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Creflo Dollar - The Glory Of Curiosity

May 27, 2025 | S25:E129

Creflo Dollar - The Glory Of Curiosity
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Glory Of Curiosity | May 27, 2025
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  • Taffi: look at luke chapter 2 verse 41.
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  • Let's start there.
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  • Thank you, jesus.
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  • "every year jesus' parents went to jerusalem for the
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  • Passover festival."
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  • And when jesus was 12 years old, they attended the festival
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  • As usual.
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  • "after the celebration was over, they started home to nazareth,
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  • But jesus stayed behind in jerusalem.
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  • His parents didn't miss him at first."
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  • Don't ask me.
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  • They must have been doing some serious mothering and fathering.
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  • But anyway, "they assume he was among the other travelers.
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  • But when he didn't show up that evening, they started looking
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  • For him."
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  • Don't judge people's parents and they doing the best they know
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  • How to do.
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  • "among their relatives and friends.
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  • When they couldn't find him, they went back to jerusalem to
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  • Search for him there."
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  • They're thinking, "lord, i done lost my child.
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  • Oh no, where did i lose jesus?"
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  • So they went back to search for him there.
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  • Look at verse 46: "three days later they finally discovered
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  • Jesus in the temple."
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  • Look at what he was doing, "sitting," 12 years old, "among
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  • The religious teachers."
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  • That get your attention, won't it?
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  • Be like, huh, why are you sitting here?
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  • "listening to them and asking questions."
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  • Jesus was curious.
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  • He knew he had a destiny, he knew god had a plan for
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  • His life.
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  • And so he went to the temple to get some things answered and,
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  • "all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and
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  • His answers."
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  • His parents didn't know what to think when they found him three
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  • Days later.
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  • Well, good lord, been here all this time.
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  • "son," his mother said to him, "why have you done this to us?"
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  • Now, we do as parents, it's about us.
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  • "why did you hurt me so bad?
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  • Why did you do this to me, jesus?
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  • Why did you just go off and just not follow the crowd and why are
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  • You being such a bad boy?
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  • You're not supposed to go away from your parents.
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  • Why, jesus, why?"
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  • "'your father and i have been frantic, searching for
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  • You everywhere.
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  • But why did you need to search?'"
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  • He was full of curiosity.
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  • "'didn't you know that i must be in my father's house?'
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  • But they didn't understand what he meant."
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  • Sometimes as parents, we don't understand.
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  • I don't even know what you talking about.
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  • Father's business?
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  • You are my 12 year old child.
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  • You stay with us, you keep up with us.
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  • You better not ever not be where you supposed to be.
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  • That's that old law based, that fear based.
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  • But they didn't understand what he meant.
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  • "then he returned to nazareth with them and was obedient to
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  • Them," praise the lord.
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  • "and his mother," listen to this.
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  • Mary "stored all these things in her heart."
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  • She stored it up.
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  • She paid--no, she took, she took awareness of what he
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  • Was saying.
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  • She recognized, huh, what is this child?
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  • What father's business in the temple?
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  • Three days asking questions.
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  • They're asking him, he's asking them.
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  • She kept it right here because she realized, must be something,
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  • Might be something to this.
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  • And the scripture says in verse 52 that jesus grew.
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  • "he grew in wisdom, he grew in stature and in favor with god
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  • And all the people."
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  • And we know over time that glory was revealed that we're
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  • Benefiting from to this very day, amen.
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  • Can i share a few things about engaging your curiosity with
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  • Your parenting?
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  • A lot of times when we're parenting, we think that if
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  • Something goes wrong, that we already knew or know who is in
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  • The wrong as parents.
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  • Ready to blame, ready to punish.
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  • Well, what if we learned more about what's going on with
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  • Our child?
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  • What's going on with their behavior?
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  • Why are they acting like they're acting?
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  • What are their thoughts?
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  • What are they feeling?
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  • Why are they doing what they are doing?
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  • And so i want to throw out to you today perhaps and submit to
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  • You to engage natural curiosity in your parenting, so that you
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  • Can bring things into account from your child's concerns,
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  • Their perspectives, and from their point of view.
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  • And combine empathy, even, with that.
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  • Your child may be feeling ignored, or feeling as if "no
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  • One sees me, feeling as if i don't have a voice, i'm not
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  • Heard, or i only get recognized when i do something wrong, or
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  • All of the attention is on the other child."
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  • And so perhaps you can engage natural curiosity in
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  • Your parenting and start to ask questions and create time
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  • Together as the bible talks about some of these things that
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  • We know children do.
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  • And he says to come to the kingdom of god as you would a
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  • Child, humble, inquiring, trying to learn.
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  • Natural curiosity in our parenting, as moms and as
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  • Mothers, and to recognize that we don't have all the answers
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  • And we need to pray in the holy ghost to get wisdom and seek
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  • Things out and understand what's going on from their perspective
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  • And their point of view and their eyes.
