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Creflo Dollar - Grace and Faith in the Midst of Discomfort

September 21, 2025 | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - Grace and Faith in the Midst of Discomfort
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Grace and Faith in the Midst of Discomfort | September 21, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: i am saved because of what jesus did, and
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  • Circumstances of life are trying to take that from me, and i'm,
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  • Like, maintaining it.
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  • You ain't taking it from me.
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  • I'm restored, and the sufferings of life and the trials and the
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  • Temptations of life are trying to attack my identity and take
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  • It from me, but i'm maintaining it.
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  • I am--i'm prosperous in every area and all of the stuff in
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  • Life is trying to take from me that prosperous, take from me my
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  • Healing, take from me my--i'm already delivered, but there's
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  • Some addiction that's trying to rob me of my deliverance.
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  • There's some sickness trying to rob me of my healing.
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  • So my job is to stand therefore.
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  • And i am to stand there while all hell trying to
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  • Take it from me.
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  • Creflo: if you have your bibles this morning, join me in the
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  • Book of 1 peter chapter 5 and verse 10.
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  • We'll read it in the king james and then the nlt.
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  • We've been doing a series on finding purpose in the midst of
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  • Discomfort and pain, and we've discovered that the purpose of
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  • Discomfort and pain is for god to allow it to show up in our
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  • Lives so that we can mature and grow as a result of it.
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  • You're not going to experience growth living your whole life in
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  • The comfort zone.
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  • That's not how it works, which is why the bible is very clear
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  • When it says, "they that live godly shall suffer persecution."
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  • So, think it not strange when it happens.
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  • And a lot of times christians think it's a strange thing for
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  • Me to be born again, to give my heart to jesus, for me to go to
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  • Church, and i'm suffering trials and persecution and pain
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  • And discomfort.
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  • Discomfort is designed to hold up a mirror in front of
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  • Your soul.
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  • Not to show you what you think you are, but to show you who you
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  • Really are.
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  • Discomfort shows you the attitude that you have.
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  • Discomfort shows you the thing that you would not say of
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  • Yourself, but it may be true of yourself.
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  • And there are a lot of things that grow out of discomfort, a
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  • Lot of maturity that comes out of discomfort.
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  • Not saying that god is the one that's putting the pain and the
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  • Trials on you, but he has certainly taken advantage of it.
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  • Even when jesus came to the earth, the bible says that the
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  • Spirit of the lord led jesus into the wilderness to be
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  • Tempted of the devil.
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  • So whether you think god does--brings the pain or the
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  • Discomfort, or not, discomfort is used to mature you and to
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  • Grow you.
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  • And ultimately, the objective of maturing and growing us is so
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  • That we can be conformed into the image of jesus christ.
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  • What he is saying is, is that "i am gonna use life and i'm gonna
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  • Use the things that come as a result of life and i'm gonna use
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  • It if you will depend on me, i'm gonna use it if you'll trust me,
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  • I'm gonna use it if you'll stay with me, that throughout these
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  • Different temptations, testing, and trial, you will notice that
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  • You will become more and more and more like christ, more and
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  • More and more become being conformed into his image."
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  • So that's the result.
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  • The result and the objective is to be molded and shaped in the
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  • Image of jesus christ.
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  • So we gotta rearrange our thinking about what we think
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  • About the gospel.
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  • You know, somebody says, "well, you know, i'm saved," but most
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  • Of us got saved coming through the door of hell.
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  • In other words, somebody told you that if you don't get saved,
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  • You're going to hell.
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  • So you got saved.
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  • But, boy, this is so much more than what religion has ever
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  • Explained to us.
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  • So we begin today, i wanna talk to you about grace and faith in
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  • The midst of discomfort.
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  • In other words, am i just supposed to stay there and take
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  • It because i realize that i'm going--the objective is to be
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  • Molded into the image of christ?
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  • No, you're not gonna throw away your faith.
