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Creflo Dollar - Don't Let Your Offense Derail Your Journey

July 10, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - Don't Let Your Offense Derail Your Journey
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Don't Let Your Offense Derail Your Journey | July 10, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: bitterness shrinks your world, follow
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  • Me now.
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  • It shrinks your world.
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  • The thing you're bitter about, it shrinks your world and it
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  • Makes your whole life about that.
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  • Your conversations are about that.
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  • Your meditation is about that.
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  • It shrinks your world.
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  • But gratitude expands your world.
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  • Creflo: how to release offense and bitterness so that you can
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  • See your freedom restored.
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  • How to release offense and bitterness.
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  • Because i need to get practical.
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  • I can't preach this to you, and then you just go home and,
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  • "well, i still got it, i don't know what else to do," you know?
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  • And then you have a bad day one day, and it gets so bad, and
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  • That offense comes up on top of some more offense and you could
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  • Kill a person.
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  • Number one, this is very practical now, for all the deep
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  • People who want something prophetic, most of the stuff
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  • We've gotten is pathetic, but--yeah, it really is.
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  • It really is, but we--i don't know what's going on with us.
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  • Oh, hallelujah, the lord says that there are four, five people
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  • In here that can give $10,000.
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  • You need to just put your money in and lock your pocketbook
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  • Because i am not giving you no $10,000 trying to play that
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  • Little pressure game.
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  • Because the scripture says don't give out of pressure.
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  • You know, taffi and i have got to be delivered.
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  • We know people slander us and talk about us, we don't care.
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  • In fact, i can't tell you how much we don't care.
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  • Why?
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  • Because that's just an opportunity to be offended.
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  • I'm not online searching for who said what about me.
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  • They're out there somewhere, i know.
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  • But if i should run into them, they're now on my prayer list.
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  • 'cause i am not going to be offended by your tomfoolery.
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  • I'm gonna love you no matter what.
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  • Number one, here's the first step in getting released from
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  • This bitter offense.
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  • This is so cool, i love this first one because nobody really
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  • Thinks about this.
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  • But the first step, acknowledge the pain without feeling like
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  • You're judged.
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  • Now, acknowledge the pain without judgment.
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  • Acknowledge it.
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  • Now, for a long time, the church says, "no, no, you shouldn't
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  • Acknowledge it.
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  • That's bad confession."
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  • Let me show you something.
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  • God never asked you to deny what hurt you.
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  • Grace invites honesty, not suppression.
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  • Grace invites and allows you to be honest, not to suppress it.
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  • Let me show you a neat little scripture to bear witness
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  • To that.
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  • Psalm 62 and verse 8; in the king james he says, psalm 62,
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  • Verse 8 he says, "trust in him at all times; ye people, pour
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  • Out your heart before him: god is a refuge."
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  • Trust in him.
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  • Trust in him enough that you can pour your heart out for him.
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  • God doesn't want you coming before him in your pretense
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  • Fake religiosity.
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  • The bible says cast your care upon him, not that you care.
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  • He wants you to cast all of it on him.
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  • If you're mad at god, he can take it.
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  • God, i'm mad at you.
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  • He said, "appreciate that, what else you got?"
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  • He wants you to do that, acknowledge your hurt.
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  • And the scripture says here, "pour out your heart
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  • Before him."
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  • "god, i don't understand.
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  • I don't know why you don't let--why you let this happen
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  • To me.
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  • Well, how come that door couldn't happen?
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  • How long am i'm going to be able to do this?
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  • How long--," pour out your heart.
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  • "what did i do wrong?
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  • To keep ending up with the--i'm in my fourth marriage.
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  • Why do i keep choosing the same old no-good-for-none man, why?"
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  • Pour it out.
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  • "why?"
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  • He's your refuge.
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  • A refuge is a safe place, it's a sheltered place, pour it out.
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  • Man, i never forget when i was just surrounded by slander and
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  • Then--it happens in my life like this for the last almost
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  • 44 years.
