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Creflo Dollar - The Consequences of Being Out of the Will of God

May 6, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The Consequences of Being Out of the Will of God
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Consequences of Being Out of the Will of God | May 6, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: in the new covenant, being out of his will
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  • Doesn't bring a curse, it brings correction, and it brings a loss
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  • Of the flow from god for the will of god for your life.
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  • There's a flow from god for the will of god for
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  • Everybody's life.
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  • There's something that flows from him.
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  • It's already done.
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  • The issue is, are you where you're supposed to be so you can
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  • Encounter what has already been finished for you?
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  • Creflo: 1 john 3:21.
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  • Here's the next thing you see when you step out of the will
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  • Of god.
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  • You see a loss of confidence and boldness.
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  • Are you as confident as you used to be?
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  • The boldness that you used to have.
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  • When you read a scripture, you're confident that, "that's
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  • For me.
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  • I am confident today that i am loaded with his benefits."
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  • Or do you find yourself kinda doubting it and wondering,
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  • "well, if god was really this and god was really that."
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  • Some--something that got in your head.
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  • Somebody's rented space in your mind.
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  • You've been listening to something that's caused you to
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  • Walk away from it.
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  • But when you are out of the will of god, he says, "beloved, if
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  • Your heart condemns us not.
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  • Then have your confidence towards god."
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  • So, what happens when you're walking in condemnation?
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  • What is this?
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  • You--at one time, you were completely free
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  • From condemnation.
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  • You receive the free gift of no condemnation and now you're
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  • Condemned all the time.
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  • Maybe it was a break up with someone that you thought you
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  • Were supposed to marry.
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  • Maybe it was rejection from a friend that you believed
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  • Everything they said about you, how they loved you and care for
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  • You, and they just left you.
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  • And you condemned yourself like it was you and you never would
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  • Have thought, never, never, and we need to think like this, if
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  • That happens, god must have knew something that i didn't know.
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  • Do you know from god's eyes, rejection can be a blessing?
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  • Somebody says, "wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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  • Somebody rejecting you?"
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  • When god kicked adam and eve out of the garden, that was an act
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  • Of love.
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  • He kicked him out of the garden so that sin would not continue
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  • To be, because if they'd--if they'd ate out of the--off the
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  • Tree of the--of life, we'd have no hope.
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  • He kicked them out of the garden.
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  • That was an act of love.
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  • You can't see like god can.
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  • And when you don't understand certain things, you're just
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  • Gonna have to learn how to trust him.
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  • I trust that maybe you didn't want that to happen.
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  • Maybe you got engaged, and that's painful.
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  • You got engaged.
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  • You told the whole family you're getting ready to get married,
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  • And he left.
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  • That was painful.
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  • And you're going around, "why god?
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  • Why?"
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  • God did you a favor, you don't even know it.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • God did you a favor.
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  • You don't even know it.
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  • You're sitting up here whining about, you're going to be by
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  • Yourself and you tired of the cold mornings in december.
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  • Shoot, i want somebody to keep me warm too.
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  • You better buy one of them heavy blankets that make you
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  • Feel secure.
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  • See, first base, we got to learn how to be secure in who we are
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  • In christ jesus so we don't try to find our security in
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  • Somebody else.
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  • See, now we're talking about the grace life now.
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  • How to do it every day?
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  • And you just got to trust that, "god knew something that i don't
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  • Know right now.
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  • Okay, yeah, but lord, he had good hair.
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  • I was looking forward to my children having good hair."
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  • Child, you ought to--ought to--ought to thank god for
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  • A nappy-headed child, from a nappy-headed man that'll love
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  • You like christ loved the church, that's what you ought to
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  • Thank god for.
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  • Be in the will of god.
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  • We used to have a member of our church who wanted to minister,
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  • She said--she said--she used to say all the time, she said,
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  • "this is my husband.
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  • I know he's ugly, but i love this ugly man."
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  • And he'd be sitting up there grinning, "yeah, yeah, yeah."