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  • I'm gonna show you how to move in faith in the midst of
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  • Discomfort, in the midst of trouble, in the midst of
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  • Temptations and trials, what you should be doing while all of
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  • That molding and shaping is taking place in your life.
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  • 1 peter chapter 5 and 10 in the king james says, "but the god of
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  • All grace, who hath called us into his eternal glory by christ
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  • Jesus, after that, you have suffered a while," now, notice,
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  • Something is gonna come after the suffering.
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  • "after you have suffered a while, he'll make you--it'll
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  • Make you perfect, stablish," established, "strengthen, and it
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  • Will settle you."
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  • The new living translation says this, 1 peter 5, he says, "in
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  • His kindness god called you to share in his eternal glory," how
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  • Has he called us to share in his eternal glory?
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  • "by means of christ jesus."
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  • So it's gonna be by christ jesus that we accept the calling to
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  • Share in his glory, by christ jesus.
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  • "so after you have suffered a little while, he will restore,"
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  • Notice what happens after the challenge, after the trial,
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  • After the discomfort.
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  • He says you will be restored, so restoration comes.
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  • You will have support.
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  • He says you'll be strengthened "and he will place you on a
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  • Firm foundation."
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  • Restoration, support, strength, and a firm foundation.
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  • But notice, all of that comes out of that place of discomfort.
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  • So you don't wanna run away from discomfort, you don't wanna be
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  • Deceived about discomfort, thinking that that's just not
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  • Gonna be a part of you and somehow, as a christian, if you
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  • Experience discomfort, then you must be doing something wrong.
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  • But if you find yourself in discomfort, then maybe god
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  • Doesn't love you anymore.
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  • Or maybe you're being judged for something you did or you said.
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  • Now, i don't make light that sometimes we cause discomfort by
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  • What we do, you know.
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  • But then, we've got to understand that there's a place
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  • Of discomfort and there is purpose that can be found even
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  • In the midst of discomfort.
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  • So i submit to you this morning that suffering is the catalyst,
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  • It's the stimulus, it is the encouragement, the thing that
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  • Encourages christ-likeness.
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  • It's the things that we go through, the place of
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  • Discomfort, that encourages or stimulates this christ-likeness.
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  • And so you understand something, that a guy who's in the weight
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  • Room trying to develop muscle, you cannot develop muscle
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  • Without enough weight to tear down your muscle tissue.
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  • The way muscle is developed is you tear down the muscle tissue,
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  • Break it down as much as possible, and then you spend
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  • Time resting it, nourishing it, and then when--it is being
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  • Restored and it grows back stronger and bigger.
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  • That's how it happens, okay?
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  • And so the same thing is true where life is concerned.
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  • You go through certain pressures in life and situations in life,
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  • And some of them break you down pretty much.
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  • They break you down.
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  • But you've got to understand that out of that there's gonna
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  • Come the replenishment, there's gonna come the nourishment,
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  • There's gonna come the strengthening, there's gonna
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  • Come a firm firmness about you.
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  • There's gonna be something about you that was in you but you
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  • Hadn't seen it yet that through all of that pressure brought
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  • It forth.
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  • You see, all of us have muscles in our body.
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  • You just can't see some of y'all muscle because it hadn't
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  • Been developed.
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  • And what god wants is he wants to develop the stuff that's on
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  • The inside of you that you were born with, that you were wired
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  • With, that he put on the inside of you, and he wants to develop
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  • It so you can use it in this thing called life, praise god.
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  • So don't run away every time pressure shows up in your life.
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  • Sometimes, you got to face pressure with your head up and
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  • Say, "bring it on, devil.
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  • Bring it on.
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  • You ain't gonna do nothing but make something good out of me.
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  • You ain't gonna do nothing but help reveal something in me that
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  • I didn't know i had."
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  • I was recently looking at the movie, "mortal kombat."
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  • Now, i know some of y'all think that's sin and the devil, but
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  • I enjoyed it.
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  • And while i was looking at, "mortal kombat," when they were
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  • Choosing earth's greatest fighters, they all had a special
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  • Power, but it would only show up in intense suffering.