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  • And i'm walking around--you ever seen the movie about this guy
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  • Who fell down the steps?
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  • He said, "that didn't hurt, that didn't hurt, that didn't hurt."
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  • And then he fell real hard, he said, "now, that hurt."
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  • That's me.
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  • "that didn't hurt.
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  • No, i'm good.
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  • No, i'm fine.
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  • Praise the lord.
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  • Hm, no, everything," suppressing, hiding
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  • Behind scriptures, perfecting phoniness that i now, later on,
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  • Call faith.
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  • And i was taking a walk one day, and the lord is just so good.
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  • He just knows how to ask the question.
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  • He said, "this latest thing that you've gone through where your
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  • Friends don't want to have anything to do with you.
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  • Where nobody wants you to come and preach.
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  • And nobody wants to hear what you've got to say
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  • Except world changers."
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  • Alright, so, alright, listen. [congregation applauding]
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  • And he said, "did that slander hurt you?"
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  • And i was getting ready to deal with god like i dealt with
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  • Preachers and say, "oh no, praise the lord, god is
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  • My strength."
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  • But i knew he knew me.
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  • I said, "yes, sir.
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  • It hurt, it hurt really bad."
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  • And something happened when i acknowledged the hurt.
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  • See, the hurt can be a seed.
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  • I acknowledge the hurt, and then the lord started giving
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  • Me instructions.
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  • That's the first time he says i want you to start
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  • Praying for your enemies.
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  • Pray for those who slandered you.
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  • And it started softening my heart.
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  • And i was being healed of the hurt.
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  • I walked in that day and i told taffi, i said, "taffi, god asked
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  • Me, did all of the slander hurt me?"
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  • She said, "what did he--what did you say?"
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  • "i said, yes."
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  • She said, "good, because it hurt me too."
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  • And i'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, you should
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  • Acknowledge this.
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  • Now why does it matter for you to acknowledge it?
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  • Because unacknowledged pain turns into bitterness.
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  • While acknowledged pain turns into a seed of healing.
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  • Unacknowledged pain turns into bitterness, while acknowledged
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  • Pain turns into a seed of healing.
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  • That's where it starts.
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  • That's where it starts, right at that particular point.
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  • And it's real simple, it's something like this, "father,
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  • This hurt me deeply.
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  • I bring it to you exactly how i feel it, knowing you don't
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  • Condemn me for feeling this way."
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  • Try that prayer.
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  • "father, i come and i acknowledge this to you
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  • Right now.
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  • And i trust and i depend on you, and i know the only way for me
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  • To be healed is to depend on you and depend on this grace."
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  • This is what a relationship day to day with the father is like.
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  • It's not playing church.
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  • "oh, thou god, [speaking in tongues]."
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  • It's not playing church.
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  • It's a real, authentic relationship where you can talk
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  • To him and he talks to you.
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  • Where you can be honest with him and cast every care on him, this
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  • Is the relationship i'm talking about.
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  • Number two, if you wanna deal with this bitter offense, number
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  • Two: shift from retaliation to restoration.
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  • Shift from retaliation to restoration.
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  • See, understand something, forgiveness doesn't excuse the
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  • Offender, it releases you from their control.
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  • How long have you been holding on to it?
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  • That's how long you have given your control, somewhat,
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  • To somebody else.
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  • God's not telling you to forgive somebody so it can release
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  • The offender.
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  • He's telling you to forgive those people so that you can be
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  • Released from the control of that.
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  • I mean, that offense is controlling you, that bitterness
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  • Is controlling you.
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  • It's not about proving or approving what they did.
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  • If i forgive them, it's just saying it's okay what they did
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  • To me.
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  • That--this is not what this is about, approving what they did.
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  • It's about letting go of your right to revenge.
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  • Letting go for you--letting go of your right to revenge because
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  • Jesus already carried the rest.
