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Creflo Dollar - The Dangers of Settling For Less (Part 2)

May 15, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The Dangers of Settling For Less (Part 2)
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  • Creflo: we're gonna continue our series on settling for less, or
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  • What we need to make sure we do so we don't settle for less, and
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  • Today's gonna help you out a lot.
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  • We're gonna talk to you about how to know if you are settling.
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  • You know, it's one thing to listen to a teaching, but i
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  • Wanna bring it to where each of us are, "how do i know that
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  • I'm settling?
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  • How do i know that the teaching relates to me in some way
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  • Or another?"
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  • So we're talking about the dangers of settling, "the
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  • Dangers of settling for less," the dangers of settling for less
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  • Than what god has promised in his word.
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  • Okay, let's first of all give a definition for settling so we
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  • Can all be on the same page.
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  • Last week and this week is all about bringing about a level of
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  • Practicality, okay?
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  • I need you to understand it enough to be able to--for it to
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  • Be practical in your everyday living because this is holding
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  • A lot of people up.
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  • They settle.
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  • And to settle means to forfeit god's best, and you forfeit
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  • God's best by clinging to the less.
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  • You forfeit god's best by clinging to the less, and god
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  • Has the best for you.
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  • And we wanna embrace god's best, but when you settle and don't
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  • Even know that you're settling for less, you forfeit god's best
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  • In order to cling to something that's less.
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  • And i want you to really look at yourselves this morning and ask
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  • Yourself the question, "have i been clinging to the less and in
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  • Some kind of way i've been forfeiting god's best for me?"
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  • Okay?
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  • And then--so last week we started talking about the
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  • Dangers of settling for less.
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  • We talked about, number one, you know, when you settle you
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  • Distort your identity in christ, all right, and then you
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  • Believe--as a believer you forget who you are in christ and
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  • You start tolerating what doesn't belong to you.
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  • You start tolerating things that's just not you anymore.
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  • That's what happens when you settle here.
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  • Secondly, we talked about settling accepts bondage instead
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  • Of freedom.
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  • God's given you freedom, but when you settle, you'll find
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  • That you're accepting bondage.
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  • The third area we talked about last week was settling opens
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  • Doors for compromise and you begin to declare, "it is what it
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  • Is, and i am what i am."
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  • You settle, and that's not the will of god for your life.
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  • And then we left off at settling for compromise.
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  • I wanna start this morning and--on number four, the fourth
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  • Danger of settling for less, number four, and we begin here
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  • This morning.
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  • When you settle, it robs you of god's abundant life.
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  • When you settle, it robs you of god's abundant life.
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  • I believe the word.
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  • I know you believe the word.
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  • You believe what god's promised you, but life is--it throws
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  • A lot at you.
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  • It throws a whole bunch at you, and the bible is the manual of
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  • Instructions to show you how to do life rather to be in
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  • Done life.
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  • See, we know how to do church, but we don't know how to do
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  • Life, you know, and we've got to learn how to do that.
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  • And so john chapter 10 and verse 10 says, "the thief comes to
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  • Kill, steal, and destroy; but i have come that you might have
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  • Life, and have it more abundantly."
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  • How many of you know jesus doesn't lie?
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  • He says, "i've come so you can have life and have abundantly."
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  • And people are always asking the question, "well, you know,
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  • Where's abundant life for me?
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  • How come this didn't happen for me?
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  • Why did that bad thing happen to me?
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  • How come i didn't get this?
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  • How come that didn't work out?"
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  • We have all these questions and i'm telling you somewhere in
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  • Your life you have settled.
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  • When you deal with this issue of jesus saying, "my best is
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  • Abundant life--" settling is about surviving, but abundant
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  • Life is about thriving.
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  • I don't want you to survive life, i want you to thrive.
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  • And when your day comes where you're getting ready to pass on,
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  • I want you to have a closing statement and i want it to sound
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  • Something like this: "what a ride."
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  • Right?
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  • I want you to know there's something better than where you
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  • Are right now.
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  • Jesus has a pro--has promised me abundant life and i settle for
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  • Average, i settle for mediocre.
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  • I settle for all of the threats and the plans of the devil when
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  • There still exists this promise that jesus said, "i came so you
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  • Can have this kind of life," and we settled for the other kind
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  • Of life.
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  • We settle for surviving instead of thriving.