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  • We need to give you some confidence or something.
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  • He was, you know what i mean.
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  • And the children were beautiful.
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  • You ever met that kind of thing?
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  • Like, how that happen? [congregation laughing]
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  • Where's your confidence?
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  • Where's your boldness?
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  • Where's your peace?
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  • Where's your joy?
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  • What happened to song in the spirit?
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  • What happened to acknowledge me in all of your ways and i want
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  • To direct your path so you won't end up having a train wreck
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  • And brokenhearted?
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  • Why does--why is it that some people seem to get wrapped up in
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  • The same situation that their mama got wrapped up in, that
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  • Their daddy got wrapped up in, that their--okay.
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  • And it's the same--it's like same thing, like the curse
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  • Still exists.
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  • You're not under a curse, you're under the blessing and god is
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  • Just trying to course correct.
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  • You're still flying, you're just going the wrong way.
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  • Just course correct.
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  • But sometimes our desires become greater in our mind than what
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  • God wants for us.
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  • And you can't see down the street around the corner behind
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  • The building, but god can see what's down the street behind
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  • The corner and around the building.
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  • And you might not understand why god got you doing this or that,
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  • Or you might not understand whatever situation
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  • That happened.
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  • Please understand me folks, offense, you getting offended
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  • And you have to get offended.
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  • I'm going to teach you on that, but you have to get offended.
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  • Can't nobody offend you, you have to take offense.
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  • And taking offense is a bait.
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  • Satan is baiting you from that offense comes bitterness, from
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  • That bitterness, like--there's a--a lot of little tricks,
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  • Because he knows the value of staying on course.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • John 15:4-5.
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  • [coughing]
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  • I need to--somebody like, "what's going on with--?"
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  • Been talking too much, been running my mouth too much.
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  • I need to go home this week and shut up.
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  • But i just get so excited about the things of god, i get to
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  • Talking and running my mouth and it'd be cold outside.
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  • One morning i tried to go out there and walk and i'm like,
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  • "dog, i'm cold."
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  • Turn the air conditioner on 69, "wake up.
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  • Where the cover?"
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  • Taffi got all the cover.
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  • "hey, share."
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • John 15:4-5: "abide in me."
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  • The word "abide" means to set up residences.
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  • And i'm going to set up resident or abide in you.
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  • Now watch this, "as the branch," somebody say, "i'm the branch."
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  • Congregation: i'm the branch..
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  • Creflo: as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it
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  • Abide in the vine; no more can you bear fruit, except you abide
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  • In me."
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  • And that's what this generation is about, trying to bear fruit
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  • Without him.
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  • Trying to produce fruit without him.
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  • That fruit's not going to last.
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  • Enjoy it while you can.
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  • You can't do nothing without him.
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  • And sometimes we take a step away from god.
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  • We get out of his will and we get into our own will, what
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  • We want.
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  • And we have the audacity to go to god and say, "can you
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  • Bless this?"
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  • He said, "no, if you'll get back to where you're supposed to be,
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  • It's already blessed."
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  • Did you hear me?
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  • It's already blessed.
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  • Unfruitfulness apart from abiding in christ is
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  • What happens.
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  • Romans chapter 12 and 2 shows you what happens when you get
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  • Out of the will of god.
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  • He says, "and be not conformed to this world."
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  • Don't be conformed to this world.
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  • When you are conforming to this world, you're out of the will of
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  • God, "but be transformed or be changed by the renewing of your
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  • Mind, that you can prove what is a good, acceptable and perfect,
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  • Will of god."
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  • And so, when you're out of his will, you are now conforming to
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  • The world.
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  • And you know what happens when you conform to the world?
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  • You get the world's confusion, the world's frustration, and
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  • There will be a lack of transformation going on in
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  • Your life.
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  • You go ahead and conform to the world.
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  • You go ahead and act like they're acting and say, i don't
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  • See nothing wrong with it, okay?