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  • He's already taken care of it.
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  • Look at ephesians chapter 4:32 in the mirror bible.
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  • Ephesians chapter 4:32 in the mirror bible.
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  • Ephesians 4:32 in the mirror bible says this, "be inspired by
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  • Kindness and compassion; your forgiving one another when you
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  • Might feel irritated and frustrated," when you forgive
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  • When you feel irritated and frustrated, "demonstrates the
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  • Way god graciously treated us in christ," wow.
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  • So, basically, he's saying, you are god's mirror expression and
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  • As he tenderly forgives you, because you're his mirror
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  • Expression, tenderly forgive other people.
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  • Who's been--who you've been carrying lately?
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  • Who have you rented space to in your mind?
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  • Who's living in your head?
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  • Who's taking--who you taking to bed with you every night besides
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  • Your spouse?
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  • Why is it important?
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  • Forgiveness is not just an emotion, it's a faith-based
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  • Choice that's rooted in the finished works of jesus christ.
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  • It's rooted in what's finished at the cross.
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  • Forgiveness is finished at the cross.
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  • Now you're gonna grab hold of that.
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  • So how do i deal with this?
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  • Real simple, "lord, i release this person into your grace.
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  • This person that did this egregious thing to me, that said
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  • This thing, that hurt me, i release this person into
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  • Your grace.
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  • I refuse to let this offense define me any longer.
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  • I'm not gonna let it happen.
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  • I give them to you, lord.
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  • I give them to you.
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  • They hurt me, they betrayed me, they left me, they stole
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  • From me.
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  • I release this person into your grace."
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  • He might--you might have to say that with some tears in your
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  • Eyes, that's fine.
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  • I'm telling you, this works.
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  • And it's not enough for me to just talk to you about the
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  • Problem with it, but to show you how to get out of it.
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  • Number three, this is big right here: replace the root,
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  • Replace the offense.
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  • If we replace bitterness with gratitude and blessings,
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  • Gratitude and blessing--bitterness shrinks
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  • Your world, follow me now.
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  • It shrinks your world.
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  • The thing you're bitter about, it shrinks your world and it
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  • Makes your whole life about that.
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  • Your conversations are about that.
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  • Your meditation is about that.
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  • It shrinks your world.
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  • But gratitude expands your world.
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  • And now, while offense came, you're so gracious for so much
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  • More than that thing that came to you to try to derail you.
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  • And you start giving god thanksgiving for all the other
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  • Things that are happening and you won't be looking at that one
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  • Tree in the garden.
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  • You won't be looking at that one bitterness, you won't be looking
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  • At that one offense that shrinks your whole world and you can't
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  • Be grateful about all the other things that are going around
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  • Because you're so occupied with that one offense, that
  • 00:14:54.206 --> 00:14:58.544
  • Bitterness that shrinks your entire world.
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  • When you bless instead of curse, you align yourself with the
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  • Nature of god on the inside of you.
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  • That's what god does.
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  • Bitterness is trying to derail you, it's trying to get you out
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  • Of alignment.
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  • But when you bless and forgive people, you align yourself
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  • With god.
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  • And then you align yourself with god enough to hear a way out.
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  • You align yourself with god to hear how to continue on.
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  • You align yourself with god to hear how to be healed of that
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  • Particular thing.
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  • Satan wants to keep people out of this.
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  • Romans 12:21, go there.
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  • Romans 12:21 in the new king james--in the king james,
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  • Romans 12:21.
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  • Replace that root with gratitude and blessings.
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  • You know, you have a choice?
  • 00:15:53.832 --> 00:15:55.167
  • You can complain about stuff or you can quickly shift
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  • Into thanksgiving.
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  • There's a lot to be thankful for.
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  • And you can start with the simple stuff.
  • 00:16:02.708 --> 00:16:04.109
  • "woke me up this morning, blood still running warmly in
  • 00:16:04.109 --> 00:16:08.547
  • My veins.
