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You're very welcome to today's 
Triumph Church podcast. 

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We pray that you enjoy the 
message. 

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One of the things that I really 
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tonight, something Lord's been 
putting on my heart and just 

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stirring for this and this 
season here that you're in, is 

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that no matter where you are 
right now, no matter whether 

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you're at the best part of your 
life you've ever been at, or 

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maybe you're at a part that 
youth feels very transitional. 

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Maybe you're at a low those 
seasons and those areas that 

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you're in, that's not all that 
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And so sometimes we can look at 
great places, the high places in

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life, and we can say, hey man, I
think I'll finally have arrived,

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right? 
Like I actually started a church

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from scratch. 
And do you all use the word 

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scratch here? 
OK, if it's if that doesn't make

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sense, let me know. 
Just wave at me and say I don't 

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know what you mean. 
But we started a church and a 

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season of our church. 
We met in a hotel. 

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And so this reminds me very much
of our church. 

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Matter of fact, the Lord dealt 
with me to go and plant a church

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in Lafayette, LA. 
And we had no money. 

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We had no team, we had no 
building, we had nothing but 

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faith and vision. 
And when we got there, it was 

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evident that all we had was 
faith and vision. 

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And I remember those seasons in 
prayer before we launched out 

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and stepped out into what God 
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I saw so many people in my 
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But then I get up to preach and 
there'd be 3 people. 

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Four people, 7 people, right? 
And I remember I, I had a 

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conversation with the Lord one 
night because we had our opening

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night, 28 people showed up. 
I was so excited. 

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I was like, wow, 28. 
So I thought, man, next week 

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we're going to, we're going to 
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And I realized that 24 of those 
28 were friends and family that 

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traveled from out of town. 
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week, we had four people in our 
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And I remember my wife, she 
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going to be upset or if I was 
let down and I wasn't because to

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me, it was such an honor that 
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had called us to do, that we 
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So I remember having a 
conversation with God and I said

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this. 
I said God, I promise you these 

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will be the four fluffiest sheep
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Like I'm going to love them, I'm
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I'm going to pick ticks off of 
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I'm going to be there for their 
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I'm going to be a part of their 
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And God, when you come back and 
you ask me to present these 4 

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sheep to you and you're going to
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ask you for 8. 
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And the Bible says if you're 
faithful with little, God will 

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make you ruler over much. 
So little is never an insult. 

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Little is an opportunity. 
It's it's a pathway, it's a 

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start towards much. 
And so no matter what that looks

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like in your life, maybe little 
to you right now is in your job 

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or little to you right now is in
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We're not just talking about a 
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You are the church. 
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come here and it's established 
this season of this church has 

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an expiration date on it, you 
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Can I hear an Amen? 
Hey, man, you will not always be

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in this hotel. 
And there's seasons in your life

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right now that have expiration 
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They're not to be the longevity 
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You see, it's funny to me that 
as as a kid, I think we all had 

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had always seen ourselves 
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We always, you know, you ask 
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when you grow up, right? 
It's like age. 

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We can always see us leaving the
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Like how many you know you're 
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right now forever. 
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ourselves, like when I was 8, I 
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I wanted to be 16. 
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be 30. 
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to be 12 again, right? 
He just want to go backwards. 

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But I remember that mindset 
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seasons of my life. 
Sometimes you'll go through a 

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season and the devil will lie to
you and tell you this is all 

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you're ever going to have, 
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Or he'll tell you things like 
you've already experienced the 

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best that you're ever going to 
experience, and that's not true.

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And maybe you've had setbacks, 
maybe you've had mistakes, maybe

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you've had shortcomings, but 
that doesn't mean that you've 

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wrecked the future. 
God is faithful and just that if

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you'll trust him. 
And listen to what Pastor Max 

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said this morning about the the 
imagination and just using your 

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imagination. 
I'm going to touch a little bit 

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on some of that tonight, but I 
want you to understand one 

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thing. 
If you can find it in God's 

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Word, you should be able to find
it in your life. 

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If there's healing in God's 
Word, you should be able to have

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healing in your life. 
If there's peace in God's Word, 

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you should be able to have it. 
And not just in your life, but 

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in your relationships, in your 
marriage, in your family, in 

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your finances, in your body. 
You should be able to see the 

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Word of God show up in those 
areas of your life. 

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Because it's not just there for 
us to read as literature and to 

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get educated. 
It's there for us to read as an 

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identity and something that we 
rightfully possess by faith. 

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Amen. 
So tonight I just want to share 

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with you a few things that I 
believe are going to help you 

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get from where you are to where 
I believe God wants you to be. 

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Now I mentioned that, you know, 
my wife and I, we travel all 

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over the world and, and I'm so 
blessed to be able to, to serve 

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Pastors Mack and Lynn in, in 
what we're doing with global 

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church planting. 
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our hearts because you're here 
and we want to do all we can do 

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to help you and help your 
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And, but you know, God has 
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beyond just your attendance at a
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And it's important that when you
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are is constantly evolving 
because you are the church, 

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right? 
Like imagine if you had a child 

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or, or someone you're in a 
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you were with them, they acted 
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through something different. 
It would be hard to have a 

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conversation. 
It would be hard to build on 

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that relationship because you 
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that meeting to the next 
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And I remember pastoring, 
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same 4 sheep or the same 12 
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And even though there's the same
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week, they were going through a 
different set of problems this 

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week. 
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to an entirely different group 
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going through something 
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So while you do gather, it's 
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who you are and where you're 
going because every time you 

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come, you bring a supply to this
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We're not just trying to get you
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or whatever. 
We're trying to get you to grow 

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and mature. 
I'm a father of five kids. 

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I've been married almost 24 
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And my wife, beautiful wife, 
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But one thing that I have 
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important that my children grow 
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And the older that they get, you
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You're like, oh, man, I was on 
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looking at photos of my daughter
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was this big again. 
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And you were never meant to stay
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right now. 
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the level that you're in right 
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God desires and designed for you
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I'll never forget when my wife 
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I fell in love with my wife when
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didn't pay attention to me until
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18. 
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planted a church at 26. 
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me. 
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But 2, I had gone through a 
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early age that I had to make a 
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Either I'm going to serve God 
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or there's a chance I might not 
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And you go through things in 
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And I don't know your testimony,
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And at 13 years of age, my 22 
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accident. 
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those things and you think, man,
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past this. 
It's like you freeze frame in 

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that moment. 
You ever been in a thing in your

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life where it's like you just, 
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the devil tries to do that. 
He tries to put you in a moment 

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that you never get past. 
You'd be, you'd be shocked how 

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many times in a meeting like 
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people afterwards. 
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and you're praying for people 
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and you'll be speaking to a 65 
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speaking to a six year old woman
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inside of that 65 year old woman
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Time stood still for her, things
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get past, and she's taking it 
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And what the devil tries to do 
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moments and seasons in your 
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Because if you're not careful, 
that fear that paralyzes us, it,

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it, it kind of dilutes the 
things that God wants to do that

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only faith can mobilize. 
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brings faith into your life to 
reactivate those things that the

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devil was trying to stop. 
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don't have. 
You've gone through different 

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seasons and walks of life that I
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Not everyone in this room has a 
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to the story that God's building
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You have a piece of this story 
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But listen, the devil will try 
to to sign off as the author of 

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your life and the the tragedies 
and the nightmares and the 

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seasons and the mistakes and 
he'll try to sign that and say 

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that was what I did to you. 
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things away. 
When you come into a church like

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this, you're able to have 
pastors who teach the word, 

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teach who you are in Christ, 
teach faith, teach 

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righteousness. 
Are y'all getting that here? 