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  • And one guy, his wouldn't show up because he was just really
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  • Cool in his demeanor and, you know, they could beat him, they
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  • Could do--and his power wouldn't show up.
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  • But when they start messing with his wife and kid, and he thought
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  • They were on the line, that was intense, that was suffering, and
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  • All of a sudden his power came out.
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  • That's exactly what god is doing with us.
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  • You are wired with something so awesome, something
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  • So supernatural.
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  • There's something about you that nobody else can be quite like
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  • You when that anointing shows up on your life.
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  • And i prophesied that there's an anointing getting ready to show
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  • Up on your life.
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  • All these crazy days are doing is drawing out of us what's been
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  • In us the whole time.
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  • Are you listening to me now?
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  • Jesus suffers now with us even though he already has suffered
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  • For us.
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  • That's the kind of jesus he is.
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  • He suffer with us even though he's already suffered for us,
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  • And he will be with you.
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  • That's the thing that comforts me.
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  • All right, god.
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  • Whatever--whatever.
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  • As long as you're there with me.
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  • As long as you are with me, and he promised, "i will not leave
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  • You and never will i forsake thee."
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  • All right, let's move a little longer--down the road here,
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  • Romans chapter 8:29.
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  • So we wanna look at faith in this and grace and how it
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  • Shows up.
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  • Romans 8:29 says this.
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  • He says, "for whom he did foreknow, he also did
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  • Predestine to be conformed to the image of his son."
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  • Every one of us are headed towards this place: conforming
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  • To the image of his son, and we're conforming out of all the
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  • Trials and the things that life brings at us.
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  • They're conforming us, they are molding us, into the image of
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  • His son.
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  • The bible promises that when jesus comes back, we will be
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  • Like him.
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  • God has accepted the responsibility for
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  • Our transformation.
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  • Well, that gives me great peace, to know i don't have to do it.
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  • He promised that at the end of it, "i will not allow you to
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  • Continue," what--he said, "i won't allow you to continue what
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  • I started."
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  • See, god started the good work you.
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  • He promised to finish it.
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  • Oh, my god.
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  • When will it be finished?
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  • He says, "on the day when jesus returns," all right, so notice
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  • Again he says, "he also did predestinate to be conformed to
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  • The image of his son," why?
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  • "that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren."
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  • Because it was prophesied that he would be the firstborn
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  • Among--amongst many brethren.
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  • So he gotta have some brethren.
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  • That means sister-en, too, all right?
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  • And so, how is he gonna do this?
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  • How is this confirmation gonna take place?
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  • Philippians 3 and 10. philippians 3 and 10.
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  • Now, this is big.
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  • I need you to get a hold of this.
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  • Philippians 3 and 10.
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  • This is gonna be a strong, strong teaching session.
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  • I'm gonna sow this in you.
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  • So if you came here to do some cartwheels and run around, you
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  • Know, i don't know if you're gonna get a chance to do
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  • That or not.
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  • I gotta put something in you so your cartwheels can
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  • Be meaningful.
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  • If you're gonna shout, shout with something.
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  • Don't just holler and still stay ignorant.
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  • Amen, if you're gonna run, run with something.
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  • Don't be running, jumping, and shouting, hitting people next to
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  • You, and you ain't got nothing.
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  • You the same way as you was when you came in here.
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  • At least get some if you're gonna hit me while i'm sitting
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  • Next to you.
  • 00:14:23.676 --> 00:14:30.716
  • Now watch this, this is good.
  • 00:14:30.716 --> 00:14:33.085
  • "that i might know him," this is paul.
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  • "that i might know him, and that i might know the power of his
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  • Resurrection," and paul said, "that i might also know the
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  • Fellowship of his suffering, being made conformable unto
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  • His death."
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  • This phrase stood out, "the fellowship of his suffering."
  • 00:14:55.207 --> 00:15:02.081
  • What's that?
  • 00:15:02.081 --> 00:15:04.883
  • The fellowship of his suffering.
