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Creflo Dollar - The Danger Of Settling For Less (Part 2)

May 18, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The Danger Of Settling For Less (Part 2)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Danger Of Settling For Less (Part 2) | May 18, 2026
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  • Creflo: when you settle for less than god's best, it produce
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  • A--it produces a defeated mindset.
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  • Romans 8:37 in the niv--let me read this to you, romans 8:37
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  • In the niv.
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  • A defeated mindset, and most people are defeated in
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  • Their mind.
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  • Verse 37 says, "no, in all these things we are," what?
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  • "more than conquerors through him who loved us."
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  • There's nothing in your life that tries to conquer you where
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  • You don't have a greater ability to conquer it.
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  • Life should not be conquering you.
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  • He said, "in all these things we are more than conquerors," and
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  • Yet we're being conquered, conquered by fear, conquered by
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  • The circumstances and the systems of the world, conquered
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  • By the bad news, conquered by worry, conquered by pain,
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  • Conquered by unbelief.
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  • And all these things, he says, "we're more than conquerors."
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  • Settling says, "i'm a victim."
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  • Faith says, "i'm more than a conqueror."
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  • Now, you're gonna have to choose.
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  • Are you a victim, or are you more than a conqueror?
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  • Do you have that victim mentality, where if you just sit
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  • There for a moment and listen to somebody talk, they're always
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  • Playing the victim?
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  • And playing the victim is somebody that has this defeated
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  • Mindset, so i might as well go ahead and play the victim.
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  • And you say very clearly, "life is conquering me," and you tell
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  • Your story.
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  • And the danger in you settling for a defeated mindset is you
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  • Stop believing for god's best, and you live with low
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  • Expectations, and you normalize defeat.
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  • You live with low expectations, and you normalize defeat.
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  • I mean, how many of us get up in the morning and our expectations
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  • Are low?
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  • We just kinda keep doing what's safe.
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  • "you know, i don't wanna bother nobody.
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  • I don't want no trouble.
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  • Everything seem to be all right," but it's not all right
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  • Because you were created for a--to be everything god says
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  • You're supposed to be, right?
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  • And you don't need to, you know, compare yourself with somebody
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  • Else to determine where you are.
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  • You just got--you just need to find out what god wants you
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  • To do.
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  • You're not winning because you're trying to be like
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  • Some influencer.
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  • The holy spirit's the greatest influencer i know, and he will
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  • Put you in a position that you're supposed to be in, but
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  • You cannot normalize defeat.
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  • It's normal, you know?
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  • "hey, that's what happens."
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  • Get you a little cigarette.
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  • What happened?
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  • You got a little something to drink.
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  • What you're trying to do is numb the inside of you that's trying
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  • To say there's something greater about you, and you keep the
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  • Greater one suppressed.
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  • And you have these low expectations of yourself, and
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  • Part of it is is that somebody helped to plant that low
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  • Expectation on the inside of you.
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  • Maybe you grew up and somebody kept telling you, "you ain't
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  • Worth nothing.
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  • Who you think you are?
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  • You ain't gonna never be nothing.
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  • You never gonna get out of this situation.
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  • What make you think you're better than i am?"
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  • Those are demons that are feeding on your energy, your low
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  • Energy of low expectation, and you have to learn how to resist
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  • Every word, every thought, every demon, every devil.
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  • You gotta learn how to resist it all and just say, "no, that's
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  • Not me.
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  • I don't know who you think you talking about.
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  • I'm causing problems, but that's not me.
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  • That's not me.
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  • God's got something great."
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  • "what is it, then?"
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  • "i don't know, but i am in expectation, praise god, of
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  • Whatever it is he's wired me for and made me to be."
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  • Settling is dangerous because it denies the truth of who christ
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  • Made you.
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  • Christ made you, and he wired you a certain way.
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  • Grace doesn't say, "stay where you are."
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  • It doesn't say, "tolerate the less."
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  • It doesn't say, "accept the abuse."