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Amen. 
They teach that and it helps you

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grow out of that tragedy and 
into someone who now has 

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authority as a believer, can 
walk on their own 2 feet, be led

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by the Spirit that God designed 
them to be led by, and have an 

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intimate relationship with the 
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And that's just plan. 
Not that you sit and just be a 

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consumer and take notes and hear
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We're to be doers of the very 
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And so my brother died at 13, 
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was going to happen with my life
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So I'll give you a very fast 
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At 14 years old, I was caught up
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addiction and running with 
gangs, and my life was not where

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it should have been. 
I ended up moving out of my 

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house at 14 and lived with 
different families for a while 

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and then had a radical encounter
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Holy Ghost. 
Come on, man. 

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It changed my life. 
I got radically filled with the 

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Holy Spirit, changed everything 
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And I thought, man, this is it, 
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I, I was called to the ministry.
I knew I was called to the 

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ministry, but the problem was, 
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I thought that I was called all 
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alcohol and abuse and all those 
things gave me a reputation with

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man that I felt I'll never get 
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So I remember as I would try to 
follow the things of God, I 

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would have the enemy telling me,
yeah, but you did this. 

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Yeah, but you're the kid who did
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And yeah, but that's what 
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And so sure enough, you know, my
my church story and and my 

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church relationship was not the 
best. 

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I was the kid who got kicked out
of youth group. 

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I was the kid who was asked to 
leave Sunday church. 

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And then when I got my life 
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basically had two ushers 
assigned to me. 

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Anybody service usher here in 
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been assigned to me. 
I couldn't go to the bathroom 

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without ushers going with me. 
It was that intense. 

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It shouldn't have been that 
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worthy of that type of intense 
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And so there's no reason why I 
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ministry. 
I could have been everyone else 

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to say, you know what? 
The church is nothing but a 

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bunch of hypocrites. 
You don't want me in there. 

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And but I remember there was a 
season where I was on fire for 

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God and then I just couldn't 
stop. 

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It's like the natural default 
was to go right back into the 

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flesh and go right back into the
things of this world. 

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And this, none of this was my 
plan tonight. 

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I don't know why I'm sharing 
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supposed to. 
And I would, I would do good for

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God and I would do good for God.
And then it's like I would just 

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go right back. 
And I remember it was like this 

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yo-yo of and the devil convinced
me like you're only good with 

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God for three months, Caleb, 
right. 

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So go ahead and do your three 
months with God. 

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And then you're going to go six 
months for me and you're going 

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to do 3 months for God and six 
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So that led me to 17 years old, 
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and a drug addict. 
And I remember one night I was 

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on like a two week binge and I 
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I don't know if y'all know the 
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hotel, but there's a vast 
difference with just two letters

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of the alphabet. 
I found myself in a motel and I 

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looked at myself in the mirror 
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and I did not like what I saw. 
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the devil telling me this is all
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But there was a voice on the 
inside of me that that it was, 

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it was fainter than it used to 
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don't you remember I've called 
you to ministry? 

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Don't you remember I've called 
you to preach? 

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But I'm looking at 105 LB drug 
addict and I'm thinking, there's

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no way. 
My church kicked me out. 

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My parents kicked me out. 
My youth pastor doesn't want me.

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My pastor doesn't want me. 
But you're telling me you've 

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called me and I'll never forget.
I, I sat there and I stared in 

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the mirror and I said, OK, God, 
if you can find a way to get me 

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home, I'll give you 365 days of 
my life. 

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That was just where I was. 
You know, I, I gave my whole 

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life to him. 
But what I committed was I'll 

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live for you without fail 
because it's been 3 months on 

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and three months off. 
I'll live for you without fail 

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for one year. 
But God, if you can't do this 

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for me in one year, I don't know
that I'll be here. 

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That's just where I was. 
I didn't know if whether I would

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take my own life or somebody 
else would take it. 

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I walked out of that bathroom 
making this, God, if you could 

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get me home, I'll go 
declaration. 

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And I walked out of the motel 
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behind me, there was a truck 
parked in the parking lot. 

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And someone called my name. 
And I looked up and it was an 

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electrician that worked for my 
father, and his name was Mark. 

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I said, Mark, what are you doing
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He said, Caleb, I've been 
praying. 

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He said for two hours I've been 
praying in the Spirit and the 

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Lord told me to come find you, 
that you you were missing. 

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And he said, I've been driving 
around for two hours and the 

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Holy Spirit said, pull into this
parking lot. 

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He said, when I pulled into this
parking lot, I put the truck in 

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park. 
You walked out of that door 

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right there. 
It was crazy because I was just 

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in the bathroom going, if you'll
find a way for me to get home, 

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God, I'll go home and I walk 
out. 

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And isn't it crazy if you zoom 
out for a moment and you think 

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about that? 
Here's Mark driving around the 

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city. 
I'm walking two hours before 

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that in a ditch and somebody 
finds me on the side of the road

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and says, do you need a ride? 
And they drop me off at a motel.

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I bummed some money. 
I got a room and here's Mark. 

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While I'm in the bathroom 
talking to God, driving around, 

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finding his way into a parking 
lot, let me tell you something. 

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You think you're going to a 
hotel church? 

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You're not going to a hotel 
church. 

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God is divinely guiding you to 
get you in the right spot at the

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right time for what He wants you
to do. 

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You think it's just coincidence 
they came and started a church 

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here? 
You think it's just coincidence 

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that Pastor Mac and Lynn decided
to start planting churches all 

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over the world? 
God is a strategist. 

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God will make sure He aligns 
everything He needs to just for 

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you. 
I love John 316 for God so loved

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the world that He gave His only 
begotten Son. 

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I love that scripture, but 
sometimes I like to play, you 

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know, like edit with some of the
words in there and just take the

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word world and remove it and 
just put my name right there for

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God. 
So loved Caleb, God would do all

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of it just for you. 
God would move heaven and earth 

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just to get to you, to show you 
how valuable you are because 

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listen, he didn't want to just 
set a 17 year old free from drug

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addiction. 
He didn't want to just set 

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someone who might have been 17 
but was paused at 13 from the 

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loss of his brother. 
He didn't want to just deal with

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my hurt and my pain. 
God had a call in my life that 

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was going to activate things 
that would go into motion that 

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would get me here tonight. 
God has a bigger picture for 

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you. 
It's not just about you joining 

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a church and serving at a church
while that is amazing and you're

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doing that, but it's about you 
being able to be led by the Holy

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Spirit and surrendered in the 
moments of vulnerability to say,

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I know this doesn't make sense 
God, but I'm going to do it. 