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  • And what happens is you notice in your life, you're frustrated
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  • All the time.
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  • There's so much confusion around you.
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  • You don't know whether to do this, or do that, or do this.
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  • And you'll also notice the transformation that god wants to
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  • Happen in your life from the inside out, it's not there.
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  • It's almost like you're going back to stuff that he delivered
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  • You out of.
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  • You cussing folks out just like you used to.
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  • I don't want to condemn nobody, that's not what i'm saying, but
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  • That's what happens when you conform to the world.
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  • The confusion, the frustration, the lack of transformation.
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  • You're not growing, you're not maturing.
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  • You're acting more like a baby than ever before because you are
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  • Out of the will of god and conforming to the world is out
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  • Of the will of god.
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  • So, while you're not being cursed, and while you're not
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  • Being destroyed, and while you're not gonna--you know,
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  • Death is not the sentence.
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  • All of these things happen because you're no longer on the
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  • Right course so that you can enjoy all of the finished works
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  • That jesus has given to you.
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  • Ephesians chapter 5, verse 15 through 17 in the niv, if you
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  • Pull that up.
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  • Ephesians 5:15-17 in the niv.
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  • This is very interesting here because, again, all of this is
  • 00:12:44.710 --> 00:12:48.814
  • About getting out of the will of god for your life.
  • 00:12:48.814 --> 00:12:54.854
  • In the niv, he says: "be very careful, then, how you live--not
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  • As unwise but as wise."
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  • He's telling us that.
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  • "making the most of every opportunity, because the days
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  • Are evil.
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  • Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the lord's
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  • Will is."
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  • So, this whole deal is, in these last days, know what the will of
  • 00:13:17.877 --> 00:13:22.848
  • God is for your life.
  • 00:13:22.848 --> 00:13:25.284
  • Because when you get out of the will of god, then what happens
  • 00:13:25.284 --> 00:13:29.555
  • Is you're going to face a bunch of foolishness.
  • 00:13:29.555 --> 00:13:35.361
  • You're going to have wasted opportunities out the will
  • 00:13:35.361 --> 00:13:38.230
  • Of god.
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  • Wasted opportunities.
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  • Opportunities that god had already set in the path that he
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  • Called you never happened because you're over here but the
  • 00:13:45.537 --> 00:13:49.675
  • Opportunity is there.
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  • I don't know how many times i've seen people--because they want
  • 00:13:52.411 --> 00:13:55.180
  • To do what they want to do, they want to move off their emotions.
  • 00:13:55.180 --> 00:13:58.684
  • The emotions are move--that's what emotions are, they are
  • 00:13:58.684 --> 00:14:01.220
  • Feelings that move you.
  • 00:14:01.220 --> 00:14:03.355
  • And if those emotions are negative, if you're moving out
  • 00:14:03.355 --> 00:14:05.925
  • Of negative emotions, those negative emotions are moving you
  • 00:14:05.925 --> 00:14:09.461
  • Away from the will of god for your life.
  • 00:14:09.461 --> 00:14:12.197
  • And there was an opportunity set.
  • 00:14:12.197 --> 00:14:15.834
  • God had designed it like a chess game.
  • 00:14:15.834 --> 00:14:18.203
  • He put that person here, put that person here, put that here,
  • 00:14:18.203 --> 00:14:21.373
  • That person was going to get you here, going to get you there,
  • 00:14:21.373 --> 00:14:24.043
  • Going to get you there and you were going to be happy because
  • 00:14:24.043 --> 00:14:26.679
  • That was your wiring.
  • 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:28.047
  • But you stepped away because you couldn't see it yet.
  • 00:14:28.047 --> 00:14:35.854
  • Wasted opportunities.
  • 00:14:35.854 --> 00:14:39.959
  • Spiritual dullness.
  • 00:14:39.959 --> 00:14:43.028
  • All those things happen.
