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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Breaking Free From Settling For Less (Part 2) | May 22, 2026
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- Creflo dollar: you start forgetting who you are in
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- You will have the platform for settling.
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- You forget that you are righteous, you forget that you
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- Are forgiven, you forget that you're complete in christ, you
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- Forget who you are in christ jesus, you'll start settling for
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- Something less than what god says about you.
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- Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of
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- 1 timothy chapter 6 and 6, and we've been talking about
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- Settling, and what does it mean to settle?
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- It means forfeiting god's best by clinging to the less, and
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- There's so many people in our world today and especially in
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- The church that we forfeit god's best and we settle or cling to
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- The less, and it's not okay, and i'm not talking about you, you
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- Know, trying to get the best because you've been comparing
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- Yourself with somebody else.
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- I'm talking about you pressing towards god's best for you to
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- Keep it in the right boundary, because what happens is if you
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- Start comparing yourself amongst yourself, then you're just
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- Trying to, you know, do something, 'cause you're
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- Comparing yourself with somebody, and god's not in the
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- Picture, okay?
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- So we are wanting god's best, and i guarantee you god's best
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- Is gonna be better than whoever you're comparing yourself with
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- Or whatever you're comparing yourself with, but for some
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- Reason we have settled for less when god has the best in our
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- Lives, and so we began to deal with breaking free from settling
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- From less, and the first thing we saw was the fact that you
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- Have to understand contentment.
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- Contentment is resting in the the care of god, resting in all
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- That god has made available to you, all the things that god has
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- Ready for you, his supply that he has made, his sufficiency
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- That he has made.
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- Resting in the sufficiency of christ, that's what it means to
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- Be content.
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- When i am content i am resting in the sufficiency of christ.
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- When i am content i recognize that there is this inner wealth
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- Of resting in the finished works of jesus without the feeling or
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- The anxiety of lack.
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- That's what it means to be content, and so in 1 timothy 6:6
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- He says, "but godliness with contentment."
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- You take godliness and you add it with your rest, your rest
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- Of--in the sufficiency of christ.
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- You're resting in the sufficiency of christ so you're
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- Not anxious about your care.
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- You're not anxious about lack showing up in your life.
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- He says godliness plus contentment is going to equal
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- Great gain.
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- There's something about you waking up every morning and
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- Recognizing that god's got you.
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- There's something about waking up each day and recognizing that
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- I live by the sufficiency of christ, but it's not just
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- Knowing about the sufficiency of christ.
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- It's learning how to rest in the sufficiency of christ.
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- It's learning how to depend on it.
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- It's learning how to rely on his sufficiency, learning how to
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- Live by that sufficiency.
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- So your godliness plus that attitude, that rest, that
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- Resting in the sufficiency of christ, is going to equal great
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- Gain, and you'll find yourself breaking free from this issue of
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- Settling for less.
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- Now i want to give you seven other points, things that you do
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- To break free from this issue of settling for less, and
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- It's--today's really designed.
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- I'm going to really see if i can get you to really think about
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- What you're thinking about, and i want you to get honest about
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- Settling in your life, settling for less in your life, what
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- Things have you settled or find yourself settling for less, and
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- So this is gonna be very personal with you.
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- I would say all of us, but i went ahead of you and did all of
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- This, and it's freeing.
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- If you'll be honest with yourself, it's freeing.
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- So number one, number one,
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- Breaking free from settling for less.
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- Renew your mind about who you are.
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- If you want to break free from settling from less, renew your
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- Mind about who you are.
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- Settling starts when you forget your identity.
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- That's where it starts.
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- You start forgetting who you are in christ, you start forgetting
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- Your true identity in christ, you will have the platform
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- For settling.
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- You forget that you are righteous, you forget that you
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- Are forgiven, you forget that you're complete in christ, you
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- Forget who you are in christ jesus, you'll start settling for
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- Something less than what god says about you.
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- "i am the righteousness of christ."
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- Say that, "i am the righteousness of christ."
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- "i am redeemed," say that.
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- "i'm--i am forgiven," say that.
