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Creflo Dollar - Breaking Free From Settling For Less

May 20, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - Breaking Free From Settling For Less
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Breaking Free From Settling For Less | May 20, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: contentment is not resignation.
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  • Contentment is not, "well, i give up.
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  • I quit."
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  • Contentment is not poverty.
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  • Contentment is not settling for less.
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  • Contentment is resting in the sufficiency of christ.
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  • Creflo: the last couple of weeks we've been talking about the
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  • Danger of settling for less, the danger of settling for less, and
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  • We defined settling as forfeiting god's best by
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  • Clinging to the less.
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  • God wants you to cling to his best, and that's not going to
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  • Happen if you don't resolve who you are in christ jesus.
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  • You've got--everything about a christian life flows from his
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  • True identity, flows from his jesus identity, and that's why
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  • That's the first place the enemy will attack.
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  • Creflo: he'll attack your identity.
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  • He came to jesus when he was led into the wilderness by the
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  • Spirit of god, and the first place was attacked is his
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  • Identity, "'if thou be the son of god,'" and he's doing the
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  • Same thing, the same foul against you right now.
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  • If i can get you to not accept what the word of god says about
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  • Who you are, then i can stop a lot of things in your life and i
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  • Can cause or entice you to settle for less instead of
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  • Settling for god's best, and so we spent a couple of weeks just
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  • Talking about that and looking at it, but today we want to
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  • Begin to deal with how to break free from settling for less, how
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  • To break free from that mentality where we are more
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  • Complacent than we are content, and there is a big difference
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  • In that.
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  • Let's begin this morning in ephesians chapter 3, verse 20,
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  • And gonna share some things today that are just really gonna
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  • Enlighten you.
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  • Ephesians 3:20 says, "now unto him that is able to do
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  • Exceedingly," watch this, exceedingly, "wants to do
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  • Exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according
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  • To the power that worketh in us," and what we've got to
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  • Understand is settling is when we accept less than
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  • Super abundant.
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  • The super exceedingly abundant that god has prepared, we settle
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  • For less than that, and i'm asking you for the last couple
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  • Of weeks to identify areas in your life where you have
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  • Settled, areas in your life because it's a lot more
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  • Comfortable just to settle for something than to challenge
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  • Yourself to pursue god's best instead of settling for the
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  • Less, and then we look at hebrews chapter 10 in verse 35.
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  • I'm going to read this out of esv.
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  • Hebrews chapter 10 in verse 35, and he says, "therefore do not
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  • Throw away your confidence, which has a great reward."
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  • Don't throw away your confidence.
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  • Settling often means throwing away your confidence and also
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  • Throwing away the reward.
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  • I'm not gonna throw it away.
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  • It may not come this week, next week, next month.
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  • It may not come this year.
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  • I'm not gonna let it go.
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  • I'm not gonna settle because i don't know when it's gonna
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  • Break through.
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  • I'm not gonna settle, and enemy wants us to settle, and there
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  • Are christians all over the world that have settled for a
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  • Lack of confidence, and they are okay without getting the reward
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  • Because, "after all, i'm okay."
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  • No, we don't want to settle.
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  • Listen to this very carefully.
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  • Write it down if you can.
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  • Settling always robs a person of destiny.
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  • Your destiny is on the line when you settle.
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  • Think about it.
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  • You're settling for less, and god's already wired you for
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  • His best.
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  • I don't want to end up in heaven and find out that i only
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  • Accomplished half of what i could have accomplished in
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  • My life.
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  • I don't want to do that, but settling always robs a person
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  • Of destiny.
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  • Don't let the enemy rob you of your destiny.
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  • There's a destination for you.
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  • He wired you a certain way, he created you a certain way
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  • Because there's a certain destination he tries to get you
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  • To, and when you settle for less you end up allowing that destiny
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  • To be robbed, but also, and listen to this
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  • Carefully, contentment.
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  • Write that down.
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  • That's--i want to spend some time on that.
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  • Contentment positions you for increase.
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  • While settling robs a person of destiny, contentment positions
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  • You for increase.
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  • So if we're talking about how to break free from settling for
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  • Less, it's going to start with this area of contentment.
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  • Contentment positions you for increase.
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  • You got to understand something.
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  • God never asked his children to settle.
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  • He asked them to trust him.
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  • He didn't ask you to settle.
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  • He asked you to trust him.