  • 00:14:43.028 --> 00:14:44.363
  • So the point is, in the new covenant, being out of his will
  • 00:14:44.363 --> 00:14:48.400
  • Doesn't bring a curse, it brings correction, and it brings a loss
  • 00:14:48.400 --> 00:14:53.172
  • Of the flow from god for the will of god for your life.
  • 00:14:53.172 --> 00:14:58.510
  • There's a flow from god for the will of god for
  • 00:14:58.510 --> 00:15:02.281
  • Everybody's life.
  • 00:15:02.281 --> 00:15:03.615
  • There's something that flows from him.
  • 00:15:03.615 --> 00:15:05.417
  • It's already done.
  • 00:15:05.417 --> 00:15:07.386
  • The issue is, are you where you're supposed to be so you can
  • 00:15:07.386 --> 00:15:12.291
  • Encounter what has already been finished for you.
  • 00:15:12.291 --> 00:15:17.529
  • Let's go to elijah in 1 kings chapter 17, 2 through 7.
  • 00:15:17.529 --> 00:15:24.837
  • Elijah, 1 king 17:2-7.
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  • I want us to really look at this.
  • 00:15:28.007 --> 00:15:29.575
  • This is--this is really--this is an example of this stuff.
  • 00:15:29.575 --> 00:15:34.413
  • "and the word of the lord came onto elijah, here's what it
  • 00:15:34.413 --> 00:15:38.283
  • Said, get thee hence."
  • 00:15:38.283 --> 00:15:41.887
  • Now, when god tells you to get thee hence, get hints.
  • 00:15:41.887 --> 00:15:47.526
  • All right?
  • 00:15:47.526 --> 00:15:49.194
  • "get thee hence, and turn thee eastward."
  • 00:15:49.194 --> 00:15:52.097
  • Look at these details.
  • 00:15:52.097 --> 00:15:54.600
  • I want you to move and i want you to go eastward.
  • 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:57.903
  • "hide yourself by the brook of cherith."
  • 00:15:57.903 --> 00:16:04.410
  • And he said that, "that's before jordan."
  • 00:16:04.410 --> 00:16:06.512
  • Look at 4: "and it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the
  • 00:16:06.512 --> 00:16:11.316
  • Brook; and i have commanded the ravens already."
  • 00:16:11.316 --> 00:16:19.124
  • Past tense, "i commanded them," past tense, "to feed you there."
  • 00:16:19.124 --> 00:16:28.233
  • The raven were commanded to feed you there.
  • 00:16:28.233 --> 00:16:32.604
  • Now, what if he decided not to show up to--i ain't going to
  • 00:16:32.604 --> 00:16:34.773
  • That brook, i'm going to the gulf of america.
  • 00:16:34.773 --> 00:16:42.848
  • [congregation laughing]
  • 00:16:42.848 --> 00:16:47.186
  • Oh, the gulf of mexico.
  • 00:16:47.186 --> 00:16:48.520
  • Oh, but they changed it to the gulf of america.
  • 00:16:48.520 --> 00:16:50.022
  • I'm not--i'm not sure.
  • 00:16:50.022 --> 00:16:51.356
  • I'm not sure.
  • 00:16:51.356 --> 00:16:53.092
  • But i'm not sure.
  • 00:16:53.092 --> 00:17:03.135
  • You see what we do?
  • 00:17:05.037 --> 00:17:06.371
  • He told you to go there and there, what he commanded will
  • 00:17:06.371 --> 00:17:10.342
  • Be there.
  • 00:17:10.342 --> 00:17:12.444
  • So the devil says, "i'm going to bait you.
  • 00:17:12.444 --> 00:17:14.146
  • I'm going to do something to get you from there to go over here."
  • 00:17:14.146 --> 00:17:19.985
  • And we especially see that with churches.
  • 00:17:19.985 --> 00:17:22.020
  • Just let somebody sing something you didn't like or let me say
  • 00:17:22.020 --> 00:17:24.723
  • Something that--"oh, i'm offended."
  • 00:17:24.723 --> 00:17:26.992
  • It's a test.