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- See, if you don't move from the place of your true identity, you
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- Will invite that attitude of settling for less to become part
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- Of you.
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- You've got to see yourself the way god sees you.
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- You have to see yourself-- this is where it starts.
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- Most of all of the stuff that god's trying to do in our life
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- Starts with you recognizing your true identity and recognizing
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- Who you are.
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- You are not what your past says you are.
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- You are not what the devil says you are.
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- You are who god says you are, and you've got to embrace who
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- God says you are.
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- I am righteous, i am redeemed, i am complete in him already, i am
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- The beloved, and it goes on and on as you begin to study who you
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- Are in christ jesus.
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- That's first base.
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- I mean, that's the first move right there.
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- I have to know who i am, and so the enemy's job is how can i get
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- You, how can i get y'all, how can i get all the people in the
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- Body of christ who are followers of jesus to forget their
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- Identity, to forget who you are?
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- Jesus showed up to tempt--i mean, satan showed up in the
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- Wilderness to tempt jesus, and he said, "if thou be the son of
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- God, turn this stone into bread."
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- Jesus said, "well, i know who i am.
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- I don't have to turn the stone into bread to prove anything to
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- You, 'cause i already know who i am," amen?
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- In fact, had he turned the stone into bread it would have been
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- A question.
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- Did you not believe your identity?
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- Did you not believe?
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- You settled for turning a stone into bread?
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- How many things have we settled because we have not realized who
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- We are, we forgot who we really are?
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- So we've got to see ourselves the way god sees you.
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- God sees you as forgiven.
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- So if you go around talking about, "oh, lordy,
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- God don't want nothing to do with me.
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- Oh, i messed up and god sees me differently."
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- No, no, no, you see yourself differently, but god doesn't see
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- You differently, and so you cannot settle for that.
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- You--it's a trick of the enemy.
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- The mind is the battleground, and he's going to be playing
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- With your mind.
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- You know, every thought in your head is not yours.
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- Some of those thoughts come from your enemy, and you just got to
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- Recognize which ones are yours and which ones come from the
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- Enemy, all right?
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- Now, don't get deep with that, you know.
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- "i'm thinking that you make me sick, but that ain't my fault."
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- Yeah, some of 'em you manufactured with the enemy's
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- Suggestions and produced something in your head, but you
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- Cannot forget who you are.
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- Look at romans chapter 12, verse 2 in the nlt.
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- Romans chapter 12 and verse 2 in the nlt.
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- He says this.
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- "don't copy the behavior and the customs of the world."
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- Don't--that's all people are doing right now, copying the
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- Behavior and the customs of this world.
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- He says, "but let god transform you into a new person."
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- How many of you know god can transform you into a new person?
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- How many of you are experiencing the transformative power of god
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- Transforming you into that new person?
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- God can transform you into a new person, how?
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- How, how, how is that happening?
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- By changing the way you think.
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- By changing the way you think.
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- What's your thinking like?
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- You gotta catch your thinking.
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- What are you thinking about when you get up in the morning?
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- What are you thinking about when you see certain people?
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- What do you think about when you're involved in
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- Certain situations?
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- Where did that thinking come from?
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- "as a man thinketh," he says, "in his heart, so is he."
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- You got to change the way you think, because a wrong way of
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- Thinking will become a big enemy to your identity.
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- He says you'll be transformed by changing the way you think.
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- You got to think differently if you're gonna live differently.
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- If you keep thinking the same way you've been thinking, you're
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- Gonna keep living the same way you live, and you'll find
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- Yourself in insanity because you think somehow you ought to be
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- Different, but you keep thinking the same way.
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- There's no transformation if you keep thinking the same way
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- About everything.
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- Your thinking should be governed by the word of god and the
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- Spirit of grace that's operating in your life.
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- He says when you change the way you think, then you will learn
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- To know god's will for you.
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- You--change the way you think, and you'll learn to know god's
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- Will for you.
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- Change the way you think, and you'll learn to know god's will
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- For you, which is good and it is pleasing and it is perfect, and
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- All of that stuff happens because you change the way
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- You think.