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  • Now, over the years, and let's go ahead and look at this
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  • Scripture, 1 timothy chapter 6 in verse 6.
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  • Over the years i've
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  • Taught about contentment, i've spoke some things about it, but
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  • Since i've been teaching the gospel of grace i look at
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  • Everything through the lens of grace, and you begin to see
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  • Things a lot clearer, but he said something in verse 6 that
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  • Got my attention.
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  • But i didn't really digest it.
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  • 1 timothy 6:6 in the king james, he says, "but godliness
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  • With contentment is great gain."
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  • "godliness with contentment is great gain."
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  • Now, it seems to me the great gain part should at least get
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  • Our attention to say, "all right, how does this work?
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  • What is contentment?"
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  • So the world defines contentment as being satisfied.
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  • Well, wait a minute.
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  • Complacency means satisfied too, so what's the difference?
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  • One of them is--complacency is a form of settling.
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  • Complacency is i'm satisfied right here.
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  • I have no desire to grow forward or to do any more than what's
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  • Already been accomplished.
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  • I am complacent.
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  • I have settled at this particular spot.
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  • But contentment, you're satisfied, but not complacent.
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  • You're satisfied, but not settled.
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  • But what does this mean through the eyes of grace?
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  • That was never enough for me to--i know i'm trusting god, but
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  • How does this contentment?
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  • Godliness i understand.
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  • Thank god that i'm a branch, he's the vine.
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  • The fruit of the spirit will flow from the vine into the
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  • Branch, but then there's something about being content,
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  • And i believe a lot of christians need to understand
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  • What it means to be content.
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  • So contentment, through the lens of grace,
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  • Is simply resting in
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  • The provisions of christ.
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  • It's resting in the sufficiency of christ,
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  • But godliness with
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  • Resting in the sufficiency of christ equals great gain.
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  • Contentment is an inner wealth of rest in the finished works of
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  • Jesus, an inner wealth of rest in the finished works of jesus,
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  • While at the same time you're free from all of the anxiety
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  • Of lack.
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  • Let me see.
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  • I'm gonna work on this a little bit.
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  • Contentment is not resignation.
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  • Contentment is not, "well, i give up.
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  • I quit."
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  • Contentment is not poverty.
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  • Contentment is not settling for less.
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  • Contentment is resting in the sufficiency of christ.
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  • Christ is my sufficiency.
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  • My god, that made me want to shout.
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  • Christ is my suffi--when i'm sick, he's my healer.
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  • When i'm in lack, he's my provider.
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  • When i'm lonely, he's my comforter.
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  • He is my--he is sufficient for everything concerning my life.
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  • If i can learn how to be content or if i can learn how to rest in
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  • The sufficiency of christ, i have achieved contentment.
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  • Add that with godliness, great gain shows up.
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  • Yeah, y'all ain't--y'all don't hear what i'm saying here.
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  • Let's keep working on it.
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  • It means recognizing that in christ we already
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  • Possess everything.
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  • We already possess everything that truly matters in our life.
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  • When we're in christ we already possess everything that matters.
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  • What matters?
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  • What really matters in our life?
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  • When we're in christ we already possess righteousness.
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  • We already possess that.
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  • We already possess acceptance.
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  • I have been accepted into the beloved.
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  • We already possess that.
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  • We possess peace.
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  • We possess our provisions.
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  • When you talk about contentment it means that in christ i
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  • Already possess everything that matters.
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  • I am the righteousness of god, got it right now.
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  • I am redeemed, got it right now.
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  • I'm accepted.
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  • I have peace.
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  • I have provision.
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  • I already have that.
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  • Now, this teaching today absolutely will prepare you for
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  • Whatever changes they make in this nation because your
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  • Sufficiency is not in the government.
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  • Your sufficiency is in jesus, and if you can achieve rest in
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  • The sufficiency of christ, you ain't worrying about nothing,
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  • Because remember, it's an inner wealth of resting, hallelujah,
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  • In the finished works of jesus without the feeling or the
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  • Anxiety of lack.
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  • Lord have mercy.
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  • I don't have no feeling of--think about this, and now
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  • See, what i'm saying now you have to start today exercising
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  • In this.
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  • You got to look at everything that shouts insufficient and
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  • You've got to respond to it, "i am sufficient in the sufficiency
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  • Of christ, and i rest in his sufficiency.