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And so here I was giving my life
back to the Lord. 

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Fast forward, I go home and my 
parents let me back in the house

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and there's a whole nother story
behind all of that. 

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But I can tell you this. 
It led to me at 18 years old, 17

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I, I ended up meeting my wife 
and my life was never the same. 

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18 we got engaged and 19 we got 
married. 

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And I remember when we got 
married, the Lord began to deal 

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with me about ministry and, and 
a ministry beyond where we are 

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today. 
And this is what I want to kind 

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of share with you is sometimes 
where you're at, that's all you 

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can see, but God has something 
for beyond where you're at right

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now. 
My wife and I got married and 

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we, it, it almost like slowed us
down because when we got 

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married, we really just wanted 
everything. 

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We're like, OK, we're married 
now, let's have babies, right? 

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Like, and everyone's going, 
Caleb, chill. 

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Like you're so young. 
You know, I didn't think I was 

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so young. 
I was 19. 

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I was very young. 
Anybody 19 in here? 

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No, but I remember being 19. 
So, you know, you think you're 

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older than you are. 
And so we, we decided, OK, we're

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going to wait. 
We're going to wait a few years.

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And so we did. 
We waited a few years. 

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And when we finally got 
pregnant, my whole life was 

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like, this is all I've ever 
wanted to do Now this is going 

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to be the greatest thing. 
And then my wife came to me 

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about six weeks later and she 
said, I think I'm having a 

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miscarriage. 
And so there's another moment in

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your life where things just kind
of pause. 

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And so, you know, we went 
through that challenge and then 

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ended up getting pregnant again,
had another miscarriage. 

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And it seemed that that was 
going to be the norm. 

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And the doctors even said, we 
don't know that you guys are 

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ever going to be able to have 
children. 

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Well, if you heard what I said 
earlier, that's a lie. 

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We've had many kids. 
I think we've had too many kids,

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honestly, if, if I'm going to 
put that in there. 

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But I remember when we, we 
finally got pregnant with our 

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third pregnancy and that became 
our first child that we gave 

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birth to. 
And my whole life was changed. 

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But before that happened, I had 
to change my mindset like what 

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Pastor Mac was talking about 
this morning. 

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I had to change the way I saw 
things because the devil was 

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giving me an image. 
The devil was giving me a 

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glimpse of what he wanted me to 
believe. 

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So I'll never forget sitting 
there with my wife one night and

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she asked me. 
She said, do you think, you 

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know, as a, as a Word of Faith 
couple, we try to keep each 

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other in faith, but every now 
and then it's good to have 

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somebody that you can just talk 
to and be real with. 

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And she said, do you think this 
is going to just always happen 

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to us? 
And I said, no, I don't. 

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I believe by faith your womb 
will not only conceive a child, 

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but will give birth to a child. 
So I said, here's what I want to

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do. 
I want to start sowing seeds for

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our future. 
And so this is what we did. 

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A friend of ours actually had a 
baby. 

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And so I called my friend and I 
said, hey, I know that you guys 

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probably want to date night, so 
why don't you bring your baby 

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over to our house? 
And it's like, I couldn't even 

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get off the phone before I heard
like knocks on the door, you 

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know? 
And so they did. 

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They brought their baby over. 
And so they brought the baby 

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over and brought the baby inside
and, and then like tires 

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squealed, they were gone. 
They went on a date night. 

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We actually paid for their date,
gave them some money to go to 

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the restaurant and free 
childcare. 

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So here I am, I'm looking at 
this baby in a car seat. 

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They didn't give me any 
instructions. 

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They just dropped the baby off. 
And so I'm looking at the baby 

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and I'm looking at my wife and 
I'm looking at the baby. 

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And so I'm like, well, I guess 
I'll take the baby out. 

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And so I kind of start moving 
the, the straps and I picked the

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baby up. 
And so I'm kind of like looking 

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at it and I just gave the baby 
to my wife. 

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And so she's standing there 
holding the baby. 

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And so I just stepped back and I
said, that looks good on you. 

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I said, Hey, babe, hey, like 
walk around and do what moms do,

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you know, like just bounce your 
shoulders or whatever. 

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So she's like, what am I just do
it, Just walk her. 

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So she's walking around and 
she's doing this and I'm like, 

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wow, babe, that looks so good on
you. 

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Like give it to me. 
You know, so she gives me baby. 

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I'm like, how does it? 
You know, I'm walking around and

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I'm like, so I said, Hey, let's 
go. 

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Like where are you going to 
where are you going to sit when 

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you rock the baby? 
And so we're setting up them 

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like, sit down, let me just let 
me see it. 

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I'm, I'm making myself see it. 
And I remember just looking at 

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her and thinking that that is 
what I'm going to see. 

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Is this not pretend? 
This is not like dress up and 

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baby dolls and this is going to 
be my future. 

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And so when they came back to 
get their their baby, I asked 

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them, I said, Hey, can we do 
this every week for you? 

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Pick a night. 
Y'all go on a date? 

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And we did. 
We watched their baby every 

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week. 
It was not long after that that 

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my wife had gotten pregnant with
my first son, Jayden. 

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And it wasn't because I watched 
a baby that we got pregnant. 

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But it was because I was 
determined that if I could see a

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different image than what I was 
seeing in my now, that if I knew

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my present condition is not my 
future destination, then God 

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could do something through the 
hope on the inside of me, the 

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expectation on the inside of me 
that when my faith and hope 

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collide. 
Hebrews says that evidence, 

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right? 
There's evidence, there's 

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substance that shows up in those
things in your life. 

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Well, I'll never forget it 
worked. 

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And I was like, OK, what else do
we believe in God for? 

445
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,160
We were believing God for a 
house. 

446
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,360
And so we begin to drive around 
again. 

447
00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:52,320
I was 19, you know, I was young,
I didn't have any credit. 

448
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:53,400
I didn't know I didn't have any 
money. 

449
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,560
I didn't have anything. 
You know, my, my dad was a 

450
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,920
Carpenter. 
And so we grew up blue collar. 

451
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,720
We worked for everything we had.
And if we didn't have it, we 

452
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,720
just kept working until we could
figure it out. 