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  • So now the danger of you settling for the less in this
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  • Area is instead of walking in the more-than-enough life as
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  • A believer you live in lack.
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  • You live in lack emotionally.
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  • Think about that.
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  • You live in lack emotionally.
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  • Your emotions are controlling your life.
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  • Your emotions are moving you in one direction and
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  • Another direction.
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  • You experience lack spiritually and you experience lack
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  • Relationally all because you decided to settle for
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  • Surviving life rather than thriving in it.
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  • Emotions are impacted because of that decision.
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  • Spiritually it's impacted because of that decision, and
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  • Even in relationships.
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  • And these things i'm talking about are things i hear people
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  • Complaining about all the time.
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  • "these are problems i have, and i don't know why god this and i
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  • Don't know why god that."
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  • And that's why i wanted to teach this series because i really
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  • Wanted to bring it face to face.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, it's not god.
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  • You have settled, and i don't want you to be like that.
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  • Okay, number five, the fifth danger of settling.
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  • When you settle, settling makes you vulnerable to exploitation.
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  • Settling makes you vulnerable to exploitation.
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  • Exploitation is like when somebody's treating you unfair
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  • In order to benefit from your work.
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  • You're being treated unfair while they benefit from
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  • Your work.
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  • It's making use of a situation to gain an unfair advantage
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  • For oneself.
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  • Are you being exploited all--you know, just so you can have some
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  • Friends or somebody to talk to?
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  • You will allow yourself to be exploited, taken advantage of
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  • While somebody else is benefiting for what you have.
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  • You settle and you allow you--that makes me sad.
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  • You settle and you let people exploit you and treat you like
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  • A doormat.
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  • Let me show you what it says in proverbs 29, verse 25 in
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  • The niv.
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  • Proverbs 29 and verse 25.
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  • And my message is clear this morning.
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  • No more settling. no more settling.
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  • I mean, it's--i could settle for average, but i'm just--i'm not
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  • Gonna do it.
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  • "well, why don't pastor chill?"
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  • No, i'm not settling, okay?
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  • I'm not doing it.
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  • "well, we just--we're gonna get a pastor one day that chills."
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  • He'll be somebody that's settled, and you're
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  • Gonna--you're not gonna like him as much as you like me because
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  • I'm not settling.
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  • I don't--i'm not settling.
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  • I--it may take a while.
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  • I'll just keep going at it, keep saying the same thing.
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  • The choir was singing one sunday when we first started our church
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  • And they sound bad and i'm like settled.
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  • I said, "you all are fired right now.
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  • Don't even worry about singing anymore.
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  • Go away."
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  • 'cause why have a rehearsal and then come and sing like you
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  • Didn't have a rehearsal?
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  • Not settling for that.
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  • "oh, praise the lord.
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  • We appreciate your time."
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  • I appreciate your time, but i don't wanna hear you no more.
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  • "well, that's mean."
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  • No, that's a guy who won't settle.
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  • 'cause you can do things--you can do everything in a nice way.
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  • You can do things in love and you can--but you don't--you're
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  • Not supposed to settle.
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  • You're not gonna settle.
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  • My father never did settle.
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  • I'd go out there and cut the grass and it's half cut.
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  • He'd go, "do it again."
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  • I'm like, "well, what do you mean?"
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  • "well, you know, you forgot to edge up the--" "what?
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  • Nobody really does that, dad."
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  • "you do. go."
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  • Now, this is not 3 o'clock in the morning, this is 2 o'clock
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  • In the morning.
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  • Look at what he says.
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  • He said, "fear of man will prove to be," a trap or, "a snare, but
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  • Whoever trusts in the lord is kept safe."
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  • So notice you got a choice: the fear of man, which will prove to
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  • Be a trap, or your trust in god.
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  • Settling says yes to mistreatment out of fear.
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  • Are you being mistreated out of--you know, out of fear
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  • You're--mistreatment that comes out of fear: the fear of losing
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  • A friend, the fear of somebody not liking you, the fear of what
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  • They're gonna think about you.
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  • And you settle to be mistreated because you're afraid you're
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  • Gonna lose something?
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  • So you're taking the less over the best and yet the scripture
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  • Is saying here faith says no exploitation because you're
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  • Secure in god.
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  • "i'm secure in god. i'm secure in god.
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  • If you must leave me, go.
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  • I don't chase people.