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  • I can walk and talk.
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  • Oh, my hips don't hurt no more.
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  • Hey, lord, i got some beanie weenies in the thing.
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  • It ain't no big thing, but i got something in there to eat.
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  • Thank you, jesus.
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  • Oh, lord, my health and my strength is good.
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  • Thank you, lord.
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  • I can still see, i can hear."
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Instead of going around, "lord, i ain't got no car yet."
  • 00:16:35.174 --> 00:16:37.876
  • Yeah, but the bus stop right in front of your house.
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  • You better learn how to thank god.
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  • Thank god that the sun came up.
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  • Thank god.
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  • Thank god you have a job.
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  • Thank god.
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  • Thank god that if you don't have one, you're getting ready to get
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  • The best one, you--
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  • Thank god i still got hair on my head.
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  • I thank you, lord jesus, that i can open my mouth and give
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  • You praise."
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • You better figure out how to thank god.
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  • You better practice every day of your life.
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  • "father, i thank you.
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  • My right knee hurting but my left, my left knee ain't gave me
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  • No problem.
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  • I'm telling you, lord, i got to give you praise."
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Before you know it you have thanked yourself out of
  • 00:17:18.750 --> 00:17:21.286
  • That funk.
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  • Look at the scripture, he says, "be not overcome of evil, but
  • 00:17:29.027 --> 00:17:34.299
  • Overcome evil with good."
  • 00:17:34.299 --> 00:17:37.736
  • Sometimes when people do things to you, you overcome them by
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  • Doing something good.
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  • I remember this guy in the atlanta area, oh, what, 35, 40
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  • Years ago, he talked about me every day on the radio,
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  • Every day.
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  • This man don't know me, don't know nothing about me, he
  • 00:17:51.250 --> 00:17:53.519
  • Just--and he was getting big ratings, just--they should have,
  • 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:55.954
  • He should have named the show "the creflo show."
  • 00:17:55.954 --> 00:17:57.723
  • That's what he should have did.
  • 00:17:57.723 --> 00:18:01.160
  • And boy, i was getting hot.
  • 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:02.928
  • I just thought, "i'm just going to go up to that radio station
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  • And i'm just going to, i'm going to spank him.
  • 00:18:04.930 --> 00:18:06.632
  • Now, he just need to be--well, i'm gonna, he just need a good
  • 00:18:06.632 --> 00:18:11.036
  • Spanking across the cheek."
  • 00:18:11.036 --> 00:18:13.939
  • And the lord said, "no, don't do that."
  • 00:18:13.939 --> 00:18:16.808
  • He said, "do you really want to know how to handle it?"
  • 00:18:16.808 --> 00:18:18.610
  • I said, "yes, sir."
  • 00:18:18.610 --> 00:18:20.679
  • The guy had a, some kind of thing where he was, he needed
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  • Money to do something he was doing.
  • 00:18:24.683 --> 00:18:27.119
  • And the lord said--and you know, he would tell everybody how much
  • 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:30.355
  • It costs.
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  • I said, "so what do you want to do, lord?"
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  • He said, he said, "i want you to send him the money to pay
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  • For everything."
  • 00:18:37.129 --> 00:18:38.463
  • I said, "the devil is liar. [congregation laughing]
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  • Shoot, what?"
  • 00:18:44.002 --> 00:18:48.840
  • See, i know you want to hear me say, well, you know, "lord," i
  • 00:18:48.840 --> 00:18:50.809
  • Said, "yes, lord, yes lord.
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  • Hallelujah, i'll do it."
  • 00:18:52.544 --> 00:18:53.879
  • I ain't saying no, "yes, lord."
  • 00:18:53.879 --> 00:18:55.214
  • I'm like, uh-uh.
  • 00:18:55.214 --> 00:18:56.582
  • I'm like ...
  • 00:18:56.582 --> 00:19:04.089
  • I paced on that.