453
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,680
Sometimes you worked hungry, 
sometimes you worked late, 

454
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:11,440
sometimes you just kept working.
So I remember there was one guy 

455
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,960
on staff at our church that had 
the only staff member that owned

456
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,480
a home everyone else rented. 
And so a good friend of mine 

457
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,640
named Profetto Esquibel, 
Profetto Pastors now in Dallas, 

458
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,240
Fort Worth. 
And so I went up to him one day 

459
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,560
and I said, Hey, hey, Profetto. 
I said, would you mind telling 

460
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,800
me how much your mortgage is? 
And he's like, man, you don't 

461
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,120
ask another man that. 
I'm like, no, I know my dad 

462
00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:37,680
taught me, you know, you don't 
ask people that. 

463
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,520
I said, but I just want to know 
how much your mortgage is. 

464
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,440
And so he told me. 
And I was like, oh, I said, 

465
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,240
well, he's like, why? 
I said, well, I was going to pay

466
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,040
one of your, your monthly notes,
but man, you got a high 

467
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,160
mortgage. 
And it really wasn't a high 

468
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,320
mortgage, but to me it was a 
very high mortgage. 

469
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:54,600
So I said, man, I can't afford 
that. 

470
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,720
I said, but here's what I'm 
going to do. 

471
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,600
I said, my wife and I, we're 
going to come over to your house

472
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,040
and we're going to clean your 
house. 

473
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:09,080
Now, if you know my story, my, 
my wife's father was his boss, 

474
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,440
the pastor of the church that we
worked at. 

475
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,240
So he's like, there's no way the
pastor's daughter is coming to 

476
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,600
my house and going to clean my 
house. 

477
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,880
But that's what we wanted to do.
So I remember we went to the 

478
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,120
house and I'm outside and I'm 
mowing the grass and cutting the

479
00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:26,640
hedges and doing all of these 
things. 

480
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,800
And my wife's inside, she's 
wiping mirrors and wiping 

481
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,080
baseboards and cleaning. 
And I'll never forget as I was 

482
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:37,040
mowing his grass, I would just 
mow the grass and I would say 

483
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,800
this is what it's going to be 
like one day when I'm mowing my 

484
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,120
yard. 
And then when I finished mowing,

485
00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:44,280
I went to him and said what's 
next? 

486
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:45,560
And he said, well, now we got a 
weed eater. 

487
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,760
So I grabbed a weed eater and 
I'm weed eating and I'm edging 

488
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,560
and, and I'm sweeping and I'm 
going, this is what it's going 

489
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:51,760
to be like. 
He had a pool. 

490
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,320
So I'm sweeping the pool and I'm
going, man, this is what it's 

491
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,880
going to be like one day when I 
sweep my pool. 

492
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,560
I'm going to have my own pool 
one day. 

493
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,640
And it wasn't too long after I 
had a realtor call me about a 

494
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,200
week later. 
And she said, Caleb, I don't 

495
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:08,640
know why, but I feel like I 
should call you. 

496
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,720
She said, are you and Alicia 
believe in God for a home? 

497
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,000
And I said, yeah, Crazy thing 
is, is we don't know where 

498
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,520
there's one that we could buy 
and we don't have any money to 

499
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,000
buy one. 
And she said, well, something 

500
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,680
just came across my e-mail and 
it hasn't made it to market yet.

501
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,080
And I felt like I was supposed 
to call you. 

502
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,680
Why don't we go look at it? 
So we did. 

503
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:33,680
We drove up there that night and
when we walked in or walked up 

504
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,680
to the house and we were looking
through the door, the door 

505
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,000
opened. 
And so it kind of freaked us 

506
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,520
out. 
And the guy who owned the home, 

507
00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:43,720
he said y'all looking for a 
house. 

508
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,680
And my real estate agent said 
why, why yes, but we can call 

509
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,800
and schedule appointment. 
And he said no, no, no, come on 

510
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,360
in. 
So we come in and he looks at me

511
00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:54,960
and he his jaw drops and he just
starts crying. 

512
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,200
And he said you look just like 
my son. 

513
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,280
I could smell alcohol from where
he was all over his breath. 

514
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,320
He just began to weep. 
And I said, well, you know, I 

515
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,280
tried to make light of it. 
I said he must be a really good 

516
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,360
looking man, you know. 
And he said he was. 

517
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,880
And I said, what do you mean? 
He said I'm selling my house. 

518
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,920
My son died in a four Wheeler 
accident just a few weeks ago. 

519
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,040
He said I can't, I can't stay in
this house. 

520
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:28,920
And I could, I could relate to 
that. 

521
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,240
I understood that type of pain. 
And as I stood there, he said, 

522
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,560
you want this house? 
He said I won't sell it to 

523
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,480
anyone else, it's yours. 
I said, Sir, I don't have any 

524
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:39,560
money. 
I don't, I don't even know if I 

525
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,360
have an approval. 
He said we'll figure it out. 

526
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,600
So he tells the real estate 
agent. 

527
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,560
He said write the contract right
now. 

528
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,440
He said you have furniture and I
said no. 

529
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:50,920
He said you can have these 
couches. 

530
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,160
He walks me into the bedrooms. 
Do you have drapes? 

531
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:55,040
Nope. 
You have lamps? 

532
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,480
Nope, you can have these. 
You have a refrigerator? 

533
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:58,920
Nope. 
He said keep it. 

534
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,320
He said you have washers and 
dryers. 

535
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,880
No, I don't. 
He said you can have mine. 

536
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,640
Walks me outside into his shed. 
He goes, do you have Rakes and 

537
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,280
shovels? 
I said no, because you have a 

538
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,920
lawn mower. 
I said I don't have anything, 

539
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,000
dude, I'm like 19 years old, you
know? 

540
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,240
And he said you can have it all.
He said this house was meant for

541
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,120
you. 
Now, when I was cutting my 

542
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,040
friend's grass, all I was doing 
was just saying, God, I know 

543
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,040
that I'm not going to rent an 
apartment the rest of my life. 

544
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,520
God, I know there's something 
bigger for me than this season. 

545
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,640
What I didn't know was how God 
was going to do it. 

546
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:38,160
All I had to do was give God 
something to work with, with my 

547
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:42,520
faith, my imagination, my 
expectation. 

548
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,920
We got that house. 
Fast forward. 

549
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:52,200
I can't tell you the things in 
my life that God has done time 

550
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,840
and time again where it seemed 
impossible. 

551
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,560
And you go to the time where I 
planted a church and all I had 

552
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:04,640
was four people. 
I watch God take every moment of

553
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,640
my life that look like it was 
stunted in growth. 

554
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,160
It was stained by mistakes. 
It was never going to measure up

555
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:17,240
to man's opinion, my reputation,
my ability, my lack of 

556
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,040
resources. 
It never made sense. 

557
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:24,200
The fact that I'm even married 
to my wife makes no sense to me 

558
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:32,240
in my brain because I remember 
when people said she will never 

559
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,200
date you. 
You're a Moran. 