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  • Christ doesn't say, "accept the abuse."
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  • Don't accept the verbal abuse.
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  • Don't accept the physical abuse.
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  • Don't accept the--any kind of abuse.
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  • That's--grace doesn't say, "accept abuse," but grace says,
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  • "i want you to rise up into who you already are in him."
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  • We're not talking about waiting until he does something
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  • With you.
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  • We rise up to who we already are, just waking up to who we
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  • Already are.
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  • We are already righteous.
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  • We are already victorious.
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  • We're already beloved of the father.
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  • We're the apple of his eye.
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  • We're all--we're--just wake up to who you already are.
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  • You're a child of god.
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  • You're kings and queens, and you gotta wake up to who you
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  • Already are.
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  • You're healed. you're prosperous.
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  • You're victorious.
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  • You're living in super abundant life.
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  • Who told you that you ain't nothing?
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  • Who told you that you're gonna be stuck in that ditch all
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  • Your life?
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  • Who told you that you ain't gonna never be nothing?
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  • Who told you you're gonna have to be--you're gonna be like
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  • That defeated uncle or that defeated father, that
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  • Defeated mother?
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  • Who told you you're gonna get pregnant like everybody else?
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  • Who told you these things?
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  • It's like the same thing with adam and eve when they go around
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  • And they went and hid themselves.
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  • They went and hid themselves, and god was like, "who told you?
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  • Who you been talking to?"
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  • And if who you've been talking to got you believing this, you
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  • Need to find somebody else to talk to.
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  • Don't settle for that.
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  • Don't settle for that.
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  • And so as we begin to look at this--to me, i'm thinking,
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  • "well, there's a lot of things that we need to really
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  • Accomplish in this subject of settling."
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  • I thought about it, thought about it, been thinking about it
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  • For years, just a series on this because i keep seeing it over
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  • And over again.
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  • I see the temptations of the enemy to try to get me
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  • To settle.
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  • I can't.
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  • I just--i've tried.
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  • It's almost like trying to get me to think broke.
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  • I'm like, "i can't do it.
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  • I just--" or try to get me to think i'm gonna be defeated by
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  • This or that.
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  • I can't do it or--you got to train yourself in the things of
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  • God, right?
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  • So we've talked about the dangers of settling, and this is
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  • Always the issue of when it comes to each
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  • Person individually.
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  • "how do i know, pastor dollar, that i'm settling for less?
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  • Give me some clear examples so that i can know or at least put
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  • A watch out on when this thing comes to me and that i'm
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  • Settling for less."
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  • All right, number one, you silence your true desires.
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  • You convince yourself that you don't need what you really want
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  • Or what god has promised, so you silence your true desires.
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  • You ever been tempted in that area?
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  • "this is what i really desire.
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  • This is what i really see.
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  • This is what i aspire to do."
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  • And when you settle, you settle it.
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  • "nah, i'm good," and you're not.
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  • You're not.
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  • And when you find yourself silencing your true desires and
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  • Trying to convince yourself that you don't need what you really
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  • Want, that is a sign that you're settling, or maybe you settled.
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  • Number two--everybody on the bus?
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  • You stay in toxic or unfruitful relationships.
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  • You remain in toxic and unfruitful relationships,
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  • Tolerating mistreatment, tolerating dishonor, tolerating
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  • Exploitation just to avoid from being alone.
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  • And i'm telling you right now, when you stay in a toxic,
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  • Unfruitful relationship, you're settling.
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  • Think about what you're doing.
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  • You're staying in a toxic, unfruitful relationship because
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  • You don't wanna be alone.
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  • Think about that.
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  • Think about the enemy's been working on your mind, and you're
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  • Like, "you know, he might not be that much or she might not be
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  • That much, but at least i got somebody to hook up with on
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  • Christmas when it's cold outside."
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  • Like i told you last week, you better get a heavy blanket.
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  • Turn the heat up.
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  • You're settling.
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  • And most of the time when you settle for toxicity, you settle
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  • For a toxic relationship.