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  • Over the years, i've seen people try to define that, and there
  • 00:15:07.219 --> 00:15:12.057
  • Are people on easter who try to get on the cross and say, "look
  • 00:15:12.057 --> 00:15:14.793
  • At me, i'm sharing in the fellowship."
  • 00:15:14.793 --> 00:15:16.996
  • That's not the fellowship of his suffering.
  • 00:15:16.996 --> 00:15:18.864
  • One reason why is your blood can't do what his blood did.
  • 00:15:18.864 --> 00:15:23.969
  • "it should have been me on that cross!"
  • 00:15:23.969 --> 00:15:25.637
  • No, it should not, if it had been you on that cross, we'd be
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  • In a mess right now.
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  • So quit saying that, that's not--that's why i know it.
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  • The fellowship of his suffering--the word
  • 00:15:32.811 --> 00:15:34.880
  • "suffering"--the word "fellowship" comes from an old
  • 00:15:34.880 --> 00:15:37.549
  • Greek word koinónia, which is a giving and a
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  • Receiving relationship.
  • 00:15:40.719 --> 00:15:42.955
  • It's a giving and receiving relationship.
  • 00:15:42.955 --> 00:15:45.457
  • In other words, it's--you have a part in that fellowship, okay,
  • 00:15:45.457 --> 00:15:51.430
  • And jesus has a part in that fellowship.
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  • It's like, when you fellowship one with another, it takes two
  • 00:15:53.132 --> 00:15:56.101
  • Releasing their parts in order for that to be the fellowship.
  • 00:15:56.101 --> 00:15:59.371
  • If you're fellowshipping with somebody and you're doing all of
  • 00:15:59.371 --> 00:16:01.874
  • The talking, that's not a fellowship.
  • 00:16:01.874 --> 00:16:04.610
  • That's a "painful-ship."
  • 00:16:04.610 --> 00:16:09.915
  • Nobody wants to sit down and listen to you do all
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  • The talking.
  • 00:16:11.417 --> 00:16:12.751
  • It's a fellowship, it's a giving and receiving
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  • Relationship, okay?
  • 00:16:15.454 --> 00:16:17.489
  • All right, so what he talks about the fellowship of his
  • 00:16:17.489 --> 00:16:20.692
  • Suffering, let's look at the parts.
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  • Jesus's part of this fellowship of suffering was he died, he
  • 00:16:23.162 --> 00:16:29.635
  • Took all of our sins, he was beat with a cat of nine's tail,
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  • He was crucified on a cross, nailed to a cross, went to hell,
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  • And then on the third day he got up and said, "all right, now
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  • It's time for your part."
  • 00:16:42.147 --> 00:16:44.283
  • So he took the worst part of the fellowship of the suffering.
  • 00:16:44.283 --> 00:16:48.720
  • So he died, went through all of the suffering he went through,
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  • And obtained the victory through his suffering.
  • 00:16:52.691 --> 00:16:55.494
  • Out of his suffering came the victory of us having a right to
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  • Salvation, of us having a right to this new covenant, of us
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  • Having a right to be free from sins, of us having the right to
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  • Be redeemed, and all of those things.
  • 00:17:09.274 --> 00:17:11.677
  • That was his part of the fellowship of suffering.
  • 00:17:11.677 --> 00:17:15.948
  • Now that he has been raised from the dead, has taken his seat on
  • 00:17:15.948 --> 00:17:20.486
  • The right hand of god the father almighty, because now the other
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  • Part of the fellowship of the suffering is left up to you
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  • And me.
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  • So what's our part?
  • 00:17:28.961 --> 00:17:30.295
  • His part was to suffer to obtain the victory.
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  • Our part is now to maintain the victory in the midst of the
  • 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:42.274
  • Suffering that's trying to take from us what jesus presented
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  • To us.
  • 00:17:47.312 --> 00:17:48.647
  • So that means i am saved because of what jesus did, and
  • 00:17:48.647 --> 00:17:54.253
  • Circumstances of life are trying to take that from me, and i'm,
  • 00:17:54.253 --> 00:17:57.823
  • Like, maintaining it.
