based on whether you blessing me a
• 33:51
  whole lot in that season I ain't going
• 33:53
  to let that see that's why it brings
• 33:55
  Clarity cuz see that's why I'm telling
• 33:57
  you sit situation as you try to figure
• 33:58
  it out the moment no no no no when you
• 34:00
  cut Covenant you done already decide it
• 34:03
  so I don't have to rethink
• 34:06
  nothing today what God is doing is
• 34:08
  saying I want you to cut
• 34:12
  Covenant that you as an individual will
• 34:16
  be my
• 34:21
  worshipper Satan got close
• 34:24
  Lucifer in his pre Fallen state
• 34:28
  and got lifted up then God w't worthy of
• 34:32
  it no more he wanted to be
• 34:34
  elevated so there was a
• 34:37
  void of just that one there were other
• 34:39
  Angels worshiping but I don't want him
• 34:42
  to feel no kind of void not many times
• 34:45
  as he done brought me out not many as
• 34:48
  many times as God done kept my mind I
• 34:51
  cut a
• 34:53
  covenant to
• 34:55
  worship let's just take a minute praise
• 34:58
  just thank him today or talk to him in
• 35:02
  some
• 35:03
  way maybe you were like me and you were
• 35:05
  kind of in andout
• 35:08
  seasonal maybe some stuff happened this
• 35:10
  year that upset you feel like it threw
• 35:12
  off your spiritual
• 35:15
  equilibrium but today let's formalize
• 35:18
  the
• 35:19
  Covenant with God cuz there are some
• 35:23
  things he will do for us this year he
• 35:26
  going to do some stuff for his Covenant
• 35:27
  that
• 35:29
  worshipers we going to see stuff like we
• 35:31
  hadn't
• 35:35
  seen we're going to witness his power
• 35:38
  first I don't want to be the only but
• 35:41
  I'm so thankful that he'll show me
• 35:47
  first thank you Lord
• 35:54
  to I bless him Lord we know it's like
• 35:58
  2:00 in the afternoon but for us for
• 36:01
  many who may not be able to come back
• 36:03
  tonight this is their crossing
• 36:06
  over so
• 36:08
  Lord hear our heart
• 36:12
  today we want to cross over as Covenant
• 36:19
  worshippers ain't no games Lord even in
• 36:22
  gangs Lord help us even in the earth in
• 36:25
  gangs they have initiations man they
• 36:27
  Lord they go through so much stuff and
• 36:29
  that's supposed to be lifelong and
• 36:31
  that's a gang that's
• 36:34
  people Lord help
• 36:36
  us that you have washed and saved and
• 36:40
  kept and blessed and worked with and
• 36:43
  covered and strengthened and healed and
• 36:46
  reset and replaced and
• 36:50
  refurbished help us to cut Covenant with
• 36:54
  you to be
• 36:57
  Eternal
• 36:59
  worshippers not waiting till
• 37:03
  heaven but we cut that Covenant right
• 37:06
  now in Jesus
• 37:09
  name
• 37:10
  amen amen