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  • Somebody says, "what do you--what exactly do you mean?"
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  • Well, in a relationship where every time you go out, you're
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  • Always paying for stuff.
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  • Every time you're with this person, you're always accepting
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  • The blame for stuff.
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  • It's never them.
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  • It's always you.
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  • And you know, with your sweet self, "well, i don't
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  • Mind paying.
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  • You know, at least i make more than he do."
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  • Well, you get--you need to get somebody who knows to how to--"
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  • That's a red flag.
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  • We're gonna talk about red flags in a minute.
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  • Think about that.
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  • Think about that.
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  • You're settling for an unhealthy, toxic, unfruitful
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  • Relationship that's never going to be anything.
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  • You see the signs, and as soon as he finds somebody else that
  • 00:12:36.802 --> 00:12:42.641
  • Will accept his or her toxicity, they're gonna leave you.
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  • And you have given that person your most valuable asset,
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  • Fooling around with this joker, fooling around with that woman.
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  • That woman don't care nothing about you being a
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  • Hardworking man.
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  • "where is your money?
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  • 'cause i got to get my hair done."
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  • And you're selling for her because she look good.
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  • You was--what?
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  • And bro, she don't--she's--she not--she know what she doing.
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  • You're settling for her, but she know how long she gonna
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  • Be there.
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  • Turn to your neighbor and say, "pastor keeping it real this
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  • Morning, y'all."
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  • Some of you looking at me strange--"well, where's
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  • The word?"
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  • This is the word that you need to hear.
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  • What are you talking about, "where's the word?"
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  • You want me to give you more scriptures?
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  • This is the word.
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  • This is the stuff i counsel.
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  • This is the stuff i talk to.
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  • This is stuff me and taffi pray about, like, "what the world?"
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  • And you act like that's the only woman ever.
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  • I know plenty of women looking for a good, hardworking, loving,
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  • Kind man, and she's not putting too much on your looks.
  • 00:14:06.892 --> 00:14:12.364
  • She figure if you act right, you'll start looking better.
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • I know there's some deep people out there talking about, "well,
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  • This is just not spiritual."
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  • That's your problem.
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  • You're so doggone spiritual you ain't no earthly good.
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  • Can't nobody listen to you because you're going around
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  • Settling while you're quoting scripture that you
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  • Don't believe.
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  • "well, i don't wanna hear all this," 'cause i'm talking
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  • About you.
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  • Number three, perfect timing, you compromise your values.
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  • You're settling.
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  • You're a person that settles when you compromise your values,
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  • And how you do that, you lower your standards of integrity.
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  • You lower your standards of holiness.
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  • You lower your standards of self-respect to fit in or to
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  • Keep peace, either to fit in or to keep peace.
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  • I compromise to fit in or to keep peace, and everybody knows
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  • That whatever you compromise to keep, you're gonna lose.
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  • That's automatic.
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  • So identify the areas of compromise in your life, and i'm
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  • Telling you now, you're gonna lose it.
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  • Look at everything you're compromising to try to keep.
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  • You're gonna lose it.
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  • When you compromise your values just so you won't be by
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  • Yourself, just to keep respect, you compromise your values, you
  • 00:15:54.033 --> 00:15:57.870
  • Lower your standards of integrity, you lower your
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  • Standards of of holiness, you lower your standards
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  • Of self-respect.
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  • There ought to be something about you that has at least
  • 00:16:06.912 --> 00:16:09.281
  • Respect for yourself 'cause if you don't respect yourself, why
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  • Should you expect anybody else to respect you?
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  • Seriously, you don't respect yourself.
  • 00:16:21.026 --> 00:16:25.664
  • "well, you just don't know.
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  • I'm in love.
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  • I just--" and then you'll throw my words back at me.
  • 00:16:28.867 --> 00:16:31.804
  • "i found the one i can't be without."
  • 00:16:31.804 --> 00:16:35.474
  • But when you found her, she already decided she can be
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  • Without you.