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  • You ain't taking it from me.
  • 00:17:59.458 --> 00:18:01.493
  • I'm restored, and the sufferings of life and the trials and the
  • 00:18:01.493 --> 00:18:05.397
  • Temptations of life are trying to attack my identity and take
  • 00:18:05.397 --> 00:18:09.902
  • It from me, but i'm maintaining it.
  • 00:18:09.902 --> 00:18:13.605
  • I am--i'm prosperous in every area, and all of the stuff in
  • 00:18:13.605 --> 00:18:18.243
  • Life is trying to take from me that prosperous, take from me my
  • 00:18:18.243 --> 00:18:22.414
  • Healing, take from me my--i'm already delivered, but there's
  • 00:18:22.414 --> 00:18:25.851
  • Some addiction that's trying to rob me of my deliverance.
  • 00:18:25.851 --> 00:18:29.555
  • There's some sickness trying to rob me of my healing.
  • 00:18:29.555 --> 00:18:32.558
  • So my job is to stand therefore.
  • 00:18:32.558 --> 00:18:38.297
  • And i am to stand there while all hell trying to take it
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  • From me.
  • 00:18:41.533 --> 00:18:42.901
  • And sometimes it looked like he about to knock me off my mark,
  • 00:18:42.901 --> 00:18:45.971
  • But like a slinky, i come right back to where i am.
  • 00:18:45.971 --> 00:18:49.608
  • Some of y'all don't know what a slinky is, but some of
  • 00:18:49.608 --> 00:18:51.910
  • Y'all remember.
  • 00:18:51.910 --> 00:18:54.079
  • I come back right--i recoil right back.
  • 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:56.415
  • "oh, lord, i think i am sick and i'm gonna die," all that--no,
  • 00:18:56.415 --> 00:18:59.751
  • I'm healed.
  • 00:18:59.751 --> 00:19:01.620
  • "oh, lord, i don't know how to pay this bill.
  • 00:19:01.620 --> 00:19:03.689
  • I don't know if i'm ever gonna be prosper.
  • 00:19:03.689 --> 00:19:05.324
  • I don't know how"--no, jesus already took care of that.
  • 00:19:05.324 --> 00:19:07.693
  • My job is to maintain it.
  • 00:19:07.693 --> 00:19:09.361
  • My job is not to get it.
  • 00:19:09.361 --> 00:19:10.729
  • My job is to keep it, praise god.
  • 00:19:10.729 --> 00:19:12.664
  • My god is not--my job is not to go and try to, you know, do what
  • 00:19:12.664 --> 00:19:17.769
  • Jesus did.
  • 00:19:17.769 --> 00:19:22.908
  • So the suffering's coming to try to move you out the victory that
  • 00:19:22.908 --> 00:19:29.214
  • Jesus did in his part, and i'm not gonna fail him in my part.
  • 00:19:29.214 --> 00:19:36.855
  • "well, i stand if something happens"--no, i'm gonna stand if
  • 00:19:36.855 --> 00:19:39.992
  • Don't nothing happen.
  • 00:19:39.992 --> 00:19:41.593
  • See, you gotta understand.
  • 00:19:41.593 --> 00:19:43.328
  • We're so result-oriented, and there's nothing wrong with
  • 00:19:43.328 --> 00:19:45.731
  • Expecting results, but it's gotta go deeper than
  • 00:19:45.731 --> 00:19:48.734
  • The results.
  • 00:19:48.734 --> 00:19:50.102
  • There's got to be something about you and jesus's fellowship
  • 00:19:50.102 --> 00:19:53.739
  • That says, "i'm not gonna let you down.
  • 00:19:53.739 --> 00:19:56.575
  • I'm doing this because i believe in you.
  • 00:19:56.575 --> 00:19:59.311
  • I'm saying this because i believe in you.