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- You line up with what god said about you.
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- You line up with what the word says about you.
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- The metamorphosis, the change, the transformation takes place,
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- And he says change the way you think, but you know how some
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- People are.
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- "ain't nothing wrong with the way i'm thinking.
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- I think the way i want to think.
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- I don't need no bible.
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- I just think what--it just--it is what it is.
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- I mean, you know," and, you know, it's like i read
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- This book.
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- I know how it's going to end.
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- When i see people in the church doing certain things, i'm
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- Thinking i've seen the movie.
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- I read the book.
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- I already know where this ends, okay?
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- It's not somebody trying to tell you what to do, it's not
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- Somebody trying to control you, but if you do not change the way
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- You think, you will not change.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Creflo: so what are some practical things
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- We need to do this week?
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- I'll give you practical stuff today too.
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- You need to daily remind yourself, i am god's beloved,
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- And i am worthy of his best.
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- Remind yourself in the morning, i am god's beloved, and i am
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- Worthy of god's best.
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- Say it out loud, "i'm god's beloved, and i am worthy of
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- God's best."
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- Not average, you're worthy of god's best, but religion has
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- Trained you, well, you can't be worthy of god's best because
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- Look at how you've been behaving and look at how you've
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- Been living.
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- No, you are worthy of god's best right now, and when you
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- Experience god's best, that's going to change some of the
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- Stuff you used to do, praise god.
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- You are worthy of god's best right now.
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- You don't have to settle for something that's not god's best.
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- You're worthy of god's best.
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- Say it again, "i'm worthy of god's best."
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- My god, i feel that thing.
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- I am worthy of god.
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- If anybody worthy of god's best, it's us.
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- Say it again, "i'm worthy of god's best."
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- So why would you settle for something that's not god's best?
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- You don't have to manipulate people.
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- You don't have to lie.
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- You don't have to do all of those things to, you know, where
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- You win and somebody loses.
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- Everybody can win.
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- We're all worthy of god's best, but god knows how he wired you,
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- God knows how he created you, and the best for you may not be
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- The best for me, but we're all worthy of god's best, and it's
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- Going to be in sync with your wiring, in sync with your
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- Purpose, in sync with the will of god for your life.
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- I'm not gonna--just 'cause a little something happen, and,
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- You know, i'm like, "well, praise the lord.
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- God did that."
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- No, i want his best, and every time something happens i got to
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- Ask, is this god's best?
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- Lord, have mercy.
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- Number two, the second way to break free from settling for
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- Less, you got to identify where you've been settling.
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- In every issue, every progress, every progression, you've got to
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- Locate yourself.
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- Identify where you've settled.
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- Now, this is challenging right here.
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- I'm asking you to identify where you've settled, where you've
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- Settled, and be honest with yourself.
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- Have you settled where relationships are concerned?
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- Have you settled in that area of relationships?
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- You're getting ready to get married, and you're not
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- Particularly in love with this person.
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- Y'all know what i'm saying, it's true.
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- But you're settling for that person because, "hey, at least i
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- Got somebody."
- 00:15:04.483 --> 00:15:06.585
- You're settling.
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- You're settling.
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- You're settling for less.
- 00:15:10.756 --> 00:15:12.925
- I mean to tell you when i asked god i want a wife with big
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- Pretty legs, i was not going to marry no chicken leg lady.
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- [congregation laughing]
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- Creflo: and when i saw them big pretty legs at bible study,
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- I had to close my eyes, 'cause i thought
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- The spirit of lust was going to come up,
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- 'cause i'm like, look at-- whoa, god, and i said--
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- I closed my eyes.
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- I was rebuking, just rebuke lust.
- 00:15:36.382 --> 00:15:37.950
- I rebuke you in the name of jesus, and god was like, "open
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- Your eyes up, i'm trying to show you what you've been praying
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- For," but lots of people have settled for less, and when you
- 00:15:42.087 --> 00:15:47.359
- Settle for less you just became a part of making somebody else's
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- Life miserable, because you were the best for her, but she wasn't
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- The best for you, and you ought not to do that.