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  • You're compromising, and that's the thing i want you to hear.
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  • You're gonna lose it anyway.
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  • That's what goes with compromise.
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  • Whatever you compromise to keep, you lose.
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  • It's a battle that's lost at the very beginning.
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  • Number four--here's a fourth sign that you're settling
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  • For less.
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  • You justify unhappiness.
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  • Wow.
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  • You ever met anybody like that?
  • 00:17:17.316 --> 00:17:18.884
  • They justify being unhappy.
  • 00:17:18.884 --> 00:17:24.223
  • You tell yourself, "this is just how life is."
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  • Well, you're not happy.
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  • "well, this is just how life is."
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  • I mean, even though you know it doesn't align with god's will,
  • 00:17:34.666 --> 00:17:39.071
  • You know that unhappiness doesn't align with god's will,
  • 00:17:39.071 --> 00:17:43.842
  • You still justify unhappiness.
  • 00:17:43.842 --> 00:17:49.281
  • God wants you to be happy, and you keep coming up
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  • With a justification of being unhappy.
  • 00:17:59.291 --> 00:18:04.663
  • You're settling.
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  • You're settling for the lemons that life is throwing at you.
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  • When god says, "i can take the lemons and turn them
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  • Into lemonade.
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  • I can take the tomatoes that have been thrown at you and make
  • 00:18:17.876 --> 00:18:20.312
  • A sauce," but you settle for the lemon, you settle for the
  • 00:18:20.312 --> 00:18:25.884
  • Tomatoes, and there's something greater.
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  • Here's the fifth sign that you're settling for less.
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  • This is big.
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  • You settle for stagnation.
  • 00:18:38.597 --> 00:18:40.566
  • In other words, there's no desire to want to get better.
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  • There's no desire for growth.
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  • You don't wanna be challenged.
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  • You don't wanna be stretched.
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  • You don't wanna stretch your faith, but you stay that way
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  • Because it feels--listen to this--safe.
  • 00:19:00.652 --> 00:19:05.190
  • It feels safe, so "i'm stagnant, but at least i'm safe.
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  • I won't stretch my faith, but at least i'm in a safe place."
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  • You think you're in a safe place?
  • 00:19:19.304 --> 00:19:21.940
  • "i don't wanna be challenged.
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  • I don't wanna grow.
  • 00:19:26.778 --> 00:19:28.146
  • I don't want any more growth.
  • 00:19:28.146 --> 00:19:29.481
  • I just--i'm in a safe place."
  • 00:19:29.481 --> 00:19:31.416
  • And that's the deception.
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  • You're not in a safe place.
  • 00:19:32.784 --> 00:19:36.154
  • You see, all of us have been put in a situation where god wants
  • 00:19:36.154 --> 00:19:40.592
  • Us to grow, to prepare to fulfill the purpose for
  • 00:19:40.592 --> 00:19:46.898
  • Our living.
  • 00:19:46.898 --> 00:19:49.868
  • He wired you to do something, but that wiring, like muscles,
  • 00:19:49.868 --> 00:19:56.541
  • Need to be conditioned and developed so that you can be
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  • Prepared to carry out successfully the mission for
  • 00:20:00.746 --> 00:20:05.250
  • Your life.
  • 00:20:05.250 --> 00:20:07.986
  • Settling for stagnation, that's not a safe place because there's
  • 00:20:07.986 --> 00:20:15.260
  • A place called "there" that's waiting on you to grow into
  • 00:20:15.260 --> 00:20:19.498
  • That place.
  • 00:20:19.498 --> 00:20:21.433
  • And you're not showing up because you don't want to be
  • 00:20:21.433 --> 00:20:24.136
  • Stretched, you don't want to grow, you don't want
  • 00:20:24.136 --> 00:20:26.905
  • Any challenges.
  • 00:20:26.905 --> 00:20:28.974
  • "i don't want any hard times," because we think being a
  • 00:20:28.974 --> 00:20:31.209
  • Christian is floating on a cloud and sipping on a slurpee or
  • 00:20:31.209 --> 00:20:35.514
  • Something like that.