560
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,200
And I'm going. 
Well, yeah, but I mean, I can't 

561
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,880
help who I am. 
But that's the reputation that 

562
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,960
we had. 
I don't know what's happened in 

563
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,920
your life. 
I don't know the things that the

564
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:52,480
devil may have lied to you or 
stole from you or maybe 

565
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:57,520
convinced you that you just are 
where you are and you'll be 

566
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,200
there for the rest of your life.
And sometimes people, you go 

567
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,600
through different stages when 
you're 20, when you're 60, when 

568
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,880
you're 70 and you can think it's
over for me. 

569
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,120
It's never going to be any 
different for me. 

570
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,400
Let me tell you something, 365 
days from now will not look the 

571
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:18,680
way that it does right now. 
I promise you that if you'll put

572
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:23,480
your faith and your hope and 
your trust in God, you'll see 

573
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,640
things turn around. 
I'll share this, this last 

574
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:32,720
tidbit with you and then I want 
to give Jen some time to to 

575
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:37,040
speak and minister to you. 
But I've spent a season of my 

576
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,920
life not only just in ministry, 
but I've spent a season of my 

577
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,920
life in the marketplace. 
And so I do a lot of leadership 

578
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,040
training. 
I do a lot of coaching. 

579
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,560
I do a lot of helping people 
start businesses. 

580
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,400
I do a lot of consulting with 
churches to grow and develop, 

581
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,040
and it's a passion of mine to 
walk into something and see it 

582
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,320
for not what it is, but for what
it can be. 

583
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,160
And I see that tonight in this 
room. 

584
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,680
I see you for not who you are or
what you are, but for what you 

585
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,440
can be. 
But it doesn't matter what I 

586
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,520
see. 
You've got to be able to see 

587
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:16,120
that. 
Well, I started studying these 

588
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:21,240
billionaires with AB 
billionaires and, and what was 

589
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:25,120
so unique about these 
billionaires that was different 

590
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,840
from millionaires? 
So I came across a documentary 

591
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:34,960
that actually interviewed like, 
I think 15 or 20 different 

592
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:39,400
billionaires, but they 
spotlighted one man and they 

593
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,120
they made the whole documentary 
basically about him and they 

594
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,640
asked him, they said, So what 
was it that you did different 

595
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,760
that got you into where you are 
today? 

596
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:56,120
He said, it's very simple. 
He said, I just dream a lot. 

597
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,000
And they said, what, what do you
mean? 

598
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,440
And he said, I, I see myself 
doing very much like what Pastor

599
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,080
Mac was saying this morning. 
I see myself doing the thing I 

600
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,120
want to do until I see myself 
doing the thing that I want to 

601
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,880
do. 
And so he said, he said, 

602
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,720
actually, you know, in a home 
you have a kitchen. 

603
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,280
That's where you cook or you 
eat. 

604
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,520
You have a bedroom. 
That's where you sleep and you 

605
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,080
have bathrooms and you shower 
and you have closets for your 

606
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,080
clothes and garages for your 
cars, he said. 

607
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,960
You have rooms intentionally 
built for everything in your 

608
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:30,640
life. 
He said. 

609
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,600
But I built a dream room. 
He said. 

610
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,600
I go into that room every day. 
And he said, and I will sit down

611
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,560
in a dream chair. 
He said. 

612
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,800
I put together a dream playlist.
I have my dream headphones. 

613
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:50,520
I turn off my light and he said,
and for an hour I see myself in 

614
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,240
my future. 
Now he didn't say anything about

615
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,880
God. 
He just understands. 

616
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,640
He's tapping into something that
God designed the power of the 

617
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,520
imagination. 
How much more when you put God 

618
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,320
in it? 
Well, you see this very story in

619
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:10,280
the Bible in Genesis chapter 30,
where the Bible says that Jacob 

620
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:15,320
worked for Laban for a while 
until he wanted his own flocks. 

621
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,280
He wanted to quit making 
somebody else's dream come to 

622
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,800
pass, and he was ready for his 
own dream to come to pass. 

623
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:27,840
I can tell you this, your future
and your dream is always tied to

624
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,960
serving somebody else's future 
and somebody else's dream. 

625
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,400
Everything God has ever done in 
my life didn't happen because I 

626
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,440
was willing. 
Everything God did in my life 

627
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,760
happened because I was willing 
to serve somebody else who had 

628
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,000
submitted to him. 
What I'm doing right now with 

629
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,560
Pastors Mack and Lynn, if this 
is the final chapter of their 

630
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,760
life, he's 82 years old. 
If this is the final chapter of 

631
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,560
his life, I'm honored to hold 
the pen while he writes it. 

632
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,880
That's my part to play. 
It doesn't have to be about me 

633
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,400
at all. 
But as I serve a vision, God 

634
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,200
begins to give unto me eyes to 
see from my own vision. 

635
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,280
And that's what God does in a 
local church. 

636
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,800
He puts you in a place where 
it's not about what can you give

637
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:19,400
me, it's what can I do to help 
this local church and the vision

638
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,680
that God has here. 
And as your roots go down in 

639
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:27,000
this church, the fruit from your
life begins to sprout out and 

640
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,440
God begins to show you the gifts
and the talents. 

641
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,480
Because as a little 8 year old 
Baptist boy, I never saw myself 

642
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,760
as a tongue talking Pentecostal 
preacher, right? 

643
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:46,600
But God knew that was my future.
And so I had to see myself not 

644
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,280
as a drug addict. 
I had to see myself not as a man

645
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,120
who wanted a child, but as a 
father. 

646
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,240
I had to see myself. 
The Bible says God calls things 

647
00:35:57,240 --> 00:35:58,600
which be not as though they 
were. 

648
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,920
Even Abraham, who had no 
children, the Bible called him a

649
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,200
father of nations. 
And I don't know what the devil 

650
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,560
has identified you as or labeled
you as or what you've believed 

651
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,560
about yourself, but I can tell 
you this, The purpose and the 

652
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:16,760
passion that God has for you is 
only going to be found when you 

653
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,720
mix faith and expectation for 
what the Bible says is available

654
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:23,520
for you. 
You might be dealing with 

655
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,560
symptoms in your body. 
My youngest son was diagnosed 

656
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:31,200
with with cancer at the age of 
3, was given four days to live. 

657
00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:37,800
He's 11 today. 
I didn't see him as someone who 

658
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:42,560
only had four days to live and 
when he relapsed a year and a 

659
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,760
half later and it became way 
worse. 

660
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,560
I didn't see him with someone 
who was not going to find a 

661
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,960
transplant or or someone to give
him bone marrow. 

662
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,920
I saw him as someone who had a 
purpose and a call on his life. 

663
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,840
You can't just see yourself as 
someone who comes to this church

664
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,520
and attends a church. 
You have to see yourself as 

665
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:05,400
someone who God has a divine 
connection and you don't just 

666
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,400
sit and wait. 
No, you start doing. 

667
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,920
I started babysitting babies 
because I wanted to be a dad. 

668
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,440
I started cutting grass because 
I wanted to own a home. 