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- Have you settled for less in relationships?
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- Have you settled for less in business relationships?
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- You got some guy who might be smart in one area but dumb as a
- 00:16:05.944 --> 00:16:08.714
- Nail in another area?
- 00:16:08.714 --> 00:16:11.617
- Where have you settled?
- 00:16:11.617 --> 00:16:14.887
- Is that god's best?
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- I know she was--taffi is god's best for me.
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- I didn't need nobody like me.
- 00:16:21.994 --> 00:16:23.462
- Oh, child, it'd have been crazy up in there.
- 00:16:23.462 --> 00:16:26.732
- I needed somebody opposite of me, somebody that could see me,
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- 'cause i wasn't willing to look at myself.
- 00:16:32.704 --> 00:16:36.742
- I asked taffi to marry me the first time, you know what she
- 00:16:36.742 --> 00:16:38.610
- Said, "no."
- 00:16:38.610 --> 00:16:40.813
- I says, "what?
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- How do you figure you ain't gonna say yes to romeo," right?
- 00:16:43.615 --> 00:16:50.222
- She said, "baby, you still living at home with your mama,
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- Driving your mama's car, and making."
- 00:16:52.191 --> 00:16:54.993
- She said, "ask me again later."
- 00:16:54.993 --> 00:16:58.297
- See, she wasn't willing to settle.
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- She had some non-negotiables.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Creflo: why do you settle? why do you settle?
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- And let's get away from just that intimate relationship.
- 00:17:10.075 --> 00:17:12.277
- Why do you settle for friends that make you feel bad?
- 00:17:12.277 --> 00:17:16.782
- Why are you hanging around somebody who they make you feel
- 00:17:19.585 --> 00:17:22.454
- Bad every time you go around 'em?
- 00:17:22.454 --> 00:17:24.356
- You feel inferior.
- 00:17:24.356 --> 00:17:26.458
- You feel less than.
- 00:17:26.458 --> 00:17:28.961
- You're in toxicity.
- 00:17:28.961 --> 00:17:30.295
- They don't like you until it's time to go get something to eat,
- 00:17:30.295 --> 00:17:32.030
- And then they know you're going to pay for everything.
- 00:17:32.030 --> 00:17:36.702
- Where have you settled?
- 00:17:36.702 --> 00:17:38.737
- Where have you settled?
- 00:17:40.172 --> 00:17:41.807
- "well, at least i got somebody to talk to somebody."
- 00:17:41.807 --> 00:17:43.709
- Listen, it's best--it is really--i was listening to this
- 00:17:43.709 --> 00:17:47.713
- Little seminar the other day about the power of boredom, and
- 00:17:47.713 --> 00:17:52.050
- I thought this is interesting, the power of boredom, and the
- 00:17:52.050 --> 00:17:55.854
- Point was we spent so much time trying to stay busy that once we
- 00:17:55.854 --> 00:17:59.825
- Get to that place of just quietness and being bored, we
- 00:17:59.825 --> 00:18:03.228
- Can't benefit from it because we gotta do something.
- 00:18:03.228 --> 00:18:05.364
- Let me pick the phone up, or let me read this, or let me do that,
- 00:18:05.364 --> 00:18:08.534
- And god's trying to really show you something, but he can't
- 00:18:08.534 --> 00:18:12.104
- Because you're already occupied.
- 00:18:12.104 --> 00:18:14.540
- You're always occupied with something.
- 00:18:14.540 --> 00:18:16.675
- You got busy stuff going on all the time so he can't say
- 00:18:16.675 --> 00:18:19.845
- Nothing, 'cause you bored.
- 00:18:19.845 --> 00:18:24.183
- Sit in it and come out with something that's so amazing that
- 00:18:24.183 --> 00:18:29.054
- You would have never gotten because you finally got quiet.
- 00:18:29.054 --> 00:18:32.958
- There's a quietness thats has an anointing with it.
- 00:18:32.958 --> 00:18:35.794
- There's a still--be still.
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- Be still and know.
- 00:18:37.563 --> 00:18:39.331
- Be still and know.