  • 00:19:59.311 --> 00:20:01.913
  • I'm not making my confession, oh, because i believe my
  • 00:20:01.913 --> 00:20:05.717
  • Confession will bring about my possession."
  • 00:20:05.717 --> 00:20:08.186
  • Now, if i confess it and possess it, praise god.
  • 00:20:08.186 --> 00:20:11.023
  • But see, the problem with that is i have already possessed it
  • 00:20:11.023 --> 00:20:14.526
  • Before i confessed it.
  • 00:20:14.526 --> 00:20:16.028
  • I'm already believing that i receive what he has done.
  • 00:20:16.028 --> 00:20:19.398
  • So, i possess it right now.
  • 00:20:19.398 --> 00:20:20.966
  • My confession shouldn't bring me to the place of understanding
  • 00:20:20.966 --> 00:20:24.236
  • That i possess it.
  • 00:20:24.236 --> 00:20:25.570
  • It is what jesus has done, and my belief in what jesus has
  • 00:20:25.570 --> 00:20:28.240
  • Done, that has brought me to the place where i know i already
  • 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:31.376
  • Got it.
  • 00:20:31.376 --> 00:20:32.711
  • So when you hear me say what i already got, it's not so i can
  • 00:20:32.711 --> 00:20:35.881
  • Get what i already got.
  • 00:20:35.881 --> 00:20:37.582
  • I'm saying it because that's what i believe.
  • 00:20:37.582 --> 00:20:41.953
  • That's what i believe.
  • 00:20:41.953 --> 00:20:44.056
  • I believe that i'm saved.
  • 00:20:44.056 --> 00:20:45.624
  • I believe that i'm healed.
  • 00:20:45.624 --> 00:20:47.192
  • I believe that i'm prosperous.
  • 00:20:47.192 --> 00:20:51.163
  • Are you following what i'm saying?
  • 00:20:51.163 --> 00:20:55.467
  • Let me--there's a scripture for that.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 4, verse 13.
  • 00:21:00.339 --> 00:21:02.708
  • 2 corinthians chapter 4, verse 13.
  • 00:21:02.708 --> 00:21:05.711
  • Let me read it into king james.
  • 00:21:05.711 --> 00:21:07.479
  • And this is something that we need to talk about.
  • 00:21:07.479 --> 00:21:09.915
  • We keep doing stuff because we're trying to get what
  • 00:21:09.915 --> 00:21:13.051
  • We--what jesus already got for us, and our job is to believe
  • 00:21:13.051 --> 00:21:18.156
  • That he got it and then to maintain it.
  • 00:21:18.156 --> 00:21:22.294
  • Not maintain it if i see it, not maintain it if i got it, not
  • 00:21:22.294 --> 00:21:25.630
  • Maintain it if my circumstances change.
  • 00:21:25.630 --> 00:21:28.166
  • Some things are not--you're--some things you're
  • 00:21:28.166 --> 00:21:31.303
  • Not gonna see the result of until you get to heaven.
  • 00:21:31.303 --> 00:21:33.972
  • Do you know that?
  • 00:21:33.972 --> 00:21:35.540
  • And i'm all right with that.
  • 00:21:35.540 --> 00:21:37.242
  • I ain't got to see everything while i'm alive, glory to
  • 00:21:37.242 --> 00:21:41.513
  • God, hallelujah.
  • 00:21:41.513 --> 00:21:44.983
  • I'm not doing it so i can see it.
  • 00:21:44.983 --> 00:21:48.687
  • I'm doing it because my job is to maintain what he did.
  • 00:21:48.687 --> 00:21:53.592
  • And if he did his job, i sure ain't gonna let him down on
  • 00:21:53.592 --> 00:21:58.330
  • Doing my job.
  • 00:21:58.330 --> 00:22:00.599
  • Notice, he says, "we having the same spirit of faith, according
  • 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:03.268
  • As it is written, i believe," he says, "and therefore
  • 00:22:03.268 --> 00:22:06.872
  • I've spoken," he says i believe it, that's--i'm saying it
  • 00:22:06.872 --> 00:22:09.207
  • Because i believe it.