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  • You do what you gotta do.
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  • I'm looking for somebody to hang around that's like sunshine,
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  • Not a cloud."
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  • God's gonna take care of you.
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  • I used to think--let me see when it was.
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  • I think i was a teenager or first year in college.
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  • You remember those little apple pies that used to be in the
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  • Gas station?
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  • I would go in there and buy those pies like they were not
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  • Gonna make anymore.
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  • No, seriously.
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  • I thought, "one day they're gonna stop making them, so i'm
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  • Going to buy them all."
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  • And i would buy one and then two would be sitting there, and i'd
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  • Buy one more and then i'd figure, "well, the last
  • 00:12:51.673 --> 00:12:53.842
  • One's lonely.
  • 00:12:53.842 --> 00:12:55.176
  • Let me buy the third one."
  • 00:12:55.176 --> 00:12:58.980
  • You don't have to be afraid that you're not gonna have any more
  • 00:12:58.980 --> 00:13:01.716
  • Friends or you're not gonna have more opportunities, that you're
  • 00:13:01.716 --> 00:13:05.420
  • Not gonna have another job, that you're not gonna have another
  • 00:13:05.420 --> 00:13:09.524
  • Opportunity to marry somebody.
  • 00:13:09.524 --> 00:13:11.359
  • You don't have to choose the first dude that comes and you
  • 00:13:11.359 --> 00:13:15.263
  • Have--you just know something ain't right about him.
  • 00:13:15.263 --> 00:13:18.466
  • You don't have to settle for--there's somebody else.
  • 00:13:18.466 --> 00:13:20.335
  • There's another light-skinned brother with good hair so your
  • 00:13:20.335 --> 00:13:22.971
  • Baby can have good hair.
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  • You ain't got to settle for that.
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  • Y'all pray for me, just pray for me this morning.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • Okay.
  • 00:13:34.115 --> 00:13:35.450
  • So what's the danger of settling in this place of exploitation?
  • 00:13:35.450 --> 00:13:41.189
  • When you believe you're unworthy, people will treat you
  • 00:13:41.189 --> 00:13:46.194
  • Like a doormat.
  • 00:13:46.194 --> 00:13:48.229
  • A lot of times you're being treated based on how you believe
  • 00:13:48.229 --> 00:13:54.202
  • About yourself.
  • 00:13:54.202 --> 00:13:57.972
  • You think you're a doormat, then you give permission to other
  • 00:13:57.972 --> 00:14:01.075
  • People to treat you like one.
  • 00:14:01.075 --> 00:14:03.745
  • And there's going to be coming a time where you're like, "i'm not
  • 00:14:03.745 --> 00:14:05.713
  • A doormat.
  • 00:14:05.713 --> 00:14:07.048
  • I mean, i am beloved of the father.
  • 00:14:07.048 --> 00:14:08.416
  • I'm not a doormat.
  • 00:14:08.416 --> 00:14:09.751
  • I don't know what you thought this was, but you're not gonna
  • 00:14:09.751 --> 00:14:16.724
  • Love me and leave me and use me and abuse me.
  • 00:14:16.724 --> 00:14:19.961
  • That's not happening."
  • 00:14:19.961 --> 00:14:22.163
  • "yeah, but you're by yourself and i'm a 20+ man.
  • 00:14:22.163 --> 00:14:25.133
  • I got a job. i'm 6'2"."
  • 00:14:25.133 --> 00:14:27.835
  • "i don't care if you make $1 million a year and you're 6'7".
  • 00:14:27.835 --> 00:14:32.640
  • You are not going to use me for your own benefit."
  • 00:14:32.640 --> 00:14:40.481
  • Is this plain enough for y'all?
  • 00:14:40.481 --> 00:14:45.053
  • 'cause i know there are christian women who continue to
  • 00:14:45.053 --> 00:14:49.924
  • Allow themselves to be abused by a slick talking--
  • 00:14:49.924 --> 00:15:00.068
  • Am i still sweet lips? can i finish?
  • 00:15:00.134 --> 00:15:03.838
  • Somebody say, "real miss sweet to me.
  • 00:15:03.838 --> 00:15:05.206
  • Go on finish that thing."
  • 00:15:05.206 --> 00:15:08.843
  • And you act like there's nobody else.