  • 00:19:04.089 --> 00:19:05.457
  • "it was real simple.
  • 00:19:05.457 --> 00:19:06.792
  • You asked me what to do, i told you.
  • 00:19:06.792 --> 00:19:08.160
  • Now i ain't got nothing else to say."
  • 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:12.064
  • I sent him the money for everything.
  • 00:19:12.064 --> 00:19:15.000
  • It blew his mind.
  • 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:16.368
  • He never thought that he'd be getting from the guy he's
  • 00:19:16.368 --> 00:19:20.138
  • Dogging out every day.
  • 00:19:20.138 --> 00:19:24.142
  • It changed him.
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  • He got on the radio and apologized for everything he
  • 00:19:26.945 --> 00:19:29.648
  • Ever said.
  • 00:19:29.648 --> 00:19:34.052
  • He said he wanted to meet me and i'm like, "man, i ain't
  • 00:19:34.052 --> 00:19:38.257
  • There yet.
  • 00:19:38.257 --> 00:19:39.791
  • I ain't ready to be meeting nobody."
  • 00:19:39.791 --> 00:19:45.931
  • I don't want to have a form of tourette's syndrome where
  • 00:19:45.931 --> 00:19:48.533
  • I'm like...
  • 00:19:48.533 --> 00:19:49.868
  • "oh, jesus, i knocked him out."
  • 00:19:49.868 --> 00:19:56.475
  • And god handled that.
  • 00:19:56.475 --> 00:19:59.645
  • Well, he stayed on the radio for a minute.
  • 00:19:59.645 --> 00:20:03.348
  • Then, his ratings went down.
  • 00:20:03.348 --> 00:20:07.219
  • So the next few weeks he started "the creflo show" again.
  • 00:20:07.219 --> 00:20:11.623
  • And i just said, "lord, just bless him.
  • 00:20:11.623 --> 00:20:14.860
  • I see what you were doing.
  • 00:20:14.860 --> 00:20:16.395
  • Overcome evil with good."
  • 00:20:16.395 --> 00:20:18.297
  • Learn how to sow a do-good seed, amen?
  • 00:20:18.297 --> 00:20:24.369
  • When people do you wrong, you do them right.
  • 00:20:24.369 --> 00:20:28.173
  • So why does it matter?
  • 00:20:28.173 --> 00:20:30.642
  • Blessing transforms the residue of pain into fuel for
  • 00:20:30.642 --> 00:20:39.151
  • Spiritual maturity.
  • 00:20:39.151 --> 00:20:40.786
  • Blessings will transform the residue of pain.
  • 00:20:40.786 --> 00:20:47.993
  • And it gives you an opportunity for spiritual maturity.
  • 00:20:47.993 --> 00:20:52.898
  • You know how mature it is to respond with good when evil has
  • 00:20:52.898 --> 00:20:59.938
  • Come your way?
  • 00:20:59.938 --> 00:21:02.407
  • Oh, there's something you feel, you feel like, now this is real
  • 00:21:02.407 --> 00:21:06.878
  • Grown folk christian stuff right here.
  • 00:21:06.878 --> 00:21:10.015
  • That other stuff is baby stuff.
  • 00:21:10.015 --> 00:21:11.450
  • I'm gonna cuss you out, i'm gonna cut you, i'm gonna get
  • 00:21:11.450 --> 00:21:14.186
  • You, you better not let me see you on the street.
  • 00:21:14.186 --> 00:21:16.221
  • That's baby stuff, that's boo-boo in the pamper
  • 00:21:16.221 --> 00:21:18.290
  • Baby stuff.
  • 00:21:18.290 --> 00:21:21.460
  • But to do good to those who did you evil?
  • 00:21:21.460 --> 00:21:26.865
  • To forgive those who blasphemed you and slandered you?
  • 00:21:26.865 --> 00:21:32.938
  • That's spiritual maturity.