  • 00:17:26.992 --> 00:17:29.661
  • It's a test and then you go with your own personal criteria to
  • 00:17:29.661 --> 00:17:34.399
  • Find another place and you ain't never the same.
  • 00:17:34.399 --> 00:17:39.138
  • I meet people who are left here, they ain't the same.
  • 00:17:39.138 --> 00:17:41.173
  • They don't--they don't even look peaceful.
  • 00:17:41.173 --> 00:17:43.675
  • And they ain't the same, and i still love them.
  • 00:17:43.675 --> 00:17:46.445
  • And some of them--some of them i treat just like they're
  • 00:17:46.445 --> 00:17:48.380
  • Still here.
  • 00:17:48.380 --> 00:17:49.781
  • I still love them.
  • 00:17:49.781 --> 00:17:51.817
  • But i find out what's going on and you keep saying it's the
  • 00:17:51.817 --> 00:17:56.822
  • Devil trying you.
  • 00:17:56.822 --> 00:18:02.127
  • Honey, the devil is a defeated foe and you don't get it.
  • 00:18:02.127 --> 00:18:11.069
  • This is not about me or you, it's about is this church, the
  • 00:18:11.069 --> 00:18:17.910
  • Place called "there."
  • 00:18:17.910 --> 00:18:28.720
  • And we keep doing--playing that little spiritual game.
  • 00:18:28.787 --> 00:18:33.125
  • "well, the lord is now leading me to my next adventure."
  • 00:18:33.125 --> 00:18:35.761
  • You lying.
  • 00:18:35.761 --> 00:18:38.030
  • He leading you to your next adventure, but you can't figure
  • 00:18:38.030 --> 00:18:40.933
  • Out how to live life.
  • 00:18:40.933 --> 00:18:43.402
  • And in the right place, you know how to live life.
  • 00:18:43.402 --> 00:18:45.304
  • In the right place, you know how to pay your bills.
  • 00:18:45.304 --> 00:18:47.105
  • In the right place, you know how to do all kinds of stuff.
  • 00:18:47.105 --> 00:18:49.575
  • In the right place.
  • 00:18:49.575 --> 00:18:51.510
  • But you're not paying attention that something is not right.
  • 00:18:51.510 --> 00:18:54.913
  • You keep making excuses, you keep believing the story you're
  • 00:18:54.913 --> 00:18:57.616
  • Telling yourself.
  • 00:18:57.616 --> 00:19:02.821
  • "well, i don't agree with the grace message."
  • 00:19:02.821 --> 00:19:05.190
  • All of us had a problem with the grace message when it came out.
  • 00:19:05.190 --> 00:19:07.626
  • I did too.
  • 00:19:07.626 --> 00:19:09.695
  • I said, oh, but we trusted one another.
  • 00:19:09.695 --> 00:19:13.298
  • I'm just gonna hang in here.
  • 00:19:13.298 --> 00:19:15.100
  • Oh, i don't know, but i'm just gonna hang in here.
  • 00:19:15.100 --> 00:19:17.803
  • Oh, i don't know, but this is what god told me to be.
  • 00:19:17.803 --> 00:19:20.305
  • I'm gonna hang in here.
  • 00:19:20.305 --> 00:19:21.673
  • Aren't you glad you hung in here?
  • 00:19:21.673 --> 00:19:23.275
  • Aren't you glad you know what you know now?
  • 00:19:23.275 --> 00:19:25.377
  • I know i'm glad.
  • 00:19:25.377 --> 00:19:30.182
  • But i see them, they still at the same place.
  • 00:19:30.182 --> 00:19:34.152
  • Still having the same struggle.
  • 00:19:34.152 --> 00:19:36.488
  • Still got--i mean--i mean some of them and what was hurting
  • 00:19:36.488 --> 00:19:39.491
  • 20 years ago still hurting that same place.
  • 00:19:39.491 --> 00:19:43.929
  • I see the same thing with people on jobs.