669
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,440
You know how many people I 
bought tanks of gas for their 

670
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,200
car because I wanted a new car? 
I couldn't afford to pay the 

671
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:23,920
note on their car. 
I couldn't afford to buy them a 

672
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,920
new car. 
But it started with a tank of 

673
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:27,800
gas. 
And God has blessed us to a 

674
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,920
place where I have bought cars 
for people. 

675
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,560
Now I have done things for 
people. 

676
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:37,200
Now, beyond those small steps, 
but you start where you are. 

677
00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:40,080
God has given you what you have 
right now. 

678
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,160
And if you're faithful, what you
have right now, the Bible says 

679
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:44,960
He'll multiply it and He'll make
you ruler over. 

680
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,360
Much the same goes with the 
vision your pastors have. 

681
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,240
As they're faithful with the 
vision God's given them, He's 

682
00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:54,160
going to give them more. 
But as you're faithful to help 

683
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,560
with the vision, God's going to 
bring more, and your life will 

684
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,560
be affected by it. 
So tonight, I just wanted to 

685
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,200
encourage you that no matter 
where you are, that's not where 

686
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,960
you're going to be. 
And no matter what you have, 

687
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,640
that's not what disqualifies you
for what's available and what's 

688
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:12,720
in store. 
God has more ahead of you that 

689
00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:17,800
if you can see it and you can 
stay consistent in seeing that 

690
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,040
that's your future. 
You will walk right smack dab 

691
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,800
into that thing. 
Let me pray for you, Father. 

692
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,400
I thank you for each person 
that's here, Father, and I thank

693
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,240
you for the ministry that's 
that's coming from Jen tonight. 

694
00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:35,120
Lord, I thank you that you have 
a word in due season and you 

695
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,600
have ministry for this, this 
group of believers here tonight.

696
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,600
God, what an honor to be able to
minister tonight. 

697
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:47,280
But Father, I thank you that we 
are not frozen in time with you,

698
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,720
Father God, that there is a 
divine reset tonight happening 

699
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:54,840
for people's lives. 
People are being activated, 

700
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,320
people are being sprouted up, 
people are shifting into 

701
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,040
position. 
And Father, I thank you that you

702
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:05,680
have something in store for each
individual here tonight, that if

703
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,520
only one person came tonight, 
Father God, you have something 

704
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,120
for them that's beyond what 
they're experiencing. 

705
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,880
And so I speak to those symptoms
in the body. 

706
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,920
They have to be removed. 
I speak to the relationship 

707
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,520
issues. 
It has to turn around. 

708
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,240
And I speak to those hurts and 
voids tonight. 

709
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,400
And Father God, you're 
ministering to those places, 

710
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,800
into those people. 
God, we honor you and we thank 

711
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,480
you tonight, Father God, that 
each and every person that's 

712
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:39,760
here has a place in you. 
In Jesus mighty name we pray. 

713
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:40,800
Amen. 
Amen. 

714
00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:47,000
Praise the Lord. 
Well, aren't you thankful that 

715
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:51,880
you came tonight? 
Don't worry, I am not going to 

716
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,840
preach another message at you. 
That was a full course dinner 

717
00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:02,000
and it was so, so good. 
I am really honored to be with 

718
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,160
you just to be a part of what 
God just did in this room. 

719
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:10,440
And this morning, as pastor 
mentioned, I had the honor of 

720
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:16,200
going to Bible college with your
pastors and you just always kind

721
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,840
of knew with these two they were
going to go change the world 

722
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,360
and, and here they are doing it 
with all of you. 

723
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,680
And it really is special just to
be in the room. 

724
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:31,000
It's really profound, really. 
And to be a part of something 

725
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,760
that has such movement. 
There's the ground is moving 

726
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,600
under your feet and it's so, so 
good. 

727
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:44,320
I appreciate so much what Caleb 
ministered to you. 

728
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:49,120
I've been really just count him 
and his wife Alicia's dear 

729
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:53,400
friends of mine and haven't been
their friend for the whole 

730
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,760
journey, but watched a lot of 
that and watched what God does. 

731
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,160
And that's really what we do as 
the body is. 

732
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:05,280
We watch each other walk out the
miraculous one step at a time. 

733
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,320
That's the joy of being part of 
the body of Christ. 

734
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:13,440
So you know, I'll just tell you,
I spend my time as a full time 

735
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,800
minister traveling around the 
world. 

736
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:22,320
I've had the honor of doing that
for over 25 years now and and I 

737
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,600
would just say that typically 
when I find myself in a 

738
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:30,680
gathering, how many of you know,
God works through us all in 

739
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,920
significant ways, in different 
ways. 

740
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:38,400
And, and it's just seemed to me 
really as long as I can 

741
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:44,400
remember, but in my relationship
with God, what has always just 

742
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,840
come to me naturally is a sense 
of what God was doing in the 

743
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:54,560
moment that I happened to be in.
It was almost as if I came into 

744
00:41:54,560 --> 00:42:00,080
the world to help tell time. 
And and when I said yes to the 

745
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,960
call of God, that just seemed to
be a profound part of it. 

746
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:08,680
And so I found it interesting 
that as I was preparing to come 

747
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:14,960
to your nation, to Ireland, that
out of nowhere, and to be honest

748
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:20,520
my mind was on packing. 
But as I was preparing, suddenly

749
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:27,240
the word of the Lord came to me 
and he said he said it's 

750
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:32,120
Ireland's time. 
He said it's Ireland's time. 

751
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:39,120
And then he said, he said the 
wheat has grown with the tares, 

752
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:46,600
but it's harvest time for both, 
meaning that this is the time 

753
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:52,280
for a great harvest of souls 
here in Ireland, but it's also 

754
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:57,520
the time of God for dealing with
things that have to be dealt 

755
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:03,440
with, that there are many those 
that don't walk with God and 

756
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,800
they are the ones that are the 
aggressors. 

757
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:11,760
And when God's bringing in 
harvest, he also deals with the 

758
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,920
oppression and says enough is 
enough. 

759
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:19,760
And so harvest time is really a 
powerful time for the good and 

760
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,360
the bad. 
And, and so really in your 

761
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:29,040
nation, God's called you for 
this time because of what God is

762
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,040
doing in this moment right here 
in Ireland. 

763
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:36,000
See, I believe there's a real 
specific plan on your nation 

764
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:40,680
and, and so I can say to you 
something like God says it's 

765
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,560
time for a mass harvest in 
Ireland. 

766
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:47,360
And maybe you would say to me, 
Jen, what you don't know is it 

767
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:52,120
couldn't look farther from that.
I mean nothing, nothing could 

768
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:57,000
look farther from that. 
But that's why the Lord brought 

769
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,040
you a word tonight to tell you 
about what? 

770
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:06,880
Living by faith in relationship 
with a God who does the 

771
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,560
miraculous. 
That's why he has taken the time

772
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:15,880
this morning and tonight to like
an artistic master paint a 

773
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,640
picture, because he's calling 
you. 