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  • I got inner wealth."
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  • What's that inner wealth?
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  • Resting in the finished works, resting in the sufficiency of
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  • Christ without the feeling or the anxiety.
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  • I ain't--i'm not anxious no more about lack.
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  • I'm not afraid you're going to put me out of my apartment.
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  • I'm not scared i'm going to die of this disease or nothing, why?
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  • Because i'm declaring that i am resting in the sufficiency.
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  • Lord have mercy.
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  • Y'all going to have to, y'all going to have to hold my mule
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  • This morning.
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  • You have to start walking this now.
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  • Start walking it until--see, you already have what matters.
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  • You have your righteousness.
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  • You have your peace.
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  • You have your redemption.
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  • You have your provision.
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  • You have everything you need.
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  • He says, "i gave you my son.
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  • What else you going to ask me for?
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  • I already gave you everything."
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  • Okay, now we got to embrace that and we got to start exercising
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  • That every day until it flows out on the automatic.
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  • How many of you remember when you learned how to drive a stick
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  • Shift and a clutch?
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  • That was something, wasn't it?
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  • Especially when you were on a hill and a car was right
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  • Behind you.
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  • You hit a red light, "oh, jesus," and you remember how
  • 00:14:48.801 --> 00:14:53.339
  • That went, right, and it was time to ease that clutch up, and
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  • You sometimes you ease it up too quick.
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  • You're like, ah, clunk.
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  • Be like, "oh, lord."
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  • The cars, bump bump, "get out of the way.
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  • What are you doing," and it took a little while, but you
  • 00:15:03.415 --> 00:15:12.691
  • Exercised that whole stick shift and clutch thing to such a
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  • Point, well, when you got on the hill you didn't even need
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  • The brake.
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  • You could balance the gas and the clutch at the same time
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  • While you put your makeup on, why?
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  • You have moved--you've moved from the practice to
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  • The automatic.
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  • See, that's the way love ought to be.
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  • You ought--you shouldn't have to think about whether you're going
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  • To love somebody, that's automatically comes out of you.
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  • You shouldn't have to think about whether i'm going to
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  • Forgive somebody, it's automatically come out of you.
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  • You've spent so much time with it you've moved into the
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  • Automatic, and i am telling you, you know like i know some stuff
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  • Coming, and you need to be the picture of peace.
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  • You need to have a revival in your neighborhood as your
  • 00:16:05.310 --> 00:16:08.614
  • Neighbors come to you and say, "i need to ask you something.
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  • You don't seem like nothing bother you.
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  • You don't seem like you're worried about nothing," and you
  • 00:16:13.652 --> 00:16:15.988
  • Say, "well, that's 'cause i'm not."
  • 00:16:15.988 --> 00:16:17.589
  • "well, could you give me the secret?"
  • 00:16:17.589 --> 00:16:19.425
  • "well, it don't have to be a secret, but i am resting in the
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  • Sufficiency of christ.
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  • I am content with my godliness and god is taking care of all of
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  • My needs."
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  • Great gain is coming.
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  • Peace is coming.
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  • Sleep is coming.
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  • Healing is coming.
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  • Great gain comes because i'm not only godly, but i am resting in
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  • The inner wealth of my sufficiency, and y'all better
  • 00:16:42.781 --> 00:16:47.953
  • Come on and get me here.
  • 00:16:47.953 --> 00:16:49.288
  • I'm about ready to take off.
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  • If i had wings, i'd be out.
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  • Yeah, contentment is the posture
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  • Of the heart that no longer strives for identity.
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  • So my posture, i'm no longer striving for identity or
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  • Security through possessing wealth or through
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  • Human approval.
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  • I don't need to impress you no more.
  • 00:17:29.228 --> 00:17:33.065
  • My posture is not trying to impress somebody who don't care.
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  • Are you following what i'm saying?
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  • My posture no longer shines for identity.
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  • I'm not looking for my identity through your approval, i'm not
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  • Looking for my security through your approval, therefore i don't
  • 00:17:57.055 --> 00:18:02.594
  • Need to get stuff to impress you.
  • 00:18:02.594 --> 00:18:08.767
  • I don't need you--your validation because all of that
  • 00:18:08.767 --> 00:18:15.908
  • Is in the sufficiency of christ.
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  • I am the beloved.