  • 00:19:43.929 --> 00:19:46.832
  • God told him to teach, and they went and started real estate.
  • 00:19:46.832 --> 00:19:53.472
  • And you sold for the first week and ain't sold none since.
  • 00:19:53.472 --> 00:19:56.475
  • Because what god commanded was in that--in that school--that
  • 00:19:56.475 --> 00:19:59.711
  • School he told you to be in.
  • 00:19:59.711 --> 00:20:03.015
  • God so--told somebody to open up a beauty shop because people
  • 00:20:03.015 --> 00:20:07.252
  • Need to be beautified, you know.
  • 00:20:07.252 --> 00:20:12.257
  • The things you can do with hair these days.
  • 00:20:12.257 --> 00:20:15.961
  • And you decide, "i don't want, i'm gonna sell clothes, i don't
  • 00:20:15.961 --> 00:20:18.664
  • Want to do that.'
  • 00:20:18.664 --> 00:20:20.098
  • You keep expecting for the ravens to come over where you
  • 00:20:20.098 --> 00:20:24.002
  • Want to be instead of the ravens being where they were commanded
  • 00:20:24.002 --> 00:20:27.606
  • To be.
  • 00:20:27.606 --> 00:20:29.074
  • And you ain't being fed because the food is where you were told
  • 00:20:29.074 --> 00:20:32.844
  • To be and you over here where you want to be saying, "come on,
  • 00:20:32.844 --> 00:20:37.082
  • God, over here.
  • 00:20:37.082 --> 00:20:38.417
  • Come on.
  • 00:20:38.417 --> 00:20:39.785
  • Hey, hey, over here.
  • 00:20:39.785 --> 00:20:41.119
  • You're in the wrong place.
  • 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:42.487
  • I'm over here."
  • 00:20:42.487 --> 00:20:43.822
  • Well, just 'cause you're over there, don't mean i'm coming
  • 00:20:43.822 --> 00:20:45.724
  • Over there because i told you the place where the ravens were
  • 00:20:45.724 --> 00:20:48.860
  • Going to feed you.
  • 00:20:48.860 --> 00:20:50.228
  • I told you where that place was. [congregation applauding]
  • 00:20:50.228 --> 00:20:58.136
  • "i don't care what pastor does today, i'm still doing that."
  • 00:21:02.374 --> 00:21:05.477
  • You can because you're grown and grown folks get to do what
  • 00:21:05.477 --> 00:21:09.081
  • They want to do.
  • 00:21:09.081 --> 00:21:11.516
  • However, when your joy, peace, boldness, confidence, missing
  • 00:21:11.516 --> 00:21:18.690
  • Out on wisdom.
  • 00:21:18.690 --> 00:21:20.459
  • Wisdom, wisdom that god put you here to get that wisdom.
  • 00:21:20.459 --> 00:21:24.996
  • Stuff you never understood, he put you here so you can get
  • 00:21:24.996 --> 00:21:27.933
  • That wisdom.
  • 00:21:27.933 --> 00:21:31.403
  • And you had to go and work in a makeup shop because you enjoy
  • 00:21:31.403 --> 00:21:36.975
  • The hobby more than the job.
  • 00:21:36.975 --> 00:21:40.412
  • And some of y'all, that ain't no business you got, that's
  • 00:21:40.412 --> 00:21:42.180
  • A hobby.
  • 00:21:42.180 --> 00:21:43.515
  • Well, how do you know it's a hobby?
  • 00:21:43.515 --> 00:21:44.883
  • Can you pay your light bill?
  • 00:21:44.883 --> 00:21:46.218
  • Can you pay your gas bill?
  • 00:21:46.218 --> 00:21:47.552
  • Can you--because god gives you provisions
  • 00:21:47.552 --> 00:21:49.955
  • To take care of yourself.
  • 00:21:49.955 --> 00:21:51.957
  • Some--you--you're not asking, you're not asking the
  • 00:21:51.957 --> 00:21:54.426
  • Right question.