  • 00:15:08.843 --> 00:15:11.546
  • The world's convinced you, "well, the male population
  • 00:15:11.546 --> 00:15:14.716
  • Percentage is low so you're going to have to take
  • 00:15:14.716 --> 00:15:18.920
  • What you can."
  • 00:15:18.920 --> 00:15:20.254
  • I don't know where you got that information from.
  • 00:15:20.254 --> 00:15:21.956
  • There is somebody that the holy spirit has been working on
  • 00:15:21.956 --> 00:15:25.293
  • For the last 20-30 years getting him ready for you, but you're
  • 00:15:25.293 --> 00:15:30.098
  • Blocking the path because you settled right there.
  • 00:15:30.098 --> 00:15:38.873
  • Man, i'm gonna give myself an offering.
  • 00:15:38.873 --> 00:15:40.641
  • There we go. [congregation laughing]
  • 00:15:40.641 --> 00:15:47.749
  • The danger, you believe you're unworthy and so people treat you
  • 00:15:51.953 --> 00:15:57.692
  • Like you're unworthy.
  • 00:15:57.692 --> 00:16:00.194
  • You believe you're a doormat, so people treat you like a doormat.
  • 00:16:00.194 --> 00:16:06.067
  • See, what you understand is you have to watch out how people
  • 00:16:06.067 --> 00:16:09.003
  • Treat you because that's how they treat themselves.
  • 00:16:09.003 --> 00:16:13.674
  • When they're mean to you, they're mean to themselves.
  • 00:16:13.674 --> 00:16:18.212
  • Number six, here's the sixth danger of settling for less, it
  • 00:16:18.212 --> 00:16:25.286
  • Weakens your witness.
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  • It really does.
  • 00:16:28.923 --> 00:16:30.291
  • It weakens your witness, man of faith, woman of faith.
  • 00:16:30.291 --> 00:16:35.263
  • Matthew chapter 5, verse 14 in the new king james version.
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  • Matthew 5:14 and verse 16, he says, "you are the light of
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  • The world.
  • 00:16:46.741 --> 00:16:48.109
  • A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden."
  • 00:16:48.109 --> 00:16:50.545
  • Verse 16 says, "let your light so shine before men, that they
  • 00:16:50.545 --> 00:16:55.416
  • May see your good works and glorify your father which is
  • 00:16:55.416 --> 00:17:00.521
  • In heaven."
  • 00:17:00.521 --> 00:17:02.523
  • So settling hides your light instead of displaying
  • 00:17:02.523 --> 00:17:06.461
  • Christ's glory.
  • 00:17:06.461 --> 00:17:07.829
  • It hides your light.
  • 00:17:07.829 --> 00:17:10.631
  • It hides your light. it hides your witness.
  • 00:17:10.631 --> 00:17:14.836
  • It hides the very glory that god wants you to display.
  • 00:17:14.836 --> 00:17:19.307
  • And the danger of settling, especially where your witness is
  • 00:17:19.307 --> 00:17:24.745
  • Concerned, that if believers settle for toxic lifestyles or
  • 00:17:24.745 --> 00:17:31.285
  • Believers settle for compromise, the world sees
  • 00:17:31.285 --> 00:17:37.325
  • A powerless gospel.
  • 00:17:37.325 --> 00:17:41.129
  • "there's no reason for you to invite me to your church because
  • 00:17:41.129 --> 00:17:43.931
  • Look at you."
  • 00:17:43.931 --> 00:17:48.302
  • And that's where we are right now.
  • 00:17:48.302 --> 00:17:49.770
  • A lot of people are out playing golf and everything this morning
  • 00:17:49.770 --> 00:17:52.373
  • Because they've been looking at you 'cause sometimes we're their
  • 00:17:52.373 --> 00:17:56.110
  • Only--if they're not reading the bible, they're reading you.
  • 00:17:56.110 --> 00:17:59.580
  • We're the living epistle that everybody's reading.
  • 00:17:59.580 --> 00:18:03.151
  • And when they read us as people that settle for compromise and
  • 00:18:03.151 --> 00:18:09.357
  • People that settle for toxic lifestyles, they're thinking,
  • 00:18:09.357 --> 00:18:15.196
  • "if you got that at church that you're inviting me to, i don't
  • 00:18:15.196 --> 00:18:18.766
  • Wanna come because i'm not doing that.
  • 00:18:18.766 --> 00:18:24.038
  • I'm not doing that.