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  • I am the accepted, i am who he says i am, not what the world
  • 00:18:20.345 --> 00:18:25.784
  • Says i am, not what my past says i am, my new identity.
  • 00:18:25.784 --> 00:18:29.922
  • So you kind of see where all of this is going to flow from now.
  • 00:18:29.922 --> 00:18:36.595
  • Contentment flows from knowing who you are in christ and that
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  • You lack nothing essential to your purpose.
  • 00:18:43.635 --> 00:18:47.639
  • I know who i am in christ and i don't lack anything that's
  • 00:18:47.639 --> 00:18:52.044
  • Important and essential for my purpose.
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  • I am righteous, say it.
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  • Congregation: i am righteous.
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  • Creflo: i am forgiven.
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  • Congregation: i am forgiven.
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  • Creflo: i am complete in jesus.
  • 00:19:01.286 --> 00:19:02.654
  • Congregation: i am complete in jesus.
  • 00:19:02.654 --> 00:19:04.156
  • Creflo: i am seated with him in heavenly places.
  • 00:19:04.156 --> 00:19:06.158
  • Congregation: i am seated with him in heavenly places.
  • 00:19:06.158 --> 00:19:07.659
  • Creflo: i am cared and provided for.
  • 00:19:07.659 --> 00:19:09.628
  • Congregation: i am cared and provided for.
  • 00:19:09.628 --> 00:19:13.065
  • Creflo: when jesus looks at me.
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  • Congregation: when jesus looks at me.
  • 00:19:14.399 --> 00:19:16.335
  • Creflo: he sees himself.
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  • Congregation: he sees himself.
  • 00:19:17.669 --> 00:19:19.004
  • Creflo: when i look at jesus.
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  • Congregation: when i look at jesus.
  • 00:19:20.372 --> 00:19:21.707
  • Creflo: i see myself. congregation: i see myself.
  • 00:19:21.707 --> 00:19:23.075
  • Creflo: that's who i am.
  • 00:19:23.075 --> 00:19:24.409
  • Congregation: that's who i am.
  • 00:19:24.409 --> 00:19:27.512
  • Creflo: now, the enemy will try to talk you out of that by
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  • Reminding you of your actions and behaviors that don't match
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  • What you just said, but your behavior should not determine
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  • Your identity.
  • 00:19:47.132 --> 00:19:48.467
  • It is your identity that you receive by faith in what he
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  • Said, by what the word said.
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  • It's your identity that if you hold on to your identity it'll
  • 00:19:52.871 --> 00:19:55.841
  • Change your behavior.
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  • It'll change your actions.
  • 00:19:57.576 --> 00:19:59.044
  • It'll change your desires.
  • 00:19:59.044 --> 00:20:00.746
  • You've got to learn how to embrace and hold on to who the
  • 00:20:00.746 --> 00:20:05.083
  • Bible says you are.
  • 00:20:05.083 --> 00:20:07.686
  • Now, why is that so important?
  • 00:20:07.686 --> 00:20:10.155
  • Because contentment flows from that new identity.
  • 00:20:10.155 --> 00:20:16.194
  • Contentment flows from whom the word says you are.
  • 00:20:16.194 --> 00:20:21.233
  • Now imagine if he gets next to your identity and convinces you
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  • You ain't this, you ain't that, you ain't this.
  • 00:20:25.070 --> 00:20:27.973
  • The next thing you'll say is, "well, that's not met, that's
  • 00:20:27.973 --> 00:20:30.676
  • Not met.
  • 00:20:30.676 --> 00:20:32.044
  • His sufficiency is not good enough," and you're--wow.
  • 00:20:32.044 --> 00:20:38.684
  • So the identity part is huge.
  • 00:20:38.684 --> 00:20:43.055
  • It's huge, praise god.
  • 00:20:43.055 --> 00:20:46.158
  • Look at psalms 23 in verse 1. contentment flows from knowing
  • 00:20:46.158 --> 00:20:50.562
  • Who you are in him and that you lack nothing essential and
  • 00:20:50.562 --> 00:20:58.804
  • Needed for your purpose.
  • 00:20:58.804 --> 00:21:00.305
  • Everybody in here has been wired for a purpose.
  • 00:21:00.305 --> 00:21:03.875
  • That's why it is not good to compare yourself amongst
  • 00:21:03.875 --> 00:21:09.381
  • Yourself, okay.