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  • Engaging curiosity, repeating back what you heard is a way in
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  • Which you can communicate and be empathetic because that is the
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  • Most important thing, is combining empathy with curiosity
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  • And parenting.
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  • Nonverbal involvement, just listening, paraphrasing,
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  • Repeating back what was said, what you heard.
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  • Obviously, we know the goal is not perfection.
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  • We're not perfect, so our children are certainly not going
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  • To be perfect.
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  • They don't need a judge, a jury, an attorney, a defender, a
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  • Prosecute--they don't need any of that.
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  • They just need to be heard.
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  • And just want to know that you understood what was said.
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  • I hadn't--i'm just feeling this way.
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  • I'm just feeling a way.
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  • I just, that's just how i feel.
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  • And then we can recognize that different doesn't mean bad.
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  • Please help me to understand as a good reply as parents, when
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  • Your child rebels, be curious.
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  • When your child lies, be curious.
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  • When your child fights, be curious.
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  • When your child disagrees, be curious.
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  • When your child is upset, be curious.
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  • When your child is angry, be curious.
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  • When your child is crying, be curious.
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  • And i think we can do so much more if we ask ourselves, how
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  • Can i help?
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  • What do you need from me?
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  • What can i learn about this situation right now?
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  • Imagine being approached with curiosity and how much of a
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  • Difference that could make and how it helps someone to feel
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  • Like they've not been met with shame or with blame, amen?
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  • Let's give god some praise for that.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • That was a light bulb moment.
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  • Now look at luke chapter 1, not done yet.
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  • Luke chapter 1,
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  • We'll start at verse 34, verse 34.
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  • The glory of curiosity.
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  • Because it happened so many times throughout the scriptures.
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  • And this particular situation talks about the birth of jesus.
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  • And when he came into the scene and the angel came to mary and
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  • Was pronouncing that she would be pregnant and that she would
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  • Carry jesus.
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  • She would be jesus's mama and that she was a chosen one.
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  • Mary asked the angel in verse 34.
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  • '"but how can this happen?
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  • I am a virgin."'
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  • She was curious.
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  • I know what you're saying, angel, but how?
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  • How god?
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  • I know you've given me this vision.
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  • I know you've given me this business.
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  • I know you've given me this child to parent.
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  • I know you've given me all these things.
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  • But how?
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  • "'the holy spirit will come upon you, and the power of the
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  • Highest, the power of the most high will overshadow you.'"
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  • There are some things, there are some things that god's going to
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  • Do that you won't be able to take any credit for.
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  • He don't want you to be looking for no man to try to make it
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  • Happen or look into this person, look into that person.
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  • Oh, i got relationships, let me just--no, he says the power of
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  • The highest will overshadow you, mary.
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  • The holy ghost is gonna make it happen.
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  • She said, "how it's gonna happen?
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  • I ain't sleeping with nobody. i'm a virgin."
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  • He said it's the holy ghost.
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  • The burn removing, yoke destroying, power.
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  • The unaccompanied one.
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  • He is god all by himself.
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  • He don't need nobody else.
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  • He just needs you to inquire, ask him, search it out, spend
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  • Time with him.
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  • And he says, "'so the baby to be born will be holy, and he will
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  • Be called the son of god.'"
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  • Keep going.
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  • "'what's more, your relative elizabeth has become pregnant in
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  • Her old age!
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  • People used to say she was barren, but she has conceived a
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  • Son and is now in her sixth month for the word of god will
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  • Never fail.'
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  • Mary responded saying, 'i am the lord's servant.
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  • May everything--"' come on, somebody say "everything."
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  • "'may everything you have said about me come true.'"
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  • She went from how, and the angel said the holy ghost, and she
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  • Said, "be it unto me."
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  • She received it according to that word.
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  • I'm telling you that curiosity will birth something in the
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  • Realm of the spirit.
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  • And she says "then the angel," the scripture said, "left
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  • From her."
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  • You catching this?
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  • Have i thought that my best days are over?
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  • Have those around me convinced that my life is the best that it
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  • Will ever be?
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  • I want you to allow, as we start to close, the holy spirit, allow
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  • Room for the holy spirit to work in you like zacchaeus to
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  • See jesus.
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  • It could be from your childlike faith that the glory will be
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  • Birthed in you.
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  • Let's look at this last scripture, mark 10:13.
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  • Mark 10:13, real quick.
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  • Receiving the kingdom of god like a child, asking questions,
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  • Creating time to wonder.
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  • God wants you to get your wonder back.
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  • Just wonder in a positive sense, not just wandering around being
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  • Lost and clueless, but w-o-n-d-e-r, a time to wonder.
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  • He says, "one day some parents brought their children to jesus
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  • So he could touch and bless them.
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  • But the disciples scolded the parents for
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  • Bothering him.
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  • When jesus saw what was happening, he was angry with
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  • His disciples.
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  • He said to them, 'let, or allow, the children come to me."'