774
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,600
He's going. 
Come on, believe me. 

775
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,320
Come on, come on. 
Trust me. 

776
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,120
Come on, Church, will you take 
me at? 

777
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:30,880
I know it does not look anything
like this is harvest time, but 

778
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,720
would you take me at my word? 
And would you trust me? 

779
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,200
Would you step out? 
I know your life doesn't, but 

780
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,240
would you? 
He's calling you out, isn't he? 

781
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:47,000
And, and I believe that he's 
bringing you these things at 

782
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,920
this time on purpose. 
Now, I just learned something 

783
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,800
recently about the time that 
we're all in right now, in the 

784
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,960
month of December. 
Now, you know, the Hebrews have 

785
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:02,360
their own calendar for every 
month of the year, and each name

786
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:06,400
of each month means something. 
Well, the the calendar year 

787
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,800
December for the Hebrews is the 
month of miracles. 

788
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,960
It's this month of what they 
call high expectation. 

789
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:22,880
December is the month where God 
seems to take special joy in 

790
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,360
pulling back the veil on the 
realm of the Spirit and say you 

791
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,280
see all this, Come believe me 
for this. 

792
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,840
It's not just a month where we 
celebrate a visitation of heaven

793
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,360
that happened over 2000 years 
ago. 

794
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:43,000
It's actually a time that's 
marked by God doing special 

795
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,880
things. 
So I want to just give you this 

796
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:50,440
verse and then we're actually 
going to kind of shift and wrap 

797
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,720
up in prayer and minister to 
some people. 

798
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,360
But I want to show you this 
verse that marks this in the 

799
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,400
book of Isaiah. 
How many of you know that that 

800
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,280
prophetic words all throughout 
Scripture there for us today, 

801
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,440
right? 
Aren't you glad for that? 

802
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:10,280
But do you know that there are 
prophetic words in Scripture 

803
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:15,840
that are just now coming in to 
their moment, like they're just 

804
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,320
now coming into the fullness of 
time? 

805
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:23,160
And I believe that this 
Scripture in Isaiah is one of 

806
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:27,520
those, because I bet you, I'm 
going to bet nobody in this room

807
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,520
has ever put their eyes on this 
before. 

808
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,560
Because there is a prophetic 
scripture in the book of Isaiah 

809
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:39,320
that talks about God putting a 
Christmas tree in the middle of 

810
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:43,000
a desert. 
Anybody would take me up on that

811
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,480
bet. 
OK, well, you're out of luck. 

812
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,480
I want you to look at this 
verse. 

813
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,000
This is the book of Isaiah. 
Now this is what God's been 

814
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,360
ministering to us this morning 
and tonight. 

815
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:56,400
Isaiah 41 in verse 15. 
Now, church, this, this verse 

816
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,000
we're going to get into, this is
talking about you. 

817
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,360
This is triumph church. 
He says triumph church. 

818
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:08,800
Behold, look, I will make you a 
new, sharp, threshing instrument

819
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,360
having teeth. 
The mountains. 

820
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,760
In other words, you will carve 
through a mountain like it's 

821
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:19,680
nothing, and you will beat a 
mountain down to a small thing, 

822
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,240
and you will make hills like 
dust. 

823
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:28,040
Verse 16. 
And you will fan them out, and 

824
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:32,880
the wind shall carry them away, 
and the whirlwind shall scatter 

825
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:37,040
what was a mountain, And you 
will rejoice in the Lord, and 

826
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:42,080
you will glory in the Holy One. 
Verse 18. 

827
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:46,520
And I will open rivers on the 
barren heights, and fountains in

828
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:50,560
the middle of the valleys. 
And I will turn the desert into 

829
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:54,800
a pool of water, and the dry 
land into flowing springs. 

830
00:47:55,240 --> 00:48:01,480
And I will plant Cedars in the 
wilderness, and acacias and 

831
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:05,960
myrtles and olive trees. 
I will set cypresses in the 

832
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:10,080
desert, and fir trees I will 
plant together. 

833
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:15,480
There's our Christmas tree 
there, verse 20, so that all may

834
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:22,000
see and know and may consider 
and understand that the hand of 

835
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:28,720
the Lord has done this and the 
Holy One of Israel has created 

836
00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:34,080
it. 
Triumph Church, you are living 

837
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:41,160
in a divine moment of invitation
to step over a threshold of 

838
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:47,200
faith and come into a place of 
supernatural breakthroughs, just

839
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:51,760
like Caleb talked about of 
supernatural revelation, where 

840
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,800
you have vision in one minute 
for what you didn't have vision 

841
00:48:55,800 --> 00:49:00,600
for before. 
Where you come into this place 

842
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:05,760
of the miraculous where all of a
sudden God is doing supernatural

843
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,120
things in a time where it 
doesn't even look like it's the 

844
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,640
season for it. 
How many of you know if you were

845
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:15,840
stuck in the hot summer desert 
and you walked upon a Christmas 

846
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:17,600
tree, it would get your 
attention? 

847
00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:23,680
And God is saying, would you 
trust me? 

848
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:29,240
I'm the God that puts Christmas 
trees in the desert. 

849
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,160
I don't know what your desert is
and I don't know what your 

850
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:38,400
Christmas tree is, but he does. 
And I know this. 

851
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:44,720
I know that Ireland is primed 
and ready as God sees it, and 

852
00:49:44,720 --> 00:49:50,080
he's just looking for a remnant 
that will take him at his word 

853
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:55,120
and take hands with him and say,
come on God, work with us, come 

854
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:58,920
on God, do it with us. 
This is the last thing I'll say.

855
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:03,960
This is exactly what Jesus was 
talking about when he looked at 

856
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,800
Peter and he said, who do you 
say that I am? 

857
00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:10,120
And Peter said some say you're 
this. 

858
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,000
And Jesus said, no, no, no, Who 
do you say? 

859
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,720
And what did he say? 
He said you are the Christ. 

860
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:16,520
You're the Son of the living 
God. 

861
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:22,520
And Jesus decided that was the 
moment to make a monumental 

862
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:26,040
announcement. 
And he said this, you're right, 

863
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:29,440
Peter. 
And upon the revelation of who I

864
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:34,640
am and who I am and you, I'm 
going to build my church. 

865
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:39,120
Only Jesus didn't say church. 
He said I'm going to build my 

866
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:44,440
ecclesia. 
Well, when he said that that 

867
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:48,880
word ecclesia was something, 
everybody in earshot knew 

868
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:55,160
exactly what it was, because the
ecclesia at that time was a very

869
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:59,400
specific group of people. 
And at that time, Rome was the 

870
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,880
superpower of the day. 
And they would send in their 

871
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:07,400
their superpower military into a
nation and they would easily 

872
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,280
defeat it, wipe, wipe out their 
military. 