  • 00:21:32.938 --> 00:21:35.307
  • The character of jesus christ being displayed in the middle of
  • 00:21:35.307 --> 00:21:39.277
  • That situation, that's spiritual maturity.
  • 00:21:39.277 --> 00:21:42.147
  • And that's the issue we have in church today.
  • 00:21:42.147 --> 00:21:44.416
  • We don't have a lot of spiritually mature christians
  • 00:21:44.416 --> 00:21:46.785
  • In church.
  • 00:21:46.785 --> 00:21:48.153
  • We got folks who can quote scriptures and tell you what
  • 00:21:48.153 --> 00:21:49.621
  • They heard somebody else say.
  • 00:21:49.621 --> 00:21:52.324
  • But you can always tell the authenticity of an individual
  • 00:21:52.324 --> 00:21:56.995
  • When you see how they respond in the midst of pressure.
  • 00:21:56.995 --> 00:22:02.300
  • In the midst of discomfort, you see the holy spirit releasing.
  • 00:22:02.300 --> 00:22:08.774
  • The fruit of the spirit through your life, that's
  • 00:22:08.774 --> 00:22:11.743
  • A mature person.
  • 00:22:11.743 --> 00:22:13.578
  • Not somebody that's been saved for 20 years and you think well
  • 00:22:13.578 --> 00:22:15.714
  • They're mature because they've been saved for 20 years.
  • 00:22:15.714 --> 00:22:18.350
  • Not somebody you know that prays a pretty tongue like--
  • 00:22:18.350 --> 00:22:21.520
  • [speaking in tongues]
  • 00:22:21.520 --> 00:22:22.888
  • "oh, they mature, they pray pretty tongue."
  • 00:22:22.888 --> 00:22:28.493
  • But someone, someone who-- [laughs]
  • 00:22:28.493 --> 00:22:36.301
  • I just do not know where that just came from, you know
  • 00:22:36.301 --> 00:22:38.637
  • What i'm saying?
  • 00:22:38.637 --> 00:22:43.408
  • They--you know what i'm talking about?
  • 00:22:43.408 --> 00:22:45.110
  • The fruit of the spirit will come out by the holy spirit in
  • 00:22:45.110 --> 00:22:47.813
  • The midst of that.
  • 00:22:47.813 --> 00:22:49.181
  • Nobody wants to do that.
  • 00:22:49.181 --> 00:22:50.515
  • We want to go around and have these little, little fantasy
  • 00:22:50.515 --> 00:22:53.018
  • Things about, "i'm a great christian and look at how i am."
  • 00:22:53.018 --> 00:22:55.487
  • And, "i'm anointed because i can get loud and scream, and then
  • 00:22:55.487 --> 00:22:58.523
  • People get loud and scream with me."
  • 00:22:58.523 --> 00:23:00.225
  • And, "oh, i'm really anointed because i lay on the floor when
  • 00:23:00.225 --> 00:23:03.195
  • I pray and i do--," people just stop, stop with
  • 00:23:03.195 --> 00:23:06.298
  • The fantasy, stop.
  • 00:23:06.298 --> 00:23:08.900
  • Announcer: offense can get into the heart and begin to affect
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  • Your peace, your relationships, and the way you move forward
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  • In life.
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  • Creflo: offense will open the doors to betrayal and division,
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  • And it pulls people out of the will of god.
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  • Creflo: as we wrap up today's broadcast, i'd like to take
  • 00:26:10.548 --> 00:26:13.184
  • A moment to pray for you.
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  • I don't ever want to take for granted that you have received
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  • Jesus christ as your personal lord and savior.
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  • There's no better way to embark upon a new stage in your life
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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
  • 00:26:32.337 --> 00:26:36.374
  • Me now.
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  • "heavenly father, come into my heart, save me.
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  • I receive you now, by faith.
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  • And i declare, in jesus's name, that i am saved.
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  • Thank you, lord, for saving me, 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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  • 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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