  • 00:18:24.038 --> 00:18:25.406
  • I'm not marrying some man or woman that beats me with a bat
  • 00:18:25.406 --> 00:18:29.577
  • Everyday and say, 'well, you know, i can't leave them because
  • 00:18:29.577 --> 00:18:33.214
  • My religion prohibits it.'"
  • 00:18:33.214 --> 00:18:36.817
  • No.
  • 00:18:36.817 --> 00:18:38.619
  • And so that light dims when we begin to settle.
  • 00:18:38.619 --> 00:18:44.258
  • Number seven, settling produces a defeated mindset.
  • 00:18:44.258 --> 00:18:50.331
  • When you settle for less than god's best, it produce a--it
  • 00:18:50.331 --> 00:18:55.303
  • Produces a defeated mindset.
  • 00:18:55.303 --> 00:18:56.637
  • Romans 8:37 in the niv.
  • 00:18:56.637 --> 00:18:59.140
  • Let me read this to you.
  • 00:18:59.140 --> 00:19:00.474
  • Romans 8:37 in the niv.
  • 00:19:00.474 --> 00:19:04.912
  • A defeated mindset, and most people are defeated in
  • 00:19:04.912 --> 00:19:08.349
  • Their mind.
  • 00:19:08.349 --> 00:19:11.652
  • Verse 37 says, "no, in all these things we are," what?
  • 00:19:11.652 --> 00:19:15.790
  • "more than conquerors through him who loved us."
  • 00:19:15.790 --> 00:19:19.594
  • There's nothing in your life that tries to conquer you where
  • 00:19:19.594 --> 00:19:24.232
  • You don't have a greater ability to conquer it.
  • 00:19:24.232 --> 00:19:27.668
  • Life should not be conquering you.
  • 00:19:27.668 --> 00:19:31.239
  • He said in all these things we are more than conquerors and yet
  • 00:19:31.239 --> 00:19:35.776
  • We're being conquered: conquered by fear, conquered by the
  • 00:19:35.776 --> 00:19:42.483
  • Circumstances and the systems of the world, conquered by the bad
  • 00:19:42.483 --> 00:19:46.954
  • News, conquered by worry, conquered by pain, conquered
  • 00:19:46.954 --> 00:19:53.361
  • By unbelief.
  • 00:19:53.361 --> 00:19:55.396
  • In all these things, he says we're more than conquerors.
  • 00:19:55.396 --> 00:19:58.599
  • Settling says, "i'm a victim."
  • 00:19:58.599 --> 00:20:02.403
  • Faith says, "i'm more than a conqueror."
  • 00:20:02.403 --> 00:20:04.739
  • Now, you're gonna have to choose.
  • 00:20:04.739 --> 00:20:06.073
  • Are you a victim or are you more than a conqueror?
  • 00:20:06.073 --> 00:20:11.078
  • Do you have that victim mentality, where if you just sit
  • 00:20:11.078 --> 00:20:16.217
  • There for a moment and listen to somebody talk they're always
  • 00:20:16.217 --> 00:20:19.553
  • Playing the victim?
  • 00:20:19.553 --> 00:20:22.323
  • And playing the victim is somebody that has this
  • 00:20:22.323 --> 00:20:25.226
  • Defeated mindset.
  • 00:20:25.226 --> 00:20:26.594
  • "so i might as well go ahead and play the victim."
  • 00:20:26.594 --> 00:20:29.430
  • And you say very clearly, "life is conquering me."
  • 00:20:29.430 --> 00:20:34.669
  • And you tell your story.
  • 00:20:34.669 --> 00:20:37.571
  • And the danger in you settling for a defeated mindset is you
  • 00:20:37.571 --> 00:20:41.342
  • Stop believing for god's best and you live with low
  • 00:20:41.342 --> 00:20:45.079
  • Expectations and you normalize defeat.
  • 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:50.818
  • You live with low expectations and you normalize defeat.
  • 00:20:50.818 --> 00:20:56.991
  • I mean, how many of us get up in the morning and our expectations
  • 00:20:56.991 --> 00:21:02.763
  • Are low?
  • 00:21:02.763 --> 00:21:04.265
  • We just kind of keep doing what's safe.
  • 00:21:04.265 --> 00:21:08.102
  • "you know, i don't wanna bother nobody.