- 00:18:39.398 --> 00:18:41.400
- Where have you settled?
- 00:18:44.002 --> 00:18:46.171
- Shouldn't be in relationships.
- 00:18:46.171 --> 00:18:49.341
- Shouldn't be in a relationship.
- 00:18:49.341 --> 00:18:51.176
- Being by yourself, that ain't--that's not a
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- Horrible thing.
- 00:18:53.145 --> 00:18:55.047
- In fact, you'll come to enjoy it,
- 00:18:55.047 --> 00:18:58.750
- Especially when you're tired of somebody.
- 00:18:58.750 --> 00:19:00.152
- "hey, what you doing? i'm gonna come over."
- 00:19:00.152 --> 00:19:01.620
- No, don't come over. no, i just put my pajamas on.
- 00:19:01.620 --> 00:19:05.624
- Don't come over here now. not now, not today.
- 00:19:05.624 --> 00:19:09.194
- Not now, devil. you start calling 'em the devil.
- 00:19:09.194 --> 00:19:11.196
- Don't come over here now, devil. the devil is a lie.
- 00:19:11.196 --> 00:19:14.666
- I'm fittin' to nod. i'm tired.
- 00:19:14.666 --> 00:19:17.703
- Okay, let me move on.
- 00:19:17.703 --> 00:19:19.104
- Have you settled in your career?
- 00:19:19.104 --> 00:19:22.074
- Have you settled in your career?
- 00:19:22.140 --> 00:19:26.178
- That career that god has revealed to you, the reason why
- 00:19:26.178 --> 00:19:29.214
- He wired you, and you settled for something other than what is
- 00:19:29.214 --> 00:19:34.987
- God's best for you?
- 00:19:34.987 --> 00:19:37.222
- You settled for a career because it was the easiest path to
- 00:19:37.222 --> 00:19:41.627
- A paycheck.
- 00:19:41.627 --> 00:19:44.396
- You settled for a career that you don't even like, but you're
- 00:19:44.396 --> 00:19:50.435
- Married and you got kids, and oh well, wow.
- 00:19:50.435 --> 00:19:57.075
- Settle for less instead of god's best.
- 00:19:57.075 --> 00:20:01.613
- You can have god's best, but you settle for less.
- 00:20:01.613 --> 00:20:05.817
- So we're locating where we settled.
- 00:20:05.817 --> 00:20:07.386
- Is it in our career?
- 00:20:07.386 --> 00:20:08.720
- Is it in relationship?
- 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:10.088
- Is it in spiritual growth?
- 00:20:10.088 --> 00:20:12.624
- This is so amazing to me.
- 00:20:12.624 --> 00:20:13.992
- I meet people who have this idea that they have done all the
- 00:20:13.992 --> 00:20:18.630
- Growing that they need to grow, and they're children.
- 00:20:18.630 --> 00:20:25.971
- They're babies.
- 00:20:25.971 --> 00:20:28.273
- Well, how do you know if somebody's a baby?
- 00:20:28.273 --> 00:20:29.608
- Well, how do you know if somebody's grown?
- 00:20:29.608 --> 00:20:31.076
- It's not 'cause of what they know.
- 00:20:31.076 --> 00:20:33.578
- You can't measure spiritual maturity by the amount of
- 00:20:33.578 --> 00:20:38.984
- Intellectual stuff you have in your head.
- 00:20:38.984 --> 00:20:42.654
- The way to really find out if somebody's mature is when you
- 00:20:42.654 --> 00:20:47.159
- Have an opportunity to see the fruit of the spirit come out
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- Of them.
- 00:20:49.328 --> 00:20:50.862
- You still getting mad.
- 00:20:50.862 --> 00:20:52.197
- You still getting offended.
- 00:20:52.197 --> 00:20:53.565
- You still holding on to stuff.
- 00:20:53.565 --> 00:20:54.900
- You still don't know how to operate in the vocabulary of
- 00:20:54.900 --> 00:20:57.769
- The silence.
- 00:20:57.769 --> 00:20:59.104
- You still--you're a baby.