  • 00:21:54.426 --> 00:21:55.761
  • "am i where i'm supposed to be?"
  • 00:21:55.761 --> 00:21:58.630
  • "lord, i don't know why i can't pay my bills.
  • 00:21:58.630 --> 00:22:00.265
  • Where, where am i supposed to be?
  • 00:22:00.265 --> 00:22:02.434
  • My bills are already paid.
  • 00:22:02.434 --> 00:22:03.769
  • I just need to find that place called "there," where my bills
  • 00:22:03.769 --> 00:22:06.705
  • Are paid.
  • 00:22:06.705 --> 00:22:08.573
  • Y'all don't--y'all don't hear what i'm saying.
  • 00:22:08.573 --> 00:22:10.175
  • You're busy trying to come up with another excuse for things.
  • 00:22:10.175 --> 00:22:18.450
  • And i ain't gonna let you do it.
  • 00:22:18.450 --> 00:22:19.785
  • I'm gonna keep teaching it, teaching, teaching, teaching
  • 00:22:19.785 --> 00:22:21.253
  • Until you just go somewhere.
  • 00:22:21.253 --> 00:22:23.088
  • I'm gonna still be at the place.
  • 00:22:23.088 --> 00:22:25.090
  • I don't have that luxury.
  • 00:22:25.090 --> 00:22:26.725
  • If i walk out of the place called "there," i could be dead
  • 00:22:26.725 --> 00:22:31.229
  • The next month.
  • 00:22:31.229 --> 00:22:37.836
  • A place called "there."
  • 00:22:37.836 --> 00:22:40.372
  • "i just don't know why this happened.
  • 00:22:40.372 --> 00:22:42.207
  • I just don't know why that happened.
  • 00:22:42.207 --> 00:22:43.742
  • I just don't understand."
  • 00:22:43.742 --> 00:22:47.212
  • I just keep my mouth closed and i look at them and say, "well,
  • 00:22:47.212 --> 00:22:56.822
  • It's something.
  • 00:22:56.822 --> 00:22:58.156
  • You need to find out what it is, so it don't keep happening.'
  • 00:22:58.156 --> 00:23:01.560
  • And most of the time, it's because we rejected.
  • 00:23:01.560 --> 00:23:08.033
  • That place called, "there."
  • 00:23:08.033 --> 00:23:12.404
  • Which brings me to a point.
  • 00:23:12.404 --> 00:23:14.473
  • In order for me to make sure i'm in a place called "there,"
  • 00:23:14.473 --> 00:23:17.309
  • I can't do that in my own natural ability.
  • 00:23:17.309 --> 00:23:19.878
  • I have to have the holy spirit leading and guiding me and
  • 00:23:19.878 --> 00:23:26.017
  • Directing my life on a day-to-day basis.
  • 00:23:26.017 --> 00:23:28.954
  • Out of my belly shall flow rivers of living water.
  • 00:23:28.954 --> 00:23:31.957
  • So, jesus is my brook.
  • 00:23:31.957 --> 00:23:33.492
  • Oh, y'all hear me.
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  • Creflodollar.org and click e-store.
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  • Creflo: i pray that this broadcast blessed you today.
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  • I want you to pray about sowing a financial seed into
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  • This ministry.
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  • I also want to extend a special thanks to those of you who have
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  • Remained our loyal partners, supporters, and friends.
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  • Your financial support goes a long, long way.
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  • Your donations help equip us with what we need to send this
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  • Broadcast all over the world, and when you give to this
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  • Ministry, you partner with us to reach people everywhere who are
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  • Hurting and in need of the revelation of god's grace
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  • And love.
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  • Announcer: if god has placed it on your heart to support the
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  • Vision of this ministry to reach the world with the gospel of
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  • Grace, you may call in to make your financial donations, or log
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  • On to creflodollarministries.org.
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  • God bless you.
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  • 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
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  • The partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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