873
00:51:10,720 --> 00:51:15,320
And as the Roman military was 
pulling out, the Roman Ecclesia 

874
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:20,280
would be moving in. 
But you see, the ecclesia was 

875
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:29,680
made-up of teachers and 
carpenters and songwriters and 

876
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:35,200
judges and blacksmiths, and they
were just what we would call 

877
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:39,880
everyday working people. 
And they would move into that 

878
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:44,040
newly conquered nation, those 
cities, and they didn't move in 

879
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,320
to visit, they moved in there to
stay. 

880
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,160
And they would help them 
rebuild. 

881
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:54,600
But as they rebuilt the schools,
they would teach them all Roman 

882
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:58,280
ways of educating. 
And as the carpenters would 

883
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,360
begin to help them rebuild, they
would infuse and influence them 

884
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,480
with all Roman ways of building 
and architecture. 

885
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,200
The songwriters would start 
writing songs. 

886
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,640
The creators, they would start 
creating. 

887
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:14,280
But everything they wrote and 
they created was infused with 

888
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:18,320
all Roman ways of thought. 
And in hardly any time at all 

889
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,000
they would have rebuilt, built a
new life. 

890
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:26,560
But in this time, not by 
imposing, but by influence, they

891
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:33,040
thought and talked and taught 
and worked always Roman because 

892
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:37,600
it was a better way of life. 
And this was what Jesus said 

893
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,320
upon the revelation of who I am 
in you. 

894
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,240
I'm going to build my ecclesia. 
Triumph Church. 

895
00:52:44,240 --> 00:52:49,560
You are the ecclesia of the Lord
Jesus Christ right here in 

896
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,400
Ireland. 
I fully believe with all my 

897
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:56,040
heart, just as been shared 
throughout this day, that this 

898
00:52:56,040 --> 00:53:00,080
is one of many. 
I believe that Triumph Church is

899
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:04,520
going to have church campuses 
all over Ireland and beyond. 

900
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,160
I believe the ground that you 
have contended for all these 

901
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:12,400
years in Ireland was not just 
about the planning of this, it's

902
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:17,000
because this is precedent 
setting for all the other ones 

903
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,720
that will come. 
You are contending all at one 

904
00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:24,480
time for the whole thing. 
That's why you can't get weary 

905
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,880
and well doing and go man, how 
long is this going to take if 

906
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:29,640
it's taking this long to get 
one? 

907
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,480
No, you got to understand in the
Spirit, you're tilling the 

908
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:38,120
ground for campus after campus 
after campus. 

909
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:40,600
Come on. 
When you're praying into the 

910
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:44,120
plan of God for this place, when
you're sowing, you're sowing 

911
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,880
into campuses and city after 
city after city. 

912
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,640
We got young people back here 
working the sound. 

913
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:54,080
You guys are sowing seed right 
now for a whole generation just 

914
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,520
like you. 
This is going to come to a place

915
00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:00,240
like Triumph Church and find out
who God always called him to be,

916
00:54:00,240 --> 00:54:03,440
Jesus. 
Jesus. 

917
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,920
And So what I want to say to you
tonight is this is what time, 

918
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,280
Triumph Church, this is what 
time you're in right now. 

919
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:15,480
You're in a miraculous time. 
You're in a Christmas tree in 

920
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:19,280
the desert time. 
And you have been issued an 

921
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:24,120
invitation tonight to say come 
on, come on, work with me. 

922
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:28,120
Come on, dream with me. 
Come on, believe with me. 

923
00:54:28,720 --> 00:54:37,880
Come on, imagine with me and I 
believe that in your nation we 

924
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:43,720
will say that we can see here 
how the kingdoms of this world 

925
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:51,320
have become the kingdoms of our 
God, that when we say Father, 

926
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:55,280
let your will be done on earth 
in Ireland as it is in heaven. 

927
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:59,160
That's just not something we say
that it's something we say 

928
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:03,160
because we imagine it becoming a
reality. 

929
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,840
Amen. 
Hallelujah. 

930
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,960
You know, I've, I've just as 
Caleb was ministering, I just 

931
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:15,680
kept feeling in my heart the 
phrase that kept coming to me 

932
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:20,560
was a demarcation line. 
I don't know if that makes any 

933
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,920
sense here. 
It's it's like the the line that

934
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:28,480
you come up to where everything 
that has been, you've gone 

935
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:33,080
absolutely as far as you can and
you're either going to stay 

936
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:37,360
there and go no further or 
you're going to take one step 

937
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:42,000
over that line and you're going 
to continue on into all of what 

938
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:46,000
you don't know. 
But something just tells you, I 

939
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,920
just can't stay. 
I just can't stay where I have 

940
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:52,800
been anymore. 
And it's not because you know 

941
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,600
exactly what it's going to look 
like. 

942
00:55:55,640 --> 00:56:01,040
You just know I can't stay here.
Caleb mentioned at the beginning

943
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:05,040
of the service about sometimes 
you're on the mountaintop, but 

944
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,600
sometimes you're feel like 
you're living in transition. 

945
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:11,040
Anybody felt like you've been in
living in a transition space? 

946
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,040
Yeah. 
And I sense that that jumped in 

947
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,360
my spirit. 
And so I feel like tonight in 

948
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:21,600
the corporate anointing, it's 
like God says, just go ahead and

949
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:27,200
just step over that line into 
what's next that resonate in 

950
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:29,880
anybody's heart. 
You say, well, how does that 

951
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:31,080
work? 
Well, we're talking. 

952
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:37,560
These are spiritual truths. 
And so we do this how by a 

953
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:43,360
spirit, we do it by a spirit. 
So I'm just going to do what 

954
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:48,320
we've been talking about and, 
and what I saw in the 

955
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:52,040
imagination of my heart, what I 
saw in my spirit is all of us 

956
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:55,720
that have been in that kind of 
place where you're up at that 

957
00:56:55,720 --> 00:56:57,520
place and you can't go any 
further. 

958
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:02,680
I just saw us actually laying 
hands on you and praying over 

959
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:07,600
you, not because of who we are, 
but for the release of the 

960
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,480
Spirit of God. 
And this is what I heard in my 

961
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:15,520
heart, that His Spirit, when 
hands are laid upon you, will be

962
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:21,080
like a wind at your back that 
will just take you over into 

963
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:23,200
that next place. 
Amen. 

964
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:27,400
So if that's you and you're 
here, we would be so honored to 

965
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:29,520
just pray for you. 
And so I'm going to invite you 

966
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:31,240
to come. 
Is that all right, Pastor? 

967
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:34,200
Those of you that would like 
hands laid on you, we're not 

968
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,520
going to take a real long time 
to do this, but we'd be so 

969
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:42,360
honored to pray for you. 
Thank you for listening to the 

970
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:44,560
Triumph Church Podcast this 
week. 

971
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:48,600
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share it with someone you know. 

972
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:53,720
For more information on Triumph 
Church, you can visit us at 

973
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,560
www.triumphchurch.ie.