  • 00:21:08.102 --> 00:21:09.503
  • I don't want no trouble.
  • 00:21:09.503 --> 00:21:10.838
  • Everything seem to be all right."
  • 00:21:10.838 --> 00:21:12.206
  • But it's not all right because you were created for a--to be
  • 00:21:12.206 --> 00:21:16.911
  • Everything god says you're supposed to be, right?
  • 00:21:16.911 --> 00:21:19.613
  • And you don't need to, you know, compare yourself with somebody
  • 00:21:19.613 --> 00:21:23.584
  • Else to determine where you are, you just got--you just need to
  • 00:21:23.584 --> 00:21:26.020
  • Find out what god wants you to do.
  • 00:21:26.020 --> 00:21:30.257
  • You're not winning because you're trying to be like
  • 00:21:30.257 --> 00:21:33.828
  • Some influencer.
  • 00:21:33.828 --> 00:21:37.131
  • The holy spirit's the greatest influencer i know and he will
  • 00:21:37.131 --> 00:21:41.235
  • Put you in a position that you're supposed to be in, but
  • 00:21:41.235 --> 00:21:45.473
  • You cannot normalize defeat.
  • 00:21:45.473 --> 00:21:50.678
  • "it's normal," you know.
  • 00:21:50.678 --> 00:21:53.314
  • "hey, that's what happens."
  • 00:21:53.314 --> 00:21:55.783
  • Get you a little cigarette.
  • 00:21:55.783 --> 00:21:57.485
  • "what happened?"
  • 00:21:57.485 --> 00:21:58.819
  • You get a little something to drink.
  • 00:21:58.819 --> 00:22:00.154
  • What you're trying to do is numb the inside of you that's trying
  • 00:22:00.154 --> 00:22:04.258
  • To say there's something greater about you and you keep the
  • 00:22:04.258 --> 00:22:07.862
  • Greater one suppressed and you have these low expectations of
  • 00:22:07.862 --> 00:22:13.367
  • Yourself, and part of is that somebody helped to plant that
  • 00:22:13.367 --> 00:22:17.204
  • Low expectation on the inside of you.
  • 00:22:17.204 --> 00:22:19.173
  • Maybe you grew up and somebody kept telling you, "you ain't
  • 00:22:19.173 --> 00:22:21.709
  • Worth nothing.
  • 00:22:21.709 --> 00:22:23.043
  • Who you think you are?
  • 00:22:23.043 --> 00:22:24.645
  • You ain't gonna never be nothing.
  • 00:22:24.645 --> 00:22:27.148
  • You never going to get out of this situation.
  • 00:22:27.148 --> 00:22:29.216
  • What make you think you better than i am?"
  • 00:22:29.216 --> 00:22:31.685
  • Those are demons that are feeding on your energy--your low
  • 00:22:31.685 --> 00:22:37.458
  • Energy of low expectation and you have to learn how to resist
  • 00:22:37.458 --> 00:22:41.529
  • Every word, every thought, every demon, every devil.
  • 00:22:41.529 --> 00:22:44.965
  • You got to learn how to resist it all and just say, "no, that's
  • 00:22:44.965 --> 00:22:47.601
  • Not me.
  • 00:22:47.601 --> 00:22:48.936
  • I don't know who you think you talking about.
  • 00:22:48.936 --> 00:22:50.304
  • I'm from college park, but that's not me.
  • 00:22:50.304 --> 00:22:52.673
  • That's not me.
  • 00:22:52.673 --> 00:22:54.041
  • God's got something great."
  • 00:22:54.041 --> 00:22:55.376
  • "what is it then?"
  • 00:22:55.376 --> 00:22:56.744
  • "i don't know, but i am in expectation," praise god,
  • 00:22:56.744 --> 00:23:00.648
  • "of whatever it is he's wired me for and made me to be."
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  • Than to enter into a personal relationship with christ.
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  • So if you wanna become born again and begin an exciting,
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  • Intimate relationship with jesus, pray this prayer with
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  • Me now.
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  • "heavenly father, come into my heart.
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  • Save me.
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  • I receive you now by faith and i declare in jesus's name that i
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  • Am saved.
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  • Thank you, lord, for saving me.
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  • Amen."
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  • Well, if you prayed that prayer with me, i wanna welcome you to
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  • The kingdom of god.
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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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  • Announcer: 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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