- 00:20:59.104 --> 00:21:01.206
- The bible talks about, you know, those who are not skillful in
- 00:21:01.206 --> 00:21:04.009
- The word of righteousness, they're still on milk.
- 00:21:04.009 --> 00:21:08.413
- Have you settled for milk?
- 00:21:08.413 --> 00:21:11.283
- Have you settled with coming to church only to hear what you
- 00:21:11.283 --> 00:21:14.686
- Already know?
- 00:21:14.686 --> 00:21:17.923
- Do you not go before god and say, "lord, teach me something.
- 00:21:17.923 --> 00:21:20.392
- Show me something.
- 00:21:20.392 --> 00:21:21.727
- Show me something i don't know."
- 00:21:21.727 --> 00:21:23.095
- Have you settled for the cheaper instead of the deeper?
- 00:21:23.095 --> 00:21:28.734
- So a lot of people have settled where spiritual growth
- 00:21:28.734 --> 00:21:30.569
- Is concerned.
- 00:21:30.569 --> 00:21:31.937
- "i'm not interested in growing.
- 00:21:31.937 --> 00:21:33.271
- I want to come to church and hear what i already know.
- 00:21:33.271 --> 00:21:35.006
- I'm not interested in finding out if this is really what
- 00:21:35.006 --> 00:21:37.442
- It said.
- 00:21:37.442 --> 00:21:38.810
- I don't want to get in no bible.
- 00:21:38.810 --> 00:21:40.145
- I don't want to open no scriptures up.
- 00:21:40.145 --> 00:21:42.647
- Preach your message so we can go home," 'cause you think that
- 00:21:42.647 --> 00:21:45.617
- Coming to church is transactional.
- 00:21:45.617 --> 00:21:47.386
- "if i come to church, then god will do some goody-goody-goody
- 00:21:47.386 --> 00:21:49.988
- Thing for me."
- 00:21:49.988 --> 00:21:51.456
- That ain't how that work, 'cause the major part is what i do when
- 00:21:51.456 --> 00:21:55.327
- I leave church.
- 00:21:55.327 --> 00:21:57.129
- Do you have a relationship with jesus on a day-to-day basis, or
- 00:21:57.129 --> 00:22:00.432
- Is this the sum total of it?
- 00:22:00.432 --> 00:22:03.368
- So the body of christ is filled with spiritual immaturity, and i
- 00:22:03.368 --> 00:22:10.776
- Know what i'm talking about there, because i look back and
- 00:22:10.776 --> 00:22:13.478
- I'm like, man, had i been more mature at this time,
- 00:22:13.478 --> 00:22:16.014
- I could have handled that better.
- 00:22:16.014 --> 00:22:18.617
- That was not the best version of myself, because i was not more--
- 00:22:18.617 --> 00:22:21.653
- And i didn't realize that spiritual maturity would be
- 00:22:21.653 --> 00:22:24.556
- Identified in the fruit of the spirit that flows through me.
- 00:22:24.556 --> 00:22:27.125
- Man, i tell you what, to pray for your enemies on a day to day
- 00:22:30.462 --> 00:22:33.532
- And ask god to bless them, to shut your tongue up when you
- 00:22:33.532 --> 00:22:37.569
- Want to let somebody have it and cuss them out in french,
- 00:22:37.569 --> 00:22:44.976
- That's maturity right there.
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- Creflo dollar ministries today, and if this ministry has blessed
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- You in any way, consider sowing a seed of any amount, and we
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- Will greatly appreciate it.
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- Thank you in advance for your support, and god bless you.
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- Male announcer: your financial donations into this ministry
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- Work all over the world to change countless lives.
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- If you'd like to support our efforts to save the lost,
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- You may call in or visit
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- Creflodollarministries.org today.
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- God bless you.
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- Male announcer: because of you creflo dollar ministries is
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- Providing a new understanding of grace and empowering change in
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- The lives of millions of people every day.
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- Thank you, partners and friends.
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- Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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- Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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- The preceding program was brought to you, in part, by the
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- Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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- ♪♪♪
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