  • 00:22:09.207 --> 00:22:10.909
  • "we also believe, and therefore we speak."
  • 00:22:10.909 --> 00:22:12.377
  • Notice what's moving my speaking.
  • 00:22:12.377 --> 00:22:13.945
  • It's what i believe. look at the nlt.
  • 00:22:13.945 --> 00:22:17.916
  • Look at the nlt.
  • 00:22:17.916 --> 00:22:19.684
  • Now, some folks gonna write me letters, "yeah, brother dollar."
  • 00:22:19.684 --> 00:22:22.554
  • I don't read them letters. don't send them to me.
  • 00:22:22.554 --> 00:22:24.055
  • Keep your paper, keep all your paper.
  • 00:22:24.055 --> 00:22:27.025
  • "well, i'm gonna send you a digital paper."
  • 00:22:27.025 --> 00:22:28.360
  • I ain't going to check no comments.
  • 00:22:28.360 --> 00:22:29.728
  • I'm just preaching what i believe god told me to preach.
  • 00:22:29.728 --> 00:22:32.431
  • I got to be accountable for what he tell me to preach,
  • 00:22:32.431 --> 00:22:35.233
  • Praise god.
  • 00:22:35.233 --> 00:22:36.568
  • I can't preach what i think everybody gonna approve of.
  • 00:22:36.568 --> 00:22:39.604
  • That's why i had to get delivered from approval
  • 00:22:39.604 --> 00:22:41.773
  • Addiction, because when you are looking for people's approval,
  • 00:22:41.773 --> 00:22:45.210
  • You won't be able to serve god.
  • 00:22:45.210 --> 00:22:51.716
  • Let me slow down because y'all think i'm fussing.
  • 00:22:51.716 --> 00:22:55.053
  • I'm just excited.
  • 00:22:55.053 --> 00:22:58.223
  • "but we continue to preach because we have the same kind of
  • 00:22:58.223 --> 00:23:01.326
  • Faith the psalmist had when he said, "i believed in god, so
  • 00:23:01.326 --> 00:23:04.663
  • I spoke."
  • 00:23:04.663 --> 00:23:06.965
  • "i believed in god, so i spoke."
  • 00:23:06.965 --> 00:23:09.734
  • I told you that day, i think it was last week, where my hip did
  • 00:23:09.734 --> 00:23:12.404
  • Something, and then that movement in my back, and
  • 00:23:12.404 --> 00:23:15.941
  • Then--and i must have been dehydrated, and
  • 00:23:15.941 --> 00:23:18.243
  • Then the cramps came.
  • 00:23:18.243 --> 00:23:19.578
  • I told you it was the kind of cramps where your little toes
  • 00:23:19.578 --> 00:23:21.413
  • Start crossing and the other toes start crossing, and you'd
  • 00:23:21.413 --> 00:23:23.982
  • Be trying to stop by doing that, you know, and then it got--when
  • 00:23:23.982 --> 00:23:27.219
  • I did that, got in my calf, and taffi and alex were on their way
  • 00:23:27.219 --> 00:23:31.756
  • Home and i'm stuck in the hallway.
  • 00:23:31.756 --> 00:23:36.361
  • And i shout it out to my loudest, "i am healed whether i
  • 00:23:36.361 --> 00:23:41.900
  • Feel it or not!
  • 00:23:41.900 --> 00:23:43.935
  • I'm not saying this to feel it, i'm saying this because
  • 00:23:43.935 --> 00:23:48.139
  • I believe it!"
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  • Seed into this ministry.
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  • You partner with us to reach people everywhere
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  • Who are hurting and in need of the revelation of
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  • God's grace and love.
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  • Creflo: as we wrap up today's broadcast, i'd like to take a
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  • 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
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  • Me now.
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  • "heavenly father, come into my heart, save me.
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  • I receive you now by faith and i declare in jesus's name that
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  • 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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  • Male announcer: 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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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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