  • 00:21:09.381 --> 00:21:11.416
  • You've got to ask god to help you to understand your wiring.
  • 00:21:11.416 --> 00:21:18.357
  • Why am i wired the way i'm wired, and some of you
  • 00:21:18.357 --> 00:21:21.526
  • Don't--you know, you, "well, i just don't like being
  • 00:21:21.526 --> 00:21:24.296
  • Myself--being by myself."
  • 00:21:24.296 --> 00:21:25.630
  • Being by yourself is good, 'cause you can shut off all that
  • 00:21:25.630 --> 00:21:30.769
  • Stuff that's coming through your head, and i'm talking about be
  • 00:21:30.769 --> 00:21:33.004
  • By yourself with your phone not in front of you scrolling, wow.
  • 00:21:33.004 --> 00:21:41.980
  • Look at psalms 23:1.
  • 00:21:45.484 --> 00:21:48.053
  • We quote it, but we don't pay attention to it.
  • 00:21:48.053 --> 00:21:49.721
  • Verse 1 says this, "the lord is my shepherd; i shall not want,"
  • 00:21:49.721 --> 00:21:56.328
  • Or i shall not be in want because he's shepherding me.
  • 00:21:56.328 --> 00:22:06.371
  • My sufficiency is in the shepherd.
  • 00:22:06.438 --> 00:22:10.809
  • In the natural a sheep don't know how to take care of itself.
  • 00:22:10.809 --> 00:22:14.012
  • The sufficiency of the sheep is in the hands of the shepherd.
  • 00:22:14.012 --> 00:22:17.416
  • The protection of the sheep is in the hands of the shepherd.
  • 00:22:17.416 --> 00:22:21.553
  • The provision for the sheep is in the hand of the shepherd.
  • 00:22:21.553 --> 00:22:25.857
  • There's total dependency.
  • 00:22:25.857 --> 00:22:30.028
  • "the lord is my shepherd," and, "i shall not want," or i shall
  • 00:22:30.028 --> 00:22:37.903
  • Not be in want.
  • 00:22:37.903 --> 00:22:39.237
  • Look at colossians 2:10.
  • 00:22:39.237 --> 00:22:41.540
  • Colossians 2:10.
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  • Wouldn't bother me if we stay here the whole time, 'cause if
  • 00:22:44.409 --> 00:22:47.479
  • You get this, i got seven other things that you can do to help
  • 00:22:47.479 --> 00:22:52.117
  • You to stay free from settling for less, but this is the
  • 00:22:52.117 --> 00:22:57.489
  • Main one.
  • 00:22:57.489 --> 00:22:58.857
  • This is a mindset here.
  • 00:22:58.857 --> 00:23:01.726
  • He says, "and you are complete in him, which is the head of all
  • 00:23:01.726 --> 00:23:07.232
  • Principality and power."
  • 00:23:07.232 --> 00:23:08.934
  • Say this out loud, "i am complete in jesus."
  • 00:23:08.934 --> 00:23:11.603
  • Congregation: i am complete in jesus.
  • 00:23:11.603 --> 00:23:13.872
  • Creflo: now, you don't weigh that with your behavior.
  • 00:23:13.872 --> 00:23:16.708
  • You don't weigh that with that, and i said--now, now, i'm not
  • 00:23:16.708 --> 00:23:19.411
  • Telling you to go out and just act crazy, but here's the deal.
  • 00:23:19.411 --> 00:23:22.781
  • When you hold on to what i'm telling you hold on, you ain't
  • 00:23:22.781 --> 00:23:25.550
  • Gonna want to go act crazy.
  • 00:23:25.550 --> 00:23:29.221
  • Philippians says god is changing your desire, giving you a desire
  • 00:23:29.221 --> 00:23:34.259
  • To do what pleases him.
  • 00:23:34.259 --> 00:23:36.862
  • See, we got to understand the holy ghost is working right now.
  • 00:23:36.862 --> 00:23:39.965
  • You're seated here minding your business, and the holy ghost is
  • 00:23:39.965 --> 00:23:42.634
  • Working on those old want-tos.
  • 00:23:42.634 --> 00:23:45.937
  • There are things you used to want to do.
  • 00:23:45.937 --> 00:23:48.573
  • If you'll let the holy spirit continue to work on you,
  • 00:23:48.573 --> 00:23:50.775
  • You're not going to want to do it no more.
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