  • 00:20:35.514 --> 00:20:36.882
  • That's not--that is not the will of god.
  • 00:20:36.882 --> 00:20:40.719
  • And here you got these three hebrew boys that are worshiping
  • 00:20:40.719 --> 00:20:44.122
  • God, and they're in a fiery furnace.
  • 00:20:44.122 --> 00:20:46.825
  • The intent was to burn them to a crisp alive.
  • 00:20:46.825 --> 00:20:52.264
  • But if god is using something to mature you, he will show up when
  • 00:20:52.264 --> 00:20:57.269
  • You need him in every test, in every situation that comes
  • 00:20:57.269 --> 00:21:01.973
  • That's leading to development and spiritual growth.
  • 00:21:01.973 --> 00:21:07.012
  • Are you listening to me?
  • 00:21:07.012 --> 00:21:11.149
  • Even at this particular time, i'm--this is still a prayer
  • 00:21:11.149 --> 00:21:14.152
  • Of mine.
  • 00:21:14.152 --> 00:21:15.487
  • "lord, help me not to deceive myself," because sometimes the
  • 00:21:15.487 --> 00:21:20.359
  • Biggest troubles we have in life is something that came as a
  • 00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:24.296
  • Result of our own self-deception.
  • 00:21:24.296 --> 00:21:26.365
  • We keep telling ourselves a story, and we start believing
  • 00:21:26.365 --> 00:21:29.201
  • The story we tell ourselves.
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  • I don't wanna do that.
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  • I want to look in the mirror, and i want to be able to
  • 00:21:33.071 --> 00:21:35.374
  • Confront who i really am, not what i wanna be, who i really am
  • 00:21:35.374 --> 00:21:43.482
  • First, and then ask the lord to help me to get to where i--where
  • 00:21:43.482 --> 00:21:47.486
  • You want me to be.
  • 00:21:47.486 --> 00:21:51.490
  • So many religious church games going on.
  • 00:21:51.490 --> 00:21:57.028
  • Number six--here's the sixth sign that you're settling.
  • 00:21:57.028 --> 00:22:01.933
  • You settle for survival mode, like i said before, always
  • 00:22:01.933 --> 00:22:05.804
  • Scraping, trying to get by, scraping by when jesus promised
  • 00:22:05.804 --> 00:22:13.779
  • Abundance, and you're still scraping.
  • 00:22:13.779 --> 00:22:17.649
  • "yeah, but dollar--but you don't understand.
  • 00:22:17.649 --> 00:22:19.885
  • You know, some people just got to scrape."
  • 00:22:19.885 --> 00:22:21.686
  • Not those who embrace what jesus said.
  • 00:22:21.686 --> 00:22:28.326
  • Now, i'm not promising you millionaire status and mansions,
  • 00:22:28.326 --> 00:22:35.634
  • But i'm saying you ain't got to scrape.
  • 00:22:35.634 --> 00:22:39.538
  • People have a problem with that.
  • 00:22:39.538 --> 00:22:40.906
  • "well, you got to--" let me tell you something.
  • 00:22:40.906 --> 00:22:42.741
  • The world wants to keep you poor, the world wants to keep
  • 00:22:42.741 --> 00:22:47.345
  • You scraping, and that is not what jesus says.
  • 00:22:47.345 --> 00:22:51.016
  • He says, "there's better for you.
  • 00:22:51.016 --> 00:22:53.785
  • I can make it better for you.
  • 00:22:53.785 --> 00:22:56.288
  • You trust me, and you believe me.
  • 00:22:56.288 --> 00:22:58.590
  • Don't believe these demonic words.
  • 00:22:58.590 --> 00:23:03.128
  • You can do better.
  • 00:23:03.128 --> 00:23:04.496
  • You can be better.
  • 00:23:04.496 --> 00:23:05.831
  • You can live better."
  • 00:23:05.831 --> 00:23:08.266
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