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  • And that's how he wants us to come to him: as children,
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  • Humble, knowing we don't have all the answers, knowing that
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  • Some stuff was wrong.
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  • Just recognizing that we need to learn, we need to do better, be
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  • A better version of ourselves.
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  • Talk about things that our parents didn't talk about.
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  • Have conversations that we don't know how to have, but just trust
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  • God to have them.
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  • "he said to them, 'let the children come.'"
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  • He says, "'don't stop them!
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  • For the kingdom of god belongs to those who are like
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  • These children.'"
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  • And so we have to ask ourselves, like children do, why do we do
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  • What we do in the way that we do it?
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  • What is the meaning?
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  • Be open to wonder, where did this come from?
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  • God, what are you doing?
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  • What are you saying?
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  • I don't even understand.
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  • This makes no sense.
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  • He says, "it makes no sense to you."
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  • So decide that i'm not stifling my growth.
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  • Decide that you are not stuck.
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  • As long as you don't quit, you are not stuck.
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  • This is not as good as it gets.
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  • Believe this morning that you are worthy to bloom.
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  • Say, "i am worthy to bloom."
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  • Because of the blood of jesus, you're worthy to bloom.
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  • Don't let anybody talk you out of it.
  • 00:20:12.090 --> 00:20:15.827
  • You are worthy, you are worthy.
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  • You might have had words that were spoken over your life,
  • 00:20:21.733 --> 00:20:24.503
  • Things where you weren't seen or heard or ignored or neglected
  • 00:20:24.503 --> 00:20:29.608
  • And you feel unworthy, devalued, unvaluable, of no purpose, that
  • 00:20:29.608 --> 00:20:34.946
  • Your life means nothing.
  • 00:20:34.946 --> 00:20:36.682
  • There is a world that exists because you are in it.
  • 00:20:36.682 --> 00:20:47.259
  • And so when people say you are crazy to say, "i'm not crazy,
  • 00:20:47.326 --> 00:20:52.030
  • I'm just first.
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  • I'm not crazy."
  • 00:20:59.037 --> 00:21:01.673
  • We're gonna break this dysfunction.
  • 00:21:01.673 --> 00:21:06.445
  • We're gonna figure this out.
  • 00:21:06.445 --> 00:21:07.779
  • We're gonna get before the holy ghost and start praying in
  • 00:21:07.779 --> 00:21:09.948
  • Tongues and breaking this nonsense and this generational
  • 00:21:09.948 --> 00:21:13.652
  • Trauma, this mess and all this stuff and sins of my fathers and
  • 00:21:13.652 --> 00:21:18.890
  • Sins from my mothers and my grandparents and all this
  • 00:21:18.890 --> 00:21:22.861
  • Ancestry stuff and fear and all this wickedness and witchcraft,
  • 00:21:22.861 --> 00:21:29.034
  • Manipulation and sexual sins and bondages and addictions
  • 00:21:29.034 --> 00:21:35.273
  • And yokes.
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  • I'm not crazy, i'm just first! i'm not crazy, i'm first!
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  • First to break the curse, first to be delivered, first to not be
  • 00:21:51.757 --> 00:21:59.731
  • An addict.
  • 00:21:59.731 --> 00:22:03.034
  • First to not being bonded to what you think about me because
  • 00:22:03.034 --> 00:22:06.405
  • What you think about me ain't gonna stop nothing.
  • 00:22:06.405 --> 00:22:10.342
  • God's got a plan for my life.
  • 00:22:10.342 --> 00:22:12.911
  • The holy ghost will overshadow me, will empower me.
  • 00:22:12.911 --> 00:22:17.382
  • The things that god would do in my life, it will be by the
  • 00:22:17.382 --> 00:22:21.853
  • Holy ghost.
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  • That's how it's going to be.
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  • The power of the highest.
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  • I'm not crazy.
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  • Doesn't matter what you think about me.
  • 00:22:32.364 --> 00:22:35.801
  • You can do whatever you want to do, but i'm gonna be curious.
  • 00:22:35.801 --> 00:22:41.740
  • I'm gonna be like a little child and have my wonder.
  • 00:22:41.740 --> 00:22:45.710
  • God, i just wonder how you're gonna make a way.
  • 00:22:45.710 --> 00:22:48.580
  • How you gonna take care of me.
  • 00:22:48.580 --> 00:22:50.982
  • How you gonna provide your plan, how you're gonna roll it out,
  • 00:22:50.982 --> 00:22:56.988
  • How you gonna do what you're gonna do.
  • 00:22:56.988 --> 00:22:59.357
  • I know you're gonna do it because you're a good dad and
  • 00:22:59.357 --> 00:23:01.960
  • You're a good father.
  • 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:03.328
  • Male announcer: have you ever had a childlike attitude, filled
  • 00:23:06.698 --> 00:23:09.367
  • With humility or amazement when you considered god?
  • 00:23:09.367 --> 00:23:12.838
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  • 00:23:12.838 --> 